wirinet:

My brother you can't blame them, it due to decades of deliberate miseducation and indoctrination by IMF and World Bank.
How subsidies is the source of corruption is part of their economic theories taught to Africans but not taught to Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, the Middle east and other western nations. In most of those countries education is highly subsidised. Even in Russia education is almost free up till university level. Food also is highly subsidised with heavy subsidies to farmers. The worst is CAPITAL. In all these countries, capital to entrepreneurs are highly subsidised. Imagine interest rates of 1 to 5%, and you get a moratorium of up to 3 years before you start repayment.
IMF and world Bank would never cite bogus white elephant projects as the cause of our problem, they would never cite our 70% recurrent expenditure to 30% capital, which is usually misappropriated anyway. They would never theorise that billions and billions of dollars that is simply stolen/transferred out of our coffers and deposited in their banks is source of our underdevelopment. All they shout is subsidy, subsidy and subsidy.
They know that plunging the mass of the population into abject poverty is the surest means of causing instability. They know that a poor, hungry man is a tool for causing chaos. They understand that poverty along with religion leads to insurgency, militancy and conflicts. They had the experience during the revolutions in Europe and America where the poor caused so much instability. If you know how much the US spent during the great depression and even during Covid19, to subsidise the masses, you will understand they have sinister motives when they preach anti-subsidy doctrine to us.

Thank for this good brother.
Mr. nairalanda1, FYE.

nairalanda1:


Oh?



SO, you had to call me an ignoramus , drunk (teetotaller me? ) and paid agent , because I disagreed with you?

Okey dokey. You have let me make a mess of your head, that you get upset over polite comments.

(Me, I get upset over nairalanders comments about me, but eventually, life ist too short, why be sick. ).

You still don't get my points though, and I am not explaining myself anymore. You better not let the internet dominate you.

Pls think what you like. It will do nothing to my life. Believing that subsidies are the cause or origin of corruption in Nigeria, and that corruption will cease with the removal of subsidies, is ignorant and stupid. And I have no apologies for saying so.

nairalanda1:


Nah, you do, otherwise, it seems that you have let me build a nest on your head today.

Don't do it. I am an annoying bird. I like making a mess, and I also attract more birds too.

BY the way, they must be paying you big money to attack me and abuse me, since I didn;t abuse you today. I'm so important, eh?



Calm down Mr Vacant Mind!

You're not annoying and you don't make a mess. I find you extra ordinarily polite.

My issue is simple. I am still flabbergasted that anyone believes subsidies are the source of corruption in this country.

nairalanda1:


Okay..

(IN Deepsight world...if my mommy disagrees with me, she is a paid propagandist).

Pity.

Oh I don't mind disagreement, believe you me. If you knew me better you would find that I even enjoy differing points of view.

However that is different from the sort of vacancy of mind which imagines that corruption is a consequence of subsidies.

NoahHadNoArk:

Has our society really gotten to this low were thieves and criminals are and congratulated and exalted for outsmarting and robbing their fellow Nigerians?!?

But this is what Nigerians always do with thieving politicians. Praise them.

Lavor234:

Never argue with a paid propagandaist

I personally concluded it is very likely that nairalanda1 is indeed paid to say what he says. Pity.

wirinet:
ON the other hand, over 50 years of subsidy are why we are not self sufficent in fuel and in power supply.

Sadly things cost money. Removing subsidy would enable domestic companies pay for stuff to make services better...which is good for Nigeria in the long run, and gasp...makes us less dependent , if not free from IMF.
False! Repeating the same lie over and over again can never make it true. The reason we are not self sufficient in fuel and power supply is CORRUPTION and STEALING by those saddled with managing our resources. It has nothing and I Repeat nothing to do with subsidy.

Obasanjo spentb $16 billion and was only able to add just over 1000MW into the grid.

In the last 10 years, Nigeria spent N25 billion to repair our refineries without producing a litre of petrol, this is despite billions of dollars stolen in the fuel subsidy scam, and you guys are shouting subsidy is the problem.

Don't worry about corruption, according to the servile joker, nairalanda1, if subsidies are removed, corruption will disappear and we will be headed for Eldorado.

Too often I have been tempted to give him serious responses, but I mostly refrain seeing that anyone who could be so blind, so slavish, so narrow minded and so thoughtless, so lacking in capacity for analysis of anything - would never see reason.

tctrills:

Let's take about Rafah. Are you under the illusion that Hamas is unarmed?
If you really think that Gaza is all about the IDF attacking an unarmed people then clearly we don't even have a common ground for a discussion.

Since they started their genocide, what military response have they received? ? ? ?

Hamas is not the same thing as Gaza.

Onyedikachi231:


Although we weren't surprised the followers of the fake arse phaggot pig prophet mohammed rejoiced on 7th oct. 2023,

We are surprised why you are calling out another person to rejoice when he chose to.

Why involve his religion,. He is happy some terrorist are decimated, or are you guys not terrorists?

1. I am not Muslim

2. What happened to turn the other cheek and love your enemies

3. Nothing can justify the mass slaughter of an entire population on account of the actions of a few and even if it is something that can be politically explained, it is certainly not the sort of thing to be celebrated by any supposed follower of Christ

4. This revolting person does not even care that Israelis are not followers of Christ. Yet he goes about with his several monikers shouting that all other people who reject Christ are going to hell. This, in his sick view, excludes Israelis because they are God's beloved. This vulgar clown went so far as to say the other day, that after death, God will ask each of us if we stood by Israel and if not, we are doomed to hell. This is the marabout who presumes to preach the gospel daily here. He is beyond revolting and that is why I repeatedly say it: seeing his posts not only make me want to throw up, it makes one lose hope for humanity.

Mrexcell:
Isreal definitely have a lot of highly trained spies in many hostile arab nations that's giving out sensitive information to the isreal.

With the bold, you are certainly the kind of person who says "in the abroad". . . . and not jokingly.

tctrills:

Celebrate the victory of the just

Are you alright? Does one party sitting in the skies bombing an unarmed population look like a war to you?

Edit: Sorry I just realized this is the Iran thread, not the Gaza (attack on Rafah) thread.

phorget:




Because those gods you mentioned has not in anyway helped us to progress but their gods made them achieve greatness.

What an ignorant joker.

Mrexcell:



Idolatry is still idolatry no matter who practices it. It makes you spiritually lost and far from your real creator.

Is worshipping a fellow human being as God also Idolatry?

Is kneeling before a cross also idolatry?

Is praying to Mary Idolatry?

Is kissing a black stone in Mecca Idolatry?

Wainey:
they focus their energies on lots of things. You just decide to single out some just to win an argument.
Currently they are going after the former governor of kogi state, and it's still youths that is protecting that thief, we are the people that are frustrating their effort, you hear people shout witch hunting and all sort of nonsense.

Allow these people to do their job

You might be among the "youth" but please do not presume me so. Virtually all ex Governors in Nigeria are rogues. Going after one dramatically does not impress me. And I don't know what argument you think I am involved in.

There are true fat cats everywhere in Nigeria who the EFCC ignores and has always ignored.

It's BS.

And no, they are not doing their job properly, not by a mile.

If they were, people like Bola Tinubu, Rotimi Amaechi, Nyesom Wike, Ibrahim Babangida, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abduldulsami Abubakar, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, and many others would be facing the music or would have faced the music before.

In South Africa, a former president went to jail over corruption. Jacob Zuma. It also happens in South Korea.

Do you think EFCC can sneeze near a former president in Nigeria.

Abeg stop wasting my time.

Wainey:
The functions of the EFCC include: The investigation of all financial crimes including advance fee fraud, money laundering, counterfeiting, illegal fund transfers, futures market fraud, contract scam etc.; The coordination and enforcement of all economic and financial crimes laws.
Stop thinking going after Yahoo boys is not part of their job

Ol boy I know the functions of the EFCC. I am simply saying they are chasing shadows.

If a person should defraud you of ten naira, that also falls within the remit of the EFCC. But if that's what they focus their energies on, they are crap.

Righteousness2:
Palliwood things.

Ask them How many Terrorist are killed and they will start Convulsing.

Do you know the so called 33000 people killed in Gaza is a scam that has been BUSTED from the Palestine so called Health Ministry.

About 11371 of the so called 33000 being littered around has no records.
They do not Exist. They never Existed. It was all a show. Pallywood show!

From the true figures of people dead, the IDF has record of about 13000 terrorist killed.

IDF sets a new world record of minimum casulties of Civilian . It has never ever being so anywhere on Earth.



The Deception of Hamas Terrorist and their palestine accomplice is one that Even the devil is scared of.

From painting children with red color, packing doll babies as humans and all sorts of bull shit.
The Deception and Deceit is monumental. It is out of this world.


If you fell for all that Scam of hamas / palestine 33000 dead this and that, just know that you fall Mugu for Terrorist. Terrorists used your Head.

IDF has not entered Rafah, they have already began their Convulsing with their Pallywood show.

Hamas Last Major battalion is Rafah.
From what i know IDF will fully Enter Rafah after passover. Passover is tonight.

You are the most shameful person ever to have claimed to follow Christ.

victorclean:
Odudupigs will turn this to biofrd issue

You too, stop this nonsense.

Wainey:
If EFCC come for this one na, u go deh hear yeye comment like "are they the only ones doing it?, "EFCC should face their work" bla bla

Look, I don't care about this. To the extent that it is an offense local police stations can attend to it. When EFCC was established, the idea was to fight corruption in Nigeria. You don't do that by going after those spraying money and teenage Yahoo boys.

You do that by facing squarely the big shots in this country both past and present. We all know them. Anything less is BS.

Kobojunkie:
This is weird! Did the French ever in fact worship the Greek gods? This is annoyingly fake abeg! I would have preferred it if the French dug deep into their ancestry to local and showcase their local gods in this. The games are about inclusion and this ain't my idea of inclusion

Imagine if China or Tokyo had done something like this... I would have 😨 This is definitely a miss abeg!

Olodo, the Olympics originated in Greece, so it's apt.

Yankee101:
Idol worship

What is kneeling down before a Statue of a Cross or kissing a black stone in the Kaabah?

Newyorkitis:


If you are somewhere in Yoruba land, I dare you to move in the night when the Oba dies.

1. There is no denying that there are and there have been some barbaric customs here and there. Not just in Yoruba Land. Look at what is done to little children in Akwa Ibom with the idea that they are witches.

2. But customs are not necessarily religion.

3. Islam, Christianity & Judaism all have, and have practiced barbaric customs.

4. When I say there is nothing wrong with African Traditional Religion, I simply mean that it needs not be demonized as against Western Religion. Furthermore, it can and should also be retained, encouraged in many respects where it is positive and where it serves to accentuate the history and culture of the people.

I do not mean that there is nothing negative whatsoever with it really. All religions have negatives and positives.

As for me, I am entirely irreligious.

sunsweet33:


Yes, I think governments are avoiding something. It’s still a relatively serious problem

Like avoiding what?

There are many secrets in this world, and I am not entirely sure HIV was quite what it was marketed as.

Nonetheless I would not wish to come across as a conspiracy theorist on that.

Holiness2100:


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/20/world/israel-iran-gaza-war-news

A supposed follower of Christ the pacifist celebrating war from his dunderheaded enslaved ignorance.

Zooposki:
Men are walking diseases. Thats why I avoid them. See wetin this one don go carry all because of man.

Woman nko?

So you do women?

sunsweet33:


It shouldn’t have disappeared…public health campaigns in Nigeria are just not as good as they were in the past. Maybe to avoid international stigma.

The hype has disappeared globally.

Psalmspsalms:

the risk us way too much. For HIV, u just need to get it once, and that's all

Doubt HIV is a death sentence anymore. Notice how the hype about it has disappeared.

"A harsh voice...."

God1000:
When will this bloodshed end



Why are Palestinians treated this way? Are they subhumans

It just shows you what a powerful tool religion is in brainwashing human beings. Someone once said that with or without religion, good people will do good things and evil people will do evil things - but for a good person to do evil things - that takes religion.

Rent-a-Ghost!

correctguy101:


True.. No sane one among them.

Someone once said the Greek gods are just "personalisations" of what are otherwise abstract to man.

Who knows, we might be the gods we seek. I no longer bother about such endeavors, I feel if such beings even exist, they'll probably be bogged down by their own affairs and whichever interacts with man would definitely do so for its own benefit...

Ah, laziness follow I no go lie. Which time this ancestor get for such wahala for "never seen before" beings when experiencing life alone in Nigeria is a full time job?

Gbam!

Beautiful.

Africa wake up. There is nothing wrong with your traditional religions.