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My own memo

REMOVE FUEL SUBSIDY

Bad news: Fuel will cost N250 per liter

Good news
1.Improved investment,local and foreign.
2.More jobs and opportunities in the petroleum sector.
3.An end to subsidy scam, and fuel scarcity for good.
4.NNPC will become much better....INFACT...let us privatize NNPC
5.Economic boom
6.EVENTUALLY.....price of fuel will FALL.

zukachris:
www.nairaland.com/attachments/8162011_tmpcam1282013693_jpeg6184712ed1d002b5dd72ef7e1823d248

Problems with your certificate.

1.There is no Garki Local Government Area in the FCT. FCT is made up of six LGA....or Area Councils.....Kuje, Gwagwalada, Abaji, Bwari ,Kwali and ABUJA MUNICIPAL....of which the Garki Area is a part of.

2.Hospitalis issue death certificates. NPC....perhaps....after a few days.

3.A Death Certificate is a private document.It isn't meant to be released just like that....EXCEPT ....with the express permission of the family.

Your document is fake and forged.

As for me, I believe that Buhari is the man in Aso Rock....not some Jubril from Sudan.

I don't like APC, I could sit down and write a long story about how they are not running Nigeria well....but all this Jubrin nonsense is just simply having no head or tail.

I can see why the thing is popular....till today there are people who beleive that John Kennedy, the former president of the USA was murdered by a conspiracy....I know...Iused to believe that as well...until I saw that to believe that , I would have to believe that several groups, some of whom in real life were opposed toeach other....did it at the same time.

Me, all I am saying is if IPOB and Kanu have prooof...they should bring out hard documentary proof....not videos, pics that can be so doctored...or are so badly doctored....that one wonders about the sanity of the folk that believe it.

Conspiracy theories and fake news.....

Bizibi:
someone caught on tape can never be political persecution.....

Yes,he was caught on tape....but unfortunately, the laws of our country grant governors immunity from prosecution....which can only be reversed when the state assembly acts to remove them.

In this case, the state assembly had commenced investigations....but were restrained by a 'wayo wayo' court order.

So, till then, Gandollar is free to continue to steal.

Nigeria!

ugo4u:
That's the reason why many feel the war against corruption is nothing but a charade. The EFCC under Magu is an appendage of the ruling party, the most annoying thing is that they can't even pretend to be seen as fighting corruption. This is not the EFCC we all knew under Ribadu and Farida, for a head of an agency that ought to be seen as nonpartisan to be wearing the campaign lapel pin of the president openly on national TV leaves more questions than answers, in saner climes he ought to have resigned but in Nigeria resignation is an anomaly. This is the same EFCC that showed much gusto on Fayose's case(which I have no problem with) because if he has a case to answer then he should clear his name, but the sudden impotence they've developed concerning Ganduje's show of shame and other corruption matters relating to the members of the ruling party is shamefully disgraceful. We should all condemn evil when we see one not taking sides.
As Atifete Jagahja rightly said "Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation".
It is high time we as a people collectively demand more from our leaders. Anybody selling the idea of Corruption fight as a policy is bereft of ideas to govern a sane society, the fight against corruption should come naturally(default) in tandem with your blueprint on economy, security and the general welfare of the masses and this could only be achieved if institutions are built rather than individuals. It is amazing that candidates like Prof Kingsley Moghalu etal with sound ideas, clear economic blueprint and above all track record of performance are being relegated to the background in the political-cosmosphere while the worst of us in both major parties call the shots.
May God deliver this nation from mediocrity. #ourmumuneverdo

I agree...but the problem with the case is that untill Gandollar is removed from office....EFCC can do nothing.

Even Fayose....EFCC could not touch him until the day after he handed over to Fayemi. (Did not stop them fromarresting the people around him though).

I assume Abuja could still order EFCC to do something....but it would go against the laws.

The reason why Gandollaris is walking around free is because the State House of Assembly, who should have impeached him centuries ago,or suspended him,has been hamstrung by a court order preventing them frominvestigating him for now.

Till then,nothing can be done.

I agree the APC government at Abuja is probably not interested in getting rid of Gandollar, but assuming they were, and they sent EFCC after him, at the end of the day, people will shout 'politicalpersecution'.

I think the people of Kano State should rise up and fight for their rights.....but being typical Nigerians.....they won't. Nigerians don't mind their leaders stealing so long as they get their crumb allowance three times a day.

Own goal....but Nigeria1 sa0

datsammy:
Please which channels are showing the match

Supersport4 224
Supersport9 229

@DStV.

signz:
What have you gained from NNPC?

When we had NITEL, we had only 33000 active lines.

Even the sale of NEPA is one of the best things we've done. The only thing wrong with Power now is that we've not allowed market forces to determine price of power and that Transmission is still in the hands of FG.

NNPC has always been riddled with corruption and even under the incorruptible Buhari, corruption is now worse in NNPC.

Atiku is right, NNPC assets should be sold.

I'll agree with Atiku selling NNPC....so long as subsidy goes with it too.

Nice point you made about power by the way. Most Nigerians...whether PDP or APC refuse to see that.

ImadeUReadThis:
[s][/s]

In Europe and North America, flight operations are still maintained in blizzards. Only pausing to clear snow and ice from the runnway.

You don't have any effective ILS system.

London Heathrow's ILS system can assist planes to land at zero visibility.

Thanks for the information.

IbrahimDamola:
So una still dey blow lie say booharii get Master's degree, jpphilips no be so?

Not all post grad qualifactons are masters .

BlacSmit:
Is it today we started having harmattan season? Wasn't there harmattan in the time of GEJ? Why is buhary such a failure?

NIMET has been giving the same type of advisory, one way or theother...for a long time, long before GEJ or Bubu thought of Aso Rock.

Osama92:
What Will You Remember The Administration of President Muhammadu Buhari For, If Peradventure Nigerians Decides To Vote Out The Party Out At The Presidential Elections Come February 2019.

POSITIVES

1.Saving money for a rainy day...by growing our forex reserves in the midst of low oil prices (unlike a certian party).
2.Dollar restrictions...which helped our savings...and prevented us from becoming Venezuela
3.Continuing with the railway projects. (big plus).
4.TraderMoni and school feeding programme.

NEGATIVES
1.Not fighting corruption well enough
2.Not removing fuel subsidy....fueling the subsidy scams, and making it difficult for new investments in the oil sector as a result (under subsidy, oil marketers are losing at least N40 per liter).
3.Price controls in the power sector too. It is obvious we need to allow DISCOS and GENCOS set the prices in the power sector...not the one where govt keeps prices artifically low...so that DISCOS and GENCOS are starved of cash....and no new power investments.
4.Taking loans (note...taking loans is necessary....BUT.....we should have been more strategic in the loan taking).
5.Not investing in techincal educaiton enough.
6.Removing subsides completely,period.
7.Parallel naira rates. (Floating the naira is a bad idea...but so is having one rate for group X and another for group Y.)

donprinyo:
Y

Haze reduces visibility, making it difficult for pilots to fly planes...(pilots, despite all the fancy instruments, still rely on their eyes to fly).

donnie:
Krep making excuses for incompetence

Do you have a rebuttal to my posts, or you just want to have fun?

Anyway....FYI...I don't back PDP or APC.

On to the article

We may laugh at the man, but consider these factors.

1.The man is 68 years old. When he was a young man, what would become today's PC was still in the experimental stage. A computer back in the 1970's was a big machine which covered a whole room.Only specialists used it.

2.For those of you Nigerians laughing at Buhari and the man, people their age spent all their working life not needing to use a PC. By the time they were in senior management posts in their fifites, there were lots of young people who were using PC's...whom they could delegate tasks to.

3.Japan is a country that looks modern, yet is still old fashioned in many ways. For example...how many people here have heard of a fax machine ? Last time I heard of someone using one was in 2001. Japan still uses them today. All because the old people who run things there are used to them, and don't want change.

4.We can laugh at our 'lifeless' leadership, but let's be honest....MOST nigerians have never ever used a PC or computer in their lifetimes. The number goes up when you consider Nigerians over 45 years of age. Yes they should modernize...but the fact is, they got along well without PC's ....and they can delegate tasks....so why should they change.

lonelydora:
Is Buhari not a Certificateless person presiding over the affairs of 200 million people? Among them are Academicians, Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers, etc.


Sakurada is not at fault shaa. Abe appointed him without due diligence

As far as weknow...Buhari got his WAEC certificate. To state otherwise is to assume that the Nigerian Army was so corrupt in 1961 when it was still being run by a British officer that they were admitting people sans certificate for their officer courses.

And how can a certificateless guy graduate easily from the NMTC (now the NDA,) and get all sorts of post graduation qualificationa.

And anyway.....Atiku is an OND holder....which while better than WAEC is still 'inferior' to the same Academicians, Engineers, Doctors, Lawyers , etc.

And the thing is, many of these Acada people don't want to run and get their hands dirty in politcs. Instead...na armchair critics them they do.(people like GEJ and Yaradua are an exception)

And no, I don't support Buhari. Infact, I am tired of APC and PDP. I also don't like either of the economic polices they are proposing. And I don't like the tribalism rampant in both parties.

naijaguy123456:
It must be a sin to be born in Nigeria. In many European countries, some universities offer 2 years degree. Get your GCSE , apply to your universities of choice , off you go. Finished your studies, to labor market and your first house mortgage by the time you're 26.

In Nigeria you have your O' level AAAAA then you must write jamb (a scam) then 4 years in uni + ASU strike = 5 years plus and another wasted 1 year on NYSC nonsense.

In many European countries, they pay heavy taxes and high fees so that their universites are well run...plus they get donations and endowments..plus uni administrators are good financial managers.

In Nigeria....tax rate is lower than many European countries. Plus fees are around $1000 or less....whereas in some European countries ,fees are above $8000. Even in those European countries that have free education....people are taxed half their income.

Many European grads cannot afford morgtages...plus in places like the UK....some are even paying loans taken to fund their education...right from the time they get a job. Some won't finish paying back in 25 years time.

The problem in Nigeria is that Nigerians want European educational levels for free. Meanwhile, we are not earning enough money from oil (we need oil at $140 per barrel as at last year before we can say we are earning enough money), we have lost our leadership position in Agriculture...and it is going to take decades to regain that....plus solid minerals is so unregulated that we lose lots of money from it every day...and then there is corruption up and down.

If you want high quality education....better start paying fees of N500000and above. Otherwise ASUU is going to keep on going on strike, and our govt universities are going to keep on producing low quality graduates...while the rich and middle class port foreign or private universites (already Covenant is better than many older public universities, and many more will catch up soon)....or we just take another big fat loan from IMF and the World Bank....that our descendants will still be paying.

illitrate:
I prefer the BBW I dont like bone to bone. Me na Bone

Thank God you be bone.....so tay nothing like hypertension, diabetes, etc in your life at all.

[size=18pt]One reason people resist change is because they focus on what they have to give up, instead of what they have to gain � [/size]

Wisdom.

Skirmishes:
To be frank, I agree to the downsizing of the labour force. NLC and TUC are just been inconsiderate in this matter. N30k is too much for some states to pay.

The governors should sack workers and keep what they can afford to pay. Shikena

It is a harsh truth...but the fact is our civil service is overbloated.

Add the fact that revenues from oil are not enough...

Lagos that can pay has hefty IGR....and is the Business capital, that is why they can pay.

Inasmuch as governors are corrupt, and millions get wasted....the only way to pay minnimum wage is by downsizing the workforce.

Well, considering the fact that the money was appropriated in line with laid down rules and regulations...an indictment would end up acheiving nothing.

I know...corruption. But for once, laid down proccedure was followed.

mozel247:
Watch out. A Muslim Muslim ticket is being noised for 2023 by apc. This is just a test run

No...

Assuming APC wins in 2019...by 2023...Iboland would be in prime position for the presidency. So...christian-muslim as usual.

Tinubu is also dropping 'hints'...assuming he runs, it would most likely be with a Chrsitian deputy (Yourbas are not into religious divides).

Then again...the MKO-Kingibe ticket of 1993 did get a lot of support from CAN and many Christians against a Muslim-Christian ticket...but that was because their party...SDP ....was seen as symphatetic to Christians. Had the third republic been allowed to stand...we wouldhave had a Muslim Presido and veep...with a Christian Senate President and House of repsleader....

At the end of the day...it is all about interests, not religion per se.

El Rufai's choice of running mate is interesting.

1.She is a Muslim

2.She is from a Local Government that is in the South of Kaduna State and is predominatly Christian.

I can see the way the vote is going to go. Southern Kaduna is most likely going PDP...but I can see some folk voting APC...giving El Rufai the number of votes he needs to win the election.

To be frank, religion or otherwise of the candidates should not concern us much. After all, all the Christian deputies in kaduna state have not developed the place reasonably. We should be judging candidates by performance.

But this is Nigeria. Development is based on how close you are to the kudi.

ovadozes:
It's been one year plus now since I enrolled and I am yet to get my card. Scam

It has been 5 years since I enrolled...card no show.

speedyconnect3:
What if she was paying for her services?

What if Amaka was a baker or she sales eg honey and the guy pretends to need 50k worth and then transfers 5m instead, claiming it was a mistake?

1.The OP post was prettly clear what Amaka went for...

Amaka, 33, tall, elegant, hippy and busty, a young graduate in Owerri, is an active netizen of social media. She belongs to many Facebook groups. On one of the groups, the Admin on a Sunday morning asked members to post their account details, as someone maybe touched to 'do Sunday' for them


2.In this era of internet banking...what happened to sending the money back online.

Afonja007:
even if adamu killed all your village people you still find one way or the other to defend him

Jflex07:
The usual excuse from a dilapidated incurable zombie

A big thank you to you gentlemen for insulting me when I did not insult you, and for abusing me when I did not abuse you.

Whatever you do with your lives, may it be profitable.

Ta.

IBB GUESTHOUSE....not the hiltop mansion in Minna.

ChrisMafian:
When did Adamu say that? Show us the source?
PDP politicians are just criminals. This human rights fighter have only collected his share of the loot and now formulating lies

Here is a source from 2015....a reprint of the 2013 article

Chief Onosode in fact cleared every major decision and every single aspect of the 2009 agreement with the government before proceeding with ASUU to the next item on his committee’s agenda, and before signing the final document on its behalf.

If, as Senator David Mark said, he didn’t know his left from his right, and, so, in effect didn’t know what he was doing, it followed the government that appointed him and with which he consulted, and which at every stage accepted and okayed every decision he had made, knew even less.

Sometimes the self-deception in official circles can be quite inexplicable. One of the governors even went to the extent of saying that the ASUU strike was a ploy to overthrow the Jonathan administration, which, if true, and were it not so tragic, would have been treasonable; but, as a felony, it would have been quite a popular one—and, yes, even patriotic.
But now that the government had finally been forced to accept to pay exactly what it agreed to in 2009, what would the Senate President have to say about the new development? Was it now the right leg or the left foot that it didn’t know which from the other?





So, instead of hectoring ASUU to call of its strike, the nation should be praying for more of its kind in other sectors of the economy. Since the government has shown itself incapable of doing the right thing until it is forced, the nation should be thinking of organising the association of Nigerian farmers to go on strike to force the government to do for agriculture what ASUU has been struggling to make it do for education. Certainly, something drastic and dramatic is needed to force the government to stop the mindless destruction and degradation of our environment, to persuade it to change its neglect of agriculture and steer the nation towards agricultural self-sufficiency as ASUU has tried to steer it in the direction of educational excellence.
With its 129 universities, 100-odd polytech-nics and 85 colleges of education and a very I-don’t-care attitude to higher education, Nigeria spends less than 1 per cent of its Gross National Income [0.85% to be precise]; while four of its smaller English-speaking African compatriot-states spend multiples of that: Ghana [2.85%], Egypt [3.9%], Zimbabwe [5.4%] and South Africa [7%]. And while the percentage of education expenditure to total national expenditure in Nigeria is a paltry 8.4%, South Africa spends 20%, Morocco spends 26.4%, Botswana 25.6% and French-speaking Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire spend 25.6% and 21.5% respectively.
In spite of this, how Nigeria still dreams of joining the big league remains the biggest mystery. In what must now be seen by some as a joke, especially in view of its attitude to education, Nigeria has been saying it wants to be among the world’s top 20 economies by 2020. But after laughing at this joke, we should remind policymakers that those nations that are in, or truly wish and look poised to join, the ranks of those top economies have a particular attitude to education that Nigeria doesn’t seem to share.
While Nigerians are always very good at mimicking educated global discourse as if they were the ones who invented it—corporate governance, information and communication technology, ICT, globalisation, climate change, ozone layer and the knowledge economy—their government has in fact been busy laying solid foundations for an ignorance economy.
And a comparison with China and India, the two countries of the BRIC whose rank Nigeria wishes to join, will quickly put Nigeria in its place. The Nigerian university system is, indeed, paralysed by a strike caused by government refusal to make the kind of investment the BRIC’s have been making.
Within a decade and a half, for instance, China invested in a massive expansion of its education sector, nearly tripling the share of GDP devoted to it, such that the number of higher-education institutions grew and more than doubled from 1,022 to 2,263 within a single decade; and within the same period, it was able to increase the population of its bachelor’s degree students from 3 million to 12 million. At the moment, it has more than 20 million students studying in those institutions of higher learning. This is typically representative of what was happening in almost all of the BRIC’s, in which the total population of undergraduate students increased from about 19 million in 2000 to more than 40 million students in 2010.
And because China really means to develop its society and economy, the total number of its computer science and engineering graduates from its elite universities is more than the total number of such graduates from the United States. That is why in the race where it matters, China has over 1,200,000 IT professionals and is adding 400,000 technical graduates each year. China ranks first in the world, followed by India and the US. IT professionals are so pitifully few in Nigeria; and, what’s more, the country is so inefficient, it doesn’t keep this kind of record.
The effect of China’s investment in education is already paying off. According to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which has tested high-school students since 2000, students from Shanghai’s schools outperformed those from 65 countries. They were followed by students from Korea, Finland, Hong Kong and Canada in that order. In the same test, students from the US ranked number 24.
And at the lower end, India has 373 univer-sities with 16,000 affiliated degree-awarding colleges functioning under them; and. Like China, the emphasis in the tertiary level of education is on science and technology. India has some 3495 degree-granting colleges with an annual student intake capacity of over 1.76 million with actual enrolment crossing 1.2 million in engineering alone. Total enrolment in science, medicine, agriculture and engineering crossed the 6.5 million limit in 2010, as expenditure on education grosses 4.1 per cent of GDP and surpasses the 12.7 per cent mark of total government expenditure.
In essence, the struggle by ASUU is to force the Nigerian government make this type of investment. Obviously, it takes concern to understand the nature of what is going on, and it takes real public spiritedness to want to do something about it; and it takes uncommon patriotism to then go ahead and do it, especially for lecturers who face a barrage of insults, the prospects of possible job loss or pay withheld. This nation owes a debt of gratitude to ASUU and the strike should not be called off until the government accepts to do—and does—what is required. This is why ASUU is always on strike.
The goal for ending the strike shouldn’t be to save parents anxiety or to take pity on students or to save lecturers’ jobs or to graduate students: it is to save the university system so that it becomes what it is supposed to be—a system for producing a culturally literate society, and for generating and harnessing ideas and knowledge, initiating and driving social and economic innovation, and ensuring national competitiveness on the global scene.
While for this to be possible, government should guarantee institutional autonomy for the university system, ASUU must ensure that campuses exercise this new power with utmost sense of responsibility and full accountability to all stakeholders. This is the only way for Nigeria to realise its full potential as a guarantor of prosperity for its people and for its natural leadership position on the African continent. Without education and the full development of the nation’s human capital, Nigeria will never be able to achieve any of its national goals, targets or plans even if every grain of sand in the country becomes a barrel of oil.
In this, ASUU should see itself as a van-guard – probably the only active one—dedicated to making the government begin to tread the path of responsible good governance in the administration of education in Nigeria—and not just on university campuses. Perhaps it should, in addition to what it already shoulders, take up the task of holding Nigeria responsible for, and forcing it to conform to, the six goals of Education for All by 2015 adopted thirteen years ago at the World Education Forum in Dakar.
These EFA goals, which are designed to improve learning opportunities for everyone, are: expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education; ensuring universal access to and completion of free and compulsory primary education of good quality; improving learning opportunities for youth and adults; increasing adult literacy rates by fifty percent; achieving gender equality in primary and secondary education by 2015; and improving all aspects of the quality of education. We can go a year without graduation, especially of people who will not be employed.
Calling off the strike is no big deal nor yet a cause for celebration; it is not just its calling off that is important, what is more crucial is what eventually happens to the university system as a result. It is a hundred times better for this nation not to have graduates at all than to continue producing this army of half-baked [actually unbaked] graduates, 89 per cent of whom, according to the boss of the National Youth Service Corps, cannot communicate in English, a charge that is as bad and shameful as the failure itself is deplorable and unacceptable—that Nigeria is still talking of communicating in English.

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eleojo23:
Let me rebroadcast

“This nation owes a debt of gratitude to ASUU and the strike should not be called off until the government accepts to do and does what is required. So, instead of hectoring ASUU to call off its strike, the nation should be praying for more of its kind in other sectors of the economy. – Adamu Adamu”

That was back in 2013....when ASUU had not been paid any of the money agreed in the 2009 agreement...which promised N3trillion over two years in extra funding for the universites.

Also,back in 2013...OIL was above $100 per barrel.Our revenue was higher. In 2014...we were even said to be the highest economy in Africa asper GDP rebasing.

So, Adamu Adamu (who back in 2013 was a mere newspaper collumnist)....thought...as I did then...that FG had the money.

But then came the ASUU-FG meeting between GEJ, Labour Minister Wogu ,Education Minister Wike and ASUU execs...where GEJ told them the truth. FG did not have N 3 trillion at hand....and instead offered N1 trillion over 5 years. ASUU took the deal. In 2014...the first 200BN was paid.

Fast frowardto 2015....oil was dropping (it reached $75 by May 2015 and $30 by 2016). Buhari had to borrow massively to keep our head above water....AND also had to save because the previous govt had drained the savings account.

Now ASUU is on strike...and asking for the payment of the (once again) revised 2013agreement. Oil is at $80. We need to pay off debts, need to save ....and even if we found N1.1 trillion over the next years....note that it is still NOT enough.

Welcome to reality. the reality that education funding in Nigeria means we have to increase fees. That has been the truth we have faced since 2013...when GEJ told ASUU some home truths.

Gilbertase:
Quick question pls. So is the NNPC in good standing? Hasn't it already collapsed? Cos i think institutions can actually 'collapse' before they really collapse. one very good, recent example comes to mind.

I don't know...but the fact is that NNPC is still operating, still having the lines of supply working, etc..shows that it has not yet collapsed. (At least , with all the corruption in there...it is better than Venezuela's PDVSA...once one of the best in the world).

Anyway,most of the 'complaints about jobs in the NNPC' are usually about clerical jobs....not the technical jobs which need actual qualificaitons and experience.

NNPC's problem is that it is run as a typical Federal government agency, not as the private company it should be. That is why it is not performing. Then the whole oil subsidy thing is making them to throw away billions in money on subsidising mostly imported fuel...preventing them from making investments in refineries and other infrastructure, and allowing corrupt practices to follow.