₦airaland Forum

clek:
I have $1000 bought at d rate of #366.with these speculations. Should I sell it now to avoid stories or I should hold on to it till monday?

Your eye is about to clear. Wait till Monday to help us improve the naira o jare. We have suffered enough

joseph1013:
After crashing the economy with his stubbornness, Buhari goes back to his vomit and does the same thing he swore not to do, both on local and international media.

May we not be cursed with leaders whose egos are bigger than their love of the common good of the masses.

Thank you very much my dear brother. You're absolutely spot-on in my books and I already said it on my own too. Anyone who wants to be so stubborn must be a very VEERY knowledgeable person who knows more than others and is seeing something the rest may not be seeing. Not this Buhari. Running a country democratically is very different from obstinately ordering your troops to their deaths in a war. Much damage has already happened. I don't know what can be salvaged now

Reading this tale is just as if I'm reading the account of a Westerner in one of the foreign forums I follow, complete with familiar terminologies and assumptions. Africa has perfected the photocopying of all the ills and malaise of the Western world but not the positive attitudes and values of the same West. Talk about Selection Bias!

DCONE1:
Seun should stop living under his fathers limelight he shouLd discover him self and grow his carrier...another thing that Baffles me is that fela openly insult all our religion ,infected women with aid,lived a lifestyle of drug abuse and still our youths worship him as their hero SMH this generation is lost

It is you who is lost. Where did you ever hear Fela advocate that people live his own personal lifestyle? Name ONE person who has now died from AIDS infection from Fela. The entertainers the youth worship today are far far far more devastating to the values of Nigeria than Fela ever was. You have no idea. I'm not surprised since you value dumb religion that has held this country hostage

Nigeria is a place for not-fully-developed human-like creatures. They're incredibly dumb for a human being but doing fine if compared to those other primates that are not as developed as humans in the evolution tree. As I've always said, NIGERIA IS A JOKE!

Deadlytruth:
Okay then, tell your people to allow true federalism and resource control so that you can take your Shiroro and Kainji Dams revenues all for yourselves. But you refuse this offer. Why?

Who are "your people"? My ancestry is Edo State, so I'm technically South-South. I hope you can now see the damage that being a Nigerian has done to you. I'm not going further. Go and develop yourself so you remove your name from the list of people who are Nigeria's problems. Don't forget: THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA IS THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES!

ademasta:
Those that failed us are the ones in those pictures, only a thoughtful mind will understand.

Don't mind all these yeye people. They've pushed everything on the head of abstract "leaders" like those people are a special breed from outer space

Agunechemba1:
I never knew he was from Edo


I used to think he's an Hausa Man.


All the same RIP Sir.

That's an example the harm that ethnic profiling have done to Nigeria. We automatically want to put a sticker on someone we don't know and treat them accordingly. Many have died as a result

Deadlytruth:
I don't think he is wrong.
The hypocrisy is both ways between Hausas and Igbos.
When the North was enjoying groundnut pyramids boom before oil came they stuck to federalism and resource control so much that immediately Ironsi dismantled federalism they rioted and killed thousands of Igbos and even later killed Ironsi himself, but on getting power back they too just continued with unitary system from where Ironsi stopped.
On the other hand, had the oil discovered in Oloibiri in 1956 were to have been struck at the backyard of Ironsi's father's house in Umuahia, Ironsi would not have tampered with federalism at all on getting to power. In fact he would have quickly strengthened the regions more than he met them.
This is the irony of Nigeria. There is too much hypocrisy.

Your history is convoluted, as well as your analogy. You have to do a lot more reading and thinking. You too, why did you avoid taking on my Kainji and Shiroro dam analogy? It would have helped edify you if you applied yourself to thinking about it

lukency:
He ll alwaz be remembered as a man who institutionalised coruption in nigerian.

Thank you very much and God bless you for this

kelechi17:
I'm sure if d oil was in d north u won't utter dis rubbish.. y did d federal government not allow states access thr resources same way northern states are accessing thr solid minerals mtceeeeew bunch of parasites

I'm sure your selection bias made you blind to Kainji and Shiroro dams. I don't expect a Nigerian, let alone a militant sympathiser to have a clue what I'm saying. I'm happy to inform you that you're one of Nigeria's problems

Ken Saro-Wiwa wasted his life by himself. Nigerians seem incapable of objective discourse. We read Ken Saro-Wiwa and Mamman Vatsa in secondary school in my day and you tend to love such people. Both were executed and it broke my heart. But I've grown and seen the harsh realities of life. Ken Saro-Wiwa was no less a "resource-control" advocate like the others presently doing same and reaping untold money. They're reaping millions of dollars from the death of Saro-Wiwa. All this environmental pollution he and they claim is a smokescreen. They've never cared about it. That school of thought believes that the present political entities covered by the oil area OWN the oil and should control it. Another word for greed. Number one: do you know how many "people" have come and gone in that area over the millenia that the oil was there? Because you happen to be there at the time the British opened your eyes, you claim to own it. How come over the thousands of years (or hundreds of thousands, or millions) that the oil was there that you never used it one day, until some people from far away invested huge money to search for and drill the oil to turn it into a money spinner. That was possible because you were part of a country called Nigeria and the rulers of Nigeria consider all parts of the country as one entity where they could spend or use resources as needed for the betterment of all. It was a Northern ruler that oversaw the beginning of commercial crude oil drilling in Nigeria and he used a lot of it to develop infrastructure in the country's capital which was in the West (not North). So now the water in Kainji and Shiroro dams that have been providing us electricity before gas in the Niger-Delta nko? So the communities there should start fighting about owning the water too abi? They should be sabotaging the dams because it is their water? I know it is shocking to all of you to realise that both are perfectly equivalent; they're things occurring naturally there and exploited for the national good. If oyibo didn't invent uses for crude oil, no Niger-Delta person ever would
The problem with Nigeria is the curse of ethnic identities and jingoism which makes people see things through tribal prisms and not for the national good. Nigeria is an ignorant, society of near-primates and the way out of our problem is long-term, and that is proper education and stopping this university madness which breeds ignoramuses with huge egos

University go kill and drown all of una for this country. Mumu people I've never imagined I would live among. The various heads of governments in this country have no idea or philosophy of how society develops, just copy copy and "na so dem dey do am". Who is "dem"?

The more universities Nigeria gets, the dumber the Nigerian society becomes. We had 0, then 1, then 3. As we moved into the teens, Nigeria got worse; as we moved into the scores, Nigerian society became pretty-much crippled. Now that we're in the hundreds, Nigeria is simply a joke. Where can I start this analysis for Christ's sake.

Let me continue sef, since Alex Usifo just bagged PhD. Have you heard Alex Usifo (I like to call him Talab Abass) speak before? Or Ramsey Nouah, or Keppy Ekpeyong-Bassey, Wole Soyinka, Gowon. I can't count finish. Have you watched old tapes of how Nigerians spoke English in the '60s and earlier? Nigeria is continually and irrevocably going backward since "Independence" and anyone who tries to measure himself against the better standards we used to uphold is emotionally blackmailed by the massive majority of the backward people

wristbangle:
Some Nigerians, when they return from abroad often display some nasty and childish habits when they return home, and these silly and childish attitudes are enlisted below;

1. Unnecessary use of foreign accent to intimidate local people

When some Nigerians living abroad return home, they begin to use these foreign accents to create unwanted scenes. They do this to show people that they are not of the same class. A times when you tell them, you can't understand their statement, they will say "Are u deaf"? The ones that annoy me most are those based in cotonou, Ghana, Uganda, china forming British accent. Honestly these ones need serious psychiatric evaluation.

2. High level of Pride

Living abroad is not a guarantee that one will be richer than Dangote or Mike Adenuga so why the overbloated ego? Some will even make it look like they're doing you a favour talking to you. This is common with the ladies.

3. Unnecessary show off

I know of some Nigerians who have lived their whole life abroad and are still able to be casual. But for some, they will wear socks and jacket under the intense sun and will be screaming to people's hearing that they regret coming to Nigeria.

4. They condemn our local dish

When a friend of mine returned from Canada, he told me to take him to a restaurant because he went hungry and I was elated he still has passion for our local dish. I took him to one fascinating local restaurant at Ibadan. When they served us pounded yam/egusi soup complimented with all sorts of assorted bush meats. Instead of eating the meal, he walked out from the restaurant telling me he couldn't eat that shiiit . Honestly, I was embarrassed by his comment.

5. They demand for undue Respect

Some of them are so proud that they will give you this proud look because they feel you want to beg pounds or dollars from them. I really don't blame them, after all it is what they experience often when they visit home as friends, family and even enemies want to benefit from their pocket.

6. Hotel becomes their home

I know most of them prefer lodging in a hotel because they are scared of mosquito bite, non availability of light and other negative factors in their parents' house. Though I wouldn't call this a silly act but I feel staying in your parents' house especially when located in the village will attract more parental blessing.

7. They neglect their old friends

This is common to some abroad based Nigerians. They tend to ignore the friends they left in Nigeria because they feel they have climbed the ladder of greatness. Last year, a very good friend of mine arrived from the UK and what surprised me most was that he refused to come to my house after a week of arrival. I used my church mind to go to his place and he started acting like I came to beg for money. This silly attitude of common with some of them.

8. They condemn our culture and values

It's a pity that some Nigerians are so engrossed with the westerner culture that they view African culture as being fetish and archaic when they returned home. For them to prostrate for elders and even their parents is like displaying stupidity act. This is nothing but outright nonsense.

You have a serious inferiority complex. Me sef I went abroad and I now speak "foneh" - the correct one o. Unfortunately for you, I learnt most of it here over a period of 20 yrs and was able to practice there. I've further improved it right here in Nigeria. If u wan learn, pay money and enrol and I will teach you. Just bring along Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary There are many people who learn it here only for incapable people to gather and emotionally blackmail them as you're doing here (and I'm certain you'll get enough supporters). Have you heard Onyeka Onwenu speak before? Or Olu Jacobs? Get a life, ok!

Chukzyfcb:
NLders re busy suggesting options that they re familiar with.
Someone should give a well detailed analysis.
1) Cost of generator , cost of fuelling it in a year for 8hrs & cost of maintenance =

Vs

2) Cost of getting an inverter with battery that can last same 8hrs, same with solar.
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Eg. If it'll cost me 50,000 to buy a gen (2.8kva)
1,000 daily to fuel for 8hrs; 365,000 a year
Cost of maintenance a year = 30,000
Total = 445,000 a year spent on generator,

How much will it cost for a solar or inverter to supply the same 8 hrs in a year. That's the analysis we need here not beer parlour gist

My dear brother, that's an unfair comparison. Solar installations are meant to last over 20 years with little maintenance and repair. At the least, 5 years should be the basis for comparison as you could have to replace batteries after then - which is a big expense. Some well-used batteries can still serve for much longer though.
Ok, strictly solar/gen comparison, I made a calculation a year+ ago which came to less than 5 years inflection point (where the solar then becomes cheaper). Now, fuel was 97 naira then. You know the price now.
The best way to handle solar, if not that we have a failed society is that the banks give you a loan to acquire it and you pay monthly over 5- to 10 years (almost like a mortgage) and the government incentivises it. When Buhari won the election, I contacted someone close to his circle to let him know we can mitigate power problem in this country and create jobs, all within 2 yrs, with a marked improvement in one year. Well, I was ignored and we just "celebrated" one year anniversary of his inauguration with light situation much much worse than when I proposed the idea. With my plan, it actually becomes even cheaper to go solar as you would not need batteries as much as this our present self-contained model
When I say Nigeria is a joke, I know exactly what I'm talking about

mikolo80:
yeah the gas is free of charge,grab it while its hot!!!

The day that gas will explode in their faces, they will have a teachable moment. Everybody turning to gas these days, including careless people. Gas doesn't forgive when it gets angry with your maltreatment. I'm a solar SPECIALIST. Anyone with 50k and above can be accommodated. My methods are detailed and unique and I would have been charging a hell of a lot if only that no one knows me yet. Catch me while I'm yet unknown and without capital to put up a multi-million naira show-off office cos when I do, it will be too late for the average individual. Thank you

If I told you I can install a device of less than 10 thousand naira that will prevent ending of a whole life such as this, will you give me the 10k? Good luck to Nigerians, where people with good solutions go hungry and those to benefit refuse to patronise them and prefer to leave everything about their lives to "God". I'm sure the man's salary for one month sef is more than 10k but he's now dead for all of eternity. GOOD LUCK, NIGERIA!

In furtherance of my solid conviction that the problem with Nigeria is her people and their values, let me state that Jonathan was a weak man knowing little about leadership or government. He basically just let the Nigerians around him do what they want, hoping he himself will make money too. HENCE, they did what came naturally to them. Nigerians are rogues; money is their god. As it is with government officials today (who were "ordinary Nigerians" some time back), so is it in the phone repairers I'm with right now who are talking about phones 180 thousand naira and "ace" alcoholic beverage (I never heard of it) costing 100 thousand or so naira they they say Whizkid bought 10 to waste at a Malaysian nightclub. THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA IS THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES, A FEW OF WHOM ARE IN GOVERNMENT FOR A BRIEF PERIOD IN THEIR LIVES

greatgod2012:
exactly, that's why I said it on another thread that OBJ cannot be forgotten, not for good reasons, but negatively.
He has been the architect of so many problems confronting this country.

Posterity cannot forgive him.

You people are just pathetic BABATS! You don't know squat and you don't care to know. Obasanjo is the reason we can even vote out presidents now. You have NO idea! It pains me to the bones when people, usually children born in the '80s down, who keep on piling on Obasanjo. He saved YOU from a reality you will never know and that's why you're so ungrateful

GlorifiedTunde:
Respect kwa!

Were u born in 1999

The man is only on a low key due to health challenges.

OBJ really fixed IBB, else....

My dear brother, I just had to answer this one. I don't like responding so much these days cos most people don't know nothing here. Forget health or no health; every day of my life, I will always worship Olusegun Obasanjo. Most of the kids of today just run their mouths about that man due to some personal weaknesses in a PRIVATE capacity. If not for Obasanjo, I don't know what Nigeria would be today. Only him could have put Babangida in the irrelevance in which he would spend his last days on earth. We owe this democracy to the fact that Obasanjo was the first to be president this time and created a strong foundation. I can talk a lot more but people don't deserve the free knowledge I give. Babangida destroyed Nigeria and only Obasanjo was able to subdue his power

If the Koma people were to have the pseudo-education the rest of Nigeria has had, maybe they would also cling to their "culture" of going about buck naked. Because the British came to shine light on us at a particular stage of each culture's development, so we would eternally remain at that stage and say that's our "cultural dress"? How dumb can we be for Christ's sake?

tpiah11:
Tiwa sha!

No be the barbing wey im take woo you and you agreed?

Women!

Sawdust-brained people, causing sorrow in society since time immemorial. These "American" showbiz people are actively destroying the little morality left in Nigeria in their desperate attempt to become Americanas. See how all of them are divorcing after few years of multimillion naira weddings

Does Aso Villa have any floor as high as the one from which he's standing?

InvertedHammer:
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Yes. Welcome to the 21st century my friend. The only thing that is constant is change. We live in a fast paced world and most Nigerians rely on imports unlike the era you reminiscing with nostalgia. You cannot compare the world of today and the era when Post offices were the only main route of communication. It is pointless comparing analogue and digital mechanism. Nigeria must catch up with the global pace or remain a skunk forever. In the global arena, there is no space for the weakest link.

Do I stand to profit if naira is devalued? Of course and very heavily because of the exchange rates. Yet I know that it is economically and morally wrong to devalue the naira when the export Nigeria has is oil which is experiencing a glut in the market place.

I think your problem is that you so much dwell in the past that you fail to acknowledge the present and the future. Such mindset is retrogressive.
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I can not force the recalcitrant horse to drink water o. I withdraw this indulgence

donbenedict:
Trust me if her bride price were expensive, he wouldn't dare pull that trigger

So woman na market abi? I'm not surprised; it's the jungle afterall

greatiyk4u:
African magic

African mumurity

generalkofosi:
Uncle Dele promoting his dead party NCP

That party was formed by the late Gani Fawehinmi even in 1994 when the military refused registration of political parties. How come it's not the party of most Nigerians who claim they want a better country and idolise Gani? NIGERIA IS A JOKE!

InvertedHammer:
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It went up 100%. Wait till it goes up to 500%. Once devalued, the naira will gain a few points and the nose dive starts. The problem some of you have is that you never consider long term effects. You tend to be enamoured with quick fixes that are short term solutions. Where will naira be five years, ten years, twenty years after devaluation? That's how serious nations make projections and not three months fix.

Egypt with some semblance of decorum tried it and failed. So did many other nations. Nigeria, with high reliance on import will be a basket case. The simple fact is that Nigeria has no bargaining chips. If oil ever rolls down to 20s and stay there for a while, Nigeria will go belly up. The hidden truth is that Nigeria has been having problems for years finding buyers for her oil. To move away from dependence on oil revenue takes years to implement. Nigeria has no infrastructures to support any industry with potentials. She can't even guarantee 24hrs of power supply in this 21st century.
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Only on social media will this happen. How old are you? I was there when naira began its fall from parity with dollar. In my childhood I spent a half KOBO. I will try to put up the picture of the 50kobo note I kept since 1991. That's what I used to spend to buy evening papers in 1989/90. I monitored the papers when dollar was 7 naira. My first salary was 178 naira a month. I lived a much better life when naira was 140 to a dollar. You must come on the internet to argue your case but also be open to learn. That's sadly what people in Nigeria NEVER DO. Everybody is an expert online, even the dullest student will chastise his teacher if they met online.
Nigeria has been living an unbelievable lie. We do not deserve to have anything to live on right now. In previous times we did manufacture a huge number of our daily needs right here; our greed for so many things was much less, and we exported a good number of farm produce too. Now if we do NOTHING AT ALL and think we can continue living on the basis of currency manipulation, that's just a sick joke and the joke is on the people who say so - like you because, go to the real world and everything is transacted on the real value of dollar/pound/euro, not the one your govt officials pluck from the sky. The quality of life of a people is not about how much their currency exchanges in the international market. Do you know Ghana? Ghana changed the value of their currency to 100 times it's previous value. Have the Ghanaians become 100 times better off? This is all a joke. Get to work, Nigeria. That's the only way to a better life

Student unionism is also an imposition on students. It is wrong too. Empty vessels. When I got into university, nobody came to market student union to me, telling me how it would help me. They just brought their fees for me to pay. Why should that be? What are they doing besides practising how to be confrontational in preparing for politics and "activism" after school. Even while in school there they're already cutting deals with politicians and making money for their private pockets. Why couldn't they pick an interest in me to discover I knew political issues much more than all of them combined while I was in universities? Just like in the real Nigerian society, student union is also an exclusive club where they're feathering their own nests and don't want an "outsider" to come in and preach a morality they can only dream of. All of Nigeria is a mess

GudluckIBB:
Hope this will bring light.

But why do Nigerian workers enjoy strike?

Una no dey tire?

Nigerian workers love strike because under the sickness that's the system in Nigeria, they still get full pay for the period of their strike. If not, I trust Nigerian self-centred people - they will never strike. If na you nko? You can find a reason to sit in your house for 8 months or one year or whatever, and you get fully paid when you resume. Nigeria indeed is a joke

InvertedHammer:
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The people shouting "DEVALUATION " are similar to the folks that got sucked into the bubble of "CHANGE"

When they finally get it, the mirage will clear.

The inflation and consequent hardship will be second to none.

Black market will always thrive even if abolished because everyone wants more bang for his/her bucks.

In all, after devaluation, prices will adjust up while salaries remain stagnant. Will you be ready?

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What worries me the most is that some of you refuse to acknowledge or fail to realise that your fears of what happens after devaluation has already happened. It must happen; there's no other way. Prices of everything have gone up almost 100% in the last one year. The problem with Nigeria is that when someone officially says what has already happened,that's when people will start making a noise. As one previous poster alluded, the problem with Nigeria is our attitude and conduct