₦airaland Forum

lawalosky:
This J.B can be so selfish and naive at times,
You are constructing a federal government project in my fatherland.. And you don't want my people to benefit out of it, what nonsense.

This false sense of entitlement the the reason development will be stalled in the Niger delta. If host community wants to benefit from project in your fatherland, they should have negotiated with the Federal government and the contractor before the commencement of the project. It is wrong to allow the contractor mobilise to site only for the youths to threaten them, it's shear blackmail.

I was involved in a project to build a maternity clinic in efurope very close to Oghara. The youths mobilised to site with cutlasses giving us conditions before we are allowed to commence work. They insist we pay "deve" levy and hire their boys. I paid deve levy of N150,000, but I insisted on using the workers I brought with me.The greatest mistake anyone would make in executing a contract in the Niger delta is hiring local workers, especially labourers and bricklayers. They would work lackadaisically and expect higher wages.

This is a project the people has been clamouring for over 40 years. If the contractor should leave site and the project abandoned, the same people will blame the government for marginalising the region.

basilico:
He had Obamas back. the first black black President who ran a scandal free presidency that did not strong arm the IRS, give Iranians money to arm terrorists, Benghazi scandal,
spy on Trump,

You people just pull allegations from your asses. Where is the evidence that Obama spied on Trump. This issue had been over flogged by Trump and up till date, no evidence of spying on Trump had ever been uncovered.

The Iran money was Irans money seized after the 1979 revolution and overthrow of the Shah. It was not US money.

The Bengazi issue was a Bleep up. Yes it happens.

Obamas approach to Iran is far better than Trump's approach. Obama stopped or at least delayed Irans nuclear progress. Obama was trying to bring Iran back into the international community where they can be monitored and controlled. Obama was trying to help the Iranian economy get on its feet, so they would be working and not have time to be causing trouble all over. An angry poor country or man is very dangerous to live with.
Now we are virtually at the brink of a war in the middle east. Iran has nothing more to lose and so are going for broke. You think the US economy will not suffer if they engage in an all out war in the middle east? The US as a history of terrible wars, that drained the economy and spirit, ie Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Trump wants to add Iran.

Adiwana:
And you think oil sanctions will be meaningless to Nigeria of today??Drop in oil prices plunged this country into recession that we are barely out of.Imagine what a hefty sanction will do to us.Not something we want at this time

In the real world, sanctions don't work. People devise ways to go around it. Iraq and Syria under ISIS were selling hundreds of thousands of barrels a day, under tight embargo by the west. They simply ferried the crude by huge lines of trailers through Turkey.
It may surprise you that Nigeria sells more crude illegally through the high seas than even officially.

An oil embargo against Nigeria can never be effective.

Our only saving grace might be China who we all know maybe more terrible than the West. It's a lose lose situation.

How will it be a lose lose situation? Are you saying China will not pay for the crude it takes from Nigeria? The only problem will be currency. Nigeria can then adopt the yen as our reserve currency as earlier proposed by Buhari.

The problem is a lackluster approach of the govt to the matter thinking that this is like a local issue which they do anyhow and get away with it and has nothing to do with being giant of Africa

What were they waiting for to commence both external and internal investigations before the judgment was passed?? Even if they were not going to pay the agreed sum the previous govt signed, immediate and effective investigations could've put us in the forefront of things and would've had all this in our control.

Because it's a stupid issue. The government would never have imagined that our external reserves kept with US banks could be at risk, because of a stupid piece of paper.

We still keep asking, why did the previous administration not pay before it handed over. No new government will agree to pay a sum you willingly negotiated. If the government was not mischievous, it could have insisted P&ID to wait to negotiate with the incoming government.

basilico:
I also read the whole transcript and the issue about Hunter Biden corruption is a by the way. Yet fake news spew it as a direct request.
@Applebailley did Joe Biden do anything wrong as VP ordering the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden his son to be fired and withholding american aid to Ukraine
for daring to investigate Burisma holdings where Hunter Biden sat on the board with zero knowledge about oil and drawing a 83k dollar per month salary for doing nuthin?Apart from being the son of the VP who was handling Ukraine issues under Obama.

Does an American vice president have the powers to withhold aid to a foreign country? I thought that power lies with the president.

dalongjnr:
See foolish response.
I trow stone at someone and the person ignored me. Then my friend did same and was caught, he began to say that his friend did same,why wasn't he caught and beaten as well.
Frank vs pyo is now pyo vs GEJ. See noise!(any noise can't be seen but ....heard.

See another man taking chloroquine for another man's malaria. Goodluck Jonathan and Saraki are jejely enjoying their retirement and huge pensions, and one Timi Frank is dragging them into an issue wey no concern them.
Watin him want saraki and Jonathan to do now, Sue Osinbanjo?
Is that the defence he will provide in court, when told to prove his allegations? Osinbanjo made allegations against Saraki and Jonathan, and they did not sue, so Osinbanjo has no right to sue him on making spurious allegations also.

Dongreat:
Has Osinbajo waive his immunity to be investigated?
Grown ass men will just come online these days to type bulls for likes and shares without adequate knowledge of laws in Nigeria.

Do you know that no ex president in Nigeria can be summoned for petty cases like this except one of crime against humanity such as genocide and worse?

Metuh case was collect money to execute a job and if he have details of the jobs executed then no need calling names or bitching/snitching like Tekashi69ine. Just show proof of job executed to the court and how the money was spent to justify such amount. It’s Metuh cross to carry and Jonathan can never be summoned.

And as for your all saint Osinbajo, in a civilized society he would have resigned then submit himself honorably to the ICPC and EFCC for investigation. If found clean then every accusers will get their ass sue and he reinstated but you know he will never resign cos he’s after all a BLOODY NIGERIAN and BLOODY NIGERIANS don’t resign no matter what, whether they are clean or dirty.

So all it takes to get a public officer to resign is to make spurious allegations. If it works that way, then no public officers would remain in office for 24 hours. Trump would have resigned the day he was sworn into office. Even in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has a pending corruption case hanging on his neck. He did not resign, in fact he contested again during the last elections and can still be sworn in as prime minister.

Why did you not preach this your new gospel during the Jonathan administration. Diezani Allison and Stella Oduah were actually indicted by the senate for corruption, but you guys never asked them to resign, instead you vehemently defended her saying "they are our sisters".
Abba Moro scammed and killed job seekers in a scam immigration recruitment exercise. You guys defended him, you never asked him to resign.
Someone is making a completely baseless accusation than Osinbanjo collected 90 b from FIRS and without any supporting proof, you are screaming resign.

MelesZenawi:
We have to pay.

You have refused to answer, pay for what?

Adiwana:
Let UK come and arrest Nigeria?? Ever head about something called sanctions?? Do you know the effect of such if imposed on our economy? How are you going to fight back if such is placed on our oil??.By seizing foreign assests??lol

Some of you just come online to brag and sound intelligent on things you have little knowledge of

Sanction is not death sentence. Abacha proved sanctions are meaningless if we have a determined government. Abacha was sanctioned by all the major powers, Nigeria did not collapse. Gaddafi withstood sanction by the west for over a decade, Libya stood and thrived. Even Iran was sanctioned with an oil embago for close to a decade and they managed to survive.

Our over reliance on the west and foreigners in general is our greatest problem. Imagine the insults of a mere one man or (is it two man) business giving a whole giant of Africa problems. I don't thing this can happen to any other country on earth.

MelesZenawi:
Buhari should just pay this guys their money...


or Nigeria can be paying installmentally distributed within a period of 3 years....maybe with 2% Interest...


FG should pay up please.

Their money, How?
Did we borrow money from them? Did they sell us anything we are owing them for?
I don't understand how you expect us to pay $9 billion, simply because a piece of paper was signed by treasonous government officials.

contigiency:
He will simply fail woefully.

Not exactly. He will get 97% votes in the east. They love him even more than his Ijaw Kinsmen. They are yet to get over his loss.

Tomide007:
But Timi ran to Dubai now, he should come to naija.

Come ke. Someone that is looking for excuse to apply for asylum somewhere in Europe. His strategy is simple, stir up trouble, then when he is sued to court, he will claim persecution, that his life is in danger. He will also allege that the courts are bias in favour of government.
He now applies for asylum and has leverage to stay there until the asylum application has been heard, which might take years.

kelvinginzie:
Jonathan stole 20 billion dollars.
You believe this right?

No, thats a lie, Okonjo Iweala said it was 10 billion, while KPMG audit report said only $1.48 billion was unremitted into the Federation account by NNPC.

stanech:
Buhari and Trump? This must be a joke. Comparing the dead to the living

Tell me what Buhari has done that Trump has not done or attempted.
Both are hostile to criticism and to opposition.
Both have their fanatical fan base and fanatical haters.
Both are highly ignorant of world affairs.
Both are trying to suppress and take control of the courts.
Both make gaffes in public in front of international media.
Both have questionable educational qualifications.

The only difference is that US institutions has been able to curtail Trump to an extent, while the weak Nigerian institutions have not been able to curtail Buhari

Lilypink:
Tacha has body odour-na dem
She's dumb-na dem
She's unintelligent-na dem
She's manerless-na dem
She is mad-na dem
She's a cheap olosho-na dem
She sucks at arena games-na den
She's proud and arrogant-na dem
She's dirty and doesn't bath at night-na dem
She stinks-na dem
She's bitter-na dem
She's a bitch-na dem
Inspite of all the hatred,we stan!
She cant spell DAUGHTER-oh please!
Try another one!
We love Tacha and nothing can change that!!!!!!
Tacha for the mullah!

And you will blame people that will vote a person without school certificate over a PHD holder?
If you can vote a Tacha over a jacky or khaffi, why have you guys been criticising those that voted Buhari over Jonathan?

A people deserve the leaders they get.

happney65:
Yeah I know bro,Just saying it would be that worse to replace Trump with a socialist..Its like jumping from Frypan to Fire..Like replacing Jonathan with Buhari...

What's the difference between Trump and Buhari?

obixcel:
You should have asked about what Hillary was hiding when she deleted tens of thousands of her emails after a supeona from the United State's Congress. Hypocrite!

What has Hillary emails got to do with Trump's taxes? Is it Hillary's emails that is preventing Trump from releasing his tax returns? Hillary's emails was investigated by FBI (twice) and congress and they concluded that no criminal offence was committed. Since you are comparing Hillary's email to Trump's taxes, why not suggest Congress and FBI investigate Trump's taxes?

After 6 years trump and his goons are still obsessed with Hillary's emails, and it is the answer to all Trump's failings.

coluka:
1. Trump did not do anything treasonous in nature

2. He didn't say open legal proceedings against Biden, he said investigate!!

Legal proceedings for what charges? Legal proceedings in Ukraine or the US? You guys are dumber than Trump himself.

Let's assume the investigation leads to an unmasking of criminal activities by biden and his son, the Ukrainians can pass the results of the investigation to the US justice department to prosecute. Even if the Ukrainians decide to go ahead and prosecute, it's their right to do so, the crime was committed in their territory and they can chose to prosecute if they wish.

That's the perogative of the Ukrainians to investigate criminal activities committed on their soil, they don't need a US president to choose for them who to investigate.

obixcel:
Why are liberals acting like the President of the United States can't talk or communicate with a foreign leader? Hm

Communicate with a foreign leader to help dig up dirt on his political opponents and their families?

gidgiddy:
Remarkable that you understand the principle above but forget about it when some people decide to be Biafrans. Who is fooling who?


When a person has an Igbo surname, speaks Igbo as his ancestral language and practices Igbo culture, that person is Igbo. It doesnt matter if the person goes on to call themselves Ika, Wawa, Nsukka, Izzi, ANIOMA or whatever. As long as they meet those three conditions, they are Igbo.

It does matter. You guys need to learn that identify is a very personal thing, and it amounts to colonialisation force your identity on others. Throughout history wars had been fought due to others imposing their identity on others ie Greeks, Romans, Gauls, Saxons, Prussians, etc.
If the Nsukkas say they are not igbos, then someone from Aba cannot tell him to shut up, that he has an identity crisis.
It takes more than language and culture to bring different people under the same identity.
The Jews and Arabs are from the same canaanite stock with the same language, culture and religion, but after some time they diverged into different identities, language and culture.

gidgiddy:
I'm an Anambra man who watches Ika tv all the time. What they speak in Kwale is Igbo

So?
What they speak in Austria is German, does that mean they are Germans?
A people define who they are or who they want to be called, you can't force your own identity on a people, that's called colonialisation.

Racoon:
Osinbajo is done and dusted.Cabal to take over.

You think removing a vice president is that easy? Ask Obasanjo. Under Obasanjo, PDP even had overwhelming majority in the national assembly.

Any attempt to remove Osinbanjo would completely destroy APC as a political party. It can not even succeed as APC does not have two thirds majority in the national assembly, coupled with the fact that most South West members would not vote against Osinbanjo.

It is ridiculous to speculate Pastor Tunde Bakare taking over from Osinbanjo. There is no way the President and the Vice president would come from the same party (CPC) in the APC collation.

This sounds more like PDP propaganda towards the 2023 elections.

maasoap:
As long as the betting companies owners remain in business over the years, it is still the society that bears the brunt. Simple as ABC

Betting companies in England had remained in business for centuries and the society has not crashed. What makes Nigeria a special case is greed, poverty and ignorance. It's only in Nigeria that someone with N100 wants to win N10 million. Accumulation bets are not so popular in other climes, but is the norm in Nigeria.

What is required is more effective regulation by government, but we know in Nigeria, the regulators usually conspire with those they are supposed to be regulating to rip off the masses, like NERC, CBN, NCC, etc.

Another issue wrong with the betting industry is the adverts. The adverts are very misleading and tend to lure the young and inexperienced into addictive gambling. Obviously the NBC is not doing their jobs.


What is required is more effective regulation.

Insectkiller:
Ahahhaha!!

Infact they should scrap betting in Naija.

How? When there are tons of foreign based betting companies, ie, betfair, bet365, IXBET, Ladbroke, etc. You will need to scrap the Internet also.

Do you know how much state governments rake from betting companies, especially bet9ja in the form of taxes? Ordinary signage tax runs into tens if not hundreds of millions.
We are not even talking millions of jobs created by the betting companies.

Hungryboy12:
Bet9ja have done more harm than good

What of pastors? Same format. Pay tithes and offerings and expect (hope) for a thousand fold (1000 odds) increase or blessing.

@OP
You are being naive. Look at the sequence of events- you were employed; you were owed several months salary, you tendered your resignation letter, you were told verbally to resume work and paid your backlog of salaries less 16%.

As things stand, you are just hanging. Having tendered your resignation letter, you are not officially a staff of the company. If the company goes ahead and owes you 6 months salary, you have no legal leg to stand on. You have no rights whatsoever in that company.

You need to write the human resource department to clarify your status with the company and demand another employment letter stating your new salary (apart from other conditions of service ). If they don't respond within a few days, you are better off using your time to search for a new job.

Neddstark:
Both sides are wrong. She should be paid for the time worked no matter what.
But from the scenario that they had to get security to get her out means the complainant must have been lousy making things worse for her. I have had a scenario like this, unfortunately it was with a male boss who the lousy staff even went the extent of claiming she was sexually harassed after she got fired. The lady was shouting fraudsters everywhere. Our boss then swore he was not going to give her a dime for the rest of the month she worked, got the police involved and that was it. Some people really have bad attitudes. As in you go the extra mile to disuade instagram followers to unfollow a company? This sounds more like bitterness than she wants to actually get her salary paid. She really needs someone to advice her. If na me she do this thing to, she will know the meaning of the word "Libel" and get to know that people go to jail for it.
As for the boss, she no try. Social media specialist that cannot communicate in good english should not spend a week in the company. Always test competency of your staff. Also, have a manager. Never fire staff directly, use your managers to do the dirty job. State your conditions of salary loud and clear. Goodnight abeg.

Nigerians are generally poor managers, especially high management levels. I agree with you that the management structure of the company is very poor. The MD should not be relating directly with ordinary workers. There should be a manager, or managers that deals with day to day administration of the company. The MD's job is only to set aims and objectives of the company, set targets for the departments or the company, look at the reports and make final decisions.
The way this company is run is the reason they are always having problem with staffs. Tying basic salaries to targets would not motivate any worker. Most new workers would need some time to settle into the job. Since they are coming from a position of joblessness and have many outstanding financial issues, the first few salaries is very critical to their motivation.

Since the MD has been shown to be very poor at hiring competent workers, she better spend some money and outsource hiring of staff to human resource consultants. Imagine a new company less than a few months hiring and firing up 5 different workers.

Busola2:
Glory A of school of Aviation in Ikoyi was sent by Mr.Albert and employed by My boss as an IT marketer plus other duties because My boss said she wanted buyers to come to her company,which Glory did not do at all.Her employment letter has been attached.She told the owner that she could bring over 10,000 buyers which were part of her followers to market a new travels and tours.The M.D insisted Glory should take N60,000 but Glory insisted she has a wide social media affluence and N80,000 was the best salary she wanted.Our M.D gave Glory a target of bring 15 ticket buyers,5 tourists and one relocation clients(Our M.D gave us all the targets before we were employed).
Glory insisted the M.D must buy her a brand new phone because she needed it for social media,our M.D bought it!Glory kept collecting money for recharge cards,facebook adverts and many more from our M.D.
Glory could not bring a single buyer to flight jara after all her promises.Our M.D had told us all that our salary is tied to only when targets are met plust she will give 2% commission on every sale.
All the workers that could not meet their targets left without asking for money they did not bring.Especially her PA/marketer ,the only walk in employee who our M.D felt sorry for when she came because she saw"Marketing Executives needed"on company glass door.
When My M.Ds former PA left because she could not meet her target(all our MD's workers are from the Aviation School)she decided to try the walk in worker,who knew NOTHING about travels and tours.She too could not deliver and left willingly.Glory who could not meet her targets contacted the PA that they should fight for their money calling the owner names(while still working with us through whatsapp).
Glory could not meet her over 10,000 buyers she promised ,Glory was told by our M.D she found another IT lady called Bisola,who promised to assist Glory get buyers plus another new lady as PA to swop positions before she left,Glory instigated PA who left for fear of competition and returning to her door to door marketing she came for plus social media.
Glory yesterday,walked up to My M.D showing her followers.Our boss said followers are not buyers Glory promised.
Glory said she will leave end of month threatening our boss who feared for her life called security.Our boss collected company cell phone Glory told her to buy for social media while Glory was shouting on her.
Glory lied she wanted to remove her sim card(she put her personal sim on company property).She took the phone and angrily deleted company facebook account she runs.
When Glory got home,she started sending letters through flightjara instagram that our boss is a scammer scamming customers,a month old business. Glory has brought no single customer.
She then started blocking all the followers she got because our M.D sent messages on instagram saying Glory was no longer with flightjara.
My boss told her web developer to change company passwords but it was too late.Glory had gone viral calling an innocent lady a scammer.She later changed it that she not only scams people but scams her workers salaries.I am Busola,Glory's coworker still with flightjara.
I am a witness.My boss told us everything before we were employed that we have targets attached to our salary.My boss showed us today whatsapp messages from company phone.Glory was using company wifi to watch netflix plus insulting her daily to her husband instead of getting online buyers.
Glory refused to market the independence day tour she told my boss to do which the website guy made.Glory an IT marketer cannot construct proper English,our M.D edits all the social media posts by Glory.
Glory told PA about her plans to deal with our M.D.,where PA said My boss' doom is near...because she PA was instigated by Glory.
My boss had to defend herself yesterday when Glory wanted to attack her for money she did not earn, even by sms because Glory has promised to use social media to deal with our boss ,our boss hardly discloses her name to anybody that comes here,even us.
Glory ran to social media because our boss threatened to sue her for defamation of character and wrote Glory's husband and called her guarantors to call Glory to order yesterday which included her aunty.
Glorys husband wrote on her whatsapp that Glory was complaining about her 2 previous employers on whatsapp during work.Glory is confident because of social media and her husband works in punch newspapers.
My boss is not owing Glory any salary because Glory got the job being aware of a target but started causing trouble because she could not meet her target.
Glory told our boss yesterday she did not read her employment letter when our boss gave her the letter 3 weeks ago when she was employed, but why wait until 3 weeks when some workers were leaving for non performance by themselves?

Now that I have read the other side of the story, I have better understanding of the issues at stake. That the said Glory is an incompetent social media marketer/influencer is very obvious. Her written English and communication skills are highly suspect, but she was hired by your boss. The fact that she was given employment letter by your boss shows your boss was satisfied with her "skills" and qualifications. After hiring her, she must be paid for each day she came to work. The excuse that her salary is tied to a target is untenable and even illegal.
I have my own staff. I also give them bonus or commissions based on targets, but they must also have a specified salary. I make the salary relatively low and the bonus high. That way I don't pay outrageous salary for little output. It helps motivate staff so much so that sometimes they offer to come on Sundays.

Your boss should have simply fired her and pay her for the days she worked (or came to the office), after collecting all company property and social media accounts/password. In business and especially social media, reputation is everything. The damage caused by this small scandal will be far more expensive than the chicken change that your boss should have paid to let her carry her wahala away.

BigDick70inch:
With this..i can say u ain't a SMART LADY oo..
Now u ruined everything..
Nah which kind Play be dat ehn??
Even..with u still havin the evidence..is still gon be 50:50..
Just chill Oo and relax Oo..
In fact..i see no reason why you should take it up anymore..
[LOST YO WEAPON ALREADY WHICH IS THE "EVIDENCE" ..IF CARE ISNT TAKEN U MIGHT EVEN GET PUNISHED Oo..
As it stands now"U R JUST A TOOTHLESS BULLDOG/FIGHTING A LOST BATTLE"..
NEXT TIME BE SUPER SMART MADAM!!!!!!!!

I didn't see where she wrote that she lost her employment letter. The only evidence she needs is her employment letter stating her duties and condition of employment. If the letter did not state how many instagram, Facebook, Twitter followers she must get, then it could not be used to hold up her wages.
If she was terminated without a valid reason and was not paid for the job she did, where is the defamation?
Are you insinuating that labour laws do not exist in Nigeria, and that workers have absolutely no rights?

justbusy:
You call the taxi driver illiterate! What do you call a man who can read in Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa; but can't read in English language? An illiterate person? Illiteracy is the inability to read or write! The dictionary never specified the language one must be versed in before being addressed as "literate." That taxi driver may be literate in the local language!

We are taking in the context of the PDP and IPOB's narrative that Buhari is an illiterate because he cannot speak good English (Due to his heavy Hausa intonation). Buhari most certainly can read and write Hausa. Even most people shouting "Buhari is an illiterate" is because they quarrel with his oral English, and not because he can read and write Hausa.

justbusy:
What sort of stupid question is that? Have you ever asked your stupid president why he speaks bad English?

Do you speak better English than Buhari? People that are obsessed with other people's English are usually very poor at English themselves. They tend to deflect from their own frailties by deflecting attention to others. I once met an illiterate taxi driver telling me that Buhari has no certificate and can't speak English. I just laughed.

moorevic:
Its a simple stuff, since your buyer couldn't pay for your product, then you have all the right to recall your services. Deactivate that website.

What happens to the product and services that had already been supplied and consumed?

Deactivating the website would not pay for her time, money and efforts she sold to the company.