₦airaland Forum

Let's hope they would finally remember using the waterways to reduce traffic by allowing more private players

Birthday party not Church service.
Well maybe they are the same, have seen Kwam1 in a white garment church service -what do I know,

SavageResponse:
Since when did King Sunny Ade become a gospel singer?

Haaa Nairaland with interesting reasoning!
There's too much bias being read to what was written up here to say/imply lots of what was not mentioned.
went from N580 to 1m in a few years gbam! (selling to people with only N20 trying to rebuild their lives after a war. Where was the purchasing power from if he only traded in the East?) without judging or assuming outside what's written here, it is rational to say the story is not complete still - just a balanced observation.
Again from what's up here, the guy admitted he played a fast one (he was not getting Naira for Naira, so it doesn't matter if it was zero account or not. The cash he puts in the opened accounts was money he & nobody wanted or could use again is the point) no need for arguments.
He was also opportunistic, over-billing war ravaged folks for the 1pound because of higher demand than supply.

There was a war (that always come with loses), Biafran currency was introduced - the same liquidated after the war because there simply was no where to spend or legally exchange it anymore. The nation that issued it was no more! The loss started when their Naira holdings were turned to Biafran currency. No fault of FG or Awolowo or any other person. - folks that kept Naira or even foreign accounts and were still alive resumed their accounts. (Let's be careful when instigating fights and wars. Ask/think what happens if I/we lose)

It was not a case of stealing their money as folks are twisting the history. The SW abounds with stories of people that never left (and yes, it was not generally same in the North where properties were looted and burnt. The killings that started it all was in the North rem) and those that came back to their properties, even getting accumulated rents with.

@Cars - btw N3000-4000 in 1974, lots of owners were civil servants thru car loans then. Others got the best motorcycle for 320-420 and bicycles for 18pounds. Nigeria was good and You don't have to be super rich like folks are pushing narratives here.

In all, he worked hard. He travelled out. He came back and played hard in the transport sector. Congrats on his new age.

Seeking greener pasture is not the issue, breaking laws and not staying low-key is

Antichrist:
We failed to manage our country. But we keep seeking pasture elsewhere. What a leadership disaster we found our selves.

They should use it to import food that the govt itself will SELL at subsidize rates...or allow the public import themselves duty free for 1yr.

Start mechanized farms.

And finish up the refineries

Repackage the SME loans to rekindle productivity as the Banks will forever be unserious no matter how go your idea is (they deal only on short terms and growing new businesses is a long term thing)

Please do they have Landmark & Co there for one to enjoy the waters?

An unverified figure copying a popular Twitter handle (to get views) posts an unsubstantiated story that cannot be backed by factual history and people are fighting over it as if he was the chairman of African writers to have known every writer and their minds!
Nairaland has lost logical reasoning and sane arguments...

I can bet they did the lazy thing. The practice now tries to save every tooth as there are means and tools to do that.

Fritz73:
My girlfriend had 2 if her tooth removed same period in a government hospital in ibadan, and till now I don't understand why.

The CBN is also to blame. They have orders that these reversals be resolved within 48 hours but the punishment is not strong enough deterrent.
All the Banks customer care department are useless in resolving fund reversal complaints.

A lot of customers' funds are hanging in the reversal pool, only for the department head to steal...

Taking? Maybe "luring" because technically, they are going willingly...

Cmeo:
For the same reasons they took our forefathers to their land across Europe and America for over 500 years and for the same reasons they are taking the present generation to their land across Europe and America.

Hope they won't give the UK treatment by changing rules in the middle of the game.
Also, how about their taxes that collects everything from the backend?

We can't throw money at every problem and expect it to disappear.
Even if pump N15T like we did for coastal road, agriculture has seasons and waiting time. But what will the public eat before it grows/mature!
They should have planted immediately they came in. Any action for now is late, we can only import in the immediate now.

Faiththatworks:
The Government should declare a state of Emergency and pump massive money to the Agricultural sector as soon as tomorrow.

There's a product sharing Agreement kicks in, in all oil blocks once you start production even if you own it 100%.
NNPC deserves a first right of refusal when selling and or a part of the sale value as they were part of sharing the block before....

SoNature:
What issue are NNPC and ExxonMobil trying to resolve that is taking this long? This disagreement has been on hold for years now.

Good
But before taking over, can they tell us what exactly they will be doing differently?
They are not practicing shadow politics well for the public to see them as an alternative.
They all just want to get there first and start researching what to do?

rebdisir:
If you see our per capita GDP someone shared here this morning you will know that things have gone out of hand.

I think Obi and the other opposition should form a group and go and beg asiwaju to step aside just like sonekan did. They should beg him because he won't leave like that.. including Abdusalami should follow them.

If Tinubu is left to continue another one year people might start eating their children out of hunger in Nigeria!

How much was spent?

They should just license individual operators

Pogba12:
Wallai, I just bought this tomato in Garki Abuja at 1000 naira.
The average basket is 10k.

Is 10 times of what we are looking at going to fill basket?

The middlemen and retailers punish the poor more that the rich/well-offs that they really need to collect from.

Why are Nigerians not speaking up for this Lady nah.

This is pure injustice against this Lady.
She only gave a review!

Allegedly ooo

Na everything just wrong for this country - We are bedevilled too with poor reporting and journalism...
Reporters don't ask cogent questions.

Esp why they wanted to make him more handsome by cutting his hairs.
Is it is actually to make him unrecognizable since he had full grown before?

1. They are not with the number of staffs that can enter the whole of Africa and act directly.
It's the same reason our CBN does not do it.
2. Our population data has not been refined to help individuals directly & efficiently.

bukatyne:
Instead of channelling the money into private pockets so they improvish their people futher and do their bidding, why don't these concerned and caring agencies do the work themselves?

If they think Nigeria needs certain infrastructure and they are so in love with Nigeria or making things right on the planet, why don't they get the Government's permission and build the infrastructure themselves??

Madness is expecting a different result from doing the same thing.

kedeojo:
She is a failure, before her WTC has been supporting countries. It take Buhari who pleaded to trump and co, for her to be accepted. I have not seen her countribution to the country through WTC

Nigerians!!
How is she a failure?

When she was with IMF/World Bank didn't she get Nigeria debt forgiveness?
Now with WTO, but what is Nigeria producing to trade to be blaming her?
Oil (when the world is going green) that NNPC cannot account for and has been sold ahead of production?
Just to process our agric products, na lie - They asked us to stop putting too much insecticide in beans, we refused till banned.
Process minerals before exporting, na lie = we allow raw exports.
What is she supposed to do as we refuse to industrialize?

After all his useless noise and tears all he could resort to was Ecology?
Like there's no solution to the insecurity!!?

It is the public that needs to experience this in an unending way that is in trouble...

Why waste their time and MONEY in universities if skills acquisition is their final destination?
Why not provide credible loans that can enable them practice their craft after learning.
The stipends would definitely be too small to set up a proper small scale biz when you consider rents, power, working capital etc

Why can NERC simply allow individuals but these meters themselves?
They tried customers paying to DISCOs, it failed.
They tried MAP or appointed suppliers, it failed...

Neoteny:
Meters are sold under the Meter Asset Provider scheme. The money does not go to the Discos, it goes to the MAP vendors who may or may not have meter stocks. Also, if not for recently, meter prices were set by the industry regulator.

So your money was not held up by the disco nor was the disco the party responsible for installing the meter.

Don't you think if the woman in question had been metered there will be no issue of energy theft or passing it to others.
It remains that all should be provided METERS is the way to avoid theft and other confusion

Hakeem66:
I don't think so. Many will be consuming more than the estimated bill given to them. Once there's a constant power supply, metering everyone will be to the advantage of the discos.

One woman operating a restaurant with two deep freezers has been paying her electricity bill up to date, but the NEPA officials later decided to conduct a proper investigation. They discovered that she's operating a cold room with 10 giant deep freezers inside the building and using the restaurant as a cover-up.

If you bill her 60k a month, she will gladly pay because she knows she is cheating them.

There are many others like her in different parts of the country. Some have mini factories in their residential apartments but still pay residential house electricity bill.

These are people making life difficult for those on estimated bill. They consume electricity as factories but pay as residential. The other energy consumed would then be shared to the estimated customers.

Nigerians can be dubious; we don't seem to want a working society. We always want to cheat, which is why many are suffering for the sins of a few. Energy theft is rampant in this country, and I pity those on estimated bills in areas with an epileptic power supply.

Is this true or possible?
Why have they been silent till now?

For me, no idea is bad/silly.

How do they share portfolios (so none is just going to where funds can be looted?

Can they work/serve for free - our cost of serving 1 president is already too much, how will having 3 be financially?
Serving for free will remove pretenders claiming they want to serve the public but only want to loot the Treasury.

Can they show the public their homework?
Can they tell what and especially HOW they intend to FUND their initiatives while in power - it is not enough to say I will go to Algeria to ask how they fixed their rail or power systems...
We don't have more of our lives to give to their unproven ideas or unpreparedness.

A BIG PROBLEM WE OFTEN DO NOT TALK ABOUT IS THE CRIMINALLY OVER-INFLATION OF THE COST OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN NIGERIA - look at costs of our hospitals, schools, roads, airport etc.
so even if we have enough revenue (and we don't), we still would not develop.
Compare 2 countries setting up an infrastructure investment like Gas provision.
One did her projects at 12 times the cost of the other, so by the 3rd year one has started making profit, but the inflated project will take another 8 years to recoup and profit!
That's what we did with NLNG, COJA/ABUJA STADIUM etc

WE CANNOT BE SUPPLYING ELECTRIC METERS OF JUST $13 AT N81.975.16 to N143,836.10 - IT MAKES THE COMPANY UNPROFITABLE FOR TOO LONG and with consumers inability to bear ever increasing bills, the whole project will collapse.

WE CANNOT BE BUILDING ROADS AT N1b/KM and develop.

[quote author=naptu2 post=129970547][/quote]The agreements are often kept away from the public

If the State is not having any shares in the company, they won't even know what is produced or taken away...
Hope they are not just extracting the lithium?
What is the provision for local investors?
With lessons from Oil communities - they should have been mandated to build hospitals, schools, housing with solar, roads electricity etc but the govt collects the funds to develop the capital... what are the communities around going to benefit as infrastructures apart from just pollution and degradation?

Serious African countries have been banning exports of raw minerals

We don't need $500m worth of meters!!!
How many houses yet to have meters dey Nigeria?

NERC AND POLICY MAKERS ARE BEHIND THIS PERSISTENT ENERGY WOES.

They only need to allow everyone buy their meters from local manufacturers or Alibaba for btw $13-30

But for corruption, they force the N72k and 132k on the public, and insist on providing it.

They have collected money from public (to be deducted from usage payments) yet refused to make the great idea work...
Later Govt licensed few companies to provide under MAP program, DISCOs refused to support them...just as they initially rejected local manufacturers/assemblers!

Nigeria has not taken full advantage of her Cabotage Law (leading to job loss & higher than neighbors port charges); it is not fishing the Waters for her citizens (no investments in needed vessels); it still uses foreigners to produce her offshore oil & gas (no equipment, no finance)...

What exactly is the celebration here

Op is partially right

When are we going to fight the unions, touts and Police on our roads?
When are we going to work on cheaper transportation?
The middlemen greed part...is also on us all