₦airaland Forum

myners007:
EKO HOTEL AND SWEET

No be only "sweet". ..lol

What about Eko Hotel, Tom Tom and Chewing Gum?

Certifiedboss:
Mine is with solar panel . 6panels , 8batteries , 7.5kva inverter and everything cost me 700k. Been using it for about a month now

Yeah, sounds so nice.
But wait for about 6 months to max of one year.
After replacing the batteries. ..give us your cost implications.
The only truth inverter users and dealers will hide from you is that about the battery life. It's makes a whole b.ullsh.it on this inverter stuff.

eleojo23:
Even if PHCN improves, the inverter will still be useful because it will save cost on electricity bill.

Consider the cost of battery and the whole inverter system. ..on average you ain't going to save anything.
Nobody will tell you the truth about the battery which you must change yearly. ..that is if you are lucky and it's not every six months.
Moreover, charging the inverter via NEPA mains isn't for free.

The bad economy could have affected his psychology. Many are mad. ..few are roaming

Wike must have ended the chat thus. .."And so I slayed the Lizard of Ubima"

shamsuRana:
creative.
Question: If every nation is in debt,where did all the money go?

corrupt politicians

Almajiri1:
See suffering till 2018! seun, your site is frequently going offline. Do something before it's too late. Buhari and APC are not happy with nairaland.

Thought I was the only one that noticed the frequent offline stuff

bash4us:
If the driver is a Muslim, he is probably thinking of 60 days fasting he must observe for accidentally killing a human irrespective of the deceased faith. (RIP to the dead)

Do fulani herdsmen and Boko boys also fast for 60 days after carrying out a carnage?
Is this 60 days per person killed?

#no offence. ..just seeking knowledge

It's still fair enough.

Dmillionaire:
you are very wrong. dollars at the parallel market or black market as at this afternoon is $317

Is the price in the parallel or black market the same everywhere in the country?

It may be #317 at your end but #325 elsewhere.

Quoted price is usually a seeming average. ..so nothing is "very wrong" there!
Hope that helps?


Again, I believe you meant to write #317 not $317? There's a huge difference between them.

Yuzedo's girlfriend.

Wonder where Yuzedo has been all these while.
The man that owns the "greytest" "manshion" on "barnarnar" "iceland"

vizkiz:
see beautiful ladies

Not all these broke biitches that will pose half nude and bend leg like crab just to gather likes from sick perverts

"bend leg like crab" and "pout mouth like...?" Lol
They are coming for you. ..don't say I didn't warn you

Chascop:
what if the plane crashes

.
They will come back and take another plane

Lala..., abeg...front page.

#AbiYouDeWaitMakeDemAddSnakeToTheSubject

BiafraBushBoy:
APC all the way.....

This is Rivers state election, not that of OSUN state!

Telling us what we want to hear...

I don't know if it is just me.
I was more interested in the name.

Yet, I know that stealing has neither religion nor tribe. .. but...

Members of Name Checkers Assembly, NCA will surely agree with me.

binsanni:
End time relligion. Am proud being a muslim

So a muslim can place a comment on a "Christian" topic?
#proudlyachristian

Now tell me which adherents of all the other world religions that kill Christians more than the muslims?
#religionofpeaceindeed

EFCC over to you. ..

By Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta


As the former President Olusegun Obasanjo celebrated his 79th birthday on Saturday, he took a retrospective look at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, and concluded that the anti-graft agency has become a toothless bulldog after the exit of the pioneer chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
The event held at the International Conference Centre, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, Abeokuta.
He said the ex-EFCC boss handled the job so well, and people coined the saying that the the fear of Ribadu was the beginning of wisdom. But the former president bemoaned the fate of the anti-graft agency, describing it as a toothless bulldog.
He said, looking in the direction of Ribadu, who was present at the event:
“As all know when Nuhu Ribadu was handling the EFCC, he handled it in such a way that people coined the saying that the fear of Ribadu is the beginning of wisdom.
“And the thing you will ask is, how did we go down? How did we lose that, how did we, Nuhu Ribadu is still here, he is still alive, the institution that we started together is still there, what made the institution to become a toothless bull dog?”
Obasanjo emphasised the need to be serious as a nation, if the nation really wants to develop.
“We need to work things out so that we don’t take two steps forward, one step and three steps backward,” he said.
Talking about fighting terrorism and insurgency, the former president recommended the deployment of technology to fight insurgents both at local and global levels.
Obasanjo who made reference to the theme of the international colloquium: ‘Human Security, Violent Extremism and Radicalisation: Seeking Sustainable Solutions’ held on Saturday as a prelude to his birthday celebration, noted that the deployment of technology became imperative because the insurgents were equally deploying technology to unleash terror on innocent people.
The former president further added that since technology was in our homes, in our pockets, it should be used to ward off those who made life unbearable for others.
Eminent Nigerians including former governors, serving ministers and the host governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun paid glowing tributes to the former president, describing as a nationalist, an icon and a special gift to the country.
Amosun, described him as a nationalist, “who is neither ethno-centric nor an irredentist.” He added that “Baba puts Nigeria first in everything he does.”
On his own part, the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonaya Onu, described Obasanjo as a”special gift to our country, Nigeria, because every time the country had faced any challenge God has used him to solve that challenge.”
The founder of Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo later prayed for the celebrant, requesting that God should grant him more years to continue to serve humanity.
Other personalities present at the event include former governors of Osun and Cross River, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Liyel Imoke, wife of the late former governor of Ondo State, Mrs Olufunke Agagu, and Lotto magnate and Chief Kessington Adebutu.

www.punchng.com/efcc-now-a-toothless-bulldog-obasanjo/

All talk...

#RemindsMeOfNLCOfThoseDays

LAGOS—NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday expressed concerns over the recurring scarcity of petroleum products, especially the Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, known as petrol across the country, threatening to ask workers to stay at home should the scarcity persists.
Congress in a statement insisted that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, must immediately intervene in the current hardship imposed by the scarcity of products as this might hinder the ability of workers to get to their work stations, calling on government to restore sanity to the supply chain to save the citizens from unnecessary suffering and hardship.
NLC in a statement by its factional President, Ayuba Wabba, said: “Nigerians are yet to be told what the cause of the current scarcity is; we however believe government will not allow any individual or corporate organisations sabotage efforts to restore sanity and good governance in all facets of our society as it is obvious the ongoing scarcity is calculated sabotage by petroleum marketers to sell the products at high prices for more profits.
“Petroleum products, especially petrol is key to our economy as it is what powers commuters, including workers, offices and businesses. The delays motorists contend with in long queues at petrol stations have led to loss of unimaginable man hours which have impacted negatively on our economy. We therefore call on government to strongly intervene by sending out appropriate agencies, especially the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to enforce the sale of the products as some marketers have been reported to be hoarding the products.
According to the statement: “We restate our call for the speedy reactivation of local production of petroleum products as the country will continue to be held hostage by global economic manipulations if we remain tied to importation of petroleum products even when we have the resources to produce for local consumption and export.
"While it is regrettable that bad governance, misplaced priorities and corruption has almost killed the petroleum industry, we believe a serious government can revamp the industry within one year. There are examples of countries, especially neighbouring Republic of Niger, where one of the best refineries were built within a year. Nothing stops this government from doing same."
“In any case, despite their perilous states, we have it on authority that our four refineries are still one of the best in the world and can be turned around and even have its capacity upgraded; all that is required is to have effective Turn Around Maintenance conducted on them. The refineries are not beyond repairs. They have been abandoned to ensure Nigerians are ambushed by proponents of privatisation who believe every sector must be privatised. Those advocating for the sale of the refineries are waiting to buy them because they know the refineries are still one of the best.
“Indeed, we believe the recurrent scarcity of petroleum products is part of the roadmap designed by forces who wish to hoodwink us into accepting privatisation of the refineries. We will not accept a situation where major oil companies operating in Nigeria will have refineries in other countries where they ship our crude for refining and sell what they refined from our crude through importers of petroleum products to our country. Why have they not built their own refineries in Nigeria?”
NLC added: "It makes no common sense that this situation continues. While our resources are enriching other countries and creating jobs for citizens of other countries, our country and citizens are groaning under high currency exchange rates, deepening unemployment and infrastructural collapse. Government must demonstrate seriousness in our collective affairs through decisive interventions in revamping the petroleum industry and stamping out corruption.
"We can’t continue to be import dependent and expect our economy to grow. When ordinary citizens lament over the excruciating hardship unleashed on us by bad governance, what we expect is for our government to rescue us by rebuilding all infrastructures that have hindered our growth as a result of past neglect or deliberate damages done to them in the past.”

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/fuel-scarcity-nlc-threatens-to-order-workers-to-down-tools-if/

If to say na APC governor, he for don deny the promise. #showdistothezombies

B for Boooohari

Better leave politics and remain with the masses. Epic writeup! !

“My brother, e ku exchange rate oh.” “Excuse me?” “I am greeting you. I am saying how are you and the exchange rate palaver. The dollar wahala”. “So, that is why you are saying e ku exchange rate. Is something wrong with you Yoruba people? Must you turn everything into a form of greeting?” “You are insulting me?” “I am making a statement” “Meaning?” “Any serious matter at all, you and your people must turn it into something else. E ku exchange rate? What kind of greeting is that? Yoruba will say e ku election, e ku democracy, e ku change, e ku ana, e ku gbogbo e, gbogbo e, e ku democracy. I am tired of answering you people and your cynical greetings.” “The people don’t mean any harm.” “That was how somebody came to me the other day and said e ku Mecca, Medina, e ku Qatar. I felt like slapping the guy.” “Ha.” “I don’t like hypocrites.” “Would you have felt better, if he had told you e ku living upside down, e ku idorikodo, e pele change?” “I would just have been livid, because I know you and your people. Too much cynicism.” “Can you stop?” “You know me, I speak my mind.” “No. You are beginning to sound like Donald Trump. Stop Trump-ing other people, just because you don’t know where they are coming from.” “But of course I know where you are coming from when you say e ku exchange rate”. “Where am I coming from? I just left my house” “My friend. Sit down. “ “You too stop going upanddan” “Okay, you want to talk about exchange rate. I am listening. The way it is, everybody is now an economist in Nigeria. Even my driver yesterday was telling me about the behaviour of the parallel market. And I overheard the nanny commenting on the 2016 budget and how it may, in the long run affect the housekeeping allowance.” “That’s a criminal in the making. You should sack that housekeeper. She certainly wants to pad the housekeeping allowance.” “You know these people also watch television. She must have listened to stories about padding on television and radio may be, and she may think it is perfectly normal in today’s Nigeria to pad figures.” “These things run deep, I agree. But a crook is a crook. Better keep an eye on that housekeeper and let her know that this is the era of prudence, discipline and you-steal-you-get-caught-you-blame yourself-and-may-be-go-to-wa wi-tenu-e places.“ “Don’t worry, I am the EFCC of my house, nobody can pad anything. I am on top of it. I do more market research and monitoring than Madam.” “I don’t get it. You now go to the market while Madam stays home?” “You can say what you like, but I can tell you authoritatively that a bag of rice which used to be N8, 500 is now N12, 500. Pampers was N1, 450, it is now within three weeks, N1, 850.” “Pampers?” “Yes” “What’s your business with pampers?” “What is not my business with pampers? I am a very active man, upstairs and downstairs. You don’t think I should be interested in all things material and particular and eventual? “ “You have really changed. What happened to you?” “Are you interested in my findings or you want to discuss something else?” “Carry on. I am listening.” “A congo of garri was N250 a few weeks ago, it is now N500” “Common garri?” “Garri has changed oh. It is no longer common” “Really?” “Stop saying really? Be a man and do your own research before Madam and the housekeeper drive you into bankruptcy by adding something of their own to the real figures and giving you false information. You must be proactive.” “I am with you” “See, I like to drink Andre. A carton used to be about N20,000. Can you believe it has jumped up to N24,500?” “Andre? What is that?” “It is a kind of wine. Middle class taste. I like it.” “So cheap? Some other people drink Crystal, Cliquot, didn’t know you are just a bush man with all your big mouth. Andre. Please stop disgracing somebody.” “A carton of Carlo Rossi, a week ago was N14,000, it is now N17, 500. “Carlo Rossi? Who is that? A football coach? “Even the cost of paraga and alomo, kasaprenko has gone up.” “You drink all of that too?” “A carton of Orijin was N2, 900 the other week, it is now N3, 300” “You keep talking about drinks. No wonder you have also been monitoring the prices of pampers. You can’t know the prices of these concoctions and not cause some maternity ward problems.” “I am giving you real figures. And that is why I greeted you, e ku exhange rate. The Naira has been dancing like a yo-yo, and the dollar is the queen of the foreign exchange market in Nigeria today.” “The colour of change.” “The Naira even exchanged for N390 to the dollar, and N500 to the pound.” “Nobody is talking about the pound.” “It is the American age. You’d think the Americans were the ones who colonized Nigeria with the way they have colonized the Nigerian exchange rate. Practically everyone is looking for the dollar, you would think the Naira never existed. We definitely have an economic identity crisis. ” “My driver told me he has a solution to the problem” “I have heard some petrol station attendants also saying they will solve the problem.” “I am not joking. My own Pastor actually told us on Sunday that the problem with the Naira is spiritual and that with prayers, the Naira will regain its lost strength.” “Well, the petrol station attendant has a different logic, and his own logic is even different from my driver’s.” “That is the problem. Everybody in Nigeria today is now an economist. Very soon, the roadside slowpoke will issue an opinion on how the Naira can be saved.” “Are you sure that has not happened yet?” “I went to a barbing salon last week, and the barber lamented that his prices would have to change” “Ok?” “Exchange rate and crude oil prices, he said” “By the time landlords start blaming the exchange rate and the spot price of crude oil, and they fix prices differently, we would all be in big trouble.” “But what happened to that campaign?” “Which one? “The Buy-Naija-To-Grow-the-Naira campaign, promoted by Senator Ben Bruce and others.” “Ha. You have not heard? The Common Sense Senator published a book on Common Sense, but it was discovered that the man preaching buy Naija, published his own book in the US of A.” “So?” “What do you mean so? Should he do one thing and say another?” “Let the people criticizing the Senator go and sit down, and keep quiet. The man is a thinker. They should know that. When they go to his Silverbird cinemas, do they watch Nigerian films there all the time, or do they eat guguru instead of pop corn?” “I am listening” “And have they seen Senator Bruce wearing local attires like a fisherman? This thing is about ideas. And that is why I always argue that what we need is not common sense, but uncommon sense. When you confront Nigerians with common sense, they will start looking for loopholes”. “I just hope that your common sense Senator is married to a Nigerian woman, because that is the best way to grow the Naira.” “What is that? Where is that coming from?” “I don’t think anybody can preach buy Naija to grow the Naira, and then go and marry a foreign wife, that will be hypocrisy of the highest order!” “What is the connection between where a man marries from and the Naira?” “There is. Please, there is; it is the biggest money laundering offence.” “You have started again. Who are you trying to shade?” “Nobody. But if we want to really save the Naira, everybody should buy Naija.” “That is too simplistic. Except you are trying to suggest that our Governor-friend with Cape Verde connections has also refused to buy Naija and therefore has a hand in the problem with the Naira.” “He is our friend oh. Please, no comment.” “Some people say to save the Naira, not even the bedroom should be outsourced, and that the biggest drain on this economy is the obsession of the Nigerian rich with all things beautiful and romantically seductive from foreign countries.” “I can’t comment on that.” “You are saying all of this because Ben Murray Bruce printed his common sense book in America?” “I am saying we all need to rescue the Naira and the economy. The economy first!” “You are beginning to sound like a vulcanizer. It is not your job, it is not my driver’s job, and the petrol station attendants should just keep quiet. Na only we dey OPEC?” “They won’t. They can’t. This is a democracy and we all have a right to make policy. If we don’t speak up, some people will pad things again and things will get worse.” “It is Godwin Emefiele’s job” “Him na your brother?” “He is the Governor of the Central Bank” “Really?” “What do you mean, really?” “What are his views on monetary policy?” “Go and ask him” “And fiscal policy?” “Go and ask the Minister of Finance?” “We have a Minister of Finance?” “Of course we do” “And who is that?” “Wait a moment. What’s that her name again?” “Hello?” “Wait. I am trying to remember. Em…em…yes, 16+6= 24!” “You mean you can’t connect the monetary side with the fiscal side of the Nigerian economy, you are busy just saying… Okay, don’t bother, I get it.” “Candidly speaking.” “Don’t worry, the people who are benefitting from the Naira crisis know her and they know her name and they know the CBN Governor too. In case you don’t know, while you are busy trying to put people down, some other Nigerians have made a fortune from the Naira-Dollar palaver.” “A fortune?” “Yes. That is the difference between people who are clever and those who just complain. One of my wife’s friends is almost a billionaire now because the Naira crashed.” “How did she do it?” “The God of Olajumoke intervened. The God of Adekunle Gold picked up her call. And the God of Korede Bello said she had won. Her warehouse is profiting from the difference. So when you talk with that your sharp mouth, just know that in every economic situation, there are both happy and sad stories.” “But there are standards, normative contexts, economic frameworks” “If you don’t get it, you can’t get it. If you don’t mind, please, I don’t want a lecture on that.”

- See more at: http://reubenabati.com.ng/2016-02-26-The-Naira-Dollar-blues-By-Reuben-Abati.html#sthash.AksviPms.dpuf

JingoOAU:
If you believe that Abba Moro is to be prosecuted and hanged for his role in the immigration scam, and you still believe that GEJ is the best thing to ever happen to Nigeria, you are worse that Abba Moro, and the blood of the innocent souls who lost their lives during the immigration recruitment is on ur head

Tertiary sentence? ?

got mine 2 days ago...an American oil multinational coy

The University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, will on Monday graduate a student who has been graded ‘excellent’ in all the courses taken while on campus.
The student, Ayodele Daniel Dada finished from the Department of Psychology with 5.0 Cumulative Grade Point Average,CGPA.
The university’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Rahamon Bello, disclosed this yesterday, during a pre-convocation media briefing held at the university’s Senate Chamber disclosed this to newsmen.
According to the VC, the university was glad to break another academic ground, saying the candidate showed exceptional academic prowess.
He said that this means Ayodele scored As in all courses he took in the programme.
According to him, a total of 10,907 students will graduate with degrees and diplomas during the convocation slated for 1st to 3rd of March, 2016.
In the breakdown, he noted that 5472 students will be awarded with first degree certificates, while 5435 will receive postgraduate degrees.
He said: “Out of the first degree graduating students, a total of 178 passed in the first class division, while 1,617 passed in the second class upper division.
“Also, 2,496 are in second class lower degree, 884 in third class, 274 in unclassified degrees in Medical Sciences and Pharmacy, just as 50 students had pass degree. Besides , the University will graduate a total of 71 students with the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees in various disciplines.”
According to the Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Engineering tops with the highest number of first class degrees, having 41 first class graduating students.
The convocation programmes, which has formally kicked off with the media briefing will also feature a convocation lecture to be delivered by the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu on Monday, February 28.


www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/unilag-produces-first-graduate-with-5-0-cgpa/

Oneafter:
Yes, like ojukwu the abidjan tourist.

Ojukwu didn't kill himself, did he?
That reminds me, you should have likened him to his tribesman that drank rat poison.

Egbon, we're no longer selling forms.

ABEOKUTA—The Yoruba Unity Forum has raised an alarm over the dwindling economic situation in the country, warning that millions of jobs might be lost this year if the free - fall of the Naira and the attendant rising inflation in the country are not checked urgently.
The YUF, however, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to put measures in place to arrest the situation and also restore investors’ confidence, noting that year 2016 would particularly be challenging to Nigeria and the citizens .
YUF’s new Chairman, Rev. Emmanuel Gbonigi, stated this yesterday, in his address at the general meeting of the group held at Efunyela Hall in the Ikenne, Ogun state, home of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
According to him, the textile industries if revived are capable of not only restoring jobs lost in past decades but also add tens of billions of naira to the National Gross Domestic Product(GDP).
The meeting observed a minute silence in honour of Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo,who was until her death,the Chairman of YUF and the late Ooni of Ife,Oba Okunade Sijuwade.
Other highlight of the meeting was the election of Bishop Gbonigi, as its substantive chairman of the Forum following the death of Mama Awolowo,while Archbishop Ayo Ladigbolu (retd) is the new deputy chairman.
Three vice-chairmen were also elected;namely, Senator Femi Okurounmu, Ambassador Tokunbo Awolowo Dosumu while the third person is yet to be elected.

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/02/yoruba-forum-warns-buhari-over-nairas-fall/