₦airaland Forum

gidgiddy:
It doesnt matter what Ohanaeze is clamouring for, or what IPOB is clamouring for, they are just organisations. What matters is what the people support.

How many people had told you they want secession because if they are in the majority, they would've left the rest of Nigeria for Biafra

selemempe:
yes

Where is Zik and Ironsi from again, please remind us

gidgiddy:
Why should we be happy to be together? Even Lugard who brought us together is turning in his grave for bringing us together

The unity of Nigeria has only led to being porverty capital of the world

You blame Lugard everyday but when your big bros Zik had all the opportunity to dismember the country, he refused.
Your big bros Ironsi finally cemented the union yet it is Lugard that you blame everyday

Wanity:
Hahaha are you talking about the people your grandfather's fight with their last breath

I'm talking about those who had been told to leave but had refused to

Rosskiki:
Don't mind these small kids who don't know what they are enjoying today.

When these guys were in power only a tiny minority had telephones. In fact one minister back then said openly that phones were ''not for the poor''. Back then you would travel from Benin or even Kaduna to Lagos to visit your brother, only to be told he has traveled overseas.

Today you can easily call first to make sure he's in Lagos before travelling all that way.

We all know that minister, senator David Mark, why you dey hide the name na?

All your points are valid but kids of today won't understand because they never witnessed it.

texazzpete:
One of the worst presidents we’ve ever had. His sheer mediocrity cost us big, not the least of all the 20000+ killed by Boko Haram under his watch.

Also throw in the MASSIVE corruption this country experienced, wherein the benefits of a boom in oil earnings were wasted without significant improvement in infrastructure.

Unfortunately, the backlash to his terrible presidency brought us Buhari

Abeg what do you mean with "without significant improvement in infrastructure", was it the infrastructure that rotted out under him?
Next time, just say he helped in destroying the little infrastructure we had before he came in.

TedLawrence:
Akuko...the massive project secretly going on in Daura which one makes headline

Create another thread for that but give kudos to Buhari for making this bridge come this far

Mutemenot:
Good one but why is Nestoil MD encroaching on his community lands despite his wealth

Create another thread for that, congratulate and thank Buhari for making this bridge come this far and not on paper unlike ........

Children of hate and perdition will hate this.

Wanity:
I can see you don't have senzz

You believe they are pig but you hold them to been one Nigerians will you so you can patch you dead economy

I wonder why you fight to share the same country with pigs

The pigs are not ready to leave and everyone knows that so stop blackmailing others

IPOBians and friends now......

hisexcellency34:
Please where can I get the Jersey? Dem go arrest till dem tire

You can't get it on nairaland.
Go to the market and buy 1000 plain shirts, go to the printer's shop and get the shirts inscribed with whatever you want, give out to friends, come back to tell us how far.

Baroba:
Nigeria always looking for the part of less resistance, closure of border is an indication this dunce called Buhari lacks imagination..Blame your useless government for its inability to monitor it's borders not the Bennoise.. What of folks who do genuine business? Or bilateral trade agreements signed among ECOWAS states, folks who have wards attending school in Benin nko.. Cheap alcohol and cigarettes are smuggled everyday from france into UK, yet you don't see the Brits closing down there border, rather the tighten it and maintain strict control...We have never had it this bad with this illiterate in charge..tufiakwa!!

This is because the French government is also doing its part to control the illegal smuggling into Britain unlike Benin and Niger governments turning a blind eye because they make millions of dollars from it.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-rice-importers-in-the-world.html


How can Benin republic with a population of about 15million, smaller than the population of Lagos be the world's 6th largest importer? Even if every Beninese from a new born baby to the oldest man or woman eats only rice and nothing else for every meal they can't consume it all? We all know where that rice is to be smuggled to, wicked saboteurs who are out to sabotage our economy.

9gerian:
These guys (Benin Republic) are actually begging the Nigeria government to allow them sabotage the Nigerian economy some more.

Their goods are smuggled into Nigeria on the one hand, and Nigeria's subsidized fuel are smuggled into their countries. A case of double whammy for Nigeria. Because of them, successive Nigerian government has continued to increase the price of fuel to the disadvantage of mostly impoverished Nigerians.

Nigeria is so blessed that it is literally taken for a big fool by its neighbors who build their own economy / success around its (Nigeria’s) inefficiencies.

In other words, these neighbors would never want Nigeria to improve by controlling its own economy.

You are a true Nigerian with a good understanding of the sabotage by these surrounding countries

alphaNomega:
What do you mean by porous border? What is the purpose of ECOWAS?

Sadly, your second paragraph is a pipe dream.

ECOWAS doesn't permit you to import from another country only for to encourage it to be smuggled and dumped into another member country just like what Benin and Niger governments are allowing because of the millions of dollars they make in tariffs. Let their farmers produce the rice and not import from Asia

Captainrambo2:
both of you should keep quiet.


Buhari and hameed alli re birth useless men. they only deceive warped people like you 2.

Aside the unnecessary insult, what else did you contribute to the topic?

They should go clear themselves

ornicus:
Your importer class of Nigerian could not care less about anything other than thieir own money.

Do they add any value to this country? They are just greedy self serving hustlers.

At least the Nigerian government gets her duties instead of it ending up in Benin and Niger governments

alphaNomega:
Kindly explain who is stealing from who? Remember these importer/smugglers used to bring these goods directly to Nigeria but the useless government decided to ban them. That created the chain of events that led to what is happening today and it will get worse. The final stage is a depopulation of the country when people realise they can no longer get what they want but this is the long term plan by niggers in charge. When you are gone, they take over your landed assets and begin to establish their style of government.

I apologize for speaking a bit off point and you may not understand me.

Where did you read that Nigeria banned rice imports?

alphaNomega:
What makes it good? We only love to see people suffer.

Do you know if Nigeria developed her seaports and made the clearing process less rigorous, all those containers that dock at Cotonou would flood Nigeria?

Nigeria brought this upon herself. After banning several items importers now prefer to bring them through a country try that accepts them, pay duties to that government and smuggle it to Nigeria! Why ban the goods in the first place when you refuse to create an enabling environment for such goods to be produced locally?

As a result of reduced volume at our fuccking ports, their revenue declined. In order to improve those figures, the government now decided to increase import duties on certain items like cars. imagine paying 70% of the value of your car as duty alone, coupled with the devaluation of naira, a brand new car that should cost N6m nnow goes for N25m!

This problem did not start today and the people running this company called Nigeria should brace up for a shocker in a few years time. It only gets worse!

Understand the basics first before commenting,
Nigeria never banned imports, it only stopped giving cheap dollars to those importers and they had to go to the black market to source for it and you can still import rice through our ports.

Nigeria then increased tariffs on rice in order to encourage local farmers to grow more.

Unscrupulous importers in connivance with Benin and Niger governments decided to use their countries as launching pads for the goods to be smuggled into Nigeria.

Nigeria loses in tariffs and our local farmers suffer in turn but the importers, smugglers, Benin Niger governments win.
That is what is called an economic war against Nigeria.

scholes0:
It is an open secret that the border closure and general border security in the north is way more lax than it is in the south. Stop pretending like you don't know. Even the current border closure with Niger is only a partial closure.

Have you been to the Niger border or just saying what you feel, why has the president of Niger being begging Buhari to reopen the border just like the president of Benin?

Ishilove:
These countries need to get creative about solving their own issues. How can they still be so heavily dependent on other countries for survival?

Worst of it is that they know they are heavily dependent on Nigeria but would bad mouth Nigeria at the same, they and their government deliberately waging an economic war against Nigeria and her interest.

middlebelter:
Perhaps you need to recognise that this is about the best decision this man has ever taken as a civilian president. Now, the FGN has been subsidising petroleum but the unscrupulous businessmen will take such product across the boarder to sell at a more expensive rate for profit why people on East and North can't get products to buy at the controlled price.
You talk about importation of rice our Benin Republic neighbour is about the highest importer of rice in the word , which they dumped on Nigeria without remorse, the implication is that our home grown rice producers can't sell theirs at profit after obtaining loan because there are cheaper rice from Cotonou? Such act is nothing but ECONOMIC WAR!.

Now imagine them saying Buhari want to kill them when indeed their government and people are killing us?.They deliberately refuse to police their boarder to keep us dependent on their rice forgetting that if we are self sufficient, we can supply them cheaper rice and their country supply us home grown products where they have comparative advantage. Economic war is a serious crime and must be confronted.

It is in record that OBJ also closed the boarder, Benin Republic promised to police her boarder but here we are 15years after nothing has been achieved. Buhari should just give them and their Nigerian collaborators Dasuki's treatment. Look at Niger and tell me how helpful has she being in our fight against Boko Haram. Should we continue to deceive ourselves?Go to those African countries and see how much respect they accord Nigeria , perhaps just a little better than South Africa? Do you think if they are the countries with Nigeria Economic advantage, they will do half of what Nigeria is doing for them for us? BUHARI BE WISE DON'T GIVE UP UNTILL YOU EIN THIS BATTLE.

Your head has enough oil, you know wetin we dey talk about unlike these lazy Nigerian yoots posting rubbish since

grandstar:
What is wrong in being the 6th largest or even the largest importer of rice in the world? Nothing if the situation calls for it.

Benin and Niger aren't the biggest losers from this border closure. It is Nigeria.

Nigeria does not have a problem with growing rice. Nigeria can even produce enough rice to feed the whole of Africa. Nigeria does not have a production problem.

However, the country has an economic problem with rice production. Nigeria lacks comparative advantage in rice production. We can't produce it cheaply like Thailand, Vietnam and India, the only 3 countries that have comparative advantage in rice production, the 2nd largest consumed grain in the world. The first is wheat. Nigeria therefore will be a net importer of the stuff.

The only way Nigeria can be self sufficient s by a ban. Assuming the imported stuff is 11,000 and the locally imported one is 17,000, a ban makes the imported one unavailable and people have no option but to purchase the locally produced one for 17,000. The question I want to ask you is how does paying 17,000 for something that was previously 11,000 actually help the average Nigerian? Maybe there may be some poor housewives out there who don't mind paying 17,000 for something that was formerly 11,000 but majority will frown at it!

Countries do best when they focus resources on areas they have comparative advantage. The British tried to encourage local farmers to produce rice but they were disinterested. They preferred cocoa, palm oil, rubber and so forth and that was what the country was re-known for. Palm oil was Nigeria's rice while rice was Thailand's palm oil. Nigerians still call this the golden era.

Do you know Thailand exports $1.8b worth of farmed shrimps yearly? Whay can't Nigeria export $2b worth of farmed snails for instance or $500m worth of grasscutters? It is estimated that sheabutter if well harnessed can bring in as much as $2b yearly as exports.

Imports are not the problem. They are even good for you. America found out that for every 1 cent reduction in import duty, it earned 3 cents in taxes in the wider economy. If import duties are low and trade is booming, does the money not trickle down? Don't you see people making money? High import duty achieves the opposite

Everything you wrote made no sense and no based on logic but I'd focus on your last paragraph, why has the American government increasing tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, EU countries, China, Japan etc and the American economy is booming now with one of the lowest unemployment in their economic history

seunny4lif:
Close the border jooor

Not just close it but tighten the borders more to teach those leeches some lessons, imagine same people leeching on our economy will still have the guts to call us names tomorrow

ORIENTATION101:
Leeches .these idiots are even asking for petrol we pay biliions naira to subsidize monthly.
Buhari is not asking for too much , control smuggling ,and dumping of fake substandard goods to Nigeria and the border will be open for business.
Benin and Niger republic importers pay billions of dollars annually to their respective government on Rice only. 90% of the imported rice re free smuggled in to Nigeria without tax.

We can't continue to be Big Brother when we have our own problems too.
Economic relationship show be scratch my back ,I scratch yours.what re u bringing to the table for Nigeria to benefit from .

You are one of the very few that actually understand what's going and the implications on our economy and not these lazy Nigerian yoots that I'm reading their uninformed posts as to why the government should open the borders and allow smuggling to continue.

Let those Benin traders cry more and they should blame their government for not doing enough to curb smuggling, they all enjoyed it and Nigerians suffered it while it lasted, no more big brother and Africa first, it is Nigeria first now

Social media these days sef, you hear one thing today and tomorrow the news changes.
Whose report do we believe now?

Atigba:
Idiot, Buhari rigged election

Must you quote the thing again and making everyone scroll and scroll with a reply of just four words?
Make una dey fear God.

When the Church of Satan write am letter now as they did to ffk, we go say dem wicked. What are you still doing in a country where monuments are dedicated to Satan? Busy body.