₦airaland Forum

kenzysmith:
You met the gym instructor and your wife like this

Binancian:
Source: Africa facts zone (twitter)
https://mobile.twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1544369168362967041

Egypt is speeding up development, can Nigeria learn something from them?

wirinet:
Making excuses and attacking the messenger instead of the message, due to tribal or religious sentiments. This should not be about whether all caucasian wealthy men's hands are clean in comparism to your tribesmen but about the safety of Nigerians.

It's not only airpeace that the "outsider" has reviewed, he had reviewed many other airlines in Nigeria and other countries. That's his niche. He makes YouTube videos of airline services in many countries of the world, particularly airlines with reputable poor services.

Airpeace services are atrocious. I know a young pilot that resigned last week from airpeace. He said that the number of operating planes have reduced from 15 to just 2. He said most times the air-conditioning in the cockpit is not working and had to fly the plane sweating. He went to look for job outside the shores of Nigeria.

BSdetective:
American famous YouTuber Josh Cahill with over 100k subscribers known for reviewing different airlines around the world in different countries recently visited Nigeria and flew airpeace and described his experience with the airline as flying nigeria's worst airline owned by a fugitive wanted for fraud in America, He called it the most Unprofessional, Unpunctual and Unsafe airline in Nigeria. Video Link below:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1VvP8yIDQ

God1000:
His death saddens me, I don't know the motive behind this whole ugly incident.

Why assassinating such a good man

ghettokid1:
The socio-political activist Wrote on his twitter page.

Trumpcard05:
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53943758

Reference:
Is he not dead already.

Fira09:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/japan-ex-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-shot/

Lanrelagboi:
https://lagostoday.com.ng/tinubu-expresses-sadness-over-opec-chief-barkindos-passing/

lawyer:
Hi Everyone! 2009 and 2010 was great for so many reasons because i made people finally realise they have the power to determine how they buy property before throwing away their hard earned money. Personally i feel very very fulfilled that i did my best to help a lot of Nairalanders search properties and recommend the ones that are valid and the ones that have so many hidden problems that by the time you purchase it, you end up having more headaches than when you previously didnt buy any land. I was doing my calculation yesterday and i realised i have turned down almost N165Million worth of properties that were advertised to be sold to intending purchasers that had so many hidden scruples that the agents and omoniles wont tell you till you commit your money and then its from frying pan to fire.

For the avoidance of doubt for First Time Property/Land Buyers or New Nairaland Property Viewers and Readers  who dont know what a property search is, it means before you buy any land or property whatso ever in any form or shape where ever, you have to know the validity of it.

Lagos in particular is so notorious when it comes to sale of property or land that have so many fraudulent defects surrounding that land/ property that you wont even know what has hit you. These set of people are known as the Omoniles, land grabbers or land touts.

Omoniles naturally should mean owners of the original land which includes the original family that truthfully inherited the property from their fore fathers that has passed down to them. But the real problem comes when there are so many members of the family that are divided in terms of claiming ownership of the lands and how the land truthfully devolved to them. Before you know it, a property that is meant to be shared by a family of 3 to claim ownership is now being contested by the brother in law, the aunty, the great grand uncle relatives etc and thats when they begin to employ touts going around to masquerade as the original owners with the right to sell and after you fall victim of their sweet tongues and coercion, you realise that you bought from the wrong family or the wrong set of people who have no right to sell the land to you and you would be confronted by the original owners  when you have started building half way and forced to cough out another payment to the real owners or be thrown out of the land. Trust me this scourge is very very real and 65% of lands in lagos have this problem one way or the other.

The other way your being decieved is by telling you the genuiness of the property comes from a set of documents. Those set of documents include either a survey plan, a deed of assignment, a certificate of occupancy, government allocation letter, government gazette or governors consent.

They will show you all manners of papers to make you believe them instantly and start pointing to different houses around there that has been built by one commissioner or one Minister or one big man and that their houses are still standing without any government wahala. What they want you to do is to instantly believe them and pay money to them immediately. One thing you can be rest assured is that, once you pay money to an Omonile, you will never ever ever get a refund of that money. Its gone and in some cases its in your front they will start sharing the money.

Dont ever ever fall for that trick. Always demand for what ever documents they have. I will point out the importance of each document to know the relevance of it and why it shouldn't be taken for granted.

EgunMogaji2:
Are you speculating or ready to build a family house in the near future?

In any case read this thread in full.

https://www.nairaland.com/377377/dont-victim-investigate-every-property

1stGenAmerican:
The war in Ukraine is shaking the commodity market and threatening global food security. The Western economic sanctions on Russia are supposed to force the hands of Russia to withdraw from the invasion, but the responses from the old Baltic power shows resilience. The war is a heavy blow to the global economy, mainly low-income African countries, and no one knows when it will end.

The COVID-19 pandemic had pushed the African continent into its worst economic recession in half a century. For Nigeria, it was the second recession in four years, which made it more challenging to recover. The unanimous agreement by academics, multilateral agencies and policymakers is that public financing needs to increase for governments to mitigate the socio-economic impact of the pandemic. Of course, the country chose the option to keep borrowing from multilateral agencies.

The pandemic reversed hard-won gains in poverty reduction in Africa, pushing millions into extreme poverty. More people added to those at risk of hunger and undernourishment.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), 40 per cent of Nigeria’s total population (almost 83 million people) lives in poverty. The economic recovery has been hindered by higher inflation and tighter global financial conditions. Rising interest rates and increased borrowing costs in international capital markets have raised the risk of capital reversals.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Western economic sanctions on Russia further compounded the situation. The reduction of exports from these countries exacerbates economic and social vulnerabilities. Food prices have reached 14-year highs, oil prices are surging towards the 2008 highs, and fertiliser prices also soared. Ukraine and Russia are major global suppliers of agricultural commodities, fertilisers and energy.

Global market shares for some agricultural exports of Ukraine and Russia are significant. The global share of both countries for the supply of sunflower oil and seeds is 53 per cent. They also supply 27 per cent of wheat, 23 per cent of barley and 14 per cent of corn. The crisis will likely immediately impact grain exports from Ukraine and Russia. Most wheat and barley crops are harvested in the summer and exported during the autumn. Ukraine corn exports typically remain heavy through the spring into the early summer. African imports from Russia and Ukraine are concentrated in a few products and countries.

The impact on food items is a worry for African households because they spend a high share of their expenditures on food. Precisely, Nigeria spends 57 per cent on food items based on 2019 data. These shortages will likely impact Nigeria’s demand as global prices of these commodities will likely increase, and some food items will be scarce. And let’s not forget how world oil prices affect the Nigerian economy – they say whenever the oil market sneezes, Nigeria catches a cold.

According to the United Nations Comtrade data, Nigeria only produces five per cent of the wheat, and Russia is Nigeria’s second wheat importer. Wheat is used in making staples like bread, semolina, noodles and pasta. The possibility of having these food items threatened in supply will be worrying for Nigeria’s rising population. Currently the average price of bread is N450, compared to N300 in 2019. The story is the same for many food items.

The crisis will also have longer-term effects on the fertiliser supply to Nigeria. The rise in natural gas price is a significant contributor. Fertiliser price has increased by 68 per cent Year-on-Year and 21 per cent since the crisis began. With the crisis and sanctions on Russia, there will be further shortages. The implications will be particularly in low-income countries with high demand for food. The price impacts could significantly reduce fertiliser use and result in poor local harvests during reduced global stocks and record global prices.

Russia is Nigeria’s key supplier, together with Canada. Nigeria imports 34 per cent of the raw materials needed to produce fertiliser. According to Comtrade, Russia exported 76 per cent of its potassium fertiliser and 31.2 per cent of nitrogenous fertiliser to Nigeria between 2018 and 2021. The dependence on these raw materials, plus the rise in gas prices, has contributed to the rise in fertiliser prices in Nigeria, currently by over 150 per cent. Therefore, the Russian invasion is expected to further worsen hunger due to food price hikes. The rising food prices put more burdens on Nigeria’s poor population, already struggling with stagnant income and deteriorating standard of living. The data shows that some significant hunger-contributing countries depend on food imports from Russia and Ukraine. Specifically, Nigeria’s undernourished population accounts for 28 per cent of hunger in Africa. This group of people is predominantly in the northern part of the country, where farming is the main activity and terrorism is hampering production. That means hunger and poverty are expected to rise in the immediate and medium-term, or as long as Russia and the West keep playing their game of chicken with an apparent response to credible threats.

It is true that no one knows the depth and how long the crisis will last. The responses by Russia show they are not ready to concede and withdraw from Ukraine despite the Western sanctions. The impact of the crisis is directly or indirectly felt across the globe. Nigeria has experienced two recessions between 2016 and 2020 and is not entirely out of the COVID crisis. Nigeria is also exposed to the risk and uncertainties arising from the Ukraine crisis. These challenges slow the country’s potential, making the policies ineffective.

Finally, a holistic food security approach is critical in ensuring food and nutrition outcomes remain a priority. Nigeria will have to redirect its current food crops demand to mitigate the impact of the food crisis. As the country that accounts for the highest percentage of hunger on the African continent, the demand for fertiliser, wheat, barley, and sunflower must be supplemented in the short term from other countries. In the longer term, the government should take full advantage of the African Continental Free-Trade Area (AfCFTA) to increase intra-African agrifood, industry and services trade to build resilience against external shocks and bring back on track Africa’s recovery from COVID. Doing so will reduce the dependence on non-continental imports and relieve the continent from external supply shocks that may lead to food crises.

Golan007:
Let me see the hypocrites that support this but fought the Nigerian government trying to regulate hate speech.

Peterobiisathie:
https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1544682376458080257

https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1544688731071942659?t=93ItSFcTLzE-p5yUux22kQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1544685395933380608?t=93ItSFcTLzE-p5yUux22kQ&s=19[/quote]He (Reno) is absolutely right! Obi's supporters are well-known on here with their monikers, and they are NOT from opposition party camps. What these guys have done is to transfer the ethnic bigotry and hate they used to exhibit while in the PDP down to the so-called Labor Party. A lot of intelligent folks in Nigeria and the Diaspora have NOTED these facts too. I've been on NL since 2005 and I know what is going on here!

So Peter cannot exonerate some of his rabid followers especially those of his ethnic group for harassing people. These guys do it blatantly without hiding it and they use well-known monikers on NL to insult and defame people. They even insult Islam and say bad things about Yoruba muslims and call Yorubas bastard . For the information of those ignorant folks who don't the Yorubas have the SECOND largest muslim population in Nigeria after the Hausa and Islam came into Yorubaland over 500 years ago from Mali Empire traders, hence the old Yoruba name "Esin Imale" to refer to Islam. Yoruba muslims have since the 1950s census been the LARGEST religious faith in Yorubaland. Followed by the Ifa religion or Yoruba religion in second place, and last was Christianity in the 1950s population census!

I also read insults on Yorubas who are muslims here by ethnic bigots that Hausa muslims do not see Yoruba muslims. This is another insult by especially the Ibos here and online because there are different sects in Islam and Yorubas and Hausas of the same sect flow together very well. I'm not a muslim but I have deep knowledge of Islamic history! You don't insult Yorubas who are muslims because they are a powerful voting block just like you have muslims in the Etsako/Auchi axis in Northern Edo State. It seems some ignorant ethnic jingoists do NOT even realise these facts!

So you folks have to be careful when marketing Peter and Labor Party, and desist from openly insulting others' religions, ethnicity and intelligence. You hve to be able to win folks over to your side by gentle persuation. This is the reason why other ethnicities usually fight back here because Ibos started these attacks, and there is a digital trail to prove this. Before Nairaland was established by @Seun in 2005, there were many pro-biafra websites online already indotrinating Ibos and spreading hate speech and I used to visit those websites to read the falsehoods they use to post there. The Internet NEVER forgets.

Lurdmax10:
https://punchng.com/dont-blame-peter-obi-for-his-zealous-supporters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1657171747

Lanrelagboi:
@ItsjustOlaa: This is what is coming to Yaba. The Yaba Bus Station (commissioned by @jidesanwoolu) exists already, the road will have a flyover into Tejuoso/Ojuelegba road .. The Train Station has an overpass to lead passengers direct to the bus from train.

.LAGOS RED LINE RAIL. https:///qUxPwjYsKN

https://twitter.com/Mr_JAGs/status/1544814189499367433?t=TNpps-l1nMjhq_XcKN5bbQ&s=19[/quote]Awesome. Lagos is steadily getting to the mark for decongesting the roads.

Nova1982:
Nigerian man makes history in Canada by becoming the first African in the 100 year history of Alberta Hospital Canada to be made Chief Medical Doctor. Professor Abba-Aji from Borno graduated from the University of Maiduguri and has a 20-year medical experience in Canada.

https://mobile.twitter.com/OvieNews/status/1544621317453905921/photo/3

Parachoko:
Nah on Nairaland you go talk your humble opinion, person go curse you and your family for airing your opinion. Then you will start wandering how your comment affected the person life.

You don tey for Nairaland o

I've been reading comments on Nairaland since 2011. I only check the FrontPage most of the time though.

I discovered Nairaland though Google search.

@Parachoko... . Well said.

Ah! I discovered NL via Google search in March 2005, coincidentally the very month @Seun launched it.

I frequented NigeriansInAmerica and other discussion fora back in the day before NL.

All the best

Parachoko:
We need am for Nigeria abeg

jimetagambo:
Interestingly, that yob's dad liked a post supporting easy access to gun after the little kids (uvalde school) bodies wear torn apart and unrecognizable with bullets from an AR-15 rifle.

He even sponsored the killers gun permit application. I wonder how he feels now that his son is a mass murderer.

t2luv1:
Not really only if people have been paying attention to what has been happening, All this can be traced to one thing. Election of Barack Obama!!!! I know some people won't believe this but as an Analyst, I deal with numbers, and number trends always serve as guides to what the future holds. In the history of the USA, two Presidents have ever won their elections with over 300 electoral votes. Roosevelt and Obama what really made Obama tally stands out were the facts that he won both times despite not getting more than 30% of the White votes both times. 28 and 25% to be exact. Obama election was the awaken call to the white population that the country's future demographic trends weren't going in their favor. To make matter worse the advent of technology made things even worse. No longer is high school education sufficient to put one in a middle class. All manufacturing jobs were been shipped to China. It has been a rough 15 years for the white population. The divide going on in the country I am afraid is going to get worse before it gets any better. Until certain parts of the Constitution are amended I am sorry to say it will remain like this. A constitution that was written in 1800 by men that were slave owners has to be changed to reflect the new realities of the 21st century. In a modern society, South Dakota and North Dakota with a combined population of less than 4 million shouldn't have more Senators than California with a population of over 40millions. More people live in the Borough of Brooklyn New York than in both Dakota states.

HonNL:
https://www.nairaland.com/7211358/shooting-july-4-parade-highland#114423684

Remember this thread....... Aiden McCarthy, the little boy whose parents were said to have fled during the July 4 shooting by a suspect now in police custody, Robert Crimo.

Kevin and Irina McCarthy, his parents were indeed unlucky as they were killed. The boy was lifted from underneath his father during the attack in the Chicago suburb, which has left eight people dead and 46 injured.



https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-06/bill-ackman-donates-18-000-to-gofundme-for-toddler-orphaned-in-highland-park?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_medium=social

Helpfromabove1:
We need such laws in Nigeria nairaland bully go hear am

naijaclass:
https://www.legit.ng/people/1477995-i-have-achieved-what-i-never-thought-i-would-nigerian-lady-excited-shebags-degree-law-from-cambridge/?fbclid=IwAR0AmkmRv6ZShfdnixKr04HRGxS68m2854eq-pvcf-TD9Sy-jq--9JHAuCE