₦airaland Forum

Tazdroid:
Hmm, back when them never enter "the driver's seat"

OBJ was Military Head of State & Buhari was minister of Petroleum in that picture. Billions disappeared into London Midland bank under Buhari. And the money disappeared from there. Of course some kids on Nairaland will say it never happened.

Shagari investigating that loot was a major reason Buhari overthrew him.

They have been in driving seat since.

Tazdroid:
Welcome to the team. As usual, I'm sure 20 is your football age cuz you look 30

For a kid born in Germany again?

What of Zidane who went bald before age 25? Or Rooney who needed hair transplant to cover his bald head at 25? If they were born and raised in Africa nobody would believe their age.

The diversity within African population is very big. Only that we seem to see the black skin only.

The genetic variations/differences within black Africans is more than the genetic difference between Africans & Europeans generally. It is a fact most people do not know.

If you knock out the the relatively small melanin gene responsible for skin colour in white people, the difference will almost disappear.

You see how easy a genetic mutation changes a black albino person. Some become even whiter than many Europeans. Including eyes, hair colour & skin.

Ok.

Needed in this recession.

Wow! Kudos. Very nice designs.

Believe this man at your own peril.

NCAN SE/SS Zonal Commands will know that you cannot trust this man's "good morning". It could be 11 pm at night.

NCAN Northern Commands members will not even see this thread. Because they believe 9ja couldn't be more perfect than it is now.

Talking from both corners of his mouth as usual.

EazyMoh:
Wonderful analysis! However I believe should be strictly in one type of currency. Even the USD isn't that stable, especially when comparing GDP after long periods of time.
But the question is has the Nigerian GDP always been calculated in Naira by the bureau of statistics?

I agree.

What I mean is it should not be taken at face value.

Because what seems like an increase might actually be flat or even a minus once discounted for inflation.
Since in relative terms, the economy might not actually be bigger in 2016 Q4 than it was in 2015 Q4.

Remember that if we are going to compare our economy with South African, Egyptian or Ethiopian economy, we cannot use the Naira.
It has to be converted into dollars. Therein lies one of the important aspects of our GDP worth in dollars.

9jakohai:
Right... he makes a good point.

OK... The problem with most Christians is that they think that becoming a Christian and following God means no more problems, no more issues. everything is OK.

Well, the early Christians did not have that luxury .A good number of them died for believing in God..... despite all the promises of blessings.

But why does God allow bad things happen to good people?

Recently on BBC, the daughter of a missionaries told her parents story. Her father was a missionary and a good man who died in the course of the job....killed by the idol worshippers he was trying to reach (no offense to my pagan brothers and sisters). What did his wife do? His wife went and took his place.... ministering to the people who killed her husband along with another widow..... and many were converted.... Including the men who killed her husband.

Now... If the woman had given up on the faith, and said that Jesus is a failure for not protecting her husband, would the souls of her husband's killers be saved.

Jesus said that we are the light of the world. Sometimes that means shining when we don't feel like it, when all hope is lost, when we are personally hurt. But we have to shine..... because somewhere among the people who hurt us is a Saul who will bring light to more millions.

Let us talk about saul/paul. He persecuted Christians. He took part in the death of a good man called Stephen. But Saul was converted by Jesus on the road to Damascus. The job was completed by Ananias and Barnabas..... members of the same church that he was prosecuting.Now what if Ananias had said that Jesus failed...since he could not protect Stephen.? What if Barnabas had left the faith? Where would Paul be?

Jesus gave you a mission as Christians.... gave us a mission.... to be a little light in a dark world. It is not comfortable business being a light. You may have to forgive, have to love, have to forget hurts done to you. Because you have a mission as a Christian... to help reconcile an evil world to the Lord. Not to sit back and expect your blessing for doing God a favour by following him.

The problem with the ex Christian the OP quoted is that he was following God for favors. That is not the kind of follower God wants.

You made some very salient points.

But some modern Christian leaders seriously mislead Christians.
They have become demi-gods and we dare not criticise them.

Their followers will rain curses on you like they were common motor park touts. Nothing Christian about most.

Some Christian leaders out there make followers believe that they have the "anointing" to solve all their problems.

They forget to emphasise that Christians have to brace themselves for temptations, sorrow, deprivation, suffering, loss, even martyrdom. Just like Christians of old.

We are losing Africans under 55 to hypertension, diabetes, stroke, kidney disease and other illnesses. Because pastors asked them to stop taking medication. That they have healed them. Even in diaspora.

The whole thing really hit me as we buried a friend's big brother a few years back.

There needs to be a stiff punishment/jail term for pastors who do that. They are basically brainwashing people into premature death.

We lost another chronic disease patient in the first week of January this year. A faithful Christian who stopped his medication. His medication was working so well that he was brainwashed into believing he was healed. Sad.

deflover:
I agree but my people were insulted
They said oil is useless
But see the worms keep feeding on the oil

I have been saying this here especially in the last few days.

There was even a thread painting ND states as the most corrupt just days ago. By those from the usual regions of course. We all know the reason for the thread is envy over the abysmal 13% derivation. The same regions that if they produced the oil, they won't even give up 50% of the proceeds. Nigeria might even exist anymore.

Those who fought for 13% like Ibori & DSP are suddenly the only corrupt people Nigeria ever produced. OBJ, Tinubu, IBB, Danjuma, Abacha & others are all saints.

Leave them. Truth always catches up with lie.

I have a little problem believing some of the stats. For example the 3 consecutive GDP rise in the last 3 quarters of 2016.

The infograph is clear enough but NBS needed to discount for things like sharp Naira falls/volatility in the past 18 months.
In 2016, Q2 rise was N4.15 trillion rising to N5.29 trillion by Q4. Good.

But that increase seems fictitious to me. Because that was a period when the Naira fell sharply in value. What was N4.52 triilion worth in dollars in Q2 and value of N5.29 trillion in dollars in Q4?

GDP has to do with sum total of all goods and services. Export goods paid for in dollars & other hard currencies included.

I also doubt if N3.52 trillion in 2015 Q4 was worth less than N5.29 trillion in 2016 Q4.

These so called increases would make sense if we had a stable currency. Not one that loses or gains up to 25% overnight due to CBN manipulation.

If that is the case, our mothers, grandmas & great grandmas have a far better chance of securing a place in heaven.

And they did not even have to enrich pastorpreneurs first.

ALAYORMII:
Korean-Nigerian


This is a first

Not. There are quite a number of them.

I know people with mixed Hong Kong, Japanese & Korean 9ja kids.

It may surprise you to know but Seoul National University is a top school and Nigerians have been going there for decades now.

Of course the school environment is the best place to meet liberal-minded young people. And meet your future spouse.

Sabergol99:
I read some comments and am simply astounded by the level of intellectual simplicity from a lot of our youths. We must take time to read, analyze and ponder before making utterances and not simply commenting based on blind loyalty or mere emotions. While our foreign earnings may have leaped in Q4, the fact remains that this can be attributed solely to increase in the prices of crude oil and relative stability in the Niger delta thereby increasing production. What we must not fail to realize though is that compared to our trade balances of the last 3 years, we are steering away from the so called diversification agenda of our economy. What this means is that another crash in the price of crude oil or bombing of pipelines would send sockwaves round the economy and could potentially bring it to its knees, again! The import substitution Agenda doesn't appear to be working either, or at least is very slow. Smh... Let's keep watching anyways...

How will simpletons understand all that? That is way too complex for sycophants and praise singers to understand.

They will only label you Ipod, even if you come from Benue or Kogi.

iamadonis2:
Baba, keep quiet go play for sand. Catholic tradition of "flogging" is a form of penance; the corporal mortis.

But this? Pleasure from deadly strikes of a whip... Afonja bad.

That is the inferiority complex I am talking about. Who are you to tell people the reason why they should do what they do in order to be valid? Pleasure or penance? I have no doubt that if Catholics did it to celebrate resurrection of Christ or whatever, j you would still justify it.

If a 15 years old girl from Calabar or Owo claimed to have got pregnant without sex 2000 years ago, would you have believed it? No.

So rid yourself of inferiority complex first.

omenkaLives:
Why's the car looking dirty?

What the hell have the palace servants been up to?

This is unacceptable!

Haba! It seems you do not know how 9ja roads are like.

I bet the car wasn't flown to RCCG in a jet.

AceSkillz01:
Anything to defend backwardness

It is a matter of inferiority complex. I have travelled wide and Japanese and others have not ditched their culture. Including basically considering their emperor as god incarnate. Even though the Americans tried changing it after the war.

It did not stop them building the Prados, Camry, Pajero, Honda Pilot and all those fantastic electronics we cannot do without.
All it needs is packaging.

"Do not forget who you are. Because the whole world does not forget. Wear it like an amour so that nobody can use it against you". I guess you know where this quotation comes from.

See that one's natal cleft.

Weird but some catholic cultures do same.

Is this one inferior because it is African?

It could be a form of traditional atonement ceremony. The Jews have Yom Kippur.

In Benin Kingdom the atonement period of fasting, self-punishment/reprimand & living a very basic life was called "ague". Not the end of year thanks giving called "Igue".
It was so enshrined in the tradition that people born in that period were named "Aguebor" meaning "ague favours" and other derivative names.

It was during that period that Captain Phillips wanted to visit Benin that he was refused. The Oba sees no guests or do ostentatious ceremonies or send/receive emissaries.

Philips defied the rule & the rest is history.

RIP.

The way opinions about Nigeria's unity differ so much means that we are only postponing the evil day.

I cannot see any genuine efforts to reconcile. Only politically gimmick.

We are going to be leaving a more bitterly divided land to our kids.

From history such a situation only leads to implosion and devastating wars. It already happened once.

The fall out from that war and failure to restructure Nigeria will most certainly lead to something worse.

The sad thing is that the gladiators holding us back have the wherewithal to relocate their families anywhere in the world. The masses largely don't.

stexsy:
Why is Kanu always soaked in sweat n he ll never wear singlet....

The guy left to stay in cold countries at a young age. At most at the football age of 17. That continued for nearly 20 years.

His body was conditioned for many years to preserve heat. He will naturally perspire more than those who lived their whole lives in the tropics.

He needs to stay much longer in 9ja to recondition in the coming years.

Some people just do not use singlets. I feel "unclad" without a singlet.

OlaoChi:
I never claimed to be an english master, i simply noticed how hard it is for you to be coherent, especially in that last post jeez! get sense will you


here you are trying to question my status. you think everyone on nairaland brags like you, I don't need to give you a single detail of my life. You claim to be this and all that, yet it doesn't show in your use of words and attitude. you are a fake


And just to lecture you, omitting or substituting sounds( in this case 'h' as a few Yorubas do) is what they call ACCENT. Learn this today. The Americans have their accent, the Canadians have theirs, and so do the Edo




read it again!


oh my! You are one fvcked up individual. Since you know that anyone can join any party of their choice, why were you speaking ill of the yorubas who didn't support Jonathan, mind you, trash talking the opposition is basic politics, you should hold yourself accountable for the decisions you make, so if you almost hated jonathan and voted against him, that's your lot. Do not blame those who were simply doing their job, you go find a job.

another thing, it is clear that you are implying All yorubas did not support Jonathan, which i have to say you are damned foolish to think so, some of his most active supporters were Yorubas. And besides what did he do in the SW to deserve a massive SW support?
i have said i won't discuss politics with a total child brained novice but your idiocy on this matter is shocking. I'll stop here

Good for you, if you want to leave Nigeria, make a move. You can decide to rebuild your Bini kingdom, let's see how far that goes, or go with the Igbos they would love that, they wanted that as they invaded your land during the Biafra war. You think Igbos will take this nonsense yorubas have endured from you

Lol. Benin Kingdom or no Benin Kingdom, that is not your headache.

A tiger doesn't pounce anyhow. It bids its time, stealthily. I can again see your obsession with Benin Kingdom. Powerful empires like Rome, Ancient Greece, Persia & others crumbled. So Nigeria is no set in stone.

I know if you give many Nigerians a chance to live in the Kingdom of Lesotho (just over 2 million people) now, they'll take it. No question.

So Benin Kingdom of around 3.2 million people will not fare worse than the rotten bebemoth called Nigger Area.

Thanks for your coherence lecture. Many of us actually have a job. We come here in between doing useful work.

Great thing is discerning minds get the message. Even your dullard that needs a translator to communicate with Nigerians was voted by you guys. Even without a GCE certificate.

You know bragging is in the DNA of you people na. From Agbero to the MD. No contest there.

By the way, Jonathan leaving was the best thing to have happened to him & his supporters. I personally wanted him to leave. Because I knew that the two-faced traitors & those who unleashed Boko Haram could conspire to take him out. Nigeria is SO not worth dying for. Too many bigots & ingrates. Secondly I knew APC's shallowness can only be exposed by them getting a chance to rule. They never prepared to rule. They prepared to destroy what GEJ was building.

So far GEJ is the only leader who spent over 18 months at Aso Rock and left with his nuclear family intact. Since IBB. A man blessed by God. Cursing him is vanity.

We can now see that the bragging & propaganda APC had and still have nothing to offer. They cannot even get their president to sit & rule from Aso Rock.

Well SW supported Jonathan first time because they thought they could use him. When they couldn't, led by OBJ, they began behaving like spoilt brats. Throwing tantrums all over the place.

I better start cucumber farming.

It will soon be gold dust.

madridguy:
I blame the mumu man.

Nor mind am. Nothing new here.

I say it every time here that around 35% of firstborn kids do not belong to supposed biological dad.

Over 25% of all kids do not belong to supposed biological dad.

DNA labs have shown this over the last few years.

However, it is a secret lots of women are ready to kill for in order to keep somebody who knows silent. Especially if the hubby is rich & is her only meal ticket.

Plus polls after polls in recent years put Nigerian women as the most unfaithful. That is double whammy!

While you're doing your churchy no sex dating, yeye guys out there are recklessly pulverising the punany and getting your fiancee preggy on your behalf.
Nice one.

bizzibodi:
Boy educate yursef nobody is saying oil is useless what they are saying is let diversify our economy?i hope u know what diversification means do u know how to use a dictionary?tell an enlighten person to help u explain it.

What do you know about diversification? Is it not the same song since 1960?

I listened to this your dullard when in 1984 he made a speech about diversifying Nigerian economy among other lofty dreams. When he was a dictator. i sat only yards from him listening. In the 20 months he was there before his underlings kicked out his butt out, he made no positive impact.

When the SW and the North want to display ingratitude, they tell us oil is not useful anymore. That FG makes more money from other sources now.
Surely the failed education system is partly to blame.

In ignorance many of them do not know the difference between FG budget/income/expenditure and GDP.

When they read or hear the news that oil makes up a lower percentage of Nigeria's GDP, they automatically think it means FG relies less on oil.

They have no idea that 70 to 80% of the money Nigeria bases its budget on is still oil.

Even some who know deliberately fool themselves for bigoted, tribalistic and political reasons.

So melt away with your ignorance. Do not even mention that glorified secondary school you attended as education.

When Buhari was enjoying Jonathan's booming economy & freedom of speech and association, he looked fresh.

In his own regime even all the goodies of the Presidency cannot help him.

bizzibodi:
Get sense na nobody say oil is useless.

Lol.
Have you been 200 metres under Olumo Rock all this while people have been saying FG does not depend on oil. That the price is nothing to write home about? Or you were a mummy like your president in London?

Abeg just crawl back into your cave.

MissRike:
Lol........for ur mind u want me to upload my pinshure abi, nah!

Yes, I want to be a Mrs asap coz I'm tired of singlehood but based on my curves, I no go gree . I want a man that will love me completely.

@bolded, me sef tire o .

Awwwwwww. I really like your honesty. We shouldn't be too proud to say what we want. I feel very touched. My dear, God will grant you your heart's desire. I have no doubt you deserve.

It can happen in Nigeria too. FG only relies on oil.

Yet they claim oil is useless. But buhari remains oil minister.

MissRike:
What exactly is hot and curvy about those girls , especially the one at the left side of the bride, flat-ass babe . I'm sure if you see a person like me with real curves and beautiful shape, you won't have any word to qualify me . Op, smh............

My dear, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Or seeing in your case.

Indulge us with your real "curvilicious" eye-candy biko.

You won't regret it. I know my sharp Nairaland guys are ready to turn that moniker to MrsRike.

But honestly, I do not know why curves are such a big thing for some people. It's biological sha.

REIIGN:
Nothing spectacular about their curves

I wonder o.

i see only one half-decent curve there. I like the bride's relative height.

CzarChris:
This brain dead m0ron is trying to gain cheap publicity from his countries xenophobic attacks which I seriously doubt he participated in.
Either way, I blame the AU for not taking action on South Africa. I have said this before and I will repeat it again. The AU should as a matter of principle and value of its citizens life place an economic and even social ban on South Africa and its companies operating all over Africa, their companies should be nationalised by the host country. They should be ostracised and completely isolated.

Lazy South Africans!!!

You are even mentioning AU. How can countries that do not have strong institutions at home build a decent continental institution?

Forget that thing.

Nigeria's Africa First policy is the biggest mistake we ever made.

I'm guilty of same though. When we were kids, we often donated our lunch money to those gathering money for ANC. The local university was awash with South Africans enjoying Nigerian FG scholarship.

Build your own house well and others will respect you. Even if you never helped them. Help them massively and remain poor yourself, they will lead the party laughing at you tomorrow. Now see how they respect UK & America that branded Mandela a terrorist.

A big lesson.

Great idea.

But the did should be careful. Not many up North there are really happy with it. Especially educating girls. To many there, those girls should be become a 70 years old man's 3rd or 4th wife.These pictures make no difference.

Do not forget Chibok girls are still not found, never mind girls supposedly rescued. Girls about to do senior SSCE exam and none coudl even speak English. In Nigeria, the more you look the less you see.

Jonathan's hundreds of almajiri schools & Fed universities over there only made them more angry.

I know when you say the truth, zombies do not like it. We never face reality.

[quote author=AreaFada2 post=54250650]Because it is not an oil producing state. The coded aim of this thread is to say that FG should be the one squandering oil money and not the people that produce it.

Oil is the only thing keeping Nigeria together. Nigeria is a bitterly divided country otherwise. Nothing else. So they are after oil.

They just insert one or two non-oil producing states there to deceive people. And we know which parts of Nigeria most of the come from.

One quoting his wife from Delta is also deception mode. That is why some religion does not allow their women to marry men if other religion. The woman comes under the man's control.

JohnsonEmma:
Why is Benue state not on the list.

Because it is not an oil producing state. The coded aim of this thread is to say that FG should be the one squandering oil money and not the people that produce it.

Oil is the only thing keeping Nigeria together. Nigeria is a bitterly divided country otherwise. Nothing else. So they are after oil.

They just insert one or two non-oil producing states there to deceive people. And we know which parts of Nigeria most of them come from.

One quoting his wife from Delta is also deception mode. That is why some religion does not allow their women to marry men of other religion. The woman comes under the man's control.