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idid:
I have lived in Rwanda for months and Ghana for a while too, I have been to Europe and the Americas. I have lived there, Have you?

I know that Rwanda has a per capita income of 800 usd and Nigeria has about double of that, but go check it out yourself, their money has more value in terms of buying power and quality of life.

In Kigali and other cities around, it is cleaner, more secure, and there is round the clock electricity. But the point is that the little that civil servants get is quite enough for them. In Nigeria, no adult with a family can live under 18,000 or 30,000.

So if you consider their PPP (purchasing power parity) with Nigeria, 200 Rwanda franc in Kigali will buy more than it can buy in Nigeria. And there is less pressure on civil servants, unlike in Nigeria.

In Rwanda, they don't have any big income earner as we have in Nigeria such as oil, which is where our per capital of 1,800 USD derives mainly. But they do have a thriving technology, hospitality, education and services sector.

Most importantly, they are not the poverty capital of the World, and the number of impoverished people there, although is high is nothing compared to Nigeria.

I have been to the UK and the US, so I have an idea of how things work in the West. Have not been to other African countries except Benin though, so I only gleam, my info from what I read and friends who travels to these countries.

You still don't get what I am saying. The defining index between Nigeria and Rwanda us population. Nigeria has a population of about 200 million, Rwanda has 13 million. Obviously we will have more poor people than Rwanda. Also we will have more rich people than Rwanda, we will have more mad people than Rwanda.

The most important factor that affect the value of our currency and thus the purchasing power of our currency is our reliance on foreign goods. We eat imported food, wear imported fabrics and clothes, depending on imported fuel to move around and drive our industries, etc. In fact we have a chronic a addiction to imported items. This means the value of our currency will keep going down.

Although I must admit that Nigerians lack management sense and skills, as we are unable to manage our environments or surroundings. It still boils down to population. Kigali has a population of about 1 million. FESTAC alone in lagos has a population more than that. So naturally it would be easier to manage Kigali than lagos. The civil service population of Rwanda would not even be up to the staff strength of some companies like PZ or Dangote.

PetroDollax:
You are talking rubbish! Have you checked the UN Human Development Index? What is life expectancy, compared with a Ghana? How many hours of electricity do you enjoy? How many Nigerians are gainfully employed? Are you aware Nigeria has more poor people than anywhere else in the world? These are facts

Nigeria has more poor people in the world mainly due to our ballooning population (although I doubt we have more poor people than india). Ghana has a population of about 28 million. That is just a little over the population of Lagos. Nigeria has a population of 200 million. Even if 12% of Nigerians are poor, that's more than the total population of Ghana.

How many cities in Ghana has electricity. Electricity is mainly restricted to the urban areas, rural areas still live like precolonial times. Poverty in Northern Ghana is worse that that of Nigeria.

Read this report to get an insight of poverty in rural northern Ghana;

Main source of lighting

About 77.0 per cent of households use the kerosene lamp as source of lighting, while 22.0 per cent use electricity. At the district level, access to electricity as source of lighting, varies from 6.9 per cent in Saboba-Chereponi to 58.5 per cent in Tamale.
https://www.modernghana.com/ghanahome/regions/northern.asp?menu_id2=14

Yungbliss:
Tell me the section of the constitution....atleast we are educated

Chapter 1 section 5 (1) of the 1999 constitution says;

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the executive powers of the Federation:
(a) shall be vested in the President and may subject as aforesaid and to the provisions of any law made by the National Assembly, be exercised by him either directly or through the Vice-President and Ministers of the Government of the Federation or officers in the public service of the Federation; and

Meaning all executive power resides in the president and the president might decide to delegate duties to the Vice-President, Ministers of the Government of the Federation or any other officers in the public service of the Federation.

The vice president has no powers, except those given by the president.

Read this article to get the legal perspective of this chapter of the constitution.
https://dnllegalandstyle.com/2017/legal-appraisal-powers-duties-nigerias-vice-president/

idid:
How come the quality of life in Rwanda, Ghana and other countries in Africa are better. They don't even have oil in those places. Going by your logic, they should be poorer, dirtier and impoverished than Nigeria.

Quality of life in Rwanda, Ghana are better than Nigeria? I hope you are not smoking the weed Sowore is hoping to export.
Rwanda with a GDP of less than $10bullion and Ghana with GDP of less than $50 billion is better than Nigeria, the biggest economy in Africa with a GDP of over $1.1 trillion?
These places in real terms are poorer, dirtier and more impoverished than Nigeria. The problem is Nigerian population, the high number of urban areas and the high taste of Nigerians. Most of those countries have less than 10 highly urban cities. Nigeria has 10 urban areas in every state. Rwanda simply shows you Kigali and gbam, you feel the whole of Rwanda is living in wealth. Same with Ghana, they showcase Accra and Kumasi and gbam Ghana is neat, rich and beautiful. Go to the villages where majority of the people live to see real poverty.

I'm not sure of the figure but minimum wage in Rawnda, Botswana and other African countries are not as bad as 18k which we have struggled to pay for ages.

What is the total civil servant population of Ghana and Rwanda? I am sure it is not up to the civil servant population of small Bayelsa or delta state. If you ask Bayelsa to pay N100k, then the FG must be ready to perpetually pay bail out funds to enable it pay salaries (assuming the FG can pay it's own).
At N18,000 states require federal bail outs to pay salaries, at N100k, they would need IMF loan to pay salaries

Okeytus:
when will the southern leaders have their own meeting in Aso rock, or are they not part of the Government?

Aso Rock is the official resident and office of the president, why should Osibanjo hold his own meetings at the president's office? He has his own office.

baliyubla:
The ban on the slave osinbande from attending security briefings didn’t start today. The midget slave has not attended even 1 for four years. Useless accursed slave.

Ignorance is indeed a disease. A vice president has no role at all at security briefings, except invited specifically by the president.

diablos:
Mumu afonja. With all his educational qualifications, he allowed himself to be sparingly used by a lifeless certificate forger. Only in Nigeria that a VP of a nation will become a marketer, sharing 10,000 naira loans to market people. A job even Yusuf Buhari the biker boy would never do. Such a shame for the fake pastor and his "sufferisticated" region.

If Atiku becomes President, Peter Obi with all his qualifications will become a marketer and errand boy for someone with only a diploma in law.

Yungbliss:
He is an errand boy

read the Nigerian constitution, A vice president or deputy governor is simply an errant boy. Jonathan was worse than an errant boy under Yaradua, he was reduced to a newspaper boy. Ibori was given more power than him.

Slynation:
Exactly.... The Igbos are mostly victims in any crisis affected areas, Kano and Kaduna state for instance, Any little provocation, hoodlums are quick to burn down their businesses.
Someone will still come to tell me I'm promoting tribalism when it's the facts, Buh ask about me, I de give people online slaps

Which fact?
When there is crises between two groups or two tribes, houses are burnt.
Go to Ife and see the number of houses on Ife side that was burnt during the Ife-Modakeke crisis.
Even the house I live during my stay in Ife belonging to an Ife man was completely burnt down.

During the Ijaw - Itsekiri, most of the Itsekiri houses near water side were burnt. People were writing boldly in front of their houses "This House Belongs to an Igbo Man".

So when Peter Obi says Nigerians burn down their houses, which Nigerians? Are the igbos whose house is being burnt down non Nigerians?

Newboss:
Sowore is an ignorant person. That's his problem.
Let me give it to you:

Effective tax rate is currently at about 24%.

If you raise taxes, companies will simply lay it off on her customers in form of price increase. That's basic economics even sowore (the "future" is ignorant of.

External reserve CANNOT be multiplied by 5 (500% increase) within 4 years. This is not ponzi scheme.

What does external reserve have to do with this? Here it's:

If you give everyone times 5 their spending power overnight, importation WILL increase proportionately. Why? Prices of things WITHIN Nigeria will increase as the spending power of the Nigerian worker increases. So everything cancels out and comes back to as they were in terms of price to wage ratio.

So importation will multiply proportionally. Leading to depletion of our reserves by the same factor. Leading to extremely massive trade deficit.

Naira will be at at least 2k to the USD before that year ends.
I can go on and on

My brother abeg leave them to their ignorance. You are just wasting your time trying to educate people economics 101.
Let them live in their utopia.

tomtos88:
Where did u read in his comment that countries with highest wages are the most productive? As things are in Nigeria right now, any business that u wanna start or any production u wanna go into, u must consider that people generally can't afford much because of our wage of less than 100 usd... 100k is just about 280 usd, not near anything like wats obtained in UAE or quarter but its a huge boost because these set of people are much in number, they don't send their money to UK, dubai or USA wen they collect salary, they invest it back in the economy, businesses will grow, sme will thrive, there is opportunity or space for the economy to expand due to demand and the revolution of turning Nigeria will begin

False premises. They invest most of the increase salaries into other economies, like China, Germany or the US. They buy Chinese goods, iPhones, Samsung, Ralph Lauren, BMW, etc.
It has been tried before and it did not lead to economic expansion. Gowon increased salary abruptly in 1974 ( Udoji Awards) and it kick-started our appetite for foreign goods.

tomtos88:
U need to find out if wat he is saying is true or not, that's how intelligent people do. Sowore is gonna raise money from taxes (not extra tax bt all the big companies especially that are colliding with government workers to under pay or evade tax will be fished out with automation), he will collect back all the oils blocks that have been given to people as favour, taxes and remits that amount up to 60 billion usd that Nigerian is not collecting... Creating new source of income like the export of marijuana, budding tourism etc, its not even far fetched as experts says, a sowore winning election this years means massive investment for Nigeria, the positive impact is countless...

Sorry to say, but there is so much ignorance in this statement. It's impossible to explain the way things really works in a single thread.
Companies are already groaning under multiple taxation by federal state and local government, that is apart from high production, self infrastructural, power, etc costs. If you add high taxes and then minimum wage of N100,000, you will finally kill all companies in new Nigeria. Governments give tax breaks and reductions to encourage companies, not tax increases.
We are in a globalised we world, and you are competing with the whole world in terms of price and quality.

Exporting marijuana will be difficult and tricky. First marijuana is illegal, legalising marijuana in a religious country like Nigeria where we even criminalise homosexualism would be near impossible. Canada is way ahead of every one else in the production and exportation of marijuana. They have highly technically advanced marijuana farming that produce the best possible marijuana. It's not the weed (pun intended) that we grow in Ondo. We just can't compete.

It is easy to shout massive investments, the problem is finding the money, skills and legislation to actualise the massive investments within the terms of a single government (4years).

idid:
When citizen's can afford stuff, there will be an equal about of production.
The main problem is that no one can afford anything, which discourages production.
The moment people start earning a decent wage, you will see all the companies around the World relocating here to produce.
Minimum wage in UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar is about 1200 dollars per month or so. What do they produce? Nothing?
Have you ever heard that they have inflation?

It does not work like that, the countries with the highest wages are not the most productive.

If you increase wages without a corresponding increase in local production, you will have runaway inflation. You will also be helping clients countries that already dump their goods on Nigeria.

Research the population and cost of governance if UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar and compare that with their earnings. Remember monarchy is a very cheap system of government, while democracy is the most expensive.

How do you reconcile these two statements?

Ventura1:

Yet there are signals from different corners that the global oil price might fall below what it is right now. That is a signal that the Nigerian economy that is hugely reliant on crude oil could be in for a rough time

And

His commitment to N100,000 as the new National Minimum Wage if elected as president is welcome. The N100,000 minimum wage of Sowore/AAC can be better understood if situated in the context of his other pro-masses and anti-establishment policy plan. This includes massive industrialization and economic restructuring to close the gap between the few rich and the poor masses.

Where will Sowore get the money to pay N100,000 and embark on massive industrialization and economic restructuring when he expects oil prices fall further?

dlondonbadboy:
Jesus. Yesterday it was APC chairman of Benue..
Today its IMO ApC chairman.

This is a fight within the house. Buhari is such a divisive leader. Too bad..

Common to manage your party, you can't effectively do it. How can you effectively manage Nigeria?
You only thrive where there is division and divisiveness. God forbid..

But if it was PDP chairmen that were being killed like chickens, it would be a fight without the house and not Buhari would be a unifying leader.

PresidentAtiku:
Atiku needs to start preparing his acceptance speech and forming his cabinet, there is no time to waste. We don't have the luxury of the 6 months these hardship merchants in power spent been confused

Someone was just murdered and before the body is even cold, what is on your mind is how you and your principal can grab power.

Now, how is this your comment related to the topic at hand?

Politics has really turned some people to beasts.

chieyine:
Is that what I posted, Mbu said the police should shoot in self defence against ballot snatchers.
Buhari says even if the ballot snatcher is not armed, shoot and kill him

This is Mbu's full statement;

“If one of my men is killed, I shall kill 20 of them but don’t shoot first. If they shoot you, shoot back in self-defence. Anybody who fires you, fire him back in self-defence. We are in a critical period. We are not para-military. We must be bold and brave. Keep an eagle eye on everybody. We are authorised by the constitution to arrest before, during and after election. Our role is to ensure free, fair and violence free election.”

In another occasion he made this speech;

Honestly, any policeman who is killed by any community in my zone, I will bring that village down.
“We have to rise against the killing of policemen.
https://theeagleonline.com.ng/ill-bring-down-any-village-that-kills-policemen-under-me-mbu/

So your hero Joseph Mbu was not talking about self defence, he was talking of Revenge.

T9ksy:
I believe this is a simple case of Demand and Supply. If there is no Demand for a commodity, no one is his/her right mind will bother to supply the product.

If our so-called big-men are not so morally bankrupt and hence chasing everything in skirts with the attendant promise of financial remuneration, I doubt if these ladies will be opening their legs "wide open" for them.

Afterall, the women are not doing it for fun. If the men are willing to drop generous "offerings" just to sample their wares then the women are equally prepared to accommodate their sexual fantasies.

Its another manifestation of the moral decay our society is passing thru, consequence of an inept and myopic leadership.

Forget moral decay or moral bankruptcy, konji no dey understand ingrish. As you said we are in a free market economy and democracy. price is the meeting point between demand and supply.

chiozor:
English or Yoruba, at least we understand what he meant, what is the justification for women opening their legs wide for every man for payment again eleke mgbeke will blame the man for asking but if women are generous to give whoever beg, why are they not giving it to the mad man on the street or are those not men or not begged for it women is responsible for high immorality in our society. no thanks to the feminist ideology. we are watching

And how is that your business? Don't you have something more profitable to expend your energy on or you are secretly interested in getting some service.

Goodlyhrt:
Was just strolling back from my work place and I just bumped into this smiling girl who was giving me all shades of familiarity. I was sold on instantly and we stopped to greet like we've known for so long. Not until I found out that we've not really met from Adam, we just bumped each with a smiling face and there we started chatting.



She said that [/color] she just started talking to me because she felt like it.[/color] We exchanged names, and she asked for my occupation which I told her, she started talking about how her directors laptop needs repairs, because I told her I was a computer technician, I tried to enquire the nature of the problem and she asked me to come to their company in person for the stuff. I was feeling skeptical about going to the company but I ended up taking her number.


Calling her this evening she said I need to be at the company by 8am if I am to see her boss, completely unsettling my own schedule. I tried to work out the timing and she went completely ballistic saying they won't hesitate to invite other technicians if I don't make it there by 8am.


I'm a little bit confused, scared because I've never met a girl bold enough and all that. Plus the location of the company is somehow to me.


My heart says go but my head... arghh!



Help me out good people

All the quotes in red are red flags. You are being set up. At best its a 419 scam, at worst it's a ritualist gang.

Don't dare go. Let them get another person, if they know another computer technician, why wait until she bumbed into you. Were they waiting for you before they fix their computer? It's not possible that such a company does not have a technician that maintains their computers.

PresidentAtiku:
Professor Mahmood Yakubu has expressed the belief that ballot box snatchers should be punished only in accordance with the electoral law.

Good speech. ... But prof. Mahmoud should tell us how many ballot box snatchers has INEC under his watch punished in accordance with the law? Or he wants to tell us that no ballot box had been snatched in any of the elections he had organised.

OK if that is the case, how many ballot box snatchers had been punished in accordance with the law in the history of INEC? To me it seems INEC is complicit in ballot box snatching and electoral malpractices in Nigeria.

I can understand Buharis frustrations, he is being sabotaged by not just opposition party but by state institutions like INEC, the judiciary, the legislature, etc. At the end of the day he still gets all the blame for everything that goes wrong.

candlewax:
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stanliwise:
What are the fundamental philosophy that a man can cheat but a woman can't.

Because a man's physical contribution making a baby is 5 minutes of aerobic activity. It is the woman that goes through nine months of pregnancy pains, birth pains and breastfeeding inconvenience.

Igwe9:
You obviously daft to have omitted the side part that says that he is not the one in charge of the logistics in the presidential election

Then let him go and give that explanation to DSS. I forgot, you are his lawyer.

Amankalizer:
Accountability belongs to INEC Chairman. INEC is a Commission. No single individual should be subjected to ridicule, intimidation, harassment or arrest. The Head of the Commission has explained and his explanation or excuse to the postponement of the 2019 general elections covers the Commission.

Now you say INEC is a commission, because the person under scrutiny is an igbo man. If Amina Zakari was still head of logistics, you would have said INEC was a one woman commission and called for her head.

Ecne:
She should have left the marriage instead of this shameful act of attacking the sidechic.
Now she's the one suffering for it, and I don't see the man coughing out that 1mil, maybe her immediate family will.
Las las, na divorce go end the matter.
She should have dug to find out why the Hubby cheated on her instead of taking laws into her hands.

Don't mind the stupid woman. Absolving the husband and almost lynching the alleged mistress. Once would think the mistress (Nkiru) raped the husband.

cococandy:
Nonsense posts deserve nonsense replies.

It is either you are a kid or you live in a feminist leaning western country.
Try getting pregnant to two potential fathers in Nigeria and you will regret ever being born.

stanliwise:
your sense haven't advanced to the extent of what they called DNA checkup

DNA? Who will pay for the DNA? You think DNA is like doing malaria or even HIV test? DNA is very expensive.

In many cases, even if when there is little doubt about the paternity of a baby, men still reject paternity of their babies.

In Africa women are gravely disadvantaged in paternity issues. The society usually put the blame for getting pregnant outside wedlock on the women and the men get free pass and the law does not help women. A woman with paternity doubts would be rejected and scorned by the whole society including her family.

cococandy:
They can both be responsible. It’s not like they are breastfeeding the baby

They can both supply fatherly care to the child.

Besides we are in DNA age now. It won’t hard to figure out who’s kid it is

Which country are you talking about? I hope you know this is Africa. Even in normal circumstances, it is difficult enough getting men to take care of their responsibilities to their children. In some places, men's only major contribution to the child is their spermatozoa, ie northern Nigeria, some Yorubas and some Niger Delta tribes.

In some cases ( and I say lots of cases), the man abandons the children once the mother leaves or he gets another wife, and you are talking about two men taking care of a child with disputed paternity.

Preshy561:
Yes oo.
Same with women, a woman must have 2 or more men who she fvcks anytime she wants.
That's the rule of nature.

The problem with this is that men don't get pregnant. If a woman fvcks two or more men at the same time, the children she will born will become a bastard as no man will claim responsibly for the child.

dokie:
So why the threats?

Because ballot box snatching compromises the integrity of the elections and lead to unnecessary loss of innocent lives.

See example here;
https://www.nairaland.com/580581/ballot-box-snatching-warri-pdp

To whom it may concern.

Breaking News: Ogun LG poll : Voters on the run, as thugs burn ballot boxes


Pandemonium broke out in some parts of Ogun state during the Local Government election which was underway on Saturday,as hoodlums reportedly stormed some polling units with guns and other dangerous weapons , snatched ballot boxes and burnt them.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/breaking-news-ogun-lg-poll-voters-run-thugs-burnt-ballot-boxes/amp/

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