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ReesheesuKnack:
For people on the far left (like MissJekyll here), the other side of the story doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if thugs kick and beat and brutalise the police. What matters is a 20 second video, clipped to show the aftermath of a police action.

This is no reason to take the law into the police's boot. In fact, the police's action in the 20 second video is likely to be the reason the "criminal" he booted gets off scot free and is paid compensation to boot. And the police doing the booting is likely to get a reprimand if not sacked.

justwise:
I have to disagree with on this, police in this country are treated worse than actual criminals with little or no respect. Kicking that guy on the head is the least I expected if you have watched previous videos.

The family of the ‘victims’ has put out a statement showing concerns for police officer.

No one else expected what you expected. Not even the bosses of the police, who have now reported themselves to the ICPC and suspended the police in question.

You don't go behaving like an animal because you believe the police are disrespected. Police training teaches that in the first few days, and those who don't learn don't wear the uniform for long if they at all pass probation.

Lexusgs430:
That's a spin...... The royals, are now actually costing you and me, more under charles, than under his mother ........😂

I'd call it the price of good governance.

If Nigeria was like the country in question you have all japad to, we wouldn't mind paying our leaders costing us more so we can peacefully and profitably live there. I think.

bemeruca:
Immigrants are being attacked now. Budaatum his is what you wanted 😂

I hope you are not hiding under your bed

As in, ignorant people like you are attacking people?

Good thing is, you are so few that I need not fear you.

basilico:
Give me a name . Just one

John Giles, the Republican mayor of Arizona’s third largest city and a previous thorn in the side of his party for endorsing Democrats, has thrown his support behind Kamala Harris for president.

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan has announced that he is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.

judatech:
But wait o!
Is it Nigeria alone that has this crude oil, how other countries take manage their own transparently?

Most don't, unfortunately. But some are learning from the mistakes of others.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

I guess men can't multitask neither then, since their brain too "can be likened to a computer processor in terms of command/information execution".

Makes me wonder though why employers don't just hire computers instead of human beings who can actually multitask, but I guess that would be a pointless question to ask a man who can not multitask.

ChildOfDoom:
I must be that miserable and a lowlife for Oloshos to start advising me.

You took the words straight out of my mouth and have left me with nothing to say.

Government wants to control price at the pump by expecting me to sell at a loss, lol.

budaatum:
Electrical Tomatoes

The emboldened is about the only bit of this that got my attention but I notice it caught no one else's.

"Price controls"! It means a product is kept at a price set by government, and in Nigeria, we know it's kept low and very likely beneath the cost at which it can be sold at a profit. Like petrol really. But we can at least claim a reason for petrol with our crude oil and our ineptitude at running refineries. Electric though!?

Imagine it were tomatoes. You invest in land and fertiliser and labour and grow them, and when you get them to the market, government sets the price. I'm absolutely certain if that price is higher than the cost at which you grow your tomatoes, you wouldn't mind much. You'd likely be delighted if it's high enough for you to make a tidy profit. And if you're fortunate and the price set is so high, you'd likely invest in more land and more fertilizer and more labour and grow even more tomatoes. But this is Naija, where the price set by government is more likely to be way below your costs so that after you sell your tomatoes, you would have lost money.

Now think, you lost money on your tomatoes. Are you going to plant tomatoes next season? If you're into the charity business or you're stupid, you just might. But if you're not and have rent and school fees for your kids to pay and you want to eat and pay the interest on a loan I very much doubt you'd be stupid enough to throw your money away growing unprofitable tomatoes!

Well, that's the case with electricity in Nigeria I'm afraid. You generate it, transport it along unreliable transmission wires, lose a large chunk of it to illegal use and theft and what you do get paid for does not cover the cost of producing it. Now tell, would you plant electricity next season? I very much doubt it unless you're into the charity business or you're stupid, of course, but somehow, I just can't imagine you'd be either.

So, what's the solution you might wonder. Increase the price of electricity of course. But come on people, increase the price of electricity so electricity planters can earn more money and plant more and sell more? Surely you must be cursing me by now, or haven't you noticed you'd have to pay more for my electric if you want it?

Ok, perhaps you're all nice civilised folks and don't want to curse me so let's try a different way of looking at this. Imagine Buhari removes the price control so I can sell my electricity at a market determined price like I currently sell my tomatoes no doubt at a profit high enough for me to want to plant more next year. Are you cursing me yet? I'm sure you would be if it was the subsidy on petrol I were talking about removing. Hell no! You'd likely stone me if you could get your hands on me!

Well, that's what this piece is saying where it says "The private sector is given little incentive to invest.” After all, I'm in the electric planting business for the money and the profit and not because I love you all as Adam Smith would say, so why give you light if you aren't paying me for the priviledge! And you wanna complain you're in darkness?!

When you pay me enough to cover my planting of tomatoes after paying for the land and the fertilizer and the labour and the interest on a loan and cover what I lose to theft and illegal harvesting, and still make a tidy profit to reinvest, I will plant 12000megawatts of tomatoes and I will sell 12000megawatts of tomatoes and even more megawatts of tomatoes than you can eat even because you would be incentivizing me to invest what you pay me in more land and more fertiliser and more labour to plant more tomatoes so I will have more tomatoes to sell you and make more money. But if you want cheap electric, keep your price controls and don't incentivize me but don't expect me to waste my time labouring in the sun just so you can have light because, like you, I ain't that stupid nor into the charity business!

Anyone cursing me yet, because I am telling you, we are too cheap!

I really haven't figured out what the scam is here, and would appreciate enlightenment.

https://immigration.gov.ng/visa_group/employment/

bemeruca:
but you see what I was warning you about. this is happening because the police arrested a lot of innocent people the other day for nothing. the two-tier policing will bite them hard and it will only get worse.

The way you reason is somehow. In fact, you don't reason at all.

Why would police arrest innocent people?

basilico:
Just a quick one. Who the fuq with a straight mind endorse Kamala Harris?

You ask who endorsed?

I think you should wait to see how many people actually vote for her so you can claim they all have unstraight minds.

Mercisharelove:
GOD ALMIGHTIEST IN CHRIST JESUS BY THE HOLIEST SPIRIT NATURE. DO YOU HAVE IT?

Whatever I might think I have is irrelevant, as I might just be lying to myself that I have what I lack.

If you have the "HOLIEST SPIRIT NATURE", you will know what others have by their fruits.

Do note that you have not answered my question.

What exactly is this "eternal life"?

Sapasenator:
OP claim to love "God" but hate and curse everyone around her, no be madness be that. I never attempt to reason with these religious mad people.
It is a colossal waste of time.

Such people should try to understand the Bible they preaching instead of merely believing it. For not so doing is like crucifying the Christ they peddling.

Do know that the person responded to is not the only reader of my responses, and that while some seeds might fall by the wayside and wither in the sun, some will fall on fertile land and produce fruit even a thousand fold.

bemeruca:
@budaatum, one police station burning in Sunderland. the people are angry about two-tiered policing which is obvious now. I will say, all sides are just wrong but the negligence of the politicians will only make things worse.

I think burning down a police station will make it worse for the police station burner, but they might at least be lucky and not have to share a prison cell with migrants.

LordAdam16:
Kyle Rittenhouse endorses President Trump.
https://twitter.com/ThisIsKyleR/status/1819459882510069816

This will be a non-issue if you guys weren't desperate for any news to sustain the Kamala bump.

Yet, here is you making it an issue because of the sustained Kamala bump.

AsabaAgent:
Those days when food was being imported farmers never complained

They just stopped farming, and the price of food kept going up, so you now can't afford what's imported.

nairalanda1:
I still won't blame our education system.

Is that something a kid with SSCE Biol would grasp?

You seem to think I mean the sort of secondary school education received in Nigeria, or that one must have learnt every single fact.

Science is compulsory all the way through secondary school in some countries, along with critical reasoning, and its effect is the development of minds that are willing to continuously learn even long after they may have left school. While our schools teach science as if it were some sort of religion in which knowledge and understanding never evolves and the facts must be believed.

A good education will teach science as the development of the mind to learn and reason, instead of just the filling of students with facts. After all, I did not learn about the condition being discussed here, and went and did my own research to educate myself about it.

A bad education would make me discard what I found out and stick to my ignorance, is my point.

ShoeGetSize wouldn't post what he posted as evidence if he had a good education

Mercisharelove:
What are your greatest wishes??

My greatest wish would be that people love each other more. The world we live in would be much better if we did.

Now answer my question please.

What exactly is this "eternal life"?

ShoeGetSize:
Yes, I'm obviously lying. Even though Caster Semenya himself admitted that he had no womb and that he had undescended testicles.

Maybe the reason you're so emotionally invested in this issue is because you are also a woman with testicles.

You must need to degrade to elevate yourself.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/24/caster-semenya-800m-world-athletics-hbo-interview

Mercisharelove:
It will be the greatest discovery of your life to know that you got eternal life right now

What exactly is this "eternal life"?

ShoeGetSize:
Both Caster Semenya and Imane Khelif have male Instruments.

The fact that you need to lie just shows even you know your argument is weak.

If the athletes in question had male Instruments, no one would be arguing they are not male.

nairalanda1:
The problem is, most people only know that xx is female and xy is male.

And no, I am not going to blame our education system. Imagine doing it without some knowledge of undergraduate university level genetics and embryology knowledge.

If we don't blame our abysmal backward education system, we wouldn't fix it and solve the problem of ignorance that it causes.

That ignorance does not only apply to genetics and embryology. It is also the reason why we say "Nepa!" instead of "and there was light", after we've said "let there be light", and is also why many are protesting hunger today and that government is not feeding them instead of feeding themselves by the sweat of their brow.