₦airaland Forum

deomelo:
The largest economy in Africa has nothing to offer?

Of course are are not performing optimally, but saying we have nothing to offer beyond oil sounds absurd and ridiculous.

Please list the goods that we can supply to other markets at a cheaper price than local ones? Is it electricity, chickens, industrial goods or which? In a way that we can flood their markets with them considering good quality & lower price?

Being proud and say largest economy is not enough. We're over 3 times in population than the nearest in economy (South Africa) and more than twice in population than Egypt & Ethiopia.

We're talking reality here, not ego.

jomoh:
Is that not the reality?

We don’t have anything to offer and we have not had anything to offer for over 30years. We use the money we get from crude oil to buy everything we need. We can’t even produce what we consume.

PMB now came and ban most of these things from importation that we should start producing locally people are now against him.
The little money we get from crude oil that is not enough to sustain our overbloated population we were using it to import.


Now some people have come up with a strategy again to make nigeria a dumping ground for foreign products and PMB has once again refused.


PMB by far has the best policies that puts Nigeria first in anything. The only shortcoming is the security issue.

We are saying the same thing aside the bolded.

On the bolded I disagree. What imported products were available in the market in 9ja in say February 2015 that are not available anymore?

Which imported rice were you eating that your wife cannot find in thw market today? Or Brocade, Elepaq/Firman generator? Infinix, Injoo or Samsung products?
His policies only mean prices have gone up and probably less tax receipt through more smuggling.

Are you referring to Buhari's policies that sent around 227 companies into liquidation and about to close P & G at Agbara? Or the ones that sent Iberia and others packing?

Just because a mad man goes to the farm doesn't mean he does any useful work there.

No sir, his policies and policy somersaults have been abysmal.

To say we have not produced anything in 30 years is a lie from the stables of Lai Mohammed.

In 1988 Michelin & Volkswagen were still open in Ojo. PAN Peugeot Kaduna was very active. Despite the poor economy Buhari left IBB and IBB's poorly thought out SAP. If you were not alive then or big enough do not claim what you did not witness.

Look, a good policy can be very detrimental if implemented at the wrong time or wrong way.

All the products Buhari banned, did he have like 2 or certain years plan to be self-sufficient in making or producing those goods before banning?

gabazin080:
Welcome to Africa.
Where you will find a girl borrowing clothes from her friend to visit a guy who borrowed a room from his friend

. Borrow pose. Common with car borrowing.

Nigerians and obsession with other people's age. Very cynical lot.

bozzyjoan:
Thank you buhari. We don't want Nigeria to be flooded with commodity from others African countries that thinks Nigeria is just an opportunistic way to short cort success. Especially south Africa. Why is she signing on the day of the ceremony? Hoping Nigeria will change her mind? No way.

But is shows Nigeria is admitting it has nothing to offer other countries aside crude oil & Nollywood films.

If Nigeria had electricity and proper industries, our large population and talent pool should mean cheaper products that can flood other African countries. Procter & Gamble that opened last year in Agbara is about to close now. What can we export to bring in money?

We are simply in a position of weakness. USA/Trump can make nyanga because their internal market is massive due to a large wealthy population.
Our population is large but about 70% live only on $1 per day.

Dareal90s:
Kabiesi shld gbesele

Lol. No more of that these days.

peeps4u:
Lalasticlala, didn't Buhari recently say investors were falling over themselves to come to Nigeria?

But take note of this quoted from the report.

"About 272 manufacturing plants were shut down across the country in 2016,according to the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria."

That does not matter to tribalists and religious extremists.

Just having power is good enough. Anyone that has no job or money can go and die. Dem nor send anyone.

Our people say "if you blind your eyes in order to avoid seeing your enemies, you also won't have eyes to see your friends".

Nice one.

People only saw the messenger and not the message.

John the baptist & Jesus were pariahs in their time. Only the very poor, down-trodden & slaves took them seriously.

The Pharisees can be likened to Daddy Freeze's aunt. Aloof and stuck in their religious routine & dogma that was interwoven with politics & status quo.

But both Jesus & John had a message that has endured till today.

When I hear fella's songs I wonder if he's alive and just released the songs after observing what we're currently going through.

His songs show that those who had eyes could see where we were heading decades earlier.

CaptJeffry:

Whenever I see a picture of that Liar Mohammed, I start laughing. Dude's lies deserves to be studied in higher institutions.

Like BSc in Laiological Science.

majorgr:
Chinese don't have blue eyes so please, even though your story is getting interesting, try not to exaggerate the facts !

I know several black people in Nigeria with blue eyes. I have seen blacks with blue eyes outside Nigeria too.

If you know genetics even a tiny bit you won't claim that. Chinese people mixed with Mongols and other Caucasus tribes in Eurasia over millenniums. How can some not have blue, hazel or green eyes?

So officially we now have two choices: surrender land or death!

Now we can see the religious aspect. Convert or die will follow next.

As usual the North is using SW to do their dirty work. Adesina is a willing slave like Tinubu.

A first class coward this Adesina.

When someone feels too cunning and sophisticated, he becomes the biggest fool without knowing.

Stranac:
Do you know what i love about edo??..its there unity and togetherness,you will see benin man supporting esan or other tribes so far he can do the job well..

Every culture and tribe in Edo state has a role to play both in development of the state or the oba palace

Very correct. Many people do not know that non-Benin people have risen to high positions in Benin Kingdom in the past and still do.

A lot of Iyase (Prime Minister & second in power to the Oba) have come from outside core Benin areas.

Two have come from Akure (Ado-Akure) and most famous is Okoro-Otun. A street is named after him in GRA Benin. Another is Otokiti from Bayelsa. The current Iyase (Chief Igbe) is of Urhobo origin.
Benin has a lot of meritocracy historically. People of various tribes who excelled in war became heroes. Example is Ogogobiaga who was Igbo. Several Esan people too.

Most people do not know for example that Asoro, whose statue is at Ring Road was a Yoruboid Benin person from Iguogho in Ovia, not from Orhionmwon as some presume.

The tribal politics we have in today is fairly recent.

pocohantas:
I don't think it is the size. Maybe the guy took trams + codeine and brought down all that energy on her. The size might make it worse, but it's more about the way he went about thrusting.

As a prostitute,he wasn't expecting her to run out... this is how some men knack their babes. No pre-intimacy, no precision...they just dive inside with reckless abandon. After spoiling her bottom plate [thereby making her scared/unenthusiastic to go that path again], they will say "women don't like sex, they don't reach orgasm--90% of them are mutilated". Unku we don't like war, no be fight ahbeg!

Chai! Poco likes precision German engineering. Smooth operation.

oluwaahmed:
A depiction of an execution on an all red colored flag is the most psychopathic idea of a flag a nation can think of.
I however agree with you that Nigeria's flag is utterly boring and totally devoid of creative ideas. It looks like a flag dat was hurriedly put together few hours before the independence day parade.

The red flag is the ancient Benin Empire flag. It was a warrior empire and no empire grows through peace only. All occurred through war. The Sokoto Caliphate began with Uthman Dan Fodio just like Boko Haram began. If Boko Haram insurgence began just 130 years, they might be ruling all of Northern Nigeria by now.

The beheading flag was the usual war flag/banner. You can criticise as you want. Warriors 500 years were not sisis like all the effeminate men we have today.

The flag is part of our heritage and remains.

[quote author=oluwaahmed post=69046412][/quote]The red flag is the ancient Benin Empire flag. It was a warrior empire and no empire grows through peace only. All occurred through war. The Sokoto Caliphate began with Uthman Dan Fodio just like Boko Haram began. If Boko Haram insurgence began just 130 years, they might be ruling all of Northern Nigeria by now.

The beheading flag was the usual war flag/banner. You can criticise as you want. Warriors 500 years were not sisis like all the effeminate men we have today.

The flag is part of our heritage and remains.

Stranac:
so you want us to copy other people flags and use it to plan our own??No sir..

[b]Benin kingdom is a tribe and can also be a nation,[/b]we show what we do,not lying about peace when there are no peace

A quick note here. Benin is not a tribe. It is more of a culture. The sub-tribes make up the Benin people. A remnant of a previously very diverse Kingdom/Empire. Reason is within the current core Benin areas, there are still indigenous, Yoruboid people (Usen, Utese, Iguogho, Egbeta), Izon (Gelegele) & Igboid (Igbanke) people.

The monarch sits at the top of that cultural heritage with Benin language as the central language. Benin is just called a tribe for simplicity sake. But the imperial history still reflected in the culture is much more complex.

Hardrive:
Plz I want to ask one question. How on earth is it possible that a race of men came to be highly distinguished and exalted above the rest of mankind. We don't need kings in the modern society.

Well tell the British, the Japanese, Thais, Belgians, Dutch, Swedes, Norwegians, Saudis, Moroccans, Spaniards, Danes and others to first abolish their monarchies. Then we will discuss.

In Benin Kings were not sit at home Kings. That only came with colonialism. The deportation of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi in 1897 precisely.

Kings led soldiers to war previously.

Bilabong:
The sculpture is kinda broken on one edge. Is it that part the foreigners stole

Nothing black on the flag? Nothing to show the world u are "black" from a continent of Africa.




U are wicked too. Created a post and still occupy 1 and 2 positions.


I don't agree with you. Not only Nigeria has a two colored flag eg China. And the flag was created during the era of agriculture. Are leaders lost focus.

To begin we're not black. We're brown, ebony and diverse. We Africans have the most diverse colour shades.

Hi Caracta, how did the memory matter go? Hope it didn't get worse.

In a young person stress is a major cause. Assuming no accident/blow to the head, no high blood pressure, no alcohol abuse (vitamin B1 deficiency), no brain infection (encephalitis) and no use of drugs like LSD, barbiturates, certain cardiovascular drugs like Digoxin, methyldopa, etc. And no hormonal issues.

1shortblackboy:
But he said useless people sha

Who are useless "peoples" as he puts it? Go figure.

If you like criticise the guy, but he just said what diplomacy & politics won't allow his people say openly.

It is no secret.

What surprises me is the reaction here on NL.

I wonder if people didn't know this before.

Picture of the wife or..........You know the rest.

BleSSedMee:
When immaturity meets fanaticism.

There was no genuine love then.

Thank God Boko Haram didn't get a chance to indoctrinate this couple. Their fanaticism for nor be here o.

kikikikiki.

Is that all he's forming super-hubby for?

He should cook proper vegetable and healthy food while at it.

The woman was not ordered to have bed rest. Being less active in pregnancy is not that great actually.

A man can cook for his family any time, pregnancy or not.

I'd even prefer him doing this often when baby has arrived and the wife is nursing.

But how many times will they kidnap this man abeg?
Thamk God he's alive.

SalamRushdie:
See how one man alone is depopulating critical wild life needlessly and gullible people and cheering him on ..

Absolute madness. Animals that are slow breeding like civet cats and antelopes/deer should be left alone.

Grass cutters breed like rodents and not endangered. They can be fairly easily commercially bred too.

Kiki Kiki.
Adoma do body.

Jonathan hatred made them to destroy something their tax money paid for.

It just simply sums up how hatred made them bring Buhari's misery upon themselves. God nor dey sleep.

Kennydoc:
We're saying d same thing. When they win, they win for Africa (for our minds sha)

Lol. You needed to see how Africans celebrated in Paris in July 1998. It was as if Senegal, Nigeria or Algeria won. Nobody from Africa even mentioned France in the celebrations sef.
It was a very good experience to be part of. That good momentum carried them through Euro 2000.

Kennydoc:
Lol. Let's not be greedy. One goal for Cameroon and one goal for Naija.
France should win this World Cup for Africa.

Hahahaha! Nobody follows us to share the bad eggs.

Kennydoc:
His dad is half Cameroonian and half Nigerian. I presume his maternal grandmum is Nigerian (Yoruba).

Now you're talking. So 9ja scored two goals for France in one game.

robosky02:
Pele record stood for 60 yrs
Only broken by a black man

Not messi or ronaldo

Not only a black man o. A man they might have stolen from 9ja sef. Because Mbappe's baby brother is called "Adeyemi". That is as Nigerian as it gets. I cannot even count how many Adeyemi I have in the family.

The father is Cameroonian. It may even be Cameroonian via Nigeria like Emmanuel Adebayor or Razak Omotoyossi of Togo & Benin.

Nor be only modern slave traders, fraudsters, terrorists and drug dealers dem go dey use microscope dey trace come 9ja.