₦airaland Forum

LordBiden:
Funny you.

If the US couldn't defeat rag tag Afghanistans due to the difficult terrains,is it Iran they would now defeat having it in mind that Iran has a more difficult terrain than Afghanistan.

This media narrative that the US lost the war in Afghanistan is just terrible.

1. The US fished out the terrorists
2. The US imposed a new government
3. The US occupied the country for as long as the wanted
4. The taliban didn't defeat US forces in combat
5. Afghanistan is no more a threat to the US and to the world. They are just enslaving their woman which sincerely, is their problem.
6. The US decided to leave the country cause it's cost became redundant and they wanted to deploy that money to different things and send their soldiers home.
7. The taliban only came back to power AFTER the US left and that's because the citizens were complacent.

So the question is: how did they lose the war?

demoBaba:
This showed how you dislike Mr. President.... MC said he has appeal the judgment to Supreme Court.

Thats a lie. Matters that pass through the industrial court like this one ends at the appeal court.

Parachoko:
You've posted one of the major deals that will favour Nigeria ports, yet you're claiming there's no benefit.

This is how people like you fail in an exam hall

How does the deal favor Nigeria ports? You know we'll be importing with scarce forex right?

Entanglement:
Dangote did the same stuff with cement and sugar! Now now petrol!

Monopoly should be illegal in this country

Bros, Monopoly is an illegal practice in many countries of the world. I don't know how it's not illegal in Nigeria.

Dangote is no saint.

ibedun:
A very stewpid country as well. Anyway, without the US dollar the pounds sterling could be worse than Naira or Cedis.

I hope Iran's 2-ton hypersonic missiles can get to the UK.

They don't want to accept that US/Israel have already LOST THE WAR!

And they are supported by a particular demographic of Nigeria famous for supporting the losing party and presidential candidate!

How has the US lost the war.

Ajibbbbbb:
Tell America and Israel to do away with their nuclear weapons, then.....
Why countries rush to get nuclear weapons
The biggest reason is protection.
Look at this example:
👉 North Korea
Before nuclear weapons → weak, threatened
After nuclear weapons → nobody dares attack directly
Even the powerful United States avoids direct war with them.
👉 Why?
Because:
❗ Nuclear weapons = “If you attack me, you will also be destroyed”
This is called:
👉 Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
Meaning:
If one launches → both sides lose everything



Let them face Russia

Russia is too small for the US really. Ordinary Ukraine, they're still battling after 4 years.

VanuatuWycombe:
See reasoning. Who says prosperity depends on landmass? Read my comment again. I said much of it are not livable, meaning that they will only use gas in areas that are livable and export others.

Iran is destroying West’s interests in Qatar. Go and ha ng yourself, if you are not happy with it. Ad teal, Israel is dealing with Iran too.

Who is talking about Qatar richer? All Qatar has cannot take care of Nigeria for a year, if nothing is stolen from it. You feel Nigeria doesn’t have money? Qatar cannot withstand the level of stealing going on Nigeria. It will collapse.

Man. You are the dordor.yor. You comment out of context, because you want to say something. We are talking of war strategy, you are talking of landmass and wealth.

A mu’kun m’eko.

You sound incoherent. It was quite difficult trying to get the message you were passing because you were mixing it up with irrelevant things. You must learn to articulate your thoughts well regardless of the pain you feel.

I assume you're not a woman?

Attacking your neighbor in guise of destroying the west's interest is lame cause if these countries decide to retaliate, nothing will be left of Iran.

In fact as of now, nothing is left of Iran. No navy, no Air force, all leaders killed, critical National assets decimated and under the control of the US/Israel. And that's without either opposing sides putting boots on the ground.

1. Kharg Island which is their Oil Hub and handles nearly 99% of their oil exports.

2. South Pars, a Gas Facility which typically accounts for roughly 70% of Iran's total gas production.


A disgrace.

Supporting or not supporting terrorists won't change their fate. Their fate is destruction.

Also, I'll say this:

You need to start reasoning deeper. The greatest resource of a country is it's human resources not Oil. Nigeria is poor not because we don't have oil but we have poor human resources like you! Coupled with poor leadership.

And china is rich not because they have oil but because they have high quality human resources.

Lastly, comparing Qatar is richer than Nigeria. And that's because Qatar resources is enough for the population and that's what matters and also that's what makes them rich.

Nobody told Nigeria to have an enormous population they can't cater for.

VanuatuWycombe:
The whole of livable land in Qatar is not up to Lagos State. Everywhere is pure desert and sand dunes. How many gas are they using in Qatar?

From time, Iran has always been independent of those other gulf countries. Iran is bigger and has natural resources enough to cater for its people only God knows why they are not getting it right.

Go and check world map, only Saudi Arabia has bigger landmass and, may be, Oman and they are 95% deserts. They import most things they need.

Qatars population as of today is less than 3.3 million. People In Alimosho in Lagos State are more than people in Qatar.

Those gases are for export to the western world, which Iran believes is her e n emy. Most of the shipping lines carrying those gases belong to the West. Iran is trying to ground them so that it results into loss of millions of foreign currencies.

You are too low in logic. Iran is, indirectly, dealing with the west.

It is still cold in the West. How will they heat their homes, if they don’t have gases? After Winter, the West still needs gas for industrial use and to cook etc. There own gas pipe is fitted like water pipes to all factories and houses. They don’t carry cylinders around the way we do in Nigeria. They must have gas reserves.

So as Iran is taking hits from US and Israel and Qatar and co are helping Israel to intercept Iran’s missiles, Iran feels the best way is to inflict harms on her ene mies is to attack their source of livelihood. War is not won by only kpaing people. War is won by incapacitating your enemies.
It’s parts of what they teach them in war colleges all over the world. This is not a war of Ijaye.

If e reach your turn as a war general, always go after people and not go after what could bring your opponents to their kneels quickly. Ok? Why do you think the US sanctions countries? Sebi it’s to ground them and comply to what the US wants.

You can imagine how many generals boko boys have kpaied on our Nigerian army. Have they been able to ground our economy? No. They haven’t.

But look at a war tactic Nigerian government used on a 3,aib during civil war. Food supply to them was cut off and they started kpaing. Before you could know, they surrendered.

Your reasoning is poor.

3 things:
1. The prosperity of a nation doesn't depend on landmass. Nigeria and even Iran is a good example. Iran is extremely poor and Qatar is prospering.

2. Iran has no right to tell Qatar which is a sovereign nation, who and who not to align with or which country's bases should be within it's sovereign border.

3. That gas facility is of the interest of Qatar as it is if the west. You said Qatar is producing much of that gas for the west snd the question is is the West not paying? Isn't that what makes Qatar richer and better tan even Iran? Your reasoning is very poor. But that's okay.


Very little reasoning can be expected from those who support terrorists.

commoditiesnig:
Good one mr Disu



Yes he is.. he’s been very efficient in his previous capacities both in Lagos and other states

This claim is false. Lagos is one state that is well known for Policemen extorting motorists both bikemen and bus drivers, collecting N50 (back then it's now N100-N200). Then the Policemen give kickbacks to their DPO's who in turn give kickback to their superior till it reaches the commissioner.


This happened even when Disu was there.

So, no. Integrity is far from him. Enough of this whitewashing.

Razzness:
This man has turned into a full time content creator.

In this month, hundreds of Muslims have been killed in the North. A military based was attacked and 40 soldiers were killed. An entire Muslim village in Katsina was raised to the ground. Hundreds of Muslim women and children were abducted in Borno. There was an attack on a mosque in Zamfara, 8 worshipers were killed. Just yesterday 23 Muslims were killed in Maiduguri.

Yet some people are still doubling down on the agenda of a Christian genocide. People are dying and all you can think of is to weaponize religion. Even Donald Trump has come to terms with the fact that the killings in Nigeria cut across religious divides, yet these people have made it their source of daily bread to push an agenda.

You people are not ready in this country.

Below is what ISWAP said earlier this year so just shut up boy.

If Muslims are ki**ed let them also speak up! Nobody is holding their mouths. But one thing you will not do is shut christians up! Won't happen.

There's Christian genocide in Nigeria and the government is complicit especially the NSA

notobiafrababe:
It's obvious UAE is the Arab version of USA. UAE go explain taya. It's simple. Stop USA from launching attack on Iran via your air space and Iran will stop attacking you. Very simple equation

If a military base is attacking you, then attack the military base! Attacking civilians is a crime against humanity.

It's one thing to defend a country it's another thing to suspend your thinking faculty even when damages involve your own country men.

The nod pushing this guy's news to front page needs to be sacked. Cause he knows fully well that this guy is trying to pin crime on q particular tribe whereas crime knows no tribe.

Just yesterday, a FP news was here about a Yoruba guy that was arrested in the US for $1.8m fraud.

That person is also spoiling our image abroad and he's Yoruba.

Let's stop this rubbish. Hushpuppy battered our image to the world. Infact he more than battered it. He killed our image. People were still on here defending him.

Yoruba.

simpleseyi:
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Even you wey no get any job Dey cry about Taxes. Lagos - Sokoto Highway, Lagos - Calabar Coaster road, shey na from you Tinubu collected money to build them? University students Loan and money Stipends, shey na you wey no get job dey fund am?

Lagos to Calabar road has an 8-year timeline and in almost 4 years 30 percent of the road has not been completed suffice to say that the road will not be completed till Tinubu leaves office.

Same for Lagos to sokoto. Infact, Lagos to Sokoto is even worse.

Sannisege:
Thanks to increased allocation from president Tinubu. God bless Governor Makinde, God bless Asiwaju Tinubu, God bless Nigeria.

Can you guys stop this rubbish talk?

The Nigerian naira has lost its intrinsic value!! What you see is purely the master mind of the governor in financial management.

The only reason allocations increased is because the naira was devalued. So, the money we get from oil sales are greater in naira now.

Nothing is of credit to Tinubu here.

DeepSight:
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Why should they have attacked in the middle of negotiations?

Why should Israel have nuclear weapons and decide which other countries can have or not have?

These are very good questions.

The first deal the US made with Iran was don in 10 years on negotiations. 10 good years!

And that was when the Shah was the leader. It's a stalling tactic. Now the Mullahs want to do the same. Stall while actively building nuclear weapons and also actively funding terrorist groups. They just want to stall.

Why does Israel have nuclear weapons? The same reason Russia, India, UK, France, Pakistan, etc has it. In all he wars Israel has been waging, they've never used the nuclear weapons. That means they know it's not for war purposes.

We can't say the same for Iran. They have a supreme leader whose word is law! No congress, no debate, no opposition. If he wakes up in a bad mood and says destroy that country then that country is gone!

No questions asked.

Hat kind of country can't be trusted with such a weapon.

DeepSight:
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Their territorial waters are their territorial waters and if anyone attacks them it is natural for them to use that leverage.

If it was Nigerian territorial waters would you make the same argument, that anyone can attack us and we should not close the space?

It's not about calling any bluff, there was no imminent threat to either the US or Israel, the war is blatantly illegal under international law and even locally in the USA there was no approval from Congress, it is nothing but the ego of a reckless toddler who has an obsession with proving himself to be a global hard man and imperialist in the mould of Putin. It has to be discouraged and every same person must speak against this perversion.

When will it end? Yesterday, he kidnaps the Head of State of Venezuela, today he murders the Supreme Leader of Iran, tomorrow he is still talking about Cuba and Greenland.

When will you wake up to see that what is wrong is wrong. Must it get to your doorstep before you understand?

Israel and Iran are facing immediate threats EVERYDAY from Iran. The death chants they make are not mere jokes. The Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas that have been sponsored, are sponsored by Iran and Iran has never denied it.

Ater 9/11 it became evident that the US is always under the potentiality of an attack from this extremist nations. Part of their mandate in life it ti completely obliterate Israel from the world and if they get a nuclear weapon, that would be their first target.

Just this 2 weeks war, they've targeted al their neighbors. Now I know you'll say "they were housing US bases and they wanted to pass a message to them they they shouldn't house the enemy" but that's a lame argument. These countries are sovereign just as Iran and Iran has no right to tell them who and who not to align with.

And they targeted Airports, Hotels; Oman that even congratulated the new supreme leader was targeted. Is that a country that should have a nuclear weapon?

One thing about the world and about humans is that when a problem lingers, or happens repeatedly, there's always going to be a solution. There's already another route apart from the straits but it's just more expensive but trust me, a solution will be found to that.

There's something that phycologist term to explain your behavior. Humans are many times prone to support those we see as victims. Well, Iran is not a victim in this case.

DeepSight:
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Whose fault is it that the strait is closed? Use your head. The toddler can't go and create a problem he was warned against and then expect allies he has repeatedly threatened and insulted to come and link arms with him.

I think this straits issue was alwwys bound to happen. Iran can't always hold that leverage against the whole world and we can't say nobody should dare Iran and we should let them do anything they want because they hild the leverage of the straits.


Someone was going to call their bluff sooner or later and its good someone's called it now.

This mater of the straits must be put to bed now cause Iran can't hold the world to hostage anytime they wish. This is not the first time they are closing the straits.

HacheNoire:
Has anyone noticed that X users from other countries now detest Nigerias?

It’s becoming a norm. Our pro genocide and pro imperialism stance is now becoming an identity.

I don't know, or maybe because we are a thriving ground for various terrorist organization, have a know drug lord as president and are known for Christian genocide.

Yeah definitely, pro-genocide.

mightyhaze:
so 70percent of your southwest no normal?
May god really bless them ...

And who gave you the stat that 70% of people in the SW are Muslims?

Listen Mr. Man, they're not more than 40%

Remember Kwara is not SW.

Wickedfact:
No state in Nigeria has their transport system as organised as Lagos. None.

In most of the cities in your region, the last mile transport system has collapsed and has been handed over to tricycles and motorcycles.

Some of those NURTW guys you see are police informants. Without them, the state will be like Abuja where one-chance robbery has taken over. Or, the SE where Sienna drivers carry passengers in the mornings and UGM at night.

The NURTW is not perfect, can be made better, but they are not the ones dropping you from improving the transport systems in states outside Lagos.

Putting Lagos and organized transport in the same sentence is an oxymoron.

Simply shows you have t really travelled across the country. You should keep quiet on matters like this.

sulaak:
Let him live in ignorance. An Igbo president will not end insecurity; in fact, it will double because he is Igbo and Christian

So we are agreeing that the cause of the insecurity are Muslims.

Now we are talking. Christian genocide.

Incognito403:
How far, where is Satanyahu?
I haven't heard from him lately.

His minister Ben Gvir was sent to the yonder few days ago. Has Satanyahu gone to meet him?

I know you're looking for a way to console yourself but this one is false sha.

But i assure you, Iran is winning the war.

nairalanda1:
TO back up my comments

In Nigeria, producing a tonne of cement requires at least 105KwH of electricity, contributing to 40-50% of cement production costs. Due to insufficient national grid capacity, cement manufacturers must use natural gas to build their own power plants. Distribution costs also increase due to using diesel-powered trucks for transporting raw materials.

The unit fuel cost for cement production in Nigeria is estimated at $30 per tonne, which is costly compared to China—the world's biggest cement producer—at $6 per tonne. For context, in 2023, Dangote, Lafarge, and BUA spent ₦598.137 billion on fuel and power, a 42.45% increase from 2022.


Don't call me a liar again.

Quite unfortunate that you're out here defending a company that made over 500 Billion Naira in profit alone last year.


To correct my error,
Cost of sales itself is roughly 46% of revenue (since gross margin is ~54%). So fuel and power as a proportion of total revenue is roughly ~20% of revenue.

Even if fuel costs doubled to N2,000 per litre it would only add about 20% to the cost base, not 20% to the final price because Dangote's cost base is less than half its revenue.


A 50% surge in fuel costs would translate to roughly a 10% increase in the cost to produce, which on a 54% gross margin could be absorbed without any price increase, let alone an abrupt one.

I'm talking data here. Dangote can absorb a 20% temporary increase in fuel price (not to mention that cost of NEPA light which he also uses in his factory is stable.) without increasing cement prices immediately!

But I actually expect this from you. Your strong belief is that increase in price will solve all Nigeria's problems. For a country that about 95% of individuals have less than N500,000 in their account, your mindset is not wise.

I hope you're a billionaire. I really hope so cause it will at least make a little sense as to why you reason like this.

nairalanda1:
How do you think they power the factories that make the cement then?

Then transport costs...remember that diesel has been higher than petrol since 2015 at least...much higher. Diesel would also have shot up with the recent increases (that's why government is not doing well by not being more aggresive on railways)

You're wrong.

Energy cost account for just about 1% of cement factories total cost of production. Other cists such as personnel and raw materials take the bigger chuck. And those other costs are quite stable and do not require constant price increase. Last year, Dangote Cement company's EBITDA margin was about 50% and tax has stayed the same at 30% not even to mention that Dangote is one of the major beneficiaries of tax holidays.

On transportation, Dangote now uses CNG trucks.

Dangote is just exploiting Nigeria. That's one of the downsides of monopoly. It's a shame Nigerians are defending it ( Worst off is you always defending price increments).