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Politics › Re: Leaving Public Funds In The Bank Would Have Made Nigeria Very Wealthy- Peter Obi by grandstar(m): 11:26pm On Oct 28

Kukutente23:
Do your own research
He actually invested most of the funds in foreign stocks to the tune of $156m

Ok.

But do you know he cant win the next election?

I dont see how.

Even if there was a run off, it would be between Tinubu and Atiku.

Obi would do better working with Atiku. Atiku has strength in the North, while Obi in the Southeast.

As a duo together, they would achieve the 25% threshold of votes cast in two-thirds of the States.

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Politics › Re: Leaving Public Funds In The Bank Would Have Made Nigeria Very Wealthy- Peter Obi by grandstar(m): 6:32pm On Oct 28

It is this kind of shallow talk that make enlightened folk dismiss him.

Leaving money in the bank is a bad idea. The Naira has lost over 90% of its value over the past 2 decades.

Even leaving the money in forex wont be a good idea either. The interest paid on it isnt much.

Its best to invest in foreign stocks. You could even invest the money into Index Funds such as Vanguard.Funds.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Venezuelan Oil: This Is First Shipment Of Billions Of Barrels To Come - Trump by grandstar(m): 6:22pm On Oct 28

NOETHNICITY:
The USA has already grabbed 55% ownership stake. Also, the Venezuela govt came out with a revelation that they get a meager $19 per barrel of crude when sold at a projected price of $65 dollars over 25 years period.

I want to know what you think about this

The contract will not hold.

I am certain that contract will not hold. Trumps days are up!

Either the Democrats impeaxh him after the midterm elections holding next week Tuesday or the Democratic president who wins the 2028 election overturn this blatantly unjust contract.

Politics › Re: $537 Million American Project In Lagos: Can The South-east Also Attract This? by grandstar(m): 1:45am On Oct 28

BlackViper:
It's a consulate to house America's embassy in Nigeria. How is this supposed to be a benefit for the South West?

There definitely will be huge benefits.

Their expetraite staff stay in N60m a year flats for instance. There are huge benefits.

The completed consulate would see a masdive rush of property developments into Eko Atlantic. Their presence would definitely attract massive investments into the estate breathe life into it..

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Politics › Re: $537 Million American Project In Lagos: Can The South-east Also Attract This? by grandstar(m): 1:36am On Oct 28

LagosOrigin:
Always measuring dicks with south east because of envy for the region.

South east dey there own and minding there business , but tinubu and his agbero supporters will always want to measure dicks with the Igbos .. it is only insecure people behaves this way.

The real indigenes of Lagos don't measure dicks or achievement with the Igbos, it's the non-indigines that always see the Igbos as there biggest competitor.

When many of you write these things, It gives me cause to wonder.

Most Yorubas have much better things to do than think of Igbo land all day. If they heard there was big money to be made in Igbo land, they would flood the place.

The new consulate is not foreign investment. .I think the project began under Biden. I am surprised the xenophobic Trump is seeing that project.through.

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Venezuelan Oil: This Is First Shipment Of Billions Of Barrels To Come - Trump by grandstar(m): 1:27am On Oct 28

NOETHNICITY:
How is this even moral? Where are the Nigerian Christians defending this clown in power? This is how they plan to liberate Iran by stealing it’s resources! He is not even hiding the fact that the whole agenda was to steal the resources of the people of Venezuela.

They can not get the crude oil for free. I am certain it is paid.for.

There is something missing. Perhaps they purchase it at huge discounts.

The term "free" might involve some barter arrangement.

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Politics › Re: FG Approves ₦70,000 Monthly Transport Allowance For Workers by grandstar(m): 1:21am On Oct 28

ginggerxy:
This is all scam you should better know what is sustainable

Thats why its 6 months.

By then, the election would have passed.

For some reason, i sense Tinubu might have a poor showing in the FCT

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Politics › Re: Man Shows The Reply He Got From Chatgpt On Peter Obi - Video by grandstar(m): 12:54am On Oct 28

Basic123:
You and that your so called Yoruba muslim girl are not intelligent

You Ibo demarket Peter OBI more with this your kid level gaslighting.

This is the basic problem with your comment: I am not Igbo but Yoruba.

To add salt to injury, I have never been to the Southeast. .

How you reached the conclusion that I am even a Peter Obi fan based on my post will keep me pondering fot centuries.

Many of you are tribalistic, and can see only in that lens, and that is what you projected yourself on me.

Politics › Re: Man Shows The Reply He Got From Chatgpt On Peter Obi - Video by grandstar(m): 9:47pm On Oct 27

Rayjay45:
You speak of performance as though we no dey see the woeful one he has been delivering since 2023.

And don't come with that illiterate grassroot argument abeg. My people are not masochists who do not feel pain and know not where it's coming ftom.

If hunger and poverty no fit help you look beyond a failing fraud, then nothing will.

Tinubu will still get more than 50% of the votes in Yorubaland.

Though his reforms might have brought anguish, the devil you know is better than the angel you dont know.

If Yorubas were all well educated, Obi would win hands down, but they are not. The fervour foe him among the well edicated is strong.

I was in a bus about 4 weeks ago and there was this Yoruba Muslim girl beside me.

I said Tinubu is intslligent, and the way she looked at me, you would have thought she was looking at a madman. I laff when Igbos say "Yoruba Muslim."You can not use religion to differentiate Yoruba.

She eas a staunch supporter of Obi and despised Tinubu as she sees him as brazenly corrupt and a harbinger of the pain Nigerians were going through..

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Crime › Re: EFCC Busts 4 Illegal Lithium Plants In Ogun, Arrests 14 Chinese Nationals by grandstar(m): 8:53pm On Oct 27

JuanDeDios:
US became the world power by mining minerals illegally around the word? And dumping cheap goods on countries?

Not true.

Please show evidence of this.

Crime › Re: EFCC Busts 4 Illegal Lithium Plants In Ogun, Arrests 14 Chinese Nationals by grandstar(m): 8:47pm On Oct 27

Jakumo:
Worldwide, it is ONLY the Chinese that have made a name for themselves as timber thieves and illegal miners who destroy precious forests, rivers, and farmland without a care in the world, while using the most insidiously poisonous chemicals known to man.

From Ghana, to the Congo, to Senegal and the Cameroons in Africa, to the Amazon jungles of South America, it is ALWAYS the phucking Chinese who are neck deep in ruination of the environment with the most toxic and long-lasting chemical effluent imaginable.

The Nigerian government should jail all Chinese nationals swarming into the country to destroy it for generations to come, rather than deporting them because they will always find a way to sneak back and continue their destructive ways.

Charity begins at home.

It is the poor standards they have back home they import into other countries when they emigrate to.

The so called rare earth minerals are not rare. They are toxic to extract and refine and are ruinous to the environment.

One can see why they dominate the industry..

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Politics › Re: Man Shows The Reply He Got From Chatgpt On Peter Obi - Video by grandstar(m): 8:38pm On Oct 27

LagosOrigin:
My fellow Nigerians , Yoruba people are now "woke".
The days of tribal voting in Yoruba land is gone

The rescue of our country from thieves and drug baron is now real and in full gear, Nigeria must be rescued and come 2027, We will take back dear country from thieves who has done nothing but to steal, kill and destroy our economy.

APC never again.

I will be honest with you, Tinubu will still win in Yoruba land.

Why? Only the well educated will vote Tinubu, and that includes your demonized Yorubs Muslims.

Most Yorubas do not fall under that well educated bracket, and these will most likely vote Tinubu. If they vote Obi, its because he has canvassed to them.

Peter Obi is not reaching out to grassroot Yorubas. He isnt campaigning to them.

In addition, not all well educated Yorubas will vote for him. Many like Tinubu based on his performance. They know about the corruption but like him based on performance.

Performance is why most Yorubas vote for Tinubu and nothing else.

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Politics › Re: Nigerians Now Spend 120% Of Income On Food – Oyedele by grandstar(m): 8:16pm On Oct 27

The umemployment may be closer to 30%.

They change the metrics used to calculate the unemployment when it grew from 8% to over 30%.under Buhari.

The bars were set too low to hide the lamentable truth.

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Politics › Re: Nigerians Now Spend 120% Of Income On Food – Oyedele by grandstar(m): 7:57pm On Oct 27

The umemployment may be closer to 30%.

They change the metrics used to calculate the unemployment when it grew from 8% to over 30%.under Buhari.

The bars were set too low to hide the truth.

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Romance › Re: The Most Beautiful Women In Nigeria Are From The North by grandstar(m): 12:35am On Oct 26

MONEY247:
Forget sentiment.
Most northern girls are very beautiful. Rating them with girls from the southern part is just due to lack modern school balance. They are beautiful. They're loyal and very sincere when it comes to relationship.

Talk of those shua Arab skin tone. ....

Northern girls are worth looking at

What you have written makes no sense if there are no pictures available

Politics › Re: Tinubu’s Reforms Have Made Nigeria Poverty Capital Of The World – Obasanjo by grandstar(m): 11:41am On Oct 23

happney65:
Wetin concern me with Poland in 1991.
I meant in the last 3 years. No country on planet earth its fuel pricing flew by over 700percent in the past 3years. 3years of the tinubu administration

Thats what I'm saying

Stop twisting your words.

If i wanted to find a country based on the past 3years, I would.

Crime › Re: Two Indian Men Caught Selling Faulty Phone To Customer In Lagos by grandstar(m): 12:59am On Oct 23

They look like South Indians with their dark skin. I wont be surprised if they are Tamil.

Whoecer told them to come to Nigeria did them one-chance

Politics › Re: Tinubu’s Reforms Have Made Nigeria Poverty Capital Of The World – Obasanjo by grandstar(m): 12:31am On Oct 23

Kukutente23:
You're right
Though this is a 4 year gap while happney65 asked for a 3 year gap
Meanwhile it was the same subsidy removal they did in Poland then and it left them worse off at the end

Actually what Tinubu did was similar to Poland which "Shock Therapy."

Shock therapy means you free all prices at once, rather than piecemeal.

It caused enormous pain and the economy even contracted.

By 1992 about 3 years after the economy egan growing again. Over the last 3 decades, it has had the best economic record in Central Europe, if not the entire Europe.

Even during rhe 2008 global recession, its economy continued to grow, rather than contract.

Shock therapy is the best way forward.

Tinubu's shock therapy isnt complete. The next bit to face the axe is electricity pricing. All subsidized pricing will end during his second term, and will we all be on Band A.

He still needs to slim the civil service down. and reorganize it for maximum service delivery to the people and the nation..

The price of petrol in Poland in 1990 was 2,400 PLN from about 250 PLN in 1988.

Where is my 1million?

Politics › Re: Who Is Likely To Win The Lagos Governorship Election In 2027? by grandstar(m): 6:09pm On Oct 22*

Hamzat
Lagosians seem pleased with the APC government, and Hamzat is a natural shoo-in.

He looks like a fairly decent guy.

For the presidential election, if there was no rigging, Peter Obi should win Lagos again. For the presidential election,Tinubu would win. Obi will come 3rd again.

I am just speaking facts. I am apolitical.

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Education › Re: Nigeria's 12 Oldest Secondary Schools & When They Were Founded by grandstar(m): 5:54pm On Oct 22

MamaFryo:
Benin and Itsekiri came into contact with the Portuguese, first. Yet they didn't have first of anything.

I wonder what they did with all that contact. Or maybe the Portuguese were not interested in building schools.

The Portugese did not come here to colonize us. They wwre strictly here for trade. I think its was primary slaves they traded in.

Some locals were sent overseas to Portugese school but I think the number was neglible.

The did leave a mark on our pidgin English and names of some places.

The word 'Escravos' means 'slave' in Portugese.

Wetin I even know sef? I'm just an ordinary Nigerian Policewoman.

Family › Re: Man Came Home Late To His Hot-tempered Wife — See What She Did To Him by grandstar(m): 5:47pm On Oct 22*

Stephen0mozzy:
Hehe. Thank you.

I have come across many of them. I don't consider them friends, let alone making them a wife.

A man that marries a controlling wife has already lost his respect in that union. He must find it back and take his place as the head. Not through violence sha, through dialogue. If dialogue fails let her go to the street, where she belongs.

A man's home should be his safe place where he runs to when the workday ends.

One needs to be careful with abusive people.

Falsely thinking you are man of the housw may make you feel you are superior to her or stronger than her.

It is when she pours hot water on you while you sleep is when you realise you are in trouble.

She may threaten you with a knife or any menacing object.

Not all controlling women are violent. Some are.

I support your view of keeping them at arms length.

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Politics › Re: Tinubu’s Reforms Have Made Nigeria Poverty Capital Of The World – Obasanjo by grandstar(m): 5:34pm On Oct 22

Kukutente23:
This thing you wrote is confusing me o

Mistake

The price of petrol in Poland in 1988 was 250Pln per litre.

It hit 5,000 Pln per litre in 1991.

Confirm it yourself and send me my 1million.

Politics › Re: Tinubu’s Reforms Have Made Nigeria Poverty Capital Of The World – Obasanjo by grandstar(m): 10:31am On Oct 22

rossipki:
OBASANJO WHERE IS THE $16 BILLION YOU CLAIMED TO USE TO FIX POWER SUPPLY IN NIGERIA?

THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT LOOTED AND DESTROYED THIS ECONOMY.

NOW PLAYING SAINT.

OBASANJO SHUT UP!!!!!

OLD MAN THAT REFUSES TO RESPECT HIS OLD AGE!

PDP YOUR PARTY DESTROYED THIS ECONOMY.

TINUBU IS SIMPLY CLEANING UP THE MESS YOU CRIMINALS LEFT BEHIND.

HOW COULD NIGERIA GROW WITH AN ARTIFICIAL TWO-TIER CURRENCY SYSTEM?

WHAT COUNTRY ON EARTH DOES THAT?

COMPANIES WITH CONNECTIONS WERE SIMPLY BUYING DOLLARS CHEAP FROM CBN AND SELLING HIGH ON THE BLACK MARKET. IN ARBITRAGE.

NO PRODUCTION WAS TAKING PLACE, WHILE FUEL SUBSIDIES ATE UP HALF OUR ANNUAL BUDGET.

THAT'S THE NIGERIA YOU PDP CROOKS LEFT BEHIND.

AND YOU SAY TINUBU "DEVALUED THE CURRENCY".

WHAT "CURRENCY"?

WHAT "VALUE"?

ALL HE DID WAS END YOUR PDP MONEY SHARING AMONG THE ELITE, WITH ZERO PRODUCTIVITY OR JOB CREATION.

PLUS EMPTY TREASURY ON TOP.

USELESS.

OH SURE, TINUBU JUST WOKE UP AND SAID "LET ME MAKE NIGERIANS SUFFER, BECAUSE I JUST LOVE TO SEE THEM SUFFER".

NONSENSE.

NOTHING MORE THAN YOU ARE JEALOUS THAT TINUBU IS ACTUALLY SUCCEEDING IN REVIVING THE ECONOMY AND TAKING IT TO HEIGHTS YOU NEVER DID - WITHOUT FUEL SUBSIDY AND WITH A MARKET BASED CURRENCY SYSTEM THAT ENABLES BUSINESSES TO PLAN, STABILISED BY OUR FOREIGN RESERVES NOW APPROACHING $60 BILLION.

MEANING THE CURRENCY IS SOLID NOW, AND INFLATON RATE IS NOW FALLING.

FOREIGN INVESTORS POURING IN NOW BECAUSE THEY CAN SEE WHAT TINUBU HAS DONE.

NO MORE UNPREDICTABLE CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS.

THAT'S THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO FOR ANY ECONOMY - A STABLE CURRENCY.

EVEN IF IT IS "DEVALUED" SO LONG AS IT'S THE SINGLE, STABLE CURRENCY OF THE COUNTRY, COMPANIES WILL COME IN AND PRODUCE THE JOBS THAT WILL ENABLE PEOPLE TO AFFORD A DECENT LIVING STANDARD BASED AROUND THAT CURRENCY.

THEN IN TIME, THE CURRENCY VALUE RISES, BASED ON THE GROWING DEMAND FOR NAIRA AS ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES EXPLODE.

WHICH IS WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

E SHOCK YOU, ABI, OBASANJO?

SAME OLD OBASANJO.

ALWAYS WANTS TO BE THE ONE SEEN AS "THE BEST".

TINUBU IS SHOWING THAT HE IS BETTER THAN YOU. GROWING THE ECONOMY THE WAY OTHER GREAT ECONOMIES GREW THEIRS. LIKE SINGAPORE, INDIA, CHINA. ETC.

BASED ON REAL VALUE, NOT FAKERY.

WAS IT NOT LAST WEEK IMF RELEASED THE LIST OF FASTEST GROWING ECONOMIES AMONG THE MAJOR COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD?

NUMBER 1 INDIA.

NUMBER 2 CHINA

NUMBER 3 NIGERIA.

SHOULD I POST THE LINK?

DARE ME!

NONSENSE!!

NA WETIN DEY PAIN YOU, OBASANJO!

THAT'S WHY YOU CAME OUT WITH THIS!

You have gotten things twisted.

It waa Buhari that introduced the two tier exchange rate model and not the PDP.

It was Buhari that ruined the economy and not the PDP. Tinubu is cleaning up buharis mess.

There is also no concrete evidence that OBJ spent $16bn on the power sector. None.

If there waa, more like $4bn. Okonjo Iweala who was the finance minister during OBJs government said the so called $16bn waa pure fiction. She has the books to prove it.

Do not forget that OBJ left over $20bn in the excess crude reserves. Others would have lavished it. Thats what his successors did. The money actually helped the country cushion the effect of the 2008 financial crisis.

Politics › Re: Tinubu’s Reforms Have Made Nigeria Poverty Capital Of The World – Obasanjo by grandstar(m): 10:11am On Oct 22*

happney65:
Stop press!

Those kolomental people will say it is a worldwide thing and it is everywhere. From blaming the PDP under Buhari for 8 years,to now blaming themselves and now blaming the entire world while they are swimming in money and influence

I wonder what they would have done if they were the ones who took over govt in 1999.

Obasanjo's economic turnaround lifted Nigerians from poverty to prosperity till tommorow.

P.S

My offer is still on ground,to you supporters of this failed govt,show me a country where price of fuel flew from over 700percent in 3years and I'll give you a million naira

Your time starts NOW!

The price of petrol in Poland waa 250 PLN per litre in 1988 and hit 5,000 PLN in 1991. This far greater than 700%.

I need my N1m today grin

Politics › Re: Buhari Offered To Support Osinbajo’s Presidential Bid Four Times — Akande by grandstar(m): 5:13pm On Oct 21

Buharis first choice would have been Osinbajo hands down

His hands were clean, just the sort of person Buhari would admire and endorse. Tinubu would definitely not be his first due to the oppisite reason.

I mean, Buhari supported the Naira redesign policy whose sole purpose was to frustrate money bag politicians. Tinubu himself said it was targetted at him.

Emilokan eventually won the presidency.

TV/Movies › Re: Dwayne Johnson Looks Unrecognizable As An Elderly Man In New Film Lizard Music by grandstar(m): 4:02pm On Oct 21

He is now acting based on performance and no longer based on his physique. He was tired of being stereotyped.

Playing an old mans role may be a bit tough.

Marlon Brando was only 46 when he played the Godfather in the first of series.

Morgan Freeman was 49 when he played the role of an aged humble cheauffeur in "Driving Miss Daisy."

Business › Re: Woman Cries Out After Buying 2 Titus Fish For N10k Begs Sellers To Reduce Price by grandstar(m): 3:27pm On Oct 21

LollyP94:
Don't be ignorant man, those figures were damn fake then... Previous Govts has been paying heavily ( incurring massive debts) to stabilize the naira against the dollar
PBAT reforms has stopped that draining and wrecking structure. Learn baba, you're not that old to be an ignorant person like your forefathers. Ire oo

.

The truth is the last thing these guys want to hear or the truth.

The Naira has been overvalued for decades. This adveraely affected the level of non-oil expirts. Had the Naira been floated in 1999, the countries non-oil exports would probably be about $60bn by now.

The heavily weakened Naira has weakened demand for imports, but boosted exports, and also production

Business › Re: Woman Cries Out After Buying 2 Titus Fish For N10k Begs Sellers To Reduce Price by grandstar(m): 3:15pm On Oct 21

Lovelink1991:
So the Titus fish is na made for the rich only no longer for the poor

What he is sayibg is that the sellers price is dictated by the price they bought it for in the first place.

If he buys it for 9k, will he now sell for 5k?

The profits margins are not much in the business.
The money is realised through high daily turnover.

Music/Radio › Re: Olamide - Burukutu (official Video) by grandstar(m): 2:56pm On Oct 21

Stilloracle:
This guy is washed up. No versatility. No upgrading. Just living on past glory after living off guys he claimed he signed but dispersed them when he saw they will blow pass him.

What wack song is this.

Look at Burna, look at Davido. Reinventing.
Even Asake.
See Fola. See Mayorkun.

New cat Sode sounds way way better.
This one just stuck on one spot

Though I find the song, unexciting, I feel he misunderstood.

At the juncture, he does not need to producw any songs of his own. He stopped doing so years ago.

He owns his own aetists now, and thats his pri.ary source of income.

This song might just be for relevancy and nothing more.

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Music/Radio › Re: Olamide - Burukutu (official Video) by grandstar(m): 2:50pm On Oct 21

Very very very very boring

Business › Re: Fatai Okoya Begs Billionaire Father For Forgiveness After 40 Years Apart by grandstar(m): 3:19pm On Oct 20

dominique:
Sade by her own admission is the 6th wife, other wives have exited the house for her though remained married to Alhaji. Whether it's love or juju, whatever it is she used to hold Alhaji is very very strong

Use juju hold Alhaji?

Alhaji wey get scorpion picture all over his commercial properties?

That one go hard 😂😂😂😂

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Foreign Affairs › Re: Video Of Newlywed Bangladeshi Couple Allegedly Executed In Mecca(video) by grandstar(m): 1:48am On Oct 20

Massdamm:
Omo this so heartbreaking honestly, it’s wronged for killing them since they were couples and is not as if they were having sex. Just forehead kiss and you executed them that’s bad…

I’m a Muslim but I condemn this barbaric act from Saudi

A simple flogging would have been sufficient, and then sent home.

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