Lovelink1991: A drama played out between a man and her girlfriend after he saw his girlfriend came on a date with a local wrapper tied on her neck just because he refuse to send her money to buy new dress.
Many of these guys made their fortune in banking through roundtripping of forex during the Babangida years. They got forex at the official rate and sold it at the black market price.
Sheuns: There was something I’ve been saying since Tinubu started his so called reforms. I said any government that comes after him will reverse or cancel most of the nonsense he’s doing in the name of reforms and there’s nothing him or his band of supporters can do about it.
That time is near.
What nonsense are you saying.
His 2 biggest reforms, which are the ending tbe fuel subsidy and floating of the Naira were policies Atiku and Obi said they would also implement.
Let me be very frank with you: no democratic government can easily reverse these 2 reforms. It would involve due process. The 36 state governors who have enjoyed massive increases in their monthly allocation due to these 2 policies would fighy to the end any attempt to reverse.
Only the military has the capacity to end these policies overnight.
I wont waste my time telling you why the reforms were necessary.
Goo0dHardDick: Turning on disappearing mode on WhatsApp is the height of it all.
I am yet to understand why a sane person would turn on 24hrs or any disappearing mode whatsoever on WhatsApp.
It is even worse if you're a business man like myself because I'll never take you serious. A customer whose WhatsApp was set to 24hrs disappearing mode chatted me up for an item and we settled at a particular price, 6 days later the young man showed up at my store and we started re-bargaining all over again. Dude said it's like we've agreed on the price before and I demanded he shows me our previous chats which has since disappeared from WhatsApp. In summary, he ended up paying 15k extra making it 100k, instead of 85k!
I personally feel people whose WhatsApp is on disappearing mode are the most unserious people in life.
Some said they did that because they needed space on their phones. Are there still phones with 32gb storage capacity in 2026? Which space are they talking about?
Tell us, why do you turn on disappearing mode on WhatsApp?
I too detest the feature.
Howecer, different stroke for different folks.
I once dated a girl who deletes all emails she has already read. Some people dont like clutter.
At the end of the day, i am a bit like you: i feel those who have this feature are not deep thinkers
NIGERIAJAGAJAGA: I keep saying this. Subsidy is the only thing masses are benefiting from government. Now since they removed it, tell me what masses are benefiting from government. They will tell u they sharing it to state government which we all know that governors will siph0n the money and enrich themselves. That's why u can see 32 governors queue at Mr president back.
If the subsidy remained, the Naira would be around $1- N2,500 if not worse. The central bank was printing money to provide that subsidy.
State governments no longer borrow money to pay salaries, despite the fact that local governments now receive their allocations directly.
AMINDA: "Na statistics we go chop" is now force-feeding us with cooked up statistics. I prefer this version of then and now. It resonates more with the lived realities of Nigerians. Imagine listing fuel price rising from 185 naira to 1400 as an achievement. Surreal!
So, you prefer the government to print money so you can buy petrol at 185 per litre. If the government continued like that the exchange rate would be $1~ N3,000.
Please conduct a small google search.
Search: what was the federal government revenue in 2022?
What was the federal governments budget in 2022
How much did the federal government spend on fuel subsidy in 2022?
AustineE1: Oh out of 44 LG areas,one with rented crowd rejected Peter Obi but rather it could have been better to say they rejected kwankwaso because Peter Obi never didn't win that LG in the last elections....anything to make Tinubu happy is allowed, while the spin doctors are cashing out.
Even if Tinubu should lose in Kano, he will still get the needed 25% of votes in most states
The 25% threshold in 25 states will give him the "victory" again.
Two things gave him victory the last time, the 25% threahold, and getting the most votes.
Only an Atiku/Obi team could have the ability to dethrone Tinubu, but Obi's obstinacy will be boths Waterloo again.
It is not whether the airport he is building will better than Lagos or even New York.
It is whether it would be viable.
It will be a white elephant project. Only 4 or maybe 5 airports in Nigeria are profitable, and they MM 1 in Lagos, Kano intl, Port Harcourt, and Abuja.
The airport would not have enough traffic to make it viable
Most state airports lack traffic.
The money would have been better spent building or repairing roads. Or spent attacking gully erosion.
The APC plan is to rig, because there is nothing this government can campaign with. But I have bad news for you and APC, it's not gonna work. 2023 was a surprise, eyes are clear now. We will have an election where votes will count, Tinubu will lose and he will go home.
I know you have your preferred candidate.
Saying he has done nothing is a stretch for some or many to believe.
The Coastal Road alone is an achievement, despite its present incompleted state. I went on it on Monday for the first time, and was impressed.
Tinubu wants to win based more on achievements than on any other thing. Thats why you have road conatructions going on everywhere and also road repairs.
The governors have been won over due to the increased allocations reaching them. This was achieved by ending the fuel subsidy, and the floating of Naira. They no longer have to borrow money to pay the salaries of government staff. They even have some left over for projects.
Tinubu will only use these achievement to woo the electorate when elections are close.
I am apolitical. I dont vote.
If I were to pick a candidate aside Tinubu, it would be Atiku. Obi talks too much.
Two things he will definitely do is to reduce the size of the civil service and restructure it for optimal seevice delivery.
He will completely end all electricity subsidies.
Aside l8beralising importation of cars by reducing the import tariff, it should also spread to many other products. This will drive the economy and bring down the prices of so many goods.
Reference: You know. It is the Iranians who breached the ceasefire and fired on two ships damaging them and injuring crew. They initially denied, then said it was probably a rogue IRGC commander.
Yes, this was not enough for the US to resume hostilities but clearly both sides remain belligerent and uninterested about peace.
I did warn that the war will escalate and spread engulfing other Gulf States because of the defence pacts they have with enormous consequences for global energy, economy and stability.
For Nigerians yapping about war like a bunch of puppies while taking sides, just know this, Your government is constantly dangling at the edge of insolvency through poor financial management, budgeting and spending far beyond even 200 dollar oil. If the world goes into economic shock the debt engine will freeze up and this government will likely not be able to meet it's obligations across board.
So you all better start praying for peace.
I am so glad by your matured and non-partisan views.
I actually forgot i hadnt finished what I was written here.
Frankly, we are nearer to WW 3 at any time in himan history.
Its scary but i chose to feed on what Jesus said in Luke 21:28
The Iranian monthly minimum wage is 166 million rials.. which is just 88 dollars!!.. which is about 157,700 in naira!!!
The cheapest domestic made vehicle in Iran is 10 billion rials!!! 10 billion rials!!!😂😂😂
One of the richest country in the middle-east via the abundance of natural resources.. choses to be sponsoring terrorism all over the world instead of making her citizens better... Iranians are suffering from destitution, penury and privation
I am neither pro Israel or Iran.
Pro-iranians want to make up a fantasy that the Mullahs are running the country well, and that the masses love them.
Simply because they stand up to Israel does not make them angels. It is a repressive dictatorship.
kingsways: IBB is smarter, more intelligent, and better than all those who came after him, except perhaps Obasanjo
Even as a Military President, he did big projects. 3rd Mainland, FCT, etc.,
I have no doubt Nigeria would be far better if they had returned IBB rather than Buhari
Babangida left a horriblle legacy- fantastical corruption
The kind of excessive corruption public office holders are now associated with started with Babangida.
He made corruption respectable. The prime purpose of public office waa to amass as much wealth as possible without the fear of persecution.
If you think I am wrong, what did his imnediate successor, Abacha do- steal as much as possible!
Even Abdulsalaam and his boys amassed as much possible. They even wanted to dispose of NEPA, NITEL and a few other State owned enterprises until Obasanjo said he wont recognise their sale once he became president. That what stopped them.
The present set of politicians are no different.
The greatest sign can be gleaned from the Niger Delta.
Citizens of the South South States were demanding 50% derivation allocation in when democracy returned in 1999. Their demands were everywhere.
The FG gave them 13%. The demand for 50% has stopped. Why? Because the masses know that it would go into the pockets of public office holdera and not trickle down to them.
If their governments were not faithful with 13%, will tbey be faithful with 50%?