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What if the dad suffered a stroke brcause of it?

It is cruel of the lady.

bixton:
If it's cheaper outside why then is it expensive within the country?

Whatever that makes it cheaper outside should be brought inside the country and make it more cheaper.

It is down to " competitive and comparative advantage."

I wonder how the economy will look like once 24hrs power supply becomes a reality?

aribisala0:
The biggest competitor is the Port of Lome


Dangote brought in 150000 containers for his refinery most via Lome

When you consider that his refinery is in Lekki you have to wonder why

Nigeria imports a significant amount via Lome and Cotonou. WHY?

Geographically the best location for a Port in Nigeria is Ondo state but ethnic politics has blocked it for long

Now, this is the type of information one needs to hear.

Did you say, 15,000 or 150,000 containers?

The biggest competitor to Apapa ports are not the news ports just approved in the South South.

It is actually the Lekki Port itself. So, its biggest rival is in Lagos.

Lagos is a hub and displacing a hub is never easy.

FreeStuffsNG:
We love to compete fairly and we will not fold our hands when we see others attempting to hold down our progress because they think we are moving too fast.

Apapa Port and Tin Can port were left to remain old and inefficient because FG wants to satisfy those who hate Lagos and the Yoruba. While FG was building new ports all over Nigeria, the simplest thing was to run it along with the modernization and expansion of Apapa and Tin Can ports. FG didn’t do that and rather watched those ports depreciate and became inefficient.

We inherited the legacy of excellence. It is in our blood. It is in our DNA. We grew up reading about and hearing of the legacies of "Firsts" by our forebears so we have no choice but to continue in progressive politics of development.

What most fail to understand is that there's more than enough business to go around.

If trade doubles in 6 years time which is possible, there'll be extra 100 trilion of new cargo to handle.

So, what's the fear mongering and whining about?

Should Lagos ports be worried about other ports being set up elsewhere in the country?

No, it should not.

It seems the total trade volume at the ports is about 160 trillion. If trade grows by about 12% annually over the next 6 years alone, that figure would hit 320 trillion.

There's more than enough cargo to go round. No one needs to feel insecure.

It could even do better than this.

The doom mongering needs to stop. There's more than enough business to go round.

thesicilian:
Because you people have never heard of 2face before

Tuface was either the founder of Afrobeats or he was the one made it globally acceptable.

Once he blew in 2004, new artists began bringing out new Afrobeat heats.

However, he hasn't been bringing out songs and that's a shame. That is what people will judge you with.

He will soon be 50, latest next year. He might feel his time is done.

Razzness:
You are still living in 2020. Burna boy has since eclipsed Wizkid and Davido by every account of been "big" in music. He has sold more records, has more streams, worn more awards, performed in places that no other African artists has, has released 3 of the greatest afrobeats albums of all time and is more relevant on the global stage. Burna boy is sitting comfortably at the top of the African music industry, and if you think otherwise go and see a doctor.

I was about to say Burnaboy is now no.1

This isn't sentiment, He was the one that finished the work of making Afrobeats international.

I remember the days when Wizkid and Davido were dying and paying to do collabo with foreign artist.

With Burna, the opposite was the case. Foreign artists chased him. Even Koffee did a cover version of "Ye." He made Afrobeats stand tall and mighty.

However, his pride might destroy him. He acts as though he is the one feeding the fans and not the other way around.

Pride is before a crash.

bridget4Christ:
I think what he meant in the other thread was frank Edwards is the only gospel artist that can compete with the big 3 even though they do secular

Frank Edward ko,, Frank Edoho nii.

Abeg make person hear word

The answer is simple: end cattle herding.

The impunity reigns because injustice has been normalized by those supposed to prevent it.

The herders are above the law. Thats the root cause of the problem.

Chijeep:
Please help me(mature minds only)

After getting tired of the flaws discovered from most city girls I decided this mid-year to go my village to get a lady for marriage. And with the help of my cousin sister I was able to get this particular girl (Judith) and she agreed in the sense that she's also very much ready to settle down.

Everything was going perfectly so I decided to go and see her in person so that we can proceed to the next stage which I went and she introduced me to her mom.

Her mother's reaction showed that they both liked and welcomed me as a proposed inlaw. So we move on, and I came back to my Base to inform my dad and my dad didn't say No. And I let her know that everything is good at my own side too. That we're good to go.

So this faithful mind pressured me to test this girl's loyalty to me and the relationship (because atimes she used to say something like; guys use to approached her for marriage and she rejected).

So 1 day I used a fake fb account to chat her up and to cut the story short she said she's not in any relationship, nor married and she agreed to meet the other fake guy I used. She told the guy (because I asked if I could meet her people when I come) that they shouldn't rush things that it should be a gradual process.

And went ahead to send the guy her number and even her picture. But she told the guy that nothing like having s3x. And after there chat I confronted her myself saying that she failed my test and she fuvk up. Buh she started explaining but I was highly disappointed. And she went ahead to inform my cousin sister to apologise to me on her hehalf and also told her friend to chat me and apologise.

NOW MY COUSIN SISTER TOLD ME TO FORGIVE AND MOVE ON WITH HER BUT HER MOTHER IS NOW GETTING ANGRY AT ME THAT I OVER ACTED TO THE ISSUE.

PLEASE IS IT NOT A RED FLAG ENOUGH TO QUIT OR GET ANGRY OR WAS MY TESTING NOT NECESSARY AS HER FRIEND WAS EVEN SAYING THAT; WHO'S TESTING GIRLS LOYALTY IN THIS AGE OF LIFE.

Please I need a nice answers because I'm very much ready to settle down.

You are here because you did not complete your underground work fully. It would have been nice if she met the guy, they rendezvous a bit and see how it progresses.

You probably feel she was keeping her chances open in case you disappoint.

I can't make a decision for you. I am wary.

For some reason, i don't think there's love. More like a marraige of circumstances to me.

They are learning and processing and going through their "terrible twos."

DMCA:
grandstar how far?
u never reply me

I did reply you.

Haven't you seen it ?

Take care and God bless.

FOLYKAZE:
Dangote reduced his price to corner the people, their sympathy and every other things to himself. He then systematically attack NMDPRA, choosing the head, Farouk, for his hits. This guy is simply playing a kind of resistance as it is played out in the movie Money Heist. (simply make the established system the villain, give the populace some goodies to earn their sympathy, then direct them to destroy the enemy, the establishment). In this case NMDPRA which gave licence out to importers to scout refined products from Russia is the establishment. The question is that why should Dangote lose sleep if anyone choose to import their productd and sell at lose? Why should Dangote cry if importers chose to import and spill their products all over the sea?

Another question people fail to ask, what magic happened now that made Dangote reduce the price of his product? Has crude oil price in the international market crashed? Did FG waived import duties or the shipping cost suddenly reduced? All along, Dangote is manipulating the market selling exhorbitantly to Nigerians and now that he sees some guys ar going out to bring in fuel which could compete with him, he panicked, rush and reduced price, and now attacking NMDPRA for issuing licence for importation. What he has been doing is profiteering which is a crime.

Nigeria should wise up, the Greek gift and sudden Santa gifting from Dangote is to weed out competition. And the importers are here to stay. If they can get fuel at a reduced price from anywhere, they should be allowed to do it.

As much as I believe in the free market and competition, there's something not just right about the competition he faces.

Dangote is an upstart in the business no matter how big his refinery is. The old guards don't want to lose their business, all who import their wares to an upstart, or be subject to him I.e. have to buy from him

The Petroleum Industry Bill actually states that imports of refined fuels must stop once there is sufficient refining capacity in the country. Those who can import are only those who have refining capacity. That means only Dangote can import.

Tinubu refuses to enforce this part of the Bill as he did not want Dangote to become a monopoly. Had it been OBJ, Jonathan, or Buhari in office, this would have been implemented ASAP.

Nevertheless, competition has to be fair. I suspect these importers are involved in sharp practices.

nairalanda1:
And that is supposedly within people from the same tribe

( Though historically there was no unity among the tribes in Nigeria. Hausas were divided into several nations for example that fought with each other, and sometimes came under domination from empires like the Songhay and later the Fulani caliphate. Yourbas used to refer to subjects of the Alaafin who came from different tribes , and then igbo land was not a united polity

It was colonial rule that forced many tribes to unite within in common ground against the colonial rulers and this led to unity among different tribes nationally. Even then

Presently, you can't use religion to define Yorubas.

Some ignorant people would say it was Yoruba Muslims that voted for Buhari and Tinubu, not knowing you can't use religion to differentiate us.

But what if the Southwest does become a state with only Yoruba people? Will the Muslims become more assertive? Will they stop drinking and selling alcohol? I always chuckle when I see a hijab wearing woman selling sachet alcohol or an alfa drinking.

Or will they stay the way they are? It's something I ponder over.

LegendHero:
That was when we are dealing with Ibo people for mudding our leaders in a coup and attempting secession.

We're innocent Igbo civilians the ones that organised the coup detat?

Never say things like this

math2001:
When Nigeria was a united nation without tribalism

There was a brutal civil war with secession as the only driver.

What's more sectarian than that?

I believe competition is very good but something stinks about the imports.

There's something putrid in the air.

DomPerignon:
Hannukah is supposedly a Jewish holiday celebrating the genocide of Greeks in present day occupied Palestine by the Maccabee terrorist organization - history's first recorded terrorist movement.

The other two other Jewish holiday days are Passover and Purim both of which also celebrate the mass murder of Jewish enemies.

Passover is in remembrance of the Jewish god genociding the first born of every Egyptian household.

Purim celebrates the Jewish seductress and her sorcerer father , Mordecai getting Esther's husband , Xerxes I to execute Haman and all his household and affiliates for warning Xerxes of Jewish meddling and back stabbing their host.

No other religion celebrates the genocide of their enemies like that of Pharasism alias modern day Judaism. Which one is worse. Muslims have killed so much people over the past 30 years because of their religion but you stay quiet about it.

For a people who faced almost 2,000 years of severe persecution, what do you expect?

I don't believe modern day Jews are God's people.

Nevertheless, one would understand why these victories mean so much to them.

The Passover was not a celebration of the killing of first born sons of the Egyptians. The Passover" is a mixture of two words,"pass" and "over."

Britannica describes it below:

Passover commemorates the Israelites' liberation from enslavement in Egypt and the “passing over” of God's forces of destruction.

Muslims believe in Jihad which is the killing of people now living to further their religion.

brain54:
One of my least favorite wrestlers of all time...

I hate his fights. He is just a show man. I like a few of his movies though.

Good riddance...I mean Happy retirement. Truth is I don't really care anyway.

On the side wrestling really takes a toll on these folks. At 48 he looks 62 already. I saw big show and great Kali recently and they are looking unrecognizable old!

You're watching staged matches and you think they're real?

Few might be but there's so many staged fights.

To me, it wasn't worth it.

The fights badly damaged his body.

All the CEO cares about is money.

This is very good news. It would be great if FDI can hit at least 3% of GDP. 5% would be fine but Charles Soludo said that such a consistent rate over a 5 year period would lead to overheating.

owobokiri:
The irony here is that Nigeria most probably budgets and spends more cash looking for FDIs globally than all the rest put together... The huge entourage, the fat estacodes, the endless globetrotting...

No business ran the way these platoon of kleptomanaics run Nigeria will not go into bankruptcy. How can you spend nearly 80% of your total earnings on recurrent expenditures as act like everything is ok upstairs

The prime reason why FDI fled Nigeria was Buhari's epic mismanagement. Tinubu and government officials need to go out and hunt for investors. They won't come in hordes that easily.

The government can do more to bring them by cutting the company tax rate from 25% to nothing more than 19%.

However, Tinubu is on a good start.

I decided to research into it as the figure for Egypt seemed quite huge.

So, I search "who were the Federal Direct Investors in Egypt 2024" on Google and this was what AI mode gave me:

The primary foreign direct investor in Egypt in 2024 was the United Arab Emirates (UAE), largely due to a single, landmark real estate development deal.

The UAE, through its sovereign wealth fund ADQ, made a massive $35 billion investment for the development of the Ras El Hekma peninsula on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. This deal alone accounted for the majority of Egypt's total FDI inflows, which reached a record $46.1 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024.

Leading Foreign Direct Investors (FY 2024)

According to data for the 2023/2024 fiscal year, the top countries for FDI inflows to Egypt were:

United Arab Emirates: $38.94 billion

United States of America: $3.01 billion

United Kingdom: $2.94 billion

Italy: $2.10 billion

The Netherlands: $924.3 million

Saudi Arabia: $775.5 million

Other significant financial support and investment commitments were made by multilateral partners, including expanded loan agreements from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and financial packages from the World Bank and the European Union.

This makes sense. The investment by the UAE was outsized. It isn't typical.

However, if we exclude that from the UAE, it would amount to around $9.5bn. This is about 2.5% of GDP which seems fair.

The country has done well overall.

Nigeria is lagging considering where it is coming from: from the collapsed economy Buhari bequeathed on his successor, which is now going through a turnaround. It would take sometime before investors start flooding back.

yinkus6750:
And Aliko was present at the event.
I hope he emulates same gesture towards his workers.
Wealth made needs to be shared to those that made you.
BUA has been a good example through his foundation, donations and staff reward for service.
God bless Abdulsamad .

Has the bitter rivalry between the two ended?

This is really amazing.

BUA has this annoying habit of always venturing into any business Dangote deeps his fingers in. He is already setting up an oil refinery

May God bless him abundantly.

This was very noble and generous of him.

Tailorcaesar:
Compensation?
Was there a written agreement 🤝 to that?
So if I tell U to leave Ur marriage for me orally you go leave and if things no come work out between us......I will pay U.
Why can the woman pay too?
What if they when for medical test and it appears that the two FOOLS are AS-AS, will dey continue with the marriage

She was already dating the pastor before she got married. It is not that she met the pastor after she married.

I hate divorce with a passion. Marraiges are to last forever.

She treated her marriage how some immigrants in Europe or US do when it is used as a means to an end and not an end itself. She felt she would be happier if she married the pastor but he simply deceived and use her after she divorced.

If you never had any intention of marrying her, you shouldn't have told her to dump her husband.

This is what you get when people worship their pastors and not God.

Greenscientist:
Dropped domains don't get visible to me until around 8pm. Am I experiencing this alone and is there's a setting I'm not putting in place?

I might be wrong but it might be due to the time change GMT.

I use a UK laptop and my time says 3.55pm. They are 1 hour behind us.

However, around May to October, we use the same time. We merge.

From around November, we diverge again. It may be that divergence that reflected.

Tailorcaesar:
I wonder who wants to marry a divorcée,
Some men can marry single mothers, wey be say dey never marry b4. But U see divorcée? E dey hard oooo
She is a big time fool he told U to leave Ur marriage and you did so .....look at this full grown adult taking

The story is more complex than you

She deserves some compensation from the pastor.

Nevertheless, she is a fool.

DMCA:
Make this low IQ dey remain for nairaland I beg u
u don try know the equivalent of their grading system with d one for naija?
abeg no carry dis kain sense go foreign land o

You sound illiterate.

Read the article below:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23322039.2017.1389804#abstract

Look at her standing like an old woman.

Too much sex can age you.

By the way, £9 might look small to a Briton, but in Indonesia, it's quite a sum. It's like 18k here if you know what i mean.