₦airaland Forum

sparko1:
Opec oh!

Must you criticize, he is not the president or NNPC chairman.

First, my comment was not a critique, and did you miss my "though I'm certain that is not in his remit."?

Still, the reduction in worldwide crude oil demand and Americas "drill baby drill" must concern him, and solutions should be in his remit, I hope, since it would affect OPEC, and Nigeria that Exousiang01 has informed me can not meet its current quota as it is.

Exousiang01:
We have enough crude for those.

We have more than enough crude for export and refining...

More over that's not his job.

Get yourself educated.
we are already finding it difficult to meet the OPEC quota and you are talking about reducing export, when our major export as a country is crude.....

Did you fail to read my "though I'm certain that is not in his remit", or is it you who needs to get yourself educated to read?

Regarding your not "finding it difficult to meet the OPEC quota", the Senate have already second read that you must process 30% before you export, so your quota you can't meet will likely never be met.

Oh. And our major export as a country is not crude, but Nigerians who are japaing, and we'd be much better exporting less crude and processing it at home to export finished products.

Gerrard59:
The gender pay gap does not exist.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190831-the-paradox-of-working-in-the-worlds-most-equal-countries
If you notice, the article is dated in 2019. We are almost in 2025. Please let's stop peddling untrue information on Obasanjo's Internet.

The below is from your own link, but I guess you'd like to claim things have changed since 2019

However, there are still surprisingly few women in senior private sector roles. Just 28% of managers in Denmark are female, rising to 32% in Finland and Norway, and 36% in Sweden, according to a report by independent think tank The Cato Institute in 2018. Iceland is the highest-scoring Nordic country, with 40%. But that is still three points behind the US, where 43% of managers are women, despite the US ranking just 51 in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap index.

Meanwhile, women in the Nordics trail their male counterparts in attracting investment for new businesses. Only 1% of investments registered in the Nordic Tech List database last year went to companies headed solely by female founders, according to figures analysed by Swedish business news site DI Digital.

I am very certain it is worse in Nigeria where most believe the woman is the man's rib.

First thing is did you even apply for a job with the Civil Service Commission?

SocialJustice:
Who will enforce?

We must enforce, I'm afraid. And I do mean powerless you and I and others like us. And we must do so by staying on top of the data and highlighting where we fail and ridiculing the toothless House until they learn to succeed in saying "let there be", and there is. That's after all why "let us", to show we are all involved.

What's good about this is the ease in tracking our raw crude oil exports, where we must now process 30% of it at home.

9jatriot:
I admit I did not real the article but I will not put it past the nonsense currency Emiefele did, they are the currency that people with basic graphical skills can counterfeit.

If you had bothered reading the article you'd have noticed the counterfeit discovered was mostly "3,366,000 US dollars" that "people with basic graphical skills" can not so easily counterfeit, though Nigerians who don't bother to read can very easily be fooled.

He should start by encouraging less export of crude oil and more local refining, though I'm certain that is not in his remit.

NoIgboSoundTueh:
Finally an Igbo man that i love
"But if they repent, establish prayer, and give zakah, then they are your brothers in religion; and We detail the verses for a people who know."

Pity your own understanding of Islam does not cure you of disliking others when Allah loves those who are fair regardless of their tribe and religion.

You are not only mandated to love your brothers in religion alone, or are you?

Maeve7:
You are wicked.

Only to those who reserve it I hope.

hoeminique:
How will they measure the 30%?

Also, how will yorubas that have ZERO production facilities in their region ....

We must start by processing your brain so it can increase in intelligence by 30% before we export you. That would decrease your tribal bigotry to a mere 70%, which is still too high but a start.

As for how we shall measure it, you just leave that to we Nigerians.

Help needed to edit wiki please, and for the creation of a page for the Professor.

After the demise of the chief imam, Sheikh Musa Muhammad in 2015, the position of a Chief Imam was abolished.[2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuja_National_Mosque

Mention me once done please, and thanks in advance.

The intellectual level of the conversation on this thread has grown way past that which a stupid idiot can follow and you now feel left out and irrelevant as most have learnt to ignore you.

Up your game, and mind!

cococandy:
Thank you!!

Because that one argument Ibe made about more self made men billionaires compared to women almost made me grind my teeth. I didn’t even know if I should go into replying him or not.

How are we completely ignoring the fact that women in america (since that’s the society we based the income inequality on ) couldn’t get access to credit and loans until the 1974.

How were they supposed to fund the billion dollar businesses and catch up to centuries of men’s unfettered access to collectively owned natural resources?

If we had sufficient collective mental capacity, we'd be discussing how Africa could catch up to western societies after years of suppression, especially in these days of tariffs, which should make us wonder if and why African economies have been tariffied into poverty. Instead, we are finding excuses to justify and perpetuate female oppression.

Same people will of course argue against a woman aborting because she doesn't want her pay hampered by a pregnancy and a toddler. She must identify into the role "nature" has set for her they'd claim, whether she likes it or not and despite having a choice these days.

Thankfully, these, to be men, must first feed on a tit, and along with that can come the ideology they shall live by, which makes it the woman's duty to breed men instead of pigs, just as Eve bred sense into that ignorant naked enslaved Adam and made him the mythical father of humans.

Gerrard59:
You know, that is the beauty of capitalism and the right to choose. Capitalism rewards hard work and dire risk. It is risky to be drilling oil in the middle of nowhere for a short time away from loved ones. So those who choose this option are well rewarded. A reason many men opt for it ......

I think you are completely missing the point of gender pay equality.

No one here is arguing that, say a teacher, be paid the same as "drilling oil in the middle of nowhere", regardless of gender, but that if a woman is "drilling oil in the middle of nowhere", she should be paid the same as men who are "drilling oil in the middle of nowhere".

And women should not be barred from "drilling oil in the middle of nowhere", because there is no evidence that women can not drill oil in the middle of nowhere.

Women in the army has shown how competent we are, but I'm certain someone will throw some selected right wing at me to try to show otherwise.

IjeBos:
And honestly, I feel some of these arguments were used back in the days to justify racism and sexism. Especially the ordered and stabled society argument.

That "ordered and stabled society argument" makes me cringe too. But I recognise not everyone makes the sort of association you've made here.

I can bet you that whites in America earn more than blacks in America (especially if stated as loosely and ignorantly as I've stated it), and I can just about hear the arguments that whites have higher IQs than blacks, and work longer hours than blacks and take less time off than blacks despite the fact that blacks in America earned whips and chains and food and board and no education for centuries, which disadvantaged them just as the equivalent oppressions did women.

Here's from UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2020/jun/23/white-household-income-in-uk-is-63-higher-than-black-households-ons-finds

And the whys according to some:
https://www.epi.org/unequalpower/publications/understanding-black-white-disparities-in-labor-market-outcomes/

Gerrard59:
That is the Motherhood penalty and it is the major reason lesbians outearn married women. This link: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2024/03/07/where-is-the-motherhood-penalty-greatest shows studies across countries, developed and developing.

To add to your link, here's another.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X20300144

The fact that women had traditionally been barred from working at all in most societies, and couldn't inherit and get a degree or a bank account till relatively recent, adds a lot to the gap in pay for the same job, note, as no sensible person expects equal pay for different jobs.

Feminism has thankfully narrowed the gap, with more women entering STEM today than men.

kkins25:
That's very much the conservative's talking point---not particularly what someone in the Left wing would say.

It was a funny video. Hmm your loss.

I could not concentrate on the video for some reason, and having watched it now, only in America. No one would ask me in UK if I identify as black because they'd at least trust what they see with their own eyes, though one would need to be rather stupid and ignorant to identify a person by their skin colour alone and ignore everything else about me.

When I was young, people wanted to identify me with my surname, but I preferred to be identified by my first name. So, I simply ignored anyone who called me my surname until they used my first name. My identity is mine to define, and not anyone else's.

Same here where I identify as gender fluid. “Hello. My name is buda. My pronouns are ‘they, theirs, and them.’”, but I can't force anyone to comply.

If I see John, and you tell me your name is Samantha, who am I to argue and why should I?

kkins25:
If I may, my buda, do you identify as black?

I identify as buda. You are however very free and welcome to identify me as you see me with your own eyes. I, off course, reserve my right to not acknowledge your identification of me.

So you understand. You may identify yourself as an idiot, but I do not have to buy in to how you identify yourself.

Sorry, couldn't bother with the video.

kentebemoney:
Dey play!!!!
The women of Afghanistan wanted "freedom" and the men said: nay!!!
And the "nays!!!" Had their way. Why? Na man get power.

As I said, The oppression and lack of freedom that women experienced was due to the backwardness of men who oppressed them.

But you hopefully wouldn't want to be taliban just so you can claim to have power over women you oppress.

Realrealfact:
Why is federal government still withholding November salaries. Any idea ?

Might it be because Federal Government is bankrupt and hasn't got enough left over from its numerous loans to pay salary?

I wonder what was expected when most of the rebels against Assad were alqaeda and co who wanted to impose their version of Islam on everyone else.

Assad was an ass, but Syria is following the path of Iran after it deposed the Shah.

TemporaryHansel:
At some point, you have to admit any form of freedom women are enjoying in many places, including Nigeria and the USA, is due to the generosity of men(enlightened men).

The above is like saying the equality black people enjoy in America today is due to enlightened white people, when the facts are that the oppression black people experienced in America was due to the backwardness of the white people (and some ignorant black people, I dare add).

The oppression and lack of freedom that women experienced was due to the backwardness of men who oppressed them. And the freedom that women experience today is due to their own fight back.

raumdeuter:
As a follow up on Magnoliaa argument

If due to years of oppression of colored people, society decides to create opportunities for colored only. Few years down the line, People now argue that anyone can identify as colored

Can a non colored man who didn't go through these oppressions identify as a colored man to get these benefits

Or if in a bus stop they say because of age difference they prioritize minors entering a bus first before adults, Later adults now identify as minors and get the little benefits a minor gets at the bus stop

As a man you have the natural benefits of being a man, now you want to import that into women spaces and challenge them on an unequal ground

Funny enough, a non-coloured person identifying as a coloured person, has happened. A caucasian woman tried it and lost her job when found out. And there was a man of 60+ who wanted to self-identify as half his age, which I found amusing. The courts didn't, and thereby dissuaded me from self-identify as the King of England to my utter chagrin. I was looking forward to my royal visit to Nigeria.

Thailand likely has the most transgenders of all countries, though I don't think they go as far as cutting off or adding bits, and mainly stick to cross dressing. They seem to have three genders - hetero male, hetero female, and people born male who are actually female. What's different about them is they don't seem to have the urge to combine hetero females with born males who are actually females, who seem to have carved out a niche of their own. And the Thailand hetero women seem not to be in fear of their spaces being invaded. I can bet you that if a born male who is actually female commits a crime in Thailand he'd end up in the prison that is consistent with his born gender.

America has a problem. Its the same country that seems to have aliens from outer space visiting them regularly, and is where you'd find the most people claiming the earth is flat. They even want to reintroduce the Bible in schools, when places like China have adopted the newer religion based around the scientific method. A rational nation will insist that your gender doesn't change just because you say so. A compassionate nation will however accept you as Karen even though you were named Bob at birth.

I oppose the cutting or addition of gender bits to children. UK does not allow such nonsense, and would send you off for gender affirmation care, which is mainly psychiatry for both the child and its parents to understand why the child is dysphoric, and medication if your urges are so critical they stop the child from functioning. If you want bits added or deleted, you'd need to wait till you are 16+, and you'd might even need to self fund such deletion or additions from your own pocket since the NHS has better things to spend money on. It is however a crime to discriminate against a person because of the gender they choose to be. The wonderful transgender at the checkout of my local Tesco is the most pleasant and popular person there. The queues at her till are always longer than others as more people seem to want to be served by her. The second longest tends to be that of the hijab wearing woman.

I've in the past called this transgender issue an on-going conversation, which is bound to be resolved eventually. There's already reports of how dysphoric children and adults have faired over time, with some regretting their change and some not. And in the future, we'd have more evidence of how gender dysphoric children and adults have faired, which will inform those contemplating it, and show us how to handle them and the situation much better. It is however comical that a country that expouses freedom of speech and expression would discriminate against those who wish to express themselves as whatever gender they wish.

He left his cars behind.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkpLfdIjaLo?si=srKrU1BWZs7QjxnJ

Maeve7:
Many EU countries grant parental leave after maternity leave allowing parents to look after children for much longer.

Paternity pay and leave in UK

https://www.gov.uk/paternity-pay-leave/eligibility

IjeBos:
I'm not sure if not as uncommon as it is in the US.
There is popular Bobriski for one.

It is obviously not as common. That's why Bobrisky (and one other) stand out so much in Nigeria.

It would be hard for a Nigerian child to go to its mother and claim it is the opposite of the gender it was born with, and a parent worrying about rent over that child's head and food in its belly would hardly entertain such nonsense.

Tariffs are working already.

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Chinas-Export-Ban-Sends-Antimony-Prices-Soaring-40-in-One-Day.html

raumdeuter:
What do the top 10% pay? Now add state tax, Now add property tax, sometimes sales tax Then add your extra 2%

Make dem just pay 100% then so everyone will stop asking for more

You are being absurd. Cancel tax completely. That should suit you better.

raumdeuter:
For someone who is already paying 37% federal, about 10% state then you might as well pay 100% and share your house and salary

The top 10% do not pay 37% tax. They hire tax evaders to help them reduce their tax way below that rate.

But if you think paying a fair share is "share your house and salary", then share your house and salary. I'm just asking for 2% tops from the top 10%, which likely excludes you anyway. In Nigeria, we'd be talking about the likes of Dangote and Tinubu, note.

raumdeuter:
What next share your salary with those who cant work, share your house with those who cant afford theirs

2% tax is not "share your salary or share your house". It is you contributing to making your society better.

Pawpaw rules!

raumdeuter:
When you reduce company tax by 2% the shortfall in the govt income who will make up for it?

Why add 1% to top 10% earners? Did they tell anyone to give birth to children? Some of these top 10% do not even have kids they don't even want kids or had kids they took care of by themselves. Elon for example has 11 kids, no one is helping him. If you can afford 50 kids absolutely go for it not increasing someone else's taxes to care for your kids

Why take care of the homeless since no one made them homeless?

Why clean the streets when you did not make them dirty?

Why educate people who can't educate themselves?

Why give anything to those who didn't save for a pension?

Why feed kids who are not fed by their parents?

If I were to offer a very simple answer, I'd say because you are a Christian nation, but we all know you are a Christian nation only when it suits your individualism.