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CrimeRe: Outrage As Twitter Users Accuse Lagos Police Of Allegedly Freeing Young MAN by 9jaRealist: 12:43am On Feb 08, 2019
Corrupt ZOO! angry
CrimeRe: Outrage As Twitter Users Accuse Lagos Police Of Allegedly Freeing Young MAN by 9jaRealist: 12:42am On Feb 08, 2019
emrain:
Have you heard their own side of the story?
They can tell it in court! angry
CrimeRe: Linda Ikeji Deletes Lekki Rapist Post But Reposts After Facing Heavy Backlash by 9jaRealist:
nnadychuks:
Do u ever wonder how some people follow a celebrity to the extent of noticing when they delete a post?
Has nothing to do with “following” a celebrity.

If you are interested in any story (and a story of an alleged drugging and raping should ordinarily be something of legitimate public interest), you will notice if it has been removed from whatever platform it was initially published.
CrimeRe: 57-Year-Old Man Rapes 6-Year-Old Girl In Lagos, Disgraced (Photos) by 9jaRealist: 12:27am On Feb 08, 2019
Ogaemmy:
I would rather msturbate than shag an underage. What pleasure would you even derive from a boobless and yanshless pikin?
Meanwhile, police officers arrested and interrogated Teni for singing "I go slap police for you case"
Quit spreading FAKE news! They clearly did not arrest her there. angry

Meanwhile, this rapist should count himself lucky that he was taken to the police station.
PoliticsRe: Throwback Photo Of Orji Uzor Kalu As A Handsome Young Man by 9jaRealist: 12:20am On Feb 08, 2019
iluvdonjazzy:
u are very correct, he was 37 years when he became a governor 1999 and he borrowed PDP 500 million naira to form the party.
You mean he lent PDP N500 million...

And thereafter probably stole over N5 BILLION from the rest of us. Some “businessman” indeed! undecided
RomanceRe: Symply Tacha "Body Shamed" For Showing Her Stretch Marks (Photo) by 9jaRealist: 12:12am On Feb 08, 2019
I am usually against body-shaming...

But when you put all that cottage cheese out in the public realm, you grant that public a invitation to comment thereupon.
CrimeRe: Lady Dies After Being Slapped With A Charm In Kwara by 9jaRealist: 12:08am On Feb 08, 2019
ZOO! sad

Populated by superstitious dolts, busy nicking female knickers while others are developing Artificial Intelligence. SMH
HealthRe: Nigerians Mark World Condom Day by 9jaRealist:
Can someone please inform that young brother in front that is not what is meant when advised to “wear” condoms. grin
CrimeRe: Lady Stripped Unclad And Paraded For Insulting Politician In Delta . Photos by 9jaRealist: 12:00am On Feb 08, 2019
ZOO! angry

Populated by a lot of crude misogynistic idiots.

But even here on Nairaland, someone was advocating the arrest of a commenter who made a joke about Buhari. SMH
PoliticsRe: HURRAY! Buhari Signs Anti-monopoly Law — 15 Years Afterward by 9jaRealist: 11:28pm On Feb 07, 2019
SheikhMuniru:
In Sugar Production it has no rival.... Very soon now, it Refinery will start working, any rival with that
Did you even bother to read the post you responded to?

As noted, the behemoth Flour Mills of Nigeria is a deep-pocketed significant rival with its Golden Penny Sugar and just commissioned its latest refinery (one of the biggest in Africa) a few years ago. In addition, BUA Sugar has 2 state-of-the-art sugar refineries, including the only one outside of Lagos, as well as two huge sugar plantations situated in Kwara and Kogi states.

Similarly, as also previously pointed out, there were at least 28 licenses for private refineries granted (going all the way back to the Obasanjo administration) BEFORE a license was granted to the Dangote Group. In fact, Orient Refinery in Anambra State is operational, and thus Dangote cannot be a monopoly even among private operators (discounting government competition).

Nonetheless, you surely cannot blame Dangote for the inertia or incompetence or other inability of other private companies that received private refining licenses and simply sat on it. Except of course that many Nigerians have developed the crabby habit of denigrating and demonizing success while elevating, celebrating and even canonizing failure and incompetence. SMDH
PoliticsRe: 'I Won’t Change If Reelected' - Buhari Assures by 9jaRealist: 2:17am On Feb 07, 2019
Own goal! grin
PoliticsRe: HURRAY! Buhari Signs Anti-monopoly Law — 15 Years Afterward by 9jaRealist:
Tetehjewels:
Removing monopoly would encourage a competitive market and such competition would trigger price drops as supply may become more than demand.

Good one from Mr President
Not necessarily.

The best form of competition encourages innovation and affords consumers greater choices, but it does not necessarily nor inevitably lead to price drops. For instance, mobile phones are much better presently and we have more choices but they are certainly not cheaper. Price competition (or a competition based primarily on pricing) can be a dangerous race to the bottom to the extent that it constrains the considerable investment required for R & D that is not likely profitable in the short-term. In addition, price competition can lead to the insolvency and/or exit from the market of many competitors and thus result in the irony of ending up with a monopoly or oligarchy.

In the Nigerian cement space for instance, the entry of local producers like Dangote Cement and the BUA Group with their ultramodern plants, meant that the large global multinationals that dominated the Nigerian market since even before independence - LaFarge, Blue Circle, Holcim (with all 3 subsequently merging their global holdings), Scancem and Heidelberg, etc. - were not only compelled to stop primarily importing cement from their affiliates abroad (and at best bagging same in Nigeria), but also to renovate/rebuild and upgrade their local plants (at Sagamu, Ewekoro, Calabar, Sokoto, etc.) and to invest in new plants (Calabar/Odukpani, etc.). While there was not necessarily a price drop, Dangote Cement’s 52.5R-graded cement forced the competition to raise the quality of their products to mostly 42.5R grade from the basic 32.5R grade that they dumped on the market in their previous 50+plus years of operating in Nigeria.

Ultimately, the result of the competition fostered in the Nigerian market with the entry of Dangote Cement and the BUA Group led to a considerably high quality of cement, greater Nigerian domestic value addition and growth along the backward integration entire value chain, and the transformation of the Nigerian cement sector from the position of reportedly the world’s second-biggest importer of cement (with flotillas of ships regularly lining up off the shores of Nigeria, in what the Economist magazine once dubbed “The Great Lagos Cement Armada”) to an exporter of cement, and in the process saving Nigeria billions of dollars of foreign exchange, earning foreign exchange for the Nigerian treasury and creating TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NIGERIAN JOBS (along the entire production value chain, starting with limestone mining).
PoliticsRe: HURRAY! Buhari Signs Anti-monopoly Law — 15 Years Afterward by 9jaRealist: 1:32am On Feb 07, 2019
tempest69:
Does this mean DSTV will be facing a competitive brand ? I don't know but I hope so..
DSTV faces Hong Kong’s StarTimes, and also faced Nigeria’s Hi-TV.

In addition, there are other pay-tv licensees such as DaarSat and Trend TV. Of course, the Hi-TV dude collected debt financing from Nigerian banks, bought the rights to the EPL and then set about living it up reportedly with yacht parties in Monaco, Cannes, etc.
PoliticsRe: HURRAY! Buhari Signs Anti-monopoly Law — 15 Years Afterward by 9jaRealist: 1:22am On Feb 07, 2019
sammyj:
Who said Dangote i the first place. Na you sabi. What about the Refinery huh huh huh
There were at least about 28 licenses for private refineries granted to other investors, going all the way back to the Obasanjo administration, BEFORE Dangote was granted a license. In fact, the Orient Refinery in Anambra State was licensed under the Obasanjo administration.
PoliticsRe: HURRAY! Buhari Signs Anti-monopoly Law — 15 Years Afterward by 9jaRealist: 1:18am On Feb 07, 2019
dabossman:
Often the biggest players in a market have the tendency to engage in unfair activities that tend to crush their competition if not checkmated. Anti-trust laws are put in place to prevent these underhand tactics by the big players to run their competition out of the market. It helps to create a level playing field.

It is well known that Dangote has a monopolistic control of the cement industry in Nigeria. This was mainly achieved through import waivers, concessions, unfettered access to foreign exchange and acquisition of some government owned assets at cheap prices. e.g. Benue Cement. Go and ask the likes of BUA Cement and Ibeto if they got the same privileges from the government.
YES! They all did (and in fact, for a while Ibeto was the ONLY cement company in Nigeria importing cement without local manufacturing).

At the SAME TIME that Dangote Cement won the bid for BCC Gboko during the privatization program of the Obasanjo administration, Ibeto won the bid for the privatized Nkalagu Cement Company while the BUA Group won the bids for the Cement Company of Northern Nigeria as well as for Bendel Cement Company. In addition, the foreign multinational Holcim (one of the biggest global producers before it merged into another global powerhouse producer LaFarge, which also operated independently in Nigeria) won the bid for the privatized Calabar Cement Company (working in partnerships with Flour Mills).

Of course it is public knowledge that Dangote Cement’s acquisition of BCC was stoutly resisted by a segment of Benue indigenes shamefully led by then Governor Akume primarily on primordial XENOPHOBIC grounds (publicly driveling that Dangote should have bid for CCN or Sokoto Cement instead) while proffering a preference for foreign investors (as if any sane foreigner would invest in such a climate). Since resolving that resistance, Dangote Cement has not only upgraded/virtually rebuilt the Gboko plant (increasing production TEN-FOLD from a mere 400,000 tons/year at acquisition to 4 million tons/year and employing more workers in the process), but has also built schools and a community hospital while supplying pipe-borne water and electricity from the plant’s embedded IPP.

Meanwhile, the Ibeto Group met pretty much the same kind of hostile reception and resistance in respect of Nkalagu Cement Company - but shockingly from his own kin led by the Ebonyi State government, and it has taken well over a decade for Ibeto to apparently finally resolve it and thereafter to execute an agreement in mid-last year with China’s Sonoma (the same company that builds Dangote Cenent’s Nigerian plants) to modernize/rebuild the Nkalagu Cement Company plant.
PoliticsRe: HURRAY! Buhari Signs Anti-monopoly Law — 15 Years Afterward by 9jaRealist: 12:43am On Feb 07, 2019
SheikhMuniru:
DANGOTE GO GET RIVAL BE THAT
And in which sector does Dangote not have “rivals”? Well, competitors (real rivalry is a function of personal efforts cheesy).

Is it in cement, where BUA is a huge competitor (and it seems that the people of Ebonyi has finally agreed to allow their own kin Cletus Ibeto to take over Nkalagu Cement and modernize it, after decades of resistance), and where huge deep-pocketed global producers like LaFarge (and previously Holcim and Blue Circle, before both merged into LaFarge), Scancem and Heidelberg have operated in Nigeria since before the 1960s? Or does Dangote Cement lack competitors in the many other African countries where it goes head-to-head against not only multinationals but also local/national companies?

Is it in petroleum refinery, where government (through the NNPC) will be an overbearing competitor with the dubious advantage of being both regulator and competitor, and where there were about 28 licenses issued for private refineries (including the Orient Refinery) going back to the Obasanjo administration BEFORE the Dangote Group was granted its license relatively recently under the Jonathan administration?

Is it in petrochemicals and/or fertilizer, where apart from the government-owned petrochemical complexes at the Warri and Port Harcourt refineries (again where the government enjoys the dubious advantage of regulator/competitor), there is the privatized Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals majority-owned by the deep-pocketed renown multinational Indorama Group, as well as the privatized Notore Fertilizer (formerly NAFCON), which enjoys enjoys free zone status and has deep-pocketed foreign shareholders (such as the IFC’s private equity fund)?

Is it in sugar, where the behemoth Flour Mills subsidiary Golden Penny and the BUA Group are significant players? Or is it in flour milling, where same Flour Mills is by far the leading player in Nigeria, with Oba Otudeko’s Honeywell also a huge competitor? Or is it in rice production, where a late-starting Dangote Group has to compete against a deep-pocketed global player like Olams Group, the Vaswanis’ Stallion Group and several other competitors?

It is unfortunate that Nigeria remains a country where success is often envied and derided while failure and bigotry is often elevated and even celebrated. Success is NOT a zero-sum phenomena, and yours does not depend on someone else’s failure or vice versa!
PoliticsRe: HURRAY! Buhari Signs Anti-monopoly Law — 15 Years Afterward by 9jaRealist: 12:05am On Feb 07, 2019
daroz:
Does Buhari even know what it’s all about?
grin grin grin
HealthRe: UNTH To Dispose 450 Unclaimed Corpses by 9jaRealist: 11:51pm On Feb 06, 2019
braine:
If that's a joke, we can as well say everything we say on this forum is a joke including this comment of yours.
Well, opinions are like a-holes because everyone has one, so others may also tab your comment as tragic comedy. grin

Nonetheless, that’s exactly the point. The free expression of a multiplicity of opinions and viewpoints (including jokes that one might personally consider not to be funny or even in poor taste, such as yours) must be regarded as a fundamental right in a supposedly democratic country, as should official tolerance thereof. A basic premise of a supposedly democratic society is allowing a diversity of viewpoints to compete in a free marketplace of opinions. Only brutal/backward dictatorships and feudalistic fundamentalists would think (or act) otherwise. SMH
CrimeRe: Paschal Chinazor Onyilo Mobbed To Death After Being Labelled A Kidnapper. Photos by 9jaRealist: 11:20pm On Feb 06, 2019
TheTrueSeeker:
My younger brother loaned a lady some cash some years back. When it was time to pay, the lady started dribbling him like J J Okocha until one day, he got to her house determined to collect his money but was told by her eldest son that mummy just went out to the shop (my brother doesn't know where shop is) My brother told the son to call his mother and inform her that he was waiting for her at home since she'd stopped taking his calls.

Son called his mom and they spoke in some coded ibo language which my brother was able to decode a little that the boy should go through the backdoor unnoticed and come to the shop which was a very long distance from the house. (Oyibo to Rumomasi if you know Ph enough)

My brother offered to give the boy a ride to wherever he was going to after he intercepted the son at the backyard trying to escape. Boy entered the car and started giving directions. Soon after, mom called and son told her he was coming in my brother's car to the shop, mother scolded him on the phone called him names and dropped the call, my brother was just calm.

By the time they finally arrived at the shop, Dreaded looking men of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, Mini Okoro Police Division Port Harcourt (which was not so far from the shop) were on ground to pick my brother for attempted child kidnap.

Clear SET UP...!!! Woman had raised a false alarm, called the police claiming that the 'kidnaper' was requesting for money and she'd promised to give the alleged 'kidnapper' the money as soon as they get to her shop.

Well, cut long story short, my brother had to agree to part with the money he was being owed that night (N150k) just to get off the hook...!!
And what if your brother thought he would make more money from rituals and had driven off with the boy?

It’s bemusing to me that some people still do not seem to get the inappropriateness of impermissbly driving away with someone else’s kid. To be brutally honest, your brother’s actions were STUPID and ill-advised. What if there had been a accident and your brother survived while the kid died? Frankly, your brother should count himself lucky that the woman actually did the right thing under the circumstances of reporting to police authorities and that he only lost N150k in the process.
CrimeRe: Paschal Chinazor Onyilo Mobbed To Death After Being Labelled A Kidnapper. Photos by 9jaRealist: 11:05pm On Feb 06, 2019
ZOO! angry

But he should never have put the kid in his car, especially given the sort of country we live in these days.
HealthRe: UNTH To Dispose 450 Unclaimed Corpses by 9jaRealist: 10:41pm On Feb 06, 2019
braine:
You talk anyhow. If they arrest you now, you'll say someone is a tyrant.
It is SHOCKING that you think it would be okay to arrest him for cracking a joke. Nigeria is headed to full DICTATORSHIP! SMDH angry
PoliticsRe: Buhari Has Plans For Additional State In South East, Obiano Tells Ndigbo by 9jaRealist: 10:33pm On Feb 06, 2019
grin grin grin

Pure comedy. The President CANNOT create states.
CrimeRe: Man Shot Dead By Armed Robbers After Wife Flaunted Cash On Facebook. Photos by 9jaRealist: 10:16pm On Feb 06, 2019
PennywysCares:
They just wanna put allegations on the poor wife head
Nigeria remains a misogynistic society. undecided
CrimeRe: Man Shot Dead By Armed Robbers After Wife Flaunted Cash On Facebook. Photos by 9jaRealist: 10:14pm On Feb 06, 2019
I suspect his brother and “cousins” were responsible.

Armed robbers do not go around scouring FB for money-flashers, and how would they have his address so soon thereafter? Yeye dey smell.
Christianity EtcRe: The N1 Billion Engineering Faculty Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Donated To BIU by 9jaRealist: 10:04pm On Feb 06, 2019
N1 billion for this? Hopefully, it has complex modern equipment inside shocked
CrimeRe: 11 Yahoo Boys And Girls Arrested In Ilorin (Photos) by 9jaRealist: 9:44pm On Feb 06, 2019
omoteacher:
Why always showing their faces with out conviction ? This is not normal until proven guilty in the law court.
Nothing legally wrong with showing the faces of criminal suspects (unless they are minors).
CrimeRe: EFCC Arrests Five Suspected Internet Fraudsters, Recovers N31m by 9jaRealist: 9:31pm On Feb 06, 2019
mamatayour:
Efc won't go after politicians ehn....abi dem no be fraudsters too huh
Both are NOT mutually-exclusive (but of course many Nigerians will also defend those politicians by saying they are being “targeted”). undecided

But this is how it starts. People steal and get enough money to enter politics where they then loot everything they can get their hands on. SMH
PoliticsRe: Adamu Mohammed Removes Imohimi As Lagos CP, Zubairu To Take Over by 9jaRealist:
wizzie001:
It's very necessary.... some governors are already accustomed to their police commissioners, so they've been scheming on ways to manipulate and intimidate during election to their own advantage... this masterstroke already put an end to that, it takes time to build relationship with someone you are just getting to know!
TravelRe: The New Berger Bus-stop, Lagos Is Fast Degrading (PHOTOS) by 9jaRealist: 3:01am On Feb 06, 2019
1) Maintenance; and

2) Trying to build 21st century infrastructure for people whose mentality is still several centuries behind, busy stealing undergarments. SMH
PoliticsRe: 2019: Buhari Hosts Apc House Of Rep Candidates To A Dinner(photos) by 9jaRealist: 2:37am On Feb 06, 2019
It is OUR money that these fools are spending. angry

Aso Rock Villa (and Government Houses) should NOT be political party headquarters or event centers, and government funds should NEVER be expended on events for a party’s electioneering campaign.
TravelRe: Nigerian Woman Begging On The Streets Of Canada. Photos by 9jaRealist: 2:26am On Feb 06, 2019
haywire07:
I have only one advise for her.

Don't come back to Nigeria
Let her remain “in the abroad” and starve/freeze her behind off! She probably would have nothing to offer Nigeria.
PhonesRe: More Telecoms Subscribers' Woes Loom by 9jaRealist: 2:18am On Feb 06, 2019
Why would any sane investor invest or re-invest in the Nigerian telecoms sector? undecided

The biggest investor by far in the sector (and probably one of biggest-ever foreign investors in Nigeria outside of the oil and gas sector) MTN that came here when NOBODY else was remotely interested in investing in the sector is being harassed left right and center (albeit they deserve the fine for failing to register SIMs - but not the insane amount initially charged), with even the clueless Attorney General now acting as the self-anointed tax authority and tax court while publicly announcing tax liabilities that he apparently pulled from his behind - sadly to considerable applause from the xenophobic segment of the Nigerian chattering class. SMH

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