₦airaland Forum

funkyjaay:
Please,get your findings right. The most powerful person on earth is the U.N. secretary General

Lmao. That's like saying the most powerful 'service chief' (loosely speaking) in Nigeria is the Controller General of the Nigerian Fire Service! You're probably indoctrinated from an outdated government textbook (as in the secondary school subject known as government). Nairaland is truly a funny place.

Obidientful:
Look at their big head. Dem still de pose on camera. Africans and Asians are the most stupid race on the planet

Lumping Africans and Asians together in the same category is a ridiculous insult. Asians na your mate? Which Asians? Chinese or Koreans abi who?

phatriqk:
Africans need to outgrow this mentality, inferiority complex, most powerful nation my ass, aside nuclear weapons nothing US has against other nations, take away their nuclear weapons and see how weak and vulnerable the US is, if it wasn't for corruption Nigerian military would have been on par with the US.

You need psychiatric evaluation and mental rehabilitation. New York City alone is richer than your entire dark continent of Africa, and you're here spewing balderdash about aside nuclear weapons bla bla.

Assuming votes would count, the North Central would be the decider.

Then again, Obi's only chance of winning would be to win the first ballot. If it gets to a runoff potentially between him and Atiku (which would boil down to winning by a simple majority), I don't see him winning.

nnewsnjobs:
I agree with you that SW has the highest number of votes in the South.
But after winning in the SW, Tinubu will perform poorly in SE and SS, so the winning in SW will not really make much impact, as everything will balance up.

Look at it this way,

Obi will win SE with wide margin, come second in the SS, and come third in the SW.

Atiku will win SS with small margin and come second in both SE and SW.

Tinubu will win SW with wide margin and come third in both SS and SE.

Let me know the part you don't agree.

Good morning!

Tell us why Atiku would come second in the SW.

Parachoko:
So how will Obi wining those places mean mean Obi will share the votes with Tinubu in Lagos?

Tinubu will win Lagos with nothing less than 70% of the vote.

I just mentioned the LGAs Obi would win outright. It doesn't mean he wouldn't perform strongly in the remaining ones.

Tinubu winning 70% of Lagos votes is a huge joke.

Parachoko:
Which LG areas will Obi win in Lagos?

Oshodi-Isolo
Ojo
Amuwo-Odofin

I'm sure of these 3 at least.

nnewsnjobs:
PDP cannot win SE with Obi in the contest, SE is PDP strong hold but Obi has taken over as at now, PDP can only come second in the SE, the margin will be high.

PDP will win SS, the margin might not be to high as Obi and Tinubu will share the remaining vote.

The problem is that you're seeing SS as a bloc. It might have been so previously, but clearly wouldn't be the same next year.

You have to divide the SS this time. Cross River, Akwa Ibom and Edo are going to Obi... Forget Udom as Atiku's so-called campaign director.

Bayelsa and Delta might go to PDP. As for Rivers, I'm not so sure, but it might also go to the PDP though Obi would get a chunk of the votes there.

The idiotic Ashitwaju's plan is predicated on things like this. That's the only possible explanation for the irrational and irritating pseudo confidence he and his horde of bastard supporters are displaying all over the place.

This is very interesting.

einsteine:
Neither of those two companies are profitable.

You should understand that VC funded companies focus on growth at the expense of profits initially. They increased revenue from 2020 to 2021 by 44x.

You're spot on. Sad to see that most commenters here are woefully ignorant.

Kuda houses a ton of my money for day to day transactions. They're in my opinion the best bank right now in terms of functionality and reliability. And I've tried lots and lots of banks, traditional and fintech.

The so-called loss isn't anything to talk about, when the emphasis is on their massive growth rate as you rightly mentioned.

I think it's a bit too late for these grand ideas and tailor made preferences.

It's important to recognise that the choices before you right now are Tinubu (in all of his questionable, integrity challenged, criminally dubious, health challenged glory), Atiku (whose antecedents are stark) and Peter Obi.

With these three choices available, you're condemned to choosing only one out of them. Regardless of whatever weaknesses or limitations each of them has, you MUST choose one - the least evil as the case may be. Who would that be in the circumstances?

REDshouse:
Dullardinh.o someone with 3rd class philosophy

And your point is? How would your Emilokan drug baron personally answer that question by himself?

N3TRAL:
Have you watched the video?

It seems as though Peter Obi, who is projected as the candidate of young and progressive Nigerians, knows nothing about green energy.

Are you sure you watched the video, you dense creature?

He knows nothing about 'green energy', but he clearly stated that all that kind of talk about green energy and its underlying driving force (climate change) isn't Nigeria's priority at this time. Can you debate that?
What would your Thiefnumbu say in response to such a question? What has he said in any live interview in response to ANY question?

Ask opolo eyed ojuyobo cocaine addicted Emilokan this kind of question and see what happens. Green kini?

Nefort:
Apart from Lagos and Abuja which state capital do you think comes third?

1. Abuja broad 'town' (plus some outskirts such as main Apo/Gudu, main Kubwa, Lokogoma/main Lugbe, etc.)
2. Blank
3. Enugu, Enugu
4. Calabar/ Uyo tied
5. Ibadan/Asaba tied
6. Port Harcourt*

Lokoja is terribly awful. Eerily dusty, demoralising, depressing backwater territory reminiscent of the ghoulish dark ages.

babyfaceafrica:
You don't understand how GAC works.

Enlighten us. How does the so-called GAC work, and what financial and political benefits accrue to members of this 'cult'?

Let's say realistically, Peter Obi wins the entire South East, plus

Edo
Akwa Ibom
Cross River
Benue
Plateau
Taraba
Abuja

And then gets sizable votes in

Lagos
Rivers
Oyo
Ondo
Rivers
Nasarawa
Bloc Christian Sokoto
Bloc Christian Bauchi
Bloc Southern/Christian Kaduna

Look, if votes would actually count, there's no way to tell the direction this election would go. We're talking about a candidate (Obi) who arouses strong sentiments, almost similar to the effect Buhari had on his Northern horde in the build up to 2015.

Nigerians are about to allow a ghost or perhaps an alien become their president.

Most of the idiots commenting here didn't even click the link to read the actual article.

Fake fake fake. Read the article and see for yourself. Obi never said anything about inheriting anything.

Lol. Baba had to smuggle in "productivity" into what is supposed to be a romantic or emotional message to an intimate partner.

From consumption to production. E dey he blood.

Allowing abokki to partake in this kidnapping menace is the biggest security undoing of all time in Nigeria.

These people are animals with zero sense, so they do not apply common sense in anything they do. At least Southern kidnappers would reason that the father is the likely ransom payer, so they will spare him and whisk away the children. But abokki is anywhere belle face.. Shoot, kill anything in sight and carry anybody in a haphazard, uncoordinated manner. That's how they introduced this senseless style of just waylaying random passenger vehicles on the road to kidnap occupants, rather then the more sensible approach of targeting rich or influential people to kidnap for large ransoms..

Almost surreal. Even my great grand father was alive to witness the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It's doing me somehow to imagine that there'll finally be a successor.

Man, no matter how long it takes, life will swallow everyone eventually.

Savings from surplus accruing from production, not saving from a deficit position. Get that clear. Peter Obi knows what he is doing

Blakjewelry:
Why do you think it was far fetched when it was achieved before during the regional government. It can be achieved, easy money leads to the corruption we facing. It was done before and it can be achieved again, do not be deceive the word north or south, the only problem we have is a united politicians who are looking for easy money to steal.

It was achieved in the First Republic because they hadn't experienced the wonders of oil wealth then. Nobody eats the forbidden fruit and goes back. Mouth wey don wide, don wide. It is really that simple. The biggest mistake Nigeria ever made was to end the more confederal regionalism and usher in the idea of federating states with a strong centre. And of course, correcting mistakes are never as easy as making them.

Let's not bother about philosophy. Let's focus on pragmatics. The North would never allow restructuring for the very simple reason that it would immediately plunge them into social and economic disaster. Forget long talks and outdated stories about arable land and groundnut pyramids.

For the last time, let me reiterate that the main basis of the clamour restructuring is to correct the injustice of the North receiving more than its fair share, while contributing next to nothing. That is the koko. It's not about improving economy of the whole country.

Blakjewelry:
But he is right, the North has a lot untapped mineral deposit which can not be touched because the constitution says they all belong to the federal government and the FG is currently not doing anything about it because of easy oil money. There is also arable land, some countries depends on only agricultural export.

Well, it is easier said than done. The so-called untapped mineral deposits and arable land would take decades of purposeful leadership, toil, sacrifice, delayed gratification and untold suffering in the North to accomplish. Not to mention to immense funding needed to tap these potentials. There are no easy ways or short cuts to this. Nobody will leave the easy and present bountiful food (oil money) in search of long route channels to an uncertain end. So the point is, how would restructuring benefit the economy of the North within the next decade for instance?

Let's not delude ourselves. We know why the North would never allow this to happen. Like I said earlier, which remains the crux of my contention, it is far fetched and a bit insincere to declare that restructuring would lead to economic prosperity for Nigeria as we know it. Maybe it would lead to a better economy for the South, but not for the North in this generation.

So that's why I insist that the clamour for restructuring is more honestly couched in the demand for justice and greater equity rather than in any delusions of economic prosperity for all.

Dem still dey find love for this Buhari era?

udele1:
Lol. Are we comparing budget ? US has a GDP of over 20 trillion dollars and Nigeria is about 400 billion.

Now looking at this difference, I asked how many cars does a mayor in US use.

How much does it cost the US president to be treated outside the US in a year?

Do snakes swallow money in US?

What about the NNPC that operates at a loss?

Peter obi said he will save by cutting cost of governance, supporting SME'S and therefore generating more income from taxes.

Income taxes is highest source of revenue in US. So if more SME'S are supported, they grow and generate more revenue .

It's a better way to generate income than borrowing to feed.

This is common sense economics. Unfortunately, comon sense is in short supply among the hungry mouths for hire available to the Tinubu camp.

Very stupid thread started by a dunce.

Someone has clearly explained the need to move from consumption to production, cut wasteful spending, re-purpose available resources to funding small and micro businesses and delivering critical public infrastructure and set aside a percentage of public earnings for savings via a sovereign wealth fund or similar vehicle - as every serious country in the world does. Even a half serious primary school pupil can see the sense in this simple proposition.

But of course any APC or Tinubu supporter is compulsorily stupid and can never muster the common sense to reason things logically.

Toks2008:
Go and do proper research perhaps you will know better

You've not said anything in response to specific concerns raised. Such escapist brevity doesn't signpost wit or wisdom.

ATLIEN2027:
She was in fact borrowing money to pay salaries.
They can only fool their brainwashed Zombidient followers.
We know better.

You're quite dense. Which minister in your bastard Buhari/APC regime of today is bold enough to criticise the status quo?