₦airaland Forum

Fair enough,you are right.

nairalanda1:
Because Nigerians are not voting for party or ideology, they are voting for access to the national cake.

Ask most people, they won't be able to tell you the ideology that buhari or tinubu or obi stood for..or even atiku. All they know is that if their side wins they get some goodies

That's why some secessionists eventually back a side. Even their call for biafra or oodua is actually a call for more.cake.

It's only dull people like me that care about ideology. We are in the minority.

I have told you how all our leaders got elected since 1999

Dude please can you explain or defend why/how a thinking human with functioning brain support n vote for a party that decimated n destroyed lives for 8 years,how do you come to a logical conclusion to vote that same party,whats the rational behind that decision,in sane clines the people punished(vote them out) the failed party but here we endorsed their cruelty/sadistic rule. In Argentina the failed party was voted out even when the current president was almost acting like a mad man.
How can a catastrophic party for 8 years still hold on to the 3 teirs of government after what preceeds. Nigerians are some set of sub humans n i dont mean that in any nice way. Tragic

nairalanda1:
IN 2019 AND 2023, all the people supporting Biafra here, suddenly had candidates in the upcoming election. SE Had high voter turnout despite the boycott calls.

Ya think that is the mark of a serious people?

All this secesisonist, resource control, sharia, people....at the end, na national cake dem want.

dikings:
I am not cursing Nigeria. But i wish things get worsen. Let the Shege Get to the peak at once. I want to check something

You don't need to wish it,it will naturally worsen if the people refuse to acknowledge n fix a problem but allow it,its a law of nature. Nigeria is what Hell is,the people themselves keep fanning the flame in their ignorance n dumbness.sad

The most tragic part of this video is the person capturing the video arguing with the other person about an ibo person being on the queue,its almost impossible there isn't an ibo person there.

Some say there's light @ the end of the tunnel,there's no light anywhere because Nigerians are not in a tunnel but in a box and it's sealed. It's sad how Nigerians find themselves in this state. It's sad .

Lindalilian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVStSRqCxfE?si=js0eBlcC7RjM_PT2

With the price of goods and services in the rise, it is evident to note that Nigerians have resulted to alms begging as the only solution to hunger.

The moment Nigerians are being flogged in Lagos Island over 100 naira bread and yam has got people talking on social media, as captured in the video, the man who had the video on record claimed that only yorubas and Hausas are being flogged to be in queue for the bread and yam.

The lines were divided into two, one line for the yorubas, another for the Hausas, the recorder claimed that no igbos were amongst the crowd scampering for bread and yam.



https://saharareporters.com/2024/02/15/viral-videos-show-nigerians-being-flogged-get-free-yam-bread-lagos-amid-hardship-hunger

As the rising cost of living continues to bite, many in northern Nigeria are turning to rice grains that millers normally reject after processing or sell to farmers to feed their fish.

These are referred to in the Hausa language, widely spoken in the north, as afafata, which means "battling" because they are literally a battle to cook and eat as the grains are so hard.

"A few years ago, people didn't care about this type of rice, and we usually threw it away along with the rice hulls, but times have changed," Isah Hamisu, a rice mill worker in the northern city of Kano, told the BBC.

Despite the grains being broken, dirty and tough, afafata's cheaper price has made it more attractive for humans and helped poorer families to be able to afford to eat one of the staple foods in the country.

Fish farm owner Fatima Abdullahi said her fish love it but because people are now eating afafata, its price has risen.

Prices in Nigeria are increasing at their fastest rate for nearly 30 years. On top of global pressures, President Bola Tinubu's cancellation of the fuel subsidy plus the devaluation of the currency, the naira, have added to inflation.

A standard 50kg (110lb) bag of rice, which could help feed a household of between eight and 10 for about a month, now costs 77,000 naira ($53; £41). This is an increase of more than 70% since the middle of last year and exceeds the monthly income of a majority of Nigerians.

In the face of this many are struggling to cope and in some states there have been cost-of-living protests.

Earlier this month in Niger state, central Nigeria, protesters blocked roads and held placards saying that they were being suffocated by the rising prices.

A few days later there was a similar demonstration in Kano in the north-west. In the aftermath, Governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf admitted there was starvation in his state and said a solution must be found.

The solution, for now, for some is found in afafata.

Hajiya Rabi Isah, based in Kano state, told the BBC that if it were not for this type of rice her children would go hungry as she cannot afford the normal kind.

"Normal rice is 4,000 naira ($2.70) per bowl which is beyond my means, I can only afford afafata which is 2,500 naira ($1.69) now," she said. One bowl of rice from the market can feed an average family in Kano for a day.

"Without afafata, feeding my family would be a major issue for me."

Market sellers have also noticed a difference.

Saminu Uba, who works in Kano's Medile market, said the afafata side of his business is booming.

"Most people can no longer afford normal rice and they come for this which is cheaper even though it tastes less good," he told the BBC.

One of his customers, Hashimu Dahiru, admits people are having to find ways of adapting.

"The cost of goods is alarming - in just two months the price of everything has doubled,'' he said.

"Our wives spend hours removing stones and dirt from the rice before cooking and even then it ends up tasting not nice, but we have to eat to survive."

The presidency has said it is doing all it can about the situation, including the distribution of more than 100 tonnes of grains such as rice, millet and maize in the hope that it would cushion the effects of inflation and help lower the market price.

But the president's aide Bayo Onanuga upset many recently when he said that Nigeria still had one of the lowest costs of living in Africa.

The increasing price of rice is not a new problem though.

President Tinubu's predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, banned the importation of rice to encourage more Nigerian farmers to grow the crop, but local producers have been unable to meet the demand.

Before then Nigerian markets were filled with rice from Thailand at an affordable price for many.

Mr Tinubu has lifted import restrictions, but now the shortage of foreign currency and the falling value of the naira has made bringing in rice trickier.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68272830

saintrow1:
Native doctor, you go explain tire, how tribalism is a disease looooooooool, mugu.

Sorry gan

saintrow1:
Tribalism na crime?

Tribalism is not a crime is something worse its a disease.

When you place tribal sentiment ahead of competence and integrity in the face of obvious fact/data.

Do you only want,wish and pray that the pilot of your plane,the surgeon to your mom in the ER,driver of your ride must b from your tribe?when you are in these situations do you bother to ask if the person in charge is from your tribe?if you are a sport lover do you bother if the players are from your tribe?why would you want the best players?when school go for competition do they select the best students from a tribe or the best pupil?

Tribalism is a disease and its terminal in Nigeria. Why would you want the top job in the land to go to your tribe?why?why don't your want the best among us as the primary criteria that you will use,why use tribe first?

How do you describe the first fruit offering?

The first fruit is the first of the offerings that you get in the course of the harvest year or when you begin a new venture. Exodus chapter 23 verse 16 says, ‘The feast of harvest, the first fruit of your labour, which you have sown in the field’. Traditionally, in biblical times, when you get into a new field, you plant corn, yam, barley, or wheat. At the end of the planting season, when the food has grown, there will be a first set of harvest that comes out from the ground. It may be three, four, or a whole sheaf. The very first set of harvest you get, you gather them together and you go and give them as an offering unto the Lord, as an acknowledgment that He made the ground to yield for you.

It is an offering of thanks and appreciation. What the Bible says is that if you do that and you put God first, the rest of your harvest will not fail and everything else that needs to come out of the ground for you during the harvest season will come out. In those days, you could plant and then after a while, new dew of locust, blight, or wrong climate may kill the rest of the harvest and not allow it to grow. But once you give God the first of the harvest, then He’s duty-bound to protect the rest of the harvest, which is now yours. That explains the first fruit.

How do you relate your explanation of the first fruit to the modern day?

In the modern day, the recommendation is that the first salary that you earn or the first income you generate from business as a businessman is your first fruit. You should come and present it to the Lord so that your income for that year will be guaranteed. The other side of the first fruit is that if you’ve been harvesting 10 tubers of yam regularly then all of a sudden something happens and it is 12 tubers and you’d be getting those 12 tubers regularly, the first two incremental tubers are also your first fruit. That’s the first fruit of your increase. So in the modern day, if you get a salary increase from N100,000 to N150,000, the additional N50,000 you get the first time you earn that N150,000, becomes the first fruit of your increase. This is to ensure that the increase doesn’t fail and that it continues. It is biblical and spiritual. That explains the first fruit.

How do you describe tithe?

Tithe is 10 per cent of your regular harvest. According to the Bible, it was first done when Abraham gave 10 per cent of his spoils to the high priest called Melchizedek[b]. It is also an acknowledgment that the harvest comes from God[/b]. Therefore, you’ll give Him a compulsory offering of 10 per cent of your harvest. So on your regular income, after you have paid your first fruit, you pay a tithe on your subsequent income. The tithe will guarantee that the locust and the cankerworm will not come and devour your harvest. That is, you will not get your salary and waste it on unnecessary expenses.

Tithe also protects your salary or your income. You can make a lot of money and have nothing to show for it because you have wasted the money on frivolous expenses that you were not meant to spend on. So while the first fruit will guarantee that you will make the money, the tithe protects the way you spend the money and what you use the money fo[/b]r. Then you have your free will offering, which is up to you. There’s no compulsion as to the size or quantum. That one also goes with the law of harvest. He who sows sparingly will reap sparingly. Freewill offering is what you decide to give God in addition to the compulsory offerings that you are obligated or advised to give

[b]You mentioned the blessings attached to the first fruit. Is there any curse for those who do not pay it?

Those who do not pay first fruit run the risk of losing the rest of their harvest or not being able to get the right quantum of harvest that they should have got had they paid the first fruit. Therefore, you find them struggling. If your land is supposed to have given you a thousand tubers of yam, if you get your first harvest and you don’t pay that first harvest to God, instead of getting 1,000 tubers, you may just get 200. It means that you don’t have enough to do what you want to do. And if you now get the 200 and you don’t pay your tithe, instead of getting that 200, they may be spoiled. Rain may fall or disaster may happen and you lose that money even after you’ve earned it.

So one thing is earning the money, and the second thing is keeping the money. So that’s the risk you run, especially when you say you’re born again, you’ve given your life to Jesus Christ, and you want to serve God. You have a covenant with God to obey Him. If you’re serving another master like the devil or whatever, he will also bless you and you don’t have to meet all those obligations. Although sometimes even those blessings too, there are obligations that they may not tell you. It may not be recorded like the first fruit. What it means is that it’ll also add sorrow. It is the blessings of God that maketh rich and added no sorrow to it. So a lot of blessings that people who are not of God get also come with a bit of sorrow and at the end of the day, they may lose their child, their child falls sick or it gives them problems here and there.

What would you say about churchgoers who do not pay their first fruits but things are going well for them?

Things appear to be going well with them for that time and that season. We do not know how the whole thing will end. For example, a man has stolen yam and he has not been caught does not mean that the yam has not been stolen by him. One day, he’ll be caught and be made to account for all the yams that he has stolen. So when a lot of people make money, they’re wealthy and things are going well for them, but we don’t know what will happen in the end. At the end of it, when the iniquity is full, God will bring his judgment. Even if they seem to do very well here on Earth, for that disobedience, they may not make it to heaven. We’re not there so we cannot tell. Along the line, they may lose all their riches. I’ve seen it happen many times. People are rich today and towards the end, they lose everything. Some may die very tragic deaths or they die suddenly. Some may make all that money and spend it on sickness. Because it appears okay today doesn’t mean it’ll be okay tomorrow. It’s better to obey the injunctions of what you believe in.

Some pay their first fruits and still encounter issues in their businesses. Does it mean that the first fruit blessings did not work for them?

First fruit is only one of the many obligations that you need to do to ensure that your harvest and well-being are protected. If you pay the first fruit and then you start committing adultery, it nullifies that first frui[/b]t. If you pay the first fruit and you kill somebody or tell lies, [b]the effect of that sin will be connected to your finances. So, total holiness is absolutely important. Then others may be under one kind of curse, yoke, or family obligation. If you don’t deal with that curse, yoke, or abomination, it will negate the effects of the first fruit. Many dynamics can affect the well-being of a person, other than just paying their first fruit. Sometimes, they’ve not done anything wrong and God may just be testing them. Just like Job, everything was done right and correctly, yet the enemy got permission and God granted the permission to attack the man. It happens like that sometimes. Sometimes, God allows such trials and tribulations. But when you suffer a little while, God will settle you. You can never tell what God is doing.

Does first fruit also cover one’s new job, regardless of what time of the year the person started the job?

When you start something new, your first income on that new thing that you have started is your first fruit. In this day and age, it depends on the structure of the income. Some people earn income only once a year. They may now decide to divide it by the 12 months and offer the 12th of it. There’s no really hard and fast rule about that. For example, for a landlord who receives yearly rent from his tenants at the beginning of the year, it may be foolhardy that the whole rent, which is his entire income for that year, be paid as first fruit. But if he has the faith to do it, believing God that one way or the other, he’ll raise income from another source, then he can go ahead. But if he doesn’t have much faith and he’s being prudent, he can divide that income into 12 and pay a 12th of it as his first fruit.

Does the first fruit include one’s first child?

Your first fruit includes your first child, especially males. He’s holy unto the Lord. You give that child back unto God like Hannah gave Samuel to God. What you also can do is to give a special offering instead of the child. You can also dedicate the child to God. That’s why we do what we call baby dedication. What is scriptural is dedicating not just your first fruit but all your children into God’s hands and giving them back to God to serve Him. Serving God doesn’t just mean that they’d be priests or pastors. [/b]They can serve God in any capacity, even as a banker, accountant, doctor, politician, or lawyer. What matters is that whatever they’re doing in that capacity, they’re doing it as unto the Lord and they’re using it to preach the gospel and to benefit mankind.

[b]Do you preach about the first fruit to your members? How are they responding to it?

I believe in it and I practice it. Most of them do, maybe we have about a 60 or 70 per cent response. Of course, some people want to, but they don’t have the faith. Others have not prepared for it; they procrastinate or still don’t believe in it. It’s up to them. My job is to teach. You can’t compel the person to pay first fruit or tithe. It’s according to their faith. Some will always forget, some will feel a bit lazy, and some will always love their money much more than their God. That’s human nature. But then, every seed brings a harvest

Does the first fruit belong to the pastor or the church?

The tithes and the first fruit belong to the priests; that is God’s way of compensating them for their commitment and dedication to the work of God. So when you pay your tithe, your tithe goes to sort out the welfare of the priests; both the high priest, the priest, and the sons of Levi, the musicians, and all that. They share it among themselves and they pay their tithe or first fruits to the high priest. These days, the money goes to the church primarily, which was what it was then, and then the church will divide it among its people as it deems fit. Some may go to the priests, Levites, welfare cases, the poor, or church building and enforcement. That is how it generally is. What you do is that you’re giving it to God and God is giving it to his people.

A viral video of a pastor who said the first fruit belonged to him and not the church recently led to criticisms online. What are your thoughts on that?

I have already said it. In the Bible, when you give the first fruit, the first fruit goes to the priests and the Levites to share among themselves. Some people may say that they are the high priests so the first fruits should go to them. That’s up to them. But I would rather say it’s something that’s shared among the people who serve God on a full-time basis. That’s the essence of the first fruit. But these days, the church hierarchy can decide how best to use that money for the service of God. The church is then obligated to take care of the needs of the people who serve the people of God on a full-time or part-time basis.

Are you saying members have to cater to their pastors?

Absolutely, especially if he’s doing it full-time, he has obligations too. He has to feed himself, feed his family, clothe himself, send his children to school, live somewhere, or drive a car. That thing must come from somewhere. In those days, the Levites and the sons of Aaron did no work other than serve in the temple. They have no farmlands. All they had were residential quarters where they lived. They needed to be catered for so that they could spend their time catering to the people of God. That was what led to the creation of the first fruit and the tithe.

https://punchng.com/first-salary-meant-for-church-leaders-pastor-ighodalo/

ogododo:
https://dailytrust.com/81-of-working-nigerians-dont-add-value-to-the-economy-presidential-team/
Speaking Thursday at the Africa Trade and Investment Summit, he said Nigeria has the same unemployment rate as the United Kingdom.

How do you fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge

Dangote, PH refineries, others won’t change fuel price – NNPCL

The local production of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol, by Dangote Refinery, Port Harcourt Refining Company and others in Nigeria is not going to change the pump price of the commodity, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has said.

https://punchng.com/dangote-ph-refineries-others-wont-change-fuel-price-nnpcl/

Islie:
https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-petrol-prices-to-fall-over-refineries-take-off-says-cardoso/

Went out to purchase Zolat deworming syrup, this use to be N200 - N300 a few months ago, however it is N1000 now
People please treat your health like a previous treasure because it is your wealth in this hell hole.

As the international court considers claims of genocide, the question of intent seems moot. Just read the words of Netanyahu and his allies.

It always starts with words. Genocide is largely remembered for its depraved acts, but it is incubated in language. Words can cast dark spells on a population, stirring hatred in those who otherwise see themselves as moderate, humane, normal.

This is why the genocide convention of 1948 criminalises “direct and public incitement to commit genocide”. Like Britain, Israel was a signatory nation and, two years later, it translated the convention into domestic law. There were four acts, it decreed, that leave the offender “treated like a person guilty of genocide”: one is “incitement to commit genocide”.

As the British lawyer Daniel Machover tells me, Israel has a legal obligation to prosecute those who incite genocide. But instead, since the grave war crimes committed against Israeli civilians by Hamas and other armed groups on 7 October, government ministers, parliamentarians, army officers and journalists have indulged in the language of extermination. This chilling phenomenon has few historical precedents, because usually instigators of genocide go to great lengths to cover up their crimes. As Raz Segal – an Israeli-American associate professor of genocide and Holocaust studies – tells me, Israel’s onslaught on Gaza is unique “in the sense of discussing it as what I think it is – that is, genocide – because the intent is so clearly articulated. And it’s articulated throughout Israeli media and society and politics.”

In South Africa’s document setting out its genocide case against Israel over the Gaza war, there are nine pages dedicated to genocidal incitement. It notes that Benjamin Netanyahu twice “invoked the Biblical story of the total destruction of Amalek”, declaring: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.” A later passage in the Bible leaves no doubt for interpretation: “Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.” This was no throwaway comment. Consider the unprecedented slaughter of Palestinian children – or “infants and sucklings” – and note that six days after invoking Amalek in a national address, Netanyahu referred to it again in a letter to army soldiers and officers

Then there’s Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, who declared: “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible. It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true.” No demarcation between militants and civilians exists here. Yoav Gallant, the minister of defence, was a repeat offender. On 9 October, in an unashamed commitment to collective punishment, he declared Israel was imposing a “complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed,” he said. “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

On witnessing Israeli soldiers gleefully destroying civilian infrastructure on TikTok, some have speculated there has been a breakdown in army discipline. More likely is that soldiers listened when Gallant informed troops he had “released all the restraints” and “lifted all restrictions” on Israeli forces.

Another senior official, Israel Katz, now minister of foreign affairs, declared last year when he was energy minister: “All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Meanwhile the heritage minister, Amihai Eliyahu, opposed humanitarian aid on the grounds that we “wouldn’t hand the Nazis humanitarian aid”. He also suggested nuking Gaza, declaring “there is no such thing as uninvolved civilians”. That saw him suspended by Netanyahu.

Some army officers are willing participants. In a video addressed to Gaza’s residents, one major general, Ghassan Alian, castigated “citizens of Gaza” for celebrating Hamas’s extremism, promising: “Human animals are dealt with accordingly. Israel has imposed a total blockade on Gaza, no electricity, no water, just damage. You wanted hell, you will get hell.” [/b]Another retired major general and adviser to the defence minister, Giora Eiland, demanded other countries be prevented from offering assistance, demanding that Gaza’s people be left with “two choices: to stay and to starve, or to leave”. [b]He advocated Gaza being made “a place that is temporarily or permanently impossible to live in”, declared women were not innocent because “they are all the mothers, sisters or wives of Hamas murderers”, and advocated “humanitarian disaster” and “severe epidemics” to achieve war aims: the finance minister Bezalel Smotrich tweeted he agreed “with every word”.

South Africa’s document is incomplete: there have been countless new examples since it was published. After the Israeli attorney general reportedly issued a warning to colleagues to “watch their words”, clearly concerned that Israel was being incriminated on the eve of the international court of justice investigation, the Knesset deputy speaker, Nissim Vaturi, doubled down on a previous assertion that “Gaza must be burned”.

Netanyahu is said to have warned his ministers to “be sensitive”, yet each day brings more examples of genocidal intent and incitement. This should define media coverage, and yet still the fantasy that this is a war against Hamas – with a side debate about proportionality – is indulged. Without western support, Israel’s mass slaughter would immediately end. This is why we must address complicity: lives depend on it.

That is not simply to critique those who still cheer on this abomination, who if we lived in a society that valued human life, would, by now, be considered morally depraved beyond redemption. As Jean-Paul Sartre once declared: “Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.” Here is one of the great crimes of our age, unfolding before our eyes, described to me by the Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti as “the world’s first livestreamed genocide”. Rarely has a crime so grave been so honestly spelled out to the world by its architects. Yet many of those who rightly and passionately condemned the atrocities of Hamas have little or nothing to say about Israel’s actions, despite the direct involvement of our own rulers. This is obscene – and occasional handwringing will not scrub away the shame. Tacit acquiescence allows the horror to continue. Words can be dangerous, but so too can their absence.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/13/israel-hamas-gaza-war-crimes

Guys please donot let people confused what a natural farming practice is with GMO.

A hybrid plant is the result of cross-pollinating two different plant varieties and then collecting and growing the seeds that the plants produce. A hybrid plant is the offspring of a cross between two different species or varieties. Hybrids have greater genetic variability than their parents. Hybrid plants tend to be more vigorous than their parents, and often have faster growth, increased yield, and greater size

Genetically modified organism (GMO), organism whose genome has been engineered in the laboratory in order to favour the expression of desired physiological traits or the generation of biological products. In genetic modification, however, recombinant genetic technologies are employed to produce organisms whose genomes have been precisely altered at the molecular level, usually by the inclusion of genes from unrelated species of organisms that code for traits that would not be obtained easily through conventional selective breeding.

DaddyJapan:
Source: https://independent.ng/nigeria-approves-commercial-release-of-gm-maize-varieties

Dude OK let's assume that Tinubu was the best among the 3 candidates(ceo). But reality here is staring you in the face that's your firm its crashing,all the indexes n data are pointing to a collapse will you still stick to the "best candidate". In football we see where managers are sack under a month,the manager was their best candidate.
When you analyse situations u strip of emotions n sentiment u deal with the data because data don't lie humans can only manipulate them

Odogwuzack:
Tinubu is a far better presidential candidate compared to Obi, if you like kill yourself because of my unbiased opinion.

Despite being an avid wildlife photographer, retired postman Rodney Holbrook never expected to capture a Ratatouille-style scene unfolding in his own shed.

After regularly discovering that things from the night before had been mysteriously tidied, he set up a night vision camera on his workbench.

It captured a mouse picking up clothes pegs, corks, nuts and bolts.

He has since nicknamed the well-kept rodent Welsh Tidy Mouse.

The 75-year-old from Builth Wells, Powys, said the tidying ritual had been going on for two months.

"At first I noticed that some food that I was putting out for the birds was ending up in some old shoes I was storing in the shed," he said.

"Ninety nine times out of 100 the mouse will tidy up throughout the night.

"It is incredible really that they put them all back in the box, I think it's possible that they enjoy it."

Mr Holbrook believes the mouse is using the objects to hide away nuts, and so far the arrangement has been working in his favour.

"I don't bother to tidy up now, I leave things out of the box and they put it back in its place by the morning," he said.

"I think he would tidy my wife away if I left her in there."

No object seems to trouble the mouse either, as it has even been caught carrying cable ties to the pot.

"It's been a bit of an experiment really, I've added different things to the desk to see if they can lift it," said Mr Holbrook.

It is not the first time he has come across an organised rodent.

When living in Bristol in 2019, his friend reached out for help fixing up a night camera when another mouse was keeping their shed in order.

"That one video went viral and reached people around the world," he said,

"So I can't believe here in Builth Wells we have had the same thing happen years later."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67902966

This is a very good read with alot of truth

Marchman:
Why Nigerians Pray

Asking or praying to be an exception in a failing country is somewhat selfish and unrealistic

By Julius Ogunro



https://www.thecable.ng/why-nigerians-pray

Fyi

Ikaeniyan0:
Nigeria economy is far better than that of Argentina. So Tinubu and Shettima should keep on flying in private jets.

Mayor Eric Adams (D) says the arrival of more than 160,000 border crossers and undocumented immigrants is adding to a “deterioration in the quality of life” for New Yorkers.

Speaking at a press conference with Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, Illinois, and Mike Johnston of Denver, Colorado, Adams reiterated his warning that illegal immigration is causing chaos in New York City.

President Joe Biden's administration is releasing about 5,000 border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior each day, many of whom end up in New York City, where they work and are subject to the city's sanctuary policy. , and can enjoy free paid housing. It comes from local taxpayers.

Adams said the city is currently at a “breaking point” for illegal immigration.

“We are seeing a decline in the quality of life that has improved in the short term of this administration,” Adams said. Said:

We are affected… Although for many months we have been able to prevent the visualization of this crisis from appearing in our cities, We have reached a breaking point. We can't do that anymore because the numbers are huge.

3,900 people arrived here last week alone. On average, we get anywhere from 2,500 to nearly 4,000 a week. Do the math and you'll see that could be 8,000 every two weeks, or 16,000 a month. That we must feed, clothe, house, and educate our children. And all the services that a normal adult would provide. And we're seeing that play out on the streets of New York, and that's kind of the breaking point, and that's what we're experiencing right now.

Adams issued This week, an executive order was issued requiring bus companies to provide information about border crossers and illegal aliens they transport to New York City 32 hours before arrival.

The order also placed limits on when bus companies could transport border crossers and illegal aliens to New York City. Companies that do not comply with this order risk having their buses seized.
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https://totalnews.com/illegal-immigration-spurring-erosion-of-quality-of-life-in-nyc/

coleon:
Are you not aware that majority of Nigerians are foolish? They believe any lies being churned out to them by politicians or their pastors. This forex lie is the same lie they sold on subsidy removal, that it only benefits the rich whereas the major beneficiaries of subsidy is the common man on the streeta who enjoys cheap fuel and reduced transportation costs which also keep prices of goods and services low. But how the government used propaganda to make some idiots believe subsidy only benefits the rich is what I don't understand, today that the subsidy has been removed ask yourself if you have fared better and how it has impacted you positively.
It's the same narrative for the dollar, with pegging of the exchange rate in an import dependent economy. The prices of goods being imported whether directly or indirectly are kept within our reach and populace can afford it thereby making our purchasing power good.
But today there is hyperinflation in the land on every goods and services food, egg,chicken just name it are all dependent on FX but some foolish ones are still saying they are ok because the government has spinned their usual propaganda that it only benefits the rich.
Honestly, Nigeria is full of low minded people. What they don't know is that the reverse is the case for the rich and the useless politicians they support, the more the naira depreciates the better the purchasing power of the rich who has stockpiled the dollar already. I also earn in FX and more dollar loses her value the better for me too but I just pity the poor ones who have been reduced to nothing.

God bless you.

The number of dumb people in Nigeria is outrageous,its sickening

“We were destined for the tough and rough patch, where we are today because of the prevailing conditions before Tinubu took over on May 29,” said Mr Onanuga.

Nigerians were destined for hardship long before President Bola Tinubu assumed power on May 29, 2023, says the presidency, noting that Mr Tinubu is already taking measures to address the challenges brought about by the bold reforms introduced by his government in all sectors of the economy.

“The truth is that the new policies alone are not solely responsible for the economic problems we are facing today,” said the president’s special adviser on information and strategy. “We were destined for the tough and rough patch, where we are today because of the prevailing conditions before Tinubu took over on May 29.”

https://gazettengr.com/nigerians-destined-for-hardships-tinubu-policies-not-sole-cause-of-economic-problems-presidency/#:~:text=Nigerians%20were%20destined%20for%20hardship%20long%20before%20President,his%20government%20in%20all%20sectors%20of%20the%20economy.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/donald-trump-illegal-migrants-poisoning-our-country-3q2lq0gg8


https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/donald-trump-tells-rally-illegal-immigrants-are-poisoning-the-blood-of-our-country/ar-AA1lEsiE

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5098439/donald-trump-illegal-immigrants-poisoning-blood-country#

https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/12/17/trump-doubles-down-on-anti-immigrant-blood-slur-despite-widespread-criticism-hes-quoting-hilter/?sh=38ccd84578b7

"Former President Donald Trump declared illegal immigration is “poisoning the blood” of the country in a post on Truth Social Saturday"

"DURHAM, New Hampshire, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, said on Saturday that undocumented immigrants were "poisoning the blood of our country,"

Please read the punchng.com article and confirm where it's states illegal or undocumented immigrants.

Thanks

alezzy13:
Shame on you.
I can't see where he mentioned illegal. Bottom line is he and his KKK crew don't want any none European-like descendant in the US. Keep defending nonsense

Donald Trump tells rally illegal immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’


Sorry there is no where on the articles where the word illegal is,I suppose it doesn't count.

Shame on punchng.com

Islie:
https://punchng.com/trump-stirs-hornets-nest-says-african-asian-immigrants-poisoning-us-blood/?amp

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See sample

Menclothing:
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Condom shirt 9k

Happy birthday PMB
* May your light shine like NEPA.
* May your road to 2024 be like Nigerian roads.
* May your health be like Nigerian health sector.
* May your wealth be like Nigerian economy
* May you be treated as you had treated Nigerians.

And so shall it be........[insert whatever]

naptu2:
https://statehouse.gov.ng/news/president-tinubu-celebrates-nigerias-icon-of-integrity-and-patriotism-former-president-muhammadu-buhari/

Both should be rottening in hell. Failures at their utmost best.
Disasters and misery personified. (Sad)

naptu2:
https://statehouse.gov.ng/news/president-tinubu-celebrates-nigerias-icon-of-integrity-and-patriotism-former-president-muhammadu-buhari/

"We need to pray for our leaders not because they are bad and need to be good but because they are sick 🤮 and they need to be well"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUO5QYGvXo

iwaeda:
https://guardian.ng/news/your-prayers-support-needed-in-reviving-ailing-economy-tinubu-appeals-to-nigerians/

Nov 23 (Reuters) - World governments agreed at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow two years ago to phase out "inefficient" fossil fuel subsidies to help fight global warming.

Since then, however, global fossil fuel subsidies have risen $2 trillion to $7 trillion, according to the International Monetary Fund, as governments around the world moved to protect consumers from rising energy prices.

At this year's climate gathering in Dubai, EU countries will be looking to harden the COP26 deal to phase out the subsidies by pushing for a deadline of 2030 to get it done, but it is unclear how much support the proposal will gain.

EU governments were among those that have increased support for fossil fuels since Glasgow, mainly as a response to energy security concerns following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Here are some examples of how fossil fuels are subsidised around the world.

CHINA
China's total fossil fuel subsidies were the highest in the world at $2.2 trillion in 2022, amounting to 12.5% of the country's total GDP, according to the IMF.

UNITED STATES
U.S. fossil fuel subsidies stretch across the U.S. tax code, which makes detailing their costs complex. The IMF estimates they stood at $760 billion in 2022, a figure topped only by China.

RUSSIA
The world's top seaborne exporter of diesel and third largest producer of oil spent $420 billion on fossil fuel subsidies last year, according to the IMF.

INDIA
Fossil fuel subsidies in India totaled $350 billion last year, according to the IMF. Coal dominates India's electricity production and the country is one of the world's top producers.

EU
European governments more than doubled fossil fuel subsidies to $310 billion in 2022 in response to the energy crisis, IMF data showed.

MIDDLE EAST
Oil and gas producers in the Middle East including Qatar and Saudi Arabia had some of the highest fossil fuel subsidies per person, IMF data showed

CANADA
Earlier this year Canada unveiled plans for eliminating inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-rise-despite-calls-phase-out-2023-11-23/

"We need to pray for our leaders not because they are bad and need to be good but because they are sick 🤮 and they need to be well"
Rev Father Sunday


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUO5QYGvXo

Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product grew by 2.54 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the third quarter of 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed.

This growth rate is higher than the 2.25 per cent recorded in Q2, 2022, and higher than the second quarter 2023 growth of 2.51 per cent. The service industry was responsible for the growth in the quarter.

In its ‘Nigerian Gross Domestic Product Report (Q3, 2023),’ released on Thursday, the NBS said, “The performance of the GDP in the third quarter of 2023 was driven mainly by the Services sector, which recorded a growth of 3.99 per cent and contributed 52.70 per cent to the aggregate GDP.

The agriculture sector grew by 1.30 per cent, from the growth of 1.34 per cent recorded in the third quarter of 2022.

The growth of the industry sector was 0.46 per cent, an improvement from -8.00 per cent recorded in the third quarter of 2022. In terms of share of the GDP, agriculture, and the industry sectors contributed less to the aggregate GDP in the third quarter of 2023 compared to the third quarter of 2022.”

In the quarter under review, aggregate GDP stood at N60.66tn in nominal terms, a performance higher than Q3, 2022 which recorded aggregate GDP of N52.26tn, indicating a year-on-year nominal growth of 16.08 per cent.

https://punchng.com/nigerias-gdp-grew-by-2-54-in-q3-says-nbs/