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Klington:


Apc can only deceive their gullible followers.

After spending #36bn just for renovation, you're getting a partly #650m annually... Abe do the maths.

You either didn't get it or you conveniently ignored the information.

N650 million in just 3 weeks as opposed to N50 million per year before.

If we extrapolate, the place can now yield a few billions per year going forward.

Good return on investment.

That's not to say there was no fraud in the refurbishment cost.

Wahala don land.

How can people who hope to lead a country if over 200 million not do their due diligence properly.

Whether this man is correct or not on every other thing, if he is correct that ADC is already enmeshed in intra party litigation, then questions must be asked whether Mr Atiku and company looked before jumping in.

This latest development must be sweet music to the ears of people at APC headquarters.

ZUBY77:
Why are you people crying over how the Party will fall? What if they turn out to be better than APC?

Isn't a better Nigeria all we want? Or you just want the system that benefits you and your family?

We will give them chance and see if things will turn around

No one is crying over anything. Like you, people are only expressing their personal views.

You are the one that is intolerant of other people's views.

Mr Fayemi cant even deliver 15% of Ekiti votes. And that's being generous.

Some of these people are so light weight on the ground, it is incredible that their political friends from other regions think they are people to be reckoned with in the SW.

In the current political situation of Nigeria, any SW politician of any note who joins a northern stich-up against a SW president is finished, unless that ADA or ADC wins the presidency in 2027.

You look at someone like Mr Fayemi, and you wonder.

He was a mere lecturer in London, and a political nobody, when Mr Tinubu helped him to become Governor. And the only way he can pay back Mr Tinubu is through treachery

When you listen to his complaints against Mr Tinubu, it is nothing more than .... oh, he is controlling.

As if that is a high crime. How do you get to, and stay at the top in the dog eat dog environment of Nigerian politics without being controlling?

As Governor, did Mr Fayemi let go of the political space in Ekiti to other sharks in Ekiti APC.

People who behave like this just leaves you shaking your head.

Mr aregbesola as National Secretary?

That's not going to play well in the South West. Who told the party he is a major political voice in the region.

Many would find him a complete turn-off specifically because of the way he was abusing the President during the last election.

Mocking any person publicly, not least one that is older than you, and helped you so much, smashed through the age-old boundary of moral acceptability in Yoruba land. It is not even a party matter. I would guess that most SW people in PDP, and other parties would have found his behaviour intolerable.

His appointment to a leadership position in any of these new parties is a massive negative for that party in the SW.

She too should go into farming as part of her own contribution to the national food effort.

Sitting in your comfortable place mouthing criticism is not enough.

Get into your booth, grab a cutlass and shovel and get into your backyard and work. Grow pepper. You are not more special than the farmers growing pepper.

If you don't have a backyard, get a small farmland somewhere. You can even employ a farm hand to help you.

Sitting on a high horse asking how people on N70k can afford pepper is not going to magically make pepper cheaper. Producing more pepper will.

Chinese and other serious people around the world get on with doing things. They don't wait for their government to subsidise everything for them, including pepper.

There is no country in the world where everything is cheap.

In Nigeria, Rice was around N150k a few months ago. Now, it is around N65k. Beans was also super expensive, but I hear it is much cheaper now.
If pepper is expensive now, as a seasonal product, a time will come when it too will be cheaper.

Meaning Nigeria could in theory have 3 different Presidents in 12 years. Oh dear.

Nigeria will be a laughing stock.

Each President with its own new policies that will not mature before the next one comes to change them.

That will be bad for Nigeria's economy and the naira. Speculators will attack the naira sending it spiraling downwards.

Also, if Mr Obi becomes President, from day 1 of his swearing in, the jostling by people aiming to succeed him will be unprecedented, and that will render Mr Obi's administration totally ineffective.

There is a reason Presidents and Governors are weaker in their 2nd term. That's because all the civil servants and people around them are already looking ahead to their departure.

If it is certain that a President will only spend 4 years, the President will be weak from day 1. The level of brazen corruption in that administration will be unprecedented in the history of Nigeria. Why? Because corrupt civil servants and politicians know that detection of, and prosecution for corruption is rarely completed within 4 years, so no corrupt politician will fear that President.

richmond500:
well

I believe Makinde has a strong voice in the west and El-rufai has a strong voice in the north.

Hmm

So, he can win 5,000 votes in Ondo, Ekiti, or 50,000 votes in Lagos?

You social media analysts ehn.

gabbytabby:
Not easy in Nigeria

To eat.

1) Swallow - Oats , Green Plantain check if you can get chia seeds and add a little blended.
2) Vegetables and salad - This should be your main meal you can have your salad with egg. Salad with chicken.
3) Beans the different kinds eg, black eyed, oloyin etc
4) Drinks and fruits - Sour sop, cucumber, make your own hibiscus drink sweetened with dates or pineapple
5) Snack on nuts and edible seeds.
6) Herbs (try to get seeds and plant the ones you can) and Iru instead of maggi and little sea salt. Coriander, parsley, rosemary, garlic, ginger, turmeric etc
7) Go to vegetables is all of the usual suspects ( ugu, waterleaf, bitter leaf, Oha, moringa, Okro, tête, etc)
Meat protein - Fish, Chicken, Turkey, other birds, eggs, little cattle, goat, ram and bush meat.
9) Peppersoup with spices that you ground yourself and add little yam or sweet potatoes and lots of cabbage and carrots vegetables etc to fill you up.
10) Teas - guava leaf, moringa leaf, soursop leaf, hibiscus( zobo) can be served hot as tea.
11) Stews with vegetables.

A)rice wash 3 times, mix with beans, eat with vegetables or okro and just have one serving spoon.
2) Yam. 1 slice of roasted yam with the back on and eat with vegetables.
3) Potatoes yellow better than white and about 3 medium pieces with vegetables or eggs.
4) Semo and garri best to substitute with swallow above ie oat and green plantain otherwise add beetroot or turmeric juice while turning.
5) Suasages substitute with fish or eggs
6) soft drinks and malt substitute with homemade hibiscus drink (zobo) and water. The ones bought are made with saccharine which is deadly for people with diabetes
7) Bread - make your own with lentils or beans look for recipes online. Alternatively not more than 2 slices.

9) Most things can be cooked without oil if not use butter(not margarine) or lard from soft animal fat or olive oil and coconut oil. Better to use little palm oil than seed oils.

I disagree.

1.If you're already diabetic, avoid beans o. The beans in Nigeria today are too sweet, and have very little fibre.

2. Making your own bread will not make much difference to a diabetic. Avoid bread.

3. Margarine is very very unhealthy. Avoid.

4. Coconut oil is one of the most saturated oil. Saturated fat = high cholesterol. Avoid. Why would someone dealing with diabetes want to add high cholesterol to his situation. Avoid that oil at all cost.

5. However much you wash rice, it is unlikely to reduce the starch content by more than 20%. That is not going to help a diabetic. A pre-diabetc, may be. A diabetic is in a serious medical situation and must deal with it with all seriousness. So, rice should be out.

6. Oats is very high in carbohydrate, though it has a high fibre too. But the carb level is still too high for a diabetic. Also, like I said in an earlier comment, a diabetic should avoid any food that has been pulverised/grounded from its original state. So, swallow foods are not going to help a diabetic. Avoid them.

7. Sweet potato is a no no. Regular Irish potato in small portions should be fine.

8. How on earth should a diabetic go anywhere near pineapple? That's pure sugar.

In any case, what we write here are general statements, but how each diabetic respond to certain foods may vary from one diabetic to another.

The best thing is to invest a small amount in a blood sugar test kit so you can test yourself about 2 hours after you eat certain foods and write down your blood sugar figure for that food. Do the same for other foods, after some time you will have a better picture of what foods increase your blood sugar level the least, and which ones to avoid.

You can buy ACCU-CHEK from most pharmacies. I hope I am not breaking any Nairaland rule. This is a public interest matter, as diabetes is one of the biggest killers in Nigeria. It is important, we do whatever we can, to pass helpful information around.

mfm04622:
Ask your official dietician or doctor to educayyou on this! Social media is not the right place for this!

Fair enough.

But in this day and age, you can also educate yourself about a common illness like diabetes so you dont 100% rely on a doctor, many of whom have not kept up with new developments and perspectives happening in Europe and North America.

And I suspect his father has being seeing a doctor, but things are not improving.

Many doctors just want to prescribe medication, which after some years start affecting people's liver, kidney etc

And in most cases, once you are diabetic, high blood pressure will soon follow.

Before patients know it they are battling 2 very serious illnesses and they have to take more and more medication that they can't get off.

What, and how we eat has an important role to play in the healing process. Doctors don't have all the answers.

Don't be deceived, the overwhelming majority of Nigerian foods are starchy and are bad for diabetes.

Beans spike blood sugar to unhealthy levels, but they're still seen as good for diabetics. How?

Some of the best options for a diabetic in Nigeria include:

1. Eat VERY small portions of your usual foods with a large portion of a low carb vegetable like cabbage. Better to eat these small portions 4 times a day, than eat a typical big meal twice or thrice a day.

2. Avoid rice (any type), garri, eba. Indomie, bread, dodo (fried ripe plantain), spaghetti, Yam etc AT ALL COST. I repeat, avoid them AT ALL COST.

3. Avoid 99% of fruits! Fruits = sugar. The only reason I did not say avoid ALL fruits is because avocado is classified as fruits. Please don't touch orange, paw paw, sugar cane. Infact, any tropical fruit. They may be ok for others, but for a diabetic it is like pouring petrol on a fire.

4. Eat cooked green plantain instead of plantain flour meals, oats flour meals, and other so-called flour meals. Once you pulverise any food into powder form, you destroy part of the fibre in its original state, and that makes the powdered meal easier for your body to convert to sugar. Cooked plantain still has its fiber intact which slows down your body's ability to convert it to sugar.

5 Cut down on fat/oil. I mean all types of oil. Too much fat makes the body of a diabetic less able to efficiently use sugar. I am not saying fat causes diabetes, but once you are diabetic, excess fat can make it more difficult

6. Fast, Fast, Fast! As a diabetic you can't eat the way you used to eat. Consider doing intermittent fasting. Read about it online and discuss it with your doctor. Unfortunately, most Nigerian doctors are still wedded to keeping people on medication for the rest of their lives. It's good for their business.

7. Be physically active. Ensure you move around a bit, depending on your age.

Do points 1 - 7 for 6 - 9 months, even your doctor will be surprised by the improvements.

The only problem is these things require discipline, and food discipline can be very difficult to maintain.

But diabetes is a matter of life and death. That should be enough motivation for any diabetic to start now.

When the Aso-rock scheming against Tinubu was at its highest shortly before the famous 'Emilokan' speech, and in the lead up to the primaries, I remember seeing this man's beside or behind Mr Tinubu, in almost every picture.

Thanks to the new Electricity deregulation law.

They know Lagos State government is working to bring in new private sector electricity providers.

Eko Disco wants to get ready before the competitors arrive.

This goes to show that these Discos have intentionally been blocking a more widespread supply of meters.

HighChiefZino:
How does this affect average citizen?

Am just confused

It will make a huge difference for a long time to come.

As for immediate effect, I don't think the man on the street will see much changes in the near time.

Government policies can take some time to reflect in people's lives, but within 2 years, I expect government revenues to start rising exponentially.

The question is whether the federal and State governments will spend the additional revenues in a way that benefits the common man.

Given the current evidence of many Governors not spending their increased revenues to benefit their citizens, there is no guarantee that additional huge revenues will not end up in Governors pockets.

SarkinYarki:
Why January, this is how you spoil people's financial year , new policies should always be implemented I. The 2nd qtr of the year

These are 4 tax laws that will change the way the country's tax regime has worked for decades.

You can't just implement changes spanning huge agencies like FIRS, Customs, and all the other major revenue generating agencies overnight.

Reworking the various IT systems to work together in compliance with the new laws alone will take a long time.

Training thousands of government workers on the new laws and the systems nko.

I am even surprised they think they can do all these in 6 months. Unless of course they were so sure the laws would be passed, they started work on the changes at agency and ministry levels months ago.

FreeStuffsNG:
South West produce gas in Ondo state and Lagos is an oil producing state. Ogun will soon join. South West also hosts the largest refinery and most of the gas stations. It's the ease of doing business in South West and security that helped greatly.

I agree about some of the inbuilt advantages.

However, the gas produced in Ondo, and the oil produced in Lagos State are very little.

Ogun may have the potential to produce more, but that could be at least 10 years away from now.

As for Dangote refinery, even before its existence fuel was rarely cheaper anywhere than the South West.

In an indirect way, the South West enjoys an inbuilt price/economic advantage in a lot of areas.

When you analyse it, the broken Nigerian system actually works for the South West in many ways.

No wonder the elite here rarely join any agitation to leave Nigeria.

We don't produce crude of any significance, but petrol is cheapest here.

We don't produce gas, but gas is cheapest here.

I even heard that a bag or rice is around N65,000 in Ogun and Lagos State, whereas in many parts of the country, its is around N80K.

For this country to progress, South West people need to show better understanding of the pain and agitations of people from other parts of this country, and support changes that are fair to everyone.

Shouting agitators from other parts of the country down and condemning them is selfish and will only breed hatred.

Everything seem so expensive in the South East and the South South.

It is not like they are far from the gas processing areas or the ports like the North.

How can gas be around N13,000 in the SW and be over N20,000 in other parts of the country.

It is almost like we are not in the same country. I would be very angry if I lived in other parts of the country.

Are middle men profiting exorbitantly from the gas supply chain like they do with petrol?

The government needs to find a solution.

casualobserver:
N1549.02 to 1549.26 is what they are making into a headline?

That goes to show most of the things you read in the Nigeria media are sponsored for political reasons.

Terrible people.

Why did nairaland moderators move this totally deceptive thread to front page

A currency barely changes, and you report it as losing value.

In reality, Naira has been one of the most stable currencies in Africa this year.

You can't build a successful country when virtually everyone is intent on undermining anything good.

Some of the Governors must see something in the President.

2027 will be the most expensive election in the history of Nigeria.

I suspect that election will witness an unprecedented buying of votes on election day. That is where the Governors standing with Mr Tinubu will come in.

There is no part of Nigeria today where majority of people will not vote for you in return for N25,000 cash. Nowhere. 'Angry' voters will put their anger aside if they see N25k.

If the APC needs to spend trillions they will find it.

There may also be a massive show of force through the Police and civil defence so that any person that wants to cause any trouble at any election centre will be wisked away and dealt with.

The opposition will simply not be able to match the APC.

flexyrule:
There was a protest too in Dakar, Senegal on Monday against unemployment and hardship.

And the Senegalese President is one of the youngest in the world.

He was voted into office just a couple of years ago by the same protesters who said they no longer want the old politicians.

But the young President has not done any better.

This should tell us that being a good leader is not all about age.

iykololo:
MTN & GLO will frustrate this

Lebara is not a Telco in the mold of MTN, Glo etc.

I think their business model is based on buying wholesale services from the likes of MTN and others at a good discount, then resell
to the public using more consumer-friendly models and aiming to make very small profit per unit call time or data purchased wholesale from MTN.

So, their existence will depend on MTN and the others. It is a win-win.

Their go-to market approach is investment/capital-light, so potentially they can reach profitability quicker because even though they make a very small profit per unit of call time and data, that small unit profit can translate into billions in a country with Nigeria's population.

I could be wrong, but this is what I think their business model is.

I am surprised that no Nigerian business person spotted the opportunity before now.

Dancebreaker:
Dem still dey. Sri Lankans founded it.

Despite rivals Lyca and Giff Gaff being successful, too, Lebara has really grown in top European economies.

I thought Lyca were more likely to enter 9ja.

Yes...now I remember Lyca Mobile. It was even more popular than Lebara initially.

Pickieox:
I bet you've never tried their network. When you do, you'll jettison your yeye MTN lines or whatever. I keep saying that MTN is just do those gragra because they didn't see better competitors. Now, I think it's high time they sat up their asses.

Don't underestimate Nigerians addiction to MTN.

Also, MTN will not lie down and watch Lebara steal market share from it. MTN has a financial war chest it can unleash to sink Lebara.

Winning just 5% of the market will be a tall order for Lebara.

Lebara better come with a ton of money. They will either swim or sink.

agabaI23:
Cheapest phone card then. It helped a lot of people

Yes.

Then, it was a financial suicide to use a BT landline, or any mobile service to call Nigeria.

The worst was BT pay phone. You load like £10 coins, and by the time Nigerian parents start with the usual long yoruba greetings, your £10 is gone before you can say a couple of words. Chai.

It was a ruinous way to call Nigeria.

Then came Lebara cards to save the day.

Used to buy Lebara International phone cards in London.

It was owned by Lebanese or Indians.

Didn't know they still exist.

They must have spotted an opportunity in the Nigerian phone market.

It is difficult to keep up with what's going on with all these opposition parties.

Nigerian politics.

It's 100% about self interest.

Whether they are in opposition or governing, they politicians are absolutely the same.

JovialJune:
Are these people high? Where did they see vaccine for cancer? As how?

Correct.

While there is hope that in the future, there will be vaccines to prevent cancer, no such vaccine exit currently, at least not in the public domain.

And I hope they're not trying to use Nigerians as guinea pigs to test the efficacy of a new vaccine that hasn't been approved for use by humans, and which foreign governments have not approved for use on their own people.

I will be cautious to take any new vaccine against malaria.

I acknowledge the best intentions of the researchers and the donors that provided funding, but there simply is not enough history of use to provide data on potential side effects.

Government should put more money into small, rural health centres and provide malaria and other basic drugs, and put adequate number of nurses.

Most malaria can be treated with a combination of tried and tested medicines, and with injection if required.

While the vaccine route is a cheap and noble option for preventing malaria or stoping it from getting too serious, the existing methods if well funded can do an excellent job too.

nedu666:
Who told you that. All the tractors state governors have been commissioning where dem dey. When I did youth service I saw hundreds of tractors in baruten lying in open space covered in dust. It's not about buying tractors will they use it?

Let's wait and see.

I have enough evidence (removal of subsidy, student loan, historical tax bills, removal of dollar subsidy, killing of unprecedented number of war lords etc) to convince me that Mr Tinubu is a different kind of leader, and that his government will try to make these tractors work.

He is a man of immense self confidence and personal conviction. If and when he is determined to do something, you better don't stand in his way.

You simply can't compare him with Mr Jonathan who did not know most of what was happening around him, or Mr Buhari who was not interested in a lot of things.

Ijaya123:
And the government must try all means to put a stop to herdsmen destroying farmers efforts for these to have any meaningful impact.

I think the government is trying, but after more than 60 years of inadequate security infrastructure, no Nigerian government can solve the security issues in 2 years.

Even 10 years, there is no guaranty.

If it was easy, Mr Jonathan and Mr Buhari will have solved the problem in the 13 years or so they both spent in government.

There is no easy solution.

Benue, Niger, Bornu etc are each the size of a small European country.

If you put 70% of all Nigeria army personnel in Benue, it still will not guaranty the safety of everyone there.

If most of the Army is deployed in Benue, the attackers will simply shift to Plateau, Niger, Kaduna, Bornu, Zamfara, Kwara etc

anonimi:
How much farming output will pay for the imported tractors?

How much will pay for locally produced and simpler tractors based on NCAM Ilorin models?

Which of these two options will help ebilokan achieve the N300/$1 short term goal that he has missed after two years of hitting the ground running. Where has he been running to all these past 25 months? Do you know

See questions?

'Ilorin models' - you mean inefficient, old school tractor that breaks down so often and without enough spare parts around.

And were the so-called Ilorin models manufactured in Nigeria.

Where in Nigeria is the steel works where the various parts are forged.