₦airaland Forum

gistray:
I be hardcore Igbo and Obi supporter but I believe in giving credit where credit is due.

I'm not talking about those Agbadorian tribalist littered everywhere on Nairaland but main focus is in Nigerian politics.

South West have just about enough prominent Muslims to sway votes from the North who're predominantly Muslims.


South West have just about enough prominent Christians to way votes from the South who're predominantly Christians


South West politicians know how to work from under until it is their turn... Just like Tinubu worked for Buhari.


Tinubu understands Nigeria politics like or hate him... I personally hate the fact he's old man well passed his prime with nothing tangible to offer Nigerians... but I can't seem to hate how confident and charismatic he is.. He can easily convince people to be on his side just like what he's about to do in South East.



If Tinubu government Release Kanu and if Tinubu government gives South East a new state then Tinubu will win over some people and possibly states in South East because come 2027 he'll be needing all the votes he can get because the North already have an agenda.


Tinubu is already creating a coastal project in South South which will help give him some South South votes.



My man Obi bleeped up in a way... He was in 2much hurry.

If Obi stayed with Atiku in PDP and ran as VP then they would have probably won the last election.... After Atiku finished his term... He Obi would have been the main Flag bearer for PDP and would have gotten pretty much a swift victory.



Being realistic as a core Obidient.... If Obi becomes president of Nigeria as a Candidate from LP then it will be one of the Wonders of the world.


Nigeria is too corrupt to ever dream of winning an election fairly without some bad and powerful men especially from the North on your side.

Congratulations Brother for you are spot on in your analysis

BigkokoRep:
Those wey do soapy dey get eye problem, well wetin I sabi sef! BATs are known to be blind Soapy no good for you...ooohhh top it

When you labour in vain, it's understandable if you eventually run mad

BigkokoRep:
Bruhnnnn... no be every one dey do soapy like you! Enjoy your soapy in peace. I know your type. Once they fit collect 30k stipends, every other Ronu can go to hell. Enjoy this pishure of a former Ronu wailing that there is no eggs in Ondo because of the vseless policies of siwaju & patch patch CBN gov...

Since the days of Obatala..this is the first time there are no eggs in Ondo state because all the Chicken farms have closed because of incompetent clowns ruling yall.

Anyway, we advise him and his gang of Ronus to lay eggs and sell...after all una dey sell human skulls

I also know your type, na joy soap you dey use

As long as you know I got 30k
I also know you use joy soap for your masturbation on anything Tinubu

You can't claim to know and still doubt other peoples claims , if you know about others , other people know about you too ...... Simple

vanbonattel:
Kenya should complain with protests till the government solves their problems.

As for Nigeria, it will never happen. The corrupt government just needs to do one thing to stop the protests, just accuse the protesters of being Igbos (without proof of course) and the whole protest will stop. Tribalists will take over and start fighting each other.

They have us all tied up pretty well with bigotry and are robbing the whole country blind.

Kenyans are suffering more than Nigerians
We in Nigeria , Our suffer never do
That's why theres no upheavals anywhere
Yes
Grumblings here and there
But generally people have saved for times likes this and are simply emptying their savings and investments

If Nigerians suffer like the Kenyans, we will be protesting too

001Lagos:
Akpabio you talked about even married an Igbo woman named Nneoma and and they still happily married till date.

Peter Obis wife is from Akwa ibom

In yorubamans voice " two ge four " ni

Case closed

Obaranje:
you are the one deceiving yourself here. you think it is the hide and see if Hamas that have dragg this war to this day?

Hamas should be greatfull to the civilians, ICC, UN and international community

Israel is only playing to the tone of a democratic country otherwise they would have been no Gaza by now.

Tell Hamas to come out and chase the Israelis back to TelAviv out of Israel only then we will know that they are still standing

For now they are just like every low budget criminal in the society. Criminals Can only strike and hide until one day hand go touch dey and dey will be decimated by the government.

They are mere criminals now not even up to the standard of a terrorist anymore.

If they are truly standing they should go and stand at Rafa boarder maintain control of what goes in and what goes out

Unless you are not telling us the through meaning of standing

Even after blockading Gaza for over 17 years by land air and sea, these people are still able to carry out attacks?
IDF should hide it's faces in shame

IDF far out number Hamas and has an arsenal of weapons far in excess of what Hamas has ,yet unable to defeat hamas after 10months of senseless bombings?

I dey shame for IDF

JagabanB:
Few weeks ago, Kenya was top of the praise list, today, Kenya youths are top of the praise list, today, it's Zambia.

A few years Ago , Ghana was the top bride

Later it was Ethiopia, then Kenya

If you know you know

How will I forget Rwanda

All these was after they stopped heaping all praises on Nigeria, today nobody wants to hear Nigeria again

This world na cruise

Na so them prop Ukraine, Ukraine this , Ukraine that , Ukraine reign those years until it climaxed in a war. The rest is history

DeLaRue:
So abusing the Cbn Governor and the government for not banning it is a reflection of the wanton rudeness that typifies how many of you engage with other people.

Allow the guy masturbate on the name small now, that's what gives them joy

I wouldn't want anyone charging you to court for obstructing his joyful moments

helinues:
Your opinion

Gerrah from my mentions

https://www.nairaland.com/001lagos/posts



As you no get an atom of shame, na to continue disgracing you.

Is this moniker no a dedicated moniker to troll and attack others for no sensible reason ?

Go through your own comments history and give yourself a dirty slap for the hypocrisy

Radarada

See who dey call someone shameless

Someone that's not even proud of his igbo roots that he can't find a moniker that reflects his igboness ..... Has to use LAGOS 001 the fixation of igbos to Lagos need to be studied.
Before you talk now , he go say e pay him tax to Lagos as if anybody force am to pay tax to Lagos instead of Enugu state

Iranu
it would have been surprising if we don't know igbos to have victim mentality and suffer serious inferiority complex

Odin13:
Thought Nigerians are the only people that know Yoruba and their funny dna follow come..

The world sef don Dey recognize it .. wow!

Thumbs up to bitterness and hatred.

We will get there soon

Fools will bark on my mention

All in display of stupidity

Ignoring foolishness pains the souls of fools...

When I see comments like this I see a person who don't know their left from right

The most toxic places in the internet are Facebook and Twitter

Nairaland dey learn work where those two dey

But since na people abroad dey diss nairaland, igbos don see something masturbate on.


Reminds me of the early days of Buhari government, some igbos even floated biafra land.com which even fellow igbos no gree visit.......Tell me again , what happened to the ill-fated biafra land.com?

Yeye

AqualinaXYZ:
You can’t be supporting evil leaders always and don’t wanna be cautioned




If I no caution you then you’ll keep supporting failures as president

Emeka rest
Una Sabi elect presidents
But end up electing disasters as governors

Na MUMU dey worry you , Obidients don't know the meaning of democracy.

In a democracy, theres freedom of choice,Yes , Even freedom to chose the wrong person from time to time , that's why theres elections every now and then to either remove a wrong president or reward them with another tenure.
It doesn't matter if you feel your Candidate is the best, you cant force everyone to vote for just one Candidate, it defeats the purpose of democracy
And if you didn't do your homework, you will have a poor result.

May we not labour in vain

rollywise:
I no read am. E too long. You must be mad too think I'll read that epistle. Na you buy my phone? All I know is that you see this suffering you supported, it will kill you. If you dare make attempt to leave this country due to hardship, you'll sleep and not wake up 😂😂😂

You for read wetin him write
It will be the best education you ever get

You dey scream hunger hunger hunger
UK is in recession, but that hasn't stopped people flocking there does that mean people dey rush go hungry land?

See, me I no believe say Nigerians dey suffer at least most Nigerians aren't suffering because most already saved for times like this ..... This is why there no upheavals anywhere
Yes , grumblings here and there
But generally people have gone to their savings and investments for succour .
Even those that make daily money have adjusted their lives around their income, what most Nigerians can't afford is luxury, for now

RepoMan007:
Since Israel is losing heavily, let them stay in Gaza until Hamas wipes then off. Lol.

This was the same arrogance the Americans had in Afghanistan
They left with Shame after 20 years of Lying to themselves and the world and everyone leaving behind high grade Military weapons and technology for the use of the same Taliban
And what do those ones do, they took some and dispatched the rest to their affiliates all over the world,to places like Gaza and Yemen.

I have said it , Oct 7 demystified IDF
And 10 months on and still fill of arrogance the Palestinians are still giving IDF that far out number them with men and weapons a hard time
Bibi is only using the war as his get out of jail card , he knows and Daniel Hagari also confirmed, HAMAS is and ideology, it's can't be defeated with military onslaught

fuckingAyaya:
you know how many Russian citizens that are currently in USA? And many that also wanna run to USA

American hates Communists
And Russians are Communists
Any Russian in America is most likely a Capitalist
As America Banned many Russian Elites ,many American Elites are also banned from entering Russia

chopnaira:
If those Russians plant weed in his bags at the airport, he would be a good tool to help bargain with the US to release more Russian prisoners in US jails

Like they used that Lesbian basketballer

Zubeezanga:
Lol this rule them dy on na trap no worry e go play out i only pity the innocent yorubas, because nobody actually trust them, anything wey sup now everyone won't go against just politicians but them too i wonder who will back them lol.

Nobody needs your pity

MUMU

When the whole igbos tribe is done with their foolishness , they will still be trashed in the next elections.

You wan pity youubas instead of feeling sorry for your tribe. The yorubas you wan pity , their second son to be president in 20 years is there ........who needs pity again?

Mumu

wealth2u:
Keep enjoying ur bouyant suffering Mr. President relation 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I said it, when they lost an argument the next thing is "egg is 2 for 1 million yen yen yen

Gerrouttahia

Treadway:
was it? If anything even the person you quoted was made to see and admit that most of those positions were in some cases false, and in some cases wrong.

At the end of the day, it is one thing for Buhari who is largely uneducated to make grievous mistakes, it is another for a supposed maestro and 'educated first class accountant' to make the exact mistakes on a far more disastrous scale...


But to each his own😎

I didn't wholly disagree with you
And I didn't wholly agree with him
I just said it was a nice rebuttal
And I have a right to that just like you have to your thoughts

grandstar:
APC was never the problem. Buhari was.

He was grossly incompetent and many in his party knew that. I'm sure Tinubu realized so within 30 days of him assuming office.

However, the party had to put up with him as that was the only way they could hold on to piwer.

Though Buhari meant well, his poor intellectual background held him back. Many in his party called him an illiterate behind his back.

Tinubu is trying hard to undo the huge mess he left behind.

2. Buhari had no time ever attempted to float the Naira. There were 2 official rates from 2017 down to 2023. Where there's a float, there's only one official rate.

There was nothing wrong with floating the Naira. Tinubu wanted to wipe off the disparity between the official rate and black market rate which had been uses to siphon billions of dollars.

Since the floating, the disparity has closed. Yes, the floating was badly handled.

Also, one reason for the high inflation was the use of Ways and Means to finance the budget.

Ways and means is CBN printing of money to lend to the federal government. It is very inflationary. There's much more Naira chasing the same amount of Dollars and goods.

In addition, the CBN was and is still running a loose monetary policy. Economics dictates that the CBN interest rates must be above that of inflation, especially if inflation is high.

Inflation is 29% thereabouts while the CBN rates are circa 23%. If increased to around 30%, banks would buy up treasury bonds taking money out of the system. This would greatly reduce inflation.

However, Tinubu has said he wants interest rates low. The price we pay is therefore high inflation.

There was nothing wrong in removing subsidy and floating the Naira at the same time.

The truth is, he did not go far enough. Rather than just remove the subsidy on petrol, he should have fully deregulated the price of petrol as done alreasy with diesel, gas and kerosene. Government no longer fixes the price but it's left to market forces.

The benefit of full price deregulation of petrol would be massive. If anyone tells you the price would go down, he is deceiving you. It would only go down and up based on the price of crude oil and the value of the Naira. You can't expect the price of petrol to be the same at $50/barrel and $80/barrel. You can't expect the price of petrol to be the same when $1-800 and $1-1,200. You're an importer, so you will naturally understand these things.

The real benefit of petrol price deregulation is that it would lead to massive investment in the downstream sector of the economy There would be massive investments in the building of refineries.

When GSM started, there was deregulated pricing. GSM operators were free to charge their desired prices. MTN and AIRTEL charged N50/minute, while MTEL choose a masses friendly price of N22. The first two were able to invest billions of dollars because they charged prices that made them profitable. Mtel meanwhile is as dead as a dodo today..

Today, due to deregulated pricing, there are over 100m cell phone users, from 400,000 in year 2000.

Government should also have deregulated the price of electricity. Electricity is sold at subsidized prices. The federal government isvto make up the difference but it hasn't been faithful. Presently, it owes the Gencos $1.3bn and the Discos N1.3tr naira. With the fall of the Naira, the price of supplying electricity has gone further up, while the price of electricity has remained static since May last year. That is why hardly any power is being supplied.

3. Yemi Cardoso

The primary reason Tinubu appointed Cardoso was because he was probably his "boy." Many economists here criticized his appointment as he was unqualified to head the CBN ,especially at this critical moment in the nation's economy.

Tinubu wanted someone he could control. This is sad as the central bank has autonomy and it was to prevent such an unholy alliance the president now has with the sitting head.

It was also Buhari's interference with the CBNs duties that dealt the economy a heavy blow during his inglorious 8 years in office.

Well, it seems now the Naira is appreciating. It does not however change the need for a more competent head to be appointed for the central banks post.

4. I have to be honest with you, I am apolitical. I have no obsession with politics.

The biggest problem creeping up now is cronyism, nepotism and corruption.

You have the railway contract awarded to a suspicious company. You have the OPL 245 oil well awarded to Tinubu of OANDO. Tinubu's son in law was placed in charged of the Federal Mortgage Bank.

I doubt any privatization or commercialization carried under this government would be free and fair. For the free market to work properly, transparency is key. That is why the GSM auction in the early 2000s was met with praise and the country has benefitted greatly from it.

5. Nigeria never had an import problem. Nigerias problem has always been an export problem. The country is too reliant on crude oil exports for dollar inflows and when the oil price crashes, the Naira takes a beating. Since it was a reduction in dollars that brought about the problem, Nigeria needs to start exporting more non-oil products.

You said you're a car dealer. You probably import cars. Are you a liability to the nation? With your profits, don't you pay rent, build house, pay school fees, feed your family and so on? Don't you deposit some into the bank?

Imports are actually extremely good for the economy and is a recognized driver of growth.

That is why import substitution policies are counterproductive. In addition, countries do best when they pour into areas they have competitive and comparative advantage. Import substitution encourages the pouring of resources where you don't do well.

Look at cement. All what the cement ban did was to make two Nigerians dollar billionaires. Everyone knows that Nigerians are overcharged for cement. The profit margins these guys make is unheard in the industry. It is the kind of margins online game makers make, who store no physical inventory.

The building industry suffers because of the ban. It wasn't Tinubu that banned the importation but Obj.

If companies are packing out, it is due to the severity of the mess Buhari left behind. There was $7bn uncleared forex contracts while there was barely $3bn left in the foreign reserves. It was the shortage of foreign reserves that made many of these companies quit the country.

The proper thing for Nigeria to have done would have been to contact the IMF for balance of payment support in the form of a loan. The IMF would lend Nigeria $20bn for it to build its reserves. When Nigeria has rebuilt its reserves, the country will repay it. Tinubu knew Nigerians wouldn't welcome that and would blame any painful economic policy on the IMF, without seeing why.

Nice rebuttal

Killerofpigs:
A man promises death and supports killers.........(BUHARI) you support them?

A convicted drug guzzler is your mentor....(TINUBU) you support

a man asks for referendum to free himself and his people of your toxicity..you become a ranting machine?

GET a life and forget sentiments...you guyz are truly worthless.

NONE IS A GRATER CRIME THAN THAT OF NNAMDI KANU
YOU DONT WANT TO ACCEPT KANUS CRIMES BUT SCREAM ONLY THOSE OF OTHERS

YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE

lamentor78:
All these senseless topic and post will not convince Nigerians, to vote Obi. I was thinking Senators and Rep members under LP will set a good record by fighting and rejecting their multimillion SUVs ,but what did we see ,as usual they collected it and flex around.

All politicians are same, when they are not in power they promised heaven and earth.

Did they want to be different?
They are just pretending to be different from those they seek to replace. LP urging it's members to reject those SUV s would have endeared them to the mind of many Nigerians but they lost that chance and Nigerians have seen them as pretenders

Killerofpigs:
Tinubu never believed in NIGERIA and you supported him wholeheartedly...

BUHARI said the baboons and DOGs will be soaked in blood.
Buhari also said that an attack against boko haram, is an attack against the north.

All the statements above and you still supported them?

Yoruba man...try to be shameful when you claim to take foolish notes..

Amd is any of the "crimes " you posted above as toxic as NNAMDI kanus IPOB broadcasts?
Like someone opined above, the case against him is very strong.....all his call for violence is all over the internet .....it would take a miracle for him to escape those crimes.

slaawomirr:
He said that Nigerians don’t really hate bad government they are just pretending to be angry because it is not their tribesman in power

The truth about Nigerians

Killerofpigs:
When they contest..they become IPOB....

When all you can produce is a man that said IPOB are not criminals and that he lives with them
You think others are not taking notes abi

When they call una political neophyte Una go dey vex but at every election cycle Una eyes dey clear

Na so e go continue until una get sense

I know your next retort will be "egg is 2 for 1 million naira yen yen yen .... But nobody send you to labour in vain

general111:
Since israel is a terrorist state, would you rather live in lebanon than in israel?

Why will I even consider any of them to live in?

I don't get the Logic behind such question as I prefer my Nigeria

general111:
How they think that Hezbollah has upgraded since 2006,but israel hasn't is what blows my mind.
Even in 2006,israel won that war.
A beg make Una rest will Una sentimental attachment to terrorist.

Israel is the greatest terrorist nation on earth amd is getting away with it because of USA and Europe.
Why?
Europeans don't want a repeat of the Holocaust so they will do anything to keep the Jews in Israel and prevent them storming Europe again and becoming an issue. Most people in the new settlements in the west Bank are American Jews , that's was why it was easy for Biden to sanction some of them for attacking Palestinians

IDF was demystified on Oct 7, it's power lies in whatever assistance it could get from America and since America has pledged unwavering support for Israel it could be said that IDF is a proxy of USA ........just like Hamas and Hezbollah are Iranian proxies

Funkyswagzz:
Look at someone calling me a criminal. Chai true true u guys no get single shame. Na ignorance go finish u las las

Are you not a criminal if you don't pay tax?

Funkyswagzz:
Look at how stupid you are.. you can't defend APC without lookin stupid. All of you defending this party, it's better they dig a big hole put all of you there and burn all of you. Una no get single sense I swear

MUMU na you get brain but your brain no dey tell you the truth.... You don't even pay tax and you are here forming, gerrout.
You are a criminal that don't pay tax and expect sevices.
Why not start digging the hole for you and your family.
IDIOT

Funkyswagzz:
Buhari was better than this present tax collector

The best President any country could have is a very Good tax collector.
Far better than someone who is so dull he was using his entire revenue to repay debts. The "tax collector " will tax you and use your tax to better your lives .

slimfit1:
I looked at how Davido spray dollars I think we need to start charging or taxing rich people to oppress us. These people are bringing revenue to this country. The Naira is struggling because of this people.

Of Course this is what happens all over the world except Nigeria. I'm sure the moment government introduce such a tax for the rich, the Wailers will still protest on behalf of these rich people simply because you don't like Tinubu.