₦airaland Forum

We have seen it with the fuel we buy with ease today at an increase price.

givedemwotowoto:
Is this why Nigerians must starve before they can afford to own passports?

How are other countries of the world including African countries doing it such that the cost of passport processing is a fraction of the minimum wage?

Go and tell that to airlines when you want to pay for your ticket.

And how is minimum wage the yardstick for determining the price of an International passport?!

You mean if your minimum wage is #100,000 you will use all of it to purchase a passport instantly when your salary is paid?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Is that how you will go about it?! Lol.😂 That is not rational. You will have to save to be able to afford it because there are other needs aside using the whole of your salary to purchase an international passport at once.

Him go still collect. Abi no be Colombia? Their own bia no get part two for violence. Someone else will shoot him too maybe even while in prison or out and also cry "I did it for my family".

cedricksly:
all you said and including the modified are gabbage... Go around the world and compare passport price with every country in thr world you know and tell Mr which country it's passport price is bigger than it's minimum wage. That man's you will work 2 months as a Nigeria receiving minimum wage to cover the cost of the least passport... Y'all keep on justifying total rubbish....

How is minimum wage the yardstick for determining the price of an International passport?!

You mean if your minimum wage is #100,000 you will use it to purchase a passport instantly when your salary is paid?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Is that how you will go about it?! Lol.😂 That is not rational. You will have to save to be able to afford it because their are other needs aside using the whole of your salary to purchase an international passport at once.

Gaddaffi121:
You keep shooting yourself in the foot. Or what is your point exactly? You insinuate we earn so little, yet praising govt stifling policies...

Our airports don't reflect that. It is always busy like a market. What it means is that you have to find your level.

kushme:
I don hear you, let us leave it at that. Before you go still say i like to argue. Tech dey advance and means of doing things(working) are becoming way easier and efficient. So, i hope the immigration officers would change their ways, too. They should not ask applicants for extra as we all know that 100k for passport is on the high side already compared to our minimum wage. Thank you

The already have. Haven't you all been praising Mr Tunji Ojo the Interior Minister for the wonderful improvements in the immigration sector especially passport availability without crying before getting one?!

FILEBE:
Do yoi think this couldn't have been done with its former price? I know in this country, any thing that has to involve payment has got someone or some people profiting largely.

It may help to be transparent in this dealing . Let's know where the money is going to, how much it cost to print a passport, its processes and all. Not against the increment but just want to sure it's justified.

Now you are talking which is very reasonable.

He was the one who appointed Jega. Despite being appointed by him as INEC Chairman, he was still kicked out of his office as President.

Gaddaffi121:
So much bunkum from one person. So increasing price will make officers not wire people koboko? So our minimum earnings shouldnt be compared to what govt charges us? Mtchwww

Your minimum wage fit buy you flight ticket?!

Farmerforgoats:
Na you Dey conflict am; off the road joor!

There was a thread already existing. https://www.nairaland.com/8507998/number-foreign-born-founders-founded#136612326

kushme:
You have a problem, no body mentioned free passport for any citizen. If owning a passport is privilege, then, so is being a citizen. People are talking about affordability with respect to mini wage. You are here changing the story. No wonder other commenters don tire for your matter... Wetin dey worry you. I wan say thing to get nairala.... They are on your side, i guess.

You can't eat you cake and still have it. Do you have the statistics of the number of Nigerians who were able to get an international passport when the price was 'affordable'?!

You just like to argue. When the price was 'affordable' the challenges in getting a passport was so much that time and money was so wasted. That was the reality!

Today it is different which comes with it's own price. You can't eat your cake and still have it.

They have started making abstract statements. Who are they cabals?!

kushme:
Common, i answered you and my comment was ban.
Section 41 of the 1999 Constitution guarantees every citizen the right to move freely within Nigeria and to enter and exit the country. a valid passport is essential for international travel. Therefore, the right to leave and enter the country implies a right to the document that facilitates this travel.

I hope you would apply a sense of reasoning and understanding after reading the above

Where did it say it is free?! Owning a passport is a privilege.

Dem go soon rush go back like say somebody the pursue dem with cane inside dream.

FILEBE:
Does this mean the citizens of Nigeria can't enjoy quality service even if it is cheap? What then the citizens stand to enjoy.

It would have been best to fix thr loopholes in getting this passport and make sure the system is efficient enough for all first. Enough to curb corruption in the sector . This could be done first and the citizens won't blame the need for an increase because it will be justified.

The increase in price closes the loophole because a lot of services are contracted out to private firms who are profit oriented and very efficient.

An international traveling passport is a privilege it is not automatic.

LegendHero:
Below are the six Nigerian founders that made the list.

—Calendly - Tope Awotona

—Flutterwave - Olugbenga Agboola & Iyin Aboyeji

— Cityhealth Block - Toyin Ajayi

—GIP - Adebayo Ogunlesi

—Esusu - Abey Wemimo

Is the list conflicting or the number should be higher?!

https://www.nairaland.com/8507998/number-foreign-born-founders-founded#136612326

Slytiger:
The 6 Nigerians made it to the list:

According to NFAP's May 2022 data, the six Nigerian-born founders of billion-dollar US companies are:

- Tope Awotona (Calendly)
- Iyinoluwa Aboyeji (Flutterwave & Andela)
- Olugbenga Agboola (Flutterwave)
- Nadayar Enegesi (Andela)
- Ikenna Okezie (Somatus)
- Ike Nnah (IntelyCare)

press9jatv:
South Africa should be there too. Elon musk is from SA and owns Tesla, X and space link. The list isn't complete.

Musk considers himself an American citizen.

MrIcredible:
I'm saying it again
The security agents are 95% involved DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY in all the evil crimes we see every day ..

The bad eggs among them. But 95% is too high, thats on the extreme.

ledaman:
Guy Stop supporting this Satanic government.
They have no plans for people, irrespective of the status.

I can see where you are coming from.

kushme:
This poverty shaming thing is something else in Nigeria. Mentality, most of you are okay and happy to see people struggle through poverty. It shows in your comments here. I don't know if we hate to see every or most Nigerians have a decent living. No wonder crime dey everywhere. Cos, we don't want collective growth. We want to be that guy with all the good things on the street while others watch, hail us, envy us with nothing at hand. We hardly think of a large amount of citizens doing fine.

You didn't answer my question but choose to jumb to this one that is not your discussion.

Xammie001:
That Kind thing, we all know what ASUU want which is more money and not for the student which is understandable but Blackmail won't work, See NLC, The guy i so much respected just fall my hand big time with lack of understanding and Exhibiting Pain

He combined his interest in main stream politics for a particular candidate with the supposed neutrality of NLC.

He was punished for that in his home state.

kushme:
Oh no. Dont start. You are not close to simple. Stop using that word. . Is NIN an alternate for travel passport for citizens? Don't other countries have Nin(equivalent), is it an alternate to their travel passport?
Like i said, it is a calculated scheme by the tax collectors to discourage people who earn less from leaving, knowing fully well we have very large number of these people stressing to move out. The suppression is real. And there is no plan or concrete program like China to help the people come out of poverty.

They are comparing travel passport and mini wages of other countries to that of Naija, and you had to bring up a local id. Even the best countries in the globe don't use local id for international travel. Wetin dey worry you self.

You are running in circles. Get your logic straight. Is every citizen entitled to a travel passport?

ottersberger:
Look, we know who you are and who you support. Whether or not 2023 election heist repeats, and to what extent, will be determined when Nigerians go to the polls in 2027.

You have no idea who I am. Not in the slightest. And of course 2027 will be determined by Nigerians.

Mrfixitt:
Amadioha and Ogun will visit you one day, just wait and see

Poverty!

StoryHaven:
That's not a good point.
I and a friend were discussing on how to go and renew our passport. A Senegalese hear us and asked what such huge amount was for. We said passport. He laughed and asked how on earth it is high. We later learnt Nigerian passport price is almost four times their own. Same West African Passport o.
My guy shift.

Just say poverty is the hinderance.

ottersberger:
I agree. Any corrupt president who misappropriates the public treasury would be.

And also win too.

Reminds me of Rotimi Ameachi who believed the cooked up story that Buhari will anoint him as APC presidential candidate then. But Buhari left it open for Osinbajo and Ameachi to go test their might with Tinubu. 🤣

Ameachi thought it was about running around the stadium to show physical strength but politics na game of intellectual capacity. 😂

ASUU is trying to blackmail the Federal Government simply because this administration is doing as much as possible to keep a clean sheet of no ASUU strike and have been keeping up with their demands.

So they want to capitalize on this good gesture by this administration inorder to blackmail it.

kushme:
Why won't you simply see the logic behind minimum wage and a national document? For every working citizen earning a minimum wage, he or she should be able to afford a passport from their mini wages. You were given examples of other countries but you still wouldn't see reason.

If not for wickedness, a country where many citizens don't even make the mini' wage, only for the document being increased. We know that, the increase scheme is to discourage people of less than minimum wages the option or hope of seeking a life out side nigeria. You talked about airticket not cheap. You don't even have an air national carrier.

Airline is a transport business of individuals and coorperations trying to make profits based on costs and other factors of business. Why compare with a document that every citizen is entitled to?

If you can't afford air ticket, use your identity follow land, or sea dey go. Dey break the journey until you reach your destination(adventure things)

That is why you have NIN. Simple!

The truth has already been told by Datti. The whole truth and nothing but the truth.

ottersberger:
Don't pretend to not know the catalyst behind the crises in all the opposition parties.

The catalyst must be a very formidable one.

DeltaOil:
The govt helped him build all this.

An Igbo man has the govt harassing him, yet the Lord prospers the igbos.

Like Peace Airlines. 😁😁😁