₦airaland Forum

udemzyudex:
Will he truly deliver for free?

Let’s take him by his word. Whether he delivers free or not, it is much better than allowing the tanker drivers deliver, while holding the nation to ransom at every opportunity. By the way, even if he charges to deliver, it will be at the same cost charge by tanker drivers. You Dangote is able to deal with unionism in his organization, then Nigerians can have some peace.

Feelsgood:
Which BUA refinery in Akwa Ibom are you talking about coming on stream 😆 Pls post the most recent photos of the refinery, let's check something 😆

Yes, BUA is building a refinery in Ibeno local government area of Akwa Ibom state. It’s been going on for a while and was actually expected to kick off this year. Costing between 3.5 and 4 b dollars, it is smaller than Dangote refinery.

Ask questions so that you will be properly informed.

udemzyudex:
Lol... Funny, cos I was asking what happened to the naira crude swap deal?

Who knows? We only heard it, but we do not know if it’s existing. But that’s one part of it. Apparently PENGASSAN as a union controls those companies that deliver crude to Dangote, which is in dispute. Dangote intends to bypass PENGASSAN and deliver products to petrol stations directly. That part of the value chain is under threat by PENGASSAN, knowing that the cost of petrol to Nigerians would become further cheaper. Dangote will deliver for free.

We must get out of the grip of PENGASSAN. We no longer live in the days of the public refineries. They must allow private refineries thrive and make living easier for citizens.

Image123:
Obi and his people go still carry strong head for the matter, and dem they find votes oh. Votes wey no fit complete.
Imagine me your mate, working with someone the mate of your father and I start calling him dear brother. It's not african or Nigerian. Perhaps Gen Alpha, but Obi is not Gen Alpha and should know better. Exercise some emotional intelligence.

Oba Ladoja is slightly older than Atiku and president Tinubu, and they have worked together as friends since as far back as 1990.
Oba Ladoja and President Tinubu were both senators in 1990, and Tinubu was senior in rank.
Also they served together as close governors, with governor Tinubu helping governor Ladoja, even in time of distress. This is open national knowledge. Now, Tinubu is president. Tinubu and Atiku have both been close friends and superiors to Oba Ladoja.
It's incomparable to Obi who was coincidence governor in 2006 with them. The relationship is not same. Oseloka Obi cannot be calling his mother, dear sister. She's about 17 years older than him. Or what do i know, he does?

It’s such a shame that Nigeria has youths like you, who reason upside down. If you took your time to read what you wrote, on a second thought, you would have said shame to yourself.

You so contradicted yourself. Ladoja is older than Tinubu and yet the same Tinubu addressed him as “brother”. That’s Tinubu, who is a of the same tribe as Ladoja. So Tinubu’s justification for addressing Ladoja as brother rests on the fact that he and Tinubu were Senators in 1992 - 93, when you were not even born. Did that eliminate the fact of the age difference between the two men? If Tinubu and Ladoja were Senators and Governors at the same time, how then did you claim that Tinubu was superior. The same you claimed that Tinubu and Atiku were superiors to Ladoja. How did that by your poor understanding justify Tinubu addressing him and brother, and Obi addressing him as “dear brother” became an issue? Why did Tinubu who addressed him as brother, escape your claim of disrespecting the newly installed Oba? Some of you youths, make mockery of very decent people, causing ethnic tensions where there’s not and absolutely disgracing yourselves.

madridguy:
Olubadan is old enough to born Peter Obi. What we demand from him is "
Elder " instead of plain " brother "

People like you make others insist on the separation of Nigeria. In the sense of it, is Rashidi Ladoja not an senior brother to Obi? Do you know Obi more than Ladoja? The same Obi addresses people, whether Kings or ordinary citizens, as his dear senior brothers and everyone is happy. Oba Ladoja did not complain. Only ethnic jingoists and APC apologists like you, Omokri and Lere Olayinka twist the narrative. No be only “elder”, na “deacon”.

FOLYKAZE:
This is becoming messy.

Dangote should tread carefully. These guys are ready to fight dirty than stay out of business.

We just need to grow out of this Aluta, scatter everywhere mentally, if things doesn't work out way. Government should please disband NUPENG and their sister union PENGASSAN. You cannot just force private business hands to do what and whatever in their business. If you want to dictate, start up your own refinery, then you can control your staff remotely how you want. This madness has to just stop

Unfortunately for them, Dangote is not the loser. Dangote will respond by importing crude and sell to them in dollars. Petroleum marketers will pay Dangote in dollars and deliver to the citizens at a higher price than obtains presently.

Who loses then? PENGASSAN members, family, friends and Nigerians as a whole. Their attempt to shut down the nation’s biggest refinery out of their greed certainly comes with a huge price for all Nigerians including themselves. They board public transport to work. Their families and friends use public transport. Those of them who own cars will purchase petrol at elevated prices. Who suffers? Dangote? He does not purchase petrol.

While they got involved in strikes and failed a lot of times, they ended up not getting government to make the public refineries work. Now that the nation has a private one that serves all, the terrible leaders of the association intend to frustrate the company and all Nigerians.

Several calls have been made to PENGASSAN, asking them to team up and build their own refinery. If they cannot, then they must allow Nigerians manage their lives with the stability that Dangote offers.

smileyoo:
Bros, you are right on this your opinion, because our money bags from the eastern region are too stubbornly nationalistic, like their vissionless fore-father- the famous Zik of Africa who did us much damage with his strong belief on the elusive national unity.
let the Nigerian political class keep doing us more favour by waking up these our money bags to the realities of the elusive national unity, so that they go back and make our region a great place and a business hub .
dis-honest governments will always have plausible reasons to demolish any structure that they have decided to demolish .

And what was your own visionless forefather Awolowo doing when he campaigned in the SE for votes to become the President?

Your own brother is the President now. He campaigned for votes to be the President of Nigeria and not the President of Yoruba people. Why not agree to allow the people go, rather than dream of the elusive national unity?

How many properties of the money bags from your region have been so destroyed, even when it is certain that such properties are not with the right approvals? How many have been allowed to stay, even in clear violations of the plans?

How can government always double speak? On one hand you talk of eradicating poverty and job creation, yet on the other hand, you drive the same people into poverty by destroying their properties and make life harder for security agencies when they talk about increase in crime.

Earlier this year, KAI and the police were somewhere chasing traders away from the bus stops. A young man a few days earlier got a loan of 4m and used it to stock phone accessories. The next day, all his goods were carted away by government officials. How would that person ever recover with such wicked enforcement officers?

Xxxxtentacion2:
the question is why spend millions to build a house when you know it will be demolished.
Then secondly what constitutes illegal structure ? Person suffer build house you call am illegal structure. Don't just defend any government move you might be a victim of the injustice you support. Is it proper for government to just demolish random houses and call them illegal structure

How can you know when certain government officials have been accused of colluding with omoniles? How can you know when it has been established that people have been issued fake survey plans?

The truth remains what it is, that Nigeria is long overdue for separation. Let everyone ho their separate ways in peace. The politicians use the word Nigerians when it pleases them and different ethnic names when it also pleases them.

Rather than destroy such areas, why not allow them ratify their documents, landing government billions instead? They say that such buildings are on waterways and drainages, yet we do not see such drainages constructed anywhere.

At 75 the man had a grandson of 30. At 65, the woman had a grandson of 30. Certainly the father of the evil young man should be approximately 48. Poverty festered in that home. The grandparents started having children at very tender ages and the father followed the same path. If looked into we will find that the murderer has a child of 10 or 12.

This food insecurity must be dealt with in the nation. Youths and joblessness must be dealt with. Drug abuse must be dealt with. Trump is dealing with that issue of drugs in his country. Leadership must stop this horrible looting of public resources, have mercy on themselves and the whole country and ensure a better country for all.

While you are all here, just like VDM, wasting precious time to insult the lady, she has seen a great opportunity as a content creator. Now she will turn weakness into strength. Now the lady will make money out of the story, while some of you are here fully hungry. Who come get sense pass abeg?

dederocs:
My point is, don't be a sycophant to these mediocre selfish politicians. Stick to your interests not politician's...let that man air his grievance.

When you offer such advise, why not look at yourself first and be sure that you are not the sycophant? Why not take the log of your eyes, before taking off the moth in another person’s?

If you stuck to your interest in the first place, you would not be talking about Senator Natasha and advising others to mind their businesses. If you were minding your business, you would not bother about advising the baba to air his grievances. What’s your own business with the man’s grievances?

And by the way, who is your “mediocre” politician? Hopefully you are not calling a Senator a mediocre politician.

dederocs:
Which integrity has she displayed?

Nigerians indeed deserve to suffer, a people moved by sentiments and emotions will suffer.

Exactly. Now you repeated my earlier remark. You got it. Unfortunately you do not appear to understand the word integrity, when the law guarantees freedom to associate and movement. If you understood all those, you’d know that Senator Natasha’s husband chose her of his own volition and left the baba’s daughter on his volition. Where’s the integrity to talk about when a man became legitimately single and married someone of his choice?

And y the way, integrity demands that you support leaders who make societies better and more decent for everyone to live.

dederocs:
Are you a sycophant of the senator, the way una dey worship public officials and later wonder why they treat you people as subjects...

If I am one of those who choose leaders with integrity, over dictators and arrogant looters of the commonwealth, then there is hope for our nation, with the likes of Senator Natasha. But if you are one of those who support and eulogize your oppressors, asking them to lead you and the rest of your fellow blind supporters to Golgotha, then please know that those leaders are just as chicken prepared you for pepper soup. How can you escape?

If the man left your daughter marry Senator Natasha, why should it be a bitter pill to swallow for you as a man? Maybe your daughter was not doing well with the man when they were married. And d not tell us that Senator Natasha used juju. Abi e dey pain you say she be Senator? If your daughter had any glory, she should be a powerful person in Delta state. We have been hearing the name of Natasha Akpoti for too many years before Uduaghan came along. You baba, we never heard your own name, not to talk of your daughter. What is her name, by the way?

These days, people choose their partners, not just because of love, but out of interest. They look at compatibility, they look at the future, value and they choose wisely. The man chose to leave your daughter, who was not adding value to his life and married Senator Natasha. If you have any wahala, no one can help you.

Senator Natasha enjoys her marriage and the husband enjoys his relationship and present status. He is the friend of the Senate President, along with Senators, governors and other very strong public personalities. He needs the woman to enhance his status politically and financially. He needs her connections and he offers his protection to his wife.

Baba to the ex, please carry your wahala face front. Tell your daughter to move on with her life and get another man to marry her. You and your kept documents go soon face public disgrace.

But they are supposed to belong to a labour union, by labour laws. PENGASSAN is seeming to stress out Dangote refinery with their endless greed. If the company say NO to the members belonging to the union, the staff must follow the company.

nairalanda1:
Kingsway was an indigenous founded store

Leventis was founded by a Greek guy of the same name who naturalized as a Nigerian in 1960.

Chellerams was founded by Indians.

Very correct.

ruzell86:
With this knowledge of Lagos... baba you suppose don be ward Councillor, walahi.

I don pass councillor tay tay. How we go come do an na?

Just imagine that. So they were residing in Agidiesei? What a shame that such evil people have invaded and overrun Ogwashi uku, a hitherto peaceful town, until the polytechnic started working.

Commentor:
Next time hire competent hands.
The escalator was paused by one of your minions, and the teleprompter should have been hooked up to your laptop managed by your group.

United Nations staff are not hired by the United States of America or the President. They are hired and paid by the United Nations. Maybe you did not read where he talked of sabotage. You overlooked that and did not reason how disastrous it would have been, if the President of America and his wife, fell off the elevator, right inside the UN building, housed by the same USA.

PigTormentor:
How is this better than today?
Do you know that the vast majority of Nigerians couldn't buy anything in those stores back then, most don't even have access to them.
Most only visit during Christmas. I still remember going there with my parents and one of my aunties was the manager of one of the departments back then. She came back from England and was given the job.
Life seem better back then, but for a few privileged ones.
Now most people can walk into a supermarket and buy whatever they want, it didn't used to be like that.
And I think there was only one in Lagos island on Marina before another was built in Surulere in the 80s. Their main competitor was Leventis at that time.

Sorry to tell you that you are not correct.
Infact, contrary to what you said, everyone could walk into the stores and make their purchases. Products were well priced and affordable for everyone. The difference was that shoppets could shop with ease and convenience, far from what obtained at Balogun, Ajegunle, waterside, Mushin, Yaba, lawanson markets. All Nigerians could purchase all that they wanted, and aside from purchasing items, they also could snap pictures, window shop, eat inside the then Kingsway rendezvous and have fun. You could spend the whole day inside Kingsway and jump up and down the escalator. Salaries were at 130 per month and with that people could fend for themselves and families. Infact a bottle of coke cost 6 kobo in Kingsway. In the 70s and 80s, a bottle of Gulder was at between 70 kobo and 90 kobo, while a plate of cow tail pepper soup was at one naira.

The only branch was at Apapa. That place is now occupied by Cash and Carry. It was Leventis stores that had a branch in Surulere, at No. 1 James Robertson street. UTC in the present UBA Apongbon. It was there before that Apongbon bridge was built and had its only branch opposite Kingsway Apapa and adjacent to Leventis, in that same Apapa.

My brother, if you want to talk of affordability, please do not compare those periods and now. Nigerians are presently in big distress.

FreeStuffsNG:
Read my response again. Those were symbols of imperialism and colonialists. No amount of Kingsway trumps your liberty and freedom as a human being.

It was no imperialism and it was not colonialism. It simply was shopping made of easy for all, even as the markets thrived. Nigeria was much more beautiful, peaceful and the economy very secure. The economy was better and in safer hands than those who have operated it since the 1980s. There was no slavery, not to talk of “liberty and freedom as a human being”. All the stores were opened to all and there was no discrimination against any Nigerian. If you could afford the prices, why not. And by the way, prices were comparable with what obtained in the markets.

The Nigerian economy had industries working. Factories were well run and foreign exchange which has become an issue was nothing. Infact, maybe you are not aware that Nigerians took Naira cash to the streets of Europe, USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia and got exchange in the bureau de change, as our currency was accepted worldwide. Hold IBB responsible for SAP and the ruination of the country. Hold IBB responsible for ending open general import licence regime at the CBN and introduced compulsory import license for almost goods, which made billionaires overnight. Hold him responsible for the end of visa on arrival in London for all Nigerians. Hold him responsible for the now defunct structural foreign exchange market at the CBN the devalued the naira, which before then in 1986 exchanged for 60 kobo to the US dollar. The British or colonialists had nothing to do with it, but the leadership of the country after they left. And by the way, the likes of Baba Awo, Zik, Aminu Kano, etc did their very best, but the greedy men in khaki set the country back.

peterboro:
Nothing like Santa then. Or Maybe na only big men children knows it as Santa.

Cos me na "Father Christmas" we dey call am during my childhood.. Not until when i became an adult that i started knowing that it is really called Santa clause.

There was Santa. Each Christmas was amazing. Infact children trains were installed in Kingsway and Leventis at Christmas to move children to the area where Father Christmas was sitting. Father Christmas then usually was a white man, who gave out plenty of gifts to children. If you wanted see fear in the faces of children, just watch them in front of Father Christmas. If you wanted fun, please look out during Christmas. It was always massive in Lagos. Infact the frenzy started in September then and families started purchasing Christmas items early. In November it was banger galore. Even Ileya was fantastic in Lagos. Eyo festival was great also in Lagos until politicians ruined the economy.

Kingsway stores. Waoh. Good to remember. Just like UTC and Leventis stores then it Lagos. There was Chellarams too just before Kingsway. They were more than Shoprite. It was facing what was they known as Quay side or “key side” as everyone pronounced the entire front facing Lagos lagoon. It had very huge shopping floors with mostly foreign goods. You could purchase everything from groceries to food to household equipments, clothes, bicycles and the now famous Mr. Biggs situated on the ground floor at a time was known as Kingsway rendezvous! Kingsway was a branch of UAC and very well organized until horrible leaderships ensured that such stores as mentioned were shut down. People took off their shoes and slippers as they walked into the place believing that it was the rule. Security personnel at the doors would ask them to please wear their shoes and slippers. Na people from Mushin, Maroko and Ajegunle dey comot shoe for leg enter Kingsway, Leventis and UTC. They were considered bush people!

Each time you get to Marina, in front of Oando before CMS bus stop, you cannot but take a look at the building, where Kingsway was housed. The entire stretch of the road between Marina and Broad street right in front of Oando was Kingsway stores. Immediately you cross Apongbon under the bridge, it was Kingsway rendezvous by the left. Chop meat pie there and you no go chop am finish. There was the regular meatpie and the peppered meatpie. Lagos too sweet before abeg. The big building by the foot of Ojota bridge was Kingsway rendezvous. The next Kingsway rendezvous was at Niger motors bus stop, Apapa wharf. Lagos was good, not because it was beautiful, but the peace and too many places to visit. Kingsway stores had the only other Lagos showroom at Apapa, where you have the present Cash and carry stores. Infact the whole of that area is called “Kingsway” because of that Kingsway stores there. Right opposite them was UTC and adjacent to UTC was the then Leventis. That building was shared between Leventis stores and the defunct Roxy cinema. The floor containing Roxy cinema now is owned by RCCG, who I think bought it in the early 2000s. Those who lived in Apapa should know that. Leventis stores had a branch in Surulere at James Robertson. It was situated at the junction enroute through Akerele to what was and still as known as bus corner bus stop. Those who live around Ogunlana, Shitta, Masha, Randle Avenue, Lawsnson, etc should know the popular bus corner bus stop. Lagos too sweet and peaceful, before until politicians came in 1999 and brought divisions.

SmartPolician:
I know that most of us don't like politicians, so we are always quick to judge them because we all wish we had the positions they have.

But it's fair to listen to Wike's defense over the case because, according to him, the issue has come up several times in the past and it has been trashed at the state level.

I am surprised. So you rise in defence of what may potentially be a corrupt behavior from people trusted with power? I strongly believe that you are one of those who never question our political leadership on the sources of their humongous wealth. If Ibori remained in Nigeria after GEJ, no court in the country would have punished him for his crime.

It’s fair for Wike to defend the allegation against him. If found not guilty, he can sleep. By the way, I doubt if you have ever wondered the source of his humongous wealth, with no factory or oil company to show us.

AntiChristian:
In the olden days churches no dey get CAC. Now they file everything a company files but pay zero tax and make huge profit they call donations, seed, fruit, tithe, etc!

And who told you that mosques do not pay taxes?

GanagiBitrus:
RCCG has what it takes to make the children of the founder comfortable & happy.

These complaints from the children are not good enough for the image of RCCG.

Did you read anywhere in the story where it was mentioned that the children are not comfortable? Do you think that they are not well fed or given their due?

casualobserver:
its actually PDP that introduced thuggery to Lagos politics Many of you were not alive or too young in 1999/2003.

In the period of transition from military rule to democracy in 1999, the multi-party system was adopted, and three political parties, namely, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the All People’s Party (APP) and the Alliance for Democracy (AD) were registered by INEC. These parties participated in the 1999 general elections, in which the PDP emerged as the dominant political party in Nigeria. AD won in the SW, APP won in the north PDP won everywhere. Tell us how of the three parties, you singled out PDP as the party that introduced thuggery? Did PDP win Lagos where Tinubu won the Governorship? Were you too young to know that before Tinubu became the governor, a certain Buba Marwa as the the governor wiped out thuggery from the streets of Lagos. Were you too young to note that thuggery returned and remained the moment Tinubu became the candidate and won the Election? Who has sustained agbero unions in Lagos since 1999? PDP abi? Go and learn your history again.

Ebubu:
All mkpurummiri, ice and crystal meth addicts from the South East will be rehabilitated there.

Who knows, perhaps one day you will find yourself there!

SmartyPants:
A lot of people hate the Dami girl primarily because she is Yoruba, which is sad. Some dislike her because she is a copycat that didn't allow Hilda her shine. I used to be in that group.

But this is the bottomline: both Hilda and Dami have made it in their own ways. They are both achievers while you that is online hating on one or the other most likely have done nothing worthy of cynosure.

Dami DID NOT make it in her own way. She was never known until she tried to copy cook-a-thon and take the shine off Hilda Baci. Your Dami never heard the words cook-a-thon. The moment she noticed the popularity, she jumped into the fray, believing that she could achieve it. Nobody ever knew her from anywhere until she copied like others who tried to do it after others too. Stop living in that lie.

LagosOrigin:
Must she copy everything that Hilda do ?

Who wan sponsor her with that over size clothe she wear

It is so disappointing this copycat life. Hilda Baci takes her time, does her research and comes out very original, while some lazy copycats wait around the corner to spoil the mood. Do not be surprised very soon to hear “the largest pot of ewedu, gbegiri, okro, eforiro, amala”, etc.