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Brendaniel:
Islam and irrational thinking, how they kill without logic and reasoning..

May their souls rest in peace and may lasting peace be restored to their land

I'm not a muslim, I don't identify with any religion but if you believe terrorism in Africa has anything to do with any Islamic ideology then I have an airport to sell you.

Omowale2023:
Well. The question is, does USA pay subsidies or not?
I have compared both countries budget.
USA pays 0.4% of it's budget to pay subsidies.
Nigeria as of 2021 pays 2% of it's budget to pay subsidies.
If 2% is too much to pay subsidies in Nigeria, why don't we pay 0.4% as subsidies in Nigeria?
It's just common sense.
The bone of contention is the subsidies. If USA is paying it to help it's citizens, why can't Nigeria do the same?

There are nuances here that you are not getting. Yes, the US subsidizes but their economy can absorb it easily. Nigeria's economy simply can’t. Bear in mind America borrows in its own currency, but Nigeria borrows in the same US currency being the world trade currency. Common sense would dictate that subsidy dollar means higher borrowing, inflation, and debt service pressure for Nigeria. In 2022, we spent very close to 100% of revenue on debt servicing, that means we were literally borrowing money to pay for subsidy. Where's the common sense in that?

Our subsidies were eating up as much as education, health, and infrastructure budget combined, while fueling smuggling (no pun intended) and corruption. So reducing subsidy isn’t about copying America, it’s about facing our own economic reality.

DiamondsAreFore:
So the richest country on earth with the biggest economy is still subsidising fuel for its citizens even in spite of the likely environmental issues which might arise from it.

Meanwhile over here in Africa, the "giant" of Africa was thumping its hollow chest and belowing with glee after their World Bank stooge of a president ended a fuel subsidy of just $4.5 billion a year in a country with some of the poorest people on earth.

$31 Billion is less than 1% of America's GDP, absorbing the subsidy is no issue for America. Now compare that to a developing economy like Nigeria spending between 1% - 5% of GDP to service subsidy. Removing it is basic fiscal discipline and common sense if you ask me. Not to mention that in America, the subsidies go to oil and gas companies. Subsidies are consumer-facing in Nigeria so smugglers and mafias benefits way more than the average person, at least not at the level of benefit relative to cost.

Ukraine is hellbent in drawing NATO into an all out war. Everyone seems to forget that Ukraine's air defence missile once fell in Poland's airspace in 2022 and EVERYONE was shouting it was Russian until they later found out it wasn't. Ukraine is cooked, manpower is fast depleting, no billions of 💶💷 anymore from EU because they don't have it. America has placed uncomfortable conditions on more military aid while Russia military is advancing every single day on the front line, western placed sanctions on Russia's economy is not working. How else can Zelensky attract full NATO involvement without creating false narrative such as flying drones into Poland's airspace and claim they were from Russia?

[quote author=Righteousness2 post=136747071] Keep Lamenting.
ISRAEL has Done the Needful.

[b]Netanyahu on the attack in Qatar:
The mission was carried out in the best possible way. The days when TERROR leaders enjoyed immunity anywhere are over.[/b]
[Aquote author=CaseSensitive post=136746481]

No I'm not lamenting. My question is just common sense and I also asked it in the context of diplomatic international relations. It appears you don't know what that means and the fact that you had to quote what Netanyahu said about the attack shows you're devoid of independent thoughts.

Righteousness2:
ISRAELI strike in Qatar is long overdue.

Qatar not only hosts the Hamas leadership, but funds the Palestinian terror group that massacred 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023.

Qatar is an enemy. Perhaps Israel's most dangerous enemy.

ISRAEL has only left them al these while becos of Trump.

Right now the Gloves are off.

Wait let me pick your Mossad brain; So it's not Iran that funded Hamas, it's now Qatar or is Hamas now a crowdfunded project? I thought Qatar is mediating ceasefire and hostage release? Also by your incredible logic, Israel can launch airstrike on London if elements of Hamas Leadership resides in the UK?

If Qatar didn't green-light this attack on its own territory, then this is a de facto act of war against Qatar

We know the countries that have the physical genome fragments and strain samples of Ebola, so the virus can be created again at will for Bio-warfare. It's no surprise that there's ebola again.

Rapmoney:
I just stumbled on the Super Mario Bros game that was first released in 1985. Fond memories. I used my saved pocket money to buy the Terminator Game Console that we used in playing Super Mario and other games like Contra, Duck Hunt and Mortal Kombat.

I literally trekked to school for a long time just to save N850 which I used to purchase the game. This was in 1996. My house became a theatre, always filled with friends until Popsy seized the game and asked me to concentrate on my books. If you get this game console that year, you be sabi pikin.

How many of you saw the princess at the end in Super Mario?

That was me! Good old days. I still play retro games like this for nostalgia

dermmy:
This is called parade not the yeye one America did months ago. I was just laughing when I saw that America parade it was a show of shame.

That America's parade was an eyesore, it was like a Temu version of China's parade.

casualobserver:
I am a British born Uk citizen. I am in Nigeria by choice.

Successive passports, current and old driving licenses and original birth certificate for your viewing pleasure.

People like us don’t use a visa to travel to USA and quite frankly there is nothing there I am looking for.

In fact at a time I needed a Nigerian visa to travel to Nigeria.

Fellow ✌🏾

OriOko88:
China shud be grateful to the allies army of the west comprising of the USA and British army for liberating her from the deadly imperial Japanese in 1945.

In the next 200 years the East will still be far behind the West. That's the fact. Team West any time any day,cos that's where Nigerians repatriate billions of dollars back home.

You see this way of thinking? As if "repatriating billions back home" is the ingredients for industrialisation and development of a country. Chief here is Pro-West because your fellow brothers and sisters are sending money back home - wiping bums, changing nanny's nappies and looking after deranged schizophrenic psychopaths. This is the same West that kept your country and continent suppressed for decades. Sir, is it Stockholm syndrome or pure British witchcraft?

China or India didn't become the world economy giant that they are today because their citizens abroad were repatriating billions back home. As a matter of fact, USA did not "liberate" China. USA and China had a common enemy in Japan. USA didn't support China out of goodwill, supporting China was a means to an end. After WWII, didn't the same USA support Japan against the Chinese?

Mr Trump, it's not a "Conspiracy against America". It's a new world order where America won't have the power to dictate and behave irrationally towards the rest of the world.

Theft is wrong and immoral. Well, unless you're EU. Someone should please tell Ursula that investors would lose trust in the EU and freedom of market would be questioned and all these may contribute to the death of the Euro in a world that is fast becoming multipolar.

cyberbro:
Guy rest! I don't have time for pointless arguments.

Pointless? Don't sell yourself short. You were doing great

cyberbro:
I have no business with whatever you're saying about COS and the venting in your long write up. The policy was what I addressed, not even the Labour Party as a political party. A seeming left-wing party can come up with right-wing policies, that's for those who understand politics.

If you have any grievance, direct it to those involved in the COS scam, but this one isn't something that concerns Nigerians or Africans alone.

Not everything is about shouting "Nigerians" up and down. Rest abeg! 😒

Salty much? I pointed out that the recent immigration control is context-driven which is premised on voters concerns, national identity, economic realities and electoral competition rather than traditional right wing ideology but you instead threw tantrums over a post that's not an attack on your stance. But yh teach me politics, professor. And no, I don't have any grievances with anybody involved in COS scams. If you read properly before getting riled up, you will see where I wrote "on a side note", which means I mentioned something related but not central to the main topic.

cyberbro:
This has nothing to do with Africans or Nigerians. This is a right wing policy that aims to reduce migration of professionals and prioritise British citizens.

Very soon, the same professions they listed as ineligible might be eligible again, when they realize they still have shortage of workers. The UK is always going back and forth on these things...

This actually has nothing to do with right wing policy. The Labour Party is not right wing but currently, tension is very high in the UK regarding immigration. There's been a lot of protest in recent days and more to come, by people clamouring for immigration to be controlled, especially illegal migrants who come to the UK by dinghy boats through France. UK is really struggling at the moment - there's high unemployment, low growth, housing is scarce, national infrastructures like NHS etc are overstretched, people are losing their jobs, the country is broke but the migrants coming in illegally by boats are being housed in hotels because by ECHR laws, the UK have to cater for them and these guys are in their tens of thousands.

If the Labour government don't draw up drastic measures to reduce immigration, they risk losing to a right wing party like Reform Party which has recently been gaining traction and popularity.

On a side note - If you think these Nigerian COS scammers are making money by selling COS (real or fake). Think again - The real guys making money from this system are the gangs operating on human trafficking model, collecting thousands of 💷💰 from each illegal migrants that get transported by boat to the South Coast of the UK. It's a huge business for them and they don't even live in the country.

Europe could be enjoying cheap Russian resources but no, they wanted it for free. That has led to 1.8 million dead Ukraine soldiers. Russia has already won this war and EU is like a crippled dog that is still barking. And for folks saying "Poland will be next" you obviously don't know much. Russia isn't interested in Poland or even the whole of Ukraine. Russia is only interested in Odessa and the Eastern Ukraine to create a buffer zone and potentially cut Ukraine from the black sea essentially making Ukraine a landlocked country to make sure it won't be a future threat to Russia's national security in the future.

USA have said they won't be sending weapons to Ukraine anymore because they know it's a lost war, but Trump said EU can buy weapons from USA if they want to continue but EU as a bloc is too broke and the collapse of EU is a very realist scenario - France is broke, UK is broke, Germany too is struggling. Ukraine is now conscripting grandads over 60s. Peace agreement is on Russia's term. There's no more war to fight, Ukraine is done. Agree to Russia's terms or Ukraine suffers even more.

zedman1:
I find myself drawn to discussing topics that delve into life's fascinating mysteries. Among the most enigmatic occurrences I have encountered are those that linger in my memory with a sense of wonder and intrigue. First on the list is sleep paralysis. I have done my research and now understand the scientific explanations that demystify it, which has lessened the fear I used to associate with these episodes. Interestingly, as I've aged, these episodes have become less frequent, perhaps signaling a connection between age and its occurrence. Another curious phenomenon I experience is the appearance of repeating numbers, a pattern commonly referred to as synchronicities, particularly sequences such as 1111, 111, 444, and 44. Despite my best efforts to avoid encountering these numerical repetitions, they persistently appear in unexpected places. I have yet to uncover a logical explanation that satisfies my inquisitiveness, nor do I find myself wholly persuaded by the spiritual interpretations that others propose. Then, there is the concept of astral projection, a subject shrouded in mystery and one that stirs my curiosity deeply. While I may have missed certain discussions or comments on this topic, I am still awaiting a detailed account from someone who has willingly experienced astral projection. It would be intriguing if such an individual could share insights about existence beyond our physical bodies, something I continuously ponder. I harbor a longing to experience this metaphysical journey myself, driven by an earnest desire to uncover answers to the myriad questions that orbit this life we live, questions that often linger on the fringes of understanding.

I can definitely share a vivid personal account of existence beyond physical body. I told my story to someone I'm close to and they thought I was insane, until I search online and found a whole community who experienced the same or at least similar encounter as mine. That totally changed my view on how I see life but what I can categorically tell you is that we are not alone in this world. There are forces around us that we can't see with our eyes.

Think of it this way - We humans have 5 senses but for a fact, I can tell you that those senses are very very limited. There are many rays of light that we can't see with our eyes such as gamma rays, infrared, microwave, ultraviolet etc but they exists. Dogs can see some lights that we humans can't see, just like the colour red, orange and green are shades of brown or grey to a dog.

There are frequencies of sound that our human ears can't hear at all. Something can happen around you in an absolute silence but but could be deafening to a bat, an elephant or a cat because they hear more frequency range than us.

Our sense of smell is the same. My cat would rub it's head against me, when cats do that they smear you with scents, I can't smell those scents but if I go outside, other cats will smell that scent on me from yards away.

Our sense of taste is the same, what tastes like sugar to us is tasteless to some other animals. I visited an horse stable recently, the horses were feeding on some grass, then the stable manager had to stop the horses from feeding on the grass too much because apparently, that particular grass taste exactly like sugar to them. Me being curious cut the grass and dabbed it on my tongue and it had a mildly sour taste.

You want to tell me that our sense of sight is different? Bro there are energies or forces we can't see and they are present in abundance right here with us on earth. I've experienced it and never wish to again.

The black man still has a long way to go

Dogalmighty17:
I am tired of their bullsh*t. Christians really need to begin to see how ridiculous they sound and I'm saying this as a son of a pastor.

They say God made man. Okay fine but then, who made God? How did he come about? He just sprung out of the ether? How did the ether come about? A thinking being with the ability to create and channel order manifests from nothing? And only one of such beings exist?

Before such a being existed, what was before it? Truly everything has a beginning, so how did this 'God' begin? Our planet earth, has been around for over 4 billion years and the known universe itself for over 13 billion years. Humans are thought to have first appeared just over 300,000 years ago. Earliest recorded history itself is around 3000 BCE. So the concept of 'god' is not something that was known for over 90% of our existence on earth.

So the idea of a God existing doesn't really make sense. If he does exist, why will he choose to reveal himself to just less than 5% of everyone who has ever lived? Considering that it is estimated that over 108 billion people have existed throughout mankind's existence.

Our existence goes deeper than any book can explain and that includes the bible itself.

People prefer to cling on to what has been instilled in them. Of course you will be met with resistance if you tell a man that his father who he's been exchanging letters with, despite not meeting him, is in fact not his dad. Jesus was a mythical figure and never existed. The myths about Jesus was nothing but a Roman conspiracy. The Flavian dynasty created christianity due to political power struggle and still active till present day.

You are not your body or your mind, you are just an infinite part of a vast universe. You are a cosmic mirror reflecting itself and weaving the illusion of time, space and boundaries. You've been here and you will be here forever because you are energy. You are part of something way bigger. You will never die because you were never born. When your earthly body dies, you return to the universal frequency of consciousness, which is what religious people call God. God is frequency and you are part of that frequency.

Trump is biting his own nose to spite his face. Very hypocritical of the USA to punish India for buying Russian oil, China is buying Russia oil too, America will never dare sanction China in such manner and What USA don't seem to understand is, they are not the only world power in this current climate - India is a world power too and if anything, his poorly informed strategy will make BRICS stronger and more united. I don't blame Modi for snubbing him - The world is sick of imperial America and the collective West.

Tell America you're leaning towards BRICS without telling America you're leaning towards BRICS.

Analog95:
Hello guys, I humbly need you all view on this. All my life I have always wanted to be a lecturer, so early this year (January, 2025), I finally got awarded PhD in Applied Mathematics. Though I had my first degree in Mechanical Engineering, masters in Applied Mathematics with specialization in fluid dynamics and PhD in Applied Mathematics with specialization in fluid dynamics as well. During my study, I run a tutorial centre and making cool money from teaching mechanical engineering and mathematics students. So after obtaining my PhD I started sending out my CV to people I know in institutions, though most are of the opinion that I shouldn't have switched from mechanical engineering to mathematics that it will give me problem.

Around January 2025, immediately after my PhD oral examination, my supervisor linked me up with the rector of a polytechnic to go submit my CV to him, which I did, and according to the rector, he told me that it is not matter of CV for now, because most people that he employed as assistant lecturers, they really don't have much to pay them and the governor of the state has promised that he will do recruitment for the polytechnic around March because of accreditation processes, so during that recruitment, I can be employed. Fast forward to March, the accreditation went on and I wasn't informed if the recruitment was later done (you know all this underground stuffs), so I later got my mind off the institution and look at for another university in other states which I was promised also that once there is directives to start recruitment, I will be employed.

On the 3rd of july, 2025, I got a call from someone from the polytechnic, telling me to come to the personnel department as soon as possible with my credentials, when I got there, he collected photocopies of my credentials and on sighting the mechanical engineering as first degree, he said which department do I want and I said mathematics and he said why not mechanical engineering where I had my foundation, so I said I preferred mathematics because since I switched to mathematics, I have published 11 academic journal with 7 of them Scopus rated in Q1, and I have also attended 7 seminars with certificate to back them up, and I have also been a member of the Nigerian mathematical society (NMS), so he said they will get back to me.

Since then I haven't heard anything. After a month, I made a call to the person that I submitted my credentials to at the personnel department, that I haven't heard from them and he said "sebi we are the one that called you ourself, the process is ongoing and once we are ready, we will definitely call you back". But I haven't heard from them still. It is almost two months now since I submitted the credentials and I am already losing faith.

I am just confused, could my changing from engineering to science be hindering me from getting a lecturing position? If it is, does it make sense to go back and obtain another master and PhD in mechanical engineering and just forget about the mathematics? Or just forget about lecturing and focus on my tutorials, meanwhile I make more than 500k monthly from the tutorial because it is in school area, but I don't want to be a tutor forever, not even with a PhD.

I think someone like you won't struggle to find employment in the UK, though that will contribute to the current brain drain that Nigeria is currently suffering from and probably won't recover from for a long time. Hate to see Nigeria's talents leave the country.

GeneralOuki:
Lol... They stole from who? Most of you come here and talk as if you know what you're talking about.

The irony

Beside the stolen land they currently occupy known as Israel, the safest country for Israelis at the moment is Britain, France and America because they're all birds of the same feather.

"European leaders" Wait... but I see Macron and Starmer 😂

I guess that's why some ignorantly think Africa is a country rather than a continent. Africa will conveniently house the whole of USA, China, India and every single European countries (Except Russia) and still have rooms left but asking the world to adopt a map that shows Africa's true size, to me, sounds like a misplaced priority and really won't move a needle. We have bigger fish to fry.

Fela is hands down my favourite and he doesn't belong to the category of the other guys he's been compared to. Not saying he's better than them cuz I'd occasionally listen the likes of Barrister but Fela to me is more than a musician, he's a political activist, the voice for the voiceless and still relevant till today.

I'm happy that I archived most, if not all of his discography.

callmeDDD:
Microsoft edge that is full of bloatware and the worst is that you can't uninstall them easily. They will force them on you again in the next update. I hate that browser with passion.

Just like the GMO they're bringing to Nigeria. It will take a while for people to understand that it's full of bloatware that can't "uninstalled" easily.