₦airaland Forum

exotik:
by mere looking at the location of edo in nigeria, it is not difficult to understand why edo cannot be said to the closer to yoruba without being close to igbo. edo is right in the middle of the east and west of southern nigeria. and edo enjoyed empire status for over 400 years(?) until it was dismantled by the british a little over a hundred years ago, and that is not even up to half the time edo was an empire. so instead of yorubas and igbos to appreciate the similarities between them, they keep fighting over pettiness and celebrate their differences while claiming to be share similarities with edo.  errr, it doesnt work that way. edo is in this unique position because of its location and the authority it once commanded.

now, unlike the yorubas, oduduwa is not the alpha and omega of the edo people. before oduduwa, edo had developed a monarchical system of govt for centuries and they had over 30 ogisos before oduduwa, and it was this monarchial system of govt that oduduwa took ife and i guess everybody already knows the edo version of oduduwa. the yorubas rejected the edo version of oduduwa and opted for the mythical one or the one from somewhere in arabia.

now granted edo had a connection with the yoruba intially but the growth of edo did not stop there. edo started growing as an empire during reign of oba ewuare who was the 12th or so oba and by the reign of oba esigie, edo grew into igbo areas with by establishing a monarchial system of govts all the way to present day onitsha through eze chime and i guess everybody knows the edo version of eze chime but the igbos rejected the edo version and opted for the eastern version, although, they didnt stretch their version all the way to the far far east in arabia but ended somewhere around imo/abia

but looking at edo today, though it had connection with yoruba people earlier, and it also had connection with igbos later and that is why the edo culture mirrors both east and west, and in recent time mirrors the north due to islamic influence from the north. and that is why we are neither hausa, igbo or yoruba . . . but edo.

400 years and where was it located? in your village?biggest faffing man.
I don't know how long the british empire lasted,I don't think its upto 400 but the signs are there through the spread of english language from America to Australia,the spanish and massive south america.
I respect your culture but stop the constant lousy embellishment,even in edo state how many languages do 'ye' have there. You couldn't have spent 400 years and yet your influence is restricted to some areas around you.
I don't think OYO lasted 400 but from Ajase to Kabba,borgu the influence is unmistakable.
Come on!
Lagos,Ogun,Oyo,Osun,Kwara,Ekiti,Ondo,kogi,Ajase,Borgu?,having same cultural identity: the population,the land mass.

@topic
The main reason for this topic isn't necessarily the ops love for Edo,its basically another avenue to look for childish arguments.

Demdem:
Above is the basis for my deductions
U categorically said she is empty.

Go back and listen,read and watch her actions/role and assertions during the subsidy protests.I believe strongly,no accomplished professional would do all she did;flimsy and unsubstantiated excuses,inability to reconcile figures and assertions made.
So relative to what we were made to believe about her,yes she's empty.

Wheres Oby Esekwesili? shes a pro.

Demdem:
Are u insinuating that she was sucking C*o*ck before getting to the topmost top at the world Bank?

Olodumore o!   ,sucking ke ,i 'dint' say that,you said it!

The emptiness of Okonjo has been exposed by her second coming,I really want to know what she was doing ( her role) at the World bank,seriously.Baba Obasanjo probably saw that shes basically empty and transferred her from Finance to another gloried ministerial position .
About 2nd class,School grade sometimes doesn't fully measure people's capacity.

If this happens then the ACN has got him right where they want.
Fry pan to fire.

Werepeleri,
Just wondering,really.I don't expect everything to fall right out of the sky and neither do I have that massive sense of entitlement we often see with some of us outside.

Burger ke? I can't remember the last time I had one cos It sometimes give me indigestion but I will miss Wasabi,Itsu,Miso,Abokado,pret,greggs lol!
Thanks anyway.

ekt_bear:
Plan plan plan, talk talk talk.

Talking Congress of Nigeria.

Lol!

@Werepeleri,
You were out for years,I have been for almost same period now and I am seriously considering coming home or Ghana to settle but I get this feeling I won't fit in and will have to run back which I don't want to happen.
How did it feel living in Nigeria after a decade outside.

I am not discouraging it,really, just felt he needs to give an insight into why he is considering ICAN after ACCA.A strong local accountancy body is very necessary for the development of members and the profession at large.Whether ican is doing enough,thats another thing.
Maybe worth doing who knows for reasons i stated in my last comment and above

mycvclinic:
@Ufeolorun,

Your response made me LOL because I plan to gain ICAN qualification after my ACCA (writing my final papers this year).

To be honest I know I will not really learn anything new in the conventional sense. . . but perhaps just to satisfy the nationalist in me.

It's one thing I plan on doing and somehow I can't explain exactly why.

It only makes sense in my head.

DaLover:
lets look at the implications of what you are asking for.
The FG makes its main cash from royalties of crude sales, you want states to handle more responsibilities abi? To what extent? Is it just enuf for the SW states to manage power and ports but not enuf for the 9ja delta states to handle their oil fields? I would like assume you r not that selfish, i would like to assume that you not one of the evil ba5tards that insist on perpetuating this form of corruption,
Lets assume that both the SW and the 9ja delta handle the ports, power and oil fields etc,
then oil and oil products sold by 9ja delta states should be at market rates, gas to power the power solutions should be at market rates and taxes will be paid to FG, but then you also asked for increased money, is that money going to come from the tax paid by the 9ja delta states to the FG? Will the 9ja states be paying tax so that it can be shared to other states?
Y not start using ur brains instead, i think thats the way forward.

What exactly are you going on about gan sef!you keep straddling threads chatting about oil this oil that,stop the oil-hugging attitude njare! hen.
If you had to put your back into cultivating the oil you probably be suicide bombing the so called parasites by now .
It's a big joke if you think crude oil value chain will also be subject of resource control.

jen_ny:
Hi All,

Im an ACCA member qualified early last yr, I want to get ur views on d need for ICAN qualification. The conversion course+induction+TCI is about 230k, my company wont pay and I really need a gd reason to cough out this kind of money and I really cant see any for now. Please advice Thanks,

Why do you think Ican is necessary . knowledge of local tax laws,audit,gaap. practicing ceritficate  self preservation

Has[b] laulau Aregbesola[/b] even gone back home from Lagos from where he governs Osun by remote control yet? How can such a useless governor demand more money from the FG? He was the one who claimed only in December that he doesn't need any allocation from the FG, because he could generate much more from yams; so it is the height of hypocrisy for him to do a full about turn to ask for more.

Why are these governors so mentally lazy, laulau and useless?

Occupy your governor and LG boss.

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Thank God they are not 'Goodluck-driven',no track record and totally NFA .Oga mi for Aso and his militant mates are the real laulau spenders

They seriously need to stop waffling,if they are really serious about changing things how much of the 'booty' received so far have been used properly,how much resources have been devoted to Agriculture and education(our strong points).
There's no western region, there's  the  west and the former midwest! What's the point of always kissing up to people who view your actions with huge suspicion,the governors need to really sit down and stop faffing about. They should use that energy on kicking pdp out of  Kwara.Kwara to me is far more strategic and important to the commonwealth but how well are they doing in the  states they have already.
What's  happening to Olokola FTZ port that maybe give far more benefit to Ogun/Ondo,they need to sort that out.
Those who refer to us as parasite may actually have a point now if those who are supposed to chart a new course for our people are beginning to sound confused(though the oil doesn't belong to baba enikan!). They are looking more like Pdp to me!It's so unacceptable cos they have all proved themselves in their personal lives.
Fiddlestick!

We can remove Sanusi and replace him with one of these boys cos they are now reformed and na their Oyel money dem dey keep there.

They too are entitled to laulau na!

Shame on Obj man! see as Ijaw people they do [b]laulau,[/b]for awa turn baba was playing Mr. Nigeria
Olorun o! if we get there again man!;
Mc oluomo must be defense minister.
Gani adams  supervising minster for Odu'a affairs.
Tokyo of Ibadan will be  minister for transport.
Salawa Abeni, ministry of petroleum( if Allison can be minster why not salawa?)
Iya aladuke special adviser,women affairs.

Jonathan has taken governance in Nigeria to another level of mediocrity and cronyism.

When the Action congress released a statement about this same issue it was described as another Yoruba opposition to the desire of the' Niger-delta' to control their God given resources.
I guess the itsekiris are being used to pursue 'Yoruba agenda'.
If this goes through maybe Lagos state should  also pick up OPC boys train them and fully kit them up with arms and make them water-bourne
Ondo should follow suit and re-arm the Ilaje and ikales, for the Itsekiris experience should be key indicator.This arrangement is absolutely unacceptable!
Odu'a kor!(Odu'a reject it!)Lmao!

Onlytruth:
My brother I've been here long enough to know what I'm saying; but I would indulge you for now. What I'm saying is deep, and if you need more information, please send me an email at ezendigbo_nl@hushmail.com
Awo anaghi agba oso ehihie na nkiti.
ihe mere ede, oji bee nwii.
I won't say more here. Thanks. 

Why don't you allow your age rather than rage dictate what you write here? What's with your usual trusting yoruba baby-talk.
Do you know how many communities,towns and groups you drive through to get anywhere near yorubas? Why this silly talk as if we are next door neighbours.we don't share borders.
Spend more time doing grown ups stuff and leave this to your little cousins.
I wish those who routinely engage you guys would stop.

We can do it,but don't let's set our hopes too high.We need take the system down board by board,hijacking some local governments,state house of assembly positions,house of rep and senate.
Role out the frame work and I will be ready to play my part.

He's relatively not bad:
If Obj had got over his insecurity and imposed El-rufai on us we wouldn't  be in this unacceptable mess,Far competent than Yar'dua(Rip) and not in same league with the current man.

Abi o
We are now getting so overwhelmed with shadow-chasing everywhere!,some will blame Hausa-fulani/core north for their problems while ignoring the highly probable connivance of their local leaders,others would shout Boko haram is killing our people and still  they continue to hug this same government that has failed to protect its citizen,at least try to!.

I am personally getting really disappointed in some of the senators from my sphere,they just went into the senate and they vanished save for tepid statements they make at times,( and you hear some people shouting Oduarepublic,its a non -starter with the kind of leadership we have at the moment,seriously).
We just blame this man at Aso rock but our senators are bigger failures.

According to him, Oando accounted for 53 per cent of petrol importation in 2006 and 47 per cent of subsidy payment. He, however, stated that the company’s market share in terms of subsidy receipts and petrol importation dropped to 11 per cent in 2011 due to proliferation of companies that participated in the PSF scheme.
He said the scheme was abused when companies that did not have retail outlets and storage facilities were allowed to participate in the importation business, at the detriment of companies that built capacity.

The Petroleum Support Fund (PSF) expected that there would be under-recovery. For example, when the landing cost was higher than the pump price, the government owed us money, which is paid as subsidy. When there is over-recovery, that is, when the landing cost is less than the pump price, we pay back to the government. For example, during the Yar’Adua administration, when the petrol price was N65 and the crude oil price dropped to $50 per barrel, the marketers paid back to the fund. I remember that Oando paid  N1.6 billion back to the Federal Government,” he said

Oando as a private firm owes none of you any responsibility save for CSR,what you should do is to hold your disgraceful and utterly clueless politicians to account for their stewardship.
Oando may write their accounts as much as they want,its the responsibility of those who are handing out subsidy cash to have records/schedules of payment made and to whom.

Nigerian businesses do a lot of dodgy and unacceptable stuffs to stay in business cos of the lax regulatory environment but on this subsidy issue,face the Government you all voted for and leave the businesses alone.

^^
Don't worry we outnumber those oil- hugging secessionists.

CyberG:
Gists. . .I am writing from a phone so this will be short: there WILL BE ABSOLUTELY NO (strong emphasis) dual citizenship, mixed heritage, foreign ownership of a pin or centimeter of space in the prosperous lands of the SW. Being born in Lagos will count for nothing as the hatred towards the generosity and gracious Westerners has passed the peak so ALL "foreign" owned banks, properties, etc MUST be physically moved away within weeks or be destroyed. We don't want another "Nigeria" of fighting and hatred.

But we will have highly skilled migrant,point based scheme cos there will be shortage of skills now!.
If you can cook edikaikong or Nkwobi then you automatically qualify.lol!

Okun/pele,i fully get it.
Its not easy having so  many ids,creating different personality on the internet in other to win arguements cos man must chop but a bit of ethics wouldn't kill as you run around to earn it.
Nobody!, i repeat,nobody feeds anyone in Nigeria we are all dependent on nature's blessing and that's what crude oil is.Let no man claim what he did not produce or cultivate as his cos that would be greed and baba nla (biggest) covetousness.

naijababe:
May your parents not weep over you for this post. Are our memories that short ?! FFK?! The Abuja Rottweiller of Obasanjo? I don't understand why we seem to idolise people who find their voices when they are not sharing in the pie  

Ashe! ojare,

austin2002:
UFEOLORUN, your name sound like Yoruba the the most coward donkeys in nigeria.Wake up from your ignorant see what is going on around you,douchbag. Yes Yorubas are the worst enemy of nigeria.You cannot make plans with cowards.Unfortunatley people like you and bunch of others are they ones I will get ride of with weapons soon.Somebody like you what we do if you are the military like me we feed you to the vultures.I will try to find out where you live by all means.Maybe you are one of them that abetting these monkeys in the north.

korda!

They should go protest about the huge oil spill caused by shell if they truly love their community or shush!go spend your mobilisation fee on Ogogoro.
Who gave you the right to speak for the south.
These people don't even know what they want seriously,today na Niger-delta republic,next day na SS/SE and the next day na south.
Too much childish palongo dance arround one issue sha.

If its not FFK again!
Femi Fani kayode one of the biggest Yoruba nationalists and Odu'a republic advocate pre 1999 but immediately he became a minister under Obj he went pro Nigeria and mute,became very abusive of baba's opponents but I respect him for one thing,he didn't threaten secession when baba was being attacked
.
FFK seems to flow with the wind and only the uniformed would jump and dance whenever he says anything.
Your Governors,local government chairmen are a bigger problem compared to the non-existent Core north.

auwal87:
You are still dreaming! Wake up and see if that dream can be realized. It is a big NEVER!

My friend Nigeria is going nowhere! trust me mae.
The dreamers are the notorious secessionists who hardly contribute or do  anything in their community but want to help determine the destiny of such community as regard sovereignty.
Who's the leader that would lead our people to the new country? there's no Awolowo,Adesanya,Ajasin,Ige or structures like Afenifere: People who say this is what Yoruba people want and the rest of us shake our heads in total agreement
Alex salmond has got the political endorsement from the Scottish people to lead them out of the UK,where's your people's Alex salmond?
South sudan wouldn't have descended into chaos in such a quick way if John Garang was still alive
We shall not concede an inch of our land to the oil grabbers nor to the hypocritical killers of muslims and christian alike up-north.
We shall biuld our Nigeria and the gates of sappy Imf.oil thieves,religious nincompoops and greed shall not prevail against it» Ashe! edumare
I am not Occupying Ekiti,I am not occupying Yoobaland, we shall #OccupyNigeria,a truly federal Nigeria,for the sake of Africa!

Am not a fan of Ibb but i agree with him, rather than collapse the system we shall repair it from the inside and whoever wants to secede should come out with sensible arguments why the country should let them go.
Want to use force? you shall be subdued!

Another secessionist dreaming.first of all,takeover your states before thinking of collapsing the whole nation (not gonna happen).You all are clearly outnumbered.

k9ine:
Hi folks,

Could someone pls send me a basic format for payroll and pay silp.

agentk9ine@yahoo.co.uk

I appreciate.

Get someone with a job to hand you their payslip,that should help or use google.
The basic stuff nomally are;employees name,tax code,Nic,hourly rate,pay period,gross pay,tax charge,net pay and so on.
You can easily use Ms.excel to come with something appropriate.

D subtle:
Hi Mycvclinic,
You are right sir,Accounting system is nt all about buying software and start to input data.what I meant is that unlike recording of transaction which starts with journals and posting to the Nominal ledger,Pls correct me if I am wrong,Setting up a system start from you understanding the client biz,cash/credit transaction,if there are inventory and opening of necessary accounts under the following classes of accounts (1)ASSETS (2)LIABILITIES (3)REVENUE (4)EXPENSES (5) EQUITY. Once the accounts are opened you integrate it the jounals.If the entity has previous record you bring in the figures as the opening bal. those account it's been transfer to.

Pls kindly send me a template of excel system,email : relianceandsubtle@gmail.com

Thanks

Hi 9jaluv,
Setup of accounting system might be different but still follows the same accounting principal.

Well you maybe right if the system is tailored or your are using a spreadsheet(gives you room to be creative) but standard software like sage financial controller is a one size fit all system.

Jarus:
Software acquisition and implementation costs are to be treated as Tangibles. They are to be warehoused into an a/c, possibly work-in-progress, and upon completion of the project, amortised over 5 years(i.e 20 percent per annum). i think the SAS on Tangibles, R and D cover it.

I think its a 2 step approach:
1.You got to meet the frame work criteria of what an asset is.
2.Separating what qualifies as research (revenue treatment) from what is development (capital treatment),this has got some further annoying criteria as well.
IGAAP.

Second,

So parodies are better than the real stuff cos all those music we are being assaulted with are all pseudo-american noise.

We import almost everything: Our music is becoming more of borrowed stuff.
People virtually slobber over English footie
It will be difficult for us to change things if we have an increasing thirst for things produced by others.
As long as you see whatever you do in Nigeria as doing somebody
favours rather than a responsibility/ commitment,you will always complain.