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Theflint1:
It's not harmful tradition, doesn't mean the woman can't remarry if she so desires.

A tradition that compels u to remarry from ur late husband's family is not only harmful but evil.

So the woman is expected to mate with the borther of her late husband whom she's come to see as her own brother ? Even the mental health aspect of it is enough for it to be abolished .

Theflint1:
I think this is more in sticking with tradition and less about her actually getting married to the guy for real. In some traditions, this is done with some very young guy (usually a child) within the family of the deceased husband.

Na fooolish tradition wey no make sense .

Although I know the news is false and the publisher will soon be on his heels for fabricating this kind fake news about Betty the fiery queen .

iamoyindamola:
Why is nelson starting
That one go they run pass ball, I am not confident with him
Nice to rest rice too

He's the only natural replacement for Saka . It will be unfair if Jesus starts at RW ahead of Nelson .

We go manage am like that noni

Kiwior rested , Saka rested, Martinelli rested and Jorginho rested

hensben:
Because you guys mostly rely on team performance to judge players so I have to say that for peace to reign. But in actual sense nothing spectacular that Bellingham is doing more than Palmer currently. There is a reason most sport pundit are comparing them individually.

So It was team performance that made Bellingham excel at Dortmund and still making him excel at Real Madrid abi?



U've got jokes bro

hensben:
They don’t even play same wing. You are the one saying that. Im talking of Foden and Saka, mostly Foden always look lost for English national team. Btw, Bellingham is better now because of his team position not because of individual performance.

In ur initial post on this matter u literally said Palmer is better than Bellingham. After small probing u agreed Bellingham was actually better. Now u are saying Bellingham is only better because of his team's position(whatever that means) and not because of his individual performance.

Bellingham is literally England's best player at the moment. Let Palmer continue with his fine form and he will get opportunity to prove himself at the national team level.

mostob:
You said he planned to defend from the onset yet the same you said he changed tactic in the first half. Person wey plan to defend dey change tactic? make it make sense.

Lewis is a fullback not a midfielder.

Your argument is leaky bro especially that last paragraph. Are Liverpool and City the same team? Do they play the same way? Have you forgot how we sometimes labour hard to defend against an inferior team?

Fact is you overrated Arsenal's chance against City, you got disappointed and came here to start the 'We planned to defend' argument.

The bold is the long & short of the whole thing. It's expectations that's making him start the "we played to draw" agenda

larride:
The annoying part was when Toranaga half brother wanted to give that useless son the order to commit seppuku and the werey stretch hand wan collect ham.

The way Toranaga shout for him head ehn, e be like make I enter the film slap the idiot boy head.

Unfortunate the werey still died from his foolishness.

He is just a fooolish son to a wise father

Spy360:
Yes. And I believe that if we had taken the game to them we would have beaten them because on that day we were better physically and tactically. Arteta realised it later on when we started pressing high but there wasn't enough time and the boys already had a defensive mindset and that was why passes in the final third wasn't very smooth especially with the chance Trossard missed.

Liverpool Vs Man City was more open and Liverpool could have won but for bad luck. I felt we missed a golden opportunity.

That's why I said that the way Arteta was happy after the game showed that he was satisfied with the point.

U need to first go and see the set-up/line-up of Man city Vs Loserpool and then check the set-up/Lineups of Man city Vs Arsenal. U will see the set-up's were different.

Arteta is not a foool to be hoping city will play like Luton and allow themselves to be played out of the match.It's funny to see u assume Arteta didn't know he can win city until towards the end of the match

Who told u that was not his plan form the onset?

Spy360:
If it was a boxing match, City would have won on unanimous points decision.

That's because Arsenal would just be blocking punches and City throwing punches until the bell goes.

You will see today against Luton how we would play a high line and press high and pass from the back and score 5goals.

Unfortunately, football is not boxing.

As for ur Last paragraph, that is what is expected. Nobody expected Arsenal to play high line, press high and pass from the back against city. Maybe u did sha

A part of Landmark is going down to pave way for the Coastal high recently announced.

Ellexy:
Despite all the hype and build up around Toronaga since the first episode, there's no ruthlessness about him. He's just been pushed around and bowing the knee at every turn.

Toronaga is a cunning tactician and not a brute. If he was known for his brute force he would've lost his head since. He's walked himself out of near death situations.

I believe we will see him in battle soon

iamoyindamola:
Wait they Dan kill the boy?

He died by dashing his head on the rock when he slipped in a pond/mini jacuzzi. He wanted to kill his father's half-brother who had betrayed the father and was to take the father to the capital to surrender.

The good side of his death is the father will become more ruthless in his scheming's now that he doesn't have the burden of a weak-ass son to carry anymore

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Sweet music to my ears. [/color]

It just looked as if the boy was just destined to die from day one. He just doesn't fit into that Toranada family.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I never watch Shogun since Episode 4.

How is my Anjin and Mariko doing? Has she started feeling nauseous in the mornings?

The Rookie got me hooked for now.[/color]

Mariko's husband don go report say he no like the way Anjin dey look him wife . Toranada asked if he's officially accusing his wife of infidelity? Baba quickly retrace his step and withdrew the implied accusation.

Toranada asked Mariko after her husband left if there was anything between her and Anjin and she said nothing beyond what he instructed her to do. She come carry manipulation enter the game by requesting that Toranada free her of her misery by ordering her to commit seppuku. Baba declined her request sha.

Toranada's son that u called for his papa to kill don finally die. His stupidity disguised as bravery killed him eventually. He wanted to prove to himself by killing his father's half brother, but he slipped in the pond and knack his head on a big rock.

First a partner in Wole Olanipekun's chambers was charged with misconduct sometimes back and she had to quit the law profession sometimes around last year or two years ago if I remember correctly.

Now Wole Olanipekun's name is being enmeshed in bribe-giving allegations with an EFCC case.

https://www.nairaland.com/8050115/offem-uket-efcc-sacks-prosecutor

One may ask where is the connection in two cases; it may seem far fetched but the connection is right there. The first case was involving Sapiem Nigeria and Rivers state govt. The rivers state government alleged fraud to the tune of $130m on the part of Sapiem and the Case being handled by Henry Ajumogobia for Sapiem.

Now Wole Olanipekun's partner wrote a letter to Sapiem asking them to appoint them as the defence lawyer while discarding the services of Ajumogobia their current lawyer. Read carefully an excerpt of the letter

I believe that you need a more influential lawyer/law firm to prevent a potential huge payout to the Rivers State Government and without a doubt, I believe that my law firm, Wole Olanipekun & Co., can help in this regard

Ajumogobia was livid, he petitioned their professional body for this misconduct and Wole Olanipekun's partner took the fall for it (since she authored the letter) and her principal disowned her.

Now EFCC is claiming one of their prosecutors may have collected bribe from Wole Olanipekun (the defense lawyer on the Malabu oil scandal) to sabotage their case against the suspects.

Things dey happen for this country o.

hensben:
Okay Bellingham is better but not that much. In any season both can be better than each other is my point.

Since u agree he's better, then why do u have issues with the coach selecting the better player?

Semid4lyfe please we need ur attention here. We have a case of derailment in this thread over issues that do not concern the purpose of this thread.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I noticed that states with upcoming elections had ridiculous low budgets too

Edo and Anambra.

Ondo was high, maybe because no be Lucky push am.
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Hmmm.... That's one theory sha.

I guess we need to see their full budgets to know what is taking more allocation than education. For example we've once discussed how Obaseki didn't do much construction and the roads being in shambles. Maybe na this 2024 him day break and he decided to pump funds into capital road projects.

Soludo too has been talking tough on construction ; so he may be matching talk with allocation

GloriousGbola:
so you look at an uncouth bully and say yes - i want people to look at me like that? i want people to walk around me on eggshells?
i want a reputation of backwardness and intolerance?

that is an odd way of thinking. you are supposed to feel sorry for muslims, not aspire to be looked at like them . unless as an african you subscribe to the violence makes right philiosphy

I think u are missing the whole point of CAN's protest. CAN as a body understood the message FIRS was passing(which was a harmless one), but CAN is concerned that the message can be subject to different interpretations.

CAN also believe FIRS is a non-religious organization and should remain one by not involving itself in a matter that can be seen to offend the sensibilities of one religious group or another.

FIRS did really well with their apology with excerpt below and in my opinion that should be the end of the matter instead of trying to draw comparison between two religious group as to which is more tolerant.

FIRS, as a responsible agency, has no religion and will not bring down any religion or offend the sensibilities of adherents of various faiths in the country. Our goal is to assess, collect and account for revenue for the wellbeing of the Federation. We believe it is an investment in the progress of the country when citizens pay their taxes. Once again, we wish to apologise to CAN and Christians who felt offended at the unintended consequence of our message on Easter Sunday.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Why is Anambra state 36 billion?[/color]

Maybe because most indigenes would rather learn a trade(which most of them are successful at ) than go through the formal education route to earn a living. So the state cut their budget to only cater for the few people interested in formal education

Itsrm:
To be fair, the MD of NNPC has always maintained that the refineries are not there to reduce price. He said it will ensure availability and that's all. It's NLC and IPMAN that keeps selling the dream that price will reduce.

Hmmmm.

This country no dey understand person again. IPMAN and NLC kept speaking on behalf of the government and Dangote; instead make dem correct the wrong impression they allowed it to go on for as long as possible since it serves their agenda.

I sha know that when Dangote's PMS eventually hit the market people will see that they've been living a dream concerning reduction in pump price

zeusis:
In all competitions bro
Bellingham should be 31
Palmer 30

Okay, u are right. Thanks for the correction

Itsrm:
I was going to post the same thing. And that 1225 is if you buy above 1m litres. The price is between 1225-1300.

They have kuku always maintained that the refinery will not reduce price.

We will see what happens when he starts selling petrol. Either the government will pay him subsidy or they tell us price will reduce as more refineries come on board due to competition

It's only a matter of time before propaganda fall on its face. I don't know why governments in Africa find it difficult to tell their people the truth for what they are.

If our investment as a country into Dangote refinery is just for federal government to be shareholder that earns dividend from a private company, the government should just come out and admit it.

All of these propaganda here and there about PMS or AGO price reducing should be quashed. Let's know federal government is not involve in this joint venture to bring down price of petroleum products.

Eunoiaa:
This is not about reaching any destination but the PRESENT state of the thread and your own IMAGINARY predictions about it.


If the thread will not go to the dogs because of their barking, then it certainly won't go to ruins because of me throwing stones back at them.


If you overlooked me being "doxxed" and did not think that worthy enough of the thread being closed down, then you have no moral standing to condemn my reaction to it. Rather, by keeping quiet because it was 'none of your business', you emboldened the troll to keep coming here since it knows that the majority of people in here will not say anything/will cheer it on with likes. I mean, it thinks "I" am the only one responsible for getting it banned. Not because it was publicly criticized for doing so. So please, miss me with the virtuous pontifications.

Abi what's that quote about "evil" prevailing because good people kept quiet too? Ehen. If dem lock this thread because it got overran by trolls, every single of you will be responsible for it as much as I am.



But it's me that wants to "ruin" the thread uno.


That's the way it does o. Goes about on every abd any thread quoting you, but it's not the one behind the trolling I've been receiving.

Okay.

If u would keep being like this by bringing unnecessary derailing to the thread (over issues we don't know and do not care about how it started elsewhere) ; I believe the regulars will do well to report ur posts as spam/derailment to the mods going forward.

hensben:
I said that because they are equal in goals involvement as we speak, so they cancelled each other out in that aspect.

How are they equal in goal involvement?

Bellingham currently has 30 G/A and Palmer has 20G/A this season. How did 20 cancel 30 out ?

Before u say 10 is not much, just know that some attackers even struggle to get 10 G/A in a season

GloriousGbola:
Well, you can argue that diesel is not subsidized. And that that hits the generators of the rich.

Also the wealthy at least in lagos are paying more for electricity via tiering. If you are on a higher tier you can get 18 hours of guaranteed light per day, which is cheaper and more reliable than a diesel generator

I didn't say rich like private businessmen who invested their wealth of experience, family/generational wealth, etc into the private sector to make money for themselves and co-investors. I said political office holders who obviously get into political office just to help themselves to tax payers money. People who don't face hardship but apportion hardship allowances to themselves steady because they can

LordAdam16:
Something has to give.
With the resumption of $ pegging, there's only so much subsidy they can pay before we become insolvent.
They'd play a game of hot potatoes with the different subsidies until something cracks or they maneuver their way to 2026.

The truly despicable development is dragging their feet on wage increase.
It's beyond scandalous now.

With that said, electricity subsidy has to go.
A country of 220m people wheeling a measly 4GW has no business paying electricity subsidy.
We can't clear gas debt of $1B, but we're to pay $2B per year on subsidy.
And unlike gasoline subsidy, they can actually stagger the removal and push the cost disproportionately to the upper class.

-Lord

The only reason I will ever agree to any end of subsidy is if the subsidy the rich and mighty enjoy ends as well. If government officials stop maintaining a convoy of vehicles that are mostly empty; if senators stop getting constituency allowances they don't accout for, if governors stop getting security votes they don't account for, etc.

If everybody will lose one form of subsidy or the other, then we will all face the new Nigeria together. It makes no sense that a country with so much resources as Nigeria has political office holders living large, the general people living in penury and more woes are still on the way

hensben:
He is not better than Palmer, remove their goals involvement and watch them play. You are saying this because chelsea as a team is in poor form. Palmer is currently the most technically gifted English player at the moment.

Remove their goal involvement as how ? They should remove goal involvement for attacker ?

And judge them with the political party they support or their sexual orientation ?

Hensben kai now !

‘Electricity Tariff To Rise By 300%’


Power companies will be allowed to raise electricity prices to N200 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour from N68 for urban consumers this month, the Bloomberg news agency, citing sources, reported Tuesday.

It was learnt that these customers represent 15% of the population that the government says consume 40% of the nation’s electricity, the agency said.

Bloomberg said Nigeria plans to almost triple energy prices within weeks.

It quoted people in the presidency with knowledge of the matter saying this was in a bid to attract new investment and slash about $2.3 billion spent to cap tariffs (subsidies).

According to the news agency, “Nigerians will now have to pay $2.42 per one million British thermal units from the previous rate of $2.18 MMBtu.”

Daily Trust reports that this revelation is coming in the wake of Monday’s announcement by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) of an increase in the price of natural gas, which is used to generate more than 70% of electricity in Nigeria.

NMDPRA had set a new 2024 base gas price for companies in the power sector and commercial users.

This was contained in a statement signed by Farouk Ahmed, the authority’s chief executive.

Nigeria had privatised generation and distribution in 2013, and tariffs are set by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), a government-controlled body.

Bloomberg said, “Power firms aren’t allowed to charge enough to recover the cost of distributing electricity, with the government paying the difference as a subsidy to companies in the sector.

“The government has in the past said that electricity companies are short of an estimated two trillion naira in capital and need new investors to revive the industry.”

But activists who spoke to our correspondents yesterday expressed shock, saying it would be impossible for Nigerians to bear outright removal of subsidy on electricity, in addition to the removal of fuel subsidy, which had in turn made life unbearable

When contacted by Daily Trust yesterday, the General Manager, Public Affairs of NERC, Dr Usman Arabi, did not respond to calls and text messages sent to his phone.

But Bloomberg quoted Bayo Onanuga, a spokesman for the presidency as saying, “The regulator (NERC) will make a pronouncement based on its discussion with the distribution and generating companies.

“The presidency cannot say anything at this stage. Electricity sector is hurting.”

Nigerians overstretched – CSOs

However, members of the Civil Society (CSOs) have expressed deep concern over the recent reports indicating that the federal government is once again planning to almost triple the electricity tariff within weeks.

Speaking on the development, the Executive Director, Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED), Comrade Ibrahim M. Zikirullahi, said that the proposed tariff of N200 per kilowatt, compared to the current N68 per kilowatt, highlights the lack of empathy within President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

“This move disregards the struggles of millions of Nigerians who have been pushed further into poverty as a result of the abrupt and poorly planned removal of fuel subsidies.”

CHRICED warns that the “bull in the China shop” approach to public policy implementation, will only worsens the economic hardships faced by Nigerians during the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

He said: “Despite mounting tensions, the government seems oblivious to the growing impatience among Nigerians, paving the way for potential mass protests and social unrest in the country”.

Also, the Executive Director, Cleen Foundation, Gad Peter, said that the development was surprising, especially because when Tinubu government came on board in May 2023, the discussion of increasing electricity tariff came and it was shelved because of the difficulties Nigerians were going through.

“I remember the National Assembly saying that the timing was very wrong. So I am surprised that we are coming back to this conversation again and it is almost a 300 per cent increase.

“I think the federal government and the electricity distribution companies and all of their allies need to be more sensitive to the pain that Nigerians are going through.

“I am very much aware that you know that in the last one month or so, electricity supply has been very inconsistent, people are just struggling to survive.

“And even people that have alternative sources of power like generators are struggling to either buy diesel or fuel to be able to run it through the night or through the day to keep businesses and to stay alive by reducing the heat.

“I think that this is not the best decision considering the fact that we are still struggling with the negative effect of the removal of the fuel subsidy.

“We are still struggling with insecurity, with the level of poverty in the country, still struggling that people are paying high for fuel,” he said.

Efforts to reach the President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, to get the official position of the organised labour last night proved abortive.

Ajaero, who did not pick several calls, did not also reply to a text message sent to him as at when filing this report.

In the same vein, calls to the Head of Information at NLC Headquarters, Benson Upah, rang unanswered, and he was yet to reply to a WhatsApp message sent to him.

How fuel subsidy removal, fx complicated electricity tariff

Experts have repeatedly said that the removal of subsidies on petrol and the floating of the naira by the current administration are two twin decisions that have complicated NERC’s 2022 Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO)

Although the power sector players have been unable to meet the threshold of supplying at least 5,000 megawatts a year after signing contracts with NERC, the commission’s current Service Based Tariff (SBT) was benchmarked on an exchange rate of N441/$ and inflation of 16.97 per cent.

Going by the NERC’s orders, in 2015, the average tariff across distribution companies (DisCos) and classes of end-users was N25 kilowatt, in order of 198/2020, which came into effect on September 1, 2020. The average tariff went to N60 per kilowatt; in the MYTO for 2022, the average tariff was N64 across classes of customers.

The foreign exchange rate used in determining the 2015 tariff was N198.97/$, N383.80/$ was used in 2020, while N441.78/$ was used in 2022. The inflation used in the 2015 MYTO was 8.3 per cent, 12 per cent was used in 2020 and 16.97 per cent in 2022.

Currently, the inflation rate is 31.70 per cent and some experts have projected that it would hit 35 per cent by the end of June[/b]

Source: Daily Trust.

It's about to go down. Pulling the lever on the electricity subsidy is another disaster waiting to happen.

All of these, please do not lose track of the fact that the daily trust news piece mentioned it that in 2015 when APC as a party took over leadership, the exchange rate used to determine electricity tariff was N198.97 and within 5 years it was N441.78. The inflation rate jumped from 8.3% in 2015 to 12% in 2020 and 16.97 under same APC government. Currently inflation rate is 31.70% and projected to reach 35% before end of June.

In all of these, Tinubu-led APC government is about to pull the lever on electricity subsidy.

Omo! Wetin dey come ahead pass wetin una dey see presently o.

Spy360:
Exactly.

Let Blueraydick and Jodera come and tell us that that defensive shape is our usual pattern.

If it is then I accept that Arteta planned to win. If not then he planned to draw.

I have already addresed this yesterday . Arsenal won City with same strategy in the 2020 FA cup semi final . Arsenal scored 2 goals in that match.

Except u want to feign forgetfulness , u know we've had series of discussions on this thread in the past arguing about Arteta's approach to matches in the past when he will go defensive . I remember vividly well, Arteta sure knows how to go defensive and we always have people here complain about it in the past

Spy360:
The bolded is a caveat. Remove that and see that it doesn't align with your point.

Mind you I am a proponent of Defence wins you league.

I listened to Alonso about Pep, he said, surprisingly, that Pep focuses more on his team's defensive shape during training than attack. So a good team that wants to win will both defend and attack.

Every winning team will both attack and defend. But when a team focuses entirely on defending then they plan for a draw. Simple.
Even if they eventually win which is possible it doesn't not change the fact that their plan was to secure a draw

lol.

I clearly put that effective attack knowing u will want to dwell on that . The good thing is Arsenal's attack is over effective cos we have scored gge most goals in the league this season till date .


That makes my point for me that Arteta actually didn't play to draw . He studied his opponent and neutralized them in every possible way in the books . He relied on his effective attack that managed 2 shot on target to city's 1 shot on target ; but were unfortunate not to have converted it.

Kapish !