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Politics › Re: Fire Breaks-Out While A Borehole Was Being Drilled In Enugu (Picture) by gabicon: 1:42pm On Oct 30, 2023

Zeezenho:
oga no gas pipeline in those zones.its natural gas is every were in south east.

If it's natural gas deposit, the whole area should be a detonated mine field by now. I'm saying so because some years back in Kwara state, 2011 to be precise, it was claimed that crude oil had been discovered because it was gushing out of a dug pit, further investigations showed it was a ruptured pipe.

Politics › Re: Full Text Of Atiku's Speech At His Press Conference by gabicon: 1:38pm On Oct 30, 2023

Nemere2020:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02DcWs6fhoFcVJKpFu8NLGLT9pgpWovcqQcmAztYUUYjNTaFucV1E27e7hFViYXtGzl&id=100044152610571&mibextid=Nif5oz

I see some folks getting fooled by these flattery words. Every politician that looses an election suddenly has all the answers to all our challenges, but when they win they can execute any of them. A politician is trained to appeal to your emotions using flattery words.

The supreme court has rules, one of such rules is that you can't present new evidence for a case that has been decided by a lower court, which you seek redress for at the supreme court. Atiku was defrauded by his lawyers.

Politics › Re: Fire Breaks-Out While A Borehole Was Being Drilled In Enugu (Picture) by gabicon: 6:34am On Oct 30, 2023

[quote author=Nonny95 post=126689964][/quote]This looks to me like a ruptured gas pipe than gas deposit. It should be properly investigated before we make conclusions.

Politics › Re: Failure Of IREV Does Not Stop Collation Of Results - Supreme Court by gabicon: 1:33pm On Oct 26, 2023

Estello:
IREV Portal Is not a tool for collation- Supreme court

If INEC portal stops, it does not stop the collation

The non-function of IREV might reduce voter confidence

Justice Okoro Also said INEC has the right to choose the form in which they want to transmit results

Clark (San) iterated this thing long before all the election petitions, the assumptions by our law is that inec will always do the right thing, until that assumption is changed, no elected president will be removed by a court.

Politics › Re: Ghana Reprimands David Hundeyin For Misrepresentation Of Events by gabicon: 8:39am On Oct 24, 2023

[quote author=AnonPoet post=126580317][/quote]I think David has an over blotted sense of importance. I don't even consider him an investigative journalist, he is more of a researcher. All his purported investigations have holes in them, investigative journalists score home runs not public divisions. The public already have their biase, any article that swings to a biase will definitely gain traction.
If the Nigerian government wants David, only a phone between both presidents of the countries who happen to be friends will produce him. Of course the western nations he applied to saw through him, a menace in ones home country will definitely be a menace in his asylum country.

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Politics › Re: Peter Obi Won The 2023 Election, Tinubu came a distant third - Babachir Lawal by gabicon: 5:01pm On Oct 17, 2023

chokekachy:
https://independent.ng/obi-not-tinubu-won-2023-presidential-election-says-ex-sgf-babachir-lawal/?utm_source=&utm_medium=

Mr Lawal and Dogara, frantically fought for the vice president ticket to be handed to them because they were northern Christians, but smart Tinubu understood that they had zero electoral value in the north. The man is very funny, in his native Adamawa, how many people voted for Peter Obi? Or better still in his polling unit? Supposed public personalities need to stop making comments that can't be substantiated with evidence.

Politics › Re: Minimum Wage: How We Arrived At N200,000 — NLC President by gabicon: 5:22pm On Oct 08, 2023

Islie:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/10/minimum-wage-how-we-arrived-at-n200000-nlc-president/

These ones are playing with hyper inflation, 200k minimum wage for a country that produces nothing is outright ridiculous.

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Politics › Re: Next Generation Would Query Us Over Tinubu's Questionable Certificate - Aremu by gabicon: 9:58am On Oct 05, 2023

I think the biggest tragedy here is people trying to steal the position of the president of Nigeria from the winner of the election, not based on electoral facts but on technicalities.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria Is 4th Cheapest Country To Live In The World - World Of Statistics by gabicon: 11:54am On Sep 27, 2023

krib45:
For foreigners not citizens. $1=1050 naira why won't it be cheap. Minimum wage 30k. Can 30k take care of your feeding alone? Try and use your brain b4 dropping yeye statistics

Economy is simply buying and selling, if you keep on buying without selling you are going to run out of money, if you keep selling without buying you are going to have a lot of cash in your reserve. The dollar will keep going up as long as we keep buying and not selling, to be honest it's not entirely the fault of any government, the citizens also ought to produce things they can sell.

Minimum wage also is a factor of productivity, if you increase it without increasing production, it ends up as inflation.

Nigerians can't eat their cake and have it, we can't want low cost of living, subsidy, low Forex rate , low taxes without poverty, no productivity, insecurity etc. They go hand in hand

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Politics › Re: Judge In Illinois, Chicago Ordered The Release Of Tinubu Academic Records by gabicon: 2:10pm On Sep 20, 2023

Israel07:
You're clearly not intelligent, a sophisticated dumb ass. Did you even pass through primary school to be writing nonsense such as this? Damn! Agbadorians are a liability and a hinderance to the progress of this nation. I pity whoever deals in business of any kind with you.
How can he use whatever is obtained by Atiku in the next election if it's different from the initial one submitted under oath? What kind of humans are in this country ffs!

Your disposition and point of view is one of the big problems we have in Nigeria. If you have a case state your case with facts and stop the names calling. Politics and law is not an emotional game, stop being emotional about them , put your emotion in check and stop using it to pass judgement. Make rational arguements, you can be wrong or right so can I, an intellectual discuss is what determines what side we are on.

Every election cycle credentials have to be submitted, it's within the prerogative of a candidate to withdraw or add new documents. The documents Atiku used in running during the 2019 elections had to be resubmitted for the 2023 elections.

Now Atiku has got a court order to get copies of Tinubu's certificate, that court order makes the certificate a legal tender, which Tinubu or whoever else can decide to use at will. So if Tinubu doesn't want to request his certificate from his school he can use the one obtained by Atiku should he choose.

Lastly, I foresee the supreme court judgement going in favour of Tinubu, why? Because all the actions filed are technicalities. Should the certificate Tinubu submitted is forged, and he decides to submit a copy of the one obtained by Atiku, he can be sued for forgery but can't be prosecuted because of presidential immunity should he win the 2027 elections.

Politics › Re: Judge In Illinois, Chicago Ordered The Release Of Tinubu Academic Records by gabicon: 10:44am On Sep 20, 2023

Toks2008:
No sir, he may most likely finish his present 4years cos the supreme court may not grant Atiku permission to add new evidence but will definitely stop him in 2027.

Stop him? How? Before every election candidates have to submit their credentials afresh, Tinubu will simply submit the copies that Atiku got from the US court.

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Politics › Re: Tinubu Meets President Ramaphosa Ahead Of UN General Assembly In New York by gabicon: 5:44am On Sep 19, 2023

rinzaugustine:
nobody voted for him. If you do free and fair elections electronically like in western countries, out of fifty tinubu cannot win one or did you see any celebration anywhere when Mahmoud declared him abi na spirits vote for him?

Get it into your system, he won. If indeed you wanted a change we should have ensured PO didn't leave the PDP. Even the voter intimidation we all cried about in Lagos didn't affect up to 20% of its total polling unit. Atiku can't complain about the voting choice in the north, it was a testament of the people's wish. When did celebration become an optic of an election? The only times there was was celebration after an election was when Goodluck Jonathan won, does that make all other presidents illegitimate?

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Politics › Re: Why Nigeria’s Refineries Will Never Work – Obasanjo by gabicon: 12:53pm On Sep 07, 2023

Sharmeenator:
Nice input there. Sorry I have been meaning to ask o, the current workers at the refineries, what exactly are their duties? What are they being paid for?

There is work that leads to productivity and work that is done to pass time. A lot of the latter was what was being done then. You have to create work to justify the salaries collected, but the KPI should be finished product, to be fair on the workers they are willing to work but our politics won't allow the place function.

I don't know of how the place is ATM but as at when I was there, they had 2 main compressors one had been cannibalised the other on live support, there was only one man who was a retiree that they brought back and made a contract staff that could manipulate compressor 2.
They had 2 power plants, a gas turbine 40MW and steam turbine 125MW I think. The steam turbine had been cannibalised all its impellers on the floor.

There was some refining but it was skeletal in nature.

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Politics › Re: Why Nigeria’s Refineries Will Never Work – Obasanjo by gabicon: 11:16am On Sep 05, 2023

HisSexcellency:
https://leadership.ng/why-nigerias-refineries-will-never-work-obasanjo/

I did my industrial training at warri refinery in 2008 and based on what I saw, I couldn't agree anymore with president Obasanjo. Apart from the four reasons shell gave, many of the equipments are comatose, the aviation fuel plant is a scrap yard, even if they manage to buy new equipments to replace the dead ones, they have to retrain all the staffs because the generation that got the refinery working are all retired, the people employed in the last 15 years don't know what it's like to have a working refinery. When we put all the cost of equipment, training and others together, it makes no sense for anyone or group to speculate that working refineries would bring down the price of petrol to #200/litre, only subsidies can make that possible.

Politics › Re: You’re The Only African Leader Biden Has Requested To Meet,US Envoy Tells Tinubu by gabicon: 1:54pm On Aug 28, 2023

ryloy:
You’re The Only African Leader Biden Has Requested To Meet, US Envoy Tells Tinubu

https://www.channelstv.com/2023/08/27/youre-the-only-african-leader-biden-has-requested-to-meet-us-envoy-tells-tinubu/

America and her allies are fast loosing their influence in africa. Nigeria has been politically neutral to the west and east. Joe is looking for allies in Africa, I won't be surprised if we start hearing of new loan instruments being extended to Nigeria.

Nigeria doesn't have foreign policy, if you can help us you are our friend if you can't help us you are our acquaintance.

Politics › Re: No Allowances Paid For Eight Months – N-Power Beneficiaries Write Tinubu by gabicon: 10:09am On Aug 28, 2023

Newton2024:
No Allowances Paid For Eight Months; We Are Suffering – N-Power Beneficiaries Write President Tinubu
https://saharareporters.com/2023/08/26/no-allowances-paid-eight-months-we-are-suffering-n-power-beneficiaries-write-president?utm_source=operamini&utm_medium=feednews&utm_campaign=operamini_feednews

Like seriously! N-power was a program under a previous administration and it's expired when they left office.

Business › Re: Jumia Shares Drop 17% After Q2 Results, Investors React Negatively by gabicon: 9:25am On Aug 18, 2023

nlfpmod:
By Tinashe M Tmukogo:

https://twitter.com/tmukogo/status/1692191844262883719?s=20

https://techcabal.com/2023/08/16/jumia-shares-fall-on-q2-results/

There are a lot of assumptions that were made which turned out to be false. Firstly, you come into the Nigerian market thinking you have a 200 million people market when in actual sense you are a 20 million market.

Secondly, e-commerce is not a an order business, its a reorder business so of the actual sense they had less than 5 million potential customers who will reorder products from them on a regular.

Thirdly, there was the problem of not selling things for the price they are worth, just to entice customers, that alone is a finance hemorrhage.

Fourthly, management issues, the former owners owned the property their head office in Dubai was and charged exorbitant rent to the company. The cost of renting their warehouses in 5 years could build ultramodern warehouses for them. Of course Nigerians are not blind, they too want to take advantage of the system, they cut deals with landlords inflating prices of facilities to as high as 400%. As usual they are used as scapegoats.

Fifthly, the logistics nightmare of moving goods in Nigeria is a big barrier to profitability of the company.

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Sports › Re: Why Are Players Going To Saudi Arabia? by gabicon: 1:40pm On Aug 17, 2023

TheSuperX:
Dude no young player will like to play in Saudi Arabia league, they will only go there when they are already in their 30's. do you expect someone like Mbappe or Haaland to move to Saudi? no way unless they are close to retirement.

But it is the same way they said no sane company or professional will move from London or New York to the middle east, look at Dubai today. Once the conditions are perfect, change is inevitable.

Sports › Re: Why Are Players Going To Saudi Arabia? by gabicon: 1:40am On Aug 17, 2023

mayor1814:
Money.

How many player younger than 27 do u see going there to play?

Young superstars like Bellingham, Saka, Musiala, Enzo etc will never go to such a league.

Give it time, younger players will follow suit, these guys are trying to control football and what it takes to control football is money which the Arabs have plenty of. Whatever these Arabs set their mind to control is as good as done, their buying top clubs did not workout really well for them so they recalibrated and decided to build home grown. In the next world cup we will be seeing the effects of the money spent.

Romance › Re: New Marriage About To Crash. by gabicon: 2:01pm On Aug 09, 2023

Ehinjuola:
My husband is not the same man I fell in love with.

My husband changed totally after wedding day, in fact, it started on the wedding night and its giving me a lot of concern.

It's not that he is not talking to me or we are fighting, but he is not the cheerful happy person anymore.

After months of trying to get what the problem is, he finally opened up to me and I don't know what my fault is, I think he is overreacting.

My husband works in an insurance company and he is just a junior staff, he earns 150k per month, so he is not doing that bad.

When we wanted to get married, my dad wrote the wedding list and everything he would bring, when he saw them, he fumed that they were too much and they should reduce it but my dad insisted that he won't collect it twice, I also told him if he really loves me, he would provide them, he could get help from his family too, it is called bride price and other things, and it is once.

We had little issue then but he later resolved it.

He brought everything they ask him for

During the wedding, my parents told him to buy a cow, rent a hall and decorate it then they'll take care of other things. He said he didn't have money for a big hall and he would prefer a field ground but my dad insisted that rain could disrupt things and he has many people coming.

That almost cause issues too, I had to support him with 50k to get the hall because I know who my dad is, he won't back out.

I didn't know how he did it, he took the hall and designed it, he bought cow too.

His family brought food and everything went fine and that was it.

I don't know what was keeping him moody until he spoke up.

He said I couldn't fight for him, I was there supporting my parents and watch them extorting him, did I even know he had to collect loan to pay for those things?

I got angry because he used the word 'extorting'.

He was the one that wanted to have my hand in marriage and if he cherish me, he should do all they wanted since he is not paying twice.

After I said this, he stopped talking in the house, he comes home, eat and go to bed.

I tried talking to him but he would listen but not talk, he is cold to himself and prefer his privacy.

Have I said something wrong?

I don't like whats happening. My marriage is too young to be going through all these.

I am tired, I don't know what to do.

Lol, you don't like the word extortion, your family asked a man to bring what he does not have, what else will you call that? You knew quiet well that your husband couldn't afford the wedding your family was requesting and you didn't say anything or find alternatives, now he has to repay the loans he had to take to marry you and you expect him to be cheerful.
Instead of you to be rubbing his head and assuring him it will all be ok, you are there forming madam cherish.

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Politics › Re: Port Harcourt Refinery To Commence Operations December — Tinubu by gabicon: 3:04pm On Aug 03, 2023

Kuginzi:
https://punchng.com/breaking-port-harcourt-refinery-to-commence-operations-december-tinubu/

Nigeria refining its own oil doesn't mean cheaper petroleum products. NNPC is now a public company tasked with the responsibility of making profit.

Christianity Etc › Re: How Do I Deal With My Religious Neighbors Wife? by gabicon: 3:00pm On Aug 03, 2023

DamianDd:
I've recently been taking care of my hair as a man I've been looking towards self-improvement and of course improvement begins with my looks.

My own my hair is the shorts strong Nigerian dry hair so even if it's long it will still appear very short which is what I fixed by treating my hair recently and washing it, right after I washed it that evening I weaved it for it to dry and while I was outside that's when my neighbors wife came, she called me and started preaching about heavenly race and I've sinned for this hair I did and what will people think of dad by me carrying this. All I did was simply assure her that I don't do dreads or weaving and I just did it so the hair and my scalp could get space to dry.

Now the hair is back to normal and it's better because it just looks like afro now very many like it supposed to be, it's doesn't look like a girls hair it just looks like a guy that's been training hair for a long time so it's okay like afro.

Tonight she saw me while she was standing with her friend and they both start telling me about heavenly race and what people will talk about my hair, how I should not allow it to shift me from my destiny.... man's just stood there wondering what has brainwashed this women and how their husbands and children survive this everyday.

How do you presume I go about this because I don't intend on being rude to my elders and my neighbors wife as at that?

Next time it happens, have a broad smile on your face and tell her "Thank you madam, but pls mind your business" then walk away.

Career › Re: Career Crisis - What Do I Do by gabicon: 4:52pm On Aug 02, 2023

xammax:
Hi guys,

So I recently got a job in a big 4 firm. Apparently I’m in tax and I am absolutely not finding it enjoyable.

I’m sad about this because I want to do audit.

I’m only sticking it through, it appears I cannot move in my firm because I just joined and going to a year.

I do want to leave to another big 4 firm to audit as I don’t mind starting over but then I do not know the process of doing this to make this move.

How do I cope with something I absolutely do not find joy in.

Advise…..

The word is Discipline, which is the act of getting things done irrespective of how we feel.That should be your coping mechanism.

Career › Re: Is Japa Worth It? by gabicon: 12:36pm On Jul 25, 2023

This your question is a little difficult to answer appropriately. There are pros and cons on either side, don't fall for the illusion that the grass is greener on the other side. I have people who are qualified professionals who have made it abroad, I also know people who are equally qualified professionals who are still trying to find their feet. I will suggest to look at things from the perspective of longterm vision. Unfortunately, many people that JAPA made their decision on the basics of short term vision, once you get caught up in the rat race, it's all over.
My advice for you is that In principle, determine your vision and in practice setup goals to achieve them.

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Career › Re: Should I Draw The Attention Of The Management? by gabicon: 12:18pm On Jul 25, 2023

Oyindamolah:
From DM

Be very careful, I would suggest you ask your superior questions, I didn't say you should tell them of your discovery, ask them questions surrounding your discovery. These sort of frauds are usually management deep, don't get caught on the wrong side of corporation politics.

Family › Re: Things They Will Not Tell You About Marriage.. by gabicon: 2:04pm On Jul 22, 2023

ibrutex:
To the married men and women in the house , let's give them some, not on papers experience which you will never be told before marriage...

Some of these I learnt through a friend....

A) If you (husband) have 5k and the woman has 3k , sum it together in marriage arithmetic , total cash available in that house is 5k, thanks.

B) As a man be prepared to enter kitchen, expecially those early morning cooking, or else be ready to visit mama put..

Keep it rolling......

Point A is an immature perspective on marriage, marriage should be run as the institution it is. A strong instruction has a budget, strong institutions don't spend haphazardly or indiscriminately, there is always a plan. The cash available is the cash budgeted, it's ok for individual spouses to have personal allowance.

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Politics › Re: Hardship: 'Borrow Atiku's Plan' - Deji Adeyanju Begs Tinubu by gabicon: 3:15pm On Jul 21, 2023

FuglyGurl:
https://twitter.com/adeyanjudeji/status/1681294059732881409?t=SBxC41EPyc-eqbTkMYsOpw&s=19[/quote]We should sell junk and wait for the junk to miraculously start producing and then remove subsidy. It seems we don't fully understand our present situation, whoever buys our refineries will spend good money to revive what's left of it and sell finished product at profitable price. A sold refinery won't keep the price of fuel low, that's the lie they are selling. Nigeria is too poor a country to be subsiding energy cost, we should only subsidise what has a potential of paying back the subsidy in the long run.

I think the tinubu government should take 10% of its palliative budget and use it to help public transporters convert their cars to LPG, that can help carter for 200,000 public vehicles. LPG cost about 15k for 49 litres which will cover same distance as 40 litres of petrol which cost N22,720 (if one lives in Lagos).

Family › Re: Benue Cousins Insist On Marrying Each Other Despite Stiff Oppositions by gabicon: 4:03pm On Jul 20, 2023

Asquare84:
I doubt if the cousin are from idoma speaking part of benue, if they are idoma's alekwu (gods ) will strike them automatically, immediately they sleep with themsely.

god's no strike politicians Wen dey oppress the people na people Wen don already sleep with themselves hin go strike. Abeg!

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: Senate Moves To Scrap Age Limit In Job Advertisements In Nigeria by gabicon: 11:51am On Jul 20, 2023

dre11:
…Wants Employers of Labour Relax Age Requirement Pre-condition

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/07/senate-moves-to-scrap-age-limit-in-job-advertisements-in-nigeria/

Employers will change the thing to date of graduation.

Career › Re: What Online Skill Can I Learn At 35 by gabicon: 1:30pm On Jul 19, 2023

dukechilezie:
I'm currently 35 years. I brought up this thread to seek your advice and opinions on the skills I can learn to enable me earn money.
I will really appreciate if the cost and duration it will take me to learn this skills.

With this new wave of AI, almost everyone irrespective of age have to unlearn and relearn. At 35 I would advise you go on the journey of discovering your gift than learning a skill. Gifts are constants, skills are dynamic.

Politics › Re: Tinubu Should Drive MTN, DSTV & Shoprite Out Of Nigeria - Reno Omokri by gabicon: 7:30am On Jul 19, 2023

nlfpmod:
https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1681333897865445376

Do you agree with Reno?

You can't chase away foreign companies because you have certain prejudices about them. If you go after a foreign company from a particular extraction, you give the perception to other foreign company's that their time is coming, this ultimately will reduce the size of their investment thereby reducing opportunities. The best way of getting rid of a company is creating better product and services at competitive prices.

It's unfortunate that our people still don't understand what a minimum wage regime should look like. Minimum wage is the least any citizen of working age should earn for their work. Increasing minimum wage to 75k is going to be insane, our economy isn't that strong. Government in general doesn't employ up to 20% of our viable work force, the large companies and banks don't employ up to 20% of our viable work force, more than 60% of our workforce work in SMEs or mSMEs, the question is have they been able to pay the 30k minimum wage?

PAN, Coscharis, Nord, and a lot of other guys are producing or have the capacity to produce cars in Nigeria, why do we have to single out innoson and back him up? This very act perpetrated by the PDP destroyed so many businesses thereby leaving us at the mercy of monopolist. Open the market to everyone let them compete, the best product or services wins, we need to stop manipulating markets.

We need to learn from history, not long ago we had issues with cattle rearers and land grabbing, we can't hand over land to people because they have a potential for agriculture. Instead, create a state government agriculture reserve, at the reserve we can have mechanised equipments farmers can rent, portions of land are leased to farmers for an agricultural season spanning say 18 months. After the season you have to renew the lease. We can have police stations and min army base around the reserve, even seed and fertilizer sharing would be the responsibility of the reserve management.

Jobs/Vacancies › Re: How Can You Manage 150k Salary In Lagos?? by gabicon: 12:00pm On Jul 16, 2023

Englishisamust:
How can a single person manage a 150k salary job in lagos. Considering house rent and a lot of expenses that are high here in lagos??

I need your input guys!!!

There are 3 things that consume ones earnings in Lagos. The first is transportation, next is accomodation, the last is consumption & entertainment. If possible live in close proximity to your job, if spend less than 10% of your earnings on transportation, you are way ahead of the curve. For accommodation you can cut cost by getting shared living space, that way utilities and other associated accomodation cost is shared. Lastly, you will have to cook your own meals, especially the meals you eat during work periods, things like clubbing, chilling at a bar or hanging out with friends have to be severely moderated.

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