₦airaland Forum

Kingosytex:
How could such a facially beautifully lady possess a soul as black as charcoal?

What offence could the boyfriend have really committed that made her take such a barbaric action? There is more to this story.

All that glitters is not really gold.

R.I.P to the deceased.

So to you "black" represents evil. But you are mad when "white" people descriminate you for being black? Africans are the stupidest people. You don't even think about the words you use.

rossoki:
China used brutal suppression to force self reliance. They banned virtually all imports, including food. Millions starved. And their middle classes had to use bicycles for transport, right up till the early 2000s, as all vehicle importation was banned.

There was mass opposition to these draconian policies for which countless millions of people were killed, tortured, and jailed, and many are still incarcerated till today.

Plus there are no civil rights. No freedom of speech or assembly, and one-party rule by the Chinese Communist party is the law.

Are you ready to go through the 30 years of HELL the Chinese people went through to be self-sufficient? If not - and I know you're not - then kindly STFU and accept the use of development loans and foreign capital.

How is that any worse than Nigeria's current situation?

rossoki:
Sanusi LIED when he made that claim. It was a BIG FAT LIE. Plus salaries are not ''sundry nonsense''. Civil servants must be paid for going to work.

It's easy to propose a ''20% tax rate'' on the 400 billion dollar annual GDP. Good luck enforcing that in a country where 3/4ths of businesses are unregistered, informal mom and pop shops with no accounting or business bank accounts.

Forget 20%, let's start with 10%. Because right now, we are only at 6%, which is lower than Afghanistan. Even common Ghana has a tax to GDP ratio of 14% --Rwanda has 16.7%, and Kenya has 18.2%. Are they not Africans? But here you are making excuses for why Nigeria is only 6%.

And corporate tax is not the only way to generate revenue. We should increase property taxes, VAT taxes, tax government organizations and parastatals, luxury tax on plane tickets, stop giving tax breaks and incentives to criminals like Dangote, etc. It is better to increase tax revenue than to take foreign loans that will drain forex and debase the currency.

As for the salaries, 90% of that goes to Oga on top. The common civil servants are lucky to even get their pathetic 30,000 monthly -- which is the same money I make in a single hour working in the U.S.

10minutes:
go to school you say no..... i am guessing u are igbo ? why is it that u guys behave like u have sense but still don't?

the u.s spend 1trillion dollars on their military can you spend this much?

Nigeria pays senators $35,000 a month (along with free luxury cars, etc.) , compared to the U.S who pays senators $16,000 a month which comes down to $7,000 after tax. But you want to complain about lack of money? I have never seen such a hopeless nation of educated illiterates. If a meteor strikes this earth, may it land on Nigeria -- specifically lagos, so it can eliminate the highest number of suffering and smiling Nigerian monkeys.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43516825

IgboWarlord:
Am done weeping bro..Now,am all about working my ass off to be able to get the resources to enable me migrate out of this deadzone..Peace

I wish you the best of luck brother. Not a day goes by where I am not thankful to live abroad. Nigeria will extinguish your life.

rossoki:
US Annual budget - 7.6 trillion dollars.

Nigeria Annual budget - 35 billion dollars.

''Plenty of money'' indeed.

Ignorant dunce.

You lack even basic knowledge of the budget and finances vis-a-vis other nations, yet you are telling us 'what we must do' in Nigeria.

Only on nairaland.

$35 billion annually is more enough to get Nigeria on the right track. And with a GDP of around $400 billion, Nigeria should be able to raise $80 billion annually if we had a 20% tax rate. Lack of money isn't the problem. The problem is a low tax to GDP and bad spending decisions.

According to former central bank governor Sanusi, the government spends 20% of its budget on the national assembly. The remaining 80% is spent on salaries and other sundry nonsense. That's why we must borrow for infrastructure.

10minutes:
because we dont have the money.

monkey. Nigeria has plenty of money.

ThePlainTruth:
When we start teaching our own local technology in our schools and Universities on how to improve on our own technology which will allow for our own industrial revolution and will make us to be self sufficient. We have the same knowledge too which we need to develop. Check this video of making iron with 100% local African materials.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd4k6lb3O4E

Best video I've seen so far in 2021. Manufacturing like this requires ZERO forex. All the raw materials, labor and machinery is found domestically. That means the price of the item won't rise if the naira is devalued.

Golan007:
Why don't we make own microchips, Jeans, vessels, aeroplanes, wristwatches?


For years and years, we've failed to construct and maintain a nationwide rail system.

When we begin to make progress, we begin to ask questions with ulterior motives.

We have cement companies in Nigeria: Dangote. We have civil engineering companies: Julius Berger/Chagoury.

With all the money Dangote, Chagoury Group, and Julius Berger have looted from Nigeria, why aren't these domestic companies capable of contracting rail projects that can be paid for by naira? Why must we always use Chinese companies that will demand dollars to drain forex and saddle the nation with debt?

What is so hard about building a rail road anyways -- that it should cost multiple billions of dollars? Most tracks here in the U.S. are made with wood!

IgboWarlord:
5.3 billion USD for a railway from Ibadan to Kano..Even if na subterranean rail..Even if the tracks will be made of solid golds encrusted with diamonds...I have found out that the amount of money used to "execute projects" is basically the same amount used in the western and more developed countries..Why the gap?

Dubai built the tallest building on earth for $1.5 billion. Nigeria is building a substandard rail for $5 billion. Weep for this monkey country.

AnthonyAk:
If Nigerian business men were so rich we should be able to fund this privately from local sources. But out wealth is only in pictures

The only thing rich Nigerians know how to do is building big stupid houses. Monkey PePu.

If they construct Port Harcourt to Maiduguri before constructing Calabar to Lagos, we need a second civil war in this country. These rails are just subsidizing the north, they don't benefit the south.

gregyboy:
See these one, no wonder i keep saying the underlying love yoruba have for their fulani master can never be broken till this world would end


You're a Yoruba Muslim i guess ?


Yorubas have always been dividing the southern nigeria with their underlying love for their master since 14bc

I would rather listen to an igbo or ss man agree to their beauty not a Yoruba man who naturally leaks the ass of a fulani man for no reason

I spit out cowardice,


Ooh arr you not the kwara guy, Bleep I told you, you're more fulani than yoruba, you refused,
Now you see

You have to go for paternity test to see if someone lied to you

Yoruba are natural slaves. Monkey-like people who worship outsiders.

samsard:
It's highly unlikely they'll ever break-up Google and Facebook. Alibaba is being haunted because Jack Ma criticized the Chinese government.

What is the point or your baseless arguments? Is this an indirect way for you to defend Dangote's monopoly?

7lives:
Check some of my post on this forum, I said Buhari will go into Nigeria history as the best president ever.
Not because he is the most intelligent among his peers, but because he is the most committed, and has the discipline and courage to do what it takes, to develop this country.
A lot of projects that Buhari government is undertaking now, should have been completed even before year 2000.
My dad told me that during the Festac 77, a foreign journalist interviewed a government officials, about the bogus spending.
The answer from the official is that, " money is not Nigeria's problem, na how to spend it ".
The whole world knows what happened to Nigeria five years later.
It takes a disciplined and a committed leader to build a nation.
A lot of heavy loads that are supposed to be moved by rail are being moved by road, killing and wasting human lives.
My prayer is that God should sustain Buhari to complete his tenure, so that some of his projects, will not become another abandoned project.
Buhari is Nigeria's Attarturk, God bless him.
God bless Nigeria.

I agree with you. He is the best president from an infrastructure perspective. That monkey Goodluck Johnathan enjoyed oil prices of u to $100 per barrel and still accomplished nothing.

7lives:
SW can do without all these aforementioned suggestions.

You can suck a monkey dik. You don't speak for the South West.

Daverytimes:
The coastal railway benefits Nigeria first, the South to North projects benefit us but also China, and guess who we get loans from.
The rail that runs to the interior of the country from the coast is beneficial to the Chinese because it aids in resource extraction (from both the North and Niger), clearly, however, the coastal railway is the most economically beneficial to Nigeria.

Bingo!

Joseph08:
They will soon collect loan to build public toilet

Fvcking shithole Corntree!

Because all the revenue is going to excessive Senator and House of rep salaries. Monke Gubment

rossoki:
That's exactly what the USA does, which is why they are the heaviest indebted nation on earth.

In return, they got a developed country.

Development is not free. Someone's gotta pay for it.

There is no such thing as a "foreign currency loan" in the U.S. The United States can basically print its own money with a less than one percent interest rate. Nigeria, on the other hand, risks currency devaluation and exorbitant interest rates.

sulaak:
Lagos can get natural gas via the West Africa Gas Pipeline, Lagos doesn't need coal, and palm oil can be shipped.

The only benefit from an East-West railway will be the industries in Eastern Nigeria. A Lagos to Kano railway will open up the North and reduce poverty.

So the project is just charity for the North? Why should lagos have to ship palm oil when it is produced in nearby Benin. And Lagos DOES need coal for cement production. The coal is currently shipped from South Africa.

Nwaelohim:
Op, you need formal and informal education. For asking what is benefits of linking south to North with rail. When is completed you start shouting GEJ started it.

Calabar to Lagos is clearly the smarter project.

Akudaisi:
that's why I choosed translator job,no matter the matter they will need one,and please they don't hate blacks it's blacks that hate themselves

No, Chinese hate blacks more than anything. I've been to China. They see Africans as roaches.

The Nigeria government will soon begin construction of a rail line linking Port Harcourt to Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Bornu State. What does the South East gain from being connected to this part of Nigeria? Why does the Nigerian government refuse to build a coastal rail that would link Calabar with Lagos? Clearly, the economic impact will be greatest in the South.

https://constructionreviewonline.com/news/nigeria/port-harcourt-maiduguri-rail-project-nigeria-to-commence-soon/

Sobasojek:
Yes but the fact remains Lagos kano will be more important when you compare population, economy of both states, transportation of goods by rail

There’s also palm oil in south west

Anyone who understands the economy of Nigeria will know that the coastal rail has a bigger impact. Simply look at the GDP per capita map of Nigeria. The East is a bigger import/export market then the North -- full stop.

You are clearly a northerner who refuses to accept reason because of your biases.

Sobasojek:
Youre not answering simple question. What would Lagos calabar benefit Lagos?

Lagos Kano will also be connected to apapa seaport.

Lagos state government is building a lot of infrastructures in lekki that will benefit Lagos state not those cities you mentioned up there


At least kano would bring more agricultural produce to Lagos state unlike those cities you mentioned above

I already told you, the coastal rail will allow for easy export of products from Lagos (and Lekki Free trade Zone) to southern and eastern Nigeria. It would also facilitate the import of natural commodities such as palm oil from Benin, Coal from Enugu, LNG from the delta, etc.

Here is a GDP per capita map of Nigeria. Clearly a SW to SE rail would generate more economic impact.

Tareq1105:
Ameachi, how do you feel as Minister of Railway, that the capital city of Abuja is not connected to Lagos, the nation commercial hub?

And you are connecting Ibadan to Kano and Niger Republic. Any justification? I don't know if it makes economic sense.

The Lagos to Ibadan rail is already complete and the Kano to Abuja rail is already complete. This new rail will link Lagos to Kano.

Akudaisi:
I don dey learn Chinese,ni hao na hello,I won get job fast fast once dey take over even if na translator eh no go bad

The jobs will go to Chinese. They don't like blacks

Sobasojek:
Lagos to Kano is more important because of transportation of goods through cargo rail than Lagos to calabar. It’s not even up for debate

What would Lagos gain from calabar from Lagos to calabar rail?

But in seriousness. The coastal rail is more important.

The design goes straight through Lekki, which will allow evacuation of goods from the Lekki Free trade zone, Dangote refinery, and new Lekki port. It also goes through the major cities like Benin, Port Harcourt, etc to transport Cargo.

Right now the Lagos government is building a lot of infrastructure in Lekki that will be basically useless without at least partial completion of the coastal rail.

Sobasojek:
Lagos to Kano is more important because of transportation of goods through cargo rail than Lagos to calabar. It’s not even up for debate

What would Lagos gain from calabar from Lagos to calabar rail?

You will gain more Igbos.

SavageResponse:
For someone who claims to be a professional you clearly lack polish!

The fact that you live as a second class citizen in the US flipping burgers in MacDonald's for a living does not make you better than Nigerians who live here in Nigeria.

It is better to be a 10th class citizen in America than to live in Nigeria. I would rather bite my own thumb off than live in that stinking zoo you call a country.

gurunlocker:
How much has this administration borrowed since 2015?



Are they not generating at all? Or everything is used in paying salaries?

Around 70% of the budget is used to pay salaries. The house of reps and senators alone swallow 30% of government revenue. They enjoy salaries of 13 million naira per month.