₦airaland Forum

Brendaniel:
If Tinubu was doing his work, would all these have emerged?

Funny that some of you think this will bring Tinubu down. If anything, it is likely to work in his advantage. Muslims in the Northern Nigeria are beginning to see this development as one orchestrated by Christians against Muslims and the Muslim-Muslim ticket. I can't see how this will not benefit Tinubu.

The Christians in the SW, SS and NC who are already supporting him will not stop supporting him. Have you wondered why Atiku and Obi have refused to utter any word in this regards in the past 48 hours?

AqualinaXYZ:
Tinubu your time is up and cup is full




You’re about to get Jonathan treatment in full



Karma no kuku send your papa

Funny that some of you think this will bring Tinubu down. If anything, it is likely to work in his advantage. Muslims in the Northern are beginning to see this development as one orchestrated by Christians against Muslims and the Muslim-Muslim ticket. I don't see how this will not benefit Tinubu.

The Christians in the SW, SS and NC who are already supporting him will not stop supporting him. Have you wondered why Atiku and Obi have refused to utter any word in this regards in the past 48 hours?

Fayemi is one of the most despicable politicians in Nigeria. He is a hypocrite and a corrupt politician masquerading as patriot.

He was among Jonathan's loudest critics, and he benefitted largely from that political expedition that replaced Jonathan. Fayemi is only saying this because of his current opposition to BAT.

Claiming they knew Jonathan was doing well when they were protesting against him is a very ridiculous statement. Fayemi can only speak for himself.

Besides, there is no country in the World, where the opposition would refrain from contesting power against the incumbent because the incumbent is perceived to be doing well. It never happened in the past, it will never happen in the future.

Love800:
So what do you think AIT is doing wrong for dem to be experiencing this?

How often do you watch AIT? Do you watch them as much as you watch Arise or Channels? There in lie part of the answers.

Secondly, companies die everyday all over the world due to poor management.

Procashtips:
Too many wrong comparisons here.

1k for haircut in Nigeria?
Then there are also places in the US you can have an haircut for 15 or 20.

Eat out 2k in Nigeria?
Then you can also eat out in the US for 5, 10 or even 15.
You don't need 10k salary to live and have a family with 2 children in the US. You can as well live with less than 5k.

Except you're claiming people in the US with at least 2 children earning from 6k upwards.

It is obvious that you have never lived in the US before, yet you are making bold statements about the economic realities of the place, perhaps, based on hearsay. You just want to argue for the sake of argument. It's people like you that make people with relevant information to keep shut.

Akalia:
What's your point cos I don't gerrit

My points are very clear. You have your reasons for not getting the points.

trytillmake:
Baba thanks for this, that's means na to dey charge better money for remote jobs be dat.

You get it. You would enjoy those dollars more if you earn them in Nigeria through remote jobs or an export business.

Procashtips:
Too many wrong comparisons here.

1k for haircut in Nigeria?
Then there are also places in the US you can have an haircut for 15 or 20.

Eat out 2k in Nigeria?
Then you can also eat out in the US for 5, 10 or even 15.
You don't need 10k salary to live and have a family with 2 children in the US. You can as well live with less than 5k.

Except you're claiming people in the US with at least 2 children earning from 6k upwards.

Where in the US do you live? I have lived here for almost 10 years, and I know what I am saying. I came here as a graduate student, living on $2,000 a month. So, I have experienced both sides of the divide in the US.

By the way, I don't understand the bolded part in your post. Are you saying 1k is too much or too little to get a haircut in Nigeria?

I wonder what people blaming Tinubu few days ago for AIT's closure would say now. We like to politicize everything in Nigeria.

AIT is just a disaster waiting to happen, and this has nothing to do with Tinubu. If you are in doubt, go on YouTube, and compare AIT's subscribers to those of Channels, TVC and AriseTV. AIT can't boast of 50,000 subscribers, but Channels has almost 4 million subscribers, TVC and Arise have more than 1 million.

The fact is that AIT is dying slowly and painfully.

To those blaming Tinubu, I have a question for you: when last did you watch AIT? I know most of you are likely to be committed watchers of AriseTV for obvious reasons. Why not AIT? If you don't watch AIT, your friends don't watch them, I don't watch them; it is only a matter of time for AIT to die.

I have been living in the US for almost a decade, and I can tell you that the value of $1,000 in the US is less than 90k in Nigeria.

It is surprising that many of you, including graduates, don't understand that you cannot just arbitrarily convert dollars or pounds to naira in this context.

You cannot start a family anywhere in the US with $1, 000. You would need at least a job that pays you $6,000 per month to think of marriage. An ideal monthly salary would be around $10,000.

With 1.5 million in Nigeria, you can afford to marry a jobless partner, support two children, and own a decent car.

You could eat out in Nigeria with 2k, but eating out in the US would cost you around 25 dollars (35k). I get a haircut every month for $50 (75k) in the US. In Nigeria, I could get the same haircut for around 1k.

If you have a baby in the US, you would need to spend around $2,000 (3 million) per month on day care. In Nigeria, you would pay maybe 50k.

I laugh each time I see some posts on social media converting people's salary in UK/US/CA to naira, thinking the naira equivalent of those figures have the same impact in those countries. It is unfortunate that some people have such mentality.

That being said, if you manage to have some savings in places like US and you bring such to Nigeria, you could tie up a project or more.

LordBiden:
I doubt Mr macron knows who OBO is.

Most of these celebs go at every length to lobby for photo shots like this.
Even me that is not a celeb can take pics with Macron so no big deal here.

No be cubana chief priest I dey see at the left side so. Mr follow follow.

Some of you on NL are suffering from chronic low self-esteem.

From the way Davido sat with Macron and posed outside with him, it is obvious that it was a visit. If you didn't know, Macron is very familiar with Nigeria. He was working in the French Embassy in Nigeria few years ago. The last time he came to Nigeria, he visited Fela's shrine in Lagos and made it known that it was not his first time visiting there.

RevenuesBoost:
Whether playfully or not, helping your wife do the dishes is cool.

My husband helps me some things and I'm always happy each time he does.

Cooking, doing the dishes, washing clothes and cleaning the house can be really stressful at times.

Just dey play!!!







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spiceadole:
Men prefer to marry DOWN because they want to CONTROL their wives
It's very difficult to control someone you are not feeding

So even if you meet an averagely well to do lady ,you will take her for granted.
Collect her money and flex with jobless hungry girls.

Then still marry a lady who is "lower" than you

This is a misconception that some of you have, maybe due to self-esteem issues. There is absolutely no guarantee that if you marry down, you would get a submissive woman. I didn't marry down, and I can tell you that my wife defer to me more than some "broke" ladies I dated before marriage.

KiNg0G:
As a man from a poor background struggling day and night trying to make ends meet in his early youth age is there any chances he can one day get to marry a wealthy lady in the future unexpectedly.

I mean we have so many wealthy people in nigeria, go to the north, the west and even the east. Generational wealths, politicians, companies owners, car dealers, rich rich folks like I can't help to think who do their daughter's marry to.

This baffles me so much, Will it be possible for a bricklayer to get married to the daughter of a senator Just for once one day in Nigeria. Or a phone repairer getting married to a daddy go daughter and more

I'm asking this questions for myself because of the dream I had few years ago about the wealthy family I married into, that's why I am still single waiting.
Pls advise me if I am wasting my time or it might one day come to pass. I should still hold on

It happens every time. That said, you need to upgrade yourself too. I am talking from personal experience and those of many people I know.
I came from a humble (not really poor) background. I studied at two federal universities in Nigeria, even worked in Nigeria for some time. My big leap came after I got a funding to do a Ph.D. in the US. From that moment, my social standing improved. I got married to a lady from a "rich" background, with double Ivy-league degrees, who is also a professional.

This would never had happened if I was comfortable with my previous state in Nigeria. My story is not unique. I have seen many similar stories to mine.

By the way, I have never made marrying into a rich family a priority of mine. I would not advise anyone to do so. Just focus on upgrading yourself.

We can easily guess those behind the so-called ADC Vanguard X page.

We see people like that here on NL , Facebook and other media, always hiding behind names reflective of different tribes in Nigeria to make disparaging comments on other tribes or their political opponents.

I am always suspicious of names on NL that reflect tribal origins. The people behind those usernames are always not from the tribe those usernames suggest.

I can see a similar connection with the people behind the ADC Vanguard X page. They are very likely the supporter of a particular presidential candidate, and are hiding behind the page to continue the attack on Tinubu, which they have been doing for the past three years.

immortalcrown:
Relativism is bad

How is relativism bad? It is unrealistic for everyone to start at the same point in this life.

You have certain advantages over some other people in life too. Should that undermine any success you achieve in life in the eyes of people who are not as privileged as you? There were people with backgrounds similar to Dangote decades ago who are nowhere today.

Dangote has done so well for himself. In my books, Dangote coming from money will not diminish it. His staying power is also to be admired.

Dogalmighty17:
Dangote never had any humble beginnings OP. He as a person may be humble but he has always been in money. The family he comes from have been in money since the 1800s. They were in money before Nigeria as an entity existed. Dangote's grand father is the reason why the British created First bank. He was that banks first ever customer. He brought camels loaded with shillings to the bank to deposit.

There were other wealthy people during his grand-father's time who don't come close to him today. Many know he is from money, but he has a unique business mind.

Seunpapa65:
Humble beginning Kee on top person wey don get networth of 1m dollars them

Going by where Dangote is today, some people would argue that to be humble beginnings. It is not everyone that would start life with no shoe.

immortalcrown:
Define humble beginning.

19 more characters needed.

Yeah, we all know that Dangote did come from a well-to-do background. However, you cannot deny his business acumen and evolution as a business man. He is totally in a different league. What stands him apart is his unique business perspective. While those jealous of him would attribute his success solely to political connection and/or monopoly, there is no doubt that he has a mentality that is not common in Africa.

To your point, being the owner of the largest oil refinery in Africa and the richest black man in the world, many intelligent people would consider those things advertised in that newspaper to represent humble beginning.

Humble beginning can sometimes be relative.

fineboynl:
Nigeria debt is now 149 trillion as against N80 buhari left it.

This is a dishonest presentation of the numbers. Nigeria borrow in dollars. If you use the exchange rate under Buhari to calculate the 80 trillion under Buhari, then use the current exchange rate to compute the dollar equivalent of the 149 trillion now, you would clearly see that Nigeria is owing less amount.

The problem with some people in opposition is that they are also very dishonest while trying to criticize the current government.

Bunnatex:
As it stands, it's now between the ELITES and the MASSES

You mean ELITES vs MASSES (e.g Atiku, Tambuwal, Obi, David Mark, Amaechi, Dino).

Be deceiving yourself. There is little to no difference among most politicians in Nigeria. People just vote for whoever based on personal preferences, tribalism and so on.

Some of you, blinded by your preferences and sometimes tribalism, hype up certain politicians as messiah and pro-masses.

Sirchiboy:
Please your input will be highly appreciated.
I also plan to marry their women because I dont plan to marry nigeria women

Not to burst your bubble, Nigeria is by far one of the cheapest countries to live in Africa. With 5M, you can invest your money into something worthwhile. The japa mentality that is prevalent among youths today is partly due to peer pressure or herd mentality. By the way, I am not excusing bad government policies and poor infrastructure in Nigeria.

This is a common statement promiscuous people make to make themselves comfortable in their immorality.

I agree that marrying a woman solely because she is a virgin is misguided and myopic. However, the rate some ladies conduct their sexual life before marriage is frightful to the point that I think, only a loser of a man would make excuses for marrying them. Many of them have lost count of the number of men they have slept with.

Today, when we talk about non-virgins, we are not just talking about a lady who just slept with 2 guys. We are talking about ladies who have ridden and svck multiple(perhaps tens of) cucumbers. Yet, some ignorant men defend them and marry them. We need to bring shame back.

Many men today are also suffering from low self-esteem. You will see men deriving joy in walking around, or even down the aisle with half-naked ladies. The taste of men today is poor, compared to our fathers. Men today are marrying the type of women our forefathers took as concubines.

Before you accuse me of being one-sided in my opinion, I believe men and women should live decently. However, women generally sleep around more than men. Before some men lose their virginities at 23, their female agemates had already sleep with ten men. As seemingly crazy America is, I read somewhere that around half men under thirty are virgin. Whereas, almost all women in the same brackets are non-virgins. Few men sleep with most women.


As to how virginity may affect marriage:

i. Non-virgin is an umbrella term today that covers anyone who has slept with one to hundreds of men. It is virtually impossible to have slept with multiple men/women, and still be okay psychologically from an emotional and marital standpoint. This could affect other aspects of the marriage which the lawyer's clients might not be talking about.

ii. I personally attribute the high rate of paternity frauds we have today to promiscuous pasts. I know how easy it is to rekindle past flames with almost any woman, apart from the ones that block you on social media.

Saying virginity can't affect marriage is an oversimplification. It does, albeit indirectly and subtly! It is just silly to marry a woman only because of virginity, and not consider other things. In fact, it is silly to consider only one attribute (e.g beauty, wealth e.t.c) to marry anyone.

Another user, Tolu wrote: “Son of terrorist, bred by chaos, mentored by bloodshed, now tweeting like a saint.”

Words on marble!!!

Nigerians automatically become saints or start morally grandstanding when they, or the persons they support, are out of power.

AMINDA:
Lol. You are not impressed by 5.3m votes? How many votes did the SW contribute to Buhari’s victory? How many votes did Tinubu himself garner in his own Southwest for himself? Did he win Lagos? What about Osun? Electorates from his state of residence and state of origin do not trust him enough to vote for him but typically, you expect ALL Northerners to vote him against their own son in a one-way traffic. Is the Northcentral no longer part of the North? Besides you lie, Tinubu got his highest voting margin from the Northwest in 2023.

Northerners voted Obasanjo twice in 1999 and 2003. It wasn’t the Yoruba votes that made OBJ president. He lost virtually all the SW states. So tell me any point in time when Northerners have been against a Southerner in power if not in 2015 when Tinubu masterminded the betrayal of Jonathan for his own selfish future ambition which has now materialised. Yes, Tinubu began to prepare for that in advance by even preventing SWesterners like Mulikat Akande from holding any position. He would later use that to blackmail Jonathan accusing him of marginalisation. You now profess to love Obi but we all know why? If you care about the South, ask Tinubu to step aside and let the Southwest unanimously vote Obi then. Afterall, Tinubu usurped the turn of the Southeast.

Northerners voted for Obasanjo in 1999 against another Yoruba(Falae) man. No big deal! In fact, OBJ lost in the SW in 1999 because many Yoruba saw him as a representative of anti-Yoruba sentiments. Even at that, Northerners gave him problems. Obasanjo is the only president in history to have humiliatingly prostrated to his Northern VP (Atiku) just to get a second term. Besides, in 2003, the North voted en masse for Buhari. If not for the re-alignment of the SW in favor of OBJ, his strong standing in the SS and SE, and some rigging, OBJ would have lost to Buhari in 2003.

I am not professing any love for Obi. I am highlighting the tribalism and ethnic supremacy in the core North, and the fact that the North usually create fake premises for their power grab. If you believe that Tinubu is actually bad, unite yourselves, vote him out, but replace him with another Southerner. You appear as an intellectually dishonest person by inferring from my previous post that I am showing love for Obi.

By the way, I would be more interested in the break down of the votes along six geo-political zones. I acknowledged in my earlier post that Tinubu did well in the North Central, and I am willing to bet 100,000 with you that he will win North Central again in 2027, even in the unlikely event of losing.

The North West and some parts of North East are the hot-bed of ethnic and religious supremacy in the North. Atiku won those two zones in 2023, even as Buhari a Northerner was completing eight years. The NW and NE immediately start getting all the good ideas about good governance once a Southerner is in power. It is a cycle since 1960. After digging your previous posts, it is obvious that you carry the same myopic mentality.

AMINDA:
False equivalence and typical gaslighting when cornered. No, the Yorubas didn't "foolishly" followed like you're postulating. They were the major players. Tinubu personally went to Daura to convince Buhari out of retirement to come send his fellow "Southern" brother packing. He said this himself at his "Emi Lokan" speech.

Tinubu won in 2023 with 5.6m Northern votes even with a Northern Atiku on the ballot but all of a sudden, it's now Northern supremacy to you because the North has rejected him for his failure? Someone who lost the South in 2023 and won via muslim-muslim ticket is now posturing to use Southern turn to win in 2027 yet fellow Southerners are not even allowed to aspire or vote in the SW. You've now even descended into renaming streets but yet you want a Southern alliance? The jokes write themselves.

Before Tinubu went to sell the idea of presidency to Buhari, there was a lot of anger and discontent directed at Jonathan in the North. Tinubu, being ambitious himself, leveraged on the discontent of the North against Jonathan.

I am not impressed by the 5.3 million votes Tinubu got in the North in 2023, most of which he got in the Middle Belt. Overall, he lost in most core Northern states. The major reason for my displeasure in his performance in the North in 2023 was that Atiku still got most Northern votes, despite the fact that Buhari, a Northerner, was just completing eight straight years.


There is nothing like gaslighting. The word "gaslighting" is usually used by dishonest people when they are avoiding being called out.

All you typed up there does not invalidate my observation that some few tribalistic, Northern supremacists tend to become experts, woke, and see everything wrong with Nigeria whenever a Southerner is in power. You generally align with a disaffected Southerner to take over power. Once you are done with your term (used the Southerner), you find another scheme to realign with another disaffected Southerner.

In all your schemings, you always take the presidential ticket, and hand over the VP(useless) slot to the naive, unsuspecting Southerner. After which, the cycle continues.

If Tinubu is doing poor as some of you "woke" Northerners are saying now, why not come together and vote for Obi or any other Southerner of your choice? The amount of votes Atiku got in the North in 2023 was enough to make Obi president.

AMINDA:
This is not politics. Yar'adua, Goodluck Jonathan, and [b]Muhammadu Buhari [/b]never played politics this way. This anti-democracy and cowardice.

You mean the same Buhari that threatened violence when he was contesting in the past? "... the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood"

Yar'Adua himself confessed that the election that brought him and GEJ to power was fraudulent. If this bribery allegation leveled by this Nwosu is actually correct, it wouldn't be the worst we have heard about in this extremely corrupt country.

You are just another tribalistic, Northern supremacist.

It is a long tradition for some of you in the North to suddenly become aware of the problems plaguing Nigeria whenever a Southerner is in power. Even some of you have recently screaming about the insecurity in the North as if it started two years ago.

This Jonathan that you are all hyping up today in the North was given a lot of trouble by your folks in the North. Unfortunately, the Yorubas also foolishly followed you in 2015 in your vilification of Jonathan.

Now, you are trying to play the same game with the Igbos. Very soon, the entire South will see you for what you are.

I am happy for the players.

While I think the $100k given to the players is slightly on the high side, female players are generally very poorly paid compared to their male counterparts at club level. A female football career is not one that can sustain a woman for a long time.