₦airaland Forum

nairalandadeux:
Want a better health care system?

You have too agree that we can't have a good healthcare system. Not on this Budget

Many of you want UK levels of healthcare. UK spends 176 bn pounds on health. Our budget for this year is 14 billion pounds

We got to fight corruption, tax the 70 % of Nigerians that don't pay tax and also diversify the economy so that we can attract trillions of naira in the hundreds of trillions so that we can have budgets that make sense

Or we increase hospital fees

The problem is not about taxing. Problem is doctors are no longer available. Most quality doctors in Nigeria have left the country due to poor government policies. Let the government do what is right to retain it's doctors.
What you've seen is just a tip of the iceberg. In the coming years, the way the situation with our doctors would get worse would shock everyone. I know a lot of doctors who had left this month alone. A lot of medical interns fresh from medical school have already taken foreign exams and just waiting to complete their house job and nysc to finally leave. What's coming to the health sector in few years would shock you all

Karlman:
Where are Hamas sympathisers?
I have repeatedly said that Isreal has every right to flatten Gaza.

It's just so laughable when I see people sympathising with Palestinians but don't give a hoot about the hostages. These set of people are the greatest enemy of the Palestinians. Because Israel will continue to kill whoever is found in Gaza.

My advice to hamas is to disappear forever with the hostages because Israel will never stop until hamas is wiped off, including the yet to be born members of hamas

My problem is not with Israel defending itself from the terrorists Hamas, but about killing of innocent civilians in Gaza whom Hamas doesn't even have sympathy for.
Imagine if a group of bad boys or bandits in your village decide to kidnap some soldiers and then federal government now sends military to level up your village and kill everyone in sight there while the bandits who committed the crime are in a far away village watching and enjoying how the villagers are being slaughtered. Instead of attacking the real bandits that committed the crime, the govt now attacks innocent civilians who had even spoken up against the bandits.

How on earth does this make front page? How is this news??

Kylekent59:
A northern president will use same tactics to install someone from the North in Lagos.

The door has been opened, and we all shall pass through it!

Understand the message rather than trying to argue or mention me.

Exactly my thoughts! The precedence has been set.

APOPTOSIS:
Unlawfully phucking someone's daughter and demanding that she gives u 💯% accountability even when you're not yet a fiancee.
Just an ordinary boyfriend. U Guys are jokers!
What an entitlement!
U na get mind ooo
If that babe die for your apartment, wetin you go tell the Nigerian police?
Let's start from there first

What do you mean by unlawfully? How does consensual sex between two adults qualify as unlawful? You probably don't know what unlawful means. And then, talking about her dying in her boyfriend's place is off the point of discussion here. The argument is not about her sleeping in her boyfriend's place but about loyalty.
And if I'm to follow your logic again, maybe when you are engaged to or courting your future wife to be, (then going by your logic), it means she owes you no accountability or loyalty and is free to open her legs for whichever guy pleases her or to hawk herself for whichever guy or guys that are available and tick her boxes.

APOPTOSIS:
Someone is phucking Someone's daughter without due clearance and you are talking about faithfulness? 🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️🙆🏾‍♂️. Faithfulness to who, please? A boyfriend not acknowledged or known by the father....Do you know that if that GaL dies in that so-called boyfriend apartment, that boy will be in grave danger ( homicide straight).
But if a wife dies in her husband's house, doors wouldn't be closed at the man most likely.
Think oooooo. I don't care what the gal does with her life, for that's her choice. It's for the boy to make his decision whether to go on or not. He has no iota of legal right over that GaL.
You Guys don't understand the "Law"

I believe the so called fucking was of MUTUAL CONSENT between the two parties, two consenting adults and so it has nothing to do with his authority over her. He can't take permission from the father of an adult lady who has willingly opened her legs for him. On the aspect of faithfulness, if we're going by your logic it means the girl has every right to Bleep any guy she sees and deems fit and thus turn herself into a prostitute. Isn't it better she stays faithful to one man in a proper RELATIONSHIP/COURTSHIP before he does the formal proceeding for marriage. Relationships/courtships are necessary for couples to know themselves properly before committing to marriage. And in this phase of relationship, it's expected that both parties are committed and loyal to each other. On the aspect of sex in relationship, I don't subscribe to it because it's not moral but again one can argue for the fact that it's of mutual consent and secondly, as a human you can't judge a man from a moral point of view because you also do immoral stuffs too...more like pot calling kettle black. His sins might be sexual, yours might be stealing or telling lies. Only God can morally judge a man.
So in every sense, that man was right to have expected a reasonable degree of loyalty from that girl he was in a relationship with, which I believe was a prelude to meeting her people formally for marriage. If she can't be faithful to him in a courtship then she won't be in marriage. Simple.

APOPTOSIS:
What right does your Younger Brother have over a lady he has not paid her bride price?
The effrontery with which people take ordinary relationship is unbecoming.

Just imagine ordering the steps and redirecting the future of a young girl whom you haven't sought for her hand in marriage officially
Isn't that madness?

She is under no obligation to be with the guy but if she wants to get intimate with another guy, the more honourable thing would have been to break it up with this guy and go be with the other rather than bleeping two guys at the same time. That's a whorish behavior. And then this unsuspecting boyfriend would now eventually propose and marry her thinking he married a faithful lady while the now married lady sneaks off occasionally to get intimate with the other guy.
So it goes beyond just payment of the bride price but has to do with character and morals

EmmyMaestro:
You mean this Abi ?

Lmfao

destinychildolu:
I told someone that Wike likes promoting someone heading finance department. Wicked under the table deal just like Fubara

Exactly! You know exactly what went underground. She's probably someone who has been handling his underground financial dealings

SmartPolician:
The World Cup is a tournament that attracts the best footballing nations in the world

Africa needs quality teams representing her in the tournament so that Africa can sue for more slots.

The current Super Eagles doesn't deserve to go to the World Cup. They should stay back and do their homework.

I perfectly agree with you on this. Nigeria doesn't merit to be in the tournament

robosky02:
A win in this game revives our campaign

Already South Africa is jittery, so we can go there and pick 3 points from there home

South Africa is a solid 9 points ahead of Nigeria with only 3 games left to go, meaning that for Nigeria to catch up with South Africa, South Africa needs to convincingly lose their remaining 3 games while Nigeria needs to win their remaining 4 games convincingly. South Africa needs only a draw to progress and your guess is as good as mine.

EvilMerodack:
I honestly like this. maybe dem don tell am before say she no go get husband. Person wey tell her that thing don enter am now, dem go hear am.

But she no get Nyash

People like her don't understand that it's not about finding a man and getting married to him that's the issue. The issue is having a peaceful, fruitful and long lasting marriage. That a man found her today and married her doesn't mean that marriage would last up to a week. In fact, some ladies would prefer they never got married in the first place than get married and end up divorced. So that she found a man doesn't mean she has hit the jackpot yet. That marriage could last only a week.

WizardOfNG:
Indeed. In fact, the greatest and most pivotal period of progress Lagos recorded, post 1999, was achieved while she was in political opposition to the ruling Party under Tinubu and Fashola. It is the reason I will always respect PBAT and Fashola.

If Ogun State can get a truly dynamic and visionary Govenor post Dapo Abiodun, and the SW take the implementation of the DAWN regional integration road map very seriously, then we would literally be in another millenium in ten years time.

This is why I think other region's focus on the Presidency is misguided. The Presidency is not a magic wand to suddenly make every Nigerian wealthy, happy and fulfilled.

What the Presidency should do is remove bottleneck so those who truly want peace, progress and socio-economic greatness can achieve such without 'one Nigeria' impediment.

What all regions should be seeking is greater autonomy over their socio-economic decision-making and direction, including full control over security parastatals, so they can make optimal progress commensurate with their human and material endowment if that is indeed what they truly desire.

Excellent submission. I buy and completely agree with your point 100%

The thing is you can't blame them entirely. The people more to blame are those that stupidly voted them in. A people are as good or bad as the leaders they elect.
I remember when people were boasting by saying if Buhari messes up they'd vote him out of power same way they voted out GEJ. I laughed so hard at their stupidity and told them that GEJ was kind enough to give you free and fair elections. You think Buhari is GEJ? The moment you make that mistake of electing the wrong person, just wave free and fair elections goodbye, especially in a country without strong institutions like Nigeria. And that has been so since, even up to Tinubu today. I also laugh at people who claim they'd unseat Tinubu in 2027. They really don't know what presidential powers mean until then.

AndroBlaze:
Modi of course speaks English.

Putin can speak English.

It's only Xi Jinping I am unsure of....but I guess all 3 are speaking English the universal language of business.

Xi Jinping spent years studying in the US as a young man before he returned to China, so he's definitely familiar with the English language

MasterJayJay:
Sponsored post by Reno Omokri for damage control.

They are deleting many comments.

Exactly!! Even before I started reading it, I already knew it was sponsored by the idiot Reno as damage control. His moves are very predictable. He's not a smart man

Inasmuch as I quite admire a lot of the policies of President Tinubu (at least he's way better than Buhari), where I have serious problem with him is the way he condones extreme corruption and impunity especially amongst a lot of his cabinet members and politicians. I always tell people that there are only two persons currently that I would consider voting ahead of Tinubu if they decide to run, and that's GEJ and Peter Obi. I'd prefer a Tinubu over Atiku a thousand times over.

The killing of those University of port Harcourt students (Uniport 4 boys) at Aluu, and Deborah Samuel's burning by despicable extremists in Sokoto. I still feel deeply hurt when I remember these.

koning:
Comparatively and relatively speaking, Nigeria is still way cheaper than most countries on this planet. You don't always jump on people living abroad.

A crate of egg for $16?! Do you know what that means to an average American.

Right at my backyard in Nigeria is a poultry where i can get the same crate of organic eggs for N5,000. Sometimes for even less.

Nigeria is still very cheap. Very few people in Southern Nigeria suffer real hunger.

It's stupidity to just look at the cost of goods in isolation! The costs of goods must be placed in tandem with the PURCHASING POWER of the average citizen of that country. That's what makes a good either cheap or expensive. A good that costs $50 might be considered cheap to someone in a country where the minimum wage is $100 per hour, but expensive to someone in a country where the minimum wage is $10 per hour. So before you make comparisons, place the costs of goods in tandem with the purchasing power or minimum earnings in that country. The minimum wage in Nigeria is ₦70,000 per month or #2,500 per day or ₦250 per hour for a 10hr working day. That in the US is $7.25 (₦10,875) per hour for federal (or $72.5 for a 10hr working day), and up to $18 per hour (₦27,000) for some states. Now can someone earning that minimum wage in Nigeria of ₦2,500 per day afford a 30 egg crate at ₦6,000? Compare this with an average American earning the federal minimum wage of $72.5 being able to afford a 30 egg crate of $16. So you see your logic is baseless

SeraphicWind:
These you peoples annoying comparisons is getting stale day by day. Very annoying.

It is just like you people want to be mocking people.

I believe you are the USA. Many of us live outside too.

A mechanic making 25 dollar per hour in the USA can afford 2 crates comfortably. Just with 1 hour salary.

A mechanic working in Nigeria even under a notable company cannot even buy half crate with 3 hours salary.

Going by your stale comparison, it requires 12,000 naira to buy just 2 crates. How many mechanics earn 12,000 naira daily not to talk of hourly?

Let us not even talk about civil servants. Many of them earn less than 30k monthly. I mean millions of them.

That means their salaries will finish just buying 5 crates of egg!

What happens to other necessities of life?

Will your one day salary in the USA finish just buying 5 crates of eggs? Let us not talk about 1 month.

Guy please stop. I beg you in the name of God almighty. You are mocking people.

If you have spare cash, support people in Nigeria so that people can eat.

People are mad hungry in that country!

N.B
I live extremely far away from that hellfire on earth.

You just took the words right out of my mouth! I still don't know why people still make such useless and unintelligent comparisons when they know that earnings per day in these countries far outweighs minimum wage here in Nigeria in a month. A colleague of mine in Australia earns about AUD$180 per hour as a medical doctor. That's about ₦180,000 naira per hour alone. And he works for about 8-10hrs a day. That's like ₦1.8million naira per day as his wages. His HOURLY salary is like 2 times the MONTHLY minimum wage here in Nigeria. So to make comparisons between these advanced nations and a failing country like Nigeria is really stupid to say the least. Some people lack common sense

What's your definition of cheating? Then I can answer the question

WizardOfNG:
A lot of Nigerians blind themselves to reality hating one thing/person or the other. Ghana is terribly expensive and it is irritating ignorant and self-hating Nigerians keep referencing her as "economically superior" to shade Nigeria.

I remember earlier this year, with the usual talk of Ghana currency "superiority' to Naira, I had to factually prove that Ghana redenomination of her currency does not make the cedi more valuable than naira because removing zeroes does not increase a currency's spending power.

I showed, factually, a product sold in both nations, in real time, cost around 700 Naira in Nigeria whereas it's equivalent price in Ghana, converting cedis to Naira, is around 2,500 Naira.

As I said earlier, hatred of ourselves make us the biggest enemies of progress to each other.

Imagine the ignorance and self-hate making some Nigerians insist the worthless cedis is more valuable than Naira simply because the 20 cedis you mentions appears of greater value compared to her Naira equivalentof 2,816 Naira.

Yet inspect the purchasing power parity (PPP), the real determinant of a currency's strenght and measure of inflation, which shows a 20 cedis (2816 Naira) haircut in Ghana is 1500 Naira (10.65 cedis) in Nigeria.

Meaning Nigerians pay half of what Ghanaians pay for haircut. Yet self-hating Nigerians are still bashing their own nation.

Bro, shey you see why I push for regional autonomy daily? A country full of different ethnicities who hate themselves and act like enemies more than fellow citizens plus the biggest and most ignorant demarketers of each other, can never forge a great nation.

Much easier for ethnicities that love themselves to develop great regions of Nigeria instead once freed of 'one Nigeria' restrictions.

Please when making comparisons between countries, use standard benchmarks, and not something that is individualised. Cost of haircuts are individualised on the business owners. Where I stay, there are salons I could get a haircut for even #500. In that same street, there's a place where someone charges nothing less than ₦10k per adult haircut. So what if I now use that #10k haircut as a benchmark for comparison with Ghana which costs only #2,500k per haircut (according to you)? Same goes for food. There are restaurants I can get a plate of garri for ₦600. In this same city, another restaurant sells a plate of garri for ₦20k.
After you have used standard benchmarks to make such comparisons, then I'd take your arguments seriously. But for now, with all the grammar you've posted, you have not said anything or made any concrete convincing point to objectively buttress your arguments.

dominique:
If Arteta is the worst thing to happen to Arsenal, what will you now say about Unai Emery?

If Emery was allowed at Arsenal I strongly believe Arsenal would have been a force to reckon with. He played a moee positive kinda football and the team showed great promise but he wasn't given enough time

AAA593:
Arsenal defeated your team at Old Trafford.

To start with, I'm a core Arsenal fan for over to 15yrs now since I was a kid. So I don't think your loyalty to the club can surpass mine.
Arteta is one of the worst things that ever happened to Arsenal. I don't see this team making any significant impact this season.

Angelfrost:
Which game are you talking about?!!

This has to be one of the luckiest wins in the history of football.

Arsenal and Arteta have serious work to do this season... Imagine if Raya isn't fit this season?!! Omo!!!

You understand football well. If arsenal play like this, they wouldn't even be in the top 5 at the end of the season. One of the luckiest wins I've ever seen. Man utd seemed quite improved compared to last season.

Jman06:
Nice one. Kudos to Peter Mbah on this one

There should also be a means of checks and balances to avoid abuse of the transport scheme

What check and balances exactly? CNG buses costing same as smaller commercial buses (when should be lower) and also taking time to get filled up, you're talking about checks and balances? Lol. You obviously don't know what a rip off is. Cost of transportation with regular commercial buses increased due to increase fuel prices so naturally it's expected that these CNG buses should have been way cheaper considering the lower cost of CNG asides operational costs. The problem with most Nigerians is that they just accept face value and praise their oppressors without thinking deeply when politicians throw scraps at them and extort them.

jmoore:
The primary purpose of CNG buses introduction is to reduce cost of transportation as a result of petrol subsidy removal.

If the CNG buses are charging same as normal buses, then the purpose no longer make sense.

Exactly! I wonder why people are praising the governor for ripping them off. The cost of transportation increased due to fuel price increase. With CNG at lower prices, and with these buses being long enough (thus having more passenger capacity) one would naturally expect the cost of transportation with these CNG buses to be significantly lower. But trust Nigerians, they lack common sense to know when these politicians are ripping them off. It's like someone giving you #200 and collecting #500 from you and you keep praising him at same time.

Tinubumustgo:
Sokoto is the poorest state in Nigeria.

What EFCC invited Tambuwal for is actually true and we are politicizing people stealing our future.

What does Tambuwal have to show for all these titles beside the state he governed is the poorest state in Nigeria.

So corruption is now judged by how poor the state that was looted is? Can you hear yourself? Nobody is saying Tambuwal should be let free if found guilty. But the point as someone else pointed out is it's selective nature. Tinubu is not fighting corruption but fighting opponents. Like someone pointed out, Gandollar is still walking free and was even given appointment. He has never been invited by efcc. Akpabio is your senate president. Wike who is openly stealing billions is your fct minister. Even Tinubu who still taxes Lagos monthly is your president. So why harass Tambuwal. Let everyone kukuma be allowed to freely steal since that's what Tinubu and efcc have entrenched in the system and since Nigerians are still so stupid to support same corrupt politicians. Una mates in Kenya and even ivory coast are holding their leaders accountable.

I don't know why people are being sentimental over nothing. Jonathan, the man at the center of it all has not even made a statement about it and people are already attacking him like they did prior to the 2023 elections. Let's wait for Jonathan to confirm all these before you can start the attack. I honestly don't think GEJ is that stupid to fall for these stuffs and join the race

He's just a friend