₦airaland Forum

DrMuzungu:
Many times IN the past I elaborated on why Nigeria CANNOT get 24/ power supply for each and every Nigerian and for every business. not in 6 months, not in 6 years. Maybe in 20 years if the relentless work start NOW and if not even one naira is embezzled.

To put it short, in my tiny European country of under 10 million people, we produce 8500 MW of energy at any given moment. Nigeria has some 20 times more people, and produces 40% (on average) of what we do. Simple math says that Nigeria has to increase the total power output by up to 50 TIMES. To put it in plain English, for every power plant Nigeria has today, it has to build 49 more power plants of the same size. And then, add to it the transmission (transformers, high tension lines, stations and sub-stations etc).

So, I doubt that any of us reading this today will see 24/7 power supply. Maybe our children will, but not us.

That is their truth, and the painful but is we have to pay more money to get there

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

Kennydoc:
The biggest issue with APC is Buhari and his administrative mindset. If someone like Tambuwal was the president under APC, Nigerians would have been happier. Buhari is not a nationalist. He's extremely nepotistic. Even if Nigerians will clamour for APC again in the next 4 years, as long as it isn't people like Buhari, Elrufai, Oshiomhole etc, it's better.

As for PDP, if they ever get back to power again, they will never try their impunity of the past years again, neither will they try to repeat the errors of APC. PDP has a good representation of Igbos and South southerners in it, so they are much more reasonable and are fairer in their dealings.

Sorry, but no thanks.

PDP's Southerners ? Like James Ibori, Alams, and even Nnamani of Enugu.?

Just like APC's own people ....

Give me a party that is ready to get Nigeria industrial , that is ready to take us off oil, and then we can talk. Not PDP, not APC.

PDP spent 16 years, most of them with Southerners in charge. And by 2015...our economy was so bad...we had to choose an old , supposed to be retired general as our new leader....and now because of APC's dissapointing run...we want to go back to PDP.

No thanks. I'm voting KOWA or NCP, like I always do.

Omoluabi16:
Buhari is a mistake that must be corrected in 2019. That man represents backwardness, and will leave Nigeria worse off.

With anouther old mistake in the name of PDP?

Enjoy your PDP....in 4 years time, you people will be complaining. And then we will go and vote for mistake APC again....

Metuh:
At this rate, APC might just go into extinction this weekend.


E sweet me joor. .


Oshiomole the undertaker how market?

And we will be run by PDP...which is no better.

APC and PDP are just the same. Choose a new party ...we won't do.

Well, enjoy PDP. As for me...I was not convinced by APC in 2014-15....and I have never been convinced by PDP. No policy other than guaranteeing that people like you keep chopping via sure-p, n-power, etc.

kaydp:
He's saying shit. Comparing Obama to Trump. Obama was a member of senate for 7 years, and a Senator for 3 years.

Yes, Trump was not an active poiltician until 2012 at the earliest.

dantewest:
Smh. Talking without facts

Use Google, no
Read Wikipedia, no

But you bring facts from thin air and yarn opata things in public.

SMH

Well, there haven't been that many defections in the US Congress over the last 30 years (Arlen Specter did defect from the Republicans though)

But then again, you might be onto something

dantewest:
Someone that's been in politics since 1980s, just because you just started noticing him doesn't mean anything.

Did you know Obama before be became a candidate.

Get your fact right before letting your emotions make you say rubbish and spread false news in public forums

1.Trump never ran for any political office till 2012...before that, he merely supported parties. (He was first and foremost a businessman).He did make severa political statements (in the 1980's) and also talked about running for President as early as the late 80's.

2.Obama....ran for house of reps in 2000 (after deciding not to run for Mayor of Chicago), and failed, then ran for Senate in 2005...and won(after delivering the keynote speech at the Democratic presidential convention in 2004), then ran for President in 2008 and won.

Obama was also a community organizser in 1986-88 in Chicago, and also was a State Senator in the Illinois State House in the 2000's. (in addition to being a part time law lecturer).

dantewest:
Trash talk. This is Donald Trump political history.

Democratic (until 1987, 2001–2009)
Reform (1999–2001)
Independent (2011–2012)
Republican (1987–1999, 2009–2011, 2012–present)

Now that you have been educated.

Go my son and educate others

Yes, but politicans like Trump are a rarity nowadays in the USA...

Most politicans are loyal to one party and one party alone.

dantewest:
Read Donald Trump's Wikipedia page and educate yourself.

While Trump is a johnny come lately to politics...it's true he used to be a democrat (and a friend of the Clintons even!)

hucienda:
All these defections of 2018 and before in 2014 just makes a mockery of the Nigerian political party space. Should Buhari be booted out next year, expect the next cycle of defection in 2022.

It's all political self interest.

I tire for APC and PDP...and Nigerians too. We don't know the meaning of development. All we want to do is chop. And we move where the chop is.

Am sure if APC brings out some carrots tomorrow..there will be rushing back....

So PDP is back in power....first step to 2019.

And no, it does not make me happy. It is the same old, same old people running our same old country.

When this thing was happening under GEJ..one side was rejoicing, one side was crying. Now..the tables are turned and one side is rejoicing, another is crying.

You know, APC too is to blame a bit. Should have had a definite programme to ride out the hardship we were going to face as a result of the oil price drop. But nothing (and I was expecting it long before they took over in 2015)

You know something. It is sad that the choices we have in Nigeria are between PDP and APC. And until we Nigerians learn the true meaning of development.,....even if APC wins in 2019...nothing is going to change.

Nigerians wake up. Stop this polticsof sides . Ask PDP as they return to power next year whether they have something definite or not....same as APC....and if they don't, vote both of them out. Please. We cannot go on like this.

Matters arising.

1.Probable cause of death.

In this case, most likely the guy had a congenital heart problem.

An American ex-professional basketball player died in the 1980's at the age of forty. An autopsy done showed he had a congeital heart conditon.

Here in Nigeria, we recall the late Sam Okwaraji...who died in his twenties from a congential heart problem. And our own Papilo, who would have been dead a long time ago...if he hadn't transferred to a club that required him to have an echocardiogram as part of his medicals....

The guy also might have had a pulmonary embolus, or may have even had high cholesterol, high BP (Being slim, or young does not mean good heart condtion. There are slim people who have high cholesterol for example.).

2. CPR.

Once he collapsed, the guy should have had CPR commenced on him immediately.Or basic life support. Problem is, we don't teach Nigerians how to do this...anyone can do this.(Something the Ministry of Health, the Nigerian Medical Association and JOHESU could join hands together and do something about it)

Here IS A VIDEO showing how it is done...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA04Pqbznp4


Poster below


3. I don't know how well equipped the University Health Center is, but I doubt it has a defibrillator among other things. Infact in my experience of Nigerian hospitals....I doubt even some teaching hopsitals have Advanced life support machinery...and BLS too.

Also, training. One has to keep on getting trained in BLS and ACLS. Such courses are available in Nigeria...but very limited. And they can be costly too..

4. An autopsy must be done. As soon as possible. It is possible he was already dead by the time he arrived at the hospital.Poor communicaiton hurts too.

DWJOBScom:
But there’s a court order
Judgement was given!

What are we celebrating o

I hope PMB won’t ignore court orders when a Governor is removed from office or asked to step down. This is not healthy for our democracy o

ashjay001:
Same thought here.

Still don't understand, wth is going on

1. So far, PMB has not necessarily ignored court orders regarding governors having to step down...infact it has not happened yet.

2.The Pinnick led admin of NFF is FIFA recognised. It has even been recognised as the legitimate leadership of the NFF by the Court of Arbitration for Sports...in a case brought by Mr Giwa(which he lost).

3. Thing is, Mr Giwa also went to the Supreme Court...which ruled in his favour.

4.That puts Govt in a dilema....either obey the Supreme Court...and Nigeria gets a FIFA ban....or disobey the Supreme Court...and Nigeria stays in FIFA's good books.

5.Because football is so important to the average Nigerian....government decided to follow FIFA rather than risk a ban.(The last time we got banned under the GEJ admin...under different circumstances...measures were taken by the government that got the ban lifted in a few months...in time for CAF qualifiers, and FIFA qualifiers for the 2014 world cup)

6.The problem in my opinion is FIFA's insistence that governments must not interfere in the activities of the various football associations/federations. While I agree with FIFA....the truth is, it is an unrealistic expectaiton. And now...we have a classic case of government interference in favour of FIFA. Wonder what FIFA would do now.

Treasure17:
Is executive order not government interference with football according to FIFA rules and regulations.

Problem is, Chris Giwa executive is not FIFA recognized. Chris Giwa even failed in his case at the Court of Arbitraiton for Sports. (the highest international body in adjucating sports related matters).

Hence the executive order...or else FIFA bans us.

The problem is....Giwa got a Supreme court ruling in his favour...which he used to take over the glass house HQ. So, the DSS is in essence enforcing FIFA rules/considering FIFA rules superior to Nigerian rules.

That is where the issue lies. And to be frank, I kind of agree with Segun Odegbami when he said some years ago that FIFA expecting that there won't be ANY government interfernence in footballing affairs the world over was a big ask.

One of the commercial sex workers, simply known as Jenifer and who operates in Shasha area of Lagos said that most of her clients were married men.

According to her, though she used to collect good money from them, she still pitied them as she learnt their wives were not really taking care of their emotional needs at home.

Jennifer narrated that one of her clients opened up and complained that he got married some years ago and they had three children. But after the birth of their third child, the wife had practically abandoned him and faced the children without knowing that he needed care as well as the children.

A lot of people would read this article and miss this important aspect.

Thing about marriage, it is all about being attentive to each other's needs. A lot of guys are going to prostitutes because they are getting something from the prostitutes that they are not getting from their wives....emotional intimacy, companionship, etc.

A lot of women , once they have children, switch off from their husbands....they promptly focus on the kids, and on work...and forget that their man is still there, that just because he does not say much does not mean he still does not need to be treated like a lover.

Of course, it isn;t easy....stress , labours...all combine to leave women who are married feeling like they cannot keep up their looks, and the emotional intimacy thing. And yes, some men are shallow...marry woman for looks, abandon her when looks go.

But, speaking as a single man, marriage is hard work. And the minute women....AND MEN too don;t put in the hard work...the above is what happens.

ModestGal:
Your argument is that developed countries pay heavily for university education which result in better university education for citizens.
1. My first question is that is our minimum wage the same as these countries?

No it isn't. Minimum wage in the USA is about $1500 monthly. Fees in the US on average are above $20000 for most universites annually ($3000 in state unis for students WHO are long term residents though).

2. In these countries students have access to loans,grants,scholarships which means so far you are a brilliant and hardworking students, you will surely be able to go to the university, but in Nigerian situation, our public primary schools are worse enough that it only takes God to make a brilliant children to still remain brilliant with classes where roofs are leaking, or no roofs,inadequate teachers,abused children, mentally disturbed teachers(teachers that's has not been paid for months will be mentally disturbed, might have depression, anxiety e.t.c) plus the fact that scholarship is only meant for people with connections too if there are any.

Most university students in the US and the UK fund their educaiton via loans...and those loans can be very very heavy. Plus, you pay them back. Scholarships and financial aid are partial, and dependent on academic perfomrmance.

And in countries that have free educaiton, the costs are borne from taxes , which can reach as high as 50% of your annual income.
And most Nigerian teachers do their jobs well, plus a good number of schools in the US for example are poorly resourced, poorly staffed, and inadequate.

3. At abroad, so far you are an hardworking person, you will be able to send your children to the university, but here in Nigeria, come to the the cities, villages and see hardworking people, sweating all day and nights but they are still poor. Because the Nigerian environment is not enabling

American salaries and wages have been stagnating for the last two decades. Plus people are losing jobs (one of the reasons why Trump won after all)>

4. At abroad, getting a job is not difficult, once they finish the university they are able to secure jobs to pay for their debts,in Nigeria after all the high payment, still there won't be any job,which makes it lost upon lost.

Hey there...itcan be diffiuclt there o. then there is getting the job, but not being able to get affordable accomodation (I know a Nigerian who works in New York and shares an apartment with four other people there. None of them can afford even a one bedroom flat for themselves. And the other four girls are white.)

My conclusion is that most people in developed countries who do not go to the university is due to the fact that they have no interest, or find something better to do,or they are lazy and couldn't find thier ways,but as a Nigerian, most parent won't mind to suffer to make sure their children attend the universities but truth is the suffering is not even available for them to do that will make them afford such unless they go into robbery,Yahoo,ritualsetc . With increments in school fees,we will only end up having kidnappers, yahoo boys,ritualist,bokoharams in the country

On the other hand, if we don't find a way to increase funding for education...to the tune of 1.5 trillion annually for university educaiton alone, and probably more for primary and secondary educaiton...on top of an economy dependent on oil prices that need to be above $140 per barrel for it to make sense economically for us...it is the poor kids that would gfraduate with poor degrees, and would lose out in the job markets to the rich kids from private universites, and foreign universites.

Maybe we should just take another loan.

delkuf:
You are called to be servant, not we Christian. as a Christian, I am a son to God. thank you

Then why did Jesus say the follwing

He who must be great in the Kingdom of God must be a servant of all (Matthew 20 vs 26, Mark 9 vs 35).

Part ofour calling as sons involves us learning to serve...because it teaches us humility, and also makes us by extension more Christlike.

As exemplified by Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. Imagine that God, the creator, washing the feet of his creation (a job that would have been performed by a servant).

Being a servant does not lessen our sonship...it enhances it and makes us more of a light to the world.

Skepticus:


So Christ is now an Angry koboko-wielding soldier?

Only against wrong doing, sir.

Keep in mind that many of those businessmen in the Temple were involved in exploitative practices.

Good topic no 2.

Me,if I buy olive oil,it is to fry stuff in it.(Healthiest oil by the way).

Very very true.

daywatcher:
Nigeria will develop faster if muslims and christians stay away from our leadership. Because we will have leaders that lead us based facts, new knowledge and evidence.

From 1917-91, the Soviet Union was run by atheists. When it collapsed, it was in a mess economically speaking.(People were queing for food).

Here is a good soviet joke.

An American dog, a Soviet Dog and a polish dog were arguing (Poland was a satellite of the USSR fron 1945-89)

American dog: If I want some meat, I bark and someone gives me some meat!

Soviet dog: What's meat?

Polish dog : What's bark.?

Speaking of the USA...it achieved prosperity under leaders who openly extolled their Christianity.

You see, the reason why countries get developed is when the government provides the enabling environment for individuals to achieve their dreams, and also when people realise that the govt is not there to feed them 24/7.

In Nigeria we are not underdeveloped because religion. We are underdeveloped because most people prefer to graduate from school and go work in a nice comfy airconditoned office. Creating jobs, solving problems, they know not. Plus most people expect someone to help them out.

BabaO2:
Nothing to be discussed with buba galadinma, he has made-up his mind like a terrorist, let him go as a frustrated old man, he won't have any sellable brand to sell again. Atiku is a difficult and unsellable brand in Nigeria. Sai Buhari !!!

Guy,you know that this your attitude is why PDP lost in 2015...

PDP had disgruntled members from the word go...but they learned how to reconcile with them from time to time.Failure to do so with nPDP and with many disgruntled members in areas like Nassarawa,Benue, and Kogi are one of the many reasons why PDP lost in 2015.

If APC starts behaving that way, they will lose in 2019. Better start reconcilliation...especially as the middle belt vote that APC won in 2015 is now in jeopardy.

oshe11:
APC have no Iota of Shame left in them and they don't care because they have PRRFECTED THE ACT OF RIGGING

If PDP had aggresively pursured disgruntled members in 2014 ...maybe GEJ would have been enjoying his second term by now.

KingLennon:
R-APC was flirting with PDP just to get the notice of APC. At the end of the day, they won't decamp

Ah politics....

Buffalowings3:
All your leaders were beneficiaries of free education. Hell majority of them were under scholarships from the govt
What has Nigeria ever done for you?
Granted, money is required to maintain the standard yet Education needs to be made affordable.
Public schools have been chronically underfunded because of some section in this country.

1.As at the time most of our leaders were going to university, the number of students in university was at a manageable level.Plus we had six universites then.
Part of the reason why we have funding issues in Nigerian educaiton was that in the 1970's govt took over many schools, kept on building new ones, and admitted higher number of students. As a results...we have too many schools, and limited funding today (Some years ago, states like Lagos and Ogun handed over schools back to missions).

Plus, scholarships were there, but they were limited. Not eveyrone benefited by the way.

And not every young Nigerian went to university. People of our leaders era wrote Olevels....which had to be passed at a certain level before they qualified for A levels., which were written 2 years later. And had to be passed at a certain level. (Yes, it was harder to get into university then.5 credits at O level got one of my uncles into teacher training college...not university...back in the 1970's )

2.Chronic underfunding of schools,as I said was due to the massive expansion of primary, secondary and tertiary schools in the country since the 1970's, without any provision for their continued maintenance.

In 2009...the ASUU/FG agreement stated/established that universites needed 1.5 trillion yearly in annual funding for it to be 'adequate' (I don;t know how much our primary, secondary and other tertiary schools likepolys need). Our budget was N8 trillion this year, N5 trillion in 2015. And most of it is funded from loans and taxes. You do the math.(That's why GEJ told ASUU the plain truth in 2013 that govt could not pay 1.5 trillion yearly)

Wow...a good topic!

Well, I would respectfully disagree with the OP for 2 reasons

1. Christians are called to be servants of all, and also to be a light. And one of the ways you can do that is by being in politics.

If Wiberforce had not been a politican in 18th-19th century England, he wont have been able to lead the moves that led to slavery being abolished in British dominions. Likewise, a lot of good laws in the Western world were moved by Chirstians actively participating in politcs. You don't get that by praying in the church.

2.Jesus said that we have to be as wise as serpents. So...if we don't take part in politcs, we lose a means by which we can influence the world for good.

ALSO...

Back in the time of Jesus, most governments were not participatory democracies, but autocracies. EVEN then, Chirstians still did things that changed their world.

For example,a common practice in Rome was the throwing away of unwanted children...who were then raised as slaves. Chirstians took in some of these kids, and raised them.

PLUS

The gospel spread in many places because Christian missionaries converted the ruler, and the population followed.

Wow, a religion topic that makes.sense!

Vikky014:
nothing like too so long as she can read and write

Well, most nine year olds are very very immature for the kind of work one needs to do in secondary school. It isn't about reading and writing alone.

But for all I know, 2 baba's daughter might be very mature for her age.

ElRapido:
Well. at least you are enlighten enough to know that quality education isn't cheap anywhere in this world. Let's use America as a case study, "According to College Board, published tuition fees for 2017/18 at state colleges are an average of US $9,970 for state residents, and $25,620 for everyone else. This compares to an average of $34,740 at private non-profit colleges."

But when we look at those paying the school fess i.e the parents, we need to check the ratio of school fees to paycheck.

In Nigeria today, the minimum wage, correct me if I'm wrong, is 18,000 Naira. Let's say a civil servant with a salary of 600000 Naira per annum(50K per month being the average of Oyo and Osun civil servants) sends his ward to a school like Lautech(Most students there are of Osun/Oyo origin and have civil servants as parent) and being asked to pay 300K per annum, that results in a ratio of 0.5 which means he will be spending half of his salary on school fees of one child.

1. In America, most parents don't earn enough to pay for their kids college/university educaiton. So from day one,kids in the US hustle for scholarships (limited) and loans (which provide most of the funding)....and this leads to students getting into high debt.
(As an example , I once saw a programe where an American doctor stated that she had student debts of $150000 from four years of medical school).
And once you get a job, you start paying the debt back.
In the US, there are alternatives...techincal schools/colleges/community colleges....which run at lower costs,and provide one with job skills...but most people want college.
And the figure you quoted is average. Many schools have fees higher than that.

2.Things are hard in Nigeria...but even then, we have scholarships, some states pay bursaries. What we don't have is loans. I think we need to provide more scholarships, bursaries,etc. Or we take another loan from the IMF...which temporarily solves the problem....but leaves a large debt burden.

I don't like saying this...but education is too too expensive.In the USA ,high taxes fund primary and secondary public education. It isn;t sunfficent for the university.

obi58:
Bro you should stop the excuses.

Let the institutions prove with independent audited financial statements what they are currently using their fund inflows for and if they are being efficiently used.

Also any university worth its salt, should be able to provide innovative solutions to help improve the quality of education and the standard they offer. For example, provide free land for private investors to develop quality hostel accommodation at subsided rates for students whilst spreading costs and profits over the long term.

1.I agree re audit. Universites do have a corruption problem (Making them public private might help)

2.You can only innovate if you have the cash to do so. BECAUSE....who pays for the new innovaitons.

3.Subsidised accomodation needs money. And the thing about subsidies...one is determining the amount of profit a private businessman should earn. Which in real life leads to companies running at a loss (and that is why we have fuel crisis in Nigeria...because subsidy essentially involves govt telling marketers how much they should makein profit...something if govt were to do to everyone else would lead to wholescale scarcity and crisis)

obi58:
Do the math bro, using your facts, 11b divided by 400k students is 27500 per student. Where then is the 300k subsidy? Now apart from these subventions, schools still generate funds from sundry fees including but not limited to tuition so Bro don't justify the unjustifiable.

Also you were talking about subsidy for amongst other things labs..... For real.... LABS Which labs are equipped?

You mentioned salaries..... Are salaries paid from subventions?

Power: How many institutions actually pay their utility bills?

How many hostels are in decent habitable shape and sanitary condition?

Bro get your head out your ass

1. Subventions do pay for salaries (it is worked into the budget).

2.Our labs in the universites are poorly equipped. Hence the money

3.Yes, universites pay power bills...that's a small reason why fees are going up...because now with the privatization of power, everyone has to pay their bills. (It comes under overhead costs...which one VC was complaining are not fully funded by government).

4.Most hostels are in a poor state. THAT is a small part of the reason why fees have to go up...to put them back in decent shape.,, and to build more of them (or we end up doing what the UK has done and privatise them.).

grossintel:
Words can't comprehend the foolishness writing all over your post. Yes, $850 is dirt cheap for Quality education. But when the school mentioned here is located in Nigeria and owned by the government, corruption comes into play. 90% of the funds realized will go missing over and over again.

Yes! Everyone has a right to education. In sane countries it is your right to attend college if you wish to, their are tons of options available for you which I know your aware of. Don't make this country more difficult for the next person, we want a better Nigeria, but we are wicked and very selfish. Why didn't you learn the hand work then, just because your parents could afford to pay your school fees doesn't make the poor man's kid unfortunate. Stop this nonsense, life itself is unfair to everyone at some point.

There are tons of options, yes in sane countries.

Mostly in student loans, which you pay back once you get a job. Scholarships also exist,but most of them are not fully funded.(In the US, student loan debt is a big issue.)

And in sane countries like Denmark and Germany where education is free...it comes at the cost of high taxes. Very high tax rate of 50% of your income.

And in the