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mrvitalis:
Did u tell the day chick went from 12k to over 25k
Did u tell them the price of feed increased also

Selling chicken at 4k has been normal if they are big enough frozen chicken is still 15k to 18k

24kmagic:
Before nkor.

Southerners, with all their degrees and exposure are being controlled by the less educated northerners. Southerners just have certificates, they are not as knowledgeable as they always claim. Some aboki states are even better than some oil producing states in terms of infrastructures.

Take Bayelsa state for example. A very small, oil rich state with just few local governments that should be the envy of other states, yet It's one of the most underdeveloped states in 9ja with creeks everywhere.

All what southerners know how to do is drink, fvck, prostitute, join cult and kill, hate on each other, assassinate, form gangs and every other bad thing you can think of.

At least north's major problem is religion, what is south's major problem? We don't know.

Instead of them to unite and fight this northern dominance that has stagnated this country for decades, all they care about is call each other afonja, OSU, flat head, akpan, Ekaite, etc.

Southerners, wake up! Wake up and unite so that you can fight this nonsense going on in this country.
South should rule 9ja for 30yrs without aboki smelling that seat and see whether things will not start working.

I'm from a minority tribe in the middle belt and there's not much we can do. But southerners have a lot to do. Unite first, produce a candidate, and then the middle belt minority groups will support you.

We've suffered so much in the hands of this bigots.

Chinablack:
this comment is highly judgemental, it shows your stance against the man is purely motivated by hate. sorry i don't engage hate mongers

coolitempa:
I don’t exchange views with m0rons who fail to understand sarcasm....

Chinablack:
did he dupe or own anybody in US and nigeria any money?. no business man anywhere in the world that doesn't engage in short cuts to beat bureaucratic bottlenecks, tax and revenue collectors. you should
have asked US that you love so much to disclose the total costs of the aircrafts the man has already bought from them because am sure it runs into billions of dollars. one Boeing 777 cost about 5 billion dollars. onyema has it 3. nigeria should have been the one to front for onyema her citizen if she's a country that care for her citizens

mekaboy:
You can counter my claims if you have a defence.

coolitempa:
And how do you propose the Nigerian government 'resolving it diplomatically'?

mekaboy:
The news is all over the place about Allen onyema the air peace boss. And many are shouting crucify him out of ignorance.

The charges against him are so escalated, that one begins to think he duped the United states of America.

What exactly did he do that has never been done in America?

Nigeria CBN gave him forex at a cheaper rate to buy aircrafts. Then it is alleged that it was one of the companies he had interest that was selling the aircraft. So he go fx at a cheap rate and used part of it for something else aside the aircraft. So bloody what? Why is America acting like he killed someone? Every billionaire finds a loophole to pay less taxes.

As rich s otedola is, was his not listed among those who benefited from the subsidy scam?

The president of America today did something similar. Refuses to file tax returns and used loopholes to avoid paying millions of dollars in tax. He admitted this during campaign, is he not president today? Has anyone killed him?
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html

Why are we quick to act as slaves?

American government takes in billions monthly from visa refusals in Nigeria and nobody has the right to question the legitimacy of their decisions.

A British firm came to Nigeria to setup a project, which the Nigerian government failed to supply the gas agreed. Even though the project did not take off, they said Nigeria will pay the total cost of the project and all the profit they would have made for years if the project took off.

It's just like someone wants to start a bakery and I said I will supply baking powder or flour. He rents land and I don't deliver flour. Then he says I should pay him an amount he imagined to make yearly for 10 year. Simply because I did not bring the flour. He has not even brought in the equipment or attempted to test run.

But we are running around to pay or negotiating the amount.

We support the British against Nigeria in such a case. Here we support the US against onyema for something Donald Trump would do on a normal day.

If Abacha was alive today, wont his money still be safe for him in those foreign countries? Didn't they invest the abacha loot and make profit for years? Are they returning the money with interest?


See how people out of envy are chunning out topics about the air peace boss online. " how onyema stole Niger delta money", " how onyema was caught", " Onyema could do 25 years in prison" etc.

What exactly will be your gain as individuals to see onyema jailed or air peace to fail and people loose their jobs?

We blame our leaders for the terrible state of this nation. We forget that the leaders come from among the people. And the wickedness and envy displayed online is what is taken to the position of leadership.


It's obvious that the whiteman took advantage of our envy and wickedness towards our own to enslave us. Today, that slavery is still strong in our mind. The reason we will prefer foreign cars to innoson or cloths to the likes of yomi casual etc.

We sing about designer brands like gucci, Prada, fendi etc. Who sings about our own brands?

The sooner we free ourselves from this mental slavery the better for us.

darfay:
Shame on the south while it's almost non existent in the north

Eteka1:
They didn't condemn the Saudis for killing Saudi critic Jamal Khassogi and dissolving his body in acid before pouring it down the drains in their embassy in Turkey.
They didn't condemn the witchhunt of journalist Julian Assange for exposing the evil deeds of the American military.
They didn't condemn the witch hunt of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning etc.

meavox:
Mumu - it's your ilk that ruins Nigeria with capital flight and brain drain when you flee abroad.

If YOU WANT TO ENJOY WHAT YOU DID NOT WORK FOR BY FLEEING ABROAD (What lies did you use to get there?) THAT IS YOUR OWN OOO!

But as for me ooo... I will not be a part of all that. If for the likes of you FIXING a bad thing is BAD IN YOUR SIGHT - then good luck to you when you meet your Creator. Whether Nigeria or elsewhere, if someone says- Let us Fix it, I see NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. If YOU DO ooo that is your own moral problem.

I am among those people of this earth who are NOT ashamed to play a part in Fixing something that is broken.

Let GOD be the judge between your orientation and mine!

meavox:
You call the write-up "mumbo jumbo". If that's what your intelligence level sees then your own words show you are certainly not in the same class as the writer. Period.

Plus RUN AWAY to as the writer say, go "enjoy what you did NOT work for". Is that a lie? Or did you work for the lifestyle that those abroad where you want to go enjoy?

Abeg. STOP making comments to my posts. JUST RUN AWAY ABROAD TO ENJOY WHAT YOU DID NOT WORK FOR. While those Nigerians like me will STAY PUT in Nigeria and work to fix it so we and our children will enjoy what we worked for.

Run away jor Flee away abroad jor. Go enjoy what you did not work for.



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Mumu, if not for the Nigerians abroad, there will be nothing to "fix". In fact, it's the massive foreign remittance not only supports the country, but makes the difference between Northern and Southern Nigeria – given they are both poorly governed. The should-be fixers – elected officials – are sending their wards abroad while you vote to make sure their school fees are paid from government coffers. Mr Fixer, please tell us what you have fixed or are currently fixing.

khalifjgusau:
you can just ask us politely instead of asking sarcastic or rhetorical questions?? If you're stressed, don't channel your negativity here please. You are a Christian if I'm not mistaken, go do yours and allow others to practice their religion please...

NASTYNASOSO:
HMMMMMMM

HERE WE GO AGAIN
ARE YOU RELATING BACKWARDNESS OF A COUNTRY OR ITS WESTERNIZATION TO OIL PRODUCTION

NASTYNASOSO:
*THE ECONOMIC DANGERS OF SELLING THE NNPC AS PROPOSED BY ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR*

Nigerians in November of 2018 were greeted with an economic proposal perceived to be innocuous by most quarters of the country, by the former Vice president Atiku Abubakar aka Waziri of Privatization scams.

I did a research on the direction of that economic policy what turned out was a disaster, recall this publication

I’ll sell 90% of NNPC if elected, Atiku vows, https://punchng.com/ill-sell-90-of-nnpc-if-elected-atiku-vows/

In the publication above, Atiku proposed to sell 90% of all the NNPC holdings in his future privatization moves, never mind that 56 government establishments collapsed under his privatization scams of the past. Buhari in his mercy has taken up the responsibility of paying the pensions of Atiku's privatization victims read here;

https://www.proshareng.com/news/Pensions/Pension:-FG-begins-payment-of-N17bn-to-NITEL-workers/6735

Can Nigeria survive under a sold NNPC regimen? tough question!!

why does other oil dependent economies maintain a national oil company? in Africa; Nigeria has NNPC, Angola has Sanagol, Algeria has Sonatrach, Egypt has EGPC, Libya has NOC etc.

In the Middle east; Saudi Arabia owns Saudi Aramco, Qatar owns QP, Bahrain owns BAPCO, iraq owns INOC, Syria owns the Al furat, Iran owns NIOC and so on.

In Europe: Russia has Rosneft, Norway has Satoil etc, you can see clearly that every oil dependent economy in Africa, Asia, Europe, middle east maintain an oil company.
Why is it so? A national oil company is the country's stake in its oil riches which translates to the oil wealth of the people.

What does the NNPC do for the Nigerian economy?
In a layman's term, NNPC pays for anything you use that is not produced in Nigeria, in other words, NNPC is your window to the global market.

Let us use your American imported car for example.
You wish to buy a car from the United States, the Japanese manufacturer in the US insisted you must pay in usd for the transaction, unfortunately your local bank account holds the Naira so how did you get the car eventually?
Your bank debits your naira, then pays the dollar equivalent to the US company. smart huh!!

Have you wondered where your bank or your Aboki got the USD to facilitate that transaction? my research took me to a CBN activity called Retail Dutch Auction System (RDAS) and Wholesale Dutch Auction System (WDAS), these are avenues your bank, BDC (Aboki) and every other licensed forex trader gets his supply from.

Out of curiosity, I decided to dig further where the CBN gets her forex from, the answer wasn't surprising, the NNPC!! through the following common sense processes.
Direct oil Sales (NNPC) (70%)
Petroleum Profit Tax (Oil Companies) (20%)
Royalties (5%)
Penalty for Gas Flaring (5%)
could this be the reason why every oil dependent economy has a national oil company? Is Atiku planning to steal 70% of Nigeria's oil wealth like he stole all the Niger delta sea ports for 25yrs?

We most times follow these politicians around without paying attention to the underlying message of doom they are coming with, Atiku and OBJ orchestrated the most fraudulent privatization heist in the history of this country, read here

https://www.nairaland.com/4839445/atikus-source-wealth-revealed-mohammed/1

Unfortunately, most young people that form today's voting block do not know what OBJ & Atiku represent in Nigeria's politics.
some people ignorantly argue that since NNPC is a cesspit of corruption therefore it has to be sold, my only response is, even as the cesspit of corruption, it still provides 70% of CBN's forex, if sold, where do we get those forex from? What Business is Nigeria doing today that will provide that insane amount of forex for the utilization of over 180m Nigerians? Am i supposed to borrow cars and shoes from Atiku and his friends?

In case you have forgotten so soon how Nigerians landed in poverty due to forex shortages, high cost of living, that was just a tip of what could happen when NNPC sold oil at a lower price, imagine what will happen when NNPC seize to exist.

Like everything Atiku privatized, either ended up in his pocket (Niger delta oil and gas free zones) or died out rightly (Nitel, Alscon, Delta steel, News week etc).

For Nigerians in the mid stream sector of the oil and gas industry (oil servicing companies) warming up to vote Atiku, your case is worse, 60% of your contracts are paid for by the NNPC through a process called cash calls, if NNPC is sold, has Atiku told you who will pay the cash calls? this segment of Nigerians will be the first victim of that demonic proposal, we will be watching their protest at the NNPC headquarters like we watched ex Nitel staffs in protest back in the days.

sound familiar right? https://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/nigeria-nitel-dismissed-78-workers-unions-protest-sack-order

what about the ALSCON workers huh!! sounds familiar? https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/128089-alscon-workers-host-communities-protest-rusals-sack-of-475-nigerians.html

God will be fair to Atiku because this time he sounded the doom Trumpet of his dejavu if Nigerians ignorantly gives him the mandate to forge ahead.

With this plan, the next round of hunger will not be friendly, after voting Atiku, do not complain he promised change but brought chains, already, I can see your chain under an Atiku leadership, good luck as you do your future proud by resisting this scam in the waiting!!

We need a reformed NNPC as proposed by Ibe Kachikwu already endorsed by the US
http://nnpcgroup.com/PublicRelations/NNPCinthenews/tabid/92/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/576/US-Endorses-Ongoing-NNPC-Reforms.aspx

We need to sustain this NNPC reform that ended the perennial yuletide petrol scarcity in Nigeria, we need to sustain the policy that ended hoarding of petroleum products in Nigeria, we need to sustain this reform that ended the theft of over 400,000bbls of crude oil daily, that's what we need, selling NNPC is evil to say the least.

The only beneficiaries of this proposal are Atiku and his friends like peter obi that has the financial war-chest to buy NNPC's assets in bits and pieces, strip the assets, sell them off, become billionaire & walk away.

The big question every Nigerian going to the polls on Saturday must ask himself is; Can you live without the NNPC? by extension, can you live without your cars, smart phones, computers, foreign clothes, deodorant, building materials, books, drugs, cosmetics anything in this country that is not made in Nigeria? if your answer is NO , vote any other candidate that is not Atiku.

Daviddson:
Very true. Even before this, I knew their services were almost unnecessary and weren't running regular banking services. These are the banks where corrupt NNPC bigwigs and other officials of cash-cows agencies, APC and PDP chieftains, governors, etc, use to launder their thefts to the US, UK and UAE.

4Play:
You people and your low-intellect arguments. HSBC and UBS operate in every developed country and newly industrialising country. Whether it's Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Brazil, e.t.c. Do you seriously think that Nigeria is so honest and uncorrupted that these banks can't function here?

You guys seriously think HSBC and UBS need to set up physical infrastructure in Nigeria to help loot money from Nigeria? They can easily do this electronically. What you are seeing is an erosion of investor confidence in Nigeria and the exit of these banks exemplifies this. Don't try and portray bad news as a victory for Nigeria.

If you want to address looting in Nigeria in relation to forex flows, you need to ask yourself why the government maintains multiple exchange rates. A highly connected person can get $1m with N305m at the official rate and sell it at N360m at the market rate. Theft is occurring right in front of us and you guys are rejoicing at news that international investors are leaving Nigeria.

poyebad:
It's shocking you so easily ran out of your insulting breath. You knew you couldn't sustain it why did you then start it?

Congrats, you live abroad. Newsflash: you're the only one living abroad. Newsflash: no one gives a shit whether or not you're a successul engineer or a successful corpse-washer. Those of us in Nigeria are doing just fine, the 'abroad' is a place many of us abandoned to join nation-building in our own country. Away with your neo-slavery mentality.

sean1000x:
Yoruba Thought Nnamdi Kanu 'll Be Killed Like How Abiola Was Killed In Captivity. They were shocked to see Nnamdi Kanu and now circulating lies from the pit of hell. He is alive and appears to be protected by Isreali government!

Afonjas, this is for you....

ericsmith:
There is no arguement here ,, fayose failed on his part to pay workers, for apc the timing was right they capitalized on it, simply politics ,, i cannt empower my enemy & i wonnt expect someone else to,
If bail out fund was giving to fayose @ that moment ,, he would have boasted and accord all credit to himself, if FG will be saving ekiti from a mess created by pdp its best to do it in the name of apc .... call it sentiment or nepotism that is the only reasonable thing to do.
If fayose had face his statutory duties rather than following buhari up & down with insults , cutting kponmo in some market places maybe things would have been better in ekiti.
Nigeria is backward becos we worship money ,,these as necessitate corruption, politics is not the problem our personality is the reason we are backward

ericsmith:
Like i said earlier bail out funds was a supplementary,from the initiatives of buhari govt ,not a statute thing.
State were meant to pay workers from statutory states allocations ,, but for the reality that most states are incapable of paying there workers ,, buhari introduce bail out fund as a form of assistance, before election he was recieving bail out funds but yet was still owing ,
why should buhari help, pdp re election was hanging on either pay your workers or lose the election ..... asides statutory responsibilities the FG has the right to assist or ignore any state,
He wonnt attend fec meetings, insult buhari + his wife publicly even wrote a letter to china to refuse buhari linfrastractural loan .... yet he want buhari to save him ,,only jesus can save my broda

ericsmith:
I am aware & i didnt miss the fact that a governor owing civil servant salaries just claimed he is not owing publicly , does these mean a state debt only applicable wen you borrow or collect loan, if you cannt pay ur staff as a ceo or pay ur rent is that not a debt as well.
FG withheld funds, was he not owing workers even when the bail out fund was rolling in , besides state allocations didnt stop & that should av been the primary financier of state salaries ... the paris bail out fund is not statutory

ericsmith:
So the word "debt" in fayose financial school of thot is only applicable to borrowed loans,
Under his administration workers are owe salaries for months, and a supposed man of the grassroot does not acknowledge that as a debt , so what should we call it ??
He just made a reckless & an irresponsible statement ... out of pain

rusher14:
Pay per post.

seunmsg:
In one breath



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I am just looking at Fayose like a bat.

Obi1kenobi:
1) The cult-like following Buhari enjoys in the North has little to do with the perception of incorruptibility. Stop deluding yourself. He enjoys the same cult-followership that any big-name old military administrator would enjoy. I bet you that even Sani Abacha would enjoy a cult followership if he was alive today to participate in Nigerian politics. It's a function of the feudal legacy of the North where an established elite easily mobilize the political sentiments of the plebeian class. It's one of the reasons no one does mass-slaughtering riots like the core North. If you're empowered as a politician or cleric, give Northern youths any command and they'd do your bidding. Northern plebs are the most impressionable voters in Nigeria and almost accord divine status to their betters. To say they are more politically informed that Southerners is beyond absurd. All the maiguards in my street where Sai Buhari chanters during the 2015 elections. I can assure you there was nothing informed about their support on any issues of substance.

2) Stop throwing around words like "bigotry" about other people. The core North is the most bigoted region in Nigeria. It's the region where all outsiders tiptoe around on eggshells terrified at what they would do to offend vengeful, blood-thirsty, intolerant locals. The region where Igbo people and other Southerners get butchered because a cartoonist in Denmark drew an offensive Mohammed cartoon. Where fatwas are pronounced on Southern journalists. Where a parallel constitution called Sharia law was adopted because locals are intolerant of the liberties of outsiders. Where a number of pogroms have been enacted against non-indigenes. Facebook noisemakers are positively tame compared with that.

3) Buhari's gains against Boko Haram were a continuation of the gains made under Jonathan (Buhari funny enough was quoted criticizing the military campaign against Boko Haram). It's a bit like how Trump took over when most of ISIS' territorial gains were reversed and ISIS were in retreat, but Trump tries to take the glory for rounding up what everyone knew was dead-certain defeat. Boko Haram's insurgency is still ongoing and may go on for several more years, but their territorial gains were never going to be sustainable seeing as they are built for guerrilla insurgency and not capturing territory. The Buhari administration has recently been trying to force people off IDP camps back to their homes that are still threatened by Boko Haram, when by all reports, those areas are still not safe. He was doing it to inflate the gains he made. If NE people believe the picture is rosy, they are uninformed.

GEJ to be honest was a pretty clueless leader. But this administration (which I voted for) is no better. What this administration has demonstrated is they are in a class of their own for sheer propagandizing. This has been the most effective government in propaganda I have seen in my lifetime. They're very good at it.
I do believe Buhari will win in 2019, partly because his followership is cult-like. But also because this administration has proven more desperate than the last in what extremes they are willing to go to to win as proven recently in Osun and Ekiti. INEC's progress over the years has been compromised by the single-minded desperation of this administration.

QuotaSystem:
To put it plainly, apart from Taraba, Benue, Plateau & Nassarawa States, President Muhammadu Buhari is poised to sweep the votes of the remaining 15 northern states, for the following reasons:

1. The "Amana" factor.

A lot of southerners often wonder the basis of the cult-like following PMB commands in the North - the reason is not far fetched.

The Hausa-fulani people in particular, place a huge value on the concept of "Amana" (trust/to hold in trust), a value which Buhari's track record of integrity (whether disputed or not) is clearly aligned with. Despite media propaganda, most of these people who are more politically informed than their average southern counterparts, are aware that not a single charge of corruption has stuck on their revered PMB, amidst corruption allegations among his cronies. Atiku loses massively in this respect because of his track record of corruption (BPE, Haliburton, $16b power scam, unexplained source of wealth etc.) which presents him as an untrustworthy leader to most northerners.

Furthermore, PMB's seemingly north-centric agenda regarding appointments, infrastructure projects (roads, rails, ports) and focus on agriculture assures most northerners that their interests would be well protected under his administration, in contrast to Atiku who is perceived to be likely to make concessions and appeasements to the East whose support he is mostly riding on going by recent trends. Atiku also loses big in this regard.

2. The South Eastern VP Factor

If Atiku gives in to the clamor for his running mate to emerge from the East, then he stands to lose massive votes from the core north for obvious reasons.

Firstly, the deep political antagonism and anti-north stance from Igbos, which has characterized the national space and been amplified since the defeat of Jonathan and rise of IPOB/Nnamdi Kanu and their hate speech, will deeply hurt Atiku's chances because not only will it mean the North would be taking the extreme bigotry, insults and political antagonism from the East right on the chin with no consequences, it would also mean the possibility of an Igbo successor to Atiku - a people known for their contempt for Nigeria's unity and secessionist aspirations.

In addition, a SE VP will also cost Atiku significant SW votes - a sub-region with the second largest number of registered voters (14 million).

3. The Boko Haram Factor

In sharp contrast to the generally held notion among some in the south that Atiku would sweep the NE because it's his home region, the strides recorded by PMB in the fight against Boko Haram heavily neutralizes that effect. I am not talking about social media noise, but the perceptions of people directly affected by Boko Haram activities and are experiencing a gradual return to normalcy since PMB took office.

Yola (Adamawa) for example, Atiku's own home capital, has experienced peace since PMB's onslaught on BH like they never saw since Boko Haram emerged under the past PDP administration - this was formerly a ghost town that used to suffer deadly BH attacks daily with dusk-till-dawn curfews, which has since been lifted and attacks reduced to suicide bombings and guerrilla attacks on soft targets, which are reducing on a monthly basis. This was a state that had several LGA's under Boko Haram's rule during PDP's administration and the people aren't quick to forget the corruption that marred the fight against BH in Dasuki fashion.

Maiduguri is back to it's bustling state with dozens of NGO's providing humanitarian services to help with the ongoing rebuilding efforts, people are now free to watch El-Kanem FC matches in the township stadium, and trans-border economic trade (mostly fish) is gradually being restored. The return of the Chibok and Dapchi girls also adds points to PMB's profile in the sub-region. If by God's grace the FG is able to secure the release of Leah Sharibu then that would be a hat-trick. I personally spoke to a "Kube" (traditional hausa cap) dealer from Borno recently and these were the exact sentiments he expressed as he professed support for Buhari's candidacy.

Final Note

It is very valid to permute that the votes from the 4 excluded northern states (Benue, Plateau, Nassarawa, Taraba) will be shared by both candidates as federal might will play out (both parties will rig anyway). With 19 million registered voters in the North West and 10 million in the North East which are largely homogenic, it is safe to say anyone who loses these key regions has lost the 2019 elections. With another 14 million registered voters in the SW which is APC's stronghold and Atiku's slant towards choosing a SE VP, his campaign team should be very worried.

Note that this is not to say Atiku will not record a sizable number of votes from the Northern States, but the ratio will pale in significance to Buhari's potential landslide victory in the region. - Q.S