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Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver:
gaskiyamagana:
Johnny, be objective and logical. You and the paper qouted were taking of real or falsified oil receipt? Are you talking about oil receipt from fair, not even good, OIL BUSINESSES in terms of exploration, refinery and export?
From Buharilization to ongoing Tinublization, your thinking and reasoning are devoid of logical conclusion that if oil receipt you are talking about is from corruption free OIL BUSINESSES as we have in Saudi Arabia and most of other oil producing countries, you and poor Nigeria economic system will not be a begger to diaspora money for survival.
Like I said, use your brains, the purpose of education is not to regurgitate stuff in exams but to train your mind to think.

Even at full production, no stealing, 2m barrels a day @60% JV with zero cost of production @$80 a barrel is $35b a year. In reality, at full production our total income from crude is more like $25b a year because cost of production in Nigeria is about $20 a barrel. Diaspora remittance is $30b+ a year. Your argument is daft and unbefitting of an educated man.

It it like saying you have a side income that is same or more than your salary but your side income is not important.

Stop being daft for the world to see!!!

You must be Ibo or Obidient. You are the ones that talk like brain dead people. Everything within the prism of tribe or politics that you sound so stupid in all your arguments. Simple analysis you cannot talk about without introducing Hate, bias or politics. You guys are so far gone in your emotion you are incapable of critical thinking.

Simple assertion: diaspora is Nigerias largest source of forex. Yes or no! If yes then STFU! if no then prove it. Stay on topic!!! Nobody asked you for story!!!

casualobserver:
This is the problem with Nigerians. You tell them the house is on the left they start arguing about how the man who owns the house killed his wife. Is that what I said or my business? Learn to stay on topic.


Jesus wept!!!
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 5:45am On Dec 09, 2023
gaskiyamagana:
They help naira, abi? Now that naira is weak to dollar, does it mean Nigeria in America are not sending money or what?
My brother, no amount of dollar or Euro send to Nigeria that will add value to naira like what we can get from good and robost economic system.
Can you stop being so daft? Can you post like you actually went to school? Jelili the mechanic has more intelligence than what you posted.

The Naira may be bad but without diaspora remittances it would be worse…..a lot worse. The largest source of forex into Nigeria for the last 4 years is diaspora remittance, more than oil, more than FDI. Use what is left of your brain.

Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 5:13pm On Dec 08, 2023
Gilgil:
Conversely, they are Nigeria's largest loss of Forex.
All the school fees, health bills, flight tickets, visa fees, living expenses etc are all Nigerian money from savings, salaries, property sales, and loans converted to forex and sent out of the country.

Imagine if they stayed in...

And that's minus the Naira converted to forex to import almost everything we use,

And minus all the Foreign investments closing shop and taking their money out of the country..
We get over $30b a year from diaspora inflows. Don’t get me wrong I am not happy that we spend so much to educate our children abroad but when we say increase tuition so that we can raise the quality of our universities, you are the same people that will riot or strike. Those who want good education have no choice but to go abroad. Anyway, what we pay in foreign tuition is only about $2b a year.

As for flight tickets, that has less to do with education and more to do with the government not enforcing the bilateral air services agreements. Why are foreign airlines allowed to come to Nigeria and we are restricted or not allowed to enter their own airports. Back in the day when they tried that nonsense with Abacha, he banned them, they eventually came back begging. I know because I was privy to the British lobbying efforts to restore their routes at the time.
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 3:08pm On Dec 08, 2023
Righthussle:
How to stop Japa syndrome

1. Make the economy better

2. Make the process of Japa unimaginably difficult

I know our president is already considering number 2.😁😁😁
Did you listen to Bosun Tijani’s interview on channels?

I urge you to if you haven’t.


When you do, you will realize that Nigeria rightly sees japa as a legitimate solution to our lack of jobs and forex. Sentimental people will attack as usual but Nigerians are a commodity to be exported.

We train you for skilled jobs abroad or remote work, you send money home. Like I said diaspora remittance is now our largest source of forex 4 yrs in a row.

Anybody telling you they are trying to stop japa is lying to you. Watch Bosun’s interview.

We have more bodies than we can provide jobs for and at the same time the western world is ageing. Skill up Nigerians send them abroad and you solve 2 problems…..jobs for Nigerians and forex.

If I remember correctly he said half of those they are planning to train will eventually end up abroad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7V9Q4aqoo?si=igTNT_az41OZI00h
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 2:11pm On Dec 08, 2023
Kukutente23:
What about you
Are you not going to japa
To do what? What Nigeria offers me, the Uk can never give me. I go there to rest and come back.

My friends who are there wish they can come back but they can’t. They left it too late.
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 2:07pm On Dec 08, 2023
Theunbothered:
That you have zero understanding of Nigeria's current situation. This mindset isn't just silly it is dangerous. A massive flight of professionals is a serious sign that faith in Nigeria has been lost by its most important demographics.
Like I said many of you do not understand english. My comment was about forex. Read what I said again. I said you and anyone who wants to japa are free to go. We need your forex. Wetin be the fight again?

This is the problem with Nigerians. You tell them the house is on the left they start arguing about how the man who owns the house killed his wife. Is that what I said or my business? Learn to stay on topic.

I said japa is our largest source of forex, so if you want to japa feel free and whatever you see you see.
I don’t know why you are arguing over the state of the country as if we do t know, or as if anyone is disagreeing with you that there are no jobs. Did I not say in the post there are no jobs in the country.

Jesus wept!!!
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 1:59pm On Dec 08, 2023
GboyegaD:
Oga, no need for unnecessary noise. Na you need read to understand.
There is a reason why when you people go abroad to study, they ask you to take English proficiency exams. Speaking and understanding English are 2 different things.
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 1:56pm On Dec 08, 2023
GboyegaD:
You are either ignorant or talking from a place of pain. Of the people you know abroad, how many are cleaning poop?

That said, there's dignity in labor. If they clean poop and enjoy a better standard of living then, let them be.
Learn to read before you respond.

These are my passports, current and expired. I know japa engineers and professionals cleaning poop. If that is dignity good luck to you. Just send your forex home!

Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 1:46pm On Dec 08, 2023
Theunbothered:
In Nigeria auxiliary nurses will clean your own poo if you live that long. Only difference is they are getting paid 30k per month with no health insurance. undecided
Your point is what exactly?
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 1:40pm On Dec 08, 2023
gaskiyamagana:
Cleaning poo of old women that earned you legit equivalent of what those who are improvising you are illegally earning?
They go, they do whatever they do, they see whatever they see. They send money home, they help Naira. End of story!
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver: 1:27pm On Dec 08, 2023
SkullIMAM:
The FG you are trying to defend all including Thier children don Japa
I am not defending anything. Learn to stay on topic. Anyone who is familiar with my posts knows I am not an advocate of japaing. I think it will harm those who leave in the long run. I am simply making a statement of fact. Without japa Naira would be N3000 to $1….or more!


Those who want to go and clean poo of old women should go. They are doing us that choose to remain a service because they send Naira home which helps the Naira. For the last 4 years diaspora remittances is the largest source of forex inflow into Nigeria.



There are no jobs for them in Nigeria anyway.
Politics › Re: Japa: FG Expresses Concern Over Increasing Emigration Of Nigerians by casualobserver:
Let them continue to japa! Right now they are the country’s largest source of forex….even bigger than oil. They are the only thing we export besides oil.
Culture › Re: Top Five West African Languages Spoken In The United States - 2022 by casualobserver:
Gamesmart:
Yorubas are loud in speaking!

Igbos are loud in chest-beating!
Ibos are loud in everything..plus they have a habit of going to other peoples’ land and making noise bragging about their “achievements in other peoples’ land whereas Yorubas and other tribes respect themselves as visitors. If you count the number of Nigerian born mayors or politicians in America I am sure there are more Yorubas but the way Ibos carry on you will think every black mayor of politician in America is an Ibo man.
Culture › Re: Top Five West African Languages Spoken In The United States - 2022 by casualobserver:
profmallor:
Yorubas dont have that hustling, get it by all means attitude, so they are concentrated at mostly relatively what you would call advanced societies. Yorubas also rarely are boastful, so you tend to believe they are docile, but its not true, they know and see things and act only when they need too.
Typically average Yoruba man is motivated by education and status in society. The average Ibo man is motivated by money. Respect in Yoruba society is not achieved by money but by having a Noble profession. The average yoruba man seeks to have a Noble profession and it is usually their wives that are the hustlers…probably explaining why yoruba women are very aggressive. Most of the best yoruba brains produced between1970 and 1990 are unable to practice their highly sought professions in Nigeria so it is no surprise many yoruba professionals are abroad. Doctors, engineers etc. professionals also tend to be a quiet reserved group. So unless you take a poll you may not know how many actually exist as they are not given to noise making.
Culture › Re: Top Five West African Languages Spoken In The United States - 2022 by casualobserver: 11:13am On Dec 08, 2023
opamoses1:
Some 🤡s like to say "Yorubas don't travel".

We just don't travel to unsafe regions. That's all.
The way Ibos carry on in the US, you will think they are the only Nigerians in the US. They are just loud!!
Politics › Re: Nigeria Spends About N3 Billion To Send Govt Officials To COP28 by casualobserver:
jaxxy:
u think other countries with 140 delegates are not getting same or more? So because we are getting such we should do owambe with public funds?
ivandragon:
With 50 to 100 delegates at a fraction of the present estimated cost, we would have gotten same consideration.
Irony1:
Oga have shame and just be quiet. Audio MOU that no money was paid. What of the so called Indian businessmen that promised billions of dollars?
You are all daft with a poverty mindset. That is why you remain poor. Your mates realize they are sharing money for green energy and are rushing to COP to benefit and you are here with your poverty mindset complaining.

Even Ajaero is there, all of them will collect money while you complain of the price of tomatoes. Better borrow yourselves some sense. I don’t know what Toke is doing there but if I were to guess, she has registered an NGO and is there using her fame to get funding that she will use to oppress you.

Again I say you people have no brains. They are sharing $100b a year. Let me repeat that…they are sharing $100b a year!!!! You are complaining about $2m? If that does not tell show you have a poverty mindset nothing will. The reason why there are many delegates is because everybody is going for his own project. Whether ministry, NGO, private sector, academia, Labour etc. Sit there and be complaining o. Don’t form your own NGO and start to write your own feasibility plan and project for COP29.


We spent $2m and secured $5b but the brain dead are complaining!

Politics › Re: Nigeria Spends About N3 Billion To Send Govt Officials To COP28 by casualobserver: 12:17am On Dec 08, 2023
jaxxy:
We don't have sense in this country
Yep small minded brain dead people making noise over 3b (approx $3m). When from just I small deal alone we got got $95m from COP27.

Just 1 country, the UAE is handing out $4b to Africa at cop28. The green energy fund for COP28 is $100b.

You people indeed have no sense!!!

Politics › Re: Frank Kokori Is Dead by casualobserver:
A Great man! It takes balls to take on the military, talk less a man like Abacha. If you were around in 1994 you will understand, if not you can’t especially the way union leaders behave today. To understand what this man did, in my lifetime, only Covid lockdown had had more impact on the country…he shut the country down! Balls!!! Not all this ENDSARS nonsense that became a party and an avenue for looting and violence, he shut down the country without any violence. Nothing was closed but everything was closed. A true union leader not this nonsense from Ajaero.

A hero a patriot, unfortunately Nigeria does not appreciate patriots.

RIP!
Politics › Re: APC Welcomes New Anambra State Stakeholders by casualobserver: 9:39am On Dec 07, 2023
Lovelyn451:
Are we running a one party state in Nigeria?
Ask the opposition. Elections are 4 yrs away Apc is planting seeds. Opposition will do nothing for 3 years and come 6 months to election and think they can win elections.

Ask Obi and Atiku which states did they lose that they have been reaching out to since the elections? When they lose again in 2027, they will blame INEC and judiciary but they are not planting during planting season.
Business › Re: P&G To Dissolve Ground Operations In Nigeria, Revert To An Import-only Business by casualobserver: 9:03am On Dec 07, 2023
Blackdisciple:
It was GSK now P&G yet agbadorians still doing their what they are good at
The reason GSK and P&G are leaving the country try is because they cannot compete. There are Nigerian or Chinese companies manufacturing or supplying the same products at cheaper prices.

Panadol is the bread and butter of GSK, every Dick and Harry manufactures paracetamol at a cheaper price point than GSK’s panadol.

P&G sell pampas. There are multiple cheaper alternatives in the diaper sector. E.g dry love, Molfix, Huggies. I am sure if you did a market survey you will find P&G products were the most expensive.

We have problems in Nigeria but Sometimes the reason a company leaves is simply because it has lost market share and cannot compete. Nothing more nothing less.
Politics › Re: Ex-NNPC ED, Alex Ogedengbe Doubts Port Harcourt Refinery Will Work This December by casualobserver: 5:23pm On Dec 06, 2023
frog12:
we dey say the money is being stolen as we speak. the man is revealing a lot.
The money is being stolen and the money is being wrongly spent are 2 different things. Nobody is saying the money is being stolen.

I am a teetotaler, I give you money to buy me a drink. You come back with beer. You have wasted my money even though you didn’t steal it because beer is of no use to me.

If what Ogedengbe is saying is true then the petrol from this refinery is useless. The only thing we will get is diesel and kerosene.
Politics › Re: Ex-NNPC ED, Alex Ogedengbe Doubts Port Harcourt Refinery Will Work This December by casualobserver: 4:09pm On Dec 06, 2023
frog12:
WASTE??
the money will go somewhere else
Yeah if Ogedengbe’s observation turns out to be right (as the project manager for the construction of PH2 and a former MD of the refinery, he should know), then it is a waste.

If the PMS produced is not fit for use, then what’s was the point?
Politics › Re: Oshiomhole To NLC: Insist On N35,000 For Workers Or No Christmas For Govt, Emplo by casualobserver: 3:40pm On Dec 06, 2023
membranus:
This can't be true!

I am shocked to my bone marrow, a labour leader romancing the government he is having labour issues with. This is an abomination, Oshiomole would never have done that.

Politics › Re: Oshiomhole To NLC: Insist On N35,000 For Workers Or No Christmas For Govt, Emplo by casualobserver:
Ajaero was busy in Dubai collecting COP28 estacode.
Politics › Re: Ex-NNPC ED, Alex Ogedengbe Doubts Port Harcourt Refinery Will Work This December by casualobserver: 10:11am On Dec 06, 2023
I saw the interview on channels. I must say after watching it, I came to the conclusion we have just wasted another $1.5b

2 things in particular he said.
1: We are only going to get 25% PMS yield per barrel whereas the current standard is closer to 50%
2: the grade of PMS from that old refinery is inferior and can only be improved with the addition of lead. Leaded petrol has been banned. We may just have spent $1.5b to fix a refinery to produce petrol we cannot use or that will damage modern engines.
Politics › Re: COP28: Seyi Tinubu, Stewards, Chefs, Cooks Among Nigerian Delegation by casualobserver: 8:49am On Dec 06, 2023
How come we have not heard any noise from NLC and Ajaero?


….because he was there to collect ESTAcODE!! wetin concern Labour with climate summit?

Hypocrites!!!

Politics › Re: FG Funded 422 Persons: Presidency Lists Takeaways From COP28 by casualobserver: 7:09pm On Dec 04, 2023
Ojuntana:
Maybe because there's no info to find.
You're the one coming here to form defender. One will think you have facts at your fingertips to defend your position but alas, it's just dust with no substance
Simple google search “cop27 projects Nigeria”

It took me less than 5 seconds.


Just 1 project £95m


https://www.thecable.ng/uk-fulfils-cop27-pledge-launches-95m-climate-fund-for-nigeria/amp

You guys are brain dead

Politics › Re: FG Funded 422 Persons: Presidency Lists Takeaways From COP28 by casualobserver: 7:05pm On Dec 04, 2023
Ojuntana:
How much funds did Nigeria get from COP27?
Why don’t you try and find the info yourselves. You people are mentally lazy and intellectually deficient. That’s why you are so gullible and susceptible to propaganda and misinformation. You keep waiting for others to provide info that is freely available and verifiable. Why do you have google?
Politics › Re: FG Funded 422 Persons: Presidency Lists Takeaways From COP28 by casualobserver: 7:00pm On Dec 04, 2023
obi58:
Thank you for your post BUT I do have some points of order to raise.....

What has been the impact of delegations sent to COP in the last 8 years? Why the monumental rise in delegates this year around?


I don’t know, I know money was given and Nigeria was a beneficiary, if you have info to the contrary please feel free to share.

Is spending $20m (20bn) at $15k/head (N15m) justifiable at a time when the country is in dire straits? Must you carry such a large delegation to be effective at sourcing for funds for whatever clean projects that you seek to undertake? This is the same country that is struggling to meet its FCY obligations to students seeking to pay school fees and to foreign airlines!

Like I said if we received just $300m from the $4b from the UAE fund alone then it is justified. In any business if you invest $20m and make $300m, you’ve done well. Most businesses will not make that kind of a return in 50 years. If you don’t understand this then take my advice and never venture into business.

Of the 1411, the FG has come forward to claim its own share is 422 but it's list is non inclusive of state delegations. Why is it so difficult to put out a comprehensive breakdown of the groups that make up the 1411 between FG, state, business and media?

The info is out there, a statement was released today broken down by agency and parastatal . Try and source your information from more credible official and reliable sources than Nairaland…. For instance the VP’s office sent 9, how come I know and you don’t? Because you look for your info from the wrong places…..stop waiting for others to do it for you.

Why must all these people be PHYSICALLY present when we are in an age of online presence and video conferencing?

You announce you are giving out free money, somebody sent you txt message, somebody took the time to come to sell you his plans for the money face to face…who will you give?
Politics › Re: FG Funded 422 Persons: Presidency Lists Takeaways From COP28 by casualobserver:
koko3:
Still a large number that's if it's true
The problem with Many of you is that you are small minded, think like simpletons and cannot see the big picture. The purpose of the conference is to source for funds for climate related and green energy projects.. When you hear for example that one village is being electrified with solar, or solar water pumps or solar boreholes, farming irrigation, flood abatement programs, this is often where the money comes from. If you are not there to present your green energy plans, you will not be a beneficiary. Most of the money is free money, not loans.

UAE alone is handing out $4b to Africa at this conference. Is it a country that isn’t there they will give the money to? Is it a ministry that isn’t there they will give the money to? US is also allocating $3b to Africa, other countries are making pledges. If you are not there you cannot benefit.

Yes there are people out there for a jamboree but there will be more funds coming to Nigeria than the total bill for the entire Nigerian delegation public and private.

The least Nigeria can expect out of what UAE alone is allocating to Africa is $300m…likely a lot more. The total cost assuming all 1400 participants are government sponsored (not so) and all actually attended (again not so) @$15k a head is $20m

You are the same people that if you hear another country received funding from COP will come here shouting why was Nigeria not there when they were sharing free money we could have used to recharge dry lakes, control flooding, provide irrigation for farmers, electrify villages, convert vehicles to CNG etc?

Politics › Re: Nigerians Who Can't Explain Their Sources Of Wealth Would Be Arrested, Charged.. by casualobserver:
Some people with frequent trips to Thailand illegally “developing” on canal/ drainage with the proceeds will soon start claiming persecution of their tribe.

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