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There is a thread about NIgerians not making the top 50 list of countries with High IQs.

This thread is an example.

Long write up, 4 pictures of politicians and not a single picture of the ibom hotels and golf resort.

You now see an example of why we dont make the list of high IQ countries?

Cc: softmirror

To the OP, we know what Eno looks like next time show the pictures of the hotel, instead of devoting all your 4 pictures to the governor.

chiiraq802:
The only opposition party in Nigeria today is PDP and PDP dey misbehave.....any other party or camp parading as opposition are just joking.

And that is the truth. Obi and Atiku have snookered themselves by leaving PDP.

After 2031 Obi and Atiku will be politically retired and their respective platforms will go back to what they were…….emergency SPV platforms for aggrieved people to contest.

orisa37:
IN ADDITION, WE WANT
ABACHA HOUSE
TIMO ALUKO HOUSE
EMIR OF DAURA, KATSINA, KANO, KEBBI, ZAMFARA, ELRUFAI, JIGAWA, BURAITAI ETC HOUSES
AND THE SULTANATE TURNED TO THE SHRINE OF "OSABURUWA".
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A DEMOCRACY NOT A NEPOCRACY.
BUHARI DIDN'T DO NOTHING FOR NIGERIA. YOU MAY ALSO BUILD MACBAN AND BOKOHARAM HOUSES.

Posts like these is why Nigeria did not make the top 50 countries in the world in terms of IQ. It won’t make top 100 either.

You only have to read Nairaland to know Nigerians are not intelligent. Like someone said cunny is not intelligent.

I would actually say the majority of Nigerians are structurally unintelligent. Nigeria with the combined forces of tribe, religion and a weak colonial education system is guaranteed to produce that outcome.

As an example, there is a thread in the trending section about Ibom golf resort. It is a long write up with 4 pictures of the governor. Not a single picture of the subject matter…the golf resort. That’s an example of why we don’t make the top 50 list.

https://www.nairaland.com/8511547/well-not-run-ibom-hotels#136672278

I actually googled images of the resort. It’s beautiful. But the author in his infinite wisdom did not deem it fit to present a single picture instead wasting people’s data on 4 pictures of the governor. Then we wonder why we don’t make top 50 IQ countries.

Omowale2023:
So let me get what you are saying.
Using inflation has illustration.

You meet inflation rate at 10%
You came to power and carried it to 30%
And you made sure the inflation rate does not go below 20% and doesn't supercede the 30% mark, so we should praise you for what exactly?
Reducing inflation?, making inflation stable? or raising inflation?

He met inflation at 18.9%. The previous year it was 16%. It is now down to I believe 23% and falling. With a stable currency, inflation will keep on falling.

ddippset:


You're so naive..

Supreme Court this, Supreme Court that.

Which Supreme Court?

No be that one wey dey Abuja headed by a Lagos woman?


If those 27 lawmakers who announced their defection during plenary sitting, announced it on TV and swore affidavits on oats at the Federal High Court that they had left the PDP..

If for instance those lawmakers were on Fubara's side and were against Wike, can you swear that the Supreme Court would not have sacked all of them?


If it was Wike and Tinubu that conducted that same LGA election that Fubara conducted do you think this same Supreme Court would have nullified that election?
😂


When we say Tinubu saved Wike, it goes beyond just the state of emergency he declared, lol.

It goes ahead ahead ahead..

Use your brain boy.


SO YES TINUBU SAVED WIKE.


I won't say more!

Ok clap for yourself. You happy?

Blocked! I don’t have time for conversations with nonsense people!

ddippset:
And when Fubara was in the process of implementing the Supreme Court judgement, the legislators started dodging and dodging cus they wanted to impeach him by every means, under the directive of Wike of course!

Then when they saw that the chief judge was firmly with Fubara and they couldn't carry out the impeachment, they plotted the state of emergency.

The SOE did not save Fubara from impeachment, they simply couldn't get the impeachment.

For an impeachment the state chief judge is just as important as the entire 27 legislators.

You are arguing emotionally. The person I responded to said Tinubu saved Wike. There is. Toni g Fubara could have done to Wike because the SC judgement had rendered him impotent. That is the point I am arguing. I said no Tinubu did not save Wike because at that point there was nothing Fubara could do and he had snookered himself. You can argue that Wike could not have impeached Fubara and you may be right but also could be wrong but Fubara himself was snookered. Therefore to say it was Tinubu who saved Wike is wrong. That is the point I am arguing.

Please before you quote me, follow the trail of the conversation. The guy said If not for Tinubu, Fubara would have dealt with Wike and I said no. Fubara had become powerless as a result of the Supreme Court ruling. Whether or not Wike could have impeached Fubara is conjecture at this point and immaterial to the discussion.

There is a) Wike dealing with Fubara and b) Fubara dealing with Wike. 2 different things.


We know Fubara was powerless to deal with Wike, assuming but not conceding that Wike could not have impeached Fubara, At best the situation was a stalemate. So back to my original post Tinubu did not dpsave Wike as there was nothing Fubara could have done to Wike as a result of the SC ruling. He had already lost his battle with whether or not Wike could have impeached him.

I want to take you out, you want to take me out. We both hire assassins. There are 2 separate assasination attempts going on. I don’t know why people can’t get this basic concept.

You take out my assassin so my attempt to eliminate you has failed is separate from the assassin you sent to take me out is not up to the task and would have failed if a 3rd party did not arrange a truce.

mastermaestro:
You are very wrong. Tinubu came to Wike's rescue. Fubara was effectively implementing Obaseki's template that crippled Oshiomhole's influence in Edo state. Obaseki did succeed because Buhari stayed aloof in the battle.

In this case however, Tinubu stepped in considering the votes Wike 'won' him in Rivers state. Left alone to battle it out, Wike was drowning faster than imagined. If I were to judge objectively, Wike had every right to fight to retain Rivers state political structure. Fubara was a nobody. He would not be governor without Wike. Who voted him? Every vote cast was to extend Wike's dynasty in Rivers.

The fact is that Tinubu's abracadabra intervention saved Wike.

Believe what you want. The facts are out there.


Did the Supreme Court rule that the suspended legislators must be recalled?
Did the Supreme Court rule that he must represent the budget and reconfirm all his appointees before the full assembly, did the Supreme Court say he was operating like a dictator
Did the Supreme Court rule there was no government in rivers state?
Did the Supreme Court rule that he was operating illegally by spending without a budget?

The thing about this world is that facts are sacred but we are free to believe what we want.

blackgold2018:
“I’ll rather die standing than to die kneeling”. Fubara is weak. Both Tinubu and Wike will never tolerate this when they were governors.

Fubara plans were going fine against Wike until Tinubu helped wike’s ass. I said here before that there recent reconciliation picture a month ago was for the camera. Because they wouldn’t have dismantled fubara structures to put back Wike days ago. They won checkmate fubara. The like of Obaseki and Ngige will fight to the finish. Ngige still today is being viewed as a strong man because the way he fought

Is was Fubara Tinubu saved. His plans were not going fine, he was about to be impeached. The Supreme Court had ruled all his so called “fine plans” illegal. The SC had ruled his budget illegal and that the suspended members must be allowed to sit and he must present his budget and commissioners to them for approval. Once they seat, he would have been 8mpeached.

Wike did not need Tinubu’s help to remove Fubara,, Fubara had already walked into Wike’s trap.

EBEk101:
Well you don’t know better than the guy, so just let it be

I know the story is fake! There is no way a girl comes from that kind of home. You dated her you didn’t see signs. You made wedding plans (don’t forget he said he cancelled the wedding meaning he had already meet the parents) and they never displayed this kind of behaviour? How todo you call off a wedding that didn’t involve the parents? Meaning it’s not his first time meeting the parents.

C’mon we are not children and not all of us are gullible!

EBEk101:
Back when I lived in Benue State, my landlord’s wife used to hit him over the smallest things. He was such a calm and gentle man—a professor, even. So yeah, my guy, things like that really do happen.I’ve also met a lady who said she’d only marry a man who does house chores.

What I said was if it was true, a girl who comes from such a home would have displayed such traits. You don’t need to visit her home to know she is not wife material. Hence it is a fake story. There are things a girl raised in that environment will have displayed in the course of dating.

EBEk101:
I would do the same, because if her mom could do that, she can also do same to the guy
Ladies that grew up in such homes don’t turn out to have respect for their spouses

Recognize a fake story when you see one!

NotOfThisWorld:
He didn't the right thing. It's bad enough that the old man wa washing plate but then yelling at him, smh. If they can be abusive towards an old man, they treat him in the same manner.

I could have believed the story if he didn’t overdo it and say the mother was shouting at the father. A woman who comes from that kind of home would have displayed the signs in the relationship such that marriage would never have been on your radar.

The point still remains valid even though it is a fake story. It is what a woman sees at home that they take to their marital home.

zero8zero:
I have stopped mentioning that poster, the bot has banned me three times for replying her mentions..

It’s been $21b for over a decade. Last pic directly from world bank site

MadPolitician:
We are not NADECO.
Go and check the history of your elders in NADECO
Na NADECO people dey do that.
From CNN Court to VOA studious and to all embassies and foreign capitals.
Even your Pablo at Aso Rock was in Chicago disturbing Americans with his powder..

I would have said one day you will become wise but your fathers did exactly what you are doing and they died without wisdom. No Biafra, no presidency, no wisdom….just noise throughout their lives and death.The apple never falls far from the tree.

As the lyrics of a Sunny Ade song goes….Omo o le jo baba, ka ma bi nu Omo”…….a son cannot resemble his father and you are annoyed with the son.

Chemical1:
when are you going to get the power to write result in your state, if it's that easy......

Many of them don’t think. You can only write results where you are strong, same way obi rigged results in the east.

MadPolitician:
The corruption involved in the way the Finish authorities ran through this strange rulling after their government officials visited Nigeria few years ago, will one day be revealed. It has always been about using nigerias hydrocarbons as a bargaining chip to get international support for the oppression of the eastern part of Nigeria. The same way the sponsorship of Nigerias war against Biafra by the UK and SHELL has been exposed. Bakassi too..

Obviously there is a good chance that some oil wells and gas fields were tossed around to curry favours. But the truth will come out someday. For the Finish court to declare the agitations of a people for freedom as a terrorist activity, isn't just mind-boggling but also highlights in clear terms the international conspiracies that have been used to hold Biafra down for ages..

But as Biafra lays on the ground, so is Nigeria in a pepertual comatose state..

I though you people would be taking the matter to UK and Eu parliament or US congress?

Nonsense people!

PrincessDiana:
You are the one that needs to learn to read and understand properly. Look again at what you posted, because $200M per month previously as now jumped to $600M months, just means :
$200M/ month × 12 months =$2.4B/ Years
And $600M/ month ×12 months = $7.2 Billion/ Year.

And not $21B as you postulated.

In a statement issued by NiDCOM’s spokesperson, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, on Monday, Dabiri-Erewa described the inflow as “humongous,” noting that it marked a 200 percent jump from the $200m monthly average previously recorded

Total remittances are about $21b annually and have been for over a decade but most of it is informal.

All Abiri is saying is that of that $21b this is the amount that is now coming in via official channels and the monthly increase in share. The amount is not the total.

Egg on your face! It is you who doesn’t understand what you read.

Let me explain it to you like a child.

My workers were all paid cash. Total salaries = $21b. I now implement an electronic payment scheme and while many workers have opened bank accounts many haven’t, many can’t and a few won’t because I can’t force them. My annual salaries are still $21b but more and more of my workers are opening accounts. The number of workers who are paid electronically is rising every month as workers open accounts $200m in the previous month to $600m this month. The overall monthly salary still remains at $1.7b ($21/12)

The report is not about the rise in total remittances. It still remains at $21b annually It is about the rise in remittances via official channels.

Capiche?

Cc: @zero8zero

PrincessDiana:
Who is sending money through black market again from abroad?
It's obvious you dont know anything about remittances or modern day banking.

This is the story of the typical Nigerian who started his journey in education after the 1990s. By this time the best teachers had started to quit the education sector. The result is that he reads but does not understand what he read. His education is incomplete. He speaks English but does not understand English. Because when he reads a statement that says more and more people are sending money via the official channels it is clear that even the authorities acknowledge they have not been able to bring all remittances into the official channels….in fact they can never. No remittances are 100% via official channels anywhere in the world.

To start with not most diasporans don’t have accounts in Nigeria. Many of them especially those abroad illegally have not visited in a long time. Many of them are not aware of the non resident BVN. Many of them have better things doing abroad to know what is going on in Nigeria. The scheme is less than a year old. Many don’t send money home that frequently to bother to open a foreign BVN account. As a result many remittances still go through the old informal channels. Even I have facilitated Naira payments for many diasporans. For many diasporans the bank charges for small sums in not worth the hassle. For instance the minimum for international transfer via my UK bank is £15 to a country outside the EU. Which means someone in the Uk who wants to transfer a small sum like £100-500, may consider it more prudent to still use unofficial channels. For international transfers outside the EU most UK banks charge 1.5%. Even within the EU if you want to make a same day transfer you will pay a fee. If you don’t want to pay a fee it will take you 2 days. Most banks charge a minimum fee for international transfers. I have accounts in the Uk. Nigerian banks also charge a fee to receive. Furthermore if you want a rapid transfer the fees are even higher. When you can just call your usual unofficial guy and get your money in seconds.

Yes there are fintechs but not everyone has a regular need to remit to warrant opening a fintech.



Clearly you are not as knowledgeable as you are portraying.


Below are screenshots from my UK bank app. As you can see if someone in the Uk needs to send a small anmount to Nigeria urgently they will use the unofficial sector rather than pay £15 charge. Note even the £15 charge is not a same day transfer. If it’s a large amount and I’m not in a hurry then I may use the official channel.

Kobojunkie:
Only $600 million a month at this point in time? Yikes! Nigerians in diaspora no dey too send money home again abi wetin? At this rate, the county will fall far short of previous high of about $17 billion a year from the diaspora.😐😐😐😐

When people read but don’t comprehend it leads to poor understanding of the issues.

This is the amount of remittances that is now coming in via official channels not the total remittances.

It means instead of the past where Nigerians abroad bring in cash and exchange to Naira via street vendors or look for someone who needs forex and credit the person’s account abroad in exchange for credit to Naira account. More and more diasporans are either using their foreign cards in Nigeria or transferring the monies direct to their accounts in Nigeria. That’s what they mean by official forex inflows.

It means more of the diaspora remittances now sits inside the formal banking system.


When they say go to a good school, it is not a scam!

YourKarma:
Ganduje was caught taking bribe, criminals like you hailed him and he was appointed as APC leader.
Oshiomole said on live TV, "If yo switch to APC, your sins will be forgiven".
These are the types of leaders in APC. THese are the type of persons you and your kind worship and you claim you want a better Nigeria

You clearly don’t understand the comment.

Can you imagine portable as a minister? Not as extreme as portable but that’s what I mean. These people don’t have the profile, stature, the presence the temperament etc to be close to power talk less be important pillars.

These comedians don’t seem to understand their movement is DOA.

Can you imagine this Tanko of a fellow being an important figure in the government? Somebody who looks like and talks like a clerk in the local government office! We really have suffered with the Obidient movement sha, the toe of charlatans that have been elevated to our national consciousness. People like Aisha, Tanko and Sarah, We have suffered!

Houseofglam7:
It’s always close relatives and aides saying this and that.
Mtchewwwwwwwww

12 years no envelopes dropping, no VIP invitations, no Xmas hampers from people seeking access can cause a hungry man to be a Supreme Court judge in his house.

ogascomax:
I still insist in what I said. The word sheep in wolf clothing what does that mean. Are they no good looking and gentle guys but they are like devils. Forget all these many episodes you have up there. They are men who have destroyed the lives of some ladies.
When the Bible tells you that the heart of men are wicked although that scripture is not gender base but it tells you how wicked people can be. Our prayers are not to meet terrible people who position themselves like good people but they are evil.
Do not role out the dark part of life. Good people do encounter terrible people who pretend as angels of light at the beginning until they strike.
Understand one thing no matter how good you are people can leave you. Kaka wife left him because she said he is too perfect for her. Anybody can be left. Know this and have peace.

We are what we attract is never a law but a saying that is not always true.
Your classmates experience is not a formula for life. People have different experiences. Good attract bad too. That is why we pray so that we fall not into temptation.

I apologize in advance that I didn’t read your entire post. I stopped at “good looking”. From that point on your judgement is faulty. If because a man is good looking it makes him a good man, the problem is you. Good looking should never be a reason to consider a man or woman husband or wife material. It only serves as a point of attraction.

Did I mention good looking as a quality of a good man or woman?

That’s where most of you lose the plot.


The deceit and foolery of man is to think his own case is different. Laws of man hold because man does not change that’s why if you read the Bible, the laws and words of wisdom in books like proverbs handed down thousands of years ago still apply today. If you disobey the laws, the only thing that is different or unique to you is how exactly your tragedy will unfold but it will.

Men destroyed lives of ladies just as ladies destroy the lives of men. The common thread is the man or woman did not open their eyes when choosing a partner.

ogascomax:
Are there no go women who have suffered in the hands of bad men. Relationship challenges could come with different form and sizes. A lady showed me her daughter pic, the daughter is in Canada but the boy is still in Nigeria. However, the guy is complaining that she is too fat. Me that don't like fat girls too I looked at her then said she is not fat Na. On this occasion what is causing their problem is body size. Until you realised that men could leave relationship for different reasons other than what is even common than you will know why some of them are not keeping one man. But she acknowledged that she did not say that they should be sleeping around. Finally you must admit that guys do leave good ladies over no good reason.
Some leave saying that they don't want commitment or want to marry. We have seen and heard things.
Some just want to sleep around.
Some bad girls today were once a good girl.
Abi the word playboy Na Isoko language no be English word again.
Live thought them some painful lessons. However I will not defend bad behaviour inspite of what you face in the past.

With due respect post like this and mindsets like this is why women find it difficult marrying good men or end up with bad men.

As a woman, you are responsible for the man you dated that dumped you. Why did you choose that man? Women go from relationship to relationship without understanding why their previous relationship failed. I can tell you something, good women are like gold, nobody will have gold and leave it on the streets, nobody will see gold and not pick it up….ponder on that.

Therefore, either the woman is not valuable and has an elevated opinion of herself or she allowed herself to be picked by someone who does not appreciate the value of gold. If it is the latter, the first question that a woman should ask herself is what made me choose such a man and 2 it should never happen to a woman twice. The problem is that most women will always blame everybody else but themselves.

In any relationship she walked in with she eyes open, nobody forced any dumped woman to date a bad man.

Most women don’t take responsibility for their errors so they repeat. A good woman wil likely never put herself in that situation but if by chance she does, because one of the qualities of a good woman is taking responsibility, she won’t blame anyone but herself and make sure it never happens again.

A university classmate who is divorced and I met at a party, we were catching up and she told me she is divorced, she cursed and cursed her ex husband until I asked her where did you go wrong, she was about to attack me for even suggesting she had any part to play in the divorce until I said to her…..you chose to marry him, I accept as you say he was a bad man, what made you marry a bad man? That’s on you! You could tell it never occurred to her and no one had been that blunt with her. The truth, she was never a grade A chick in school, probably a B-. And as you can see even from the brief conversation I shared had always had a bit of an elevated opinion of herself coupled with an attitude problem. I never knew her husband but knowing her I would have been shocked if she married a fade A man.

We are what we attract!

I have said it many times Tinubu’s media team are largely incompetent and I mean all of them! They react to issues instead of being on the front foot, and it is not the 1st time they’ve been guilty of sloppiness.

ogascomax:
I read what she said and I don't have anything to criticise. She thinks that is a better strategy that could enable ladies settled in a proper relationship instead of locking yourself in an unproductive relationship that ends at ladies cost.
All she said was okay to me.

The problem is women don’t understand where they went wrong in relationships.

The problem I see in many of the women my age who ended up unmarried was the criteria for selecting a man in the 1st place. That strategy may get you a man if you don’t care what kind of man you get. A good man is not a good man if he doesn’t know how to select a good woman. A good man will know if you are not fully committed to him. A woman with multiple male suitors today is likely having sex with more than one of them. This is not the 1950s where you keep men hanging on without sex and the men are ok with it.


My advice to women is find a good man and make it impossible for him to think of spending his life with any other woman but you.

But you as a woman have to know what a good man is. Most girls don’t and that’s why they end up on the shelf. Most of the time the problem is your definition or criteria for a good man. Just as a good man looks beyond your looks, he looks at your friends, your family, he asks is this a woman I want raising my child, is this a family I want to marry into, are her friends the kind of people I want around my wife, will I have a peaceful home etc etc, a woman must also look beyond the superficial, is he ambitious, is he well grounded, who are his friends, his family, how does he treat people, how do people treat him, what are his values. When you meet a man who ticks the boxes, hold on to him and don’t let go. Men marry wives, women don’t marry husbands. If you don’t make yourself marryable you won’t get a husband or you will have to settle for crumbs.

In all of this though, many women are simply unmarryable. So one thing I find is many women can’t answer sincerely the question, am I a good woman, am I the kind of woman a good man will marry.

I can tell you for free…..good men don’t marry women like Tasha.

DonroxyII:
Nigeria is a Country of Madmen and Only a Madman can rule this Country successfully Not "Ajebo" !

It takes Madness to rule Mad People !

Exactly!

CoronaVirusPro:
At a time I will agree with you. It’s already to late.

“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.“ _ Henry Kissinger

They’ve always been US puppets, Kissinger made that statement when America took the dollar off the gold standard and basically said to Europe…….F O!