₦airaland Forum

the governor will never sign the death warrant! thats the problem with terrorism amd kidnapping...our governors are too weak to do the needful and sign their execution orders. They all want the benefits of office without the burdens.

philipobiz:
oga your story is not new.
Answer this question. When they adjusted price upward instantly, when the price of crude went up , which stock were they selling?

continue making noise!

ogascomax:
Don't even go there. Because the same argument is applicable when it rises. Do you know the gains they made when it went up. It can't be compared to what the may lost if they sell with the prevailing prices. Just imagine you have 10,000 liters that you bought for 65 naira then it jumped to over 100 naira and it remains there for long that they sold all their products. Then the price gradually coming down and you are buying at that rate and selling little lower than the prices you initial bought. Their compensation for now price their previous gains will make up for it and they won't even lost at all. If they made a profit of 100 millionaires they can only upset the present cost with around 20 million while that individual total profit is around 80 millionaire.

you are free to start your own petroleum products business and price as you wish. Many of you have your own businesses and raised prices when petrol rose in 2023 and Naira fell to $1-N2000. Till date, you have not reduced your prices despite fall in price of petrol and the $. yet you wasnt another buisness man to take losses on your behalf. Everybody knows what they are doing.

I am not sure it works that way though. The crude Dangote is refining today wasnt bought at todays crude prices. Similarly, importers did not buy their PMS at today's prices. For importers, it takes time for the petrol they bought when crude was >$100 to arrive in the country. thats the petrol they are selling today.

you dont buy crude today refine it today and distribute it to the retail pumps today. to ensure refineries have guaranteed feedstock, they pay in advance for their crude at the price prevailing when they buy the crude not the price of crude at the time the PMS comes out of the refinery.

Saturnalia:
I don’t believe anything Amerika says because the United Snakes of Amerika is the biggest Terrorist Financier in the Universe.

Jolani is currently the President of Syria courtesy of your favorite “Terrorist Police”.

abeg dont mind them, who created ISIS? they will set fire to your home and send fire trucks expecting you to thank them and receive them as heroes....in return for some of your resurces of course. Till today iraq has to write to America to spend its own money!

fergie001:
Listen, the election of the WTO is by negative consensus.

All members must back you but most especially, 5 Groups are the building blocks with which you must secure support. In the WTO, it's back or block.

China & Japan
The US
The EU
The Africa Group
Pacific & Carribean States

All 164 countries must back. Even if Nigeria blocks, the person won't be DG. However, these ones I mentioned weild some power. The US couldn't impose Myung-Hee because others others blocked her. That's the easiest way I can explain it.

Like I said, this is not an issue I want to drag. If you think that the world operates based on what you are told, or the so called “rules”, feel free to carry on with that belief. If you believe because countries are given a vote in these organizations they are free to vote and indeed vote freely without pressures and arm twisting, go ahead. Fela who sang one veto vote is equal to 92 was to some an ignorant man just singing.

This is why I said I am done, we are going to spend the next 100 posts back and forth disagreeing with each other, serving no purpose because you believe what you believe and I believe what I believe. You are not going to change your view and neither am I so what is the point of the back and forth? I am not here on an ego trip, to be right, to have the last word or care of you believe me or not. I state my view and I move on. If someone offers a superior argument, I acknowledge otherwise I have no interest in convincing anyone. Make of my views what you will and move on!

If my telling you that you are right is what it will take for me to stop seeing this topic on my mentions. Then you are right! I don’t have a problem telling you what you want to hear to have peace! No disrespect but sometimes one needs to recognize when further engagement is pointless.

The message is they see those of you with huge populations as a burden. So take their western medicines, vaccines, modified seeds, armed bases etc and continue believing they are there to help you.

Authority1o1:
The debate as to whether the ₦50,000 empowerment made by Remi Tinubu, Nigeria's First Lady, is simply based on a realistic economic calculation and the acknowledgement of the existence of lower class will not end if a breakdown is not given.

So, what can such an amount afford for someone who wants to really go into akara business?

Here is a breakdown:

1. Gas cylinder (3kg): ₦25,000
2. Cooking gas (3kg): ₦1900 × 3 = ₦5700
3. 1 painter of white beans (depending on the location): approximately ₦5000
4. Groundnut oil (2 litres): approximately ₦4500
5. Medium-size frying pan: ₦11,000
6. Utensils and containers: ₦10,000
7. Ingredients (pepper, salt, Maggi etc): ₦2000
8. Beans grinding cost: say ₦500 per round.

TOTAL: ₦63,700

VERDICT: Even for low income earners, ₦50,000 is insufficient to start akara business.

You need N63,700 to start a business, someone gifts you N50,000 and you are here writing story that it is not enough! If you cannot devise a scheme or use your initiative to cross the line in a business that will make you N5,000 a day, you don’t deserve the N50k grant. You cannot gather firewood or rent has cyclinder for the 1st week or 2 while you save your N5k a day profit to buy the gas cyclinder?

Some of you are beyond redemption.

The irony is it is the educated people who have this mindset. That is why many of you get degrees only to settle for Jobs paying below minimum wage. The real targets of this gesture, the poor rural women, will find a way.


It seems your education has only prepared you to see problems not solutions. It seems your education has only served to flush initiative out of you. It seems Fela was right when he sang that they will give you certificates to become certified slaves.

fergie001:
Go and read about the WTO, it will help you
I will ask again;.
Why did Trump not impose Myung-Hee since the US solely decides who heads the WTO?

First of all it was under Biden not Trump. Secondly that you present a case to me and I become convinced of the merit Of your argument enough to change my position does not mean without my support you can become WTO DG.

Nothing you have put forward supports your position that you can become DG WTO without US backing.

If she could have gotten the job without US support why did she need to convince them by getting US citizenship and swearing an oath of allegiance? At that stage of her life and career, US citizenship is a burden not a benefit which is whe she hadn’t done it till then even though she could.

This is Monday morning, I am not going back and forth on this issue.

AndroBlaze:
You people think so little of yourselves and hate what you see in the mirror too much.

Simple question that I will ask again, if the President of the US solely determines who got the job, why did Trump, the most aggressive president the US has ever had, fail to get the South Korean candidate through months after the process had been completed?

Surely someone from a shithole country cannot prevail against Trump.

I am sure you also believe in Father Xmas!

Clearly you are one of those people who believes America spreads democracy and operates by the rules. The US is the world’s biggest hypocrite and they never honour agreements. They tell you one thing and do another. The so called international order based system was not designed for you, It was designed for the US. A country that brought about the fall of the British empire a supposed ally and held them by the balls is not the kind of country that plays fair. The US gets what it wan because it designed the system for them. You are naive if you think otherwise.

The reality of how things work in international bodies be it the UN, WTO etc, is that the US arm twists smaller voter nations by threatening them with sanctions, threatening diplomats with family visa withdrawals/ account closures and school withdrawals for their children and relatives.

If you don’t know this then you are not in a position to comment.

Okonjo got the job only because her appointment was eventually sanctioned by the US and she got that sanction by selling her soul and pledging her allegiance and loyalty to the US. She clearly did not want or need US citizenship or she would have done it long before the appointment.


I suggest you do some history lessons in the origins of these bodies post WW2 beyond the surface level.

This topic reminds me of when I was a child and my father would ask me if I wanted to do something as if I had a say in the matter when in reality (as I would later realize!) he had already made preparations or concluded the matter for the outcome he wanted. Asking me was only to make it seem as if ii had a say….in reality I didn’t and never could have.

fergie001:
This is very wrong.
Your bid is submitted alongside your nomination Sir.

It doesn’t work that way!

There is theory and there is reality. You are talking theory.

fergie001:
But even after her US citizenship, will she have contested without Buhari's nomination? The US will still not have nominated her.

It really doesn’t matter who nominated you. You will only get the job is you are green lighted by the US. She only got that green light because the acquired US citizenship. I am sure you recall the politics before she got the job.

Bottom line, if the US says we want this Nigerian as DG of WTO, the Nigerian government will fall in line. If the Nigerian government nominates a candidate and the US is against that candidate, he/she isn’t getting the job.

We are talking about the person in charge of the body that sets the rules for world trade. Nigeria is irrelevant. That a Nigerian is there is only to give the illusion of inclusion. In reality NOI has, by taken up US citizenship, sworn an oath of allegiance to the US. That’s why she got the job not because the Nigerian govt supported her. Yes it helps but with these international bodies you can get the top job without support from your govt. I can’t remember which body but it happened recently.

fergie001:
Says who?
She is at the WTO today because of politics. No matter how brilliant she is, she can't be DG without the support of her home country. If Buhari said No, she won't be DG of any International Organisation.

Again, Atiku was instrumental in bringing her to Nigeria from the World Bank and then introduced her to OBJ. So, it's listen to them and politely say NO.
It is part of the rules that anybody who must contest must get an endorsement from his/her own country If your President or home Govt doesn't endorse, you fail nomination instantly.

She is at the WTO at the pleasure of the US government. It is the reason despite living in the US for almost all her working life she never applied for U citizenship until her nomination as DG WTO.

Truvelisback:
You are worse than what you called Rufai. How is selling akara or corn better? Why can't she and her children sell akara and corn?

Some of you have no brains because your mothers had no one to give them money “sell akara” to make the money to get good education.

If you check the history of every great person, someone in their lineage “sold akara” to pay for the education of the child who made the breakthrough for that family. When you make that breakthrough you don’t go back to selling akara. Selling akara is a means to an end, the end is the breakthrough from poverty.

You reason with poverty mentality because no one gave your mothers grant ( not loan) to lift her children from poverty.

I remmember about 20yrs ago, I walked into selfridges in London and before me was a section promoting akara! Yes akara in selfridges. Unfortunately it was being promoted by some Brazilians and called “akaraje”. The same akara that came from Nigeria that dumb Nigerians look down on!

Today is Sunday, you will go to church and give the little you have to pastor to find his extravagant lifestyle, how many people in the church has your pastor or church given grants to start a small business to lift you out of your poverty?

lightwind:
Oga forget all those many talks and face realities on ground.

This is the handiwork of Nyesom Wike the Fct minister, he is working closely with Tinubu updating him back to back on how to scatter various opposition parties they deamed as a challenge to them while using the Judiciary and Supreme court, Federal high court judges to achieve it seemingly.

That's one of the reasons he was allocating lands in Abuja and building houses for them judges in Abuja. Cos he has the opportunity to do all that as the fct minister.

I don't know why you guys are behaving and talking like you'al don't see what is playing out.

Pretending not to understand.

The problem in ADC wasn’t there before Obi joined. The problem in NDC wasn’t there when Obi joined. It was when he joined these parties that Wike and Tinubu created these problems. Daft leaders attract daft supporters.

FreeStuffsNG:
Dickson is a lawyer and Senator yet could not do due diligence before buying a damaged 'court-contraband' good.
Smh.

All the info have been in public domain since last year!

These are the people that want to run the affairs of Nigeria. I have repeated many times on this platform that the way you organize your party, your campaign,how you manage different interest groups, how you settle differences, how you dot your “is” and cross your “Ts”, how you perform due diligence in your affairs is an indication of the type of government that awaits should you win. It’s no surprise that if you look at the governance records of many of these wishy washy contestants, they have nothing to show in office!

If you cannot check, double check and make sure the party on which you want to mount the biggest challenge of your life is not wanting in any way, then when you get to government you are the type that will award contracts to companies that do t exist. The type that enters into deals like pi&d!

budaatum:
So, you think I tell people they can be whatever they want to be but they don't need to work for it?

But it's that bold that got me. In UK in the 70s, black kids were guided to be nurses and bus drivers and postmen by people who saw that to be the "true gifts" of black people, to the extent that a black child who aspired to be a doctor or a lawyer or accountant was told that was not their gift.


Because I am not a high flying woman with a wonderful family with children who are flying high like me?


I hope it's also okay to go to school and get an education and be the best lawyer or accountant or doctor or AI specialist too, even if one does not make millions doing so. I mean, it might beat "Hollywood actress or an Afribeat singer", especially if you have no talent to be "Hollywood actress or an Afribeat singer", since the talent for what I propose is dedication and study.


Actually, I tell all girls that they are queens in their own right, and I tell all young people that they should develop their minds. Their beauty or lack off is irrelevant to me, since that's not what's going to feed them.


I get you. You leave your life to chance. I don't.
A good parent trains their children to be morally upright, yes, but they also ought to train their children to earn a living is what I think.

If I train my daughter to be a president or a chief judge, which would be odd to be honest, even if she does not achieve those goals and only gets half way, she'd be a lot better off than if I did not bother and left it to chance.

But for your information, I've trained my children to have skills that will earn them incomes so they can feed themselves and their own and that they can build on. Apex is for them to determine. They are now training their own children.


And the foolish and the ignorant too.

I didn’t read your post. I have said what I have to say. Disagree or agree that’s your problem. I post or respond on Nairaland for the benefit of the silent wider audience. My point has been made, I am not interested in engaging in meaningless back and forth with you.

In yoruba we say Abo oro l’on so fun omoluabi. The white main says a word is enough for the wise. Further engagement is pointless.
Have a good day!

budaatum:
But I can bet you top dollar that those who try are much better off for trying than those who don't.

Take ones children, mine or yours. We will not only tell them they can be anything they want, we'd hopefully support them and train them and educate them too, and I bet they'd be better off for it than if we didn't, or do you disagree?

But know that 1st lady is not so much an achievement, as far as I am concerned. I'd rather train my own daughters to be president. They might not be presidents of a nation, but they just might end up as the CEO of a multi billion dollar company, which is close enough.

Society will train you and your children to be slaves. Our Nigerian society will even teach you to be stupid, or what do you think is being done by convincing you that naked enslaved Adam is the Image of God, when it's obvious their job descriptions and pay and reward differ immensely?

I would strongly suggest you not let society determine your achievements, much less that of your offspring. Strive to be the best you can be, and empower yours to do likewise. You and they might not get to the summit, but you would likely rise higher than those who don't bother.

For your information, every woman who has ever risen to rule a nation had children and a husband beside her, so your "most women who chase careers end up childless or single mothers" is false.

You are someone who clearly revels in self delusion. You are entitled to that but stop deceiving people.

This you can be anything you want is the kind of thing that messes up the lives of young people. 99% of the time, they don’t have what it takes to become what they want. Their lives would be much better if they were guided towards where their true gifts are and be as good as they can be.

I will just touch on the last bit of your post. Even those high flying women who have families, you have no idea the price their children and family pay for their success because clearly you have never been in that environment.


There is a woman who made a fortune selling Amala. It is better to be the best or a good Akara seller that to be deceived you have what it takes to be a Hollywood actress or an Afribeat singer if you have no talent.

You clearly live a world of deceit where you tell an ugly girl she is a queen and “beautiful” when she clearly isn’t. Unfortunately she will believe it and have aspirations beyond her aesthetic blessings but the world will ultimately let her know at great cost that she isn’t as aesthetically gifted as what she has be led to believe she is.

Only a fool trains his daughter to be president. Those are things that happen by chance. A good father trains his daughter to have good values and character. That daughter will have a better life that the daughter obsessed with becoming president. It’s one thing to encourage your daughter to be a lawyer if she has a talent for it but that she will rise to the apex and become a chief judge or a SAN is another thing.

Life will eventually bring the deluded down to earth.

budaatum:
Unfortunately, many stup¹d men think the same way, and then don't empower their daughters to be the best they can possibly be.

My only hope is that parents today are much wiser, for they will reap what they sow or not in their children.

its ok to tell girls they can be anything they want (so also men) but the reality is most people end up a mediocre life.

let me give you some facts/stats:

1: if you live to 100yrs old, out of a population of over 100m women, only 25 women in your life time (assuming their husbands only serve 1 term) will ever be 1st ladies.

2: most women who chase careers end up childless or single mothers...thats the price many of them pay .....even when succesful!

3: for every Alex iwobi, there are 1000 people who chased a career in sports but failed. for every hollywood star there are hundreds who turned to prostitution to make ends meet because they had nothing to fall back on. For every successful acheiver, there are thousands for whom no matter what they do will never rise to the top. There are only so many CEOS, directors, perm sec positions etc. there are only so many slots available no matter your qualifications and hustle.

etc etc

the point is we deceive people especially girls that they can chase their dreams and be anything they want but we are not there to pick up the peices when the realities of life set in when they neither achieve their career goals or acquire a family.

I didnt listen to the 1st ladies statement but I am sure what she is saying is "pick up yourself and do something so you are not dependent on others especially men and at least you have something that pays the bills while you chase your dreams! ...thats how i see her statement but you are free to see it as you wish.

part of the problem is society today especially amongst women is that we have sold them a fantasy that doesnt exist. many of them end up side chicks or single mothers. That dream you are chasing, there is only 1 slot available there are 1000 women hustling for the same slot. By the time it dawns on most women that the whole thing was a fantasy, theyve lost so many opportunities for a decent comfortable family and a truly financially independent and stable life but it is too late to correct. you only hear of the woman who succeeded, you dont hear of the thousands who messed up their lives chasing a prize where the odds were always stacked against them. this also applies to men but men have always known that. the difference is the world is now telling women they can be anything they want and they are dumping everything to chase that elusive dream that for 99% simply can never materialize.

this one is just a clown!

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meaningless lawsuit. he knows the case will dragged and dragged and nothing will come of it. was he not the same person that went begginf Afe babalola over his defamation case with the unshaved clown? ...the irony. what happenned to his defamation case with Adeyanju? ......exactly!


this is all for optics.

the problem is our governors are not bold enough to sigh death warrants.

On this one I agree with Gbadebo. Lagos seems to only respond to emergencies and are not able to put in place mechanism to continuous maintenance of schemes.


That’s why you will see them ban okada and it will last for only 1 month before status quo returns……same with refuse, flooding or filthy streets.

OneCandleAway:
The man is w.icked. he purposely did this to herllen because he is too educated to not know how to secure her future properly. I guess it's an indirect apology to his wife for leaving her for a hot side chic. I just hope she was able to amass her own private property, because them living in an hotel for years till he dies isn't a good look.

1: they were never married. She could not provide proof they had a traditional wedding.
2: the man did not divorce his wife. He probably just turned a blind eye to her using his name to save her the shame of being an unmarried companion. How can you perform a traditional marriage and not have pictures or witnesses?

Therefore she always knew she was a side chick not a wife.

Nobody did anybody dirty. She is educated and exposed, she knew what she was getting herself into.

I have said it multiple times on Nairaland no smart man marries a beauty queen. It takes a certain mindset to parade yourself semi naked in front of men to be judged. Good/smart men don’t marry such women. 99% of ex beauty queens are never 1st wives to good or successful men. They usually end up 2nd 3rd wives to old men, side chicks, single mothers or serial divorcees.

TemplarLandry:
This is serious.
This is interesting.
Let's see how it goes.

This is progress. We were spending 97% as at May 2023.

Josef onoh is Bianca's brother. their father was C.C Onoh former gov of anambra.

the 1st time he praises the government is when they bring his criminal brothers home in a prisoner swap. it speaks to where his heart is.

This guy is just a clown!

Even those of us who aren’t Atiku or Obi supporters marvel at his levels of imbecility.

I think he and Babachir are trying to outdo each other for the clown of this election cycle.

Kunle28:
One day, for sure; The phones will ring, the messages will be sent, and the hearts will ache.
That day; the news of your death will spread, just as you received that of others.

Your family and associates will gather, Your friends and colleagues will wonder; because tomorrow you will not be at the meeting nor at your desk.
Your name will change to that of 'The corpse',your children will look as you are wrapped in a cloth.

Your new home will be dug, and your belongings will be sought.
Your pictures will be shared and your memories recalled.

Your wives; 'widows', your children; 'orphans'.
Those are titles, you thought were for others.

Those you love; will lay you into the earth. Those you cherish, will pass the mud.With their very own hands, they will push and cover you aground. Then they will leave and continue their rounds.

It may be now, it may be later; but surely, this day, we will all encounter...

A dead man does not encounter the news of his death. News of death is the burden of the living. Death is not a worry for the dead.

A dead man is free of worries!

Is there any defamation lawsuit threat that Obi has followed through?

All na audio threat aimed as his gullible followers.

Harrynight:
Atiku is more popular
Obi is more influential in South
Atiku is more influential in the north
Na so e jus be

Atiku has yet to prove his northern popularity. He has never won a presidential election in the North. He has never won in the NW, albeit most of the time he was facing a fellow Northerner.