₦airaland Forum

History in the making. Who knew this day would come?

Let him travel to his home town without security. I want to check something.

Wike is the hand of the king. Tinubu made a bargain with the devil the day he partnered with Wike to help him win the last election. The thing is this, Tinubu can't afford to do anything to Wike. Wike knows where all the bodies are buried and he will sing like a lark if Tinubu jettisons him.
It is better to have Wike in the tent pissing outside than to have him outside the tent pissing in.

SadiqBabaSani:
Secular musicians don’t thrill me, they add nothing to my spirit

Because there's nothing in your spirit. Nothing plus nothing equals nothing.

Wahala. Corper buys a Benz that costs more than the entire monthly subvention NYSC secretariats across 6 states receive in a month.
Clitocurrency sure pays a lot. I was one of the few who knew from the beginning where all of this was headed.

The format they use now is create controversy, go viral and brain dead Nigerian men will start coming for them. Giving them money and buying things for them they never can afford on their own.

If she was wealthy enough to purchase this car, NYSC staff wouldn't have seen her to embarrass in the first place. Nigerian men, Una do dis one. Our mumu never do?

My question to nairalanders in western countries is this. Do these incidents of failed transactions and wrong debits happen where you are? Are these accepted over there?

If they aren't, If these are rare occurrences in advanced economies, then it means our banks have adopted systems and technology that they don't have properly trained staff to handle.

Moreso, for every failed transaction or debit, a USSD charge is paid by the customer. Why should the customer pay for non delivery of service?

Nigerian banks are all thieves. ALL of them. The MD of a particular bank bought a 15 million dollar home in the UK... One bank made a PAT of over 637 billion Naira this year. All of this in a contracting economy where families are struggling to feed. Nigerian banks are leeches. This is insane. Nigerian banks are the only banks worldwide that declared profits during COVID when everywhere was shut down. Till date, over 1.3 trillion naira that all banks have collected as stamp duty charges over the years have not been remitted to the national treasury. Yet the government and the CBN is silent. All the money they've collected for USSD charges, they've not paid MTN, Airtel and Glo. That case is still in court.

We don't have banks. We have rogue financial outfits operating under the cover of the state to pilfer the earnings of the populace.

I need to talk to you really.

Why are you taking AI slop as fact?

I fail to find some form of validity in the arguments being espoused by the author. India, China, Malaysia, Vietnam and a number of other countries were also colonised at some point. Yet they have simply refused to allow that hold them back.
We can't keep blaming the colonialist for the woes of the African continent seeing as our leaders are actively looting and pillaging the resources of countries in Africa and storing same in western banks and property markets.

I will never understand why the government can't make DNA tests compulsory here in Nigeria.

The president says the government has met its revenue targets for the year. Yet, it is still borrowing like crazy. Something doesn't add up.

Avedonn:
the military should proactively utilize its advanced satellite intelligence to locate and target the terrorists enclaves.

You wan kill person with laugh? Nigerian military get satellite? Who dash dem? Ordinary CCTV to watch their base for Borno dem no fit manage am na so Boko Haram make dem smell their nyash dat day. You dey here dey talk of satellite.

I said it since last year. The day Boko Haram masters how to use armed drones in the theatre, it is finished.
Nigerians, this is it. There is no way the Nigerian army can defeat these guys now. Boko Haram is operating several steps ahead of our armed forces now. If you want to know why this is such a big deal, armed drones are the only reason why Ukraine has been able to keep Russia at bay for a long time now.

Nigeria can never win this war when money meant for equipment and platforms are being looted by officers who use it to build massive mansions all over Nigeria. Boko Haram actually uses its money to buy weapons and equipment and doesn't loot its own treasury.

The Nigerian defence academy should be closed down for good. This is over 15 years and no product of that academy can come up with solutions to the issues of insecurity bedevilling Nigeria.

That match was a disaster. That goalkeeper was paid to cost the eagles the match. He plays in the South African league after all. I have never seen such incompetence from a goal keeper before.

The eagles will not qualify for the world cup and I am fine with that. The team is mediocre and has no future. There is no way the eagles can beat Benin.

creolehunt:
A friend once told me that an average Nigerian policeman or military personnel cannot hit a target over a shooting range without shooting sporadically. That's how abysmal the system is.

Truly, it’s a national embarrassment.

I have watched as senior officers of the air force were shooting at the range. None of them could readily hit their targets. It was embarrassing. Surprisingly, they are only allowed weapons training once in a year for reasons I can't exactly understand.

But this is the 21st century and the theatre of combat has evolved. By the time you are exchanging bullets with the enemy, it is already late. That's why competent militaries have prioritised air cover and eyes in the sky capabilities. Frankly, I think our air force is really dropping the ball here. An army base is being attacked for hours and there is no effective response from the airforce? This is just embarrassing.

The only reason why Trump is griping and moaning like a child for a nobel peace prize is because Obama got one. Trump deeply envies and resents Obama for that.
Trump has actively military deployed across large swathes of states in the US. He is actively causing unrest in America. Authorising needless military strikes in Venezuela that has killed scores of people.
His name should not be mentioned as a candidate for a peace prize.

SirdeKay:
The boy could be a front for some dubious politicians

Haba! You ma check am na. Na 17 year old boy politician go use as front?

Eh? Why does no good news ever come out of Edo state why? But then again the Edo state governor always struggles with figures so who knows what the hell he's talking about.

1 million won't carry you to cross the road these days.

You serious? Just cos a girl hugged you?

Over 78 communities in Plateau state have had their inhabitants driven off, some of the inhabitants killed and those communities settled in and renamed by rampaging bandits and herders. Predominantly Christian communities.

aribisala0:
Cement is $2in China $7 in Nigeria
China import gas
Nigeria does not


How come?

Dangote magic. But seriously, why is Nigerian cement this expensive? The most expensive in the world.

This gas is what they flare for free. I wonder why it has to be this expensive. Yes I know machinery to capture, condense, store and distribute LNG costs quite a lot but most of these costs are one off. Gas should be a lot cheaper than what it currently sells for.

I thought the court had ruled previously in 2014 that Jonathan is eligible to run? What kind of lawyer is this?

Kobojunkie:
I would ask you for a stat to prove this claim, which you make here, suggesting that most divorced women go on to become sidechicks. Where is the backing for this claim? An unnamed analyst makes a claim, and we are supposed to believe it is fact? Nonsense!

There is nothing Juju about it at all. If you reason it without biases coloring your view, you would see it yourself. Anyways, as for one of the reasons why some divorced women go on to become sidechicks, well, there are several reasons.

➜ Society claims it is wrong to commit adultery, but then, rather than penalize the man and sidechick, lets them off, and in some cases, Society turns the blame on the wife for not being wifely enough or not having the prowess to protect her marriage from the other woman. All this is pressure placed on the wife, who now finds herself fighting depression, rejection, and also having to continue her wifely duties, all while the man and his sidechick continue to enjoy their lives as though nothing ever went wrong. Imagine a situation where even the man's family members receive gifts and entertain the sidechick behind the wife's back as though to say that they approve of the relationship, even as they continue to insist their son's wife continue to serve him judiciously in the home.
➜ Most Nigerian men treat their sidechicks so many times better than they treat their own wives. I mean, this ain't a hidden secret at all, as even very poor men are known to go out of their way to ensure their sidechicks are well fed before even their own children, talk less of their wives. The position of sidechick in Nigeria is so many times better than that of the wife, who, in many cases, is no more than a provider of free labor in the marriage.
➜ A sidechick has more opportunities for growth than a typical wife would have access to. A sidechick has greater control over her time and freedom than the average wife does, and for an ambitious woman, that is a benefit that is of great importance. Having the man while holding on to her independence is a valuable place to be in.
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Yes, there are lots of benefits to being a sidechick than a wife to a Nigerian man, that is why I believe a wife trading places with a sidechick is a sort of promotion, not a demotion, for a divorced woman.🥱🥱🥱

Kobo, rest.

babzo:
21st Century? Who needs documents to verify anything important? What happened to all the billions allocated to computing, websites and cloud storage? Or fre burnt those ones too?
Nigeria hennnnn.

You want any governor in Nigeria to do cloud storage and backups? They won't even if you put a gun on their head.

Yes. The Rivers State house wants to probe the emergency governments records. Now all of a sudden, sections of an area of interest is catching fire. This is a cover up.

Why is the emergency rule governor refusing to answer the state assembly on how he managed the affairs of the state?

Dumfrank:
Whoever is working on the site should revert! This present presentation does not make Sense.

The site is displaying normally to me with a minor tweak

Sonnobax15:
Kobo, do you have a problem with "making sense" most times? . Cuz I don't just understand you at all..

I'm really beginning to lean on this kobo being a bot. No human can really be that disjointed in thinking.

Aren't the logistics for things like this normally handled long before time? He should fire whoever it is that he has handling his travels and bookings. This is incompetence of the highest order.