₦airaland Forum

Follygunners:
Nigeria's problems are not mostly from the government.. they're from Nigerians.

Just imagine how the media adulates and celebrates Otedola as a billionaire, blah, blah. How did he make his money?

As Nigerian citizens, we're being deprived of our basic ammenities of electricity and power which makes him a billionaire. You and I have to patronize his oil and gas to fuel our generators for power.

With people like these, the gov't and most importantly, the Nigerian people's mentality... we'll never progress or succeed as a people.

Is Otedola the Minister of Power? Abi na Petroleum?!

Nigerians will go vote for NextLevel and yet seem bemused by their hardship. SMDH

It’s easier to ride and even enjoy keke....
When you personal car is a Rolls or Bentley!

delugajackson:
She should try making it her official transport vehicle and watch if the headlines won't be different.

Just look at how someone will wake up and start tempting kidnappers.

Naija and bad belle. Why are you wishing her ill?

ednut1:
Any business he doesnt have total monopoly on. He flops. Why

Lanretoye:
if I get the kind of monopoly and the backing dangote is getting from the govt...who knows if he is even useing Nigeria as a collateral.

There’s NOT a single sector in Nigeria that Dangote has a monopoly in...

Cement: LaFarge, Heidelberg, Scancem, BUA, Ibeto, etc.
Sugar: Flour Mills of Nigeria (Golden Sugar), BUA Group, etc.
Flour Mills: FMN (Golden Penny), Honeywell, Olam, etc.
Tomato Paste: Erisco, Jos Tomato, smugglers, etc.
Rice: Stallion Group, Olam International, Croscharis, etc.
Petrochemicals/Fertilizer: Indorama, Notore, NNPC, retc.
Refinery: NNPC, Orient, 28 other licensees, etc.
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ednut1:
Any business he doesnt have total monopoly on. He flops. Why

There’s NOT a single business that Dangote has monopoly in...

Dreambeat:
End time mom.Marry the daughter at your own peril

Naija please...
Many NLers would fight each other to marry her - once they realize she is Canadian-Nigerian!

Nothing but love for Moni...
One of those raised and educated abroad (w/ full papers), but still chose to come hustle for a Dream in Naija! Much respect!!
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oruma19:
Am i the only one who doesn't understand this? A mother (married I presume) doing face time with her ex boy friend, hears stupid things and tells her daughter who in turn, decides to inform us on social media. Maybe I don't get it, plz I need someone to explain the scene that just played out. Should a responsible woman that has a grown up daughter be chatting with an ex? Let alone doing face time. They must have been seeing each other and having sex i guess. Naija women are speedily turning to black Americans in the ghetto. Watch the MAURY show u all will understand.

You presume wrong...
Because she is apparently a long-time divorcee.

Motherhood is not a death sentence - just like fatherhood never is!
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dominique:
So her mum is still having boyfriends at her age

Why not? Is she dead?
Abegi, body no be wood.

Meanwhile, we have a 59-year old dude marrying a 19-year old teenager, and even yeyebrities are lining up to congratulate him.

Respect to the dude...
BUT THE HEADLINE IS SIMPLY WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS!

First, the University of Illinois system is headed by a President (just like most US universities), while each campus of the multiple-campus UI system is head by a Chancellor, and thus it seems that what Dr. Adesida was is head of academic affairs of ONE OF THE THREE CAMPUSES of the university - itself no mean accomplishment but not what the headline (or the ignorant Vanguard article) is proclaiming. Kudos to him.

Meanwhile, can we drop this so-called “Public Ivy” nonsense which is nothing but puffery?!

LazyGold:
Yes you can not edit the truth, so why did you exclude the worthy runners-up?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/nigerian-prof-makes-history-in-us-heads-ivy-league-school/amp/

Even Vanguard referred to the University as Ivy League School

Merely shows the IGNORANCE of the paper...
Magnified by the MISNOMER that dude “headed” the university. SMH

KingAzubuike:
He is not Nigerian, he's American. Only that his ancestors are from this zoo. So make una take am easy dey claim people.

He says he is a NATURALIZED American, which means he was/is still Nigerian (given dual nationality)...

oboy81:
Your PAPA!
FOOL Beer Parlor People Claim the Opposite actually Ode! They say We Live Longer and Healthier than Westerners. Mumu You want To Sound smart. 4 who no one Gives a Bleep!

I will not join you in the gutter of crude and uncouth personal insults, because I was raised better...

Meanwhile, I reiterate that beer-parlor anecdotes are NO SUBSTITUTE for hard data. Pele that people die around you everyday (perhaps the company you keep ), but it has little or no substantive nexus with national statistical data. Without reliable data, this is all GARBAGE!

popsy2:
Finally ! Long overdue

Is it a race? Nonsense and ingredients...

Ayam not understanding...

If you ordered 64 coaches for delivery in June, how did they breach the contract? And why are you showing up in April to demand 10 coaches? Do you think they make the coaches one at a time and so will complete one coach before another? So confused by Nigerian politicians. SMH

oboy81:
Are you mad! Don't you Live In Nigeria Don't You See People Die Everyday? what is the Average age? No be 40 something 50 something ppl dey die? With that Your Kpangolo Ogo Pion

And don’t you see people live everyday?

Abegi, don’t come and substitute beer-parlor anecdotes for hard reliable data (which Nigeria sorely lacks). GIGO!

SincereBigot:
Quite disheartning.. And nigerians are bothering themselves with bbnaija and yahoo yahoo debate.. Imagine war torn syria

Abegi, it’s even these small entertainment that is prolonging our lives...

Debaiz:
They have come again.

I’ve learnt very long ago that statistics can be skewed/ manipulated to suit the need of whoever is preparing it.

All this is to condition the subconscious mind of the unsuspecting populace towards a greater future cause.

So they are basically telling us that life in nigeria is worse than life in Syria or Zimbabwe or even Venezuela as it is at the moment or even Palestine where Israel has blocked all land, air and sea access to the people in that area basically locking them in a real life prison.

My level of exposure won’t allow me the stupidity to believe all this propaganda aimed at programming the mind of the people.

My Naija peeps don vex!

Always interesting how no one knows the population of Nigeria, but “know” how many extremely poor people are in Naija and our AVERAGE life expectancy (which requires population data to calculate). Garbage in, garbage out.

CityNGR:
sounds like a good reason to checkout permanently.

Oti o! No need to commit suicide na...

Next Level...





Even though I think these estimates are crap.

maestroferdi:
You are getting ridiculous...

Are you saying that Nigerians have an existential problem with making government endeavours work/thrive?

My friend think stuff through before hitting the keyboard...

A conscientious leader will out round pegs in round holes to ensure that processes and initiatives work.

The fundamental problem is that the so-called leaders themselves embody graft and official recklessness thereby confirming the aphorism/truism that one cannot give what they never had in the first place.

The problem of Africa begins and ends with the quality of leadership...

You dont spend tens of millions either to sink a borehole or to design a website which in each case cost a minutiae of their actual costs and then turn round and expect your followers to do otherwise.

The law of sowing and reaping is universal, my friend...

I am saying that in almost 60 years as an independent nation, Nigerian governments have not shown the capacity properly run businesses...

Coincidentally, somewhere in those 60 years, Nigeria has privatized banks, cement, fertilizer and petrochemicals companies, downstream oil companies, deregulated telecommunications and oil/gas services, and each has worked almost always (not necessarily always) better. Now, folks may want to indulge in theoretical discussions about “existentialism” but for whatever reason that’s the just the stark REALITY (see my moniker) of our collective national experience.

Perhaps, it IS a “problem of leadership” (personally that for me would be the subject of an entirely different discourse) but whatever it may be it remains OUR REALITY, and while theories and theses may well be all good and dandy, as I previously said, OUR own history should be OUR best teacher. The way science works (including social “science”) is that after repeatedly getting the same outcome from the same experiment, a theory is considered proven.

Meanwhile, we had a dude come along promising “change” in the quality of leadership, and we ended up as the poverty capital of the world.

vaxx2:
Alright but not a monopolist .

He's NOT a monopolist in Nigeria/Africa either...

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Better question is will Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bazos be this rich in Nigeria?!
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Tales by moonlight...

Michaelkings:
I swear this girl has AIDs

DISGUSTING!

You may not like the girl (I don't personally care for these "reality" folks myself), but its disgusting to wish her ill-will. SMH
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That’s TWO YEARS IN A ROW!

Nigeria also led African startups funding chart in 2017.
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She was slaying...
Until that LAST picture! SMDH

Abegi, ayam not understanding...
Why would anybody be buying property in their spouses’ or anyone’s name? Are they trying to launder money?

PrecisionFx:
Are u still normal? Or are u intentionally daft?

Point out where I said Nigercem is importing and bagging cement!!

Nkalagu cement Is offline n doesn't produce any cement, what does that have to do with the baseless reply u pushed out here?

Ibeto is importing cement, simple.

PrecisionFx:
NO, we are not sufficient in cement production. Ibeto cement, Bua, Nigercem, etc are all imported.

Dangote also imports cement n bag it in Nigeria, but let's leave that for another day.

Meanwhile, I will leave the gutter of personal insults all to you (and instead stick to substance and FACTS) because I was raised better...

PrecisionFx:
Nkalagu cement factory remain offline till this day.

Dangote till today still imports already finished cement n bags it.....Other Nigerian so called cement manufacturers do same.

Make up your mind...
One minute Nigercem is importing and bagging cement, the next it is "offline"?

Facts, not repetition...
Nigercem Nkalagu has been shuttered for nearly 20 years, without producing/importing.

As a Nigerian entrepreneur myself...
I THINK THE REPORTER SIMPLY GOT IT WRONG!

Uncle Tony probably said/meant an average tax rate of 48% (after adding up the multiple taxes/charges)...
I can add up all the taxes/charges levied by the govts and regulatory agencies, and it doesn’t even break into double figures.

PS: PEBEC is also making it easier to pay all business taxes and charges through one single window.

Lagos does NOT need a subway, just light railway would suffice...
Given the high water levels in Lagos, a subterranean system would be PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE.

tevinsolt:
Architecture and design is light behind in Nigeria. Sad

Agree. Rather underwhelming...