₦airaland Forum

elated177:
What should your Jesus worshippers be?

I don't worship Jesus.

DissTroy:
Now you put it correctly: It's your agenda negating the actual truth.

Post like yours are the ones which should actually have the fact-checkers' label as false information.

elated177:
Wow! I am surprised.

DissTroy:
New York Times and CNN or the Leftist media are no dependable sources for news about Trump as those outlets have repeatedly admitted their hatred for him over the years since he became POTUS.

It's like using Daily Post Nigeria as a news outlet source about Igbos - they are obviously biased towards Igbos and have a Fulani/Hausa-centric agenda.

Al Jazeera would be more credible.

elated177:
El Elohe Yahshrael!

You cannot serve two masters at a time. No man or woman who is married to his or her fellow man or woman is a follower of Yahushua the Messiah.

Do not let anyone deceive you.

El Elohe Yahshrael! Hallelu Yah!

elated177:
Budaatum, what is the name of your god?

The New York Times: How the Manhattan DA's Investigation Into Donald Trump Unraveled.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/nyregion/trump-investigation-manhattan-da-alvin-bragg.html

Okerenla:
The distributable federal allocation for the month of January ( but shared in February) is an indication that there is a fire on the mountain because the allocation accruable to states dipped to a four-year low. Unlike in December 2021 when N699.82bn was disbursed, only N574.66bn was disbursed in January of this year. The sharp drop in the allocations follows the Federal Government's announcement of its plans to deduct N950bn for the payment of fuel subsidy allocations due to States in 2022. If the situation persists, many states, particularly grossly indebted states like Osun, would find it difficult to pay salary and pension of their workers because about 35% of what should be available to them would be sized down for subsidy payment. For January, Osun state, for example, was allocated N1.425bn but the sum of N1.8bn was deducted to service its loan. What this means is that the state did not only receive nothing in allocation, it also recorded a negative of N375m which would be carried forward in the next distribution..

TenQ:
You prefer the Tetragrammaton or Tetragram of Yahweh?
יהוה

I guess this is also from the English Tyndale Bible

budaatum:
Actually, i prefer none. My understanding of my reading says I mustn't.

basilico:
(I cant prove this but I think Bengazi consulate was overseeing arms transfers to Syrian jihadists).

obi58:
Bros we don't. It is standard global practice for serious governments subsidize production of essential commodities instead of consumption. .

obi58:
Saying subsidies is not good for economic growth is simplistic at best and elitist at worst because no economy can flourish without government intervention either via regulation or spending.

obi58:
This is why we canvassing for getting the refineries working again and government doing everything to ensure they operate optimally for the common good.

obi58:
And you can keep on singing it that we need to pay international wage rates to attract the best oil workers. I refuse to believe that with our daily production quota we will be unable to pay those costs unless we sell crude in dollars.

ParpahSeventy:
There are a lot of stories in the media about dead bodies found in the society with missing body parts,

ParpahSeventy:
I want to talk about this separately so I don't give a "logical mind" like you an excuse to escape my question anymore.
I won't be surprised you equipped your library with books like basic science, biology, health education and the likes, you don't sound like someone who is well read so equipping a library effectively is definitely a herculean task.

ParpahSeventy:
When we talk about changing our current society, equipping a Library is not one of them, seems you are too daft to know this, My God!!!

ParpahSeventy:
There are a lot of people looking for food to eat, houses to sleep in, a soul that will cloth them, someone to pay their fees, a lot of girls in need of good sanitary pad and all you can brag about is equipping a dead library that won't have any impact in the community and the lives of it's occupants and you are here talking about great minds, do you read books at all, do you travel to see people, see their culture, see their lives at all?
You sound more like someone who's lost but thinks he knows a lot about creativity and growth.

obi58:
More propaganda. The US subsidises domestic agricultural production and this has not discouraged farming in the US in any capacity. If anything it has encouraged farmers to farm in the confidence that the government would cover any losses they incur if their produce is not sold or gets bad. So what are we saying?

Almost 90% of the $540bn in global subsidies given to farmers every year are “harmful”, a startling UN report has found.

This agricultural support damages people’s health, fuels the climate crisis, destroys nature and drives inequality by excluding smallholder farmers, many of whom are women, according to the UN agencies.

The biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions, such as beef and milk, received the biggest subsidies, the report said. These are often produced by large industrialised groups that are best placed to gain access to subsidies.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/14/global-farm-subsidies-damage-people-planet-un-climate-crisis-nature-inequality

obi58:
Why can't we emulate these good practices

obi58:
If as you say we are incompetent. Why then do you want incompetent oil workers to be paid at par with their competent counterparts in Saudi Arabia?

Nigerian startups are raising billions, but can’t find workers
https://restofworld.org/2022/nigerian-startups-are-raising-billions-but-cant-find-workers/

The Oil Industry Is Facing A Labor Shortage
By Michael Kern - Nov 30, 2021, 4:00 PM CST
The oil and gas industry worldwide faces a talent gap as workers contemplate moving to renewables or leaving the energy industry altogether, a survey by recruitment firm Brunel and Oilandgasjobsearch.com, cited by Reuters, showed on Tuesday.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/The-Oil-Industry-Is-Facing-A-Labor-Shortage.html

benalvino3:
They have not been found guilty by a jury oga. I have provided numerous sources with cases where guilty plea is mase by the innocent and you typed that in bold. SMH.

Those who take the deal or guilty plea does not face the jury... Your response is void.

benalvino3:
What they did to Flynn was a conspiracy? Lol ok.

benalvino3:
Which is why i have never said they didn't. I only said till they indict the others in that group with the same crime it is hogwash.

Ibime:
You talking plenty shalaye but haven't addresses the facts of the case.

A conspiratorial mind at it's finest.

benalvino3:
Nothing you typed address the point we are making. My point was that the FBI is coming out with this after they(media and other actors) have been dragged for using sedition and and insurrection to tag rioters.

benalvino3:
I asked you to watch stories on investigation discovery channel on cases where people are pleading guilty and you are telling me about a movie. Even that does not take away what I am saying or you failed to understand. Some people will take the deal, some will face the jury... It is hope to them and the circumstances they find themselves.

This is from Forbes.com and he went on to say:

obi58:
Lie from the pit of hell.... Crude oil quotas sold on the international market is determined by OPEC yes but we determine what we export.

backbencher:
So basically goverment should drill for oil at a loss while driving out all.companies drilling oil because they wish to.make a profit doing so.

And then government shoukd also pay workers drilling the oil bad salaries because fuel must be cheap

And you know that governemt can apply.that logic to other businesses too?

Countries that do what you advocate end up collapsing economically.

People have the right to make a profit..whether phone seller or oil.company drilling for oil. You won't work for half your salary, so that the poor would benefit, why should you force others to?

obi58:
When you said government you hit the nail on the head. Your analogy with farming is quite incorrect. Oil is a natural resource which is the wealth base of the country and the government decides the quota for export and domestic use. Government provides licenses to oil firms to prospect oil. Any oil firm who finds it unprofitable to explore oil at government determined prices is free to exit the market because more important things like the common wealth of the nation is at stake. We can't live in penury as a nation to satisfy the fat salaries of oil workers if we are serious as a nation.

backbencher:
What you are saying here is the equivalent of 'why doesn't the local farmer get paid less for what he produces, so that I can have cheaper food'. That's not how it works in reality.

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 and 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!

basilico:
Instead of substance in your writing

basilico:
I'm honestly thoroughly pis.sed of by Budaatum.

benalvino3:
I have already gave u instances of people who plead guilty, escape death penalty only to be acquitted 10 years or more after tech advancement brought out new evidence. Why is it so hard for you to understand?

Lawyers encourage their clients to plead guilty all the times even for crimes they did not commit. You should know this if not you should watch ID Channel for a bit.

Ibime:
These two conspiracy drinkers Basilico and Benalvino wrote a lot of trash without highlighting the difference between the Oathkeeper guys case and others on Jan 6th who got let off with trespassing charges, some with just a slap on the wrist and many without even a custodial sentence. Escaping a heavy custodial sentence from Jan 6th I one of the easiest and light court cases you can fight due to the sheer volume of people prosecutors are dealing with. Cases of mass disorder usually see offenders go scott free or with light slaps of the wrist.

The key difference was the premeditated planning and handing out a cache of ammunitions, and plans for engaging in a armed confrontation with the National guard. Therein lies the step-up from trespassing to seditious conspiracy.

Most of the time, the varying niche and off-brand topics that these two coons discuss in detailed agreement with each other will have you shaking your head at the web of alternate reality programming that they have enmeshed themselves in. It is from these two coons I get to learn the hot-topics programmed into cultists by the alternate reality thought-formers on the darkest parts of the internet.