₦airaland Forum

crash12345:
hahahahaha, you want to take advantage of we Ghanaians and outsmart us.Very funny.i can see you don't realise that Ghana is Nigeria's wildest nightmares in this world since independence especially when you underestimate our size.

Have you forgotten how your forefathers made huge investments in the 50s and 60s in Ghana owning majority of businesses and properties. Do you know what we did to them,we made them amass all their businesses and properties and enacted one law to deport all of them.That law is still around buh we have metaphorically quote it as GIPC laws which forbids foreigners from engaging in any business unless you have a capital of 500,000 to 1 million dollars.The party and government who did that sacking in 1969 is called the UP party and they have now changed their name to the NPP party and are now the current governing party.,Akuffo Addis father was the president then in 1969 whist Busia was the prime minister. Did you hear the president justifying GUTA sacking Nigerians this month at the meet the press buh he keeps laughing with Buhari together. Fear that old lawyer

Currently over 600 Nigerian shops are under lock and key in Circle alone and over 400 in Accra,Opera Square whilst hundreds are locked in Kumasi Suame.Listen to your friend who told you to be careful of Ghanaians cos we watch everything closely in our country. We collapsed over 12 banks since last year and Nigerian banks such as Energy Bank,First Atlantic Bank and others closed down.Glo is in comma in Ghana now buh we have not touched it yet.They were about to be closed for non payment of taxes.

Now let me tell you about this ECO.We will make sure Nigeria gets confused on whether to join or not to whilst we lobby for the Headquarters of the Central Bank to manage the ECO just as we did to win the bid to host the Africa Free Trade Agreement Headquarters so now Ghana is the capital of free Trade in Africa .

We are the second largest economy in ECOWAS in terms of population and GDP with 68 billion dollars GDP.By the time Nigeria realise the benefits of the ECO and wants to join later just as the Africa Free Trade Agreement, by then Ghana had already become the Headquarters of the ECO currency. Why do you you think we indicated in the letter that a Central bank of ECOWAS needs to be built first.

Cote d'Ivoire is our direct cousin and we share the same Akan majority ethnic group and their president is now the ECOWAS president so we will consult him so that we house the Central Bank. France will be our direct ally so as the USA is.Then Ghana takes over as the Regional leader in West Africa.Don't worry Nigeria can survive on it's own buh ECOWAS and Africa should be ours cos we are known as the black star of hope and glory of Africa .Forget our 30 million population.

I respects Ghanaians a lot in terms of intelligence. I hope most Ghanaians don't reason like you.

It seems you just envy and hate Nigeria and Nigerians for no reason whatsoever. Thank god Nigeria and Ghana still cooperate in lots of spheres. You are getting an orgasm because your government locked 1000 shops, what's 1000 shops to Nigeria. Small Ababa alone contains thousands of shops.

You want France as ally as against Nigeria? See how other "French allies" in Africa and other parts of the world are faring. Vietnam fought a bitter war against france and the US, to remove france from Vietnam.

See sensible Nigerians protesting France's destabilisation of West Africa. You people need to join us to push france out of West Africa.


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

Danwakae:
It's not a new issue ...lie to me that u have not heard about the ECO currency before all this notice ... It's part of the AFTCA trade deal and this is just implementation , this ECO currency will ease transactions because of the different currencies of countries involves...Those Nigerians rep are lazy and are Quackery

It's not about whether it's a new issue or not, it's about implementation. All The member states must discuss the terms and conditions of adopting the new currency. UK did not adopt the euro for reasons best known to it. A single block (francophone countries ) can't just sit and decide the terms and conditions of the new currency.

Danwakae:
You are off points


Read those two communique abi letter again

The Ghanaian response to me was silly. How can you take notice of a declaration made by the president of West African Economic and monetary union on a decision taken by 8 (francophone ) countries (in alliance with france), without your input, for such important issue as the country's currency, and you say you welcome the decision. That's stupidity.

Nigeria's response was more mature. It simply means we have to study the declaration to arrive at a decision.

Here is a group of mostly women led by princess Ajibola leading a protest to the French embassy in Abuja, accusing the French of sponsoring Boko Haram, and attempting to colonize Nigeria.


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

I am very proud of our women, they seem more aware of real threats from Europeans than we men, who are more interested in fighting for power and control of resources.

lucane:
We are a country that celebrates mediocrity and illegality.
Where in the world have you traveled to or watched on gotv/dstv and seen such structures/ shanties taking over the environmen, he next thing you bring in is tribalism and nepotism.
Na WA for you o.
Check your self

Like I said earlier you guys are highly ignorant. There are shanties beside many major cities in the world, even in Europe and the US. Most major African cities harbour shanties a few km away. Various governments are always destroying shanties only for them to remove emerge in another sport not so far away.

The first picture is an shanty settlement on an abandoned railway line called La Petite Ceinture in the French capital.

The second picture is a shanty is just a 15 minute drive from LA’s most famous landmark, the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Skid Row is now a stinking eyesore of tent cities and shantytowns housing 4200 people.

Sirjamo:
Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Delta are the top three States with the most unemployed youths in Nigeria because their leaders have been useless, greedy and stingy, but their people would never hold them responsible for anything, they'd rather be insulting Buhari and Fulani Muslims everyday from morning to night.

Why will the Niger delta hold their leaders responsible when Buhari is there? It's like holding yourself responsible for your crimes and sins when the devil is there.

They would say "afterall the money is our oil money" and no one has the right to question how they use it.

sulaak:
What has the NDDC done with all the funds at their disposal, why can't they repair the ports....nonsense.

This is what happens to NDDC funds;

Brigadier General CHARLES Nengite is renowned for his brilliance, one of the finest of them all, but he is presently cooling his heels in detention.

To those who knew him he was a very brilliant officer who was the best overall at the Army War College, USA three years ago. That was then. Between 2016 and 2019 he was seconded to the NDDC, Nigeria’s cesspool of corruption.

According to reports, he allegedly benefited from billions of Naira in contracts while there. Nsima Ekere the Niger Delta Minister as well as Nelson Brambaifa the NDDC boss ensured that he had more than enough. At the end of it all, he had accumulated so much that 11.million Dollars was discovered in his wife’s US account.
https://www.nairaland.com/5604900/serving-general-arrested-us-authorities

If the EFCC should as much as arrest NDDC officials and directors, our "it's our money crew" would crawl out of the woodworks.

PrincewithGod:
And the konji will take you to hell. Do you want to go to hell for just a piece of flesh? Think about it.

Believe me if konji dey for hell, many people go prefer to go there. Many many people prefer konji if the only issue na burning heat. Afterall muslims dey blow themselves up because of promise of unlimited konji.

Lagosfinder:
Bariga, Oworo, Yaba and ajah down to ibeju
That's where they live

You have an idea of what a one room self contain cost in Bariga, Oworo, Yaba and ajah? Now factor in cost of transportation to and fro everyday. Meanwhile the average salary of these low income workers (drivers cooks, gardeners, nannies, etc) are between 20,000 to about N50, 000 per month, depending on if it is domestic job or office work.

Let me add, that each elite's household employ a fairly large number of low income domestic worker, like 2 gate men, 1 house boy/girl, at least 2 drivers (one for oga and one for the rest of the family), then sometimes gardener and cooks.
All these people need to like closely and might have families.

London was able solve the shanty problem by having a very effective transportation system. Most people sleeping on the streets are bums and not workers. Domestic workers can live 100 km away in a village and make it to work within 1 hour. Transportation costs are taken into consideration in the wages.
Besides, being a welfarist state, the government build many low cost housing estates or council flats for poor people, which are given out for almost free. The problem is the waiting period can be very long.

majamajic:
u don't know anything about this area , if u know u won't be saying such , those people that u are talking about they are serving are not happy those places around them , take that twinwater mall for example that's going into lekki from alternative route to come out from pinnacle filling station , that ocean view there , do u see the kind of oddur coming out from the Atlantic ocean there ? they do Cross over to that beach and shit there , do u ever think if any fracas came up , can the police overcome them easily ?

if u live in lekki and need a cleaner or house maid , must u pick someone living in Shanti area ? if u are riding okada and Keke must u live at the place in are serving , mind u Uber and taxify guys do come all the way from mainland to come work in lekki and go back.

the insecurities alone , govt did a good job by pushing them back , they didn't deport them , they pushed them back , it's development once development comes , people do suffer from it , but it's a good thing !!


u can't come and occupy a land that government can make billion from illegally , think if your family own those lands , u won't be happy about it too , if am around lekki I normally go there to wash my car cos it's cheaper ( N500 ) inside lekki is 1500, so I normally use the opportunity to go inside , in a naked mid working day u need see the activities going on there .

The problem with us Africans is that we are very narrow minded and tend to look at issues from only our tunnel vision perspective.

I lived in V/I (bar beach towers) for 20 years and I lived in main Ikoyi for 8 years. So I have wider perspectives from both sides.

Yes, all you said is valid from the perspective of the elite, but what of the perspective of the low income workers or services provider struggling to survive. Basic human instinct is survival and would risk everything and defy all odds to get to where he feels his chances of survival are better. People still cross the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea, despite the chances of surviving the journey being very slim.

I am an architect and in one of my courses called urban planing, it clearly taught me that if you fail to plan for low income housing when planing your urban cities, shanties and squatter settlements will naturally develop. This problem is not unique to Nigeria or Africa. Even France and USA battle with squatter settlements issues. The rich elites often don't like seeing or associating with poor people, except for exploitation. The failure of the ruling elites to make provisions for the poor people always come back and hunt them.

I left V/I about 15 years ago and I hardly go there. I went to visit a friend at Muri Okunola last week and I was appalled by the state of the roads. The traffic was horrendous and the roads were terrible. Muri Okunola itself was impassable.

I am sorry to say, but with all the allocations going to Lagos and the high IGR, the infrastructures is nothing to write about in terms of maintenance. Yes, I know other states even fare worse than Lagos, it still does not exonerate Lagos State governments.

I am one of those that believes the pressure on Lagos is too much, hosting the 2 major sea ports in the country, hosting the most important international airport and now planing on hosting the biggest refinery in Africa and a free trade zone, in such a tiny state? We go soon dey climb on top each other.

Anyway the main problem of Lagos is urban planing. There seem to be non whatsoever by the various governments

majamajic:
I was in that area last week , what u said is what is happening there


u see some park their Keke and okada , only to be using it at night, in the day they will be drinking and playing gambling

though some of them are doing legal jobs. but it's a good move by the government. it will unseat most of them , development affects people , at least them themselves knew a day like this will come .

You people have refused to answer the basic fundamental question;
Where will low income people serving and servicing the high brow V/I, Lekki and Ikoyi axis live?

baby124:
Lol. Low cost housing is a subsidy. You brought up the low cost housing idea. Why are you dancing around like a snake and trying to deny it’s not a welfare initiative? Is it because I said that should be reserved for indigenes? You talk of concepts you are clueless about. When I correct you, you say I am young LMAO. I am sure that in life I have more experience than you in every way. If you do not know that low cost housing is a welfare initiative and should not exist in your capitalist utopia, then you are very young and highly inexperienced. I have an empire to build. I am done here.

You post betrays your naivety and lack of experience. It is only naive people that blame outsiders for their failings, this is what caused xenophobia.

I am an architect and I will school you on all low cost housing projects done by previous Lagos administration.

A good example is the Odogunyan low cost housing project by the Tinubu administration. Tinubu completed the project in 1992 and sold each 3 bedroom flat for N500,000 each. There are about 500 flats. The various bank - Union Bank, Wema Bank and one other bank I can't remember now, bought the flats in bulk and sold to individuals at N2,000,000. The people that bought from the banks sold at between 3 to 4 million.
That is what will happen if Lagos sell at subsidised prices to indigenes. It people that have the money (indigenes or non indigenes ) that will eventually buy it.

Besides, the APC Lagos State government is ultra capitalist. They no send where money dey come from. Thank god dey no send indigene or non indigene. They are ready to toll the air you breath if it's possible. The road that Jakande build, they toll it. The road that marwa build, they expanded it and concessioned it. The bridge they build, they toll it. You think the APC government would subsidise houses?

baby124:
What is Low cost housing if not a welfare initiative? Yes, sell to indigenes... let everybody else pay full price. It’s done abroad too. American Indians have wonderful privileges.

This is why I think you are young and inexperienced. Subsidising houses will defeat the very purpose of building the low cost housing in the first place. Subsidy had failed every single time, because it breeds corruption. The law of demand and supply always triumph.

If the houses are sold at subsidised prices to "omoniles", the omoniles would simply buy the houses and resell to the non indigenes at 3, 4 or even 5 times the price they bought it.

This often happens to lands and properties inherited by indigenes, the children most times sell the inherited properties to non indigenes.

baby124:
Yes. It should be sold to indigenes and their welfare should be priority. I don’t hate anybody, but we are not responsible for everybody. Period.

And how will that work? Refuse selling to non indigenes and foreigners that bring their cash? Is that not tribal and racial discrimination as an official government policy?

What do you mean welfare? Are we in a welfarist or socialist state?

baby124:
Yes. It should be sold to indigenes and their welfare should be priority. I don’t hate anybody, but we are not responsible for everybody. Period.

And who is asking you to be responsible for everybody. The reason people migrate to Lagos is the same reason people migrate to South Africa, US, UK, Canada, etc, to search for better opportunities. It comes with its good and bad, and ugly. Immigration develops an area and bring in much needed skills and capital, it also creates social tensions in that there are cultural clashes and at worst it also imports criminals along with the skills and capital.

It's left for governments to balance these issues and proffer solutions within legal limits,

baby124:
Lol. You think Lagos doesn’t have indigenes who deserve the low cost housing? Yes they are free to move around but Lagos has no obligation to provide anything for them. We receive allocation just like their state governors do. Let them go and ask their state governors for assistance. We Lagosians also need the help of our own governors and we are enough in our state. Lagos is one state of 36 in Nigeria. They can try your state.

At least for once, your state governors can make use of their brains. Instead of living like Kings. Empty and shameless cowards. You call yourself a man though... I am sure you can’t write this stupid epistle yo your state Governor. But when it comes to Lagos everybody has an opinion.

baby124:
You can talk on matters of your state. Oh wait, you are a refugee who has run away from the state where the governor adds nothing but lives like a yahoo boy. It’s Lagosians that are now the mugus of Nigeria. We are tired of everybody. Let people stay at home if they have nothing to add.

You need to be put on a watch list for xenophobia. You hate non indigenes with so much passion.

Are you initiating that if government builds low cost houses, it should be sold or rented only to Lagos indigenes?

adeoba2008:
So, what is the evidence that he is from Lagos.


You people keep running to UK and USA . Can this be done in the USA.

They are occupying that place illegally. Shikena.

You are obviously unexposed. There are shanties and squatter settlements in the USA.

Vanhooijdonk:
I don't support illegality and the traders should have obeyed the laws. That still does not change the fact there is freedom of movement and Nigerians are free to move to any part of the country.

Forget traders. There are street traders in New York. There are beggars on the streets of London. As long as there are freedom of movement, nationals cannot be deported.

baby124:
Lol. You think Lagos doesn’t have indigenes who deserve the low cost housing? Yes they are free to move around but Lagos has no obligation to provide anything for them. We receive allocation just like their state governors do. Let them go and ask their state governors for assistance. We Lagosians also need the help of our own governors and we are enough in our state. Lagos is one state of 36 in Nigeria. They can try your state.

At least for once, your state governors can make use of their brains. Instead of living like Kings. Empty and shameless cowards. You call yourself a man though... I am sure you can’t write this stupid epistle yo your state Governor. But when it comes to Lagos everybody has an opinion.

You talk like a kid, an ignorant one at that. I have been in Lagos for over 40 years. I watched Lagos develop. When I moved to V/I in 1980, it was relatively undeveloped. We had to take independence bridge to get to where law school is now, there was no Falomo bridge. There was a village between ahmadu bello and the ocean then.
I know many indigenous Lagosians, even most of the traditional ruling families. I personally know the Onirus, the Ojoras, the Oyekans and many others.
Lagos was developed by outsiders not indigenes. Indigenes were/are mostly "omoniles" selling lands to others, who in turn build modern buildings. Of course some also went into property development.

payperpost:
they should find their ways, too many criminals and illegal immigrants hiding in those holes and shanties

And you know this because?

I knew many people that lived in bar beach and NPA shanty in the late 2000s. There were hardly any known criminal living there. Most people living in these shanties were low income earners like driver's, domestic staff and office workers. Of course there were the ashawos, but armed robbers and hard criminals? No. For your information, the shanties are not free. The residents pay landlords, sometimes exorbitantly.

baby124:
Are your governors in your state dead? All these people running to Lagos will not let Lagos State do all you have said for their indigenes. We enjoy nothing because others don’t have the balls to demand better from their own governors. Until Nigeria grants Lagos a special status we don’t owe anybody SHIT. In fact they should be deported. Let their governors be held to account.

That is irrelevant. As long as Lagos is a state in Nigeria and the constitution provides for free movement, there is nothing you can do. You cannot deport Nigerians to their states.

How will granting Lagos special status ameliorate the problem? Granting Lagos special status simply means Lagos collecting more from the federation account. This means Lagos will build more infrastructure (theoreticall), which will further attract more migrants from other states. It was the granting of special status to Lagos by the colonialists that caused the problem in the first place. Why put all our eggs in such a tiny state when Nigeria has huge landmass? The main problem of Lagos and Nigerian cities as a whole is poor urban and physical planning, concentrating physical infrastructures in very few cities or areas.

What do you mean "they should be deported" many people came to Lagos before your parents were born, and have contributed immensely to the economy of Lagos. Lagos was developed by non indigenes. The Tinubus, Fasholas, Adeugas, Ibrus, Elumelus, and hundreds of political and financial power brokers in Lagos were originally not from Lagos.
I am certain most of you screaming "they should be deported" are originally not from Lagos.

baby124:
Let their state governors grant those alternatives. What are they running from in their own states? So Lagos is a rubbish dump where everybody comes to set up dustbins

It's not always about running from their own states, it's has more to do with urban planning. Shanties are natural occurrence of high brow urban areas without adequate planning for low income housing. Low income housing should go hand in hand with high income developments. The high income earners needs and hire low income workers like driver's, maids, gardeners, etc. Where do you want them to stay. High income earners need low income services like mechanics, vulcanisers, electricians and convenience shops, where do you want the owners of these services to stay. To make matters worse, the V/I and lekki areas his now a commercial and business district, no provisions whatsoever is made for low income workers..., and you don't expect Shanties to develop?

Each time a shanty is demolished, another one develops to take its place. That has been the history of Shanties along that V/I - lekki axis. From maroko to bar beach, to other Shanties that had been demolished down the years.
The elites do not want to take eye see poor people, but at the same time need their services.

The problem of Lagos State governments over the years is what I called elitist bias. The need poor people only during elections, once elected, the governor only thinks about the elites and carry out elitist programmes.

Hairdo666:
I don't know what you mean. Its not until a guy chooses me that I know my worth. These girls you mentioned were grown ass, mature women who did what they did because they wanted to. They were not trying to be 'men's type'. I don't know what you mean about 'pretenders' and choristers giving sex for 'free'. They were supposed to collect money before? A woman's value isn't determined by you or any other man. I said what I said, not trying to sound like a 'non pretender' because its what men like, I said it because I wanted to. Your comment isn't a complement. People are different, if she is a 'virgin Mary', it's okay. If she is a 'IndecentStar'... Still okay

We are saying the same thing, that people are different and a free to live their lives whichever way they deem it fit, as long as they are not breaking the law.
If you believe in chastity before marriage, fine but that doesn't make you better that someone that believes in sex before marriage.

We also agree that the value of a woman is not whether she is a virgin or not, or have sex (Pre-marital or otherwise ), woman have far more important attributes besides their sexuality.

I was in the game for long, and I encountered lots of women who sees sex as a bargaining chip; whether it's straight prostitution or disguised one in the form of material demands before sex. Some would even demand for phones, jewelries, expensive dinings and other things before even agreeing to a relationship. I was praising you that you don't seem to have that entitlement mentality.

Hairdo666:
The only thing that makes sense here is the adultery part. The rest na okoto meow. But op is religious. Do you sha
Religion is like a prison, you can't give me konji and tell me not to have sex or touch myself. . Perhaps we should have been programmed to only have sexual urges when officially married. Una wan punish person. Missed me with that shit.

Na your type i like, no pretense and no bullshitting. You are better than all those hypocritical "holy Virgin Mary" looking sisters who freely dashes choir master, senior pastor and fellow brothers, but preaches "no sex before marriage".

They don't know we guys have caught up with their games. Guys marry non pretenders over "holier than thou" looking bible thumping sisters.

For example, the only girls that have gotten married through the Big Brother Naija house are the two ladies that got konjirized on live TV. Even though people insulted and stigmatised the girls, they still got marriage proposals from the guys. Bam Bam is already married to Teddy A, despite toilet scene and Gedoni has proposed to Kaffy, despite kaffy almost killing him with punany. This confirms guys hate pretenders, and appreciates girls that truly loves them without conditionalities like IMF.

luminouzzzzzz:
This got me laughing out loud.

Kids are way more exposed sexually than out time.

Not really. What is more exposed now is the information itself and not the act. Kids were exploring and experimenting then also, but no one knew of it.

Even in Jesus's time it was very difficult to get a 16 year old Virgin girl, they would have been married off by age 15. The parents give them out as soon as they attain puberty.

It's in these modern times that girls are expected to remain Virgin into her late 20s after finishing school and getting married.

helinues:
Abi .. All the best

Oh please, you two get a room and stop disturbing us with your serenades.

czarina:
Ok, sorry to the dogs I offended.

Apology accepted on behalf of all dogs.

czarina:
Where did I even remotely suggest that you couldn't be a dog if you wanted to?

When you made this quote "We no be dogs, even dogs won't die if they abstain"

How you know say "we no be dogs"? Other people's sexuality is not your business.

czarina:
As konji take kill everyone that truly abstained till it was appropriate, ba?

P.s

While I'm indifferent to opinions that will pop up on the topic, we should just stop behaving as if people would fall and die without sex or from konji.

People have abstained, it's not impossible. We no be dogs, even dogs won't die if they abstain.

Which one be your own? Is it your konji? If you want to abstain, abstain. Those that want to be dogs, it's their perogative. Dem no come borrow your toto.

rhames:
In my own case, I will unleash hell as soon as I appreciate the problem. No time to waste.

No you have to be strategic and not be impatient. As someone suggested, he should wait till the end of the session. Carrying out disruptive activities in the middle of the session would affect the school.
He should cope as much as he could till the end of the session around July next year. He can then sack everyone and asked interstate staff to reapply. He will have 2 months to put things in order.

EMILO2STAY:
then you are still a novice in star gazing if you don't know that the moon rotates like a wheel or the moon is sometimes translucent.

Moon rotate like a wheel? You mean the Tycho Crater and other prominent craters on the moon are constantly changing positions?

You mean to tell me that the moon is made of translucent material? Are you saying the moon is made of thin glass plate, ceramics or wax paper?

As for the historical records of the sun and moon seen in the sky during an eclipse, the records are there even the encyclopedia of astronomy has it on record. If you don't k owe any of this then you must be a novice.

And encyclopedia of astronomy said they based their records on flat earth model?

Before, I used to think you were simply ignorant, now I feel you have some fundamental mental issues.

Someone needs to get this guy off the streets before he runs completely mad.

rhames:
Boss. Understand that the school you are running is a business not a charity and demand full control in writing from your mum before carrying out changes.

Do not care if the staff are your family members or your parents friends or whatever. If you must carry our changes, do it with full authority and not half measures. My advice to you is sack everyone you inherited and employ your own loyalists. Otherwise, you will face problems especially litigation from some of them and they will ruin your reputation.

You have to be Machiavellian when you are in business. Take action on anything immediately.

I have gone through the same issue you just mentioned; in this case, it's an inheritance leftover by my dad. As the eldest, the natural position of authority fell on my person and that did not go down well with my siblings and some tenants. One told me I cannot sack him from his shop and I exerted my God given authority by court eviction orders after a litigation that spanned six months, I ended up evicting two of them only to find out that the entire tenants numbering ten be have ganged up against my authority. Ever since I have waited for everyone to finish up his rent before evicting them.

There was a hotel where the staff wielded much power than the owner somewhere here. They took advantage of his old age to carry out nefarious activities.

When his son took over, he announced changes that those who had stayed with his organization for ten years should be retired, which angered the staff. It led to death threats to the young man. But unfortunately for the staff, the young man had made similar changes while working with a hotel abroad and knew the repercussions. He reported the death threats to the security agencies and stormed the building at 4.30 am the following morning with the agents when the night shift was about closing. He had made arrangements that guests should be transferred to a nearby hotel to enable him carry out those changes. At 7.am, he did a roll call and as each one's name was mentioned, a cheque of his entitlements was given and the staff escorted outside the premises.

These are example of right and authority. Time waits for no one and act rightly. if I were you I would use the next summer holidays to execute any plans for changes. If you fail to make these changes, you will regret it.

C'est la meme chose.

These are golden information that cannot be taught in any business school.

As the boss you have to assert your authority. There is what is called chain of authority and it stops at your table.