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onward4life:Which part of it? Mørøns think OR islam is opposite of Christianity ? |
shaddoww:Like 5&6. |
Mørøns think islam is opposite of Christianity. |
Hateful creatures everywhere. |
DropShot:They need Agbaje of Lagos. |
Following bumper to bumper. If I get what you are saying, you are pointing out the need to process relatively raw materials into value added products. Example is crude oil being refined into petrol, diesel and kerosine. The processing of crude can give us more jobs instead of selling it in its raw form of crude for less. Good thread. I hope those shouting APC 'n PDP learn. One factor holding us down is the issue of abused subsidy system. In developed countries subsidy is tailored around productivity and not consumption. Take the case of dollar for example. The govt in time past decided to be selling part of excess petrodollar and flooded the fx market with it at a cheap rate. This meant when dollar ought to be exchanging for say, N450 and above it was going for N150 because the govt was in the habit of selling excess petrodollar at around N150. This single act meant the govt started subsidizing anything being imported with dollar. It is common knowlegde that we consume alot of foreign items. This subsidy over time has discouraged export of ideas/services and products. Imagine a farmer that exports honey or moringa, or even programmer/blogger/web developer who exports his or her service in exchange for say $1,000 per annum. Instead of getting $1000 X N450 = N450,000.00 per annum in Naira equivalent he/she gets $1000 X N150 = N150,000.00. This has discouraged productivity while encouraging consumption of foreign goods. |
blueto:Stop the politics. Some persons distributed arm fund but the US senator saw nothing autocratic in that. |
Ellidude:Politically speaking. |
It is only a matter of time. As Naira takes its real value such is bound to happen. |
supersystems: |
AsoRockz01:Backup your claim with a post of mine or stop being a phony fellow. |
AsoRockz01:Backup your claim with a post of mine or stop being a stuìd fellow. |
AsoRockz01:The diff between me n you is I don't defend with loyalty to party or region. If true let him face the music and return the funds. |
searchiing4love:Is Nigeria a must? |
Obasanjo tried banning imported goods but it never worked. Reasons: 1) Weak dollar subsidy system:- people kept circumventing the dollar restriction and went outside to the very goods that where banned e.g toothpick. 2) Porour borders:- smuggler saw banned items as hot cake. It favoured them as the borders where poorly manned. 3) Custom :- officials are corrupt and do collude with. We need a more thorough overhaul. |
[quote author=989900 post=49044918][/quote]Truth be told APC was expecting a far easier ride and were hoping to manage to impress. They didn't come on board with well thought out plans. Their main focus was to reduce corruption. That's great but in times like this the people need aggressive education on how to sail the waters of reccession. Let them know their taste for foreign goods is killing the system irrespective of policies. Let them know they have been enjoying subsidy for every single imported item for so long and that right now there is no means to sustain the dollar subsidy. Let them know what they stand to gain by exporting their services and products. Let the know what the gain by buying made in Nigeria products. Let the know how dollar system works and how govt has been 'padding' it. |
Fayose da thug |
https://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/Screenshot%202016-09-02%2016.23.33.png?itok=4YxRkhfx The way the Vice Chancellors were selected for the twelve new Nigerian universities that were established about six years ago was something unprecedented in the history of university administration--and it was also widely condemned. The new Vice Chancellor for one of the universities, Federal University, Dutsinma, Professor Haruna Kaita, was appointed in February 2016. The normal process for appointment of Vice Chancellors is first to advertise the vacancy. Qualified and shortlisted candidates are then screened by a Council Committee, which sends the three recommended candidates to the general council. The Council then ratifies the committee recommendation and the list is then forwarded to the President for the appointment of one of the three. This process was not adhered to. In the case of Federal University Dutsinma, the appointment was made straight from Abuja without due process. Commenting on the anomaly, President Muhammed Buhari, said the government would make amends, but the dubious act was never reversed. It is a calamity that an indigene of Katsina State was made the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Dutsinma, Katsina State, unlike the remaining new universities that have non-indigenes as Vice Chancellors. Even the constitution of the governing council is skewed: Dr Maraliyya Zayyan from Katsina State is the Chairperson of Governing Council The first victim of the scheme was the university Bursar who was duly appointed by the Federal Ministry of Education. He was terminated within five weeks of the Vice Chancellor’s assumption of duty for no cogent reason. His crime, the real reason for his termination, is his religion and state of origin-as a Christian from Kogi State. The Bursar’s name-Mr Momohjimoh Sadiq-sounds Muslim but he is a Christian. He was promptly replaced with an officer from Katsina State as Acting Bursar. The other appointees soon followed: Dr Babangida U. Dangani -Katsina State -Chief Librarian Mr A.D Kankia -Katsina State -Registrar (recently appointed) Prof. Johnson Fatokun -Oyo State -DVC Prof. A. Bichi -Kano State -DVC The Katsina mafia should have been satisfied having captured the key positions. However, they have descended heavily on the staff, intent on sending away the infidels (non-indigenes and Christians) in order to ‘sanitise’ the school. I understand this agenda is not just the Vice Chancellor’s baby project. Some powerful people in Katsina, the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, and in Abuja are behind him insisting that the ethno-religious cleansing is a task that must be urgently done. Some months ago the Vice Chancellor, in agreement with the inner caucus members of governing council of the university, set up the Staff Audit Committee to conclude the ethno-religious cleansing. The membership of the committee is suspect: Hon. Emmanuel Omah -external member of council from Rivers State -Chairman of committee Capt. Bala Jibrin -external member of council from Kano State -member Dr Rabiu Shatsari -external member of council l from Bauchi State -member Dr Lawal Saulawa -a lecturer from Katsina State -member Dr Aliyu Mamman -a lecturer from Katsina state -member The chairman of the committee is a card-carrying member of All Progressive Congress (APC) who has lost the ability to objectively reflect on the events in the University. He is out to carry out the agenda of flushing out qualified lecturers that the former Vice Chancellor, Professor James Ayatse, who had successfully served as Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Agriculture, painstakingly employed. A tribalist, Idris Ahmed who retired as a Registrar from ABU Zaria was co-opted to advise the committee on how to go about its assignment. He was used as a tool for northernisation of ABU, Zaria when he served as Registrar. Even before the committee completed its assignment, heads began to roll. Technicians, middle level officers have been sent packing. All of them are non-indigene Christians. All these are happening against the background that the new University is understaffed and may not meet the soon-to-be-conducted accreditation requirements. Those whose appointments have been terminated so far include: 1. Mr. Samter: Maths Dept (from Benue State) - recently completed M.Sc from the UK 2. Mr. Orits Mimke (Delta State): Forestry Dept - soon to finish PhD from UK 3. Mr. John Ogbodo (Benue State): Forestry Dept - On his PhD 4. Mr Osuagu (Imo State): Accounting Dept -On his PhD 5. Dr. David Yongo (Benue State) History Dept -recently completed PhD 6. Dr Q. Amua -he was sponsored by the UK for bench work while doing his PhD in Nigeria. Recently defended PhD 7. Mr A. Zack -He has not defended PhD 6 & 7 Tetfund grant to travel but money was not released on time. So they borrowed money to go. They have since come back. Now money from Tetfund has come, but the VC is not refunding the money to the staff. He wants to terminate their appointments and spends the money. He gave them a letter to go to ICPC with their account details. 8. Dr Richard -President of staff cooperative society, was asked to go to ICPC with his account details. There is no basis for this action. Appointments of 7 contract staff (all Christian Southerners) have been terminated. Idris Ahmed, it is said, advised that the university is overstaffed and should be pruned. But how come it is non-indigene Christians that are being sent away from a federal university? Can it be true that the new university is over staffed? How come they are planning to advertise positions that are begging to be filled? Why it is that none of the indigenes are affected? Are the touchable and the untouchables not Nigerians? Many Katsina indigenes-academic and non-academic staff are saucy, many play truancy, but they are accommodated. The list of those to be terminated is very long, about a quarter of the staff stand to lose their jobs. The Vice Chancellor is not sending away at once in order not to attract attention. They release a couple of letters a week. By this, they stress the staff as there is fear, which is palpable because no one knows who is next. But the indigenes and Northern Muslims move about with no care in the world. Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not in place. By convention, the staff of new universities are not to unionise for four years after which they are allowed to join for two years as observers before full membership. Now that they are ripe to join as an observer, no one dares to make the move. Those who are being terminated are leaving without protest while ASUU is not there to protect any staff. Typical of northern university administration, one finds the university leadership as unserious. Lectures are cancelled for the first two hours of every Thursday to allow all academic and non-academic members of staff partake in environmental sanitation. This results in loss of academic hours for an under staff institution struggling for accreditation of many courses and which harbour enough employees who are paid to clean the environment. Something must be done to arrest the situation. Government should intervene; that is the only sincere thing to be done. Source |
However, taking the above stated measures and concentrating on them for the meantime would herald an economic revolution that will positively impact Nigeria, and position it better to accomodate more strategic economic plans. Many jobs will be created, thus reducing unemployment to the barest minimum and the value of naira will surge. Endlessly blaming, complaining about, and broadcasting a problem has never brought about its solution. Nigeria's economic problem is not really the problem; the problem is the way Nigerians see this problem. It is not insolvable, and believing this as well as doing the needful would validate the notion that our present economic disposition is not beyond resuscitation.@ Kayceenaz Analyst. Tried but not too impressed. |
4dor:My points exactly. We have not only had a mono economy for too long but have also subsidized everything from labour to dollar and commodity. Ask me how? Your govts past strategy for keeping the price of everything imported down was to enter the dollar market through CBN and commercial banks and flood it with low priced dollar that is then sold to importers. This way Dollar is subsidized and people get imported goods cheap. Right now there isn't excess petrodollar to help crash the price of dollar so it is taking its true value of between 800 and 1200 gradually. Nigerians should brace up for total subsidy removal which is the right way to go. |
oduastates:I perfectly understand you. Nigerians are lazy people and would want to hate you for the truth but know that we not all ignorant. |
oduastates:So true. People just hook up with jobs with high pay but no service rendered in return. The govt has been subsidizing everything from labour, to rice, to flour, to petrol, and then to dollar which equates with indirect subsidy of everything dollar imports. |
adconline:They acted right. |
oduastates:God bless you for the bold. Government has been subsidizing Naira with excess petro-dollar and this has been discouraging export of goods(honey, cocoa etc) and services (freelancers, bloggers, professionals etc). When dollar hits N800 then the exporter can start smilling again. That time FG can easily offset recurrent bill with the oil sales it makes (even @ $30pb). |
NgeneUkwenu:God bless you. Buhari postponed the D-day. Even though the hard times NOI warned us of is here it isn't as hard as anticipated. |
truthspeaks:Your obssesion with Buhari is clear. Keep it up. You are next in line. |
TonyeBarcanista:We don't have to make it a game. Just trying to make people realize the true source of the hardship we are facing. No smoke without a fire. |
truthspeaks:Govt isn't your father and doesn't impregnate a woman. Go online offer your product 'n service for a fee($$) and stop foaming in the mouth. |
Flexherbal:Dollar-Subsidy removal tea. |
wrecksfurd:We might. |
blueto:A man that can't borrow 12,000 to buy local rice is a fake man. This isn't 1980 again oh. 12,000 isn't what he can't rally round to repay. |
TonyeBarcanista:Whose to blame? |
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Restructuring is not the solution but the present status quo. Restructuring is a cunny attempt by easterners to achieve biafra and it won't happen. History tells us Ojukwu was able to instigate the civil war because he was the head of Eastern region. If we go back to regionalism, non-entities like Nnamdi kanu will rise again and start pushing for biafra which is a bad omen for Nigeria. No part of the country must be allowed to split for no reason. Lord Luggard was an intellectual when he merged us together. There is strength in unity. Let's keep maintaining the present federal system ****