₦airaland Forum

Ezeama400:
. Peace is priceless.

Open and reply the relevant messages and ignore the irrelevant ones.
Some people know how to abuse social media by constantly texting without discussing anything meaningful.

Put it off so that if you read and ignore they won’t know and feel offended/get hurt

i have been battling this same issue, worst are those who Bill you immediately they see your WhatsApp status, I've altogether stopped posting any WhatsApp status

Exousiang01:
LoL
You these children.
Education in Nigeria seriously needs an overhaul.
Of we check now you be graduate ohhh.

Have you every heard the words "Purchasing Power"?
Do you know what the Purchasing power of a currency is?

Do you know that Nigeria economy is growing faster than the US, UK, Germany and many economies that you worship?

You better go back to school.
You can start from JS1, some schools still dey write common entrance.
Get educated ohh

it's funny how you people just come online and start saying half baked truths. Yes the Nigerian economy is "Projected" to outpace the US and UK but Higher percentage growth does not mean Nigeria has a larger or wealthier economy overall than the US or UK; it measures the annual speed of expansion from a different baseline.

Percentage growth is calculated based on an economy’s starting size. A smaller economy can achieve a high growth percentage with much smaller dollar amounts than a massive economy.

Nigeria's Baseline Total GDP is roughly $360 billion to $400 billion. A 4% growth rate adds about $15 billion to the economy while the US Baseline Total GDP is massive, at roughly $28 trillion. Even a smaller growth rate of just 2% adds about $560 billion to the economy.

So in reality the US economy grows by more than the entire size of Nigeria's economy in just a year or two, despite having a lower growth percentage.

Economic growth measures the new economic activity created this year. It does not reflect accumulated wealth or infrastructure built over centuries. The UK and US have trillions of dollars in established infrastructure, advanced technology, highly developed industries, and strong institutions meanwhile, Nigeria is a developing economy. It has vast untapped potential, a young population, and emerging markets, which naturally allows it to expand at a faster percentage speed as it builds up its foundational industries.

Nigeria is growing at a faster percentage rate because it is building from a smaller starting point, but the US and UK remain vastly larger and wealthier in terms of total economic size and individual standard of living.

This is simple 3rd year level economics.

Lithiumite:
You are even half as intelligent as the olodo Kenneth okonkwo that was being quoted,you can imagine how pathetic your situation is.

Crude prices went up because subsidy was removed,subsidy removal then cost the people more because the naira in their pocket got devalued by about 17% .....its simple logic!! Simple enough for a 12 year old.

How does Crude prices go up because of subsidy removal? Were we paying subsidy on crude or on the finished article which is PMS?
Go back to your WhatsApp group and ask them to clarify this to you before you come here to embarrass yourself.

Kobojunkie:
For so long, many Nigerian men did pretty much the same; society turned a blind eye to this problem as if it were obviously a moral issue. I mean, this is what happens when values are openly trashed by one section of society for so long. Eventually, everyone gets on board and eats from the same cake. 😐😐

Even if you skip marriage, chances are your girlfriend is being massaged in bed by some married man out there; after all, women have been encouraged for so long to share their men with other women. Now many men will need to share their women as well. 😐😐😐

I never expected you to not steer it towards gender wars, the OP didn't exactly lay the blame on women only but on married people in general but God forbid that stops Kobojunkie from pushing this tired misandry view points on the topic.

Unfaithfulness in marriage was never and has never been a man thing exclusively, right from time immemorial both women and men have been engaging in it, so No! It's not one section of the society that encouraged it, it is shameless people who engage in it while people like you run defence for them using whatever justification you can lay your hands on. And oftentimes, people like you who try to defend such acts are likely to be just as promiscuous.

Eba50:
its like running from eyes come enter nose, same state, different schools. e for leave east, come delta or edo state, school for any of the federal or state institutions, nobody for know him

As in .... Person dey pursue you inside bedroom, you run enter parlour come think say you don finally escape. Na inside the same house you still dey.,🤷🏽‍♂️

googi:
I visited a Nigerian restaurant in Canada and I was charged over 35,000 naira for just a plate of Jollof rice!

Who can I tell at home, certainly not my wife.

if you're looking at the exchange rate you will never buy any Naija food here o. Me sef I love cooking my own meals so I hardly patronise Naija restaurants here in Canada, I prefer my Egusi, Jollof etc right here in my kitchen 🤷🏽‍♂️

BATified2023:
I am in Nigeria n I can say I am better off than u cos I am not a slave, Canada package na 25 million so what's d big deal?

U can only use Canada to oppress d poor n not me


U wey no fit vex come see your papa for house, flight ticket go humble u

I get many friends for there n even my siblings n u dey laugh them steady but for your little mind u think na me u fit oppress

If I wan go I go don go both uk n Canada before COVID

Who's niggah forming rich for 😂😂, dude I come to Nigeria at least 4 times every year, I have been home 2 times already, as a matter of fact I was there last month and only just left first week of August. It's really funny when I see people talking rich like they know who they're raising shoulders with 😂, I'm not your mate financially, I can afford things on whim that you budget money for. I'm no slave my guy, I'm a Canadian citizen because I was born here but I will never consider myself better than a Nigerian living in Nigeria though, I'm only financially more capable relative to an average Nigerian like yourself.

Yea there are some struggling Nigerian migrants here but I'm not struggling , not even when I was in Nigeria , I've sat on the same table with TY Danjuma, Sani Abacha and Babangida, the two Orjis and Sanusi so that should give you a rough idea of how well connected and financially well secured my family as a whole is. But I'm not here to measure measure wealth, only people with low mentality does that, I don't like boasting, I'm very down to earth unless someone draws my foot outside like you just did, but this is only distracting us from the main topic which is about a car that just got totalled. And to that I say and maintain that the car is finished! No mechanic would ever get that car working properly again both in Nigeria and here in Canada , I have seen this happen before, I gave you an example of my boss car that got submerged at Agungi (2019) and mine just last year although not fully submerged still got damaged and needed series of repairs, the flood was only as high as the tip of the tires and still I spent a considerable amount of money to repair it, how much more this car that's totally submerged and would be underwater for at least 4 hours. Ask any mechanic you know if this car is salvageable and hear what they will tell you.

erad:
Israel!

Well you're correct then, I was half expecting you to say "the white man". But then don't forget that Israel has never ever liked Christianity, as far as Jews are concerned Jesus was a blasphemer and preached blasphemous gospels which was Why they had him killed in the first place. So yeah, Israel hating and insulting Christianity is very on brand for them.

BATified2023:
wetin I dey drive na him be your prayer point

😂 My car is a mercedes, I didn't want to mention that at first because

1. I didn't think it was necessary

2. I didn't want to come off as a boaster

You're showing me Lexus key as if that would freak me or what?? 😂 Seriously you people sef, my prayer point is to make it big here in Canada, not tokumbo lexus in Nigeria, take several seats back biko

AirBere:

You confidently wrote this without even knowing the brand of the car.

Nairaland sha, smfh.

there's no brand that the owner won't be spending millions of Naira just for repairs

BATified2023:
that's a big lie

He should just wait for the flood to go down, tow the vehicle to a mechanic place.....leave it there for few days n the mechanic should work on the car engine, rewire should also do his job.

He will spend money but the car isn't write off, if na like that car dey write off nobody go use car again...haba

THIS is how you know people who have never owned a car or driven one before. That car engine are gone, if you like leave it at the mechanic for 10 years the engine has been flooded, hydraulic, oil etc gone. My boss's car didn't get this submerge at Agungi and it was a right off, he had to buy new engine blocks, New hydraulic systems, plugs etc, he basically only retained the body but the car itself was gone. My car was also submerged last year but it was just barely in the engine and I had to spend almost 200k to repair what was damaged, had it been it submerged completely like my boss's own na new car I for dey drive for Naija like this. So please go and sit down one side, you know not what you speak of.

He say you should let the flooding to go down 😂, as per say na bicycle abi na motorcycle

PerfectStranger:
This is a sad one for the car owner. Nothing less than 109k will be spent to fix it after.

You say what?? 109k in dollars or Naira?

Willy2025:
Enugu is in the pocket for the APC. With the way things are going, 2027 is just a mere coronation for Tinubu. No need to campaign again. The only major task we have is how to convince PO to join the progressive team instead of roaming around aimlessly with questionable characters like Mama Pee and Peter Akah. I'm even suspecting that there is something between him and that Mama Pee, that lacks serious parental upbringing.

Lol... El Rufai was the coordinator for Kaduna and he still lost the state, the Igbo most especially don't do subservient voting like the SW , anything Mba is na for him pocket, 042 go vote who them wan vote for.

Even if Otti decamps to APC and is made Abia campaign coordinator, Abia go still vote against Tinubu regardless. That's how we roll , subservience is alien to an Igbo man.

Benwallt:
Huh! We already know the outcome. Na tribalism vote. Expect Agulu fraudster to get 100% and still come third like last election. SE vote determines nothing.

Tinubu has been extremely tribalistic with his appointments and Federal projects yet none of you have criticised for him on that and yet you expect the SE not respond in kind?

Btw, SE massively voting for Obi is not because he's Ìgbo, he's just outrightly the best available option compared to Atiku and Tinubu. You can pit Tinubu or Atiku against someone like Ikpeazụ, Hope Uzodinma or even Orji Kalu and the SE would go for Atiku every single time. Igbos are business oriented and know how to spot bad market and a profitable one, Tinubu is just bad market hence why the SE will shun him as they shunned the other bad market before this one.

echoxyz:
Tinubu will get 25 percent in at least one south east state. A feat he cld not achieve in 2023 election.

He couldn't get it when he had the benefit of doubt and you expect him to get now that everyone knows he's total failure? Dey play

Kobojunkie:
The US needs to be next on that list. And that should include everyone who would cover their faces at protests or matches in public spaces. 🥱🥱

For this US wey person dey so? That's not going to happen, at least not anytime soon. Americans have been so polarised and propagandized that they can't even spot danger when it's starring at them in the face.

erad:
Lol... Eleha dey deny masquerade. Plus the poster, and the Rev fathers, and the catholic church itself, what's the difference between them?

You practice a religion that the people that own it deny and even insult at every opportunity. Yet you fight amongst yourself trying to see who's more gullible to the religion. Weird.

I'm sure they'll push the rubbish topic to frontpage on Sunday. Nairaland is gone.

Who are these people that owns it?

Zonefree:
Catholic Church is cultural not Biblical.

As in... It is not Christianity! What you're seeing here are the very same reasons why Protestantism sprang up and removed themselves from the Roman Catholic. The way of worship and idolatry was why some denominations like Methodist, Anglecan, and Apostoliy churches sprang up

Dalohad:
Because you simply want to loot the money.

Stop deceiving yourself.

Nigerians, when the World bank, China and other creditors come for their money. We must sell all off Tinubu's assets home and abroad to pay them off..

Me and my family no go pay shishi.

You think that would be enough to pay half of the debts?

Dogalmighty17:
This guy is popular enough that he might defeat Zelensky. He is behind Ukraine's drone architecture and the brainchild of Ukraine using drones to turn the tide of the war and take it to Russia's doorsteps.

Turn which tide?? Ukraine have not turned any tide in this war, they're losing ground gradually albeit at a slow pace but losing ground all the same. Hitting Russia factories here and there doesn't affect the war very much.

If you're basing your knowledge on the war solely on sensationalized western media you would think Ukraine are a few months from storming Moscow, but the reality on ground paints a bleak picture for Ukraine.

motymop:
Stop saying nonsense

How do you think they always give drips during war situations

Even in dirty trenches, military doctors still give drips and do surgeries

And it leads to lots of infections and conterminations . A lot of injured soldiers have died due to the unsanitary nature of the first aid they received in the battlefield, the lucky ones got their limbs amputated to save them.

But that's during war times, in a specific circumstance with no alternative in sight, to use that to justify this unsanitary medication says a lot about the anyhowness of most Nigerians and how far removed we are from common sense in this country.

Elzazzi:
Hungerbad never supported Buhari government

You say wetin? 😂😂😂

IndexMode:
Exactly what I said earlier. Civilians are never a legitimate target UNLESS THEY PARTICIPATE IN SOME FORM IN the war. This section discusses this in relation to civilian infrastructure. Civilian objects even when empty (to avoid collateral damage) must not be destroyed UNLESS IT GETS CONVERTED TO MILITARY USE.

THIS was what you said
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I said that the presence of combatants in a civilian infrastructure makes that infrastructure a valid target and that's well covered in the Geneva convention
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That is a lie. The mere presense of military men around civilians can never make those civilians the target indiscriminately. That infrastructure itself must be in active use for the war efforts.

Now, what isreal themselves claimed as defense was that the kindergarten and hospital they bombed was being used to store weapons. However in the full view of all media cameras, the debris was cleared and no remnants of weapon was found atall. So they lied and took the rest of the world for foools.
Another target was a UN camp. They thought so lowly of everyone's intelligence that they claimed UN that sent humanitarian workers to help those displaced people is actively supporting hanas and hiding weapons for them. They just hate them for helping Palestinians and killed them.
Even as crazy as liberia was. UN enclosures were always neutral zone.
Not to mention residential buildings intentionally bombed while families were sleeping.


If isreal is not called out , anybody anywhere may do the same to another sect of people. God forbid, it may even come close to home.
They are terrorists and war criminals.

I can clearly mow see that comprehension is a problem for you. I never said civilians are valid targets, even my quote that you quoted clearly said civilian INFRASTRUCTURE are valid targets if they're being used by combatants for war purposes and that's clearly stated by the article that I linked for you to read. Abi you don't know what infrastructure means?

Those hospitals and schools were being used by Hamas, it's not even something to debate about, there are videos evidences littered on the internet of hamas firing RPG from the hospital, one of the released captive revealed that he was being kept under a school, there are tunnels under those buildings and the video of them are easy to find IF you care about the truth and not just propaganda BS.

You mean the UN schools where kids are taught to hate Jews and encouraged to become martyrs? Have you even taken your time to examine the activities of "UNRWA" in Gaza? My dear during the October 7 attack there were several UN trucks seen at the scenes either carrying away captives or dead bodies of iarealis to be used as ransom. There were several UN workers who participated in the attack, the evidence was so damning that UN had to save face by firing several of its workers in Gaza for involvement.

I don't think you have a solid grasp of this subject, you should read more about this.

Yes Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza, that's not a debate, it's a fact, both them and Hamas have committed lots of war crimes.

AdolfHitlerxXx:
Keep dreaming. Blacks are cowards... That's a fact.

I always smile when middle class people scream ' Revolution '.

If there's chaos and anarchy, the really rich folks will be protected. The poor will lay their lives to defend them.

It's the soft targets like middle class they will target. See EndSARS and the protest against Tinubu.

Rufaidah Yogurt and Barakat Stores in Kano were stormed and looted. Wellcare Supermarket owned by Lebanese was guarded with guns, not even a pin was touched.

Pray for your success and that of the country. Nigerians aren't principled at all. Mass detection of Governors and other politicians to APC is a clear indicator.

it depends on the region,

Elzazzi:
We still remember the infamous BMC crew littered all over nairaland those years. They left with Buhari. Lol

lol.... No they didn't, they're the same ones doing the same kind of work for this present failure of a government, all they did was to abandon the other accounts and open a new one.

The only that I know that's no longer here is Hungerbad, that one died some years ago.

bestman09:
It's not a secret. Some of them have WhatsApp group where they discuss and agree on the modus operandi of dishing out their lies. You will see them in overdrive anytime it's month end to justify their stipends

I remember during the end bad government protest when their benefactors threatened to stop paying them their stipends because they discovered that a lot of them were doing ghost work, so all of them on this platform started including their pictures after making a pro government comment It was very funny to see it happen 😂😂😂.

chatinent:
Just like saying avoid drinking bottle water when you should be mentioning the actual brand.

Andriod is just an operating system. Which brand of phone dey give you wahala?

I have been shouting this from the rooftops for years now. This people think that Android is a phone brand itself. I don tire to dey explain give them

Caaz:
Engr solo makinde....I m a southerner and an ardent fan of the Igbos...I just told you what I ve seen and observed.


You kind sir...please have a pleasant evening
Bye bye

You're just regurgitating the same nonsense and false narrative that's been pushed towards the Igbo people for years.

Would the Igbos have banded together and fought the civil war the way they did if they didn't love themselves and in unison?

Would they have bounced back from that £20 set back within a generation if they didn't like and supported themselves?

Will the entire South east revere Ojukwu the way they do if they don't love one another?

Would the enter South east embark on Endless sit at home for the sake of Kanu if they don't support and stand with one another?

Would Obi have cleared the entire South east votes in the 2023 presidential election if they love pulling eachother down?

You people should stop with this false narrative already, you're only trying to project your insecurities and envy towards the Igbo by regurgitating things crap.

The Igbo apprenticeship system ( Nwa boi) is a testament to the togetherness within the Igbo, it was through this system that the Igbo were able to rapidly recover economically after the war, the infrastructures( air ports , markets, schools etc) and educational systems were rebuilt using donations by individuals, not the federal government. It is only in an Igbo community that you will see people come together, contribute money and pave their roads, it shows the togetherness spirit within the Igbo.

Nbkay23:
nawa oh, una don turn president name to bulablaa

President sef no know him real name

Chijeep:
Collect your cash and vote for Adeleke sharp

Did you not see them collecting their data as they're being given the cash?