₦airaland Forum

About 3 yrs ago, my church located in a SW city went on an outreach to a farm village outside the city.

I was surprised that more than half of the residents in this farm settlement said they were from Akwa Ibom or Cross River State.

This was at a time when Akpabio strode the political landscape like a true profligate giant.

With all I read about the proverbial milk and honey flowing in Akwa Ibom, I'm surprised many of its citizens ended up in the bush in my much poorer State.


What is going on?

Glo has really done well.

Almost everyone on Nairaland claims Glo is useless 'cause their network slow.

So, where are their 26 million subscribers located?

They have 8 million subscribers more than Airtel and 9 million more than Etisalat. And only 6 million behind 'mighty' MTN. Great!


Glo is so cheap right now. I bought their 10 gig for 2.5k 3 wks ago, and I have still not exhausted the free calls that came with the data purchase.


Not sure how they make profit.

APC South West must be hoping this guy becomes PDP Chairman.

He will be a constant reminder of everything that is wrong with the PDP.

If you've been subjected to a good beating & suffered heavy losses, and some remnants of your group managed to escape into a mangrove, why not keep a low profile for a few more days & hope to find an escape route.

But no, you must do gra gra, beat chest & start shooting into the sky thereby revealing your exact location

It is this type of rush of blood to the head & lack of cool head that will make it difficult for people from certain parts of the country to ever win a prolonged war. Though I pray we never see a war in these lands again.

bayooooooo:
He is not interested in running in the proper sense of it; just betting on winning through court pronouncement. If Sherrif is validated to be the authentic chairman of PDP, all actions by Markafi faction would be null and void. It's quite possible for Mimiko faction to win the election only for courts to declare Jimoh Ibrahim the winner.

That's a valid point.

[quote author=DONSMITH123 post=48186437]now let me ask you as a youth.

DONSMITH123:
now let me ask you as a youth. Will you prefer to sell your future for 2k or do the right thing?

My brother, I'm not supporting that way of doing things.

I'm just letting you know what happened at the last election.

A lot of voters do not rationalise events the way you appear to do. To them, it's about what they can get right here, right now.

After Buhari swept the Presidential elections and with it, the Senate & House of rep, every one assumed Mimiko was doomed if the pattern of voting was repeated in the House of Assembly elections which was to come a couple of weeks later.

On election day, APC were cornered & shocked when Mimiko sent raw cash to polling booths and people were given 2k each to vote PDP candidates. Result? PDP won most asssembly seats & all APC's plot to impeach him came to nothing.

This is exactly what is going to happen in November. PDP agents will stand within view of the polling booth. If you vote PDP, you get your immediate 2 or 3k.

With this approach & in the current economy, many who left home vowing to 'vote out PDP' will collect the raw cash & vote PDP. To them, that 3k will make a pot of stew

[quote author=DONSMITH123 post=48185690]My brother, are we talking about money here? PDP is a house divided on its own. Apart from Jimoh Ibrahim on Sheriff side, we are still having another candidates on Makarfi side. PDP need to put their house in order. [/quot

Jimoh has zero influence in Ondo politics. So, his shenanigans does not necessarily constitute a 'division within PDP.'

Unless he can get INEC to accept him as PDP's official candidate, no one will notice him.


And if he becomes PDP's official candidate, then APC will the election hands down.

As for the importance of money in the coming election, I assume you know little about the State.

olawalepopoola:
This time around APC is winning Ondo! Jimoh no waste ur money!

This should be the logical conclusion.

Unfounately, APC currently has well over 30 candidates going into their primaries.

More importantly, the election will be decided by money.

Mimoko is ready to spend whatever it takes on election day. APC candidate will simply not be able to match him. Buhari does not allow Federal funds for his party's elections (which is good), & I heard from a credible source that Bourdillon is exasperated with Ondo people & so will not be funding the election.

This is getting interesting.

As unporpular as Mimiko is right now, I believe PDP has a better chance of winning in Ondo than APC come November.

However, should Jimoh by any means, legal or otherwise, be the PDP candidate, APC will win handsomely.

yanabasee:
Who told you that the previous regime overlooked the lekki seaport? How much of the NASS "Assessment and Evaluation" do you know?

You're going round in circles...& I haven't got the time to regurgitate all I know about Lekki Seaport federal govt wahala.


Let's put it this way, the PDP federal govt was not best friend with Lagos State.

yanabasee:
What is this one sayin?

Well, I'm saying that having a lot of SW influence at the federal level probably helped in getting a quick approval for this project.


Contrast this with GEJ regime's frustrating tactics concerning the Lekki Seaport project.

SW aligning with the centre certainly helped in getting a relatively quick approval for this project.

This is Nigeria. Work for your interest with your vote.


During GEJ period, we could only fold our arms & watch as the PDP govt turned a blind eye to Fasola's years of pleading to fix Oshodi - Apapa road.

Was going for a meeting in Lagos a few weeks ago, I stopped over in Ibadan to grab a tie as I forgot to take one with me.

I was directed to a shoprite off a beautiful long road off FIrst Bank regional HQ (cant remember the name of the area).

Once on that long road, I honestly felt I was in Los Angeles The design & quality of the shoprite building nko, absolutely beautiful.

That wide long & smooth road & the eclectic array of bright, beautiful & well maintained buildings along both sides beats anything I have seen in Lagos or Abuja. It was a joyful delight. It was as though the hundreds of building owners had a meeting & decided they would paint & maintain their buildings. Virtually all the biildings including older ones were clean & well maintained.

Absolutely wonderful.

SaffronSpice:
You just voiced my thought.

It's a shame one has to think this way, but the reality is that in today's Nigeria, you have to look after yourself first.

You cant put your hopes on people from other parts of the country.

That's the Nigeria we live in right now.

I notice that the Chief of Defence Staff who ordered the operation is a Yoruba man.

I usually take the view that it doesn't matter where Buhari's appointees come from. May be it does afterall.


What if the CDS is from the 'other side,' might the story be different.

cktheluckyman:
Lolz impeachment indeed!! Na wia dem won see 2/3 majority? Nothing for Femi Gbajabiamilla,Dogara is going no where

So, if these allegations are proven, Dogara must stay.

The way some of you think is so bad.

And of what relevance is Mr Gbajabiamila to the very serious allegation of fraud against the speaker?

I have tended to pay little attention to allegation of Buhari's sectional approach to appointments as I dont really think it matters that much.

But once again, it does seem that the northern guys have the more high - profile roles.


DIG Chukwu...Dept of research. DIG Iyang ... Dept of training.


Hope this is not some kind of punishment for these guys.

If this turns out to be Stella Odua or one of the ex Ministers from the SE, certain people will tell us:

show us the law that says you cant keep your money in someone else's account.

When you show them the law, then, it will be:

Is she the first politician to do so? Until they arrest Amaechi's mother and Tinubu's great grand father for the same crime, this is witchhunt

The man in pink hat!

He seem to have left his own team of hooligans behind and rushed forward into a waiting mass of enemy hooligans.

What if they wack his head with all those sticks.

No be suicide the guy wan conmit so?

Only way to survive now is to look for something to export.

For those in the service industry, this situation is going to be an interesting challenge. Nigerians will pay more for engine oil, tomato, cornflakes, roasted corn etc, but they simply dont want to pay more for intangibles like the preparation of a document for example.

I see Tinubu's hand in the selection of this team. Dont know much about Mr Ngige, but the rest are Team Tinubu.

Buhari needs Tinubu's ruggedness and street savvy to survive Nigeria's very murky political waters.

Tinubu is master of underground dirty political work.

On the whole, if the people of that State wishes to see their students segretated by religious dress codes, it's entirely up to them.


But forcing this to happen in a school established by the Baptist Church is paying lip service to other people's sensibilities.


May be the Governor should have left the various schools with Christian and Islamic foundation as they were.

According to you 'SW people' were clapping at the collapse of Cecilia Ibru's Oceanic.


So, Akingbola whose Intercontinental Bank also collapsed spectacularly is not from the SW.

Is there anything you people will not blame SW for?

The OP makes has a point worth considering, though I see it from a slightly less ethnocentric pesrpective.

I dont understand the logic behind this rice mill.

What's Lagos State's business with rice.

They claim they want food security for Lagosians? Are they going to get into Garri, pepper, onion production too?

Will Lagos start distributing or selling rice to its residents? The City of London doesn't own potato farm; nor does New York State run a rice mill or Cape Town City a maize flour mill.

Some things are just not for govt and I think this decision is a poor one on many levels. Some primary students are still sitting on classroom floor and taking classes under leaking roofs in Lagos, yet the govt is convinced a rice mill in a far away state is its priority?

I think Glo already claims to hve the largest number of data subscribers in Nigeria.

If that's true, then may be their strategy with this new prices is to absorb loses in order to defend their data market share.


This is bad news for Airtel and Etisalat. One of them will have to sell up if this dramatic price collapse continue. I fear for Airtel.

Another thing with Go is, you load up and subscribe to these cheap data plans, and they still give you a huge amount of free call minutes.


How do they make money


Adenuga must be using oil exploration money from Conoil to subsidise Glo.

Glo's network can be slow but boy, this is a massive heavyweight punch that will leave MTN and the others wondering what has just hit them.


By the way, this is a race to the bottom. Most of the mobile companies are losing money in Nigeria.


Now, Adenuga is threatning to drown all of them, including Glo, in further debt.

Big man being sentenced to prison for fraud.

That should send a clear message to the rest of them.

But 5yrs seem rather measly for a fraud involving N1.5 billion.

Once completed, this project will be a stunning victory for much maligned Oshodi & for Lagosians.

West Africa has not seen anything quite like this.


People will be surprised. Very surprised.