I am ready to mingle. i have not dated in a while. help a sisto

na contract staff job. basically B.Sc and HND

resumed as relationship manager with stanbic ibtc.

some of the people that made it through with us have not been posted to any branch. high level of incompetence in workforce

i resumed the work in lagos on the island axis.

ipoti is a hamlet in ekiti state.

i also attended the workforce interview up to the final stage and was given an offer letter for 80k. its is so small. am

if you are true to yourself, you get someone that will be true to you.

get it out of your head that its all about what a woman wants from you. u should ask what u av to offer as well. can u inspire trust, can u be faithful, can u defend her, can u respect her?

don't let your 'success' do the speaking for you. there are many women i know that will rather not get married than marry your cocky self-seeking type.

and these women are properly educated, achieving women who work hard for their own money and are very confident of the person and gender. the question is are you smart enough to find one of them? the bible says you have to find the wife (he who finds a wife, proverbs).

song is totally boring, biko, gimme something more creative.

this gone beyond serious. I really wonder where we are heading to if we have to take permission from the government to talk. what happened to the fairness and objectivity of the media? Has a coin stopped having two sides? if not, then there will always be two sides to the debate on fuel subsidy.
by the time the revolution is full blown, they will not know what hit them

@werepeleri, should i assume that you are doing selective reading or simple comprehension is beyond you? don't exhaust sensible readers with your ignorance

guys, it is not always necessary to resort to vulgarity.

on the maersk thing, thumbs up to them. Nigeria is an industrial country waiting to happen if only the government will make infrastructures happen and stop awarding ridiculously pricey contracts to their 'feefu'

i disagree with the red and green thing. there are different shades of green as well as different shades of red. if you combine the right shade, there will be no clash. google color chart and it will show you how to combine colors.

hey guys. how long does it take to receive a feedback from them? will it be a good idea to send a mail to the staff that sent the mail for online assessment asking this question?

days when friendship was pure and honest and not based on material worth

lipsy, looks like sausages glued on. well, what can i say?

@MOBO, portland, go to work o. helicopters still hovering over salford precinct. i wonder where u will be coming from cos i heard trams won't be frequent tomorrow. sleep for tonight tho. let tomorrow take care of itself

^^^^am in salford, there is a police station at the precint and cctv everywhere so i think they are more on the alert. miss selfridge don burn o and that is in the city centre

barely 3 hours, surulere

I have read through articles many times and I usually have mixed feelings on reference to Nigeria in terms of population e.g. , Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, Is that all we are proud of or all they can say? What else can be used to describe Nigeria?

was born in ibadan, lived there till i was 12 years. but as i went to a boarding school in iyana-offa, i continued for another 4 yrs.
moved to lagos. did university education in lagos and served in lagos.
did 2 years in abuja before UK took over.
but i am definitely going back to abuja. love d place well well

This year, every Nigerian - all 162 million of us - man, woman and child will 'pay' the sum of N27,685 each to help run the federal government. What we cannot afford, government will borrow on our behalf to pay for its activities.
That is why the federal government, on behalf of you and I will spend the sum of 4.485 trillion (over four thousand billion) naira in 2011. This is against the backdrop that our entire oil earnings for the year cannot pay the generous salaries and allowances of politicians on the one hand, and the meagre pay cheques of other public sector workers on the other, while infrastructure and unemployment are barely getting attention.
When you walk into a government office to request for a basic service, the staff you meet may not even bother to reply to your greeting and barely has time to listen to you; the policeman that should protect you on the roadblock, stops you and demands for bribes and has no qualms shooting dead any motorist that refuses to give him twenty naira; the customs officer at the border who is supposed to stop smuggling takes a bribe and actually connives with the smugglers to bring in banned products into the Nigerian market, while harassing the traveller entering Nigeria with two new pairs of shoes; the hospital staff that, contrary to every professional oath, refuses to attend to dying patients because they are on strike; the soldiers who get so bored that they occasionally go on a rampage, using policemen for target practice. With live ammunition, of course; the politician who rigs himself into office then proceeds to loot the treasury: these are all the people whose standard of living we are spending nearly 75 per cent of the 2011 budget to pay for - and borrowing some after spending all our collections from oil and taxes!
It will cost nearly 2.5 million naira this year on average to pay for the salary and upkeep of each of Nigeria’s nearly one million federal public sector workers – in the police, civil service, military and para-military services and teachers in government schools and institutions. Whether this amount justifies the service that is rendered is left for Nigerians to decide. In all, the 49 line Ministries, Departments and Agencies specifically mentioned in the 2011 Appropriations Act will each cost an average of N49.49 billion to run.
We elect a total of 360 members to the House of Representatives and 109 Senators to make laws and enhance good governance by checking and balancing the excesses of the executive arm of government. For this privilege, the 469 members of the federal legislature and their support staff at the National Assembly will spend N150 billion this year. It is worth noting that NASS only passed 8 bills as at the end of May 2011. So assuming that they manage to pass another 7 bills before the end of this year, it would cost the Nigerian citizen an average ten billion naira to pass a single bill! This implies that to pass the 2011 budget (which allocates N150 billion to NASS), Nigerians paid 10 billion naira. An even more interesting statistic is the cost of maintaining every legislator every year. It works out to princely N320 million per legislator per annum. At this rate, every four year stint at NASS works out at N1.28 billion per legislator. No wonder machetes, guns and thugs are used at will to "win" primaries and the elections. How many new businesses can achieve a turnover of N1.28 billion within four years with net tax-free profit in excess of 50 percent? Is this social justice?
For the NASS, even the amount of N150 billion above is just what we can see easily but is not broken down for further analysis or accountability. There is a bit more hidden all over the Appropriation Act - another N1.595 billion was tucked away for "In-lieu of accommodation for the Seventh Session of NASS" and another N200 million for "Funding of House Resolution Mandates." What these two provisions mean is best explained by those that legislated them and the executive that will release the sums! What is clear is that none of these will ever be accounted for, or audited!
Last week, I wrote about the cost of justice. I got a few things wrong because I did not appreciate fully the unique role of the National Judicial Council (NJC) in the administration of the nation's judicial system. My friend and former classmate Mrs. Maryam Wali Uwais clarified this and educated me, for which I am grateful. The NJC's budget of N95 billion covers the salaries and allowances of all judges of superior courts of record in Nigeria - that is State High Courts and their federal equivalents, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. The NJC also funds the overheads of all the Federal Courts only - the Federal High Court and the appellate courts, as well as the salaries and allowances of all Federal Judicial support staff. The State Governments are responsible for the salaries of all other judicial staff (magistrates, support staff, etc.) and the overhead costs of all courts within their respective jurisdictions. It is therefore slightly more complicated to compute what it costs to keep our entire judicial system running without adding up all the budgetary allocations to the Judiciary in all 36 states. We will return to this sometime soon.
An interesting observation is the fact that the government says the problem of power shortage is a priority, yet the Ministry of Power only got 91 billion naira as total appropriation in 2011, while the National Security Adviser (NSA) controls and will spend 208 billion naira (Recurrent - N51 billion, Capital N59 billion, and another N98 billion for the Amnesty Programme!). This amount does not include the Defence budget. The Defence Ministry will get N348 billion, while the Police will get 309 billion naira. In other words, though Nigerians have never felt so insecure in recent history, the NSA, Police and Defence will spend a combined 865 billion naira - more than 2 billion naira a day, weekends included! This does not include the 36 states’ so-called security votes. Even state assembly members and local government councillors now have security votes. Clearly their security is more important than ours!

The point of these statistics is to show how expensive governance has become and how little Nigerians get in return. And the unproductive portions of our national budget have been rising rapidly in the last 4 years, to the detriment of capital investments in infrastructure and human development. Four years ago in 2007, the entire federal government budget was 2.3 trillion naira; today we are spending 4.485 trillion. In 2007, statutory transfers amounted to 102 billion naira or 5% of the total budget. Today, transfers amount to 418 billion or 9% of the total.This year, the federal government will spend 495 billion naira or 11% of the budget on debt servicing compared to 326 billion naira or 14% it spent the year we finally exited from the London Club debt. More telling is the 1.05 trillion naira or 46% for recurrent expenditure in 2007 against the 2.425 trillion or 54% government will spend this year. Just four years ago, capital expenditure accounted for 36% (830 billion naira) of the budget. This year, the amount for capital expenditure has fallen to 25% (1.147 trillion naira - out of which N1.136 trillion is the budget deficit - that is to be borrowed!).
To the uninformed eye, the figures may seem to represent increases in all aspects, but to what cost, and to what effect? Apologists would want us to believe that the astronomical increase in the cost of government services can be explained by inflation, but even taking into consideration the high inflationary trend (thanks to Jonathan’s profligate campaign year spending), statutory transfers in the budget has gone up by a whopping 310%; debt servicing has a 52% increase; recurrent expenditure has gone up by 131% while capital expenditure has increased by 39% over four years. In real terms however, and accounting for inflation, the total budget has increased by 33% with recurrent expenditure going up by 58% while capital expenditure has actually reduced by 6%.
Facts and figures do not lie. Every figure used in this analysis came from official government records. What is the justification for allocating such huge amounts to running the government when a staggering 30 million Nigerians are unemployed? Only N50 billion has been budgeted to create employment, forgetting that money by itself does not create jobs without a well thought out plan to stimulate small and medium scale enterprises and the creation of appropriate regulatory environments. What are the strategies to ensure that these funds are not diverted? How many jobs will be created this year or in the next four years? Are our priorities right?
All these come down to the questions: Will government’s 4.485 trillion naira budget make life any better or even provide security for Nigerians? Can we feel the impact of this huge spending? Is the cost of governance justified? If we do not have the courage to ask these questions, we will be doing ourselves a disservice and endangering our people's future.

Akan A1:

thunder fire your Bottom,

bed rest for akan a1 as his bottom has been fired appropriately

Akan A1:

I am Nigerian born, but spent a lot of time outside naija in a psychiatric ward and several rehab centers. I hope 2 get back in touch with the real world real soon. By the way I wonder how u came up with all these figures,

now it adds up. i pray your sanity is restored in time to face the firing squad. have fun and go to bed

my grandfather left an estate worth N3.5billion and none of his 6 children are fighting. all i need is N1 billion. i will find something useful to do with that. that is why the bible says godliness with contentment is great gain.

how pathetic. they have sown the seed of discord even among their own children. it will take the grace of God for their children to be at peace with one another

Akan A1:

This guy looks like Bright Okocha, my classmate from sec. sch. Dont tell me this guy is now a naija celeb,

i find it weird that you have lost touch with your youth soteey it took you about 10 years to recognise your school mate. ignorance is not always bliss and in your case i will think it tends to something else cos even if you have been outside Nigeria for 15 years, there is no way you will not have heard of basket mouth, except you are not a nigerian

i have absolutely moved on. thanks guys, either u said something meaningful or just chatted rubbish