tunjesco: TYPE OF WIVES

tunjesco: TYPE OF WIVES: 1.               Party wife These are women who are very mobile and very sociable. They are always attending one function after the ot...

TYPE OF WIVES

1.              Party wife

These are women who are very mobile and very sociable. They are always attending one function after the other (every wedding, bridal and shower, kitchen top up, office functions e.t.c). They are barely at home on weekends to have time with their husbands and family. They can spend the family’s upkeep money on gifts.

2.              Dictionary Wife

These are women who don’t take suggestions: the way she thinks is the way it is. They don’t accept changes easily. The way she knows is the way it is to be maintained no changes. Very orderly and becomes very angry when things are misplaced in their home set – up.

3.              Pampered Wife.

These are women who are very spoilt by their parents (normally from rich parents or they are the only girl in the family of many boys). They are lazy, bad home managers Love spending money shopping on trivial girlish things.Sees their husband like a houseboy.

4.              Office Wife

These are women who are Career minded that their family does not matter. They are always using their career as an excuse of not being at home for their family. They don’t respect their husbands and it makes educated women look bad. They think a husband is not important because they can support themselves.

5.              Patient Wife

These are women who always look like they are sick and down trodden. Love to complain on everything (husband, children, relatives even weather.) Are always afraid and live in anxiety.

6.              Headmistress wife

These are women who make themselves in-charge of the family even when the husband is the sole provider of the home. They treat everyone as a child including their husband and visitors. Are very questionable and will punish their husbands for any trivial thing.

7.              Boxing Wife

These are women who are very offensive and sometimes can be violent.  They like shouting and are nagging. Believes in fire for fire.

8.              Dustbin Wife

These are women who are very dirty and unkempt. Very unorganized and confused. Very lazy at everything except gossiping and eating. Leaves everything to their servants or children.

9.              Security wife

These are women who are very protective of their husband. They are very jealous, sees every woman as a threat. Sees husband’s friends as bad company. Don’t let anyone discipline their child even a teacher. Husband’s family and friends are scared of her.

10.          Good wife

These are women who are a virtuous wife (prov 31). Is caring, loving, and very smart very helpful, can handle husband’s business in his absence. Provide spiritual guidance to the children very understanding and full of self esteem

TYPES OF HUSBAND

1.       Bachelor Husband

These are men who

Loves to do things on their own without consulting their wives.

Loves to hang out a lot with their friends rather than their wives.

Not very serious with married life

2.        Acidic husband

These are men who

Are always boiling like acid.

Are always angry.

Are violent.

Moody and dominating.

They are very dangerous.

3.       Slave husband

These are men who

Feel and want to be treated like kings.

Treat the wife like their slave.

Love their wife to be performing old tradition respect gesture to them.

Don’t like to be called by their first name.

General Husband.

These are men who

Are husband for every woman.

Love and care for other women a lot more than their wives.

Even though not in relationship they like giving money to different women but not to their wife.

Have more female friends.

5.       Dry Husband

These are men who

Are very moody

Are very stingy

Don’t consider the wife’s emotions.

Don’t like putting energy in the relationship to make it enjoyable.

Don’t have any sense of humour.

6.       Panadol Husband

These are men who

Uses their wife as a problem solver.

Love their wife when they need something from her and after that she is useless to them.

Are very clever and knows their wife’s weakness and capitalize on them to get relief from their wife

7.       Parasite Husband

These are men who

Are lazy and don’t love to work so they stick to their wife because of their wife’s money.

Are very loving but uses the wife’s money and resources to cheat her with their girlfriends.

Are not initiative and they don’t even try to help her with house responsibilities.

8.       Baby Husband

These are men who

Are very irresponsible and childish.

Cannot make decision on their own without asking their mothers or relatives.

When something is wrong they rush back to their parents instead of discussing it with their wife.

Wants their wife to care for them as the way their mother did.

Always compare their wife with their mother.

Always wants his wife to be marking register with his mom(going there to eat regularly, frequent calls and visits).

9.       Visiting Husband

These are men who

Are not always at home but usually at work.

They come home like they are visiting or like their job is a lodge.

Try hard to provide the material need of their wife and family but they have no time for them.

10.   Good Husband

These are men who

Are caring and loving.

Provide material and emotional needs of their family.

Always make time for their family

Guide their home spiritually

Are very responsible and treat their wife as a partner and helper.

tunjesco: STRATEGIES FOR TAKING THE BENEFITS OF OIL SUBSIDY ...

tunjesco: STRATEGIES FOR TAKING THE BENEFITS OF OIL SUBSIDY ...: December 9, 2011 Nigeria is blessed with human and natural resources, but the country is lacking effective policies to utilize such bl...

STRATEGIES FOR TAKING THE BENEFITS OF OIL SUBSIDY TO THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF NIGERIANS

December 9, 2011

Nigeria is blessed with human and natural resources, but the country is lacking effective policies to utilize such blessed resources. Edmund Burke, the great British philosopher, said that government is a contrivance of human wisdom and the wisdom should be used to satisfy people’s needs. Any government that can’t satisfy the need of its people is irrelevant and will not be loved.  The first refinery, in Port Harcourt, was built in 1965; Warri refinery in 1978, Kaduna refinery in 1980 and the fourth refinery which was called the new portharcourt refinery in 1984. All with a total installed capacity of 445,000 barrels per day, has not in any way been able to compete with our escalating population pegged at 167 million.

What has been the picture? Emerging evidence before the senate committee probing the petroleum subsidy regime appears to link the unsustainable growth in the volume of imported petrol and kerosene to the significant rise in the level of subsidy per litre. According to the committee, Domestic consumption in Nigeria accounted for approximately 25.9million litre of PMS daily, in 2006. But the figure had almost doubled to 43.1 million litres per day by 2010. The growth in the volume of imported kerosene is just as dramatic, rising from 6.5 million litres daily in 2006 to over 9million litres daily this year, as the subsidy cash fuels smuggling and contamination, involving the growing mixture of kerosene with the more expensive diesel. Also of note, is the volume of petrol imported which grew by a marginal 2.3 per cent in 2007 year on year, 16.6 per cent in 2008 and the volume shot up by a staggering 27.1 per cent in 2009, as the subsidy level per liter rose.

In the first ten months of this year, the non-NNPC share of the subsidy outstripped that of the subsidy payment of the NNPC, reaching N1.34 trillion subsidy payments so far made. This was accounted for by the expansion in the size of independent marketers benefitting from the subsidy payment which grew from zero in 2006 to 67 this year. If this is not a bazaar, please tell me why people are killing themselves to import petrol? I feel strongly that the process of verification described in the summary document by PPPRA, which was recently presented to the senate committee would appear adequate, except that it does not contain any mechanism for detecting or dealing with possible collusion between all the parties involved in products certification. I therefore see corruption as the bane of the Oil subsidy regime. Furthermore, evidences has shown how ship owners and importers come to the designated discharge depots, enter into arrangements which allow them to land just a portion of their cargo, while the balance is taken right out of the country and they go on to collect subsidy on 100 per cent of the cargo. This has been the practice over time.

How can this effectively get to Nigerians? In a bid to identify and prosecute those responsible for the failure of the downstream sector of the oil industry, I want to canvass for a more comprehensive programme of reforms that would revive domestic refining capacity and reduce the country’s dependence on importation of petroleum products. By developing and implementing a three year strategic and operational plan to increase domestic refining capacity to meet domestic needs for petroleum products. I say three years because that is about the period required to put a refinery in place. Our neighbour up north (Niger republic) has just got theirs in place at exactly three years with an installed capacity of 12,000 barrels per day.

Sincerity and accountability of government is a major concern and unless we put sanctions on corruptions, lawlessness, nobody will do the right thing. I call for an independent probe of the cartel that has destroyed the downstream sector over the years. The national assembly has a very important role to play in ensuring a regulated frame work that will also include disciplinary (if possible, death) measures that could be invoked on citizens that are found to have disobeyed the law. Also government should strengthen our borders by effective monitoring to curb the smuggling of petrol across the borders.

Petroleum products are inputs in the production process of virtually all sectors of the economy, the impact of increases in their prices needs to be evaluated on the basis of the overall economy and not just the narrow sector of the downstream oil industry and government revenue. The proposed policy would unleash chaos and hardship in the informal sector of the nation’s economy which is the mainstay of the poor. Unfortunately, the pricing of petroleum products cannot be left for the market forces to determine on the ground that the demand for petrol is inelastic. The masses will suffer if there is any further increase in price of petroleum products. I therefore call on the government to encourage private investors to build more refineries so that the demand for imported products could be reduced. A downward movement in the price of oil at the international market, which we cannot control, will set the economy  of Nigeria tumbling to the ground.  Nigerian economy  is dependent on just one commodity (oil) which is a very big risk. The instability in the international economy with big economy running into depression is too glaring to ignore for Nigeria. Nigeria must return from its wastefulness. For the sake of her future generations, this Nation must get it right this time because there may not be another chance.

Tunji Alu is a Comrade activist, a graduate of Geology and applied Geophysics, a Lecturer  and  an engineer.