₦airaland Forum

This is the handiwork of Obidients and IPOB funded US lobbyists

NothingDoMe:
I doubt it.

Tinubu has not been comfortable since Trump won because he knew this day will come.

It’s Trump that isn’t comfortable with Tinubu because Tinubu no send am.

Go to Twitter, all the Nigerians rejoicing are Ibos. If this country burns, Ibos will be the biggest losers, everybody will send them out of their territory.

Maybe it is a blessing in disguise. Maybe we will finally have the restructuring most of us want. One thing is for sure, if Obi thinks he can become president of Nigeria with US support, he should forget it. Obi can only be president of Biafra.

This is the handiwork or IPOB and Obidient lobby groups in the USA.

With Tinubu being forced to retract the clemency for terrorists, he should prepare for a long sentence because all talks of pardon are dead on arrival.

kushme:
Fair...

Even Seun from Channels is starting to really get on my nerves with his pathetic attempts to be a poor man’s Richard Quest. Intellectually, he is a 5/10 but still far ahead of anyone in Arise.

kushme:
Then stop.

I don’t watch them anymore.

The entire Arise crew are a bunch of clowns. I get irritated listening to them.

These are the oil cabal! The people who don’t want progress.

koladata:
Thanks for the clarification

Just to add: some of our crude production is encumbered. The last regime collected advance payment and pledged future crude production for a number of years so a portion of our current production is untouchable. Then because of our inability to finance exploration and production, we have structured our crude oil such that not all the oil we produce belongs to us. At best, at the current rate of 1.7mbpd, probably only 1m is our share, of which like I said some of it is encumbered. In between what the government needs to bolster our revenues and forex reserves there isn’t much left to make available to his refinery until we ramp up production and those pledged crude deals expire. Hence there is no way Dangote won’t import crude.

runningriot:
The nepotism, favouritism and chauvinistic attitude of this government in place is too glaring. This act and actions lack total coherence and contributes to lack of faith in one Nigeria. We are not saying merit should be sacrificed at the altar of mediocracy but not at the expense of national integration, true representation of Federal character and unity. However, if the same voice and energy was used to rebuke and reprehend late president Buhari all this madness wouldn't have been happening. But even the person that posted this, is guilty since his voice went silent during the era of Buhari's regime in his lopsided appointments and never to be forgotten too soon the DSS recruitment. Nevertheless, this is not an excuse to be continued under president Tinubu.

Why was federal character introduced? Because when the Ibos were in power the overwhelming share of appointments and scholarships were given to Ibos.

It was so bad that germany gave Nigeria some scholarships slots and half was given to the village members (not even region) of the then Ibo man in charge. In 1964, there were 604 scholarships available, the Easter region took 384, leaving the remaining 3 regions to share 220.

See below the proceeding of the debate in parliament on the matter.

So na Ibo start nepotism. Sardauna talked about it in his famous video. That’s why federal character was introduced. Not for the north but to protect the rest of the country from the Ibos who had entrenched themselves in the civil service.

BeardedMeat:
If not moomoo dey worry you, you should have known that SW having the highest number of prospects would still have the highest number of successful candidates.

It doesn’t work that way. Every state has a quota. For instance in JAMP, It is because some states don’t have enough qualified applicants that every state has a different cut off mark. Every state has a quota, if you are too qualified in your state too bad for you, if you are not qualified enough, they lower the qualification for your state. Every state has its quota.

Konquest:
Indeed, but being multilingual has it's benefits in any situation. If the Obas as having a meeting among themselves then the use of Yoruba language would be apt but in a multiethnic setting they would have to hire translators to say what they have to say in English which is doable, but to save time, they can speak direct English in a multicultural setting.

I get your perspectives here though as those minority Fula emirs in the North West of Nigeria (Hausaland) speak largely in Hausa language, then it's translated as a summary into English for visitors. Same with many world leaders from Russia, China, France, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, etc, who largely speak their languages then have their speeches translated simultaneously to multiple languages at the United Nations or elsewhere even though many of them speak English language even with strong accents.

Their only job is to uphold culture. Not to be going to parties up and down. In any event it was a celebration of a prominent yoruba man in yoruba land. Wetin concern English?

BeardedMeat:
Na wa for you ooo.

Ok nah.

Bleep

Na lack of common s—— dey do una. If you have 50 slots from each state for example and one state has 1000 applicants and the other has 200. If you cut off half in the 1st round, you will have 500 from one state and 100 from the 2nd. It doesn’t mean they are going to employ the 500, it just means 500 made round 2. Of that 500, 450 are still going to cry because the slot for that state is 50, whether 100 applies or 1m.

If anything it shows you are more likely to be employed if you come from Kano than if you come from Lagos or Ogun.

They have not employed anyone. This is just the number that passed the 1st round.

So basically they have not employed anyone yet! If anything what this shows is those from Lagos and ogun are more likely to be rejected than those from Kano since they have more applicants.

Who are these faceless yeye experts? Govt wants to go cashless so they can track your income as per new tax laws incoming as well as formalize and capture the black market economy, track illegal money flows and corruption. Some so called expert is suggesting ways to make it easier to evade taxes, aide corruption and keep the shadow economy in the shadows.

Who are these experts? From which school? We need to know so we can blacklistvtheir graduates!

nairalanda1:
In the interim petrol prices might go up. Dangote is supplying 30% of our fuel for now.

Maybe in stations supplied by dangote, fuel prices will stay as they are

1: Oga education is not a scam. If you see petrol that is 15% higher, feel free to buy there.
2: Dangote can supply the whole country, he is t supplying because some marketers refuse to load from him and prefer to import.
3: if there is one product we have no business importing it is diesel. All the modular refineries produce diesel.

Baxilexi:
I’m not a Wike a fan but he’s within his illegal rights to abuse his office.

After all there’s an office of the son of the president,
Daughter of the president, and now defacto junior FCT minister positions for the son of the minister.

Nigerians will learn the value of norms/laws/regulations when we decide to build our civilization. This is the glue of western civilization. Jonathan started this impunity by housing Edwin Clark at aso rock, then followed Buhari, who housed his whole village there, to the point shots were fired and Aisha was the local champion. Tinubu who has a penchant for abuse of power, has taken it to new heights. Son is the defacto chief of staff, international attaché, liaison, ambassador, diplomat, sergeant at arms, etc
His wife, defacto minister for humanitarian affairs, aso-rock farmer/cook, quasi-nongovernmental organization philanthropist, campaign manager etc.

Where are our legislators? Judiciary?

1: Go and report to Trump he needs something to laugh at.
2: you clearly have never interacted with children of high profile personalities. They take all the abuse, pressure and stress of the name they carry and did t ask for. Imagine all abuse and no benefits?
3: So if he reach your turn don’t expose your children to high level movement and contacts.

koladata:
My thought exactly but the problem is even Dangote is importing fuel... Nigeria is counterintuitive

He is importing largely because we don’t have enough to give him. Don’t forget he is importing crude and exporting refined products. Refined has more value than crude.

I don’t mind you importing cocoa to export chocolate. The problem is importing chocolate when you have cocoa.

FarahAideed:
I hope you know it's the presidents cronies that are actually these importers , it's Oando , Matrix and OVH , all his men ....Tinubu is very crafty so gove it 2 weeks and the true intentions of this will be unveiled , I think this will be a blanket tax taken atve every pump ...they just used this importer thing to douse tension

It’s hard work interacting with negative people.

FarahAideed:
I hope you know it's the presidents cronies that are actually these importers , it's Oando , Matrix and OVH , all his men ....Tinubu is very crafty so gove it 2 weeks and the true intentions of this will be unveiled , I think this will be a blanket tax taken atve every pump ...they just used this importer thing to douse tension

It’s hard work dealing with negative people.

FarahAideed:
So price of petrol about to go up by another 15 percent ....this man is truly heartless abeg

Petrol price is not going up. We have a refinery that can supply all our domestic needs. BUA is under construction and the NNPC refinery is there. This is to make imported petrol more expensive than locally refined petrol, discourage the practice and conserve our forex.

And if they don’t want to patronize Dangote they can set up their own refinery.

Segxydube:
Oga rest... No sensible businessman will sell at a loss.. Whc facebook are u using free? Na free u dey buy data?

Be like say u no go school.

That’s what separates a trader from a businessman. A trader can’t see beyond his nose. A trader must make money on every. Sale. A business man sees the big picture and will even give you the product for free till you are dependent on his ecosystem then he makes his money from parts or subscriptions.

You are using WhatsApp, Twitter, Google and Facebook now, would you have paid for it when it first came out? No! But you are paying now whether you know it or not and you haven’t got a choice whether you like it or not. You are using AI now Abi….be prepared to pay when you become addicted to it.

Your mindset is one reason why Nigerian businesses are rarely ever truly big. Like I said the average Nigerian business man is a hustler or a trader not a true businessman. This is also why you don’t see an Ibo man for all the tales about their business prowess on the recognized billionaires list. The majority of them are traders with a trader mindset.

SatoshiX:
Sorry to disappoint y'all even the father of the deceased plead that she should be left off the hook as he and the family has forgiven her and accepted the unfortunate incident as the will of the almighty Allah.
You can rest now.

She has been removed from the list. Her sentence reduced as well as those removed from the list.

Good compromise but it never should have happened.

Another gaffe by Gbaja. That’s his job as chief of staff.

Namaster:
Repentant Terrorists is the greatest OXYMORON of all time.

You NEVER rehabilitate terrorists.
You TERMINATE them.

Or if you're feeling generous, you TERMINATE them.

This ABOMINATION of catching and releasing terrorists is an invention of Nigerian Government.

I agree 100%. This is why Nnamdi kanu should not be pardoned. He isn’t even repentant.

FarahAideed:
Hmmm how did that happen....I need to understand how first bank with a value of 850m dollars allowed someone to owe them 1.3 bn dollars ?
Same thing happened to Smile communications , it was forcefully siezed by a UK court and handed over to people smile owed

“a consortium of lenders”

Any IS, ES Or RX Lexus.

Any AMG Mercedes

This is a joke!

Truths9ja:
In the next 10 years, dangote will be in the first. 10 richest men in the world 🌍

Not possible, no 10 is worth $126b, 9 out of top 10 are tech billionaires. The only person not in tech has customers in every country in the world.

Innoson!

DeOTR:
Apart from ebonyi, it seems they were sent to those states to die.

Their careers are dead already. Every Nigerian employer will know they were part of the staff that allegedly tried to sabotage the refinery.

They might as well resign while their careers are at infancy and don’t mention Dangote refinery on their CVS. Every major employer will know the employment dates to watch for.

Queenslander:
god has spoken!!

Understand when the electorate are being played. If you know what it takes to create a state you will know it is easier to return to regional government than to create a state in a civilian regime.

Unfortunately 99.9% of Nairalanders commenting on state creation have never read what the constitution says on state creation. What goes on in senate/house is just the 1st step and probably 20% of the journey and as Shehu Sani (a ex senator who knows) this 10th senate is almost over.

I have said it many times on Nairaland: state creation is a vote buying ploy by elected reps. They know it will never happen…at least the smart ones. And their colleagues who support the ones who are deluded enough to actually believe they can create a state support them because they know it won’t happen and can trade their support for reciprocal support in a bill they care about.