Jflex07:
Nonsense!!

You're upset about this good news?

Lawalemi:
What is the crash in this case?

If it goes from 1800 2 weeks ago to 1100 on the street, that's a significant reduction.

Most foods with colour white are bad for diabetes.

That's because whiteness is often an indication of low fibre content.

Very low fibre = simple carbohydrate.

Simple Carbohydrate = easy conversion to blood sugar.

Rice, Yam, Poundo yam, white bread have 2 things in common. They are white and bad for diabetes.

That's not to say all white foods are bads, and all darker colour foods are great.

Great to see Mr Tinubu writing in the world's leading political magazine.

Sending a message to the international community that his administration is taking the required, albeit difficult, decisions that are necessary to secure a future of shared prosperity for all Nigerians.

Our international partners and foreign investors will like this clear message from the President.

Excellent.

Sacrifice now for a better future.

Let's do it!

Putting Muslim students in that situation is wrong.

Official religious holidays should be respected by government institutions.

ambale:
One painful thing is that the initial gragra of the early months is now dieing down

And things have gone too sour

Imagine buying garri for 3k, never thought I would witness such in my life🤔

Let's hope the baba wakes up in the second year sha

So the baba should leave his office to go and farm cassava .

Cassava can grow well in many parts of the country.

What is stopping you from growing it and contributing your own quarter to bringing the price of garri down?

You want perpetually subsidised fuel.

You want subsidised University education

You want subsidised gas.

You want subsidised electricity.

You want government to subsidise everything.

You also want the government to make garri cheap for you.

Haba

Absolute nonsense.

This is the most accomplished problem-solving administration we have had, probably for 50 years. Mr Babangida's administration also tried

From the early 70s when Nigeria was awash with petro-dollars as a result of Middle East crises, no Nigerian administration has faced the diversity, scope, depth and complexity of the challenges this administration met when it took over.

Nigeria was virtually on the verge of financial collapse, borrowing huge sum to pay fuel subsidy that mostly went into a few pockets. Stupid.

Since then, Mr Tinubu's administration has slowly but surely steadied the ship, and before our eyes, we are beginning to see results and recovery from what many citizens, including myself, feared was an irreversible situation.

However, and surprisingly, step by step, the CBN has been taking steps that are delivering results before our eyes. Something that Egypt and Argentina who were in a similar situation as Nigeria up till a few months ago have been unable to replicate.

Argentina has gotten worse. Likewise Egypt. Yet, Nigeria's CBN is quietly achieving the unthinkable.

We have not seen this type of result-oriented competence from any previous administration in Nigeria.

This is the most tested government in several decades and one by one they are facing up to the challenges.

Outside of a direct subsidy of aviation fuel or flight tickets, I can't think of any other significant way the Government can help Airpeace.

A government that denied Okada man fuel subsidy cannot turn around to subsidise air tickets or aviation fuel of millionaires travelling abroad.

Also, will domestic Airlines not ask for their own operations to be subsidised too.

I'm afraid, Airpeace will have to fight for its own survival on the Lagos/ Abuja- London route.

derecho:
Rumours has it that Tinubu owns that refinery.
Nigerians are watching closely

So you people have moved from, 'the refinery will never work' to this latest one.

You people should let this man be.

Mr Dangote is doing incredible things.

It's a mystery how politicians & government workers recklessly project dates that never come to pass.

Do they not realise that it undermines public trust in them?

Paraman:
The government must find a way to support Air Peace

The only way they can do so meaningfully is by subsidising tickets.

That'll be politically impossible.

You can't deny Okada man fuel subsidy and turn round to subsidise millionaires travelling abroad.

The Nigerian market has been so lucrative for foreign airlines for so many years, they'll even price at a loss in order to get rid of Airpeace.

Nigerians should keep flying Airpeace.

People should realise that if our economy improve massively in the coming years, Nigeria will become the biggest aviation market in Africa.

Foreign airlines know this so they will play a patient game.

They also know they can afford to make loses on the route because they have deep pockets. Airpeace may mot be able to match them if the prices go too low.

We need like 2 more Nigerian airlines to get into the Lagos - London fray. Local airlines with very deep pockets to challenge the foreign airlines.

Mr Dangote...are you not interested

shortgun:

What village do you all crawl out from for fuks sake. DJ's are not always used during celebrations, or for playing loud music
who will do the lighting? Who will provide generator?
Who will bring microphones and speakers for the gathering.
Better shut it you don't have any sensible contribution to this thread

What do you guys even need microphone and speakers for.

I think this is cultural thing anyway. It depends on the custom where you guys come from.

In most places, when a young person passes away, the burial is a solemn affair. Unnecessary noise is avoided.

It is telling that some of his friends are threatening to withdraw just because the family does want noise.

Wema bank, super old, but tech-innovative.

It shows that whatever industry you are in, carve your own niche and maximise your small advantage, and you have a chance of not being crushed by the giants.

When you enter some Wema bank branches, the entire vibe takes you back to 1990s.

Tiles are old. Windows blinds are tired.
Youruba is readily used alongside English.
The ladies dress like school teachers - modestly.
Some chairs are dusty, some light bulbs are dead or flickering . That's all part of the Wema package.

But guess what, many members of the populace prefer these sorts of environment to flashy bank offices.

Many older people are intimidated by the flashy lights, impatient bank officers with fake 'in the abroad' accents, mini skirts, tight ill-fitting trousers & shirts of some male bank workers that you find in some new generation banks.

Wema bank works well for people who want an old fashioned, slower pace of life. That includes younger people too.

I think Wema bank will continue to do well under good management.

DMerciful:
Wrong and pedestrian analogy.

It is not EFCC's mandate to chase people who abuse the naira, its that of the police. The EFCC should focus on financial crimes

So you know efcc mandate better than Efcc lawyer, Mr Bobriski's lawyer, and the judge.

None of these people raised any concern about whether efcc was acting outside its powers.

Good.

Nigerian banks are a big clog in the wheel of this economy.

Kukutenla:


Learn to read and understand

What I am saying is that we need not go 1900 in the first place. Unifying the rates does not automatically mean you devalue the naira.

So many things were done wrong in a bid to appear different from the previous govt which created so much distortion in the system

Who is bearing the brunt now?

How do they recover?

Long story.

Keep storing dollars.

bentenny:
So the governor is the one that selects a future governor and deputy for the state and some misinformed Edo electorates will be watching with their eyes open and yet claim Edo nor be Lagos?

How is what Obaseki is doing different from what Tinubu did when he was governor?

It's ok.

Unless it's Tinubu doing it!

garfield1:


Wait,akoko Edo borders akoko of ondo state

Yes

Walk across River Ose bridge from Akoko Edo, you are in Akoko (Ondo state) and vice versa.

Settlements (villages are not more than 5 minutes drive from each other.

Two towns, Isua (Ondo) and Ibillio (Edo) are no more than 15 mins from each other

donphilopus:


Imeri used to be part of Akoko Edo. But they're now in Ondo. So the answer to your question should be no.

You're very wrong.

Akoko is indigenous Yoruba (Ondo state) people.

There are 4 Akoko local governments within Ondo State - right next to Akoko-Edo in Edo State.

1) Akoko North-East 2) Akoko North-West, 3) Akoko-South-East and 4) Akoko-South-West.

Infact, the Akokos are the single most populous sub-ethnic group in Ondo State. Larger than Akure, Ondo, Owo and Ikale/Ilaje.

It was the convenience of using River Ose as boundary between the Ondo and Edo States that resulted in some Akoko villages ending up in Edo.

StOla:


Are they bearing Yoruba names or they are Yorubas? Akoko Edo are Yoruba whose land happen to be cut inside the boundary of Edo state.

Just as Itsekiris are also in a particular local government (Ajoki, Ikpoba Okha LGA) in Edo that shares boundary with the greater Itsekiri land in Delta State.

Some Yoruba villages and small towns ended up in Edo State due to boundary marked by River Ose.

As a compromise, the local government was called Akoko (Ondo) - Edo local government.

That local government also has several Kogi state affiliated elements on the other side.

I understand that sometime in the late 60's when the mid West was created from Western Nigeria, one of the administrators of the mid West stopped the teaching of Yoruba language in their schools.

Today, Yoruba as a language has more or less disappeared even in most of Akoko - Edo particularly amongst those under the age of 50 as the mixing with people from Kogi has resulted in some hybrid type of languages that is neither Yoruba nor Edo.

As an example, people from Akoko Edo who have not lived in Benin before don't understand Benin language at all. I stand to be corrected.

So, unlike their grand parents, offsprings of Yoruba progenitors in Akoko Edo can't speak Yoruba, but they still have their Yoruba surnames.

They are ok being in Edo State and don't consider themselves Yoruba. But they know their history.

Obrigardo:
Knocks what?

It's only Africans I see writing idiotic headlines like this. Can't you get better words for your title?
Why do African and mostly Nigerian editors use archaic words in their headlines?

Knocks. woos. and other rubbish sounding words.

Add 'cry out', 'raise alarm', 'premium motor spirit etc

That last one - why not simple 'petrol'.

The way we speak and write English is so different.

If BDCs buy at a particular rate from the CBN and the black market price turns against them, that's tough luck.

Where BDCs are right though is the CBN delaying in releasing the dollars to BDCs after collecting naira from them.

Once the CBN accepts a BDC offer to purchase $, it should promptly release the $ after collecting their naira.

It is a fast-moving market, so any delay is unhelpful to BDCs.

Probably less than 5% of households in Nigeria has an A/c, and OP's example of households with 3 or 4 A/Cs are even less common.

So, the suggestion that A/Cs and band A palaver is some kind of universal life changing experience for the populace is incorrect.

Only a tiny minority of butty people will be affected in that respect.

And they have he choice of changing to battery/solar powered fans. That's life.

Band A rate is horroribly high, but my sympathy lies with average hard working people who are now caught up in this power nightmare, not some upper middle class people who operate 4 or 5 A/Cs in 3 bedroom apartment. That's luxury in Nigeria. You want it, then keep using it and pay your band A rate and let us rest.

What has continued to astound me is how some viciously condemn any positive development or news

Even government policies that will benefit them personally, they cry to high evens in rejecting it.

I have never seen anything like it