SELECT & PAY! TWO TWO FIFTY!
Allowing poverty mentality to calibrate our sense of cost is a national problem. I once heard a panel beater agreeing to spray a Toyota Highlander for N40,000, for a customer who wants Autobase paint. N40,000 is just the price of a good Sikken primer.
Allowing poverty mentality to calibrate our sense of cost is a national problem. I once heard a panel beater agreeing to spray a Toyota Highlander for N40,000, for a customer who wants Autobase paint. N40,000 is just the price of a good Sikken primer.
The panel beater will just paint the car with Flex, varnish it well with gloss enamel at N25,000, then keep N15,000 to feed his family, since we always look for bogof. After few months, the car will start looking like patches of unbleached melamin at the back of Bobrisky's palms.
Call out fees of a plumber in some places abroad is $50. Thats what you first pay for him to come and look at the problem. When Nigerians want to offer you 3k for what you wish to sell for 10k, they will first say they saw it at Oshodi for 4k, then say a friend bought his for 2k.
I know politicians steal, but trust me guys, from the way I know it, politicians will hardly make public the cost of projects with which they want to steal. If Lai Mohammed wants to spend $500Million to digitalize NTA, why cant we ask him to show his working, before condemnation?
I read DSTV has 47.6 million Nigerian subscribers. Estimate that Multichoice make ~$1.2 Billion yearly can't be far from truth. Eventually, if NTA needs to link with Ghana for Nations Cup, we that pay DSTV $1.2Billion but rejected $500Million for NTA will call Nigeria - useless!
Lagos has more than 500 BRT buses. Rightly, we all concluded there's need for more. The current BRT fares are far from reality and can barely keep the buses on the road, leaving govt a huge deficit. All hell will let loose the day LASG will complain about funding the defict.
Wanting to be like Canada; we rejected the idea of Air Nigeria but embraced okada as our national carrier. This is how much the native thinking of a few have hindered the growth mindset of many, which most times influence the quality and capacity of government's decision making.
We've been cursing that Lagos flights are being diverted to Ghana due to poor visibility. Its because FG is yet to fund calibration of the newly acquired CAT III ILS that could have aided landing here. The day we'll hear d cost of achieving this, it'll end at "Buhari is a thief!"
