₦airaland Forum

LordAdam16:
You will not survive in these streets if you're an eternal bull or bear.

When the underlying conditions change, act accordingly.

To be clear, I do not discourage saving in $.
But Ibime's call-to-action on the basis of one indicator, admittedly a reliable historic indicator, does not capture the full picture.

Cardoso invited the FPIs to buy TBills at almost 30% yield last year.
That was responsible for the heavy inflows contributing to FX stability later in the year.
It has remained at the current 1500-1600 band, which if you recall is where I recommended Cardi B set up a defensive perimeter.
As opposed to pushing for another hopeless Crusade to a sub-1000 rate.

The FPIs have been cashing out this year as Cardoso signals an end to the bonanza. July rate is around 16%.
That's responsible for the higher-than-average CBN outflows in the first half of this year.
It is technically an intervention, but when you look under the hood, this is different.

In addition, fundamentals are markedly improved.
No more subsidies. Balance of payment surplus is increasing.
We just hit a six-year high on foreign investment inflows.
The geopolitics portend a topsy-turvy near future so there is no danger of a steep drop in oil prices.

Saving in $ is always great advice in Nigeria.
But the premise is just as important as the advice.
The declining reserve juxtaposed with higher CBN outflows is a red herring.
Save in $ (and invest your $ holdings) because it is a smart thing to do.
Not because of the prognostication of an imminent collapse of the rate spurred by the CBN overextending itself.

-Lord

The how and why does not actually matter

It is a risk-free investment compared to other options

Naira does not have capacity to attack, it only has short-to-medium term capacity to defend, so at worse it stands still in the short to medium term

A risk free investment with almost zero percent chance of downside and good chance of upside is never to be sniffed at.

Theflint1:
Stay one place, one moment you're saying it's Obi that arrested him, the next you're saying actually it's the FG that arrested him but it's Obi that told them what to do.

We've seen police officers stand their ground against elected governors in the state ...i.e with Obaseki and even Sanwo-Olu in Lagos.

Tomorrow you'd see them saying Sanwo-Olu was in the know on the end SARS massacre and you'd formulate another contradictory defense for him.

He has said who detained him (Obi), Obidients are bringing his court case against FG (the legal chain of command) as evidence that it was not Obi, but the horses mouth has revealed the actors behind it.

I am not Sanwo Olu spokesman or defender so any extra talk is for your pocket. It does not answer the question of James Nwafor, the serial murderer who reigned for years in Saint Obi jurisdiction. A tight AGPA man who AGPA asked Police to recall to Anambra when he was transferred out.

Amigoss:
There are lots of people who attack obi on this thread and don't get personal insults,rest this agenda

Livelong has made it his personal mission to insult anyone who criticises Obi as if he is Obi himself. So tell that to him.

Imagine calling Tinubu a drug dealer comes with automatic personal insult from OasisX or Raumdeuter. What kind of childish behaviour is that?

Obi is a normal Governor like any other Nigerian Governor. If you throw insults, we will continue to tackle him. Some of us were ambivalent toward Obi before but if you throw insults, we will continue to show how much of a normal Nigerian Governor he is.

liveLongNprospa:
El Rufai himself talked about what happened in 2014 and even took the agency responsible to court and won.
We didn't see anybody mentioning the governor then.

That's fact.


Fact is seeing a governor come out to threaten the safety of a private civilian.


You once advised me to take it easy as I am now abroad.
Let me advise you as an elderly person abroad, hypocrisy will not help you, especially not as you are about to enter your 50s.
80% of Your recent posts on political conversations cannot always be to attack Obi and then you ask me to take it easy. Can't work nau.

You are not Obi so even if I attack Obi, it has nothing to do with you to make you start throwing around personal insults.

I wanted to ask you what me criticising Obi has to do with you issuing threats of personal insult as before and now you have landed with whats on your mind. ARE YOU OBI?

liveLongNprospa:
Na why I dey always laugh when Ibime dey attempt to preach "civility".
Lmao you go dey lie obvious lie still dey tell me to jeje with my response.
Very funny fine boy 😁

My advise for you is to focus on the career you or your wife are building in Canada, not pretending to be Obi online and attacking those who criticise Obi

It is normal for El Rufai to sue the responsible agency as courts only recognise official reporting structures. If Wike sends Police to beat me today, I can only sue Police as Wike is not their Commander in Chief. Suing Wike would be hearsay in the eyes of the court. Rufai has sued the SSS legally in court and also identified the hand of Esau behind them outside the courts.

If Monday Okphebolo was to assault Obi in Edo State, I am sure he will do it via a Federal Agency and only the Federal Agency will be liable, not Monday as under the law, they are not supposed to answer to Monday.

Amigoss:
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With this,you mean sanwo Olu was behind the killing of unarmed protesters at Lekki toll gate

James Nwafors reign of murders lasted many years and must have been known from the top given the length of his abuses, while Lekki tollgate was a flashpoint incident amid wider National protest and a massacre without bodies despite the presence of hundreds of thousands of camera phones

liveLongNprospa:
You must be a joker.
You are comparing a governor threatening a private citizen from entering his state in the future to a private citizen that was detained by SSS who he confirmed were on orders from Abuja and sued them to court.

That na English renovation?

Nothing happens in a State without a Governors consent, knowledge and clearance, and often his prompting, especially when he is chummy with the President like Obi was with Jonathan

So Obi can speak English all he wants, El Rufai knew the hand of Esau that detained him. Fight in Anambra was between APGA and APC and nothing consine PDP in Abuja except by Obis prompting

Same way Obi was unaware of James Nwafors abuses and murders in Anambra because "Police is a Federal Agency" when we all know Governors have major influence if not complete control over Police postings and behaviour in their states. Using English and technicalities to renovate themselves.

liveLongNprospa:
Tell us this story about Obi detaining El Rufai ehn fine boy

That one no consine me. Check the phrasing of my sentence. No be only Obidients sabi use English to escape corner. Since Obi said "I do not control the Police so cannot have detaiined El Eufai', I have only stated during whose tenure El Rufai was detained, not who he was detained by.

Ibime:
I also remember a story about El Rufai being being detained in Anambra during Obis tenure for refusing to check in.

liveLongNprospa:
So did Obi lie about the indigenous igr payment or not ehn fine boy

It's irrelevant. His investment was in 10% equity in the parent company, not to bring the brewery to Anambra as it was already in Anambra. The IGR is being generated by the PAYE paid by the brewery workers.

This is like Tesla plant is already located in Berlin and Berlin Mayor going to buy Tesla shares. He can't say his investment brought Tesla to Berlin to provide x amount of IGR, cos Tesla is already providing that with or without him buying shares that nobody sent him. He is simply investing Berlin money.

The equity stake was a pure investment decision and has proven to be a terrible one.

And what is the IGR being generated sef, about N26m Naira per month or less than £11k.

Amigoss:
Ibime just like soludo,Na just Cho Cho,cappings,technical and terminology jargons,no empirical evidence....

I know who I'd rather meet for investment advice,I know it is not the clown that wasted billions to mint coins in big 2006 that was not accepted by the public as legal tender

What evidence do you need to judge Obis investment except Anambras no of shares and shares price.

When facts don't agree with your emotions, you label it cappings.

Obi investment $12.6m

Anambra shares 407,321,264 x Share price N14.30 = N5.8bln = $3.4m

Diversify your portfolio, he went to put all Anambras investment in one shaky basket. Capital fail.

He should never be allowed to make investment decisions on any wealth fund of any Govt entity based on this epic fail

Amigoss:
I would have taken your writeup seriously if you were at least a billionaire in naira,Lol MBA intern fit advice Elon Musk on good and bad investments ni

You don't need an MBA intern, even Okonkwo and Sons can tell you to diversify your portfolio or tell you a 77% loss on investment has performed badly.

And I am easily a billionaire in Naira but that's irrelevant to discussing Obis wack investment.

Nigeria is a country of gangsters thats why Okphebolo is asking Obi to "check in" like say he is Trick Trick, J Prince or Big U, and Obi is a rap star that needs protection

The only places where politicians don't check in are Lagos and Abuja

I also remember a story about El Rufai being being detained in Anambra during Obis tenure for refusing to check in.

Amigoss:
So projects like Akpabio stadium, Anambra Airport by Obiano or the Ebonyi Airport by umahi might not be generating more IGR than the much maligned and trolled hero beer,WOW!!!!

The airports above are the usual white elephant projects to launder money. In Nigeria, only Lagos, Abuja, PH, Kano and Kaduna can make a financial case for an airport. Infact PH, Kano and Kaduna financial feasibility is not watertight but they should get close enough and we can allow them as hubs for domestic passengers to disembark and find their way to other states by foot. Warri and Akwa-Ibom may have small airstrips in service of their oil industries.

That said, Obis $12.6m investment in SABMILLER is now worth $3.4m today going by today's share price of N14.30 for International Breweries Limited

Note that SABMILLER had already built the brewery in Anambra therefore any IGR generated today is not a result of the investment as the brewery was already built and the IGR is mostly generated by PAYE payments from the brewery going by your screenshot

Obi simply bought a 10% equity stake in the company on behalf of Anambra as an investment. In terms of money management, a very poor investment decision to put all of Anambras eggs in a single basket, an investment that has yielded a negative 77% return ignoring present discounted values or Cost of Capital

Transfer window needs to close so we can stop discussing which attacker Chelsea is buying next

I don't trust our TDs till transfer window close. You have Gittens/Pedro/George for left wing, Palmer/Neto/Estevao for right wing plus Pedro if needed. You have Pedro/Delap/Guiu for striker. What is there to discuss with regards another attacking signing. Close the window and let these boys play and not be pushed out by over competition

swiz123:
And also won Barcelona 9 La Liga titles , 7 Copa del Rey , and 3 UCLs. And went further to win Euros and World Cup for spain. I would trade those heavy defeats for us to be as successful.

Now compare those with Makelele’s.

High pressing era started 2013. Only Barca were high pressing before that and everyone was parking bus to counter them until the Germans started high pressing in 2013

That's when he started chopping scores like 7-1, 6 goals, 5 goals and all manner of capitulations. He never survived the high pressing era

Makelele on the other hand had the pace and technique to survive the high press. We already saw glimpses of this right from when Makelele by himself will carry a midfield of Zidane, Figo, Guti and Raul plus Morientes and be the only one working and chasing down every fast break. Makelele also has the skills for possession football, plus the physical tools. Makas Kanu drag to beat a midfield press was perfection, and had a great long pass too. Busquets had the God technique but physicality was zero. Once a break is on, Busquets will be jogging with the referee on the halfway line while his defence is exposed

swiz123:
I think you need to go and watch how Busquet beats press with ease and how he consistently helps Barca play out of tight position. There is a reason every coach rarely ever subs or leave him out.

Busquet is the reason why Barcelona rarely ever went long no matter how tightly pressed. He always forms that triangle needed to play out from the back no matter the pressure.

Busquet posted some of the most disgraceful scorelines and capitulations during the high pressing era starting 2013

Segelanky:
Breaks are there for ur health and ur waist

Knocking no be war or work nao…u blow catarrh and round 1 is off


I can’t even thrust straight for 20mins…..my opponent must sha climb or find way loose some strength too

Missy Elliot got a message for you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayUCLgxS5c?si=iXHPtAvfG5oJ9L0s

timbros:
I didn't see this your comment when I replied him.

Going into the season with Jackson and Delap as traditional number 9 and JP who can play in all front three makes our squad very healthy for all the competitions we will participate in.

Jackson is not needed

3rd striker is Guiu and he is as good as any 3rd striker anywhere

Jackson is still OK but keeping him will erode his value, let's cash in

swiz123:
Makalele wasn’t tested during the high press era.

I will go for Busquet, Xavi and KDB.

And Busquet was tested and failed numerous times

iamoyindamola:
Alright let's do this, In no particular order these are the teams for the fa cup 25/26
*Flaming penguins
*Magnificent
Super strikaz
FC Hojuholape(carling cup runner up)
Bruttalion
Ipukulubiye FC
Bluelines69
FC Enigma
Japageng
4 leagues in a row
Bourne007
6ixt8 wolves
Somatophylakes
Winning jazz
*FC Mckane
Timbros fc
Iykmora
Desert Knight
Gandoki FC(carling cup winner)
Awalokan




I know i said the semi finalists of carling but the other 2 aren't active on this thread, FC enigma and winning Jazz will retain their spot
Frank lampard is at the bottom as at now i can't find way to bring him back up.

Note
Those with * will be reviewed because they are not regular on this thread and that will be a criteria going forward
Just for fun guys, let's try to be regular on the thread. The weekend bant is part of the fun.
A new thread will be opened once the stage is set



Emaprice just be on a standby, once I verify those *

Peace!!!!!!!

Emaprince mist play oh. I don't recognise half these teams as Sports section regulars

IjeBos:
Just 7 displaced bricks killed 3 people and injured more?

There is an inherent evilness in which you speak of these things.
From their lives not being "material" to "7 displaced bricks".
You should sort out whatever demons you have that left that hole in your soul.

You can present your own picture of the church. This is the picture I have

IjeBos:
Ibime: "If you criticize Israel for bombing a Christian Church, killing people and wounding the priest, you're an anti-semite".

Sums up the kind of logic you can expect from Israel's supporters.

They obviously didn't bomb the church cos if they did, 7 displaced bricks wouldn't be the outcome

But your antisemitism forces you to scream in outrage about a bombed church

budaatum:
Are the human beings "accidentally" bombed in church not material enough for you?

If not, then perhaps worry about the material church that was bombed, though that's odd reasoning from where I'm looking.

No it's not. They are unintentional casualties in a warzone hit by a couple of falling bricks. I am not a Felicia or an anti-Semite. Israel is doing well to respect civilian life unlike their genocidal enemies, and you can cry more if you want.

IjeBos:
I·bi·Akata: "I'm too busy to worry about Israel committing war crimes, because my mind is too busy worrying about some unelated thing".
Also I·bi·Akata: "Israel shares our Western values".

He is right on both accounts because as usual they are lies from anti-Semites who won't use the same energy to ask for release of Oct 7 kidnap victims

Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together knows if Israel was deliberately targeting civilians, 90% of Gazan civilians will be dead by now, rather than 50k

Shell fragments hit the top of the church and knocked out a couple of blocks and your anti Semite news sources have told you it was a direct hit.

Right from time, I knew it's the usual antisemite playbook of cherrypicking collateral damage from Israel while ignoring mass intentional genocide from Israel's enemies

IjeBos:
You would think that Israel with all it's Military know how, would by now know how to not accidentally bomb the only Christian church in Gaza.
Especially a building the old Pope repeatedly spoke about and said he was scared for.
Israel seems to make a lot of errors where they destroy things that make it harder for people in Gaza.

But who am I to interrupt all your Israeli cheerleading by asking you to use common sense.

Worry about material things, not emotional wailings and cherrypicking

Enzo5:
You have £6 to pick the perfect midfield trio, who are you choosing?

🇪🇸 Xavi £3
🇪🇸 Iniesta £3
🇮🇹 Pirlo £3
🇫🇷 Zidane £3
🇧🇷 Kaká £3

🇧🇪 De Bruyne £2
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Lampard £2
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Gerrard £2
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Scholes £2
🇪🇸 Silva £2

🇫🇷 Makélélé £1
🇫🇷 Vieira £1
🇫🇷 Kanté £1
🇮🇪 Roy Keane £1
🇪🇸 Busquets £1

Makelele, Debruyne, Xavi

This Russian propaganda for the unintelligent is still ongoing

Ukraine has much better issues to worry about than freezer storage of dead orcs

More people than these die daily on both sides. Russia stores them for monthly propaganda. Ukraine energy sector is constantly under attack and they have better things to do than freeze orcs

IjeBos:
It figures that Ibi-Akata would think that would be a more significant story than the bombing of the only Christian Church in Gaza that the previous Pope repeatedly talked about and was scared for while wounding a priest and killing 2 people.

Ibi-Akata has gone all in and became an Israeli murder apologist.

What's more significant than a 750 tonne shipment of arms from your favourite Iran to their terrorist group that has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis, or more Yemenis than Palestinians killed since 1948, and that continue to choke world trade at the Suez canal and murdered dozens of sea men and sunk 2 merchant ships just last week

Compared to a bomb (probably stray or human error) that killed 2 people?

This is why as a man you should pay attention to numbers and materiality rather than think with your emotions like a Felicia

This happened last week

User09:
Sorry man

The worst thing about this sort of thing is that in your heart of hearts, A part of you is kinda seeing your journey to old age through his lens. Genetics can be an a*s sha

It helps in making your mind quickly about certain things and especially while of sane mind. For me, I started resonating more with Euthanasia

Las las the man enjoyed his life and he also wanted to go, but I never see wetin go kill am cos they brought his BP down to that of a 20 year old. Himself done resign say he never seen wetin go kill am again so he has to manage where he is.

As for me, I still have 30 years of good health inshallah so I never reason that side but I will also want to go once quality of life is affected. When I was 17, I thought fun would end at 30. I have crossed 40 and still having fun and intend to do so till 70 so no shaking.

Amethyst101:
Those pens from England were terrible and I expected better.

Asides Lucy Bronze and Chloe Kelly, with her trademark kick, the others were just rubbish

There is no power in their legs. It's like once the GK coach has given instruction to the keeper where to dive, it's impossible for the keeper not to save it

In men's game, even if GK coach gives keeper instruction, keeper will often get beaten by the power of the shot

BlueMann:
She was better, but not by miles. Hampton saved two herself and followed the majority of the kicks.

From how I saw it she was very close even to the first penalty which was quite powerful and looked like she would save everyone

The only ones that beat her were into the roof of the net.

End of day. Sweden lost 3 match winning penalties in a row

raumdeuter:
Senior man, how is your old man doing? Just checking .

He is home, short term memory and vision severely affected to the point of not being able to answer a phone or to read. Growing old is no fun