₦airaland Forum

izzou:
[color=royalblue]If Tinubu was drilled as the other candidates, I am sure some educated people would have slept at home that day, instead of voting.

Ask questions...Mba

They said we should use Lagos as his debate answers...

I go really vex if those Northerners are allowed to protest. Na dem give Tinubu him victory.

Even the Yorubas had doubts on his tenure (from the results); either they didn't believe in him, or they were tired of APC at the National level.

If you protests, Nga straight.[/color]

Dem say Trump no do debate so therefore Tinubu no need debate.

Make I even go look for that response they gave to my lengthy wailing on why Tinubu should not be voted for.

Emaprince:
Isn't this what I said like twice on different occasions here?

Our fx crisis started from presidential primaries were the big wigs were doling out dollas to bribe delegates.

Na there e start my brother.

mostob:
But Partey don overdo. Without kicking the ball, baba don get injured again. Make the guy do fast and comot.

Na elderly man we sign na

liveLongNprospa:
Remember when tinubu himself defended the herdsmen killing😂😂😂.

Asking where are the cows or so

I mentioned it here during the campaign season when people were trying to separate Tinubu from Buhari's government that Tinubu himself has always commended Buhari's steps all through his presidency.

I even shared screenshots of the glowing words Tinubu used to describe Buhari each year the latter celebrates his birthday. Even Itse Sagay wey dey serve under Buhari government dey criticize Buhari's administration steadily, but did Tinubu? NO!

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaooo.. When boys dey happily discuss am.
Them dey use am mock Obi say e nor fit compete.

The amount of dollars that was shared, God abeg😂😂.

Remember that PDP guy that was caught with fx during elections

Everything was a cruise until it no longer is. The reality don hit all of us in the face now

Roland17:
The Sultan is a hypocrite, I am sorry! Where was his voice when his brother Buhari was in charge and the country struggled with insecurity, kidnapping, double digit inflation, hunger, massive corruption and other economic woes? If he decides to unleash his people, let him go ahead but he must ensure they remain in the North, Patapata Asiwaju and APC should suffer the consequences during the next election cycle for failing the nation.

Didn’t Buhari take Asiwaju to visit with him? Where was his voice then? Now that Asiwaju has inevitably increased “shege” to “shege banza” for everyone , he has found his voice because a northerner is not in power? These people are part of our problem. Obvious issues like Illiteracy wasn’t a problem when Buhari was in power but immediately a southerner takes power, illiteracy and poverty in the north is important.

The North powered Asiwaju to the presidency, they should enjoy the consequences of that decision alongside the entire country. This recent noise coming from the North about their suffering should stop because it is not isolated and shouldn’t be the reason we should address the nonsense going on in the country.

Yes the Sultan is a hypocrite no doubt! He chose to keep quite while his brother was there and was even ecstatic about Buhari handing over to Tinubu.

But do u know what else the Sultan is ? He is better than our southern brothers who are educated (some to postgraduate level sef), who could obviously see evidences of Buhari's misrule happening right before our eyes; yet they sang his praises to high heavens and justify every mis-step he made for 8 good years. The same people jumped onto the ship of Tinubu almost immediately he declared for presidency and continued their paid or unpaid(as the case may be) service of hyping the next disaster-in-waiting in the person of Tinubu.

Even as matter cast dem don dey talk of 2027 when nobody even know whether the country will survive this current year as one with the present turmoil we find ourselves in

U don't need to look far, u will see them around.

Spy360:
You know that when there is a bank robbery, the amount of money declared as stolen is usually more than the actual because the people that go to verify will also collect their own.

Don't let Agbados drag you into this kind of argument as it is a diversion and cheap excuse from reality currently on ground

No let movies deceive u o, this is not what happens in real life . There are records of every cash that goes in and out of the bank . Na only cash wey depositors caught up in the robbery never lodge with cashier fit dey unaccounted for . Every record of cash will be accounted for in the investigation that follows a robbery incident .

CrystalTiger:
Buhari tenure mad abeg..

Men were withdrawing cash direct from CBN..

This Emefiele looks like Sambo Dasuki case all over again. All through Buhari's 8 years no court could pronounce Dasuki guilty and send him to jail .

DSS held him in detention for 4 years ! No conviction whatsoever till they released him in 2019. Then in 2022 after almost another 4 years of silence , EFCC re-arraigned him in court and till now we don't know the outcome of that case.

Na why I no dey excited or fazed by the media frenzy about this Emefiele case for now. We don watch similar film before

At least five delegates from both states told The Gazette in separate interviews Tuesday that they were offered American banknotes to support Mr Tinubu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The delegate provided information under anonymity to avoid being accused of anti-party conduct that could carry severe disciplinary measures.

Whereas Mr Tinubu gave Ogun delegates $25,000 each to induce his acceptance as the party’s presidential flag-bearer tonight, Adamawa delegates said they received $10,000 each from Mr Tinubu’s surrogates. The delegates have converted on Abuja starting last week ahead of the primary scheduled to be held June 6-8.

“Ashiwaju’s people came here and they said we should support him because he has the best chance to defeat Atiku Abubakar,” a delegate told The Gazette. “Then they said they didn’t come empty-handed.”

Delegates from Ogun confirmed getting $25,000 from the former Lagos governor. They, however, said they rejected $5,000 from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s surrogates.

“The vice-president’s people initially said he didn’t have any money to give and advised everyone to vote their conscience,” a delegate said. “But suddenly they came back to say he wanted to give us $5,000 to support our transportation and hotel accommodation.”

The delegates admitted they rejected the money because it was smaller than what Mr Tinubu, perhaps the biggest contender for the ticket, had already offered. The delegates shared pictures of the cash gift they said came from Mr Tinubu with The Gazette.

At least one delegate claimed being shortchanged by Mr Tinubu’s surrogates.

“I don’t know what happened but they only gave me $9,000,” the politician said. “I am working now to get the balance from the person they sent to us.”

https://gazettengr.com/apc-convention-tinubu-pays-ogun-delegates-25000-adamawa-10000-delegates-reject-osinbajos-5000/

All of these and more happened before and during APC primary as well.

NB: Dollar to Naira was not more than N600 at black market rate when all these was happening o

Foundation member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu, has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to quickly come to the rescue of Nigeria’s currency, the Naira, before politicians depreciates it out of recognition.

He noted that a nation’s currency is one of the critical indices of measuring the general health of its economy, stressing that when the currency nose-dives it leads to hype-inflation, gross unemployment and abject poverty, thereby worsening the nation’s security.

In a statement made available to journalists, Sunday, Okechukwu, who is also the Director-General (DG) of Voice of Nigeria (VON), decried the dollar rain during the recent Presidential primary of opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the National Stadium Abuja.

He cited the withdrawal comments of Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, a financial guru, saying that President Buhari should support the use of consensus method to ensure that the forthcoming APC presidential primary does not follow the PDP’s highest bidder Dollar Rain.

In his speech before withdrawing from the PDP primary, the former banker, Hayatu-Deen, said, “it is, therefore, based on personal principles and with great humility that I have decided, after wide consultation, to withdraw from this contest, which has been obscenely monetised.”

Okechukwu stated: “Albeit, our sister opposition political party has every constitutional right to elect whoever they want as their flag bearer; the Dollar rain is worrisome as noted by Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, who dubbed it obscenely monetised presidential primary.

“Sincerely, I congratulate His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar on his emergence from the opposition party primary. But, as a patriot and stakeholder in the Nigeria project, I am worried by PDP’s induced Dollar Rain, which led to unprecedented depreciation of the Naira.”

Therefore, Okechukwu called on President Buhari to consider the consensus option to be adopted in the APC presidential primary election to save the Naira.

He lamented the monumental harm PDP’s Dollar Rain did to the nation’s economy, saying “if that could happen in a party with about 731 delegates, imagine what will happen if APC with about 2, 322 delegates is allowed to indulge in Dollar Rain.”

https://dailypost.ng/2022/05/29/save-naira-from-obscene-dollar-monetised-presidential-primaries-okechukwu-begs-buhari/

This man called it then o. Atitku was alleged to have doled out as much as $20,000 and Wike as much as $10,000.

https://www.nairaland.com/8001094/cant-fold-arms-again-nigerians

And let’s not take it for granted; people are quiet, they are quiet for a reason because people have been talking to them.

We have been talking to them, we have been trying to tell them things will be okay and they keep on believing.

I pray to Almighty Allah that they will not one day wake up and say we no longer believe in you, because that would be the biggest problem because we can’t quieten these people as traditional, spiritual leaders and diplomats forever.

We have reached that level, people are very agitated, people are hungry, they are angry, but they still believe there are people who can talk to them, they believe in some of their governors, some other traditional rulers, and some of their religious leaders.

“Fortunately, some of us double as traditional and religious leaders.

“So, we have this onerous task of reaching out to everybody, calming them down, and assuring them things will be okay, and they should continue to pray and pray and still do something good because prayer without work will not bring anything.”

Abubakar also expressed concern about the millions of unemployed youths, noting that it poses serious danger to the country.

“We must find jobs for our teeming youths that are sitting idle and I have said it so many times, we sit on a keg of gunpowder, having teeming youths millions of them, without jobs, without food, we are looking for trouble,” he added.

Sultan of Sokoto subtly telling Tinubu that they ( Traditional rulers ) are the ones holding the leash on the masses preventing total breakdown of law & order over the current hardship imposed by Tinubu's administration .

mostob:
White, Jorginho, Jesus, Saka, Saliba have all played for us this season while nursing injuries.

I hate the way Partey is doing like a new bride. FFS, he is supposed to be a leader in this squad. Now, he is out of Burnley's match with returning date unknown. At least Zinchenko dey do on and off.

A fully fit Partey in that squad eh, The whole league will feel it.

Vieira had a surgery in November but he is closed to returning.
ESR twisted his ankle in training. He jumped to avoid a tackle and baba got injured like that.
Jesus may make the squad.
Tomi is back
Timber had a setback

I don't understand how u people always get angry about players staying out injured . I understand that as a fan it's frustrating to see a good player miss crucial matches due to injury , but when a player is injured and the medical team certify him as being unfit there's u or the player can do about it .

An injured player is an injured player. Do u expect an injured Partey to force himself into the starting line-up or what ?

The koko is Partey is an elderly man suffering injuries that come with age as an African ; it is what it is . There's nothing anybody can do about it. Even we wey dey play 5-aside set , no be the way our body be 10 years ago e be now .

iamoyindamola:
I think he will serve in Netherlands that's where he was sentence

I think he was sentenced in absentia . So If e no enter Netherlands he no go see jail except he enter countries wey Netherlands get extradition treaty with

I guess they are confirming Buhari is an effigy who has no use for his brain all through the 8 years he ruled this country.

Ibime:
EfoRiro is Edikaikong pro max. Same thing but the tatashe base in EfoRiro elevates it far and above Edikaikong

Infact I discovered the way we cook Yam Pottage in the South is totally rubbish compared to Yoruba version that uses Tatashe base. Now I only cook Yampo with Tatashe

Efo riro also has locust beans in it while Edikaikong doesn't

Emaprince:
I'm surprised too. Thank God bode said all that when he was alive...so no one will be asking why he kept quiet since.

Bode George only repeated what is common knowledge in the banking sector . Even those who work in foreign operations desk of the bank make money playing with FX over the years

akwesenana:
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Interesting thread.

I don't know how true or false this is, though.


https://www.nairaland.com/8000081/video-wigwe-responsible-dollar-crisis#128445856

It's not just Wigwe, that's how most senior bank execs made their money in Nigerian banking sector;round tripping the dollars. That's why u see Nigerian bank MD's richer than most of their counterparts in other countries.

Wow! I didn't know Herbert Wigwe owned Craneburg construction company o

I just noticed the company came out of nowhere and they were executing projects in Lagos .

I didn't even know the flutterwave guy worked at access sef .

Cc: GloriousGbola

GloriousGbola:
That is where I disagree. There is little to no accountability in government run institutions. Look at the nonsense in CBN where they forged the sgfs signature.

When the ogas at the top are running scams, you can be sure those at the bottom will be doing their own as well. Over invoicing, double supplying etc.

I do not want to comment on the Emefiele trial and the alleged signature forgery for now. No be today EFCC go carry people wey we know actually commit the offense go court and they won't be able to secure a conviction after so much energy is exerted on media trial without dotting their i's and crossing their t's.


I agree with u that there's no accountability in governance in Nigeria and that's why we are where we are today . However , I don't think the amount of military gadgets and wares in the hands of non state actors in this country were supplied by military or ex military men .

There are videos of customs showing announcing they seized arms, ammunitions and military wares imported illegally into the country . I'm thinking there are many of those shipments that scaled through and that's how those non state actors got hold of camo's , guns and ammunitions they use to terrorize the people

GloriousGbola:
https://www.nairaland.com/8000208/ex-airforce-officer-sells-military-uniform

I remember asserting that military personnel were involved in provision of uniforms to bandits.

Yes u did, but the news piece is a shiit show of poor journalism . There was no mention of how the ex-Air Force guy got hold of the military paraphernalia he supplied. It may as well been gotten through military wares and gadgets imported into the country illegally which customs have been bursting once in a while .

U remember I said I don't think whoever is supplying the bandits military paraphernalia is stealing them from the military directly , rather it's more of a case of those items I listed illegally and same sent towards the way of non state actors .

I don't think any serving or ex military will steal so much military stuff and the military won't notice .

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GloriousGbola:
All these ponzi schemes point to another peculiarity - a lot of Nigerians actually have idle cash lying about. Because every other day some scheme - (agro it allied something something is now the package) is raking in billions from investors. The vibe I get is Nigerians are not properly informed because I think those stanbic ibtc type mutual funds would be better vehicles for their cash over the long term. More stable. I guess Nigerians are all about that magical 30% roi.

I don't think they have idle funds lying around ; u will be surprised that some people even sell their physical assets just to have cash to invest in these ponzi schemes just to make exorbitant profits after " cashing out".

We heard stories of wives "investing" school fees of their own kids handed down by their hubby in MMM and the likes with the hope of making their own money.. Kingtom narrated how a relative in cahoots with the daughter invested her gratuity ( which she should've uses to buy annuity or Govt bonds at least) just to show her husband that she knows how to manage money.

Those monies are not really lying around idle, it's greed and a delusional feeling of " I'm lucky and smart " that made them go extra mile to get the money and "invest "

There's a particular brand of basmati rice I bought 6k plus in December for I think the 2kg ; I bought same over the weekend to gift an elderly diabetic person for almost 9k for the same brand and size .

Omo ! Emilokan don turn enikan lomo o 🤯

izzou:
[color=royalblue]BlueRayDick

This was when the pipeline burst. See wetin person carry go meet God for answers.

That thread ehn! [/color]

This one choke ! Dem carry MBA trading go Shiloh after refusing to listen to voice of reason ; awon elesin .

U will be surprised that if another Ponzi scheme ones out next month this same person will be at the fore front promoting it hoping to be among the first set to cashout and lockup

izzou:
[color=royalblue]It is like when they appoint someone to be there, they throw every bit of commonsense out of the window.

From retailes, to distributors, to contractors, to suppliers, to haulage companies, a lot are making their living from selling it

I pass through Intercontinental distilleries just near Canaanland, and you'll see so many trucks outside. That place is a beehive of activities

Then someone will just wake up and ban it because of registration number.[/color]

Government officials/agencies just take decision without any care about the ripple effect/consequence of their actions .

That's why I always tell people that even if I make billions of naira outside the shores of this country , I do not intend to invest a kobo in establishing business in Nigeria because the country is too unstable when it comes to government policies .

You can be doing ur normal legal business today and one yeye government policy will make ur business illegal overnight and ur investment gone down the drain. That's why I always credit those who have the heart to still invest in this country despite knowing how unstable things can be over here.

Incognito9:
Omo if they wan increase, make dey increase joor.

I don quit alcohol, after the one I drink during S.E match, Omo I no see road that day.

I don enter chivita and hollandia yoghurt geng 😎

No be the drink worry that day , na the disappointment of Nigeria losing .

Even people wey no drink that day felt same way.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The way the economy is dwindling, and every sector is working as if Nigeria is fine is very funny.

NAFDAC is banning satchet alcohol, forgetting that a lot of jobs are created by these companies; let us not even forget about how taxes would be affected.

Their reason is that none of them are registered.

So why not force them to register? Why not drag them to your office and register, since registration is the issue?

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In Nigeria , we excel in throwing away the baby along with the bath water .

That was how I read about an estate in Enugu where they suspected some kidnappers hid some of their victims in one of the houses there. The next thing the government did is to demolish several buildings in the estate that had absolutely nothing to do with the kidnapper's hideout . It was one skit maker that whose house was about to be demolished in the same estate that made a video before the thing gained public attention and the state govt was now doing shalaye .

Like u rightly said , it makes absolute no sense to start shutting down those herbal liquor manufacturers because some of them were actually registered by same NAFDAC initially and this is not a good time for wielding of such big stick.

I will not lie, it just appears as if there's one evil hand pushing this government to keep taking anti-people decisions until the people snap at the breaking point . Because I no just understand.

Jodera:
I don't expect him to be rated like others tho esp their Saka, Rice and Odegaard dem

My whole point of 'underrating' is that most fans feel he's not good enough to be starting for us. Like if they were to rate him, it'll be like that 5-5.5/10 kinda player/performances whereby on an average he produces a 7/10 kinda performances. That's the kind of 'underrating' I'm talking about if you get what I mean.

In other words , u are assuming fans are underrating him

Jodera:
Aside this early season in which he was underwhelming (ie that's due to him reportedly playing through injury) he's been giving consistent performances.

Last season when he started playing as a RB, he's been giving good consistent performances at least a 7/10 rating. He's not giving an elite rating like them Saliba, Rice and co(the 8-9/10 ratings) but he's been good. Since after the winter vacation, he's been back to his good form also.

Big reason I said he underrated. He's just executing his job well albeit silently.

Na that " Aside " gan gan be the reason why he's not being rated like other players by fans .

U confirmed he was underwhelming for some parts of the season ; oya how do u expect him to be rated well like others ?

That's why I said he's not underrated , rather he's rated based on his performance over time which u urself has confirmed has not really been above 7/10 . Even that last season he still managed to have bad games more than some of his contemporaries .

Jodera:
Nice...
One of the most underrated Arsenal player.... Ben White

Nobody underrate white; he's the one that doesn't give consistent performance over a long period of time to make people regard him highly like other fellow arsenal players like Saka , Gabriel , Saliba , etc

🧐

KingTom:
You really saved her. Except na you be the pomzi itself or your main Gs na ponzi creators or you're fortunate enough to do first week or month... you'll always lose out in the long run

Top 2 reasons why Ponzi will always be successful in Nigeria are:

1. Nigerians naturally believe they are smart.

2. Nigerians always believe they will be lucky (They believe they will always be among the few)

KingTom:
On the contrary, it was an unintelligent and ill calculated scheme by mother and daughter, they didn't let my uncle know and wanted to shock him with their investment returns. Needless to say, the man was really shocked

Ohh....Dem wan turn investor Sabinus overnight. I don't know why some women are like that sha.

During the MMM era, a female relative's saving grace was that she asked what I think about the whole MMM frenzy. I told her that like all previous ponzi schemes, it will crash and people's money will be trapped.

The following week MMM crashed ! She later told me that I saved her from serious debt which would've included her hubby's money she held in trust on his behalf.