₦airaland Forum

Deputy1111:
APC and Nigeria at large should not make mistake come 2023 presidential election. Osinbajo is the right candidate. He has proven himself on several occasions as a competent and capable leader.

The two most important parts of the equation for Osinbajo are Tinubu and Buhari! if both support him, then his chances are very good. I suspect Buhari may support Osinbajo, but if Tinubu really wants to become President, it will be very hard for Osinbajo. For all Buhari's influence as president, at the party level Tinubu in APC is equally as influential in the SW as Buhari is in the North. It would remain to be seen if APC as a party would align behind Osinbajo if Tinubu wants to contest.

The best thing though is for Tinubu to realize that he is too old and already rich enough for President. Tinubu may be more useful enjoying himself and coordinating things from the background. Unfortunately the greed of Nigerian politicians knows no bounds. As rich as Tinubu is, even with private jet, he still wants to enjoy Presidential privileges of jet, Aso rock and free medical care abroad, all of which he can really afford himself.

Pretty good list. It would be good if you could create this as a 250 Top Nigeria Greatest Songs playlistbon Deezer and are the link. I'd certainly listen to such a playlist, but though you may not get all the songs online.

Personally though I'd exclude most of the music from 200 to 250, except for Asa. Most of the PSquare, Burna, Wizzy, Olamide etc music has no meaning except for street Boys. The older generation of music from 200 below, one could distinctly hear the lyrics and appreciate what was being said. Too much of music today is just senseless words for the sake of rhyming.

stepaside2:
Fascinating that you call people dumb when you yourself don't understand the mechanism of how Joint Venture partnerships work whether here in Nigeria or elsewhere in the world.

Are you minding him? Classic example of how the ignorant embarrass themselves saying nonsense!

They should publish full details of this budget if they get mind. Getting to see the details of Lagos state budget has been almost impossible since 1999. Even Budgit cannot get it, yet they publish the federal budget.

Shokoloko:
Manufacturing doesn't need thought or intelligence at the lowest point (which is what they are bringing to Africa). Design thinking will surely remain in China.
From his theory, the average Nigerian will have an underpaying labour intensive job, but for starters it will be a job.
We have a 33.3% unemployment rate and hopefully with many youths employed (sub optimally) they will be able to afford just the basic necessities of life.

I disagree cos what the world manufactures most these days have some form of chips or electronics in it that requires a better brain these days. The days of manufacturing industrial goods are almost over. These days the biggest manufacturing is phones, chips, and so on. Everything has circuitry these days to connect to the internet such as ac, fridge, microwave, freezer, tv, smart speakers, gaming consoles, phones, even bulbs etc. not the dumb products of yesteryear. Not stuff you want to entrust to an idiot to manufacture cos the stakes are high. Besides like I said the choice of manufacturing is beyond labor. Lack of electricity is enough to disqualify Nigeria when compared to Ghana or Ivory Coast.

rentAcock:
Even if Naira drops to N4000/$, I will continue to believe in this country because I can see what's coming. The wise are heavily investing in Nigeria while the weak are looking for how to go abroad. The whole world is tired of China, they are looking for cheap labor, Nigeria is the next China. We have the population, the youth and the literacy level to be the next manufacturing power. Plus, several countries that benefited from slavery (U.S, UK, Spain and Portugal) have proposed ways to pay back Africans for all the abuse, exploitations throughout our history. There is a conscious effort to make Africa the next industrial hub. Those lacking foresight won't see this, they only see the now and not the later. Ignore the noise and look for a small factory you can start; In the next 5yrs all the big multinational companies like Amazon, Walmart and co will be pouring billions into our infrastructure just to enable us to manufacture goods for them. So many people will miss this boat, but you are hearing this now, act on it.

I like your enthusiasm, unfortunately it is very much misplaced. Companies want an environment with good infrastructure to manufacture (electricity, ports, transportation network, rule of law, judicial fairness, airports, exchange rate stability etc) and Nigeria has none of these! Also our youth are literate but companies need more than that. They need well educated and we don’t have that unfortunately. A primary 6 person from US, is mentally sharper and more aware than a ss3 student from here, cos our education doesn’t encourage thinking - just cramming and passing exams. No application. There are many countries in Africa that will attract the so called billions from Amazon and co such as Ghana, SA, Rwanda, Morocco, Egypt, Kenya before Nigeria.

donofdons:
I hope Davido is paying his taxes in the USA since he is a citizen of that blessed country

Very valid question!!

Smartini:
Why and how is Julius Berger and CCECC responsible for over 99.9% of all state and federal construction works in Nigeria? This monopoly is insane and is one of the major factors for construction project delays - how do you expect the construction company to deliver projects on time when they're working on a thousand federal roads at the same time?

There are reputable Dutch and Belgian construction giants that would rival the quality of Julius Berger and CCECC for half the money and time - Imagine abandoned road and bridge projects everywhere in Nigeria (especially in Ogun State) because these companies have to shift workers and machinery everywhere

Why the greed?

Are these reputable Dutch and Belgian companies nameless?? How about you name them, so we know which companies you are referring to.

Projects are abandoned everywhere because government does not pay its bills as at when due, not because JB is over stretched.

aribisala0:
The budget has nothing to do with dollars it is NOT roughly $5 billion dollars. We do not spend dollars and do not operate in the same framework.

There is no way $5 billion in America will account for the same number of people or activities

whether it is petrol a haircut,taxi fare or olosho the cost schema is not the same

forget the exchange rate. It is not relevant

It is very relevant!! Like it or not the USD is the currency of the world and benchmarking against it is a valuable indicator of progress or otherwise. You might have seen a viral post some time ago of how someone who built house for rent was collecting N1mln rent like 8 years ago, which at the time was worth $1000 for eg, while now rent of N2.5mln is worth $800. Increase in NGN seems like progress, but in dollar terms, it highlights that not as much progress is being made.

Most of that capital expenditure will be highly influenced by e-rate, so its very relevant.

Jidemoo:
Sometimes,I just don't know if it's a crime to be a Nigerian

Others dey go front,we choose to dey go back

Calm down!! It's only a Stadium which they had to build to host afcon. We have Abuja stadium and Uyo stadium that beats this hands down. This is looking at the same level as Adioke Amiesimaka stafolium in PH.

azpekuliar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhvbET2ei0

The rap is good, but I no see wetting Mo’chedah sing for here

This is why government can never run a business successfully. This time of the year has the greatest demand for rail services. This is the time the NRC should be smiling to the bank, but that's the time the dumb FG decides to give free train rides!! Honestly speaking, anyone who cannot afford N1200 train ride from Lagos to Ibadan should just stay in Lagos and not travel. it's not by force.

People will say they don't have money to travel, but the place you are going at this time of the year, is it not money you are going to spend there? How do you show up anywhere for Xmas and not spend money?

All this is, is cheap publicity for political support, not sound economic decision making.

Tetrahedron:
Lol
The bourdillon frog is losing on all fronts

I would like this to take hold, but what power does IBB have in APC? That's where the real problem is. Scaling the APC primaries is the real battle.

Depends on if Tinubu is really interested in contesting or not. If not will he openly support Osinbajo? Likewise Buhari. Does he have enough clout in APC to swing it for Osinbajo should he decide to support him?

It's clear that Buhari would prefer Osinbajo to Tinubu.

Insidenaija:
https://newspremises.com.ng/pinnick-confirms-nff-met-mourinho-for-super-eagles-job/

Mourinho that has never managed a country before. It’s now Nigeria that will decide to try that with first Pinnick must be on cheap drugs.

ThEGodFaThEr107:
E-money made money from clearing and forwarding.
His wife was the key to his success in that service business that he became very big and started clearing full container loaded ships for some big wigs in the industry.
As an igbo man concerned, he diversified into other money making businesses like oil and gas and shipping.
Today, he owns an empty container terminal (Emmy shipping) that's being run by an elder brother.

There's no juju to it
Dont ever think There's Yahoo to it just because they call him electronic money, man is a legit business man.

N.B igbo man and business is like 5&6
It's abinibi not ability
Na Papa God give them, na follow come

Same businessman as invictus obi and hush puppy abi

Brexxit:
We celebrate mediocrity in this country too much.

The amount of money Akwa ibom state has received for the past 8 years is enough to turn it to a world class standard like Dubai.

The Governors of Akwa ibom are thieves, especially akpabio.

I get where you are coming from, but what many of you don't realise is that no government single handedly builds a city. A lot of what you see in Dubai is also private capital. Not every skyscraper you see in dubai is built by the government. When a city/country becomes viable for investment, they will need a head office won't they? Either they build it themselves or a private developer may build it and then they lease space there.

It's like saying Lagos state government built the nice high rise office buildings on Osborne Road. The two under construction, one belongs to Dangote and the other to Alakija. In 5years now when completed, someone will come to Osborne from Nassarawa state and say why can his governor not develop their capital like Lagos.

naptu2:
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1918491671654266&id=454791201357661&m_entstream_source=timeline

More like Aba shopping complex!

prophetfire:
You call importation "ordinary" and says anyone can do it? Oya na, go and venture into it and see for yourself.

Importation is what millions of Nigerians do! Is everything we use not imported? If you look at 20things around you, 18 of them will be imported. Your phone, jeans, power bank, belt, TV, laptop, shoes, watch etc.

The point is Dangote actually went the line of production which reduces imports, reduces demand for forex and creates jobs which results in taxes for govt. So why wouldn't government support him?

And now that Air Peace is worth supporting, the government has done that too!

EBMedia:
Court Jails Fake Oil Magnate 175 Years for Duping American $629,287 (Photo)


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=274136488082895&id=100064596373289

And state governors convicted of stealing billions are being given 8years!!!!!?

Lanrelagboi:
Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu today commissioned the newly reconstructed Network of Roads in Victoria Island (Adeola Hopewell Street, Idowu Taylor Street and Afribank Street).

Adeola Hopewell and Afribank/ Churchgate Streets are One-way traffic road while Idowu Taylor is a two-way. The three roads form a ring road-like pattern that serves that sector of Victoria Island.

The network discharges traffic into Sanusi Fafunwa which also connects back to Adeyemo Alakija Street at it tail end.

Some of the features of the road designs: interlocking paving stones on walkway and Carriageway Provision of service ducts, street/lane marking and provision of Streetlights.


The commissioning of these network of roads will improve Inter-connectivity with other roads within area, eliminate perennial flooding and erosion problems experienced within the axis and better socio-economic activities within the area.

#ForAGreaterLagos
#SanwoIsWorking

Good development, but Sanusi Fafunwa and Adeyemo Alakija and that GTB former head office street should have been done as well to really give that part of VI a new lease on life.

kavey10:
Abeg my people, where on the island in Lagos can one get 18-20 hours light for residential homes.

I'll appreciate your submission.

In my estate in Ologolo/IgboEfon we average about 18 to 20 hours a day. On a bad day, which maybe just a day a week, we might be 12 hours.

Don't know if that is because we have our own transformer sha o

envoymedia:
Actress Luchy Donalds Celebrates As She Is Gifted With A Mercedes Benz Car (Photos, Video)

Popular Nollywood actress, Luchy Donalds has been gifted with a new Mercedes-Benz car, IgbereTV reports.

The actress revealed that the car was waiting for her while she was on vacation in Instabul, and she returned to receive it as an early Christmas gift.

Some of her colleagues congratulated her on her new car, telling her that she deserves the car because she worked too hard for it.

Luchy shared a video of herself with the car on her Instagram handle. She captioned the video;


https://www.instagram.com/p/CXUCNuRNaB_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

See video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWUugOe-drw

So we are now celebrating second hand benz online. The car looks ancient. Certainly not a recent model.

seborrhic:
Anyone expecting it to make rice cheaper maybe chasing a pipe dream with this government.
6 months after production starts the next thing u wud hear is that Nigerians are buying the rice at cheap prices and smuggling it across the border to sell at higher prices;so the goverment has no choice than to raise the price to discourage smuggling.
Another one will be that due to scarcity of foreign exchange the production company has to source for dollars at the black market to buy machinery and other production needs;so prices have to be raised to avoid laying off of staff and settling of bank debts.

The unfortunate reality is that these 2 scenarios if they occurred would be real. That's the impact of operating in a global economy. Interest rates, exchange rates etc will surely have an impact on operations

This imota rice mill has been 99% complete for almost 2 years now!!

larryking540:
then the fg can source for cheaper labour ,that's what UAE ,and other countries do when their citizens refuse to work

Labour in Nigeria is already one of the cheapest in the world

Curious345:
Medical consultants earn 300k-400k monthly in 9ja.

Professors earn 400k-500k monthly in 9ja.

Bus driver earn £3,000 (2.8m) monthly in London..

If you don't chose driving a bus above this mess we call a country then you must be high on Mkpurummiri

Not really a good anaylsis, as it doesn't consider cost of living.

If that Professor were to be in University of Ibadan (Ibadan being a cheap town), he might be able to save more at the end of every month than the guy earning GBP3000 in London.

Let me add additional perspective for you. I live in Houston and let me give you a run down of bills, some of which don't exist (or are significantly lower) in Nigeria:

Rent (3bed) $1,850 a month (N1.036mln) equivalent in Ibadan is like $178 a month (N1.2mln a year)
Auto Insurance $108 a month (N60k)
Electricity $120 (N67k)
Water $70 (N39k)
Gas $50 (N28k)
Homeowners Insurance $60 (N33k)
Flood Insurance $60 (N33k)
Home Warranty $60 (N33k)

Lanrelagboi:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/12/09/sanwo-olu-unveils-lagos-state-electricity-policy/%3famp=1

And how exactly will this policy help? Nigerian news sources are really poor sha. They just report on the periphery of issues without any detail or substance. Partly because the journalist covering the event sef is low quality. If he were to read the policy sef, he couldn't analyze it well enough to bring out the salient points.

Not even a link to the pdf version of said policy so we can read it for ourselves.

Omooba77:
https://punchng.com/25000mw-siemens-power-project-begins-q1-2022-fg/

This is just typical shallow Nigerian news without details.

Can anyone tell me exactly how Siemens plans to get us from our current paltry 4000MW to 7000MW? Is it by providing gas to existing under utilized gas plants? If so, where is the gas magically going to come from? Or do they plan to deploy grid scale solar and wind?

And then how are we to get from 7000MW to 11,000MW and then on the 25,000MW. Even if money were not an impediment, that sort of jump would still be very challenging to pull off, given the so many things that can go wrong with executing a project like this in Nigeria beyond the financial aspects.

As far as I'm concerned this is all just shallow talk, as there is no concrete plan!!

Commotfornigeri:
This guy has redefined nigeria's aviation sector.

That's what we thought when Arik first started too!!

newswires:
This is the VIP lounge of the Anambra international airport


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUWUQP7Fjo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf5yv5D8420


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfgfMZlt18

This RUBBISH is VIP lounge!!!!?? Have these guys travelled at all to see lounge!! In fact one doesn't even need to travel out. Just compare the lounges at departure wings of MMIA (and these are still substandard o) to this rubbish!!

FarahAideed:
And you don't know almost 30 percent of the cost of your flight ticket goes to the Nigerian govt ? You should check the breakdown of your international flight fares and see

That's transaction tax and one off! What about the remaining tax on that persons annual income?

Myexdisturbs:
Nigeria is about 1.4 times bigger than Texas.
Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 36% larger than Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (188.9 million more people live in Nigeria).

Funny enough on Google maps, they look roughly the same size