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PoliticsRe: President Tinubu Lauds Petrobras' Imminent Return As Nigeria & Brazil Sign 5 MOU by COMPAQ(m): 10:38am On Aug 26, 2025
naptu2:
Previous thread:

Tinubu In Brazil: Air Peace To Begin Direct Flights To Sao Paulo
https://www.nairaland.com/8505959/tinubu-brazil-air-peace-begin
We have lots to benefit from Bazil if we get the cooperation going well.

1. We could leverage on their aviation industry to improve our capabilities with drones, which we need urgently for security now.
2. brazils beef industry is worll class. We should cooperate with them to set up ranches in middle belt states of Kwara, Northern Oyo, Benue and Kogi and the northern highlands of Adamawa, Taraba, Gombe, Platueu, Nasarawa and Bauchi.
3. Small weapons development for our police
SportsRe: Broke Retired Players Should Be Jailed – Ideye by COMPAQ(m): 4:18pm On Aug 24, 2025
iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/broke-retired-players-should-be-jailed-ideye/
They shouldn't be jailed, but they have no one to blame but themselves.

However NFF should engage local and international investment firms to organise financial management training for all players in the National Teams. In fact they should start from U17, so that they know the basics even before earning big.

Even if at age 20 and earning a net salary of £20k a week, if you set up automatic deduction of £5k a week, that's N572mln in a year.

Invested at NGN 2045 bonds for 15% and compounded till maturity, that's N4.6bln waiting for you in 15 years.

Do the same in USD at 4% and that's $608k waiting for you.
BusinessRe: The True Cost Of ‘let’s Hang Out’: A Financial Autopsy by COMPAQ(m): 3:53pm On Aug 19, 2025
dollytino4real:
If u don't have to spend mind ur prick and keep it in ur trousers,
Nowhere did he say that the hang out involved a female!! The guilt of the female folks clearly haunts them!! smiley
PoliticsRe: Lagos Government Unveils Cultural Weekend To Scale Up Investment Drive by COMPAQ(m): 8:15am On Aug 19, 2025
Lanrelagboi:
https://theguildng.com/lagos-govt-unveils-cultural-weekend-to-scale-up-investment-drive/
This is all well and good. Lagos likes to do the big projects, but should also focus on getting the little and simple things right!! Funny enough, these things impact the life of the citizens much more.

1. Functioning street lights across the city
2. Functioning and smart traffic lights across the city
3. Rapid repairs of potholes across the city
4. Scheduled and consistent desilting of drainages around Lagos, particulalry in the Feb to May period, before the rain gets heavy.
5. Efficient removial of filth and garbage in the city
6. More efficient transport system with intermodal BRT type buses, water and train.

Just do these and do them very well, and the lives of the citizens will be made much easier. All these plenty other activities they are doing do not help the people.
PoliticsRe: Tinubu’s State Visit: Nigeria, Brazil To Sign MOU On Direct Flight by COMPAQ(m): 2:03pm On Aug 18, 2025
TimeManager:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/08/tinubus-state-visit-nigeria-brazil-to-sign-mou-on-direct-flight/
Is there that much demand to fly direct from Lagos to South America!? Anyway, when the supply is there, sometimes the demand will come.

Apart from direct flights to Brazil, it enables Brazil to become a hub for connecting flights to the rest of South America.

At some point I plan to vist, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Chile. Also possibly Uraguay
BusinessRe: MTN Nigeria Rebounds To Become Largest Revenue Contributor To MTN Group by COMPAQ(m): 1:58pm On Aug 18, 2025
DeLaRue:
Mr Adenuga simply can't cope with the level of investment required to upgrade Glo's systems across the country.

It requires several billion dollars, which one single individual can't deal with, unless you are Dangote.

I am surprised he is holding on so tight to a Glo that is collapsing instead of inviting a foreign investor to take a 49% stake in the company.

He is very close to France, so France's Orange phone will be an ideal partner.

Better to own 50% of a thriving company than 100% of a failing company.
Nigerians don't believe in that. The want to be undisputed owner!
PoliticsRe: FG Fast-tracks Drive To Clear ₦4 Trillion Power Debt, End Subsidy by COMPAQ(m): 2:40pm On Aug 17, 2025
RhinoChest:
What the government should do is upgrade Band A customers to a new category called Band A+. Customers in Band A+ would be guaranteed 24 hours of uninterrupted power supply and would pay an additional fixed charge—for example, ₦10 per 24-hour cycle—on top of their normal tariff. This fixed charge would only apply if the distribution company actually delivers 24 hours of uninterrupted supply. If they fail to do so, the charge should not apply and should instead roll over.

Furthermore, if Band A+ customers experience an outage longer than one hour (excluding faults from the National Grid or TCN), the government should impose penalties on the distribution company—for example, fines of ₦10 million for every hour of outage.

Band B customers should be upgraded to Band A, while only Bands C and D should continue to enjoy subsidy temporarily. This will cut the amount of subsidy significantly and cushion the effect of all these economic reforms on the very poor.
I have what I think is a better idea.

In all likelihood 50% to 80% of the electricity consumed in Nigeria is probably already by those in Band A. This is because what one Band A individual in an upper middle class estate in Lekki consumes may be what an entire street of room and parlour in Oshodi will consume.

So if the current band A price of N209 is cost reflective, let the first 100Kwh purchased in a month be at N100. Above 100Kwh to 999Kwh in a month will be at the cost reflective price of Band A, which is N209. Then those who use above 1000Kwh on a month pay N250kwh.

Those on the high tariff of N250kwh for consuming more are then effectively subsiding the lower income folks who don't use much electricity.

If someone is truly poor or vulnerable, he shouldn't be using more than 100kwh in a month.

I am a upper middle class person with 6 split ACS in my house, though only one or max 2 will be on at a time, 43inch TV, microwave, oven, large fridge and freezer, deep fryer etc and I'm only using about 500kwh a month.
PhonesRe: 10 Cheapest Unlimited Internet Plans In Nigeria (2025) by COMPAQ(m): 12:25pm On Aug 16, 2025
Great100000:
Source: https://www.zikoko.com/money/cheapest-unlimited-internet-plans-nigeria/
My provider is Broadbased Communications..Fibre optic to your home for N27k for 30Mbps. Quite a few downtimes a day, usually lasting for a few minutes to like 10minutes. But zero data cap.
PoliticsRe: Nigerian Firms Swimming In Cash As Operating Cash Flows Surge To All-Time Highs by COMPAQ(m): 12:09pm On Aug 15, 2025
Osebanjo:
Theres recapitalization going on in almost the sectors. Every one of them will be fine at the end. Many of them which we believed to be medium/small sized have been able to recapitalize successfully and few that won’t meet up will surely merge. I think investors are putting in more money in the NGX so I doubt many will be closing.
I hope you realise though that majority of the funds that flow into the NGX does not end up in the accounts of the companies, except they are doing a Public Offer. If you put your shares in Dangote up for sale and i but them on the NGX, how does that impact Dangote?
CelebritiesRe: Peller Protests ₦36 Million Tax Bill From Lagos Government by COMPAQ(m): 2:22pm On Aug 13, 2025
fineboynl:
When it come to tax they compare Nigeria with western world. But when it come to other things like salary and standard of life they talk another thing.

No body supported you and you bring even at the comfort of your home next thing is tax
Pay the tax first! then if you dont see what its used for, you have a right to challenge the government.

If they call you out now for anti government protest, you will stay home watching netflix on your phone!
CelebritiesRe: Peller Protests ₦36 Million Tax Bill From Lagos Government by COMPAQ(m): 2:18pm On Aug 13, 2025
hopexter:
You can not be projecting your life and how poorly raised you were on others. Your parents couldn’t send you to decent schools doesn’t mean it’s the same for others. If you’ve heard peller speak without using his trademark accent/intonation, then you would know he didn’t go to public school like yourself.

He came to limelight last year and he’s already been taxed 36 millions for his intellectual properties and yet you support it. You must be someone sent from the pit of hell.
Whether he went to school or not. When you make money by any means, you must pay TAX!
Even if you win N1bln via the lottery as an illiterate, you must pay TAX!!
You pay tax on your annual income. Low income, low tax, high income, high tax! Coming into limelight recently is irrelevant.
The avrage tax rate is about 20%, if he made N180mln gross last year, then he'd pay N36mln tax. N180mln is $116k. Wih all his plenty trending videos, particulalry the nonsense he's doing with that robot girl, he could have made that from Tik Tok and other apps.
All the police these celebrities carry about, is it not tax thats used to maintain them? Then the police that should be for me and you, Peller will carry them, but he's not paying tax??
CelebritiesRe: Peller Protests ₦36 Million Tax Bill From Lagos Government by COMPAQ(m): 8:24am On Aug 13, 2025
hopexter:
This is exactly the words of a coward which is exactly why we are here today. What support has the government given the youth to be taxing such extortionate amount of money.
What school did Peller go to. He probably went to school free in theis Lagos. Quality might not have been good, but without it, he might not be where he is today. he'd probably be washing windscreen in go slow.

You guys who went to dirt cheap University and were born in dirt cheap general hospital should go easy in saying what has government done for you.
CelebritiesRe: Peller Protests ₦36 Million Tax Bill From Lagos Government by COMPAQ(m): 8:21am On Aug 13, 2025
texazzpete:
The 36 million naira he’s being charged is even smaller than i expected sef. Shebi they’re the ones constantly regaling us with tales of how they make tens of millions of naira monthly? Buying houses and cars?

Govt knows his BVN and sees the inflow coming in. They can estimate his earnings and tax accordingly. I’m shocked it’s that low, and he definitely needs to pay up.

It’s clear many of you are leeches that don’t pay Tax. If you did, you’d be pushing for everyone to pay their fair share.
Don't mind them! Clearly they dont pay tax. Celebrities be running up and down Lagos flaunting wealth and harrassing us with their sports cars, yet the dont pay tax. if I were in charge of LIRS, Burna Boy, Whiz Kid, Rema, Tiwa, Don Jazzy go hear am. Anyway this new Tax Law will help tighten the noose around evasion. Me wey dey pay N2mln tax a month, it really peppers me.
PoliticsRe: Oil Producing States' 13% Share Of Derivation — January To June 2025 by COMPAQ(m): 7:45am On Aug 13, 2025
bjdon:
You will not find one world class hospital in any of those states. No proper road network or mass transit system. No proper power generation(Do remember states are now allowed to to generate electricity). Yet the people in those states will never protest. A state like Delta is making enough revenue to almost be independent of Abuja. They can fund industrial development, agriculture,tech... but no, you go to Warri, Sapple or Ugheli and the places look like slums. Same for most of the other SS states. It's a real shame
Why should the state be the one generating electricity? What a private company can do!?
PoliticsRe: Lagos Rolls Out Digital House Numbering System by COMPAQ(m): 7:43am On Aug 13, 2025
Lanrelagboi:
•It'll revolutionise property identification, says Sanwo-Olu

•Minister, experts reiterate commitment to unlocking economic power of land in Nigeria




https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16mgvgsBuP/
The house tag they came to put on my house like 5 years ago is now what!!!
PoliticsRe: Lagos Rolls Out Digital House Numbering System by COMPAQ(m): 7:41am On Aug 13, 2025
SmartPolician:
This brilliant idea shouldn't stop in Lagos State. It should be adopted at the national level. If this initiative is properly implemented, they can synchronize the data with NimC's NIN and subsequent builders will be mandated by law to get such numbers for their houses. In the end, we may never need a census again.
So every citizen owns a house? Renters n ko? Wives and children n ko?
PoliticsRe: Oil Producing States' 13% Share Of Derivation — January To June 2025 by COMPAQ(m): 7:40am On Aug 13, 2025
Morbeta11:
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1955352079829975297?t=68gNaVPvhU51EWwbPUTGzA&s=08[/quote]Before y'all get excited, how much really is N228bln? Just $147mln!!

A standard hight school in Houston - Jordan High school, Katy was built for $207mln
CelebritiesRe: Peller Protests ₦36 Million Tax Bill From Lagos Government by COMPAQ(m): 7:37am On Aug 13, 2025
Tunmise40:
This is nothing but daylight robbery from the lagos state government.
My friend, go and sit down! how is this daylight robbery? You think all the good things you see abroad that you wnt here in Nigeria come cheap or free!!!

The guy should go and pay jare!!
BusinessRe: Onitsha Port Welcomes First Barge In 2025 by COMPAQ(m): 3:59pm On Aug 12, 2025
descarado:
Tell that to lagos state.
If there is a port in onitsha,how does that affect your existence?
Are you jealous that igboland is no longer landlocked as you guys postulated?
Jelous ke! I don''t have time for the petty tribal politics you folks play here o. Mine is strictly based on logical thinking and critical analysis.

Lagos has been commercial capital from since when the Portugese came in 1850 or whatever and named it Lagos because of the Lagoon. Then it because a natural hub for business into the hinterland. That birthed many companies that were HQ'd here - banks, trading companies, manufacturing companies etc. Then being the Federal Capital aded to its allure. and wealth profile. And has it blosomed from there onwards.

Having a port is good, but its not a game changer that folks keep saying. Insecurity and Monday sit at home sef, will do more damage to the region than you can imagine. Who is going to invest in the midst of insecurity?
BusinessRe: Onitsha Port Welcomes First Barge In 2025 by COMPAQ(m): 1:00pm On Aug 12, 2025
Racoon:
This was late in coming, but it is great step in the right direction. Dredge the Niger and watch the SE blossom some more. Now lets roll
There is a lot of ways to blosom without the port. The port is not the main issue. Afterall there is port in Warri, PH and Calabar. Have any of those cities witnessed extraordinary development on thr basis of the port being there?
PoliticsRe: Tinubu Platform Called Northerners Illiterate - Ex-SGF, Babachir Lawal by COMPAQ(m): 9:44am On Aug 12, 2025
givedemwotowoto:
This is a peculiar problem with Tinubu supporters, not Yorubas a tribe. Tinubu supporters make the worst political allies. Partner with them at your peril. That political group is filled with backstabbing, betrayal, and hate against Igbos out of envy and insecurities.
But when we support them, do they count our own support? The North have an entitlement mentiality thats very dangerous for this country. Even if Tinubu is nepotistic, Buhari started it in his own time with almost Northern appointments. And the statement that the North is largely illiteate is simple FACT!
PoliticsRe: Dozens Killed As NAF Airstrikes Hit Bandits Wedding In Zamfara by COMPAQ(m): 8:54pm On Aug 07, 2025
TimeManager:
https://www.thecable.ng/dozens-killed-as-naf-airstrikes-hit-bandits-wedding-in-zamfara/
Dunno why we need jets for this! Why can't drones handle it?

Drones are fly cheaper per hour than jets.
SportsRe: Wilfred Ndidi Unveiled As Besiktas' New Signing After A €9.5 Million Move by COMPAQ(m): 3:47pm On Aug 07, 2025
kidap:
Source: https://sureodds.ng/wilfred-ndidi-unveiled-as-besiktas-new-signing-after-completing-e9-5m-move/
About time. Nidid should have left Leicester like 4 seasons ago. Hes past his prime now
SportsRe: Zenith Bank Gifts D'Tigress ₦200 Million by COMPAQ(m): 3:40pm On Aug 07, 2025
SportsRe: Africa All Time XI. Which Player Is Missing Here? by COMPAQ(m): 5:04pm On Aug 06, 2025
perdollar:
My formation is 433
GK: Vincent Enyeama
LB: Celestine Babayaro
CB1: Taribo West
CB2: Uchechukwu Okechukwu
RB: Hakimi
DM: Mikel Obi
CM: JJ Okocha
AM: Kanu Nwankwo
LW: Samuel Eto
RW: George Weah
S: Didier Drogba
Very biased list. No way Taribo and Uche Okechukwu and Mikel will be on this list when Yaya Toure is there.or Rigobert Song

Even Enyeama as good as he was is not the African Best of the last 30 years. There was this Egyptian goalkeeper
I don't even think Celestine Babayaro deserves to be there
SportsRe: Africa All Time XI. Which Player Is Missing Here? by COMPAQ(m): 5:02pm On Aug 06, 2025
yummy001:
To all those shouting Jay Jay, as someone who watched him play in the mid to late 90's very well, I can tell you categorically that Jay Jay was more of a player who loved to play to the gallery with very little contribution to the team..

In fact, Oliseh confirmed this in one of his interviews with Elegbete Sports on YouTube.. He said Oruma was more of a playmaker than Jay-Jay.. Jay Jay was the kind of player you bring in when you were leading the opponents with a good margin and needed someone to frustrate them with his dribbling skills..

It wasn't until he was getting towards the end of his career that his game evolved into that of a playmaker who could marshal the midfield properly unlike the younger Jay Jay who was only an entertainer with little contribution to the game..

In fact, Oliseh even confirmed it further that he was always benched by Westerhof when Nigeria had some very crucial games to win and only brought in after a convincing lead to come and frustrate the opponent while dazzling the crowd..

That explains why most of the bigger European clubs were not looking his way when he was in his prime..

But I must give it to him for refining and stepping up his game towards the end of his career though..

If he had done that when he was younger, he would have been competing with the likes of Pirlo, Zidane or Xavi.
Well said! My that would have been my response to to all the many people on here shouting Jay Jay.
SportsRe: Africa All Time XI. Which Player Is Missing Here? by COMPAQ(m): 5:00pm On Aug 06, 2025
Kaido:
LB -Celestine Babayaro
CM - J.J Okocha comot Esssien
GK- Vincent Enyeama
ST - Drogba

Sub
Essien
George Weah
Abedi Pele

No LB in Africa reach Babayaro. Drogba na Baba.

BTW, I no be Chelsea fan just spitting facts
George Weah on the bench for Drogba? Really? The best version of Weah is far better than the best version of Drogba. For a guy to win World Player of the year and European and African in same year na Beans.
PoliticsRe: Fuel Imports Surge To 71% As Marketers Ditch Local Refineries by COMPAQ(m): 10:54am On Aug 04, 2025
iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/fuel-imports-surge-to-71-as-marketers-ditch-local-refineries/
While i wouldn't want fuel imports banned totally. maybe we should limit it in terms of litres. Eg we could say if local demand is 35mln litres, we will not import more than 10mln litres a day consumption and allocate it to the importers. This is on the assumption that Dangote can actually meet local demand.

If markerters are importing then it means:

1. The price is cheaper than Dangote
2. Dangote has excess petrol stored in tanks or
3. Dangote is exporting his own excess petrol

While this is good for the economy, the price differenc of maybe N10 or N20 between the importers and Dangote is not that relevant. For the sake of incentivizing local production, its better to let Dangote increase capacity utilization of his refinery.
PoliticsRe: ₦712 Billion Lagos Airport Upgrade Misplaced Priority — ADC by COMPAQ(m): 9:10am On Aug 04, 2025
Eraddray:
I remember when someone posted the devastating condition of the airport, someone made a comment that that they should make a case out of it because the government will use it as an opportunity to syphon money.....I knw this will eventually...more than half a trillion to rehabilitate an existing airport...how much they won use build another one sef 😂😆
Bear in mind, this is almost akin to a complete rebuild of the old terminal and it includes a rather signifciant road scope as well!

Mind you, some new airports run into $billions. Google and YouTube is your friend. Its just a matter of size, scope and scale!
PoliticsRe: ₦712 Billion Lagos Airport Upgrade Misplaced Priority — ADC by COMPAQ(m):
SmartPolician:
It's not a misplaced priority. MMA is the major entry point into Nigeria and deserves a decent look. The problem here is that these looters have massively inflated the project cost for their selfish interests.
I agree with ADC on this. The new terminal 2 is sufficient and under utilised. Several times I have flown from there, how many planes to you see on ground, either about to board or deboard passengers? In most cases, the gates are empty. Though that sometimes is because the larger places have to still use the old E and D wings of T1. But all that should be done is whatever is necessary to get the Terminal 2 gates to accept wide body planes and we will be fine for now.

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