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Banking is the most 'secular' career that one can imagine because a lot of money handling is involved!

A more appropriate question might have been "what is Nigeria's gift to the world. What do we know about the rest of Africa? Besides, African is not a homogenous culture or country like China; it's a continent!

Why are you all typing in all caps? What is wrong with the forum today? It is a bannable offense:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-1026.0.html

Our beloved Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is my preferred candidate for next year's presidency. She is currently managing what I consider the most vital arm of government, the ministry of finance (the ministry of money, the economy's lifeblood).

Her concrete plan for the reform of the Nigerian economy consists of five areas: Privatisation, Governance, Macro Economy, Anti Corruption, and Public Service Reform. The most amazing thing is that the details of this programme are available on the Internet for all to see!

She was at the head of the team that negotiated the debt relief package for Nigeria, unlike other politicians who prefer to rack up debts for cheap popularity when they are in power and leave the consequences to the next administration. thanks to debt relief programme, this administration is handing over a clean balance sheet to the next regime in 2007!

I want this woman to be the next president of Nigeria. She has impeccable qualifications, a critical role in the economic reform programme, a politically corect gender, and has not been a part of the old chop-chop political system. If she contests in the 2007 election versus people like IBB, Atiku, and Okotie, would you vote for her?

Her Latest interview: news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article484595.ece

Thanks for sharing!

He's crazy. You need broadband to appreciate this:
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I'm in need of someone to manage the nairaland web directory for us. A web directory manager!

Apart from all I've said before, the mere act of raising the price will make the power sector more attractive for investors. This is where the future lies. Let's forget about NEPA being the solution to all problems. the price hike is a temporary solution that makes nEpA power available to those who need it most while we waitfor private investors.

Coming from someone who has actually experienced teen pregnancy, that's a warning to be taken seriously.

Send our love to your half-Nigerian twins!

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Of course, they should be taxed. Why not? Institutions that contribute more to the economy are being taxed, so why not churches? That churches are not being taxed in most countries is a sign of the strong influence of religion.

That's a great idea. You need reporters, writers, and probably a dedicated printing facility. You're more likely to sell to a general audience by focusing on entertainment, or business if your district is a commercial one. Good luck!

If prayers cannot cause food to appear on your table without you going out to buy and prepare the food how do you think prayer will help with medical problems if you are unwilling to go to a doctor's office for help?

I'm an entrepreneur; i'm interested in anything that can generate money. If there is copper ore in Nigeria, that means we can purify it and use the copper to make wires. That means we can save on the cost of importing copper wires.

Some people are depressed when everything is going well or improving. That requires medical assistance.

He was always berating his disciples and calling them "hard of hearing".

Women that claim to be submissive are usually manipulators. An expert manipulator (woman) can control you better than someone who is trying to dominate you (man). It's like a game and women who play it well can actually profit from it. That doesn't make it right. What if you are a sincere, kindhearted woman? You'll just be suppressed.

See i live in a community where you have a lot of nepa officials, . .they don't pay for electricity.

Of course, before we can talk about increasing prices, the current freeloaders should be forced to pay!

We have arable land and we do not suffer drought, why can't we feed ourselves?

Chinani, he has won. I admire your nferynistic tenacity but please let this one slide, thanks.

There has been no riot or public demonstration. The original title was misleading. <<snip>>

Beating your sister is not the answer, unless you are also willing to beat your mother!

The most important thing is to make them apologize to your wife. Then create a rule - my people use this - that whenever you are to give them any money or gift it must be through the hands of your wife. Works like a charm!

There's no guarantee that you'll be able to make small money before you decide to leave! About your friend's situation: sorry, but gambling is meant to be a recreational activity not a way to make money!

do u think raising the price of power would solve the <<snip>> accurate billing system?

Where it exists, the problem of random billing cannot be solved by increasing the price. That is not a technical problem. They can just fire all the corrupt billing officials and hire fresh graduates. However, even if the billing is made more accurate, it would not solve the problem, which is that demand exceeds supply.

PHCN + Nepa does not have the technical ability to provide the kind of power we need

"The power we need", i.e. electricity demand, is not a constant. It depends on the price.

When electricity is very cheap, people use it for watching TV, for powering light bulbs even (instead of the more efficient flourescent lights) during the day, for air conditioners and all sorts. This is far more than the power that NEPA can supply, so what they do is that they randomly switch people on and off. This is known as rationing.

If the price goes up, all of a sudden Johny would remember that he doesn't need to use AC when there is fan. All of a sudden, sis eko with the power guzzling deep freezer will realize that to recoup the cost of electricity she needs to charge people who want to keep items in her freezer. All of a sudden, mama bomboy will start ordering her children to put off lights when they are not in use. All of a sudden, people will start conserving electricity.

On the other hand, if the supply goes up with the same price, it wouldn't help much. People will simply start using electricity more aggressively. Those who were using generator most of the time will start trying to use NEPA to save money. Demand would quickly outpace the supply leaving us exactly where we started, even with no corruption.

Imagine that there is no water in your town except for a particular tap. Every morning people will form a long queue to get access to the tap. Now, because people know they can't join the queue more than once before going to work, they will all start competing by either carrying more buckets along with them to the queue or asking others to take their buckets along and fetch water for them (for free). The place will be congested. Whether you need the water for cooking so you don't die or you need it for wasting, it will be the same.

Now if you just charge a token fee, instead of money going to those who are jobless and therefore patient, it will go to those who need it badly enough that they are willing to pay for it. And when they get such water, they won't waste it because that's wasting money. With the revenue earned from the tap, the owner can dig another borehole to benefit everybody. That is what I have in mind for NEPA. When price goes up, demand goes down. It's a law.

Don't worry, someone else has gained that 700 pounds that your friend lost! Is it sports betting you're talking about here, or something else? How come you are still interested despite your friend's enormous loss?

Of course, before the prices can be raised there has to be accurate billing. They must charge you more when you use more and less when you use less, and they must disconnect you if (and only if) you don't pay up. When that has been done, then they can keep raising the price until the demand falls to the current level of generation. The people that need electricity for business will be very happy to pay, since it'll be less stressful and cheaper to pay the new tarriffs for constant electricity than to be forced to use power generators.

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I agree with you. It is difficult to believe that he'll be stupid enough to do such, in a foreign land no less.

If your current career is not what you really want to do, you can just change it, right? You don't have to come back in another life to switch careers. Careers are not set in stone!

So what would I rather be doing? Apart from not having a boss in my life, my greatest desire is the freedom to research and implement clever ideas that make the world a better place and enrich my bank account! I am very close to having that. So in a different life, all I'll do is get into my current career - entrepreneurship - earlier.

There can be no shortage of anything in life except the very basic things we need to survive - food, water, and tolerable shelter. We only have high prices and low prices. When the prices are too low, then you have shortage.

We can have stable electricity starting next week if the price of electricity is increased (with accurate billing).

4 play: You are being unecessarily insultive, you know. You can express your bigotry without name-calling!

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