₦airaland Forum

El-Rufai is dividing Kaduna State, speaks, and refers to its leaders without respect. We will pick another candidate for next year.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AKXzar0H64

Davido is brought to court by the Unmarried Men's Society for "Malicious Purchasement of Extravagant Gifts in the Form of a Porsche Without Regard To Girlfriend Repercussions." Justice Kure presiding.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx9Myv_Cai0

The IG is dragged to the people's court for not showing up to answer for the deaths in the country when called. Court in session. Justice Kure presiding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY9SPbBCk_g

Those running for President:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNin6BgegFw

magoo10:
Does that mean that the president is useless in this case after swearing on oath to protect lives rather choose to protect cows.

Yep... at this point, that is clear. What people say or even swear to do is not what they always do. He has no reason to act quickly. The governors and LGCs do. They should be given the power to act.

olureignforever:
Every one should defend their territory. These fulani's cup is full. Eye for an eye. Gone are those days when people avoid them like Ebola. Not anymore, because they are not God.

That's true. The problem is that if the Governors and LGCs don't start demanding for this, the tribes will get more angry. Very soon, everybody will pick up arms. And then we have a real problem on our hands. Learned yesterday that about 10 Fulani people were ambushed and killed by some Tiv people. Another 9 were killed by Herdsmen in Kaduna. This is all in one day. If they wait for Buhari, Nigeria will go up in flames.

The President is quiet about Benue. But honestly, the governors and most importantly the NASS can do something about it. During Jonathan's time, the governors had to wait for the President to give orders before the Police could move into high gear. Now with Buhari the governors still have to wait. In the meantime people die. The governors of these states should call their senators and change the law such that the state and local governments can have a first line of defence. One man should not be deciding from Abuja the level of security that the people should have. Its does not work. Even on a normal day, there is a small security presence in the cities. Not many people can say they feel secure in the house in Jos, for example, because of the police. Its time to change this system. It's not working. ( I talk more about this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opP0lCt9KGQ/)

Blue3k2:
Well it does reduce output because legal miners can't access mines they aren't permitted to with mining lease. The illegal ones will, won't pay taxes or take care of environment. That's cost is passed to tax payers. It's no different from illegal fishing (besides fish repopulating).

They are free to apply for mining leases. Illegal miners like Chinese fly here to smuggle. They aren't interested in paper work and taxes. Again government already doing what your asking in having illegal miners register. They're even setting up lending for them. The fact is some would rather stay under in blackmarket. (Proof: look above this comment)

Yes. But if your reasoning is correct, then all the government has to do is give legal miners the license to access those areas and problem solved. They will take over those mines and no need to spend hundreds of millions. But its not so. Secondly, its not just registering illegal mines. If the process was that straight forward, the illegal mines would have registered themselves in the beginning and won't be illegal. Its registering them cheaply and transparently. You are right that some people will always prefer a black market. But when the black market is worth $9 billion or N3.2 trillion Naira compared to a $4 - $12 billion legal market, the problem is beyond just a few people preferring black markets. It means it is cheaper - even when you include security risks that come with precious metals- both for those selling and those buying to go through illegal means than to go through legal means. When its is incredibly more cost effective to be illegal than legal, you will find more people being illegal. And that cost is controlled largely by government.

360command:
you seem to focus more on the working class, you and I know we are in a country of unemployment.. So there is a need for govt to "subsidize" various drugs or health delivery service.. If we do have a good NHIS, I can go to the govt or private hospital as long as they accept my NHIS card and not someone or some hospital focusing on me if I work...

Look chairman, in one way or the other, I have a right for free medical service that is why the "govt" exist.. Go to advance countries and I will tell you that some people get medicare for free.. Even as a foreigner people sometimes enjoy benefit from free health care.. You can't tell me I don't have a right.. If I don't have right, what of people seeking asylum.. Is it not free service they enjoy...

What are you talking about?

Sorry, man. You don't have a "right" to free medical service, unemployed or not. Government is not there to be your father or mother. You should study the history of democratic government (or any kind of government anyway). Government is not there to take care of you. Nigerian government runs that way in order for politicians not to owe you anything when they get into power since they give you everything for free (or try to).
What do you think happens when people who work see that their labor is collected and distributed to others without fair compensation. Ever wondered why more doctors are running out of this country and going abroad? Because you are not working for the money that government is using, you think it appears miraculously. In those other countries you are talking about, the people work and contribute to the government to do things that individuals cannot or will not do - build roads, public schools, security.
Medicare that you referred to is a US program that was built for the elderly. They were expected to contribute to the system through their working lives and then get a certain minimum health insurance when they retired. Unemployed people could use the system because on average people remained unemployed for a few months (3-6 months) and usually had been contributing to the system or were on their parents health insurance policy. The poor can use it as a government aid not as a right. Big difference. Guess by the way which government program contributes the most to the US's $17 trillion dollar debt. The government should provide medical aid when it can but bro, its not a right.

igbodefender:
#CommercialCattleRanching is the solution to all the violence, and if properly implemented could lead to international dairy/beef corporations.

Imagine Dangote patnering with the herdsmen to build ranches and export cornbeef, and powdered milk. Our Igbo traders would then distribute it round Nigeria, and even to South Africa and Ghana, bringing in bardly needed foreign exchange...

True. But this not a good justification for the law. I think an argument for peace is a better one because whether or not we believe ranching is economically better, no one should be able to change other people's lifestyle by force because they think it is "better for them". Even worse when you are not part of the group whose lifestyle would be changed. But if you argue based on peace, then you are forced to focus on dealing with the problem- the killings (http://creatrs.media/herdsmen-state-control-1-million-illegal-guns-nigeria/).

Blue3k2:
First bold point is true only if legal miners don't replace them. After new miners come the millions are offset by billions. That's especially true if they are processing minerals like gem stones smuggled rough.

Lower mining requirements to what? Is it very tedious to register as small scale miner? Anyway the government working towards that goal of registering more miners.

Thats assuming the presence of the illegal miners somehow reduces the output of the legal miners. Mining is not like oil where you just puncture the pipeline. It is a stationary, long, hard digging job. If the legal miners are not already there it would be more of an expansion problem than an illegal mining issue. So it would still be more cost effective to simply, cheaply license the miners. When so much money is leaking and few companies expanding as fast it is an indicator that it is easier to do it the illegal way than to just go through government. The government always has a way of making things harder.

360command:
Nigeria is just a messed up place.. No good national health insurance scheme in nigeria.. The guy above me said something about private companies shud provide health insurance.. Look, as Nigerians we need a national health insurance scheme whether I work or not.. That is my right. ..

If you are not working, how do they pay for the healthcare? Somebody is going to have to pay for the medication you will get, pay the doctor that went through 10 years of medical school and residency, not to talk of other equipment that were built and transported by people that were actually working. You have a right not to be unreasonably refused healthcare. But you don't have a right to get those things for free. From anybody including government. Every time you get something for free. SOMEONE ELSE is paying for it.

Blue3k2:
Amazing Nigeria can grow the economy by 9 billion dollars by essentially enforcing rule of law. The mineral sector has plenty of potential especially if Nigerians process them and move up value chain. Easy example being iron, and steel.

Actually, they will lose a couple of billion Naira. If they stop the "illegal mining" it means nobody is actually removing the $9 billion worth of stones from the ground. We go back to zero. Plus the country would have spent N19 million per vehicle outside personnel costs just to bring us back to zero. The wiser way would have been to lower the requirements for the mining activities, register most of the miners, and collect tax from them. Then the country actually makes some money.

Princedapace:
Bros, everyone in nigeria is not bad.. But due to bad system of govt, elections are fraudulent..

I av heard this line u used over and over again, the duty of govt is to fix the bad orientation.. That is why they are paid from our sweats..


The electoral system does not give people with credible policies to win elections..

Federal character is evil.. It is satanic to development..

Our local govt structure is bad... It is fraudulent.. We have so many policies and structures that encourage people to be bad when in power..

Just like Obama said, "Africa does not lack human beings to steer the region to development, but the region lacks credible institutions"

Our problem is not that Nigerians are so bad but the instituons are weak. The govt has continually creepled the institutions with bias policies and ethnic sentiments..

Correct. Couldn't agree more. But unfortunately, the duty to correct the bad system of election/govt cannot be left exclusively to the govt. The govt cannot even be leader in this case. Its like asking a thief to guard a bank. Throughout history when a system of government doesn't work, the people have to force it to change. It doesn't have to be violent either but Nigerians need to for once shut down the country until at least we get the NASS to start considering restructuring and other things that will fix the system.

realhumanity:
Don't always believe your own thoughts because it might not be true. I have no problem creating security for our harmless villagers but calling it a secret service and not registering it with the govt is an affront to the authority of the country.

BSS could have easily be registered under Vigilante group of the state and no one will blink about it. But you created it and you were inspecting them like the military? I believe you and I know that he was trying to create tension and that tension made them take that decision.

We had the government in our hands and we just lost it all in the heat of everything. I believe most decision he made at the later days, he did not consult people.

Not justifying what they did but under Nigerian law no entity, including State and Local Governments can create any armed group capable of policing at all. So creating and registering it with the government was not an alternative. Secondly, the NPF stopped issuing gun licenses sometime toward the end of last year. So even personal owners cannot legally own a gun and defend themselves from an attack. The Federal Government is part of the problem (http://creatrs.media/herdsmen-state-control-1-million-illegal-guns-nigeria/).

Get this straight.

General JT Aguiyi Ironsi was the first to restructure Nigeria from regional governments to unitary one through Decree 34 of 1966 immediately the Ibos got power.

The northerners tasted it and saw how sweet it was and wouldn't let go.

That's one of the things we have to deal with. Those past decrees should discarded or voted on in the National Assembly individually. Military rule is over.

Most of this is right except the provinces. Provinces are just a smaller form of federal government. In the middle belt alone, you'd have more than 100 tribes that agree now but may become a different story after they don't have to deal with the North. Smaller tribes are also in the South South and upper North. I have a friend that is Bura, for example, in Borno with a sizeable Christian population. They will not adjust well to Sharia Law. What Nigeria needs is more power concentrated as close to the local level as possible and then states and federal governments can handle what individual 'local' governments cannot. Most laws that deal with day to day events can be handled on the local level and under some rules these local levels can advocate to form a state. This way, states are created by people with a shared identity. States will provide general business, civil, and criminal regulation. States could be able to freely create shared blocs for economic/cultural reasons if they so wished though. The federal government handles international dealings, security that affects multiple states like gun regulation, drugs, highway kidnapping and robbery etc, national defence, general economy etc.

The best way to learn is by building an app. If you look for tutorials that teach you different parts, it would be hard to remember at the end. Get a book like 'Learning Android' by O'reilly. Some can be found free online. They go step by step from basics and then help you build a real app. They will teach you Java and XML as directly related to Android.

You don't need HTML and CSS. You will however need to learn another language like PHP and MySQL to help you store and get user information in the server. So get a book and build an app. That's how I learned this stuff.

The company I work built ShopATM. And this is why it was created. The CBN and partner banks don't make policies for the common man. The network issues, accessibility in smaller cities are still real problems. Lets see how the economy will take it. They will have to roll it back if it doesn't work.

vimi:
I think queuing to get cash via an automated teller machine iis kinda overrated, we should embrace the use of cards for purchase/payments, POS cash back, one can iin same vein visit a business centre n via mobile money transfer this virtual cash to the cashier n get a physical cash equivalent.

#MyCandidOpinion

True. POS has too many network issues. A mobile transfer would be a better way of doing things if the shop is willing to provide the funds. In fact we are testing an app that does the same thing, sorting shops by amounts they will have. This will help the industry while people get familiar with POS and the system becomes reliable.

We are in need of beta testers for a new app.

Have you ever had to go into town to withdraw money? Maybe there was a long line or the machine was not in service. There's another group of people that have the reverse problem: shops. Shops have cash but have to take it to the bank at the end of the day. What if you could just get that cash instead.

Our app does that. It directs users to a shop close to them that has cash and will give. The user transfers the money to shop and gets cash in return.

We have space for about 100 beta testers that can test it risk free with a N500 app balance. The app is at: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oliveapplications.shopatm.

Beta is officially only available in Jos. But if you are interested and in a different city, please let me know. We are identifying other cities and will be in the more popular ones in the coming weeks.

All feedback welcome from Nairalanders.

What is the social network for?

You will not wait in line at the bank. You will just wait in line at the ATM.

TOmmyJidex:
I've try the GTB Sms system severally, then i realize that its not automatic... You have to wait for some Seconds/ Minutes.

* You send the money
* They recieve alert/ confirm the payment
* Your phone number get Queued
* They send you your card via VTU (mostly manually) when it come your turn.

Hope it helps?

Yeah, thanks. But this mean someone has to be sitting there 24-7 to monitor the queue. On the other hand, is it possible to use USSD codes on VTU i.e. transfer the VTU via SMS instead of the provided app.

tunnyl:
Use quickteller.com its not complex. Just mk sure ur ATM card is close by

Thanks for the answer but I'm more interested in how it works on sites like that or apps like Zoto, Jara.

Does anyone have any idea on how websites and applications that allow you recharge your phone through them operate? My research so far shows this may be a little complicated. Thanks.