₦airaland Forum

nzeobi:
The man is a hypocrite that manipulates figures sometimes.

He once said that the national assembly takes about 25% of the budget and when the national assembly confronted him with evidence though makarfi he apologized.

Remember how he alledged money was missing from nnpc but kept on manipulating and adjusting the figure.

You need to see his spending at CBN and Kano Emirates. Fact is that he is not different from those he criticize

Are you suggesting Deziani did not steal Nigerian money, and that the national assembly does not share quite a lot of our money amongst themselves?

If so, perhaps we should give the National Assembly occupants a pay rise.

The former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi Wednesday told finance journalists in Abuja why the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke was not indicted by the committee that investigated the unremitted $49.8bn revenue by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

Makarfi who served as former governor of Kaduna state was the chairman of the committee that set up by the seventh senate to investigate the $48.9bn unremitted oil revenue following allegations raised by the then Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.
http://saharareporters.com/2018/04/04/why-nobody-was-indicted-over-alleged-missing-498bn-makarfi

Give your school fees and your rent money so your pastor can immensly bless you.

mountmoriah:
Nigeria next president na woman, we would start from there.

How I hope you are right.

How about this woman?

Joeboy4ever:
problem is someone that actually needs the machine won’t really look at how the place is so long as you have what he needs at a reasonable price, chicken republic or other five star hotels are presentable but why dont you go there to eat on a daily basis, you’d prefer to buy from the woman selling by the road side on your way home,��‍♀️where your heading would only matter if it’s something your going to consume, if your so bothered about the write up pls go see how tech specs are listed on eBay,��

Actually, I'd prefer to cook in my very clean kitchen and eat my food in my very clean house than spend my money curing myself of poverty bought cholera and typhoid.

People, please buy this person's computer. Its spec are to die for!

ednut1:
Will Nigerians buy fuel at 320 naira

Yes, we would. When basic wage increases to like ₦100k a month.

jimyjames:
The blame on fulani is of recent, through out history igbos have always been tagged the enemy of Nigeria

If you mean those seeking to destroy Nigeria in order to create Biafra, I might be inclined to somewhat agree with you, but I just happen to be aware that there are quite a lot of antibiafra one Nigeria Igbos.

Namdeenero:
Madness is your calling not blogging

I am afraid I unfortunately have to agree with you.

The proposed law, states in section 33, that “Every person shall have a right to food, which shall be respected, protected and guaranteed by the State, and no one shall be deprived of food under any circumstances”.

The government should tell me how much to charge for what I grow so even lazy fuqs who don't grow food must now eat? What a joke. Would government also tell the fertiliser seller and the transporter and the labourers I use how much they must charge me too?

This is a policy for nonproduction and it will lead to food scarcity!

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!

jimyjames:
I know what I'm talking about, everyone should continue blaming the igbos for everything, igbos are blamed for secession not been included in Nigerian Constitution, igbos are blamed for unitary system of government, igbos are blamed for starting a coup igbos are blamed for abiola's president denial , igbos are blamed for 419 , etc igbos are the only one's making history in Nigeria , I agree nothing will change in Nigeria till an igbo changes it

Last time I checked, bubu and fulani were being blamed for everything wrong in Nigeria, so while I don't agree that to be true or that Igbos are to blame, I'm glad you are willing to not follow the multitude even though your minority opinion is equally as false.

Joeboy4ever:
long as the important aspects are highlighted, I’m good I’m not a perfectionist when it comes to text, but listing the specs

So said the person who did not sweep outside his shop before opening and before he complained no one was buying.

Good luck. It sounds like a good machine.

Here, op. Read up on [url=https://ucanr.edu/sites/news/?blogtag=corn%20smut&blogasset=96261]corn smut[/url].

flames007:
I'm hoping you meant this as a joke. You're joking, right?

Are you asking a maize and cocoa farmer like me to take this thread seriously?

Maybe when I post me planting stones and reaping gold you'd get it.

Op, that your cocoa is fresh out of the pod. You can tell by the fact it hasn't begun to dry up!

Stop posting fake information to deceive the gullible! If cocoa had been growing on your maize you'd have shown it growing over time, instead of this one photo!

akunjohn:
Man cannot plant maize and reap cocoa beans...

It so happens to be a universal law, that one reaps what one sows, but this op wants us to believe otherwise, lol.

Ometech:
Lol...when such happens, don't jubilate and start making use of such; it might be as a result of mutation or dangerous disease, rather involve plant expert (a pathologist) to carry research on what caused it.

I do not think I need an expert to tell me someone put cocoa on my maize! I can do my own research.

jimyjames:
Well every change in the history of this country called Nigeria good or bad comes through the hands of the igbos, ......

I don't quite know where you get that from. Limited reading of history perhaps, or the same sort of mentality that yells "Fulani" whenever someone is kidnapped or killed?

Igbos are not the only history makers in Nigeria. Please go read some more to be informed.

jimyjames:
PDP is a dead party, plus I personally as an igbo man I don't want an igbo president, the country is already damaged the next president of this country whoever he is will be overwhelmed with the troubles that awaits this country, what is happening in the North will be sponsored to reach South once a southern president emerges, ipobs will not stop even if an igbo president emerges, the will be a pogrom against the igbos especially in the North and south west once an igbo president emerges

I do not think we Nigerians will elect a president from a region who's sole manifesto is the destruction of Nigeria so Biafra can exist. We just are not that dumb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ouQTAaxHc

How many of the maize you planted fruited cocoa? I bet its just one or two.

If the entire maize you planted fruited cocoa, then thank your lucky star because cocoa is more valuable than maize. But if just one or two, which is more likely, then you need to go find who is seeding your maize with cocoa and ask why.

Coldie:
Expressway for the opposition to win.

Ipob has already sat at 2 elections and people still won.

They sat at home during 2019 elections Buhari still won, they still sat at home during anambra elections obiano still won.

And I know this next election person go still win

Perhaps op doesn't know this and just wants to continue with mistakes of the past.

Joeboy4ever:
Selling my powerful gaming desktop, used this for animations rendering video editing sad I’m letting it go, specs are

Processor: intel core i7-10700 - octa-core - 2.9 ghz / 4.8 ghz

ram: 16 gb ddr4 (2400 mhz) - 32 gb maximum installable

storage: 2 tb hdd (7200 rpm) - 512 gb ssd

graphics card: nvidia geforce rtx 2060 super

operating system: windows 10 (64-bit)

colour: black

wifi: wifi 6 - 2x2 - up to 300 mbps

ethernet: gigabit ethernet port

brand: pc specialist

type: gaming pc,

everything works flawlessly used it for gaming most times dosent come with monitor o pls,
Price: 460k slightly negotiable
Location Abuja
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You can quote me let’s close this deal or you can come pick it up serious buyers pls, I don’t ignore but be sensible

Presentation matters!

Idiko1:
There shall be no president because the dictate of the Nigerian constitution stated 36 states not 31 states. However Nigerians are known as unlawful cretins.

Delude yourself. When an election in a state is won by a single vote your eyes will definitely open.

Sachidi:
According to the constitution, each aspirant must get a required number of votes in all the 36 states to win the election.

Now let's assume the whole south east decide to sit at home as they have done a couple of times this year.

What will happen?
Will there ever be a new president?

If I want to nak your head, the first step is to convince you your vote does not count while I go and hire goats and sheep to vote for me!

Everyone in South East will not sit at home and refuse to get off their asses and vote. Not everyone in South East is stupid! But if many do sit at home and refuse to vote as many have done before, they will have refused to participate in the democratic process, and when positions in government are shared they will get none, then they will come here to shout "marginalisation" without realising they marginalised themselves!

Refuse to allow yourself to be exploited. I beg you!

Otem, can you kindly explain what religion is, please?

What is religion?

Ibime:
97% unvaccinated. Lockdown saved them last year.

As an aside, you can't compare an exponential growth phenomenon by looking at years. How many people had Covid on 1st January of 2020 compared to 2021? Assuming an r rate greater than one, if 1 person had Covid start of last year multiplied by the r rate exponentially is different from a starting base of say 100,000 multiplied by r rate in 2021

You seriously believe he would understand a single word you've written here?

It isn't exactly the doctrine most wish to hear as they'd rather wait for manna to drop from heaven than till the soil with the sweat of their brow.

I guess many refuse to believe they are starving despite their belly yelling at them, and when they die they'd likely believe they live than face the fact they have returned to the dust from which they arose.

SlyDev:
U think we need some brain dead loudmouth and a musician to move Nigeria forward? Look man Nigeria need a Yoruba man, their brain and administrative skill is the only solution to Nigeria woes.

Hopefully, not this Yoruba man!

I wonder why the opinion of money for grades, pay someone else for a dissertation, unlearned students, would matter to those with brains.

Tinubu my Yoruba ass! What he would do with our wealth would be of no concern of your's!

Nigeria does not need a messiah! The work is plenty so everyone should labour instead of irresponsibly waiting for someone to provide them with their daily bread!

Everyone needs to bear their own cross and save themselves, on this earth, at least.

The elites rule the serfs. The serfs serve the elites.

My people would rather be stupid ignorant enslaved living in fear of death while working for food and board in the Garden of the Elite Adams than use her own senses free from bondage self employed Eves.

If only we understood that ignorant enslaved Adams can not ever “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Thankfully, many are now eating the fruits of knowledge so their eyes are opening and they acquire wisdom and be blessed.