Throwback:


Dude are you now saying the website will not solve those issues highlighted from the news report?

Or was that not you enquiry - to know what issues the portal will solve?

Or those issues are not significant enough?

To improve the service rendered to the investors in that industry and to improve means of income generation and accountability.

Those issues are irrelevant?

Throwback:


You remind me of a dude who I schooled with and served NYSC with.

While discussing our career plans as engineers and what potential jobs were available for fresh graduates like us, I told him assertively that I couldn't settle for a job pay less than N500k/month. He looked at me with such disgust, wondering why a fresh graduate should feel so entitled to such pay he found outrageous. He contended that N100k/month was good enough.

Less than a year after service, he got his own N100k/month job while I got myself a N1m/month type of job. I still wasn't contented and aspired for something better, while my pal is still today aspiring towards a pay windfall of N500k/month.

This same category of people wonder why I would spend N45K on a Lacoste polo shirt or N60k on a Tommy Hilfiger jeans. When you can buy same at Balogun market in Isale Eko for less than N5k each.

The above true story is the mentality in display when people wonder why one website is N2m and another is N500m or more. Lack of exposure!

ehie:
They learnt from the best they learnt from Fashola, lol by the time these Yoruba's and Hausa finish looting the country, thievery is an art in Buhari and Osinbajos government,

Throwback:
You remind me of a dude who I schooled with and served NYSC with.

While discussing our career plans as engineers and what potential jobs were available for fresh graduates like us, I told him assertively that I couldn't settle for a job pay less than N500k/month. He looked at me with such disgust, wondering why a fresh graduate should feel so entitled to such pay he found outrageous. He contended that N100k/month was good enough.

Less than a year after service, he got his own N100k/month job while I got myself a N1m/month type of job. I still wasn't contented and aspired for something better, while my pal is still today aspiring towards a pay windfall of N500k/month.

This same category of people wonder why I would spend N45K on a Lacoste polo shirt or N60k on a Tommy Hilfiger jeans. When you can buy same at Balogun market in Isale Eko for less than N5k each.

The above true story is the mentality in display when people wonder why one website is N2m and another is N500m or more. Lack of exposure!

anonimi:


Indeed he should keep kwayet.
Maybe he collected crumbs from the N700 million that is why he is defending thief Fayemi.
Make I find Mama Piss to tell him wella o jare.


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ivandragon:



I honestly don't understand the chap, the website does not in anyway justify that amount.

Throwback:
Another avenue for ICT illiterates to castigate what they do not know about.

So the equivalent of $2m was spent on an integrated portal? Should I head into the streets to protest that it should have been procured for N200k ?



Above is the only snag there. Are there enough competent people to manage such complex IT solutions or will extra funds be spent to procure the services of the likes of Accenture to manage it on their behalf?

luvinhubby:
Please tell me this is not true.

Why is no one asking why we are in recession despite budgets as follows:

2015 - N4.5 trillion
2015 - N2.1 trillion supplementary requested / N575 billion approved
2016 - N6.06 trillion
2017 - N7.3 trillion


Sources: http://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-budget-idUSL5N0YB49M20150520
http://dailypost.ng/2015/11/18/buhari-seeks-n2-1trn-supplementary-budget-for-2015/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/senate-approves-n575bn-supplementary-budget-for-buhari/
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/buhari-signs-n6-06trn-2016-budget-change/

Throwback:


The purpose of the website is to address some of the problems that has made that ministry moribund.

There was once a story about Philip Emeagwali approaching the Abacha government in the 1990's, for an investment of $5b to develop ICT as a viable sector of the Nigerian economy.
The funds were not granted because we were ignorant and also found the sum outrageous.

If such funds could have made Nigeria like India or Singapore or Malaysia or Hong Kong as regards ICT, do you think such funds would not have been money well spent at that time?

In retrospect, was it not a foolish decision not seeing the perspective of Emeagwali?

anonimi:


On average, how much do you spend monthly on charities in addition to your taxes?
Thanks.

Ebuka2016:

you dey craze full time bro. Even Amazon dot com owner Jeff Bezos would be lieing to you if he told you he built his website for half a million dollars. I dont know whats wrong with some pple. How can you be defending a govt who has not even improved the major sectors of our economy for spending 700 million on a website alone, not even 700 thousand. No matter how complex the website is, that amount is very outrageous. No worry, we go soon see the website and i wouldnt be surprised if its just another mediocre website.

Nigerian authorities scamming pple like you since 400 BC and yet you've refused to wake up. Mtcheew.

Throwback:
It seems a lot of Nigerians are frustrated beyond objectivity.

Trying to argue logically with them can only project one as elitist or lacking in empathy.

I leave you all to your cross.

Throwback:


You remind me of a dude who I schooled with and served NYSC with.

While discussing our career plans as engineers and what potential jobs were available for fresh graduates like us, I told him assertively that I couldn't settle for a job pay less than N500k/month. He looked at me with such disgust, wondering why a fresh graduate should feel so entitled to such pay he found outrageous. He contended that N100k/month was good enough.

Less than a year after service, he got his own N100k/month job while I got myself a N1m/month type of job. I still wasn't contented and aspired for something better, while my pal is still today aspiring towards a pay windfall of N500k/month.

This same category of people wonder why I would spend N45K on a Lacoste polo shirt or N60k on a Tommy Hilfiger jeans. When you can buy same at Balogun market in Isale Eko for less than N5k each.

The above true story is the mentality in display when people wonder why one website is N2m and another is N500m or more. Lack of exposure!

Throwback:


Illiterates should only speak on basic topics that can be argued at a beer parlour.

Spending $2m on a portal depending on what the complexities of it are and what level of integrated database is required, is not a child's play.

The ministry has itself revealed this information freely to the public, to prevent the likes of you from making a mockery of serious business initiatives as some scandal that has been exposed.

Webman007:
Web portal yes...but still no justification for the 700Milla price tag.

GavelSlam:


Industry averages

CIO Magazine conducts an annual State of the CIO survey and gathers data to compile an average spending budget across numerous companies. For 2013, it found that the average IT budget, as percent of revenue, is 5.2%. This is a slight increase from the 2012 average, which was 4.7%. Overall, businesses seem to spend between 4-6% of their revenue on IT, and this range is recommended by CIO Magazine.

Company size generally has a large effect on budget size, and should be taken into consideration when planning your fund allocation. Small and medium businesses surprisingly often outspend larger ones when it comes to their IT budget (SearchCIO.techtarget.com):

The average small company (less than $50 million in revenue) spends 6.9% of their revenue on IT
Mid-sized (between $50 million – $2 billion) spend 4.1%
Larger companies (over $2 billion) spend a relatively tiny 3.2%
As technology becomes a greater part of business operations, budgets have been steadily growing. The 2017 survey found that enterprise organizations project a 4.8% increase in 2017 IT budgets, and SMBs predict a slightly larger increase of 8% from 2016.

It’s important to note however that the companies that invest the most in IT aren’t necessarily the best performers. On average, the most successful small and medium companies are more frugal when it comes to IT spending (as long as they do it judiciously). Regardless of amount of spending, if investments aren’t made and used wisely, it will be reflected in that company’s returns and productivity.

https://techvera.com/company-it-spend/

GavelSlam:


Please can you tell us how many active portals have you built?

What's the name of your corporation so the rest of the country can patronise you.

greenek:


before you claim to get a job of n1m/month with just bsc(thats according to the storyline), please show us proof ehn....

elefind:
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