₦airaland Forum

Laudable!

Even worse, believe Tinubu, and you will believe just anything. These people do not care about Nigeria and Nigerians. We are now blaming Trump for cutting HIV funding, but the animals in power and their aides don't even care enough to speak or issue a statement assuring patients of anything.

They know they have unpaid foot soldiers and rebranded j a n j a weeds ever willing to defend their loot and attack anyone that dares to speak the truth to power.

Vergovert:
Gba f'oga e!

Oga na master l'ojo k'ojo.

Tinubu should forgive him but not forget.

Forgive him for failing to eat cow dung like you and others would have done?? Oh please.

free2ryhme:
I get the point about supporting Trump’s decision to halt HIV funding for Nigeria. The fraud in the sector is frustrating, with many corrupt individuals benefiting while the funds don’t reach the people who truly need them. It’s unfair to American taxpayers who genuinely intended to help. That said, cutting the funding completely might hurt millions of innocent Nigerians relying on the program for life-saving treatment. A better approach would be stricter oversight and accountability to ensure the funds go where they’re needed, rather than punishing everyone for the actions of a few

Right. Innocent Nigerians must start holding our politicians accountable for every penny. The least of our politicians are buying choice residences in the same U.S. Our yahoo yahoo approach to government is evil and satanic.

While I do not support an absolute ban, I believe the FBI should arrest and extradite people syphoning these aids in the same way that they extradite yahoo boys. Same crime, worst impact.

We4all:
Go Fund Me, for what exactly? What about her husband and savings?

What if she’s not married? What if she had planned on exclusive breastfeeding, and now her family has to buy baby formula from 0-12 months, maybe hire a caregiver too, and also plan for her burial? I imagine it costs a lot of money to bury a loved one in the UK.

And yes, there are good people who simply want to help. How do I know? I lost my wife in a similar manner nine months ago, and to this day, I still have people sending tokens of support for the babies. I never imagined a time would come when such support systems would make such a difference, but now I see how helpful they are. In the first few days or weeks, the expenses come back to back - paying to honor the lost one and also paying to keep the baby alive.

In the midst of this, the trauma can shatter her 'husband' s' ability to work for weeks and even months, and unless he has substantial savings, like a truly significant amount, along with a strong support system, a bad situation can only get worse. Over time, he may also have to always pay to get someone to show 'motherly' love to his baby. It can be that bad.

So, what is the purpose of post-UTME? That means the universities are also culpable?

Trump may be the leader today, but tomorrow it may be someone else proposing the same or more draconian policy. Today it may be the U.S., tomorrow it may be some EU or even some African countries. This has consistently been a major concern. Never forget your home/origin, regardless of where you live or what your status is in that country/state. Very important. Japa, but connect (and ensure your children connect) deeply with your source. Igbos in Lagos have learned this over the years.

arkad321:
Trump is a,very cruel man. He is aiming for mass indirect murder.
People who cant even afford food how can they afford the expensive Arvs?

Who do you blame for this? A country where a vice president got N21bn for house renovation should not be complaining of hunger and starvation.

Ulcer/poorly managed type 1 diabetes.

Still can't believe that Nigerians gave 8 years of their lives to this entity.

Are PPPs (Pauperised People Projects) a joke to you?

WrriterNg:
Ladies and Gentlemen.

Let's welcome Colombia to the BRICS family.

I hope this trend continues. It'll only push more countries to de-dollarize and join the BRICS.

All this gra gra and arrogance na because say other countries still dey use US dollars. We'll see if they can still sanction anyone if everyone starts using their own currencies.

The US is heavily reliant on alliances and partnerships and can NEVER survive on it's own.

You're funny. Few weeks after your country became a BRICS' partner, your ex president from Daura was caught sharing dollar notes.

EmperorCaesar:

There are 1000 other things to be analyzed by this writer choose to dwell on irrelevancies like this

Useless contributions from a Useless citizen

Nothing wrong with the Immortalization

Is anyone surprised? I mean you guys rationalise and glorify poverty.

The level of corruption in this country ehn..! These jobless miscreants have turned student unionism to a full-time job. Tell me why 50-60-year-old grandpas with pot bellies are still parading themselves as students.

forgiveness:
America is a migrant country. They have exterminated the real indigenes, the red Indians.

Even Trump is a beneficiary of the American by birth law because his forefathers were immigrants.

...Nice. I just hope you will hold the the same view about Lagos/Lagosians and allow Gbadebo contest elections in peace without making reference to his wife's state of origin.

But in just 2 years, you people have shared more rice than any previous government?

Na you wan eat Hida Bachi (in Ola of Lagos' voice) food sha.

Nothing about that brand, its structure, décor, etc. exudes this inflated price or elitism apart from being in Lekki. The décor and aluminium/glass food display are exactly what you'd see in conventional mamaput these days.

Spend wisely. It's for your (own) good.

slimthugchimee2:
1700-2700

You have not even seen worse

Indeed I was wrong. N2700 cannot be the worst when we have people like zero8zero ever waiting and willing to defend $1/N100,000.

zero8zero:
So, the first five countries are not struggling with inflation . Can you see that you're indeed an Illiterate. You just sit behind your keyboard dey yarn dust.
You are comparing rice prices . Are farmers in those countries driven out of their farms by bandits?, you see why you wailers don't have sense, comparing oranges with apples.

Oh, now you realise that farmers are being driven out of their farms, yet your priority is making life harder for these same farmers by increasing costs for electricity, fuel, data, bank charges, housing, and all essential and non-essential products and services? People like you even accused them of living a fake life. Fake life despite getting killed and kidnapped on their farmlands.

It would have made more sense if you were Tinubu's son. I can't understand how ordinary, struggling Nigerians like you defend their lazy kleptocrats c u m oppressors.

zero8zero:
Defender of poor Nigerians, oya tell us 5 top countries that inflation is not going up?.

I can give you 30 countries, but manage these 7:

1. United States
2. Canada
3. Germany
4. Argentina
5. South Africa
6. Indonesia
7. China

Defender of poor Nigerians, oya tell us if poor people in any advanced country are not paying for what they consume?

Defender of poor Nigerians, oya tell us another best way that Government can finance a budget deficits apart from borrowing?

These are unreasonable and thoughtless questions. Paying for what you consume is the reason the average worker earning ₦70,000 (yet to be implemented minimum wage) cannot afford a bag of rice priced at over ₦85,000.

I dare you to name just one country where a 50kg bag of rice costs more than the monthly minimum wage of workers.

Let me help you:

Nigeria: Rice (₦85,000 – ₦150,000) Minimum wage (₦30,000)
United States: Rice ($229.50) Minimum wage ($1,160)
Switzerland: Rice ($196.50) Minimum wage ($4,774)

zero8zero:
And that's how it's supposed to be, pay for what you consume, as it is being done in countries that work. It is illiterates like you that are spreading fake news because 99% are gullibles. The jets purchased is not a private jet, it is FG property, Tinubu will not take it to his house when he leaves office, there was a security reports that he needed a new jet when the old ones are already malfunctioning. For the yatch, have you seen Tinubu in any yatch?. And the VP residence, are you aware that the same residence had been under construction since OBJ regime?, with billions allocated every budget for it yet it remained uncompleted but people siphoning the money. So, what bad if the new President complete it once & for all?. Will anyone put it in the budget again to siphon money?. You're an illiterate, keep wailing.

Defender of governments of countries that work una

You want poor Nigerians to pay for what they consume at inflation rate of over 33%, but your president is still taking loans to fund the most basic things??

zero8zero:
Your low IQ is even worse than that. You illiterates think the value of naira was N465?. The more you're reminded than over $10billion was used for defending the naira to sustain it, the more you keep fooling yourself with artificial naira value, illiterates.

Yeah, the good thing is that, instead of the government continuing to pay the subsidy, the payment of the subsidy has been transferred to you, the dull, non-thinking Nigerian.

Someone is still paying that subsidy (i.e., high cost of petrol, electricity, FX, and increased bank charges, call, and data tariffs); it’s just no longer the government. Instead, it’s the slow "patriot" like you, who believes you’re contributing to a non-existent "better future" by taking the liability off a government that takes loans in billions to fund private jets, yachts, VP house renovations, and some of the most expensive elections in the world.

Someone is extremely dull in this equation, and it's definitely not the government.

budaatum:
You'll find out when oil price is low.

What can be worse than taking FX from N400 to N1700? Nigerians have seen the worst already.

360degreess:
.. Slavery mentality.Do you think Canada is an African country?. Even right thinking ambitious Africans will not agree with this madness.

But the right thinking Africans will choose the US over their s h i t t y homes?

With the right amount of [looted] money, any nonentity can sit on that chair. There is nothing spectacular about that seat.

Vinod007:
Why are you people always pathetic like this? Is democracy no longer a matter of choice? I have never seen any country where people are gaslighted to vote a particular person, except in Nigeria. Do you mean most people who voted are not rational enough to know who they wanted to vote for? If you don't like a person who has won an election, wait for another election to vote him out

Call it whatever you want, but a country with a large proportion of stark, starving, hungry illiterates cannot make sensible decisions.

It is not gaslighting to describe people who sell their votes for N500 and 500 grams of semolina precisely as they are.

If there is one thing that will never allow us to achieve a "cashless economy," it is this same "POS for cash" system. People who should be deploying these POS machines for legitimate business transactions and trade already prefer to use them to sell cash to willing buyers. After all, the N300 they earn per N10,000 withdrawal pays them far more than they would make by using it to sell soft drinks. See POS, see quick cash... Hehe.

Too late. POS for cash withdrawals is an "innovation" that should never have existed in the first place. The whole idea of a cashless economy has been completely undermined by the proliferation of POS stands. We took cash away from the banks, handed it over to individuals with POS, and suddenly, we claim to have achieved a "cashless economy." LOL.

This is what happens when policies (e.g., M-PESA from Kenya) are stolen from abroad without understanding the local context and challenges.

Creating artificial cash scarcity in banks and ATMs is also not the solution. Have we reached a stage where we can truly say Nigerians no longer need cash? Absolutely not.

To achieve a cashless economy, what we needed was massive fintech innovation and effective banks/ATMs with reasonable daily withdrawal limits (not the N5,000 per withdrawal that only creates more queues and wastes valuable time).

If anything, its use should have been limited to rural areas. Even then, the so-called rural areas without banks managed to survive before the introduction of "POS for cash." Whatever systems they used back then to access cash should have been improved upon instead.

So when are your politicians returning their loots?

“In America, people get killed every day by gunmen. But have you ever heard Americans say, ‘May America never happen to you?’ Let’s stop saying, ‘May Nigeria never happen to you.’ Maybe we can turn it into, ‘May Nigeria work for me.’”

Who told this tax consultant that Americans don't say trash about their country?

The audacity of living in Nigeria and presuming that Americans pray for America all day and night is appalling.