₦airaland Forum

Now you know where CNN's allegiance lie.
This would have been breaking news if it was an European death in the hands of Nigeria.


STAND UP FOR YOURSELF, FIGHT FOR THE DEAD!

You can't stand up for your country if your country does not stand up for you.
Is the Nigerian government going to sit and watch her citizens die like animals?

Austincrow:
From number three to what? 7/6/2007


bla bla bla,

They could not have their way.

Now, after Tuesday’s inauguration of the National Assembly, the Igbo are nowhere being near the first four positions in the country .This is the new calculation: North-West – President; South-South – Vice President; North-Central – Senate President and South-West – Speaker.

In the present scenario compared to the 1999-2007 zoning structure, North-West has moved from the number four to the first position.

The South-West is now occupying the fourth position.

The South-South and North Central which hitherto were not in the picture have moved to numbers two and three positions.
. . . bla bla bla

very tribalistic thing person

who are you now going to rob to pay your Peter,

The south west Pauls or the south-south.


Please cool down your nerves, live and let live.
As long as the leadership is in good hands there is no reason why urhobo or efik people shouldnt be happy.
Does it have to be Ibo's vs the others?

I was reading the news and I stumbled on this
What do you guys think?
What makes Nigeria more corrupt than UK and the very Holy land of Saudi Arabia?

Saudi prince 'received arms cash'     
Arms deals with the Saudis have been worth billions to the UK

BBC investigation 
A Saudi prince who negotiated a £40bn arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia received secret payments for over a decade, a BBC probe has found.
The UK's biggest arms dealer, BAE Systems, paid hundreds of millions of pounds to the ex-Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

The payments were made with the full knowledge of the Ministry of Defence.

Prince Bandar would not comment on the investigation and BAE Systems said it acted lawfully at all times.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6728773.stm

initiator:
I saw the picture of a brutalised zimbabwean opposition woman yesterday on CNN. Her backside area was burnt with iron and and a chip of her ear was cut off. Scenes of police men brutalising opposition supporters with was also prevalent. It's a pity that what started as mugabe's quest to reclaim land from white people has degenerated into crass brutality, banning foreign media and the highest inflationary rate in the world. African leaders like mbeki must start telling their fellow leaders the truth and even impose sanctions on beasts like mugabe. We mustnt wait for western countries like the UK to tell admonish our leaders. Mugabe should just GO!!!

The credibility of CNN stories are always questionable. By the way, they are the propaganda specialists.

Iron marks on the backside means what?
We will never know how true the story is. Half truth is the same as half lie.


We know how badly the english fans were brutalised in the football match in Rome. I think we all need to start blaming the leader of that country too.

SEFAGO:
you guys are joking right? There are no more than 500,000 nigerians in the US. This is even an exaggeration. The US has a population of 300 million people with most of them being caucasians and hispanics. I am sure if the US had such a large population of nigerians then most people would be acquainted which is rarely the case. Most people in my school have never met a nigerian before and I school in DC. Also some states have virtually no nigerians such as kansas and idaho.

English is the lingua franca in the US.

I've met Russian speaking Nigerians.
You will find Nigerians in Russia, why not in Kansas or Idaho?

Is there any special rule for Nigerian migration?

Its a global market and Nigeria cant be insulated by the global forces since its got inadequate refineries

Petrol is imported from foreign countries. Your refineries are not good enough nor are they many enough to cater for the whole of Nigeria.
Despite the fact that Nigeria has one of the cleanest crude oil in the world. I find it surprising that Nigerians still have problem refining its oil.

In Iraq, the pump price is $1.22 per liter
In UK, the pump price is $1.50 per liter
In US, the pump price is $0.84 per liter

In Nigeria, the price is $0.58 per liter

On the other hand,
Iran increased gasoline prices by a "whopping" 25 percent on Tuesday to $0.10 per liter

FLT123:
Seun,

We have a fundamental problem in Nigeria: we have refused to grow. We are still the same age we were donkey years ago. Now you don't throw a baby into a fight with grown ups, it is very obvious who will lose. One of the main goal of any govt is to protect the present and future well being of its people. Countries have done this in many ways: fixed currencies, capital flow restrictions, tariffs, etc. The whole objective is to grow the local industry to a stage where they can compete globally then open them up to the global mkt. Most industries in Nig can still not compete at a global level, the job of the govt at this stage will be to protect and nurture them.

Now with that said, we have peculiar problems in Nigeria: corruption and infrastructures issues. We cannot even grow this industries with the peculiar problems. We used to be strong in Cash crops before: cocoa, cashew, groundnut, etc but where are we today in those industries? Nigeria reason for free trade is different from that of most other countries and it is where politics, govt and businesses meet.

Every country has practiced protectionism to some extent in its history, case in point, the US of A. US is known for its unilateralism (myself only and I don't care what happens to anyone else). I do not have the time to go into how protectionism works in the US but the farmer case you mentioned is not because of protectionism. The govt has to subsidize the farmers because they don't want the price of food to be uncontrolled because they know that if you can control that, you can control practically everything else.

I think the way forward in Nigeria is to provide a helping hand to those industries by ensuring that the price of imported good are not less than that of the locally produced goods, as competition increases, the local prices will come down and these industries will then be able to compete with others.

FLT

open up the damn thing.

What happened when foreign currency was no longer regulated? I can argue it affected how politicians stock up cash in swiss banks
What happened when petrol prices was deregulated? It reduced smuggling to other african countries.

Open it up but keep a close eye on it.

what would happen if Nigerian government start giving aid to europe?

How will that affect the economy?

Will it be positive or negative?

Can Nigeria give the aid in Naira or does it have to be dollars?


The funny thing is, most aids are given as loans

They are the masters.

right?

@ topic

I believe any good country should have the cost of a big loaf of bread as coin.

Hence, I would say Nigeria is not there yet.

a £2 coin in UK is equivalent to about N500.

It is cost effective to have coins for the right denominations
a N50 coin will last longer than 40 yrs but a N50 note will retire to the bin after 2 years of "active service".

naijaway:
@stranger12, why reduction on import duties? just wondering, because the buzz for the next administration is on manufacturing anything possible even if it will take nigerian companies to neighboring countries. If the govt goes ahead with their plan to keep increasing import duties and reduce export duties, to me that sounds good. It will force manufacturers in the nation to get better and correct flaws where needed.

No, it will make them lazy and produce crapy products.

which is better? To strive to build a plane or to build a bicycle?
Leave the easy stuffs to others and do the hard stuffs. In due time, you become a force to reckon with.

Besides, I could simply import a plane production plant (if there are no import duties)

Seun:
Can you explain in detail how the actions listed above amount to job creation so we can carry the discussion forward?

The projects I mentioned are capital intensive as well as people instensive.
dont think I really need to spell it out but I will drop a line or three.

The labourers that help in construction are employed by a construction company.
Doctors/Nurses/cleaners get jobs in hospitals because you will require all these people if you want to improve the health sector.
To improve the security force, you will employ more police and buy more cars and get sofisticated gadges (IT professionals will benefit too).

Need I say more?

For some time now, I've been wondering what happened between these two great men.
The rest of the world sees Atiku as a good man who stands up for justice but I think most Nigerians seem him in a different light.

We are made to believe that Atiku fell out with OBJ due to tenure elongation proposed by obasanjo.

Is this really the case or has the feud been going on long before the tenure palaver?

hmmm,

should I agree with you on this one?

Tax could be fixed. Taxation would become very straight forward.

On a second thought, have you thought how that would affect the average standard of living?
Inequality is a major reason why we live in houses with metal bars to prevent unwanted entry.

Flawed: Exam scores cannot be redistributed because that would make every one eligible for admission into universities.

@ Hugoboi
you seem to have thrown both the plate and its unwanted contents in the bin.

there are ways the government can provide jobs

1. Maintenance of the road network
2. Contruction contracts
3. Reduction of import duties
4. Providing better security
5. Providing electricity.
6. Improving the health system.


The above tasks are not achieved by using a magic wand but by using the human resources available.
Point no. 3 would encourage more economic activities and more entrepreneurs.

From the definition of life expectancy;

The average number of additional years a person would live if current mortality trends were to continue. Life expectancy at birth is the mean length of life of individuals subjected from birth to current mortality trends. Life expectancy is usually computed on the basis of a life table showing the probability of dying at each age for a given population according to the age-specific death rates prevailing at a given period.

the life expectancy is low because of the poor medical system in Nigeria.

Child mortality was estimated at 191 per 1000 live births (children that don't make it to their 1st birthday)
National mortality is 2.34 million per year
About 0.8% of women die during child birth (that means about 1 in every 100 pregnant women don't make it back home from the hospital)


That is why the life expectancy is low.

got my facts from UNICEF and goole

this is just a curious question.
if I am a ND indigen and an oil rig is to be built on my land

Whose oil is it?

mine (land owner)?
my family?
my community?
my village?
my Local Government?
my State Government?
or my country?

I ask this questions because Niger Delta wants a greater control of the revenue from oil and I was wondering the best way to actually make their wish come true without any bloodshed.

ThiefOfHearts:
Stay in your country.

thats very childish of you