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PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 7:07am On Sep 02, 2014
When a supposed street thug start doing this......
PeckNARM: Loool, your bars come dark like coke! My man just infuriated me! I dislike online gangsters with a passion! If this was on endz! N if boys were styl boys I tell him buck me in se22 have 22 of my young thugs chase him down and nank him up! Some retard seems he ran and took d pics off must be scary the ladies.Wont be surprised he's a deportee !
SirShymex: Oi, my man has never left his village...you need to see what he looks like. He looks like a dirty and smelly wasteman, on my mum's life. My man was tryna compete for Mr Nl looking moist , hungry, and waste stil. grin

Internet just gives pu.ssyholes a medium to run their mouths, and that's what irks me all the time. You know dem ones there g? I know for a fact mandem can't chat shiit to my face, they'll get face their smashed in and get chased with a stick like an athlete. I don't even need to touch these pricks, just a few youngers to get their stripes off them and leave them for dead.

Dem mans are waste. Every time I just rem the number naij mans from naij that I've saved from getting rushed on dem roads and look at the way these cu.nts run their mouths on these sides, I just shake my head in disgust. These mans are pus.sies - they all just hide behind the PC to talk tough and dat. Just a slap will put this donut to sleep.
Then you know he is high and that dope $hit....na so you fear me reach so tey you begin dey talk tough and hard to yourselfhuh to prove what kwanuhuh..lol
Boi you need more help than I had thought....The Uk government need to put you in confinement on a leash before you hurt somebody in your delusions..lol
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 7:00am On Sep 02, 2014
Na which nonsense this fvcktard dey yarn..lol
So it is a coincidence that some fvcktard that registered the same day I called Shymex's bluff is suddenly forming voltron, defender of lameduck shymex...lol..this kid is funny. You are obviously suffering from not just low self-esteem but also multiple personality disorder...kid you need help and I am going to help you by worsening your delusional condition, you brainless street thug on a charity largesse of the UK government. Keep denying, and I will keep exposing your lame a$$
PeckNARM: Loool, your bars come dark like coke! My man just infuriated me! I dislike online gangsters with a passion! If this was on endz! N if boys were styl boys I tell him buck me in se22 have 22 of my young thugs chase him down and nank him up! Some retard seems he ran and took d pics off must be scary the ladies.Wont be surprised he's a deportee !
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 7:33pm On Sep 01, 2014
hahahaha...the Negro is mad cos he got served. So you are going to claim that you are not shymex or whatever the hell you call yourself these days...lol...I don't need anyone to tell me it is still the same street urchin that I am dealing with...lol..you don't have to be ashamed of your miserable life....all you have to your name is the over flogged "I Live in London" crap you always like to spew. That seem to be your only achievement
PeckNARM: You feel stupid now don't couldn't find a response! You seemed to have done a lot of research in relation food stamps maybe they'll give you a job you toad!For that singular claim of me using multiple id's I have nothing further to say to you! WOTLESS poverty stricken chichi man
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 4:48pm On Sep 01, 2014
Stop wasting your time on that brainless kid that can't seem to coordinate his argument, jumping from pillar to post and arguing aimlessly like the ignoramus that he is.....pikin wey still dey chop mama thank you wan dey talk adult talk...scheew
infolekan: I just got the hang of what you're saying all the while....you're not really bothered about identity theft or loss of data but just the singular fact that MASTERCARD CARD is owned by a US company.
There's nothing to praise in the whole initiative and no reason for a constructive criticism but to hammer on the loss of data.
As if it would be more secure with a Nigerian company to start with.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 4:45pm On Sep 01, 2014
Negro go and sit your a$$ down, you seem confused and angry. Using multiple I.D does not change the fact that you are jobless and vent unnecessarily on NL. You seem to get your ego from talking down on people you assume you are smarter than or have a better life than. I am not the type to be phased by an angry kid who validates himself by spewing hokum in an effort to sound tough, that you live in the UK does not make you smarter or better than anyone else, if that was the case, you wont be on charity.
PeckNARM: How stupid are you what's the majority of black in uk? Out of that percentage how many are Nigerian? Out of that how many are entitled to said benefits? Your making a fool out of yourself! Notice you seem to more updated on the whole food stamp thing than me! And apparently am the one whose on benefits! You must be feeling real smart right now!
HealthRe: Here Is What Coffee Actually Does To Your Brain by rhymz(m): 2:28pm On Sep 01, 2014
I am afraid, I am an addict. Started when I was in school. Then I would sneeze and get some coffee fluid coming out of my nose. In the office it is a must for else I wont be able to do anything for long without losing concentration. As I write now, there is a cup of black coffee on my desk..bad enough, I am having the worst form of tiredness and sleepy feeling even with the coffee. embarassed embarassed embarassed embarassed embarassed
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 6:55am On Sep 01, 2014
PeckNARM: food stamps don't apply to Britain! Try applying for a job over here and see how easy it is ! The reason why people blow them tantrums is because deep down they no the person that's chatting shit can never do so, face 2 face! It creates a burning sensation as on can't do much to an online noise maker like you! You probably have step out of your state have you? How much us your salary? Just to make feel useless JSA known as jobseekerallowance is over 55k a month! That's free money! But it's a chicken change! Even at that am sure your income is not up to those who u claim are sitting on there bums doing nothing! Where did you get that idea from! You must have suffered as a child! Parental abuse maybe
Food stamps dont apply to Britain, oh shocked shocked shocked :oreally grin grin...lol



MailOnline: Food stamps’ to be issued in Britain next week to tens of thousands of vulnerable people as part of benefits shake-up

Vouchers will be redeemable for food, nappies and other essentials
They will be offered to needy by councils after crisis funds devolved locally
The stamps will replace Social Fund's discretionary loans and grants

By Harriet Arkell

Published: 14:19 GMT, 27 March 2013 | Updated: 16:16 GMT, 27 March 2013

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Food stamps will be handed to the poorest and neediest when cash handouts are scrapped in favour of vouchers next week.

Many local authorities are expected to take part in the scheme under which vouchers will be issued to the most vulnerable, rather than cash grants or loans.

They will be issued to help tide people over in times of financial crisis, and recipients will be able to exchange the vouchers for food, nappies and other essentials, but not alcohol or cigarettes.
Thousands of the most vulnerable people will be given vouchers redeemable for food and essentials from April

Thousands of the most vulnerable people will be given vouchers redeemable for food and essentials from April

The voucher scheme is being introduced from 1 April under changes to benefits outlined in last year's Welfare Reform Act.

The food stamps will replace the discretionary part of the government-run Social Fund, which issued immediate, small cash grants and loans to people on low or no incomes who needed help urgently.

Now, instead of the money being handed out by central government, it is being devolved to local authorities in England and devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales.

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The current budget of £178.2m will be handed down to a local level, plus start-up costs of £72m, for councils to spend as they see fit.

A spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said the move was not about cost-cutting, as there was no reduction in budget, but rather was intended to ensure the money was spent where it was most needed.

He said: 'We’re reforming the Social Fund because it is complex, over-centralised and poorly targeted, and replacing it with local provision to ensure this money goes to those most in need.
Vouchers will be issued to those most at need at a local level in England, Wales and Scotland

Vouchers will be issued to those most at need at a local level in England, Wales and Scotland (file image)

'We will transfer the current annual funding for crisis loans and community care grants to local authorities in England and the devolved administrations in Wales and Scotland.

'They will receive the full programme budget of £178.2 million a year in addition to administration and start-up costs of over £72 million which represents a fair settlement.'

The vouchers will be adopted in the wake of the abolition of the Social Fund's discretionary scheme, under which the needy were given crisis loans, repayable out of their benefits, or community care grants.
Local authorities may offer vouchers redeemable at supermarkets, food banks, or those that may be exchanged for hot meals

Local authorities may offer vouchers redeemable at supermarkets, food banks, or those that may be exchanged for hot meals

The Social Fund's regulated scheme, which governs cold weather payments, Sure Start maternity grants, funeral expenses and the Winter Fuel Grant, will be unaffected, the DWP says.

It will be up to the local authorities how they spend the money, but many of those in England are said to have confirmed their plans to issue one-off, single-use vouchers to those who apply for emergency assistance.

Some authorities are planning to hand out food parcels, and will divert extra funds to local food banks to enable them to buy more supplies and take on more staff to help.

And others may issue the money as repayable loans, similar to the crisis loans available under the previous system.

Bath and North East Somerset council is one authority planning to offer vouchers, and a spokesman told MailOnline the council intends to use their allocation to offer a mixture of vouchers and discretionary payments.

Spokesman James Hinchcliffe said: 'These may be supermarket vouchers or electricity or gas vouchers, or they may be Discretionary Support payments, for example to help with housing payments or essential household items.'

A spokesman for Newcastle City Council said it was also planning to offer a mixture of clothing and fuel vouchers, food parcels, and emergency travel costs.

Critics said the scheme may stigmatise those already in trouble, but the Government insists the plans, which will enable local authorities to set their own eligibility criteria, will mean the money will go where it is needed most.
hahahahah....yeah, it did not apply to Britain until lazy Bums like you started bloating and fleecing the social welfare programs, forgetting that they have to work to earn a decent living. This Ed!ot na im dey come here to come talk any how to hardworking Nigerians earning a living and supporting families....what a Fvcktard!
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 6:40am On Sep 01, 2014
arresa: [s][/s]


Keep quiet you dumb liar...

How do you know Inter-switch can not o it? The fact that your dubious and crooked government jumped over them to Matarcard doesn't mean they don't have the capacity to do? You reason like a damn 2 year old baby..




1. First you foolishly compared Nigerian companies functioning under Nigerians laws and regulations with MastarCard, an American company functioning under American Laws and Regulations. That was dumb, ignorant and idiotic on your part

2. You then lied that Inter switch was contacted to participate, but they turned down the offer, but that was a lie on your part because as shown in the link I posted, inter switch signed an agreement to participate, but it was the government that reneged, but inter switch front in Nigeria won the biometrics contract. Again, that was dumb, ignorant and idiotic on your part..

3. You then foolishly contradicted yourself by saying local contractors couldn't do it, but now saying they are handling the second phase.

4. Nigerian companies handling the second phase has nothing to do with their capacity to do any of the phases, your own government stipulated that MasterCard go first, they put foreigners ahead of their own.. It was a stipulation PERIOD.

5. I still need you to show me any official document stating exactly what part of this program MasterCard funded and how much..


What's the meaning of $3 million dollars? You mean we sold symbol of our Nationhood for measly 3 million dollars? lmao


Inter switch can not afford $3 million, but they won biometrics contract to handle even more than what MasterCard is handling?


Dude, you are dumber than dirt...
Kid, don't you get it? I am done with you, I don't have time for your market woman, hair splitting argument.... go and look for dumbos like yourself to do this nonsense round-round argument with....... now get lost and let adults debate issues.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 12:33am On Sep 01, 2014
rhymz: By Amaka Agwuegbo
The Federal Government, last weekend, signed a concession agreement with two consortia – Iris One Securecard and Cham – three years after the consortia were selected through a rigorous bidding process.
From left: Managing Director, Interswitch Limited, Mr. Mitchell Elegbe; Chairman, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Prince Uche Secondus; and MD/CEO, Chams Plc, Mr. Demola Aladekomo, at the signing of the concession agreement between NIMC and the front-end partners concesssionaires - Chams Consortium and Iris One Securecard Consortium in Abuja weekend
Part of the agreement signed between Nigeria Identity Management Commission (NIMC), the agency responsible for managing the country’s identity system, and the two consortia, each made up of three different companies (Iris Smart Tech, Interswitch and Secure ID formed Iris One Securecard while Chams, Nextzon and Supercard made up Chams) included the provisioning of data capture and related services as part of the front-end operations of the national identity management system of the country.
At the agreement signing ceremony in Abuja, NIMC board chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, said the development marked the beginning of a process to deliver a national identity database of 100 million enrollment over the next 30 months from the date registration commences at the proposed model registration centre to be established across the country by the concessionaires.
“This giant step is a necessary commitment that signifies government’s resolve to partner with the private sector to deliver important social infrastructure that would enable government to deliver on its responsibilities such as security of life and property, access to consumer credit and a host of other services that would touch the lives of the poor amongst us and improve our image as a nation.”
Secondus, however, warned that the task ahead is challenging as it consists of sourcing the funds, financing the roll-out plan, instituting the necessary security controls and protocols and the need for technology transfer. He hoped the private sector have thought through the process to avoid delays.
He also explained that in putting the agreement together, NIMC has learnt from the mistakes of the past and worked on the sustainability of the project.
Speaking on behalf of Iris Securecard Consortium, Mr. Mitchell Elegbe, Managing Director of Interswitch, commended the Federal Government for the opportunity given to the private sector to deliver a project of this magnitude.
He acknowledged that the task ahead is huge while pledging that the consortia would not mismanage the aspiration of Nigerians to be properly identified as a member of Nigeria community.
“We will make sure that the project is not only delivered very well but also delivered on time”, he said.
Mr. Demola Aladekomo, MD/CEO Chams, who spoke on behalf of Chams Consortium, noted that the concession agreement was not a typical contract where government paid money to the contractors, adding that a lot depends on the ability and capability of the concessionaires.
According to Aladekomo the concessionaire would require enough support from government in order to deliver the project. While stating that the consortia could not afford to fail the country, he emphasized that the country needs to identify its citizens, not to do so would be ‘calamitous’ for a nation of 150 million people that cannot identify its people appropriately.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/07/national-id-fg-signs-concession-agreement-2-consortia/#sthash.uMzKGKLq.dpuf
This was in 2010, yet there was nothing serious on ground until recently. So wetin dem wan talk.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 12:29am On Sep 01, 2014
By Amaka Agwuegbo
The Federal Government, last weekend, signed a concession agreement with two consortia – Iris One Securecard and Cham – three years after the consortia were selected through a rigorous bidding process.

From left: Managing Director, Interswitch Limited, Mr. Mitchell Elegbe; Chairman, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Prince Uche Secondus; and MD/CEO, Chams Plc, Mr. Demola Aladekomo, at the signing of the concession agreement between NIMC and the front-end partners concesssionaires - Chams Consortium and Iris One Securecard Consortium in Abuja weekend

Part of the agreement signed between Nigeria Identity Management Commission (NIMC), the agency responsible for managing the country’s identity system, and the two consortia, each made up of three different companies (Iris Smart Tech, Interswitch and Secure ID formed Iris One Securecard while Chams, Nextzon and Supercard made up Chams) included the provisioning of data capture and related services as part of the front-end operations of the national identity management system of the country.

At the agreement signing ceremony in Abuja, NIMC board chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, said the development marked the beginning of a process to deliver a national identity database of 100 million enrollment over the next 30 months from the date registration commences at the proposed model registration centre to be established across the country by the concessionaires.

“This giant step is a necessary commitment that signifies government’s resolve to partner with the private sector to deliver important social infrastructure that would enable government to deliver on its responsibilities such as security of life and property, access to consumer credit and a host of other services that would touch the lives of the poor amongst us and improve our image as a nation.”

Secondus, however, warned that the task ahead is challenging as it consists of sourcing the funds, financing the roll-out plan, instituting the necessary security controls and protocols and the need for technology transfer. He hoped the private sector have thought through the process to avoid delays.

He also explained that in putting the agreement together, NIMC has learnt from the mistakes of the past and worked on the sustainability of the project.

Speaking on behalf of Iris Securecard Consortium, Mr. Mitchell Elegbe, Managing Director of Interswitch, commended the Federal Government for the opportunity given to the private sector to deliver a project of this magnitude.

He acknowledged that the task ahead is huge while pledging that the consortia would not mismanage the aspiration of Nigerians to be properly identified as a member of Nigeria community.

“We will make sure that the project is not only delivered very well but also delivered on time”, he said.

Mr. Demola Aladekomo, MD/CEO Chams, who spoke on behalf of Chams Consortium, noted that the concession agreement was not a typical contract where government paid money to the contractors, adding that a lot depends on the ability and capability of the concessionaires.

According to Aladekomo the concessionaire would require enough support from government in order to deliver the project. While stating that the consortia could not afford to fail the country, he emphasized that the country needs to identify its citizens, not to do so would be ‘calamitous’ for a nation of 150 million people that cannot identify its people appropriately.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/07/national-id-fg-signs-concession-agreement-2-consortia/#sthash.uMzKGKLq.dpuf
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 12:18am On Sep 01, 2014
laudate: This matter is a very simple one. If Chams, Interswitch/Verve bidded for the project and were schemed out, only for the deal to be handed over to Mastercard via Access Bank, then let them go to court! sad
Once the case comes up for hearing, invite the media to have a field day as the facts, myths and conjecture are unearthed, each time the key witnesses mount the stand. cool
Abi? Wetin dey there? wink "All that is hidden shall be made known, and anything done in secret shall then come to light!" I am even suprised that the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) did not publish the shortlisted candidates in the newspapers like they normally do, with mega deals of this nature. undecided
schemed out ke?
You and I know these guys were not serious jor....they had enough opportunity to clinch the deal before the option of mastercard came up...they were just too busy looking at the short term benefits........ MasterCard rolled out about 3million dollars hope you know that? Can interswitch or etranzact do that?...these guys are content with printing cards for WAEC and JAMB than play like the real big bois
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 12:09am On Sep 01, 2014
hahahahah.....You are just another thug waiting to be shot dead for statistics on police violent racial profiling
SirShymex: [s][/s]

Vacuous rants by a smelly, depressed, and diseased starving scrounger stuck in a primeval village! grin

You're a stark illiterate! grin
Dont worry, soon your death will make popular on CNN and BBC like that kid that got shot trying to be tough..lol.. you lots are all brawn and no sense.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 12:04am On Sep 01, 2014
emmatok: This, according to experts, can be done through effective development and implementation of local content laws for the country’s payment systems. “Technically, MasterCard will work. There is no technology they cannot support. But it is time to grow our African giants. Why would government give an American company a project like the national identity scheme? Can the US award such a contract to a Nigerian firm?

“Should’nt government be promoting its own? Domestic card schemes should be used for things of national interest such as agriculture farmers cards, national and state ID cards to help protect our soverignity”, said a senior executive at SecureID Nigeria, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorised to speak.

Christabel Onyejekwe, executive director at the Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement Systems (NIBSS) however does not see anything wrong with MasterCard International’s participation in the national identity scheme. In an interview with BusinessDay, she said,”they have the competence and expertise to deliver on this national project. MasterCard have been strong collaborators in Nigeria’s card payment ecosystem. We are in a thriving global economy and MasterCard International is critical to facilitating global card payments. “

Interestingly, about 85 percent of Nigerians conduct local payment transactions. Only about 7.7 percent of Nigerians use cards abroad on foreign webistes. She acknowledged that local card schemes do possess the requisite capacity to handle the national identity project.

Industry insiders say government’s decision to award the contract to MasterCard is questionable, considering that local players in the ecosystem such as Interswitch, E-transact, 3line Nigeria and SecureID have all shown high levels of competency in processing and issuance of payment cards.

Statistics show that Verve, a local card operator controls about 60 percent of the market. In view of this, Ken Ugbechie, promoter of the Nigerian Content Advocacy Initiative (NiCADI), says it is inconceivable that such business should be given to an American company whose primary interest is to buffer their own economy.

“We know that all MasterCard’s payments processing in Nigeria are being handled competently by Interswitch, Card Technology Limited, and Unified Payments. Today, over 70 percent of bank customers in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, use Verve payment cards from Interswitch, Genesis Payment cards from eTranzact and Freedom Card from 3Line Card Management Limited for their day-to-day payment transactions.

“ What then is the rationale for giving the payments transactions of our National Identity card to MasterCard, a foreign company?”, he further added in a press statement.

According to him, the combined workforce of the three Nigerian firms with competencies in payment cards, runs into over 300 highly-skilled staff, “whereas MasterCard can only boast of a handful of Nigerians working as marketing executives for the company”.

Despite the competence of local card operators, NIMC’s contractual agreement with Mastercard stipulates that local card operators cannot come on board the scheme until after the initial 13 million smartcards have been issued.

Omobola Johnson, minister of communications technology, sees this as a wrong approach, especially as it concerns growing local economies.


This is in view of the enormous potential such initiatives as the ‘Cashless economy’, spearheaded by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the national and state identity management schemes and the telecoms industry’s requirement for SIM cards are throwing up. “There are a number of local companies that have the capacity to not only produce cards, but to also personalise them. Direct interventions must be made to ensure that a significant share of this market is captured by firms operating in Nigeria, with of course the neccessary high security assurances in place,” Johnson added, in a recent presentation.

In response to the 50 question on Nigeria’s economy, posed by the House of Representatives’ committee on finance, Okonjo-Iweala, coordinating minister of the economy, said in view of set standards, MasterCard presents the best financial platform for the project. Verve Card, she added had earlier rejected the same project in 2010, claiming it was not profitable. According to her, three Nigerian companies (Auspoint Limited; E-PayPlus Limited; and Telnet Nigeria Lmited) with foreign partners, were recently cleared by the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) and approved by the Federal Executive Council (FCC) to produce the cards.

About four years ago, two local consortia (Chams Consortium and OneSecureCard Consortium) had signed an agreement with NIMC as front-line partners for the national ID project.

It was learnt that the structure of the transaction changed completely upon the commission securing FEC approval for N30 billion for the purchase of cards and support of nationwide rollout of operational capacity.

Ben Uzor Jr

http://businessdayonline.com/2014/04/concerns-over-mastercards-role-in-national-id-card-scheme/#.VAPQdsWSySp


Why Verve Card rejected the project baffles me, now MasterCard will be smiling to bank.
Fact is that many Nigerian I.T firms don't really have resource pool for this kind of project...the ones that can are too caught up with immediate gains to realize the future profitability. These guyz have handled similar project in small scale, their performance was not even up to average, many times they are overwhelmed and start cutting corners. Seriously, MasterCard is the best option for now, we all know they can deliver without hitches. They have both the technology and funds to deliver.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 11:55pm On Aug 31, 2014
arresa: Do you really need a partner to perform such basic tasks like ID system with biometrics?

Are you not directly admitting that your country with 170 million people, educated manpower and Oil wealth can not take biometric pictures, compile demographic data and download into a database especially what some states have done successfully and others are doing without selling their souls to foreign companies for free..

If I may ask, how much much money was committed by MasterCard that we didn't have?

Obviously some ignorant trash you pulled out of your rectum..


You know they approached any other entity because you were part of the program or you have access to official documents regarding the program?

Obviously some ignorant trash you pulled out of your rectum..




You are of course lying...Inters-witch didn't turn down anything, in fact, Charms PLC that successfully provided biometric and payment ID in Osun and Inter-switch signed an agreement with NIMC as front-line partners for the national ID project, but it was learnt that the structure of the transaction changed completely upon the commission securing FEC approval for N30 billion for the purchase of cards and support of nationwide rollout of operational capacity

http://businessdayonline.com/2014/04/concerns-over-mastercards-role-in-national-id-card-scheme/#.VAOvP8VdVuA

Btw, inter-switch won the contract to take biometrics and fingerprint for the program via their own front company called Precise Match-on-Card


You don't have facts, all you have is personal opinion...
Again, stop pulling crap out of your rectum. You sound very very shallow and unintelligent..
It is useless bandying words with a kid like that probably still lives on hand-out from parents what do you know anyway.....emmatok has already posted excerpt from Ngozi in bold, perhaps you should read it and stop exposing your crass ignorance and stvpidity over issues that are clearly beyond your depth.... i am not your usual NL that argues back and forth without knowledge of what the issue is about.... I can spot a loud-mouthed simpleton from the way he or she ignorantly post carelessly and ignorantly...
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 11:36pm On Aug 31, 2014
SirShymex: Well, at least my "ghetto" looks like paradise compared to your village (I've seen your pictures in your village hut during Mr. Nl and, how bummy and hungry you look), and most of the affluent places in naij, you hunger induced anorexic yokel. grin

That's the low self-esteem and insecurity right there because I'm everything you will never be, you stark illiterate! You're a hungry guy with a neck like that of an ostrich, and I doubt you even shower based on how rough you look, with those red-yellowish eyes. cry

I'm proud of my ghetto! Raised by the original G's as a young G on those gully roads - and the P's and Q's I learnt from being from there, and the street smartness - are what makes me unique and versatile out there in the corporate world. You can never beat that - and I'll always rep where I'm from - the jungles of South East London. Still and will always be that Peckham boy - YPB for life, P downwards! grin grin

Kill yourself! grin
hahahah.....see this nincompoop that practically lives on the common term "Benefit Ghetto" where lazy adults like himself surrender their lives to social welfare and government benefits talking about living in paradise.... hehehehehhuh You must really be enjoying this delusional paradise where your ignorant black kids like yourself maim each other just so they can be seen as tough ganagstar..... Lol

You wanna be tough boihuh Get off your lazy a$$ and stop bloating Britain's social welfare program and just get a job you lazy bum. It is so easy to lay ambush on NL and post nonsense after all you don't have a job and have no serious plan in life outside getting food stamp and AIDS from government and NGOs....Lol, be a real tough guy and get a real job, start catering for somebody and take responsibilities like a real man would.

May be then you can qualify to talk real men stuff and quit throwing childish temper tantrums when people call your bluff. Who knows may be if you keep up you might one day be able to build the house in my village you so much envy me for... Lol...anuofia Britain.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 9:55pm On Aug 31, 2014
emmatok: I am looking at this issue from a business standpoint.
Giving MASTERCARD 15 million Nigerians is not a small deal.

MASTERCARD is not an NGO, they are out to maximize profit from this deal.
Thats the WALL-STREET style.
Why didn't the government liberalized the system(allowing other payment platform) from the beginning.
Giving Nigerians option to choose which payment platform they want.

I am surprised that Nigeria own INTERSWITCH and QUICKTELLER were not involved.
I clearly understand your point, and to tell you the truth, I also have issues with that but when you consider the fact that this is business and the best negotiations many times win over national allegiance or any local consideration, you will slightly adjust your views.

You and I know MasterCard came with the big break that the project needed FUNDING and technical know-how that none of the locals were Willing to give even after many of them have had the opportunity to do so. You can't fault government or MasterCard for this, it is all business and profitability. Both MasterCard and NIMC aim to make profits from this, outside of the benefits this exercise .....so it is all business.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 9:51pm On Aug 31, 2014
emmatok: I am looking at this issue from a business standpoint.
Giving MASTERCARD 15 million Nigerians is not a small deal.

MASTERCARD is not an NGO, they are out to maximize profit from this deal.
Thats the WALL-STREET style.
Why didn't the government liberalized the system(allowing other payment platform) from the beginning.
Giving Nigerians option to choose which payment platform they want.

I am surprised that Nigeria own INTERSWITCH and QUICKTELLER were not involved.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 9:40pm On Aug 31, 2014
arresa: You intelligently listed and equated Nigerian companies functioning under Nigerian laws, regulations and jurisdiction with an American company functioning under American laws and regulations. That was dumb, idiotic, shallow and elementary..

We do business with Chevron and tons of American companies, but we don't have their commercial logo on our symbol of Nationhood..

And doing business with an American company is quiet different from handing over your National ID system to an American company, it's quiet different from letting a foreign entity stamp their commercial logo on your symbol of sovereignty, it's quiet different from making your entire country their customers without their consent, it's quiet different from handing over economically sensitive data about your population, census, buying power, it's quiet different from rendering yourself vulnerable to sanctions and punishments by other countries.t anti America in

Dufus, evil or not which is even irrelevant here, America decides what's best for America based on it's National interest and security hence their actions when they prevented Visa and MasterCard from doing business with Russia.

Obviously, shallow and unintelligent people like you can not differentiate between A and B just like a toddler..

My age is definitely not responsible for your dumbness, ceaselessness and inability to read and comprehend basic English words..
LoL.....you know your problem kid, you argue with your own concocted statistics and delusions. Obviously you are not a working Nigerian and do not even know jack about the project until you saw it on NL. I can tell when an informed person is making an argument as against somebody making a careless and reckless argument steeped with falsehood and ignorance of how business work in Nigeria or the politics behind it.

To start with, NIMC had been looking for partners for over 4 years before mastercard came in with serious interests and matched it up with the required funds. So-called local companies like inter switch verve where approached, they turned it down and said it was not going to be profitable, a couple of them like telnet signed off deal with NIMC for personalized narional cards like this one but did not do anything after it. So what do you expect?
Just to put things in the proper perspectives:

Here are the facts:
1. Interswitch were approached by NIMC to participate early but they did not see any seriousness in the Project. Even Visa were the first to show interest but then didn’t sign up.

2. NIMC is isssuing 150m Cards, of which only the FIRST 13m are MasterCard. Less than 10%. The next Card Company to show seriousness will get the next tranche, to offer flexibility and choice. So how does that translate to giving the Card to MasterCard?

Nigeria has to start from somewhere. Nigerians will have choice, flexibility and much more. All this naysaying and negativity doesn’t help. If you want to err on the side of caution with MasterCard, go the whole hog and don’t cherry pick.

And argue with some perspectives like you really know what the issues are, instead of just regurgitating nonsense popular opinions that borders on just politics and no substance.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 9:38pm On Aug 31, 2014
arresa: You intelligently listed and equated Nigerian companies functioning under Nigerian laws, regulations and jurisdiction with an American company functioning under American laws and regulations. That was dumb, idiotic, shallow and elementary..

We do business with Chevron and tons of American companies, but we don't have their commercial logos on our symbol of Nationhood..

And doing business with an American company is quiet different from handing over your National ID system to an American company, it's quiet different from letting a foreign entity stamp their commercial logo on your symbol of sovereignty, it's quiet different from making your entire country their customers without their consent, it's quiet different from handing over economically sensitive data about your population, census, buying power, it's quiet different from rendering yourself vulnerable to sanctions and punishments by other countries.

Dufus, evil or not which is even irrelevant here, America decides what's best for America based on it's National interest and security hence their actions when they prevented Visa and MasterCard from doing business with Russia.

Obviously, shallow and unintelligent people like you can not differentiate between A and B just like a toddler..

My age is definitely not responsible for your dumbness, ceaselessness and inability to read and comprehend basic English words..
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 9:22pm On Aug 31, 2014
Douglasdale: Free that scum.
If only his dad had pulled out or used a Magnum.
If only.
The fool is in the habit of talking down to ppl as if he is better because he lives in one street corner in peckham ghetto.....kid that has never been to Nigeria always trying to argue with people who should be lecturing him about Nigeria. Me I will be the last person to argue with that low lifer street urchin.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 8:43pm On Aug 31, 2014
emmatok: You still dont get it, MasterCard is a commercial entity just like VISA and VERVE.
I have Cards on all the payment platforms(MasterCard,VISA and VERVE).

Its it totally wrong to force MasterCard on all nigerian NID holders.
Which means millions of transactions from nigeria NID holders will be going to MasterCard alone.

Why not allow Nigerians to choose which payment system(MasterCard,VISA or VERVE) they want on their cards.
OK, so your argument has taken a shift now to the appropriateness of just MasterCard handling the whole payment structure of the entire exercise. Just so you know, this is pilot exercise and the plan is to use just MasterCard to get 13million PPl on the payment platform after which the main exercise will take off involving others, for now it is a pilot project. perhaps you should take your time to understand how this things work. The database is still strictly going to be with NIMC and any information shared with third party payment platform is going to be encrypted, hope you know they also have some data encryption companies working in the project as well.

Just the way your bank shares account related information with verve vise and their likes when you use your ATM. they don't store your data, the banks do that, that's why they have data centers...master card to the best of my knowledge does not have database here in Nigeria. so make una relax.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 8:29pm On Aug 31, 2014
arresa: Exactly what's your brainless and pointless rant got to do with the issue raised here.

Are the companies you mentioned American companies? Do they have their logo on your National ID cards? Do they function under American laws and regulations? Can the US order them to stop doing business with Nigeria?

Pick up your worthless, unintelligent and can't read and comprehend brain from under the shoes you walk on sometimes...
You are obviously a Dumbo.... again I ask, how old are you? You can't even coordinate your argument without sounding lost and very stvp!d. So the Nigerian government should surrender doing business with foreign multinational because the little devils dancing Azonto on your shoulders fear that anything American is evil? How is your delusions and schizophrenia anybody's business? who cares about what a simpleton like you think.... we are talking adult business and an end!ot that does not have one naira to his name dey form security.... Lol...scheeeew.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 8:21pm On Aug 31, 2014
SirShymex: [s][/s]

Lmao!

Go sort out your low self-esteem and learn how to put words together, with the right punctuations, you stark illiterate. grin

Fvck off, it's a Sunday - no time for stalkers
Lol....low self esteem....hahahah. In case it has not occurred to you nobody likes your street ghetto life, gang star life is not an alternative for any right thinking person. Go and get high on your cocaine and leave Nigerians alone to discuss real issues affecting them.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 7:23am On Aug 31, 2014
LOL...your statements always come off as those of a frustrated ghetto kid. It baffles me how some stray ghetto kid struggling with his less than average life can sit in one corner and want to lecture real Nigerians that were born, raised and work in Nigeria how things are done...lol...what can be more delusional? Kid you should learn to shut up when real Nigerians are discussing issues that affect them directly....there is a big difference here kid, We live the stories that were told to you by your so called ikorodu abi na your Lagos island phnatom papa....spot the difference.
SirShymex: Bruv, you honestly have time for these stark illiterates.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 7:13am On Aug 31, 2014
Many of you just write nonsense even when you don't understand or know jack how this things work. How old are you by the way? You are probably an excited kid trying to tag along...I am yet to see any cogent reasons to criticize this very good initiative. Can you lot just keep shut and stop regurgitating El Rufia's nonsense? The ed!ot has MasterCard powered payment card I can assure you that, he gladly submitted himself to MTN, Airtel and Etisalat for biometric registration, so what the hell is he raising the dust for? Just another one of his many rants...you young lads should learn to have your own independent opinions and views of things and not just tag along because it is a popular one.
arresa: What's so modern about what some states inside the same Nigeria have done successfully with ease and some are doing without selling their souls to foreign entities with commercial logos...?

Look in the mirror for PRIMITIVE...smh.
PoliticsRe: SCANDALOUS: Outrage In Nigeria As Government Brands National ID Card With Master by rhymz(m): 9:33am On Aug 30, 2014
It is funny how some Nigerians can express selective outrage over the fact that the new Nigerian National Identity Cards launched Thursday by President Goodluck Jonathan, has the American firm, MasterCard brand logo on it.

They say they fear that such partnership and brand display may have some security and economic implications.
Oh reallyhuh

I am yet to understand how this is any more different from the biometric registration everyone that owns a mobile telephone lines does in this country. Seriously, are MTN, Airtel or Etisalat not foreign multi nationals as well? How come nobody has raised an eye brow over the biometric registration one has to do with them before using their SIM cardshuh

Abegi jor, people should learn to criticize constructively and with the right understanding of how the process works. It is not like Master Card is the one managing the Database, theirs is to provide payment technology with the card, NIMC is the project leader and the ones to manage the database, enough with the unnecessary Hullabaloo over nothing, who does not carry a MasterCard enabled ATM cards these days anyway....it will just be like how your bank interface your account detail on pre-request payment arrangement Master card, verve Visa and their likes.

As far as I am concerned, this is a welcomed development in the right direction, we need to really know how many we are in this country. We don tire for all the nonsensical politics surrounding population count, where some regions and states count fish and even livestock as part of their human population... Lol. Now we want to know the real human Nigerians.
HealthRe: NMA suspends strike.....Live Update Of NMA Emergency Delegate Meeting At Abuja. by rhymz(m): 12:48pm On Aug 24, 2014
thegeneral84: Bro, check any medical text and look up what the word "management" (of an illness) means. It encompasses:
1)history. (2) physical examination. (3) provisional diagnosis (definitive diagnosis for some illnesses).( 4) investigations/ lab tests. (5) definitive diagnosis (for cases that initially had provisional diagnosis). (6) treatment.

That is the usual flow but there maybe alterations depending on the cases. The doctor does 1 and 2 first before any lab test is ordered. In a good number of cases, that is enough to start treatment. note that 1 and 2 is traditionally regarded as medical history

Let me give you an example: if a doctor sees a patient with high BP, he won't need any lab test to start treating the high BP. Lab test will be needed to assess the extent of damage the high BP has caused to the kidneys, heart, etc. Note the doctor already knows what to expect that is why he would order for maybe 3 relevant tests or so, out of the thousands of tests that exist. Should that test result come back and it's not in keeping with what the Doctor "expects" to see, it can be repeated or rejected.
Another example is if a pregnant woman comes down with symptoms of malaria but the lab test said "no malaria parasite", that woman would still be treated for malaria despite the negative lab result because malaria parasites may have concentrated in her placenta and was not detected in the lab test.

A further example, if a patient is hypertensive, diabetic and obese for instance, the doctors would start him on cholesterol-lowering meds (in addition to other drugs) without checking if the cholesterol level is high or not. I'm sure a lab scientist would insist that the doctor MUST do a cholesterol test first before starting the drugs but it's not so. The cholesterol test would come much later after the person had taken the drugs for sometime.

Finally, a HIV positive patient who has symptoms of chronic cough, fever, weight loss...etc, chest findings on examination(all symptoms of tuberculosis) can be started on anti-tuberculosis drugs without waiting for lab result.

These are just few examples, they are inexhaustible here. The point I'm trying to make is that not all illnesses require lab results for treatment. This is in opposition to what a lab scientist would say that if a doctor doesn't order lab test, he is treating you wrongly.
Am sorry to say this but your argument is at best childish and touches the core of what this is all about; misplaced sense of importance and abilities, Nigerian doctors especially the ones just starting out always comes of with this arrogant air of being super intelligent and important than everyone else.
What exactly is the import of all this lengthy explanationhuh to prove that a doctor can work independently with or without input of a Lab scientisthuh
Don't you see how arrogant and defensive you sound? Trying so hard to downplay the importance and relevance of other professionals just so you can look high and mighty in the eyes of the un-derscening public.....

Whether you like to admit it or not, no one professional in the health sector can arrogate to himself the knowledge to do it all or work independently, that is bullshyte and you know this. Everybody has very key roles they play in the treatment and management of patients, a doctor can not do the job of a lab scientist or a radiologist or a pharmacist, so please save us the lengthy anecdotes, everyone is very important, simple.
HealthRe: NMA suspends strike.....Live Update Of NMA Emergency Delegate Meeting At Abuja. by rhymz(m): 9:21am On Aug 24, 2014
phantom: my man calm down. call any resident in FMC ido ekiti.
if you conclude the strike was about money that's your kettle of fish.
tell okonjo to start printing money for 2015

residents are unhappy with the way the strike was called of.
it was pure politics played well by the FG but in every war sacrifices have to be made.
why will I want to contact some resident far away in ido ekiti when I can easily get authentic information from the real guys in LUTH at the forefront of the strike.huh

Residents are very happy with the calling off of the strike, many of them understand they were being dragged into stvpid management politics they were not really interested in..... My guy in LUTH has been cursing the NMA leaders and the likes for using them as shield to fight the FG and their other colleagues. We all know that NMA knew in the first place that most of those demands were superfluous and won't be taken seriously by FG, besides, they are not a Union and so can not make demands as if they were one or even call in a strike. They are even lucky that the GEJ administration is being lenient, some other government will use such excuse to keep them on check already and victimize people individually that participate in the strike.
So abeg relax, this whole thing is what it is ; needless power struggle and insatiable quest for more entitlement.
HealthRe: NMA suspends strike.....Live Update Of NMA Emergency Delegate Meeting At Abuja. by rhymz(m): 9:09am On Aug 24, 2014
thegeneral84: I'm most certain the tests you request for yourself are usually malaria and typhoid (widal) tests, maybe a sugar and urine test and you think you've got it all covered. Hope you know Widal test has been abandoned since the 1990s because its result is ambiguous? You obviously haven't been really sick because then, you will discovered how incomplete and not-so-useful those tests would be without a proper medical history(which is elucidated by Doctors because a patient may think a symptom is not relevant to the illness but a Doctor tallies all those together). To further demonstrate the place of lab tests in a patients management; ideally (eg in exams) a Doctor should not interpret a lab result unless s/he has a medical history of the said patient. Also, a lab result which is not in keeping with the clinical state of the patient ( as assessed by the Doctor) is either rejected or repeated. The above examples are standards of clinical practice. Thus, the lab result is just an aid to the Doctor's clinical assessment and NEVER a replacement to clinical assessment. In situations where lab results and clinical assessment contradict each other, clinical assessment supervenes.
What a very misleading claim. Very misleading. The so-called medical history is mostly results from lab tests the doctor use in evaluating the patient. There is no such thing as a medical history without proper lab tests and results from such. So please slow your roll, everyone is equally as important don't try to make it look like a doctor is the alpha and omega in the treatment of patients, they won't even work without confirmations from lab test results. You obviously do not know what you are talking about or are exaggerating the importance of a doc.
HealthRe: NMA suspends strike.....Live Update Of NMA Emergency Delegate Meeting At Abuja. by rhymz(m): 9:00am On Aug 24, 2014
phantom: why are you hyperventilating? strike has been called of with members getting alerts even when JOHESU was told that there was no money.
things are already happening and you are getting worked up.
go and ask how far with the directorship and consultancy for other health workers
hahaha haha..... How old is the kidhuh?
You just confirmed my argument already, the strike was not about anything that will benefit Nigerians or improve the hospital, it was an ego ride to no where, just some endless round about movement that has yielded no result than happy threat of sack.... Lol.

And don't kid yourself with that nonsensical claims of striking doctors receiving alert already, while you are busy doing your i-wanna-be or look-like-a-doc, I am in contact with the real doctors that have been affected and nobody has received any fictitious alert..... Lol

Just because I assume you may be a doc does not mean I can not decipher who the real docs are here.... Lol.
HealthRe: NMA suspends strike.....Live Update Of NMA Emergency Delegate Meeting At Abuja. by rhymz(m): 8:47am On Aug 24, 2014
Mbediogu: What do you mean by 'them don tire'? You think they are happy to be on strike that long? You still do not see their point of view? Perhaps you saw the other side's point of view? I know that nobody goes to war who doesn't think he has a point. A 'balancing' of all such points has been done and a bilaterally satisfactory agreement has been reached, thats all. Nobody is tired, nobody defeated. If no one reneges on the letters of the agreement, It will victory for the nation including YOU the questioner: and another shame to the devil on a Sunday morning.
YOU sound like a broken record whose songs have become trite and tiring. They just overstretched their importance and got served. After all said and done, the government has made its point clearly and without equivocation that they are the employers and can as well disengage them if they choose to make things difficult.

We all know that the main motives of the strike were largely self-serving ego boosting trip that overemphasized their importance while ignoring their equally important colleagues in the profession. You can not pick and choose what your employer. I was hoping many of these residents will try out private hospitals owned by their senior colleagues who are busy using them as shield to push for self - serving demands that deliberately undermines equally deserving colleagues as well.
HealthRe: NMA suspends strike.....Live Update Of NMA Emergency Delegate Meeting At Abuja. by rhymz(m): 8:15am On Aug 24, 2014
phantom: a representative of the SGF pius anyim is in the meeting now and is saying that anyim is pleading we should call off.
the same anyim who has gone to the media saying negotiations have stopped. grin grin grin

sorry its senator mark that sent in someone and also called. please disregard the bolded.
seriously, if you are a Doc, you need further training on how you manage people and situations because you are very naive and see every issues as an ailment whose only solution is strike.

In case it has not occurred to you, the doctors are now the ones at the disadvantaged position of negotiations, it is now about getting their jobs back not all that trivial nonsense about power struggle in FG hospitals management and administration and needless nomenclature ego fights amongst colleagues.

Government has effectively cut the oversized ego of these doctors to size. I like the way they ended the negotiations and suspended the residency program, that was a master stroke and a game changer...... Let's see how an unemployed Resident doctor will be concerned with how a pharmacist that has a job choose to address himself.... V

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