₦airaland Forum

FreeStuffsNG:
Seems most people commenting did not read to understand that he is giving the true reality on ground and giving an intellectual angle for this unusual scenario. For example, few days ago, a Nairalander bought eggs, plantain, carrots, vegetables etc yet he spent barely N1000 or less than N1000,
https://www.nairaland.com/6755350/see-foodstuffs-bought-950-naira
that same quantity of food in US cost way more than $1.50 so it means locally the purchasing power of the naira is still strong .

The man just raised an intellectual poser and it is the reality that require more research.

My guess is that the intervention by CBN in agriculture really helped and the pressure on the naira could be because of speculators, cryptocurrency and rationing of forex by CBN.

I appreciate Punch for dropping their bigotry and hatred against PMB and for being honest enough to report such a fresh perspective on the forex and naira value issue.

Just like you've rightly said, just imagine if N1.50 could purchase the same item in Nigeria like $1.50 in the US.
1. Nigeria won't be named the poverty capital of the world.
2. Minimum wage earner will not only spend their salary on eating ones a day. They will also raise educated children, built small house and occasionally go on vacation outside the country.
3. The country will become prosperous with little or no frustration.
4. Graduates will be gainfully employed because low paying jobs will be attractive because of a higher purchasing power.
5. Foreign goods will be very cheap and the cost of doing business will be low.
6. Crime rate will reduce even yahoo business will no longer be profitable.

*what you and the op are saying is the reason the country is in shambles* yet you both failed to see you are major stakeholders alongside buhari in the failure of Nigeria as a country.

N.B.: $1 was #213 when your master took over power from Jonathan

Scamburster:
That is if your vote eventually count.

Don't get is twisted, people voted for buhari in large number. They are all just ashamed to identify with him now

Fulani herdsmen are not involved in digital transactions. Hence, it is the best way to go.
When next we are expected to go out and vote a president, I hope we will use our brain.

Imagine a surgeon at this state in the middle of an operation. Many died as a result but unreported!

AfroKnight:
Parts of the story have been altered cos affected parties might be nairalanders.

A while ago, I met a beautiful woman. She carry front, she carry back. Both in desirable proportions. I got her number and we got talking. We soon advanced to long calls, flirting and risqué jokes. Then she posted a boy on her WhatsApp status one day and the caption rocked me to my foundation. I asked and she confirmed that the little boy was her son. Okay.

“Where is his father?”

“He is not responsible. He is not involved in his son’s life. I take care of him alone.”

“Well, no problem”, I thought to myself. I reminded myself that it is not my dream in life to deal with the complications of raising a son who is not biologically mine, especially one whose father is still very much alive. So, I slowed down. Reduced calls until we drifted apart.

I told a female friend of mine about this and the way she looked at me ehn, I was wondering what I did wrong. She was so disappointed in me for refusing to date a single mother.

Well, I gave that friend of mine a piece of my mind. She had no right to project her concept of right or wrong or even chivalry on me! I am nobody’s saviour. I cannot pick up the responsibilities of another man who is alive and well. It is not only unfair but incredibly unjust to put a man on the spot by letting him find out you have a child after you guys have started flirting and even advanced in the talking stage of a budding relationship. I don dey feel you to the point of starting a serious relationship and I discover this? It is wrong.

And it is even more offensive that you would expect a man to just take it in stride.

Guys do not be shy to refuse if you don’t want.

Some guys are cool with it and that’s fine. If I’m not cool with it, don’t demonise me. It’s my choice.

Share your thoughts please.

If she is tonto dikeh or Genevieve nnaji, you won't come here to tell us stories until after post marriage crisis.

The north had being the flag bearer of the party since after Jonathan. PDP should learn to add up their failure in their myopic mathematics

It will take a miracle for PDP to win the Presidency again in Nigeria after frustrating Nigerians to the extent of voting for buhari.
The more pain buhari inflicted on Nigerians, the more hatred Nigerians will have towards PDP the initial cause of the mistake (buhari)

Wow

Buhari why now?

I wish others can learn from kyari that the blood of the innocent spilled to get rich will keep crying for vengeance

Abba kyari is a very lucky man.
Serving jail term in USA is extreme luxury compared to that of Nigeria alongside same criminals he sent to jail

A failed country!
If a Fulani man ever becomes the president of Nigeria again after this experience, then we've learnt nothing.

Abba kyari has nothing to fear.
Buhari just acquired sophisticated weapons from USA that can effectively fight FBI if they try nonsense

This can only be achievable if citizens are armed with firearms by the law

Grgton:
Reason why Buhari won was because people in South Western States voted massively for him .. .

I believe this is a lesson for the south!!

That was because a known atiku was the only strongest opposition and buhari (poison) was garnish with a rccg pastor and law professor from the south west who is currently a figure head in this government

How to produce a Muslim:
1. By birth (marry many wives for more children)
2. By being a kidnap victim (chibok girls)
3. By being a victim of terrorism (jihad)
4. Through almagiri system (book-haram).
5. By force (get power through government to enforce it)

How to produce a Christian:
1. By being born again (any day you encounter Jesus, old things shall pass away and all things shall become new)

I have laid before you this day both life and death.


Please
Choose life instead

Felabrity:
Go Nigerians

Bring us medals

Yes ooo!
We need it for constant power supply and cheap price of food items.

ChiefSosa:
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE TENSION?

This exposition in march 2021 is the tension
https://www.facebook.com/104909981070625/posts/300526658175622/?app=fbl

And this

https://www.facebook.com/104909981070625/posts/299969318231356/?app=fbl

emkz:
Is it just me or have you all realized Osinbajo has never left this country for medical checks, vacation or anything else that is unofficial? Same as his wife?

All his trips have been official and short. Some, he returns same day.

Now, he has gone to hospital in Nigeria, people are raising dust. Where should he have gone? UK? Let me say it again, I prefer Professor Osinbajo to take over Nigeria in 2023. Let the Mafia understand that Nigeria needs stability now than ever. Osinbajo can guarantee that. If they put someone there who would further divide us, an unstable Nigeria will affect them too.

A Prof whose only economic blueprint is trader moni and N-power?

Aseni bani daro

After retaliating the death of shekau for not using the instruments of government to protect the terrorist against iswap

No northerner would support obasanjo to market adesina as President who will definitely be a good President
It would be a slap on the north producing people like buhari, atiku, elrufai, tambuwa, kwankwaso etc as presidential material if adesina from the south should become Nigerian president from the south with resultant tremendous achievements

The north may support tinubu, fayose, amosun, fayemi obi, okorocha etc whom they know will only come to reenforce failure in government to the advantage of the north

All those religious leaders who up till now could not speak up against the evil nature of this government has some more horrific secret with this government.

Mbaka is a legend for calling their bluff even with his secret with them

If funtua (buhari) survived till 2023 without impeachment with the way he is running this country then impeachment should be erased from the constitution of Nigeria because no president of Nigeria can be worse than this again.

I don't understand why ASUU is not yet on strike to fight the Netherlands?

If all this is true like "anonymous" had always exposed evil of governments across the globe, then Nigeria is doomed

I

Ok

I agree with the hell bound cleric that this is a ploy by well meaning Nigerians to weaken this administration's efforts in sponsoring terrorism, banditry and kidnapping in eliminating Christians in Nigeria

Lanrelagboi:
The internally generated revenue (IGR) recorded by Lagos state in 2020 is higher than 28 other states combined.

This is despite lockdown measures imposed in the state due to COVID-19.

According to the 2020 IGR report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday, Lagos generated a total of N418.98 billion, representing 32.08 percent of N1.3 trillion — total IGR generated by states and the federal capital territory (FCT).

This should form the basis for presidential elections in Nigeria and not just population that favours only the North.

There should be electoral college points like that of USA where each States should be allocated points with reference to their cumulative IGR in 4 years.

E.g there should be a total of 100 points available while any candidate that wins Lagos should get the 32 points based on IGR while the winner in kano would get 2.4 points.
The first to gather 51 points from the total 100 available points should become the president.
IGR not population should determine who becomes president if we want to progress as a Nation

ThumbzTNA:
I beg to differ.

1. Shagari had Ekwueme as VP.
2. The North West has never voted for a non-fulani candidate since 1999


You're obviously a bad student of history

Mr. History lecturer,
Current reality is the antidote for history
Atiku/obi ought to defeat buhari/osinbajo based on your history

The truth hurts

An Igbo man can never pass the night in Aso rock in the present day Nigeria through any combination.

KANU knew this truth hence his agitation for Biafra

Penguin2:
It is an open secret that Tinubu has always had his eyes on the Nation's highest office. Reason he wanted to deputize Buhari in 2015 to shorten his route to the presidency but for religious sentiments.

Now, as another general election draws nigh, Tinubu and his lieutenants has been clearing the grounds and testing the waters for Tinubu's declaration for the presidency. While his boys are trying to unite the whole of Southwest under Tinubu candidacy, Tinubu himself is doing everything reasonable and unreasonable to warm himself into the heart of northern voters; donating money to victims of Katsina inferno, chairing the 12th Arewa House Lecture and all.

But one thing is conspicuously clear, and that is that neither Tinubu himself nor his lieutenants has made even the remotest of move towards the South East and the South South. And I want to ask why?

My people say, "oku nyu ahuru, ala achuwa ya oso" (literally, when the fowl polutes the air, the grounds chases after it). And by that I mean that Tinubu must be avoiding the SE/SS because of the role he played in the defeat of GEJ, a president they accused of favouring Igbos.

Now, if politics is a game of interest, how would the rest of the country want Igbos to vote for Tinubu, another President that would not be favorably disposed to the Igbos just like Buhari isn't?

Because avoiding the SE/SS in their early campaign clearly indicates where Tinubu is looking to create his allies and if he eventually wins, that would mean another 8 years of an Igbo hating govt.

This is a call on my Igbo brothers and sisters, if they APC ticket goes Southwest, let's not insist on the PDP ticket coming to the East. The North won't vote an Igbo man. Let the presidential ticket go to the North while the VP ticket comes to the East like in 2019. Let the fight be between the North and the West.

If the northerner wins with the PDP with an Igbo man as VP for 8 years, the anti-Igbo sentiments in the North must have been subdued to a very minimal level to create a favorable ground for an Igbo presidency.

This route might be longer, but it's better than having a president that hates Ndigbo for another 8 years.

Penguin is a bird of reason!

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

A northern voter will never vote for a northern man with an Igbo VP.

What if somehow the president pass on like yaradua leaving an Igbo man this time as president?
A Yoruba/northern ticket is a win-win for the North.
The earlier you know the better.

I wish a better Yoruba man like sowore becomes president in 2023 instead tinubu

travelwaka:
This is one of the few tourism oriented President we have had in the history of Nigeria. Please don't quote me out of context. I'm only talking about tourism not politics, development or personal character. Thank you

He was the brain behind FESTAC a festival that attracted people from over 48 countries of the world
He introduced Ankara back into the system making a once neglected fashion fabric a house hold name
He built the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential library which has a zoo, a resort , a museum, art gallery and other tourist facility
The Abuja stadium was opened under his regime where Nigeria hosted a world sporting competition - the 8th all Africa games

Many other program to promote tourism in Nigeria. I wish we can focus more in developing the Nigerian tourism. Tourism is one of the few initiative that affects every aspect of the economy. From food to transport, housing, hospitality, fashion, culture, lifestyle, entertainment etc

The current president is also promoting terrorism which is also attracting Fulani and other terror investors across African to the country.
Terrorism is one of the few initiative of this govt that affects every aspect of our existence as a nation. E.g. education, agriculture, transportation, security, tourism, infrastructural development, sport, trade etc.
This president has impacted on the lives of Nigerians more than any other President in the history of Nigeria.
Although negatively, but we all can feel his impact on us as President even though about 15 m of us allegedly thumb printed for him to be president while more than 100 m Nigeria suffering now did not partake in the election.
I just hope we've learnt a lesson

The war against ipob and ESN just got a boost

The remaining part of military budget will be used to settle kidnappers, bandits and herdsmen till 2023

I hope before the next presidential election, the brain of Nigerian youths would have being completely formated for progressive reasoning