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CrystalTiger:
Why are you crying?..Don't you have a backyard where you live? We're now operating a full time subsistence economy..

Subsistence farming, Subsistence Oil Production, Subsistence everything..

Omo!

There's even fuel scarcity as of this morning in Lagos. Fuel queue everywhere.

iamoyindamola:
Ibime do they also sell strand of spaghetti in youkay

https://www.nairaland.com/8148314/hardship-spaghetti-strands-now-being

izzou:


[color=royalblue]A basket of Cassava - 65k
A bag of corn - 18k

Infact, you can't buy a reasonable corn for 200 naira, even though na the season.

A paint of garri - 4k

Fuel - 740/ltr

Diesel - 1,150 to 1,270

I really would love to see people's reasons for voting in 2027[/color]

Just yesterday someone climbed a mast in Abuja threatening to kill himself due to the hardship and hunger in the land and people on social media were even laughing under the comment section .

Those same people return the people responsible for the hardship back to power . That’s the only reason why the supporters of the party are so confident .

🚶

A tuber of yam costs nothing less than 5k And humans with blood running through their veins are shouting Tinubu’s 2 terms is assured. SMH 🤦‍♂️

Yes, u read it right. A tuber of yam costs 1/6 of the monthly national minimum wage .

Nigerians are indeed a special breed. 🤷‍♂️

RealityKings:
This is just an idea that can b modified and improved on... Consider it as the raw format.

The idea will not work; the physicality of the sport does not allow for the game to be extended beyond 90 mins regular time and 30mins extra time in knockout competitions.

Why do u think they started giving water break in football? It is to ensure players get hydrated so u don't have players dropping on the pitch like log of wood.

RealityKings:
I was having a thought A standard soccer game is 90 minutes, split into two 45-minute periods either side of a 15-minute break.
In that 45 minutes, sometimes players are allowed a "water break ".
I was thinking, can't first half be made a combination of 30 minutes + 30 minutes?
For instance 1st half = 30mins + water break + 30mins (culminating to first half)

2nd half = 30mins + water break + 30mins (culminating to second half)

This will create more playing time with equal opportunities

I'm just thinking

So u want a football match to last 120mins of regular time? Then what happens if they are in a knockout competition which ends in a draw? Will they play another 30mins extra time?

If yes, then be ready to pick as many dead bodies as possible on the pitch.

The physicality of the game and the extended duration u are proposing will run a lot of players down to their early grave. Most players will even retire before they clock 28 years old.

NIGERIA is sinking deeper into another debt trap. This is after the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio recently crossed the 50 per cent threshold for the first time since 1991.

The Bola Tinubu administration inherited a debt-to-GDP ratio of 38 per cent. But fresh borrowings, securitisation of the Ways and Means advances, a failure to tackle fiscal challenges such as low crude output amid soaring government expenditure, and a sluggish GDP growth rate have pushed the ratio to 52.9 per cent. This is significantly above the prudential debt ceiling of 40 per cent prescribed by the International Monetary Fund for developing countries.

The current figures raise the question of debt sustainability in a country that has allocated 30 per cent of the 2024 budget to debt servicing.

The latest figures by the Debt Management Office show a public debt portfolio of N121 trillion comprised of a domestic debt of N65.6 trillion and a foreign debt portfolio of $42.1 billion or N56 trillion.

Nigeria’s finance managers have usually prided themselves on maintaining a relatively low debt-to-GDP ratio compared with its African peers. As of 2023, Ghana had a debt-to-GDP ratio of 84.9 per cent, South Africa 72.2 per cent, Kenya 70.1 per cent, and Egypt 95.8 per cent.

The rising debt-to-GDP ratio is bound to severely constrain Nigeria’s ability to expand the borrowing needed to fund the budget deficit. Huge increases in debt service obligations worsen this. Nigeria spent N7.8 trillion to service its debt obligations in 2023, a 121 per cent increase compared to N3.52 trillion in the previous year.

A PwC report projected that Nigeria’s debt service could rise from N8.25 trillion in 2024 to N9.3 trillion in 2025 and N11.1 trillion in 2026. This may affect the country’s debt servicing ability, credit rating outlook, and borrowing cost.

In 2005, Nigeria faced an unsustainable debt scenario, with a total revenue of around $9 billion and a debt portfolio of approximately $36 billion. The Olusegun Obasanjo administration made a historic deal with the Paris and London Club of Creditors that allowed Nigeria to buy back about $30 billion of its $32 billion external debts through a one-time cash payment of $12 billion.


Since that clean slate, the public debt has continued to rise progressively again. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, public debt rose from N12.6 trillion in 2015 to N97.3 trillion by 2023. Between December 2023 and March 2024 alone, public debt has increased by N24.3 trillion. The COVID-19 pandemic, a double recession, and lower oil revenues have been adduced as reasons for the borrowings.

Nigerians hardly have anything to show for the huge public debts.

Rail and road infrastructure remains in a poor state nationwide. Health and education facilities are in a shambles. Power is absent in a country where citizens provide the essentials for themselves.

The only seeming beneficiaries of the borrowing spree have been political officeholders and government employees whose lavish lifestyles are supported by the borrowed funds.

That Nigeria is sinking into another debt trap shows that the National Assembly is not living up to expectations. In its typical rubber stamp fashion, it has allowed a regime of fiscal irresponsibility by the executive. Parliament should monitor the country’s finances, promote accountability, and curb wastage. The Nigerian equivalent seems fixated on reckless spending on non-essential fancies like new presidential jets.

More prudence needs to be applied in managing financial resources. Fiscal leakages such as oil theft, contract inflation, outright looting, and ‘ghost workers’ must be stopped. The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Wale Edun, must see this as a tipping point and draw up measures to ensure that the country’s debt profile is sustainable.

Punch Editorial
https://punchng.com/nigeria-sinking-into-another-debt-trap/

GloriousGbola:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_vegetable_garden

But other wives of leaders have done the same na.
Are they also comedians?

Don’t do this please !

The joke is in the caption of the video.

After they voted billions of Naira for feeding inside Aso rock , they now release a video of the First Lady captioned : See the Vegetables First Lady Oluremi Tinubu Cooks for President Bola Tinubu

It is funny walahi! 😂

liveLongNprospa:

VIDEO: See the Vegetables First Lady Oluremi Tinubu Cooks for President Bola Tinubu pic.twitter.com/oDSt4WFs5c

— TVC News (@tvcnewsng) July 7, 2024

Propaganda will finish this people.

My God😂😂

Aunty Remi is a comedienne 😂

I enjoyed the video , it was comic relief

afrodoc2:
Buhari and Southgate.

liveLongNprospa:
Or this.

Of which it's not still enough seeing how the youths are still demanding his head

This is the same thing we ask for in Nigeria but some stupid people must defend government irrespective of whether they and their loved ones are affected .

The government has been responsive enough to know that it is foolhardy to keep the office of the First Lady and Second Lady with exorbitant budget while asking the people to keep funding lifestyle of politicians and their allies through increased taxation . This is commendable .

In Nigeria , when the government says we are poor and they can’t afford some subsidies for the common man, the same government will proceed to pay billions for bullet proof tyres for VIPs . Yet, stupid people will justify it .

If u read about Cipolla’s laws of stupidity , u will know that stupid people form the majority of the Nigerian population. According to Cipolla , stupid people are people who take decisions that cause losses to themselves and no benefits to the society.

Saka Omo mi

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8146326/imade-davido-sophias-child-custody


this is just david and his baby mam - so take this an multiply by X for polygamy matter
this is what raumdeuter is advocating - let your prick take you where you no know

The summary of this is that Davido is a CLOUTinho in this case .

Sportsweb:
David is asking for Joint-custody not full

Read my previous responses on the matter . I no fit Dey repeat myself

folake4u:
I know right. Nigerians are funny people when it comes to their favourite artiste, they believe he can do no wrong.

Kidnapping a 3 months old baby is WILD and false representing the daughter's mother is INSANE!!!! How can a normal child grow in that household?

The reason they throw logic on the matter is because he's a "cheerful giver" and doles cash anyhow in the guise of giveaway. The average Nigerian worships money.

I like Davido's music a LOT but Truth has to be said.

The fact that it appears Davido’s father was in on the child abduction is really worrying honestly . It just gives an impression that David is a child that get what he wants with his dad’s support irrespective how messy the situation may be . 🤦‍♂️

larride:
Is Imade living in between her puxxi?

What's the correlation between seeing his child and them knacking?

Seeing his child is his right as the father, if they will knack, it will be both of them consenting to knack, it has nothing to do with Imade.

Maybe you can show us from the chat where Davido is demanding for sex first before visiting his daughter.

If u choose to play the ostrich so be it. It is ur prerogative.

Davido claimed her denied her access to the child , she countered his claim and called it a lie. Go to instagram and see screenshot of chat between Sophia and Davido’s father in which she mentioned how he’s deliberately chose to be absent in the child’s daughter even on special occasions .

The koko now is both Davido and Sophia have submitted their argument to the court let’s wait and see in whose Favour the court will give judgement in its infinite wisdom .

folake4u:
It is quite appalling when people throw away logic when it comes to Davido.

I'd prefer if people read the entire court process before taking sides.

U see that number 75 ehn….i keep wondering Why will anybody gloss over it and just dismiss the issue just like that ?

People really throway logic on the matter no lies .

Graphic image of how Wasiu was bundled out of the tournament .

Adieus!

larride:
Davido cannot take the girl out of the country but Sophia can.

Sophia can deny Davido access to their child but Davido cant ask for joint custody.

Make sense.

He intended to take her from her mother illegally in the past and was stopped .

Nothing stops him from trying again. Nigeria has not gotten better since the last time .

The lady has already said she didn’t deny him access to the child . U are only willing to believe Davido’s version of the events without considering the lady’s story as well.

larride:
Again this is pure Davido hating, nothing more, nothing else. Sophia is not the only Davido baby mamas and all of them has custody of the child of while Davido can visit and has access to the child. How many of them has Davido forcefully taken the child away from? You cant mention any Davido precedent to back your assumption on.

Davido is not asking for joint custody because they found cannabis in Sophia blood, Davido is asking for joint custody because Sophia has refused his access and visiting right to their CHILD.

Sophia is the one in the wrong here, not Davido.

Sophia has debunked the bolded . She claims she’s not denying him access to the child but access to her body . Go and check Linda Ikeji for a screenshot of Davido asking her for phone sexxx and she obliging . That has been tendered as evidence in court to prove her case.

GloriousGbola:
snatching children from difficult wives/concubines is a part of yoruba culture we dont talk about

https://www.nairaland.com/1840419/when-rich-families-cause-pain

i was trying to recall this story above. the child is fortunately with the mother now

it is very rich to say you are taking imade from hr mother because they found cannabis in her blood when davido the father also smokes cannabis . so what exactly is the difference here?

nothing will stop Davido and his family from snatching imade from sophia [on nigerian soil] they have shown they are capable of it

if you knew davido personally, would you let your child go for a sleepover at his place? would you allow your child to be at his place unsupervised?



the big booty lawyer from the witchcraft state has a friend on sophias team. and they apparently have receipts. so let us sit back and watch it all unfold

U Dey mind him ?

They both probably smoked cannabis before knacking each other sef. Even Davido himself will not be unreasonable to use that cannabis in the blood argument in court . Sophia’s lawyers will jolly well designate Davido’s house as Fela African shrine where cannabis is their food

larride:
You are accusing others of sentiments when you are doing exactly that while discarding the whole context of this joint custody wahala.

1. Davido is not looking for full custody of the child, he's asking for joint custody.

2. Davido is asking for joint custody because Sophia is denying the man access to their daughter. Davido hasn't seen the child in over 1 year and everytime he request to see her, it's always one excuse after the other. Go to Twitter and see all the revelations that's coming out from the case. Even Davido father had to intervened and talk with Sophia about not denying the family access to their daughter and that one even disrespected his father. She wants to continue collecting child support from them but want to deny them access to their daughter, who will accept that.

3. Yes, the unfortunate incident happened with Ifeanyi but Davido wasn't even at home when it happened as there was carer who was tasked to take care of the son but what happened, happened but the same Imade fell sick for days when she was still breast feeding and test revealed cannabis in her blood, Sophia was tested and cannabis was found in her own blood too which means Sophia put their own daughter at risk.

4. Ifeanyi was a toddler when the accident happened (God rest his soul) Imade is not. What his asking for is joint custody and no man should be denied access to their child.

It's fine not to like Davido, but none of you siding with Sophia will accept what she's doing to Davido.

Your last paragraph sums up everything u think this is all about. You think it’s about not liking Davido . Smh 🤦‍♂️

Is Sophia’s lawyer arguments valid or not ? Did the deceased child not die due to negligence ?

The Dabido requesting joint custody , how many days of the year do u think he spends in the house ?

The highest he should get from the court is access to his child when he’s available and the child is on holidays . The child should remain with the mother till pay the father visits when he’s available till she turns 18, then she can decide on who she wants to be with . Simple !

Nothing concern me with all those sentiments of dem no like Davido. If Sophia was anybody here’s sister and she had to go through what she went through when the child was almost taken from her , that person too will not support an arrangement that allows Davido full access to the child in which he can jolly well jet her out and the mother will see shege before seeing her child

GloriousGbola:
Quite literally she can drop imade at Davidos house, come back to pick her and be barred from entering the house. And she will not be able to do anything about it as a naija matter.

She will just cry on social media and the same people chastising her now will tell her to rest abeg.

Some will even go as far and tell her to be grateful that her billionaire baby daddy wants to raise the daughter for her 😂

GloriousGbola:
https://www.channelstv.com/2023/03/24/chrisland-school-staff-vendor-to-face-charges-for-students-death/
the school principal, a teacher and the owner of the vending machine are in jail awaiting trial over a child's electrocution.

i will ask you a simple question. if ifeanyi had died in this manner in a school swimming pool, who would be liable?

you would be calling for the head of the school proprietor

Davido built a swimming pool in his house and did not put in place measures to child proof it. he hired an inexperienced village girl as a child minder. his house is not so much a home as a frat house

he is out of the home most of the time.

you can always search parental liablity child death if you want more clarity

if imade had been staying on and off with davido , it is the same way she would have stumbled into that pool

major accidents NEVER happen in isolation. they are ALWAYs preceded by minor incidents. but negligent individuals fail to read the signs and act accordingly. what makes it worse is that this has happened before, when dbanj child died in the same manner. you would expect a parent with sense to have learned from this and put all precautions in place if a swimming pool is a must . note the emphasis on parent with sense.

if i wanted to be extra mean, i would have said ifeanyi was an inconvenience for him. what stops me from carrying my pikin with me on a social visit? the visit to the ooni was social.

What u see with people chiding Sophia’s valid argument is just what Nigerians do when their fave is involved in a matter ; they will just decide to disregard logic and go with sentiment .

Anybody who unfamiliar with our hypocrisy would think Sophia was pulling a Tonto Dike vs Churchill on Davido. Tonto literally changed the name of their child , denied the man access to the child , goes to the child’s school on Father’s Day dressed in male attire , etc

On the contrary it was Davido right from the child’s infancy that tried stealing the child from the mother . He almost succeeded in shipping the child out of the country if not for Dele Momodu’s intervention. How do u expect that same woman to trust u with the custody of the same child?

It is only logical for her lawyers to argue that a toddler in ur care was deceased and that’s a ground for u not to be granted custody .

But Nigerians with sentiments think it is a blow below the belt .

afrodoc2:
Wow! Is that the notorious/famous ogbono thief?

Old things have passed away doc . Paul was once Saul

TemporaryHansel:
I need my account(Elder0001) back too. Unlike you, I wasn't under any ban. I deactivated it by myself because I was in a bad mood. @gloriousgbola can you help me plead my case with the mod you contacted to help you restore your account? I didn't break any rules, neither am I on ban. I want it restored.

@seun

U don finally accept now say u be elder Abi ?


Cc: Ibime

GloriousGbola:
she is absolutely correct

if davido and chioma could not take care of ifeanyi, you think they can take care of imade?

if davido was in a western nation, he would have been liable for the death of ifeanyi

davido is not father material. neither is chioma

parenting is not posing with your children on instagram

the fact that imade is a girl makes it worse.

davidos house is constantly full of lost boys who are not ready to grow up. any of them could be a child molester

Everybody knows this is the truth, but fandom and stanship will not allow people see things for what they are .

A man that lost a child to parental negligence is seeking custody of another child from another woman he’s not married to and they expect the woman to just hand the child over . Why ? Because his name is Davido and he must always get what he wants ? Smh 🤦‍♂️

If I was the judge in the case, I will only pronounce a judgement that allows for him to have regular access to his daughter maybe allow for the daughter to spend few holidays with him, but make the mother her primary custodian .


Even those saying “ He asked for joint custody “ are just being disengagious . Shebi joint custody means they will have the child stay with both parents 50/50 throughout the duration of a year Shey? As a musician who travels frequently on tour , do u see Davido as a co-parent who will be there for his daughter whenever it is his turn ? Will he be carrying her to Australia, Canada, etc whenever he has a musical tour ?

As una Dey blame Felix for Portugal exit , make una try blame Wasiu small too o.

Wasiu just Dey gba all through the match . If he’s not playing the ball into the stands , he is busy trying to do bicycle kick with defenders’ skull

Make Wasiu just go collect UEFA coaching license make he rest abeg . E don do ! He came , He saw, and he need to rest .

Leyqute:
Portugal is the only team trying to win this game. Deschamps Dey gba

This is typical Deschamps pattern

oliverano:
Forget own goal. Muani is on the pitch and will make up for this....

The yeye player just played a replay of the world cup miss 😂

Leyqute:
Nah. Their team is good already. It was Nagelsmann who chose not to start Fulkrug.

I don’t really understand u.

I mean let Haaretz sit in the bench and let Havertz play . It’s obvious Fulkrug is a better striker , a more dangerous threat to any Centerback and can also do hold up play .

All those talks about Haaretz being the player creating space for others I’m not buying it. The guy Dey gba both at Arsenal and in Germany

Germany needs to build a team that has Havertz on the bench and Fullkrug as their top striker .

The the guy is a very good striker in the mould of them Luiz Suarez not a waste pipe like Havertz