₦airaland Forum

worlexy:
This format has been on for quite a while na.

Another format is you receiving recharge card number as SMS from an unknown number and someone calling you back that you should not load the card and if you agree, he will later call you that his old man wants to appreciate and pray for you, and that's where the scamming will start from.

Ol boy, something similar happened to me, was driving with bae, someone inside another car waved at me around my biz place so I thought it could be a customer whose face I don't really know, stopped, man alights and move to me, saying they're going to ibadan and fuel finish, I helped out with the little I cld, insisted I dropped my phone number, I won't usually oblige but the begging come pass begging for the money gan, evening he calls to say thanks, me I'm like no qualms, we never know who cld help us, next morning, calls again to say thanks , afternoon call again, I became suspicious, evening call again he said his pastor or Alfa wants to pray for me, when he started saying awkward language I hung up blocked the number make them no jazz me, good deed done has been appreciated enough, I don't hesitate to block any number I did not personally save or I don't know who's on the other side

Wanted to take advantage of help

Another one has called me saying from my bank, called out my full name and other details, then my brain paused (thank God) cos I know my bank's phone nymbers, asked why he called with a different number, guy gives weak reply, then I realized that's not even the number I put on that particular bank's bio data, wondering how he got my second number which I don't even give any human being except family or very long time friends

ATTemi:
Some even put their account details as bio.

As in ehn, see people wey I dey follow answer "Nigerian" with

SMH

Tobeheax:
M-a-c-ay en-e-r-gy

15% cap-tal every 2* weeks

Cap-tal paid back in the 10*th week

wha-t-S-app
0-90-18-24-6-8-61

0-7083-11-9-1-00

15% every 2 weeks, that if I give you 1m, two weeks I get back 1,150,000 right

Please what business do you guys engage in before I push my money to you and I think all well meaning nairalanders would really love to do business with you if you can share how you produce interest for our monies

I can't contact you personally right now till I get confirmation from you sir

RedBororo:
Most names from that part of the country are difficult to pronounce and spell, just be sure this would be salted out soon

Salted kwa

Hmmnn, I leave you for David Lyon

Eteka1:
This man is very cool headed. I like him.

Until he shows his true color, these guys are not to be trusted

femi4:
You can put the blame on me

Oga be careful ohh, if everyone starts sending their blames to you, I wonder what would become of you ohh

Only Buhari's blame game can run you out of breath

ATTemi:
Hw people manage 2 beg online baffles me, like no iota of shame.

As in ehn, it's a shame ohh

Tomorrow, when thread that requires sane inputs spring up, they'll be there maiming people, calling other people poor

Imagine those guys are elected into power, it would be looting spree

I think it would be wise to also check people's social media writings when they are seeking leadership positions Sha, there we would know who they truly are

daddytime:
We need to be thankful to God for one thing, and that is the fact that Buhari won and presided as a civilian.

Without the above, and upon his demise, this, and future generations would have wrongly tagged him "The Messiah and true President Nigeria never had".

For how long do we continue on this "thank God so so and so person won, he would have been thought to be the Messiah if he hadn't won" mantra

While it plays out that they're not the thought Messiah, lives are been put through hell, we should vote in people who are of sound minds and economic know how

Buhari for one was never sound both economically or otherwise and we all knew but chose to turn a blind eye

There were other candidates in the last election,but Nigerians chose the bandwagon thingy, atiku is an alleged thief so he also was not an option and we all knew this, there were other candidates

In the coming elections there would be other candidates too

SangoOlukosoOba:
His Excellence President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR) is a daunce!

What enormous work are they doing outside looting and embezzling constituency funds.


May be His Excellence should state-out cartegorically what they do.


Sets of looters

According to what I'm made to understand from the buhari lead govt, even the act of embezzlement is hard work which they think they deserve standing ovation for, how else do we justify the fact that one man had the effontery to loot a whole 150billion naira if he doesn't think he should be clapped for

989900:
6 years ago, who would have thought Buhari would say something this preposterous?!

How much do legislatives in other countries with far better GDP per capita earn?!!

Shame on the hypocritical General!



P.S. Folks, I'm telling you, believe it or not, there is something in Aso villa that makes these guys lose their identity, their minds and everything.

I disagree with on your last statement ohh, there's nothing in aso rock, it's who they truly are that manifests once they're in power

Prior to elections they're meek and generous, after that their true nature surface

Notasaints:
What's his source of income?

how did he make his money

At this point, I just pray God gives me the grace to be able to gift my employees cars someday

I've tried on my own little way too but I pray o can do more, yeah I tried, even surpassed my expectations for myself but more is a goal

So right now, I just don't want to ask his of source of income but just say God bless him for his life and gesture

Davash222:
Pirates, Buhari and co are all Oil thieves! No difference.

Buhari and co even steal more than the pirates gan

chimhigher:
SARS are just something else, they are just thieves in uniform. They threaten innocent people with guns just go rob them off their Funds. This one is just MUMU, his account details will be enough to render him jobless and behind bars if the needful is Done.

Like you said

"IF THE NEEDFUL IS DONE"

This is Nigeria bro, nothing go happen

implementing:
To every one reading this comment I want to say

If you see these people stand your ground and SMS your friends your location and what you are dealing with before yielding to thier requests. (Do as if you're meaning to transfer and make proper use of the opportunity, if its risky you can ditch the idea)

We need to protest on this issue cos is affecting innocent people...It takes all of us to make a difference

Besides the government should unlicense these guys from carrying guns cos I don't see the diffrence between these guys and armed robbers, they don't even have tracking equipment or OB van na sienna them know nonsense people




Seems like you've not jammed these guys, they don't ask questions or care to know if you're innocent or not, plus some of them go around with POS those guys are full BROAD DAY LIGHT ARMED ROBBERS

You have friends... Wow, you're very lucky ohh

I can't say for sure that I have friends, humans care for themselves only

Owodiran1:
All this annoying news is so tiring. What do you want us to do about it. Stop voting una no go hear word. Do you want us to go and tell dem not to buy cars or what.ok let me be a bit polite. How can we stop them fr buying the car. 2023 every body should stay at home. No voting. Let their children and love ones come back from abroad to vote. No vote una no go hear

They will still put themselves in power

Reference:
So what do you want us to do about this. This is a local problem on a national forum. Ate there no people in that state to set fire to those cars.

You got it right

We probably should start setting their cars on fire, set their homes on fire too, chase them like the thieves they are, but who would stand with you

There's power in numbers but Nigerians are cowards

frog12:
what is wrong with lawmakers using marwa keke?

Maybe he thinks they're special humans or super humans

Well, if wishes were horses, I'd choose to have Superman's powers, I'd kill too many politicians, you loot, don't bother spending it cos I'd kill you where you stand

I'd be evil Superman to those that rip this country apart , but then again, if only wishes were horses

loschivatos:
Surprisingly, people will just go on with their daily activities as if nothing happened, which makes me wonder if an average Nigerian is mentally ok.

Everyday I wish I could start a revolution, but knowing how Nigerians don't care, I just have to suppress the thought

I imagine myself standing on a highway, doing my protest, I get shot like a chicken, definitely there'll be nobody with me cos we don't care, people just walk by saying, who send am?

Then you understand we don't deserve progress

Even Bible say, the kingdom suffereth violence, true believers taketh it by force

Gnaeusmagnus:
That's what I have been wondering for the past 10 years o....



Exactly, and all it takes is someone discovering nuclear fusion.....




My problem with agric in Nigeria is twofold

1.It is not mechanized

2.It is not mechanized.

Because of mechanization and government subsides, cotton farmers in the US can out produce and beat cotton farmers in Mali and Burkina Faso...because, like Nigeria, most of the cotton farmers are subsitence farmers,20 of whom cannot outproduce one US farmer.

Another thing....EVERYBODY DOES AGRIC. So, if you are exepcting income from agric..it won't be too much.

Again, we don't control the prices of agric commodities.....so if prices fall....the same old story.

It would be good if we used the byproducts of agric eg cow skin for shoes/leather...productively.


Yeah.

Just realized there were some typo errors in my write up, but I guess u get my points

Yes, In Nigeria farming is not mechanized, those who made their farming mechanized didn't do magic, they bought/produced machines, the govt also aided them as well

Move around Nigeria, you'd see there's just too much land that lay fallow which can be used for farming in large scale, if we did, we might be sharing food for free even to neighboring countries gan

greggng:
Which companies does Dino has?

E reach to ask ohh

Some people are defending him, even in white man's land, before you buy such, you must have done enough business that even blind man can see you really worked hard

2miilion whether in naira or dollars in the white man's land is not chicken change ohh

Naija wch way ohh

Gnaeusmagnus:
OK

Here is the reason why the reserve is falling, and by the way, if you think I am defending Buhari, you have missed the point of my discussion. Like most Nigerian things about the economy, Buhari is a symptom not the cause.

1.Oil prices are chronically low. And infact, they are set to keep falling with the corona virus thing happening.

2.For Nigeria to survive, we need oil to be at a certain price called the breakeven price...in brief, the price where we have paid all the production costs, and have enough left over. As at 2012, it was $120. Today it is at $139 per barrel. Oil since 2015 has not risen above $75, and is now around $60

3.Because of the low oil price, since 2015, when our Bubu took over, oil has been staying low. Infact, we have been losing anywhere between $60-90 per barrel of oil sold because the oil price has not been high enough.

4.Initally, our reserves in 2015 were at $32bn, then they went down to $28 billion. Then Bubu managed to raise it to above $40 billion.

5.The problem is, oil prices have been remaining very low. In an ideal situation, you wait till oil prices go up, with the hope that the economy stabilizes. Now, it hasn't gone up....so we have to start dependeing on the reserves.

6. Why are we taking loans...because the oil price has been below the breakeven price...which means that we must take loans...or by now we would collapse.

7. The only way out is simple

. We cut fuel subsides...money saved....reserves grow

. We cut power subsides...money saved...reserves grow.

. Hopefully investment flows in, meaning we have enough resources to fuel our economic growth...which means we would eventually, after a period of hardship, become a industrial nation, and earn FAR more than we ever earned from oil. Then things like restructuring, and even Biafra would look more feasible.

8.The truth is that Buhari, like most Nigerian leaders, cannot take that decsion because

-it means higher fuel prices, and higher power prices
-it means potential economic crisis and inflation


so, we keep on wasting money on welfare projkects, while we keep borrowing to keep our heads afloat.

Mind, most African countries are like this, which is why many of them are so broke. We rely on raw materials and share the income they bring...meanwhile, we don't control their prices. That's how it has been since 1960...and why restructuring now, and even going back to agruculture won't save us.

That is why our reserves keep on going down.

MODIFIED

For those who read this and think I am defending Buahri....sorry, I am not. The problem in breif is that our economy is tied to the price of oil. And we do not control that price. That is a big part of the reason why we are in the mess today.

Nigerian leaders, Bubu inclusive, have known the path we should take out of this. GEJ...tried to get us off oil dependency via removing fuel subsides in 2012...with the hope that we would eventually use foreign investment to get us off oil..and ginger our economy. But many of us were to blind to see(fortunately, I was not).

MODIFIED 2

Many responses to this assume that I am defending the Buhari administration.

Well, to be honest I am not.

I can see why people think that way....the explanation I have given above can be seen by some as amounting to 'The government is not doing well because there isn't enough money...the problem is beyond our control'.

To me, the problem is simple. We will continue to have economic problems when our economy is linked to oil prices...so, either the government gets us off oil, or leaves our economy vulnerable'

And if you cannot come to my conclusion, sorry.

Once again, I am not pro or anti Buhari. The sad thing about politics for me is that leadership at all levels is not visionary enough for me, and the same mistakes keep being made. If you want to peg me as a probuharist...sorry. I didn't vote for him at any time since 2003.

How can an economy rely solely on one source of income (crude oil) and expect progress

What if crude dries up which is unlikely to be but what if it does because the crude can't keep replenishing itself with the reckless abandon we're using to drain it without any results

The world is going electric, that means lesser crude demand no matter what you say, it might take time before it happens that everything relies on electric but it's happening gradually

How else can Nigeria make money if not to diversify; and one of those means is agric

I've read where people said agric can't save us and I begin to wonder how people come to such conclusion

I hope you do realize food is the most basic need of every living organism even if you don't have shelter or cloth, you can survive but without food, crude oil is totally useless, meaning if we use agric, we can become a food basket of the world and demand for food can never reduce rather it increases as population increases, even when population reduced which is most unlikely food demand doesn't just go down like that ohh

Check other countries, they have several source of power in itself, meaning if this one fails, the other still saves the day

adecz:



He has simply mismanaged our
economy & bankrupted everyone except
his family members & cronies.


What do you expect, when you
handover a bizness to an incompetent
manager?


See how skinny his cattle look sef!!

I was wondering what we were expecting from someone who accordingly said he did not have money to sponsor his own campaign just to score cheap points, it simply means he did not manage his own life well else he would have made money for himself, how would he now manage a full country to achieve progress

One particular man in my office could kill u if u said buhari is not good, he argued that buhari was working underground, then second term came, vote out the bastard, this same man said buhari would use second term to solidify all his underground hardwork, people were showing him all the sufferings in the land, he still maintained that buhari is trying to make things better for them, but here we have it, this same buhari has made so much thought provoking statement

Nigerian youth are lazy : did you give them quality jobs

Nigeria has no money : his medical trips alone can crumble a business unit, my business would not be able to cater to his health trips outside this country sef, that means if I sponsor his useless trips I would be out of business, his useless globe throttling is enough to make Nigerian accounts go to deficit

Recently blamed victims of bomb blast for somehow being responsible for the killings on their own land

Boko Haram has been deradicalized so release them

I don't keep tabs on the bastard, I hope he doesn't die a good death, I hope he get to suffer just like he has made so many suffer

Dbiz1111:
Tinubu is coming. Next level Pro

Nah swear you dey swear for us ni

Tinubu wey don die finish, e remain make Dem bury am, what would he offer us nah

Goldencheese:
No problem, if he cannot perform be ause of money, let him resign so that the person who can create the money to work with can come in.

Shoo. Na by force. He should resign na.

Best comment ever

franciscom:
who will pay

They can use some of the funds they usually loot

Offpoint:
It's a crime to drop filth in AK, you'll be highly fine or sentence if caught.

Can they please introduce it everywhere in this country

I've been guilty once or twice, I rarely ever drop dirts on the road or in the open, I'd rather hold it till I reach my house or drop it in the bus if I'm using public transport but I'm sure if they fine me or make me do community service once, my once or twice would turn to never again

BTW: no central dustbin in this country at a, I don find dustbin plenty times all to no avail

JoseRaji:
That's if they don't remove it from there and put it to good use.

Exactly why he said it will enter back, cos they won't do anything abt it, it would just be left there

Davash222:
This is how my God will pack out dirty and nonsense girls out of my life.

Wait, you have that much girls in your life?

They suppose flog u gan

My own 1 is enough headache for me and my biz talkless of keeping multiple upon multiple, nah die u dey ohh

berrystunn:
You are right sir , human do control the system,
But the system have to be in place for human to control without compromise.

For example in Europe, when a police officer stop you, first they will great you and ask for your i.d. to know more about you, the officer most Radio the central system. (Which human control)

For confirmation as soon as that is done with green light, they will let you go. If red light they will have to take you in for questioning and so on.



No matter how much you offer to that police officer he will not collect.
Reason is because it's already recorded in the system that officer A have to bring Mr Val for questioning noting can stop it.

Another reason the system have registered the officer and prove him to arrest Mr Val.


The only way the officer can collect bribe is to involve the person in the central system. It's always random. Like calling MTN customer care service. Meaning you don't know who picked up the confirmation call .
Making it impossible to bribe and so difficult to get
Let assume the officer finally get through to the man in the central system.
how can he delete records from the central data system of the country under the Institution?


With the system the person have to face the law not more than 24h after the arrest.

The system have already registered the name time ,date venue for the court. How will the process stop from all office that is involved.

The process will be going on and on
Even when The suspect have the money to bribe , but no body to collect it, because of the system.

System fights corruption not individual.
Example Like ATM machine. that You always use almost every day, you forgot your card.. he can't help you. Promise the machine 50% of the amount you want to withdraw, is not going to work and he will never compromise.

2.You don't have money in your account , ask the machine to give you something for old times sake when you have you will return it back , you and I know it's can't work or compromise for familiarity sake

3.After collecting money from ATM try to drop some tips, he will not collect no matter what.

This is how institutions roll .

Perfect bro

That is the Nigeria we (all well meaning Nigerians) want

We would get there, even if it's slow and steady, we hope to get there

mosho2good:
*Emeka's Sugar mummy is someone else's wife, Emeka bought her flowers � and she repackaged and gave them to her husband, who, pretending to take them to the office, repackaged and gave them to his girlfriend.*

*His girlfriend is Emeka's fiancé...*

*The fiancé finally repacked and gave them to Emeka.*

*Emeka is now holding the flowers he bought himself and saying, "this looks familiar..." �*

*Well,*

*1. In physics it is called "Circular motion" �*

*2. In Philosophy it is called "Karma" ��*

*3. In Chemistry it is called "Chain Reaction"*

*4. In Computer science it is called "Looping" �*

*5. In Life it is called "what goes round always comes round" �*

*6. In the place of worship it is called "Back to sender"*

*7. In Psychology it is called "Familiar Spirit" �*

*8. And in Nigeria it is called "Inside Life".*

�������

Mad ohh

seunlayi:
Try to put this items on your car and let see what will happened to it, your eyes go clear

Boss don't misconstrue things ohh, the people that use those things are not ordinary citizens like you and I, they're the VIPs, the untouchables

Or who do you think gave them in the first place

You; corporal; stop car with siren, turns out it's Obasanjo car that his distant cousin uses to carry girls around, even the Inspector general papa no go fit stop am

Did you read the story of the money found at murtala Mohammed airport, 8.1million dollars in cash, then the owner (vip who they left anonymous) says it's 9million, then they still said the money shouldn't have been seized in the first place, the VIP is reaching out to top politicians to see to the release of his money

Or the bullion van episode during election, where owner of bullion van said in a video that it's nobody's money and business, that whether anybody's money was missing, that since he wasn't in power he can choose how he carries or spend his money and it's nobody's business

Nigeria nah wash jare