₦airaland Forum

vivalavida:
I don't blame the Kenyans and the Ghanaians for constantly taking potshots at this shitty country called Nigeria. At best they are a country with one or two major tribes that are related in one way or the other and separated by few languages. But this hellhole shouldn't be referred to as a country at all. We are too diverse to be one. That is why when one section gets the presidency, the other sections try to undermine it. In so doing, the economy of the country is hurt.
So Biko I don't blame them. Nigeria as large as it is is useless to mankind

nwapee:
Bros, tell me more about Ivory Coast. Their standard of living, cost of living, economy, business atmosphere, night life, security and ofcourse their women.

nwapee:
nwanne u dey everywhere o. I hav some questions 4 u on abidjan thread

kabayomi:
Yeah

ernieboy:
why una never steal the destinies of the white people wey una dey buy their clothes from the various "bend down" boutiques?

efficiencie:
sure bros, I will do my own research over here and get back to you...because i am tired of Nigerian universities...between 2005 and 2016 i have only been able to garner two degrees (with my intellectuality being, to a large extent, the result of my own effort) and that's more than 10 years...If i schooled in a better country with better educational standards i would have been a senior lecturer by now! Imagine how Nigerian universities are wasting the lives of its youths. SMH!

fashrola:
And you think some internal forces in the FG gonna allow that to happen?

efficiencie:
Yes o! The exchange rate is crazy. Imagine universities in Ghana asking foreign students to pay in dollars. I wonder what the benefit of this ECOWAS and WAMZ is sef!? After converting their charges in dollars to naira, mehn na millions per session for a 3-year Phd. Although i learnt of University of Kwazulunatal and how they are tuition free and their PhD is by research but I was told that the living costs in South Africa is expensive not to talk of their zenophobic tendencies.

efficiencie:
My brother, na UNIBEN surprise me pass...Dem turn assignment to Small and Medium Scale Enterprise. Come see billing. Assignment com turn to pay as you go! I have seen Phd students from UNIBEN Economics that cannot interpret common multiple linear regression estimation output. Imagine a Professor saying in an MSc class that a constant elasticity of substitution function is a PhD related function. I just dey laff the Prof. A lot of idiots nowadays are Professors.
If you are a married man and you have you pretty wife doing a program in UNIBEN Economics, then be prepared to be the first of many husbands of your wife if your wife must succeed in getting good grades. At one point, those of us in the MSc program renamed the program MUMU.Sc.

The only valuable thing i can get from the department is the certificate. Studying in that school is a sheer waste of resources!

efficiencie:
I know of two assistant lecturers at the UNILAG that were doing their PhDs in Economics at UI. They both abandoned the program and started all over in universities in South Africa after they had spent about 6 years running their program at UI. I understand that the quality of education in Nigerian federal universities are nothing to write home about but what i detest the most is when a 3 year program becomes a 10 year program. I will handle my intellectual development myself if such issues as; favoritism, bribery, factionalism etc are minimal.

I would really like folks from other federal universities to provide their evaluations of their schools.

pazienza:
I know your type. A typical asslicker.

Not once did you condemn the multitudes of Afonjas here posting trash about Ndiigbo, but you are quick to hang the few Igbos here trying to defend Ndiigbo against barrage of caustic attacks from Afonjas, just to be accepted as a "Lagos boy" by Afonjas here and be on their good side.

Shame on you!

adigunomomama:
Thou i am in the part of the world that they are struggling too but far far better that my country NIGERIA. And that don't stop me from praying for my beloved country every gadamn morning I wake up because no place like home.


God Bless Nigeria

Dongreat:
Ok I am not in the Art of quoting senile, dumbo, looney, wacko, psycho and frustrated comments on Nairaland but I will answer you and probably change your views.
When I went to the UK for the first time it was a Yoruba woman that accommodated me for 8 months, FREE OF CHARGE, cooking for me and teaching me the British ways. I got my first job as an Health assistant in a hospital through the connections of an IBO man and again a Yoruba lady saved me ass from getting fired when I was caught sleeping on duty by influencing the management. My first babe is Yoruba from Ondo state and the babe is the clean, well mannered, educated and very tidy. She's so neat that she can literally not take her bath in a day and still smell like "Tom Ford EDP".
Now I don't know who taught you these views on other tribes and cultures but if you don't change you probably might remain frustrated, and poor for life. This 2016 man, not 1867. Together you will enjoy the benefits of friendship from the Yorubas, IBOs and Hausas only if you stop being a "mad man on heat, whose rubbish was impounded by LASTMA". Have a lovely day weirdo.

princeonx:
Do you have a/any property? If yes, where and why did you chose there? If no, stfu!
It's called investment for some that built their houses in the city such as Lagos. I can spend N50m building in Lagos and be able to get a N25/30m loan from the bank using the property as collateral while that same house in a village won't even get me N2m loan. No disrespect to the Abiriba folks but I'll preffer to call them over-pride people than what you called them. Just like you, I also know a whole lot of them here too. Actually most of my friends are from there and I always ask them what it is with them spending every last dime they have to build this houses to show-off in the village, bringing no single income such as rent, and living like puppets in the cities where they spend most of their time and life. IMO, it's ok to build such house in the village if you have money and a lot of it because you can also build or buy another in the city for investment. For me it's senseless sharing an apartment with 3/4 other guys, living uncomfortable for 2,3, or 4yrs on a role in a city where you are based just to go spend a month in this so called big house in the village with only rats and spiders in it!

Chrizoby:
I m no longer surprised. So na all dis small children dey nairaland dey make noise upadan. Even their table represent the true condition of the country.

mengho:
Yap, I saw some of the videos the way they are being treated,it was very unfair, but still they should learn to forgive a bit nah, they just kaput 800 people fa

maikachiya:
Dont forget that Fulani are very active in
retaliating whatever you did to them in
hundred years. Remember you burn up
their Men, Women and Children alive.
You have to put in your mind that Fulani
has both Muslim and Christian among
them, but they love their people
morethan anything in this World. They
can invite World wide Fulani to fight
you. Gov El-Rufai knew that is why he
want to calm them down. For more
information find the History of Fulani.

passyhansome:
President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2017 budget to the national assembly on Wednesday, December 14, 2016, promising economic recovery.

As expected the budget, which amounted to N7.298 trillion naira, was different from the 2016 budget in many ways.

TheCable reviewed the 1,047-paged document, and brings you 20 fine details of interest.

Here are some details of the 2017 budget:

Total budget

N7.298 trillion budget.

Aim of the budget

The aim is to pull the country out of recession by spending 30.7 percent on capital expenditure.

Ministry with highest allocation

The ministry of power, works and housing at 520 billion.

More money

The allocation for the Niger Delta Amnesty programme tripled to amount at N65 billion in 2017 as against 20 billion in 2016. Also, the allocation for the Judiciary increased to N100 billion in 2017 as against 70 billion in 2016.

Restore life to the Northeast
45 billion was allocated for rehabilitation of the northeast

Benchmarks:

Crude oil: $42.5 per barrel as against $38 in 2016,

Naira: N305 per dollar as against N197 in 2016

Loans for entreprenuers

N15 billion was budgeted for the Bank of Industry and Bank of Agriculture. $1.3 billion was also budgeted for the Development Bank of Nigeria, which is expected to kick off operations in 2017.

Tax credit for exporters

N20 billion was budgeted for the Export Expansion Grant which is expected to encourage exporters.

More loans

N500 billion was budgeted for the Special Intervention programme (Home grown school feeding and N-Power Job creation programmes)

Revenue

Udo Udoma, the minister of budget and national planning, has said that the government expects to make 10 trillion as revenue for 2017 fiscal year and N5 trillion would be from the sale of crude oil.

“Non-oil revenues will rake in about N5.06 trillion. These revenues are expected to come from corporate and company taxes, Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, Stamp Duties, capital gains tax and value added tax,”

Debt servicing

The federal government is expected to expend N1.5 trillion in servicing domestic debts, however, the federal government earmarked N1.3 trillion in the 2016 budget.

On foreign debt, the federal government would spend N175.9 billion as against N54.5 billion spent on foreign debt servicing in the 2016 budget.

Salaries

Recurrent expenditures would gulp N1.9 trillion, about N1.8 trillion was budgeted for the same purpose in the 2016 appropriation.

Borrowing

The federal government also intends to borrow a total of N2.3 trillion, out of which N1.5 trillion would be sourced locally while N1.1 trillion would be sourced internationally.

In the 2016 budget, N1.2 billion was reportedly borrowed locally, while N635.8 billion was gotten through foreign borrowing.

Anti-corruption in the state house?

A surprising entry in the state house section of the 2017 budget is anti corruption which had a budget of 8,539,200.

Kitchen Budget

The budget for meals at the state house was N123,223,000 and this is excluding the N168.46m budgeted for the same item for the president and vice president.

N 100,820,300 was also budgeted for the purchase for canteen/ kitchen equipment.

Refreshments

N97,200,000, was budgeted for refreshments and meals for the state house apart from the amount budgeted for catering and foodstuff.

Vehicle maintenance

N94,575,000 was budgeted for the purchase of tyres for bullet proof vehicles, plain Toyota cars, CCU vehicles and other operational vehicles in the state house.

New vehicles

There were five provisions for the purchase of vehicles in the budget of the state house, president that all amounted to N396,000,000.

Trips and Sitting allowance

The president and vice president are expected to spend N1.05 billion on foreign trips and N353.115m on local trips.

Also, a total of N765,892,740 was budgeted for sitting allowance and honorarium in the state house, president and vice president’s offices.

Rent

Another surprising appearance in the state

Who destroyed the North East, Nigeria or Who, at the end #45billion that would have been allocated to another welfare or sector will be wasted on NE, what about South East, we were told to develop it by our self, why not tell the North East to develop it by themself why use budget, You can see how marginalized we are, South West are not exempted, Hausa are using Nigerians

Zirah:
You can't deny you igbos are spiteful. We must finish up what you started once and for all. The time is near if not now.

toludeman:

Omo ibo

dassy65:
Is there any yoruba association in any of your igbo land?because you people are selfish and arrogant, if you rent out your house to an igbo person you would end up regretting it.

toludeman:
No but when una hateful kinsmen dey compete for property with the rightful owners and den dey cause trouble everywhere kor. No call unaselves to order before dem bundle you and una ghana must go go Onitsha.

rufaikoko:
He's living up to his responsibility, exploring every avenue to bring that to an end. Bloodletting is gross crime against God and humanity.

Zirah:
We must begin a campaign for the extinction of igbos from the southwest. We need to teach these ingrates how to live. Then let's see who'll open their rotten mouths to say Lagos is no man's land.

rufaikoko:
This is a conspiracy against Elrufai, to destabilise and distract his good governance by the crisis-loving people of northern Kaduna. History has proved that from stone age.

Omeokachie:
This was how it all started with Boko haram. They were bombing churches but the Sultan and Emirs in the north said nothing. Buhari even came out to say that an attack on BH is attack on the north! Until BH turned their guns on the "north"


Now some persons are killing people in the predominantly christian south of Kaduna state, and the Sultan, Emirs, and Buhari's government is again keeping quiet.

I hope they are not grooming another monster by this silence of theirs as it might end up consuming everyone.

aminho:
oh i understand but that should not be a yardstick to judge since you mentioned that they are in a foreign land,so definitely they must speak another language so as the hausa that you will meet outside

GudluckIBB:
That's Elumelu I'm seeing there.
In a sane country, this man is suppose to be in jail together with obasanjo for the role they played in the botched power project.

aminho:
oga Chinese under 18 no dey speak any English oo i dey stay for china for years now,i know wetin i dey yarn