₦airaland Forum

Simeonjoe1:
They say make we dey drink our gas by ourselves, now gas don cost how many people dey buy gas? They said price should go down, the government should subsidize(with which money?) then in next 10 yrs gas production decline, 30 years it becomes comatose due to lack of fund for maintenance and improve further production,then we starts importing cheaper gas in large quantities naira turn 5000=$1 we blame the president then! Problem persist and we gnash our teeth, why? Because we forget to expand our customer base now.

People needs to understand that Nigeria market is a poor market, who dey open shopright for village, or dey spend billions to open hotel for okpele. Who go patronize you? How much you go make? You go get profit to advance am,or you go dey run am with your money at a loss? How many billions Nigeria market fit give us compare to Europe?

People suppose to dey think sometimes not just to follow the bandwagon.
If Nigeria could achieve this feet which I doubt due to the cost, security concern and geopolitical issues, this will be the biggest thing in this country and can spring up massive tonnage of development if funds are well utilized.

Goddson:
Quick answer, the EU turned to USA, Saudi and Qatar but they rejected because they didn’t have the capacity and couldn’t supply more than what they have… Nigeria as a lawless and very corrupt nation don’t even have the capacity to produce nor manage what we are exporting to Europe. If you are well read and you understand geo-politics and diplomacy, you did know that Nigeria is a pawn and puppet nation to western nations, what the western nations offers Nigeria in form of diplomacy is threats, sanctions and bribes.

Have you asked yourself, what is Nigeria benefiting in return from the oil and gas stolen from its chores? Printed paper which is backed by nothing and will be paid in European banks and in their currency which still stays in their economy. You see one of the reasons why that naira you hold in your hand doesn’t have value? You see why you have to give testimony when you get visa to go to Europe to still go work as a slave? I can go on and on…

This level of this topic might be too complicated for you to understand, it’s deep brother and I would be wasting my time explaining to someone like you who is trapped in a western bubble.

The only African leaders that are living and can stand up to western threats is
President of Uganda
President of South Africa
President of Ghana
Then maybe president of Rwanda

But you see the rest are puppets and they are also agents of the three letter word agency

I ll give you a link below to give you a hint of how africa is viewed overseas

https://rumble.com/v1fomkq-dont-ignore-what-the-u.s.-is-doing-to-africa-this-must-stop-redacted-with-c.html

ufotunang:
Something Nigeria should had planned and done many years ago...its now you want to do it.... and to build pipe line from Nigeria to Europe will take some years and needs a lot of money to complete such a project.... Nigeria was not serious about the natural gas. God bless the country with.. as Nigeria is not also serious with the crude oil we have... refineries are not working to refine the crude oil,.. to fuel, disel, kersosene ..but Nigeria is importing the fuel...our politcians are not serious just fighting for their selfish interest

SmartPolician:
First, remove Peter Obi from that statement because he has neither been your president nor minister of power/petroleum resources.

Secondly, if Buhari was a sensible man, he would know that it was more logical to borrow and fix power instead of railways. For goodness sake, Nigeria was doing so fine without those so-called railways because we had federal and state roads all over the place.

The borrowing should have gone into power generation, transmission and distribution. This is critical in Nigeria's economy. Sadly, he chose to fix railways because northerners are only interested in easily moving their imported goods from Lagos ports to their region and Niger Rep.

Oga, stop defending the undefendable because it makes you appear senseless. That's why it is said that people lose their common sense the moment they join the APC.

BluntCrazeMan:
No,, assume that Agbado will win..
So, tell us what would happen if Agbado wins.
(Since you want to divert to that side of discussion)

Perfectbeing:
And the plants and generators that will use the gas will be gotten how?

The gas will magically transform into transmission wires, dams, the electric cables etc and when the Government wants to pay the workers working in the power stations, they will pay them in gas abi?

Most of you Nigerians doesn't even know there is paining you. Most of you don't follow news.
Buhari paid for the building of some power plants way back in 2017 and it's not until December this year that they will be transported to Nigeria. You think everything good can just be willed to happen and it will happen.

quickly:
You are not getting it that gas can be used to make 24hr electricity.

Europe needs the gas to power their electricity and keep them warm in winter.


No problem in selling the gas but why is the gas not used for Nigeria’s development.

obaaderemi:
What is going on with inflation in Ghana? We're grappling with the same issue in Nigeria and it's effects are scary. Food prices are higher than during covid. There have been protests in Senegal with a few people shot dead by government agents

obaaderemi:
The truth is nobody knows who has won the Kenyan Presidential election three days after voting. Both parties are just giving themselves cold comfort here and there.

JohnBullMySon:
Read my earlier comments before that. What you quoted was a satirical response to someone else.

JohnBullMySon:
Okay. Then we're the best passers under rainy conditions. Nice one. It better rain throughout the competition or we're f*cked.

Next time please check other people's stats so you will be more balanced with the analysis. Wakanda forever.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
One criminal to another that is all Nigerians know about. Right now when he was in government what has it done for his place Nigerians are all the same voting for criminals

brandsoncharlie:
Which revenue earner, the ones politicians would loot , you have crude oil and gas yet no 24 hr electricity in Naija.
One term president spent almost $3 billion in Ghana just to get power plants by crude or gas to increase their power generation in the country to maintain 24hrs electricity, but Nigeria zero.

Obidatti2023s:
How much exactly is an Nigerian benefiting from oil proceeds? -0%

How much are we as a nation benefiting from the government? Same -0%

What make you think an average Nigerian will benefit from something they can’t even provide for us at cheaper rate?

Lebanon economy has collapse completely, same with Sri Lanka, Venezuela and others. The reason Nigeria hasn’t collapsed yet is because of her citizens don’t live on government provisions! Because they never provide for us so we got independent from the government. We are so independent that even if there isn’t a dollar in Federal account we will still survive!


Who is the poorly educated and poorly inform now?

How much exactly is an Nigerian benefiting from oil proceeds? -0%

How much are we as a nation benefiting from the government? Same -0%

What make you think an average Nigerian will benefit from something they can’t even provide for us at cheaper rate?

Lebanon economy has collapse completely, same with Sri Lanka, Venezuela and others. The reason Nigeria hasn’t collapsed yet is because of her citizens don’t live on government provisions! Because they never provide for us so we got independent from the government. We are so independent that even if there isn’t a dollar in Federal account we will still survive!

Princebizzie:
Same set of people will come to complain that dollar is rising against naira, now government is trying to expand our export base and we are all here complaining. Do we really know what we want in this country?

Thonia69:
Get a d!ldo, simple!


Don't listen to mad people that said he's getting it outside.

68816419:
Congrats man

68816419:
LAGOS ISLAND URBAN REGENERATION
JK Randle Center for Yoruba Culture and History, Lagos island

obaaderemi:
You Know I'm still at a loss why Nigerians don't understand these things. You need to monitor whatever you give to the people wether blacks or whites or else it would be a mess. That's the difference between the developed world and us. They got institutions to reward and punish. How can you just hand materials to poor people and go to bed? There was a documentary I saw about Zimbabwe. The government gave seeds to farmers and the poor farmers instead of growing the seeds ate the seeds. You destroy your country by keeping people poor and you think you can just give them stuff and trust them. The government is the one sabotaging its own efforts. You got to handle it in partnership with the private sector, especially investment banks,vif you want results.

popizaino:
This country is rotten. Your story mirror the case of rice farmers from certain region in the country who couldn't access loan from the National seed councils because the previous rice farmers who took the loans to cultivate rice used the loan to go into other business entirely. Mind you the loans for each region was in tone if billions of Naira.This was under GEJ.

popizaino:
This country is rotten. Your story mirror the case of rice farmers from certain region in the country who couldn't access loan from the National seed councils because the previous rice farmers who took the loans to cultivate rice used the loan to go into other business entirely. Mind you the loans for each region was in tone if billions of Naira.This was under GEJ.

DeLaRue:
Until a few months ago, when it started appearing in my you tube recommendations, I wasn't aware of Arise TV becos I didn't watch any Nigerian news channel.

I vaguely remembered there was Channels TV. Not seen NTA anywhere for about 15yrs. I'm just not interested.

Back to arise. I have now watched a few of their interviews - the ones hosted by Mr Abati, and 2 others.

I quickly observed that:

1. Too often, the hosts can't resist taking things too personal. If they feel slighted by a guest, they won't hesitate to respond in like manner The Abiola lady even used the platform to attack her sister. Abati launched his infamous personal attack on Wike. Very unprofessional lot.

2. The hosts lack the capacity to ask penetrating questions. Their questions are too often simplistic, tedious, and dense.

3. On nairaland, I've been hearing one Rufai this, Rufai that, so I've been curious to watch the guy...and my observation? Very average, play-to-the-gallery interviewer.

The guy on Channels, Okin Balogun or something, is far more incisive, capable, balanced and professional than anything on Arise

maestroferddi:
Typical APC supporter....no surprises.

obaaderemi:
You just buttressed my point, bro. How can a government import expensive seeds and give it to hungry illiterate farmers without any form of monitoring. And no punishment for misbehavior. It's not done that way in sane climes. Even in the past in Nigeria it wasn't done that way. There used to be government agencies taking data from time to time to monitor the farmer's progress. Another option is to let a bank handle it. They know what they are doing. They just wanted to use national resources to enrich some poor northern farmers.

FunkyAlhaji2015:
Not necessarily, the government of the day is always criticized more, is always asked the more difficult questions. So to a supporter of the present government, it would seem as if they are PDP inclined

theenchanter:
bros, which day are we going to hold ourselves responsible for once, just once? Like, let's reflect on our very own doings and undoing? Why can't we ask ourselves why the market woman selling tomato in the market inflate price of her tomato and put the blame on dollar rise? Why should a landlord increase rent and claim prices of building materials are now expensive when he's not doing any renovation on the house? Let's ask ourselves why we chose to bribe an officer to make way way for us instead of going through the right process? See, all these things do not need government intervention but our conscience. We put the blame on the government a lot even when the fault is our. We put garbage into gutters and waterways, when rain fall and flood fills everywhere, we still blame the govt, why? Is it illiteracy or sheer wickedness?

Govt gives loans to the people, people didn't invest the monies on intended purposes and japaed, is it the govt fault? highest, govt won't do such interventions again if there's no headway on it and we'll still turn around to blame the govt.

Now , u still blame the govt on lack of accountability and that govt should strictly control things. Look, govt need the people for accountability too and govt can't control thing the way u put it unless we're in north Korea.

If govt pump out money for any intervention, they're pumping the money to us, if the officials are corrupt the same way we're corrupt, bros, nothing go show.

FunkyAlhaji2015:
To me, AriseTV is the only media agency that truly represents the voice of the oppressed Nigerians. They are the only media outlet that does not pamper corrupt politicians and their sympathisers. They are never afraid to ask the difficult and embarrassing questions to our scrupulous ruling class.

theenchanter:
my brother, the government is one hell of an entity, but we the masses are also hellish in nature, omo, our profiteering tendency is of huge magnitude, we don't care whose ox is gorged and we're all the same but have different or no opportunity. If some of us are to be at the helm of national affair, omo, country go dabaru pass like this.

Why I'm i saying this?

Around February, we went to inspect some shipment of wheat, a special kind of wheat that the FG, through CBN imported from Mexico, to be planted across some northern states, because that's where the wheat will grow. These wheat is said to give 10x production of what we produce. This is not them say them say matter, I used my korokoro eyes see am, na 3 ships bring am for here, I climb to the base of the ships to see the seeds. We spent 5 days going to and from apapa when the shipment landed.

Loro kan, 400 trucks of wheat seeds found their way to be distributed to wheat farmers across the northern states to be planted and Nigeria should be easing itself of wheat issue. Omo, recently, I asked my oga about the wheats, he shook his head and said the farmers sold the seeds to some wealthy men over there and the wealthy men are exporting it to neighboring countries to be sold at profit. Omo, wheat wey FG bought expensively, wealthy men took advantage of the poor farmers and bought most in bulk from them at a cheaper price.

So I asked, sebi government know about this? they can't say they don't know.... Omo, las las, na dem dem dey do d runs.

Baba, naija don cast, I comot my hand for anything naija. So don't blame the govt on most things, they're doing their possible best but we, the citizens consciously or unconsciously constitute majority of the problems we face.

obaaderemi:
The rulers are just stupid. If over the years they've been serious with investment in gas production and export they would have done a lot of partnership in that sector with gas multinationals. That would have solved Nigeria's forex cash flow by some extent.

Grain production is another we need to step up. Nigeria imports way too much wheat and for awhile now Buhari has introduced a 15% tax on wheat imports. That's why a regular loaf of bread goes for#600 now. There's heat resistant wheat that Nigeria can grow with success. And the southern governors should do more about food production. But t our leaders are just stupid, unimaginative and uncreative buffoons. I just hope we get it right in 2023.