₦airaland Forum

WhoDeyHause:
So with this long term view how much did the financial Moses buhari leave in the forex reserves when leaving? How much was dollar exchanging by the time he left office from the N197 he met that time or should we keep on blaming the fallen oil prices from 2016 too? Someone who his decision to close borders except for his select few cronies impacted heavily regarding inflation especially on food, the rate has jumped from around 8% to what I can't even say now, how did he really perform as regards to insecurity plaguing the nation especially herdsmen killing farmers or those ones don't have any contribution to do too with money going to the foreign reserves?

You just dey yarn immaterial political talking points

Oil budget benchmark is set at $70. Anything above that you save. Someone collected $100 and didn't save, plus still chopped the $22bln saving that was left for him, you are now asking someone that was collecting $25 to $50 to save

No wonder so many Nigerians get surprised and start begging Landlord when rent is due. They have no concept how money works. How long it takes to build savings and how long to get out of debt. They want instant gratification. They have no concept of how their lifestyle for the past 12 months impacted their ability to pay rent on the due date.

All the other stuff you mentioned are immaterial political talking points. Is it Jonathan that didn't ban certain imports, or you think Buhari is sponsor of herdsmen or what, to the point his own hometown is overrun by bandits?

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
30MW is still not clear.
shey na buy budget. Pls whats the yearly budget of Bolivia? Rosatom built a nuclear plant in Bolivia.

Bolivia have ten times the budget of Niger and have not built a Nuclear POWER plant. They only received a small nuclear reactor to treat cancer patients using irradiation technology. It cost them $300m.

Again, you have your numbers wrong.

But Niger with less than $2bln budget will be looking for $15bln power plant to service a country that needs not more than 50MW presently. You never know wetin dey worry us.

Same reason you have airports in every state in SE when PH and Onitsha is enough.

WhoDeyHause:
Nigeria was not the only country who faced oil prices slump around the world so? Can we now compare ourselves With some of the other oil explorting nations, some of them who also diversify? With all the loans and so called fight against corruption cock and bull stories it's a little surprising to see we are three times worse than the 7 years Jonathan era of plenty who these clowns campaigned heavily against.
If billions can vanish from a whole national lottery commission where we have a lot of lottery houses and sports betting companies giving them good returns then why should I keep on going to the era of price crashes when lots of monies have been coming into this country with almost nothing except maybe widespread looting to show for it?

Go and look at Venezuela after the oil crash.

Yaradua left $22bln in the Excess Crude Account. The specific stated purpose of that money was to take Nigeria through an oil slump. Okonjo Iweala implemented it under OBJ for that purpose. Jonathan spent it and shared it with Governors which they ate. That's equivalent to more than one years budget then. Government is a continuum.

Billions have been vanishing then and now. Nigerian politicians will never change whether the money is earned or borrowed

But what you care about is your pocket, you don't care about the billions of savings squandered that should protect your future evidently, so let's examine what affects your pocket in the present

What affects your life as common man is (a.) Naira value and (b.) Fuel subsidy

Naira value is controlled by Forex reserves balance which is dependent on oil price

Fuel subsidy is dependent on Government policy and whether Govt is willing to borrow to keep subsidy going.

Buhari was willing to borrow to keep subsidy going and willing for CBN to spend $12bln a year defending Naira. He could not defend it all the way because oil price affected reserves and also demand for Naira

The common man is lucky that Tinubu or Peter Obi did not replace Jonathan in 2015 otherwise they would have made you take the pain fully in 2015 since Jonathan did not leave any savings to cushion the pain like OBJ had left for him. Buhari is a socialist and kept up the standard of living with expensive subsidies and monetary policy within the means available to him. For what concerns the common man (inflation), Buhari actually protected them.

Me, I'm a capitalist with a long term view. I favour the Tinubu and Peter Obi way. Same way Buhari was protecting price of goods at great cost in 1984 until Babangida dropped the pain on them.

You are complaining about the transition in standard of living from Buhari to Tinubu now, same way people complained about transition from Buhari to IBB in 1986.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Government is a continuum bro... The project was started by previous admin...the junta didn't abandon the project. I no tell u say make Africa boycott Western projects, goods & services...all we're saying is that the relationshp shld be symbiotic, not a master-slave relationsh!P.

No be the koko be that

How come 30MW is enough to cover 70% of their electricity need and you are calling for $15bln power plant for country with less than $2bln yearly budget?

That's like buying tractor to plant crops in half a plot in your back garden.

When you think with numbers you will be less emotional

The fraudster is the one that will do MOU for you for $15bln nuclear power plant, when 100 MW fit cover your whole country need even 5 years from now.

WhoDeyHause:
But they've been collecting loans upon loans since they came to power.
Much of it have been looted.
https://www.nairaland.com/7924529/national-lottery-commissions-billions-vanish#127205619

Jonathan collected loan to pay salaries within 3 months of oil crash so no difference there

Foreign Reserves which affect Naira value and therefore standard of living is not run on loans.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Niger Republic mega solar power plant is now operational. Will cover 70% of the country's energy needs. Another massive loss for ECOWAS & Nigeria. ECOWAS will be negotiating from a position of weakness.

The irony of blaming France for not installing nuclear power plant in Niger, then celebrating the fact that France installed only 30MW in solar power and it's enough to cover 70% of Nigers energy needs

When you think in terms of numbers instead of ranting emotionally every time, truth will dawn on you.

I think we can now conclude that Niger DO NOT need a $15bln nuclear power plant when common 30MW solar farm installed by France is doing the job

We can also conclude that MOU signed with Russia for $15bln nuclear power plant in Burkina Faso is a FRAUD and white elephant project which they cannot afford in a whole lifetime, and just another avenue to siphon funds. . . . or the product of a stupid President's mind who cannot get his priorities and numbers straight. A soldier man unfit for office who should be in barracks doing frog jump instead of dictating policy.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
According 2 u, the people of Niger & Nigeria don't need a nuclear power plant & lithium battery plant? After all, Ur western masters dey buy d uranium & lithium @ international price.

Ibime:
You (Niger) don't even have capacity to run a nuclear plant nor have that much need for power, nor anywhere near the funds for yearly operational costs of a nuclear plant. Common Kainji dam already takes care of most of your power needs.

Ibime:
Dey whine yourself

Cost of Nuclear Power plant $20bln, Burkina Faso yearly budget $2.5bln.

After Rosatom collect like $20m initial consultation fee and cut the young President him $5m cut, dem go give you the format make e clear for your eye.

afrodoc2:
Buhari is a confirmed mugu but he met oil slumps in both of his tenures in government. The economic crisis of early 80s Nigeria was precipitated by a fall in oil prices.

Gowon wasted the oil windfall. Shagari inherited falling oil prices, tried to control the suffering after the fall in prices and failed, Buhari tried and failed, IBB tried with SAP and failed.

Tinubu is just IBB part 2. SAP is inevitable. SAP is simply absence of money. Absence of money will make you ADJUST. IBB just took fancy name from IMF

Amigoss:
When PDP and GEJ wanted to remove subsidy in 2012 before oil collapse in 14/15,what did APC do?

Buhari's policies like border closure,oil theft,insecurity issues...

Buhari has a thing for recession. The same ignorant arrogance of 1984 was put on display in 2015. The man doesn't know ANYTHING, he is unfit to run a local government,I bet there was oil slump in 1984 too

Cluelessness & lethargy caused it not oil price.

There was a major oil slump in 1984 🤦🏽

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_oil_glut

You are preaching to the choir about Buhari policies, I am in agreement with you, but they are no less wasteful than Jonathans

But because you are a lazy guy who only cares about price of goods and not what drives changes in them, therefore Buharis policy of defending the Naira will have kept your standard of living the same under both Governments, just that Buhari did not have as much Foreign Reserves to do so as Jonathan due to oil crash. That is all you care about with your lazy narratives, so you can be rest assured that what you care about is covered by oil price.

But seeing that oil price and therefore revenue is cut by 80%, tell me how you expect to keep the same standard of living with 80% drop in your salary

GloriousGbola:
https://www.insideedition.com/12542-publicist-i-made-up-rumor-that-rihanna-had-affair-with-jay-z-to-boost-her

after the fallout from the packaged affair with rihanna, unknown becky with the good hair is a safer bet for everyone

They even went on major tour with it that generated hundreds of millions.

How man go cheat on him wife, both use am as basis for album and mega millions tour to broadcast the matter everywhere. Him go dey rap, him wife go dey sing about unknown Becky. We resemble mugu? Yahoo boys dey learn work where Jay Z dey.

KingTom:
You're familiar with the 'Cockafella' records CEO's game

You sef know. Almost everything that come out his mouth is "marketing"

Amigoss:
Lmao,Even Buhari himself no use this excuse

He did.

Cut your salary by 80%, let me see if you expect to enjoy same lifestyle.

BlueRayDick:
When the APC aplogists wake, they will come and tell u about dip in international oil price, Covid-19 lockdown and how PDP having things easy during their time as the cause of the current state of the economy .

They may even gaslight u to ask u to point to any other African country that is not going through a lot now.

The truth is the truth, APC or not

You are encouraging intellectual laziness,.maybe you are lazy yourself.

While APC mismanaged the small they had, borrowed like drunkards and did not tighten their belt, the crash in the Nigerian economy was inevitable.

PDP is the Okrika Joseph who failed to save in the 7 years of plenty, while APC is the drunkard who could not adjust his diet through 7 years of famine.

Melvyn11:
APC happened.

No mention of oil price crash from over $100 to $27 between 2014 and 2015?

Nigerians are very lazy people intellectually, I swear

Roland17:
I have always been a Jigga fanatic, but after watching Jay- Z and Gayle King, Brooklyn’s Own, I am even deeper!

Watching him tell his story, his journey to being independent, wealth, being vulnerable about his mistakes including the cheating scandal.

You can see his head just spinning, it’s like he is rhyming as he speaks.

Believe Jay Z stories at your own risk. That nigga is all about the green and will never tell you the real koko, just highly curated narratives that fit his brand. He won't tell you about Dehaven, Jaz O and the rest, just what's convenient.

Cheating scandal with a faceless person that they used as marketing tool to sell Beyonce album. We don't even know if the cheating scandal truly happened or if cheating is a normal thing that continues to this day in their relationship. All we know is it was a marketing tool and basis for her lead single and theme of the album.

I don't bother taking any interview from Jay Z about his life serious, every single one I've seen is highly curated marketing.

Unlimited22:
The squad planning is ridiculous. I know this dude is an amazing talent but it makes no sense because they've signed him LAST..... After Ugobeke, Casadei and Santos.

AFTER spending 100m on Caicedo, another 100m on Enzo and 60m on Lavia.


Meanwhile we have a Spanish Abiodun Baruwa in goal, Bartholomew Ogbeche from Dakar as our starting CF, and the Ukrainian B-tech versión of Pius Ikedia whom we have to baby so he doesn't lose confidence.

All the money wasted on these plenty midfielders and Mudryk would've bought Mike Maignan, Rafael Leao or Kvicha Kvaratshkelia and at least a better centre forward than that Agbero from Dakar.


We would've remained competitive now and still planned well for the future. Most of our guys are young. Our defence is set for the foreseeable regardless of how they look now. Reece, Gusto, Fofana, Disasi, Badboyshile, Colwill, Cucurella and Chilwell is a good lineup.

Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, Moscardo and Andrey Santos is also a good mix for the base of midfield. Gallagher is a good squad player to have too.


Unfortunately, Palmer, Sterling and Nkunku are the only good Attackers we have.


Add one of Kvicha/Leao and a good CF to this mix and a good keeper like Maignan and you're looking at a VERY DIFFERENT team.

Ugochukwu should have been Moscardo. I don't know what they saw in Ugochukwu. They are buying all these players for £25m thinking they will make profit in future, not knowing they are buying the top, especially in the case of Ugochukwu. They think everyone is Maga like them that will splash £100m on midfielder when a £30m can do the same job

Even Caicedo and Enzo should have been Trindade and Varela, saving £180m

Ballzproblem2:
🚨🇧🇷 Chelsea have signed Gabriel Moscardo for €25m.

Corinthians presenter and ex-player for them, Neto, has confirmed this on his programme.

🔗 OS DONOS DA BOLA (Brazilian source)


we done finally sign this kid ,time to watch highlight and be hyped for no reason

Another reason to get excited for 2027 season?

BlueRayDick:
You don't know this for a fact, u are only making assumptions bro.

Do u even know if Israel is fertile?

Person wey don close to 40 and doesn't have a love child up till now and he dey fornicate steady; na him 22 year old wife u dey assume say she no allow pregnancy stay.

Just dey play my fans.

Another angle

Shegzdave:
since the introduction of MRI, that should clear your doubt on some of the players age

MRI has been used since the late 80s and players have been sent home since those days. Nigeria was even suspended for 2 years from underage competition in 1988, yet somehow the Kanus, Babayaros, James Obiorahs, Aghahowas, Yakubus, Femi Opabunmis, Haruna Lukman, Chrisantus all the way to Iheanacho continue to get through. MRI only catches players over 21 when their wrist bones fuse together, and even then, I personally know of men with over 10 years VAT that got through Under17 so NFF know how to work it.

Kilishihunter:
Ah, you wan wait till him close to him mid 30s before you know if him shelf life don expire? What of other "legit" Europeans wey don expire before then? I don die
Senior man you are a wicked man

At least one Nigerian should make it to that age at high level

Hundreds of Bazilians, Argentinians, Chileans, even Morroccans and co have made it to that level, I am waiting for just one Nigerian to do it for over 30 years now

Afridoc2 done set you challenge. Afrodoc2 please help us out here with one or two examples.

Kilishihunter:
Yeah he later went to Russia but he moved to naija at 2, na better half caste sha
But you see osimhen I'm ready to die on that hill he's 80% legit, he and nwakali, I believe it's his recurring injuries rather than the history of age cheats we've had in this country that's making you hold him for neck

The proof is in which age they pafuka at high level. If Osimhen gets to 33 and still performing at high level, we will believe it then

Capaldi:
Don't waste your time on that old man. Fifa even does Mrl wrist scans to determine players age before allowing them to participating in their under age tournaments to avoid age frauds. Osimhen must have bribed Fifa officials to allow him participate in that under 17 tournament.

You talk like an illiterate, hence your bringing Evan Ferguson as counterexample. You sure you live in Italy legally?

Since when has FIFA been doing MRI scan. FIFA did MRI scan for Nigeria 2009, and Amaesimaka exposed our captain Fortune Chukwudi for being 25 years old

Besides that MRI scan checks for when wrist bones fuse which happens around 21, so you can be 21 claiming Under 17 and MRI scan won't fish you out. On top that NFF go still work am for 25 year olds like Fortune Chukwudi

https://www.nairaland.com/350893/amiesimaka-releases-picture-evidence-nigeria

Shegzdave:
Exactly
Osimhen looks like the average U17 in Nigeria

That age profile is anything from 17 to 21 in those pics. He doesn't look younger than me at 21.

Rewind back 3 years to get better view and tell me if this is a 14 year old.

Kilishihunter:
And moved back to Nigeria at age 2 before fully starting out "professionally" at Bendel insurance, There were also instances to falsify his age like others since it was the norm then too na since na naija Dem pick am from

Why he go falsify him age and lose him Russian Citizenship on the off chance he might become a footballer one day.

I'm not sure about moving to Nigeria at 2 but Odemwingie was playing in Russian club academies from the age of 13 to 18 before moving to Benin at 19. Maybe his dad came back very briefly stage 2 but he grew up in Russia. Even his Naija accent no set, sound like something he tried to learn when he was already a grown man

Kilishihunter:
Lol, I backtracked on Mikel cause I remember him playing with Mr P of psquare, but will that one then make me generalize and call almost all of our players age cheats? What of odemwingie back then?
And I don't see how this guy looks 17 or 18 as you claim, Omo you go wicked ooh

Odemwingie was born in Uzbekistan

Kilishihunter:
Na osimhen and nwakali I dey talk senior man, Mikel might be an age cheat all right but I as well believe as the years went by the stuff started reducing even though of course they will always be there, if you see this our last u17 set that got knocked out in afcon u17, walai you sef go believe say at least 50% na confirm age

So your best example.in the last 30 years is Mikel and you done back down after small evidence. But now I should trust you with Nwakali and Osimhen.

I have been watching Nigerian football for 30 years now and not one player born and raised in Nigeria has proven his age. The only Nigerian who played consistently to decent level till mid-30s is Wilson Oruma, and na brain he used survive the last 2 years cos you could see it in his body. I have seen over 1,000 Nigerian youth players in my time from under-17 to when they packed up, 80% of them before 30 and the other 20% shortly after. No make me do roll call for you.

I have done my research on Osimhen. This is his picture 10 years ago exactly. This is not a 14 year old boy, this is a 17 or 16 years old boy, maybe even 18, but definitely not 15. So do your calculation from there to find the VAT on his age.

Kilishihunter:
Oga no be matter of travel small age cheats Dey sup for all those countries wey I mention, google am, you feel say na everybody for there dem born for hospital ni especially immigrants and poor folks who couldn't obviously afford good health services from the scratch, but them go lock up and hardly reveal their shit except to close confidants unlike we Africans wey go rush go press at any small thing, na whity (football agent) wey dey close to one of my guys yarn us some of these things I dey tell you so
I followed that u-17 team under John obuh and I can almost vouch for osimhen and nwakali even though I never see their birth certificate, they also brought in one us based boy like that bamgboye, if them say no be from US e come you go shaparly drag am, as for Mikel he was playing as at age 33 or 34 at stoke city few years back after coming from I think china or turkey

I spoke about European countries, not the other bongo countries you mentioned. In South America, I can only vouch 100% for Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, however I can still vouch for 95% of Brazilians because we see them still playing at high level at 34, 35, 36 unlike Nigeria where almost all payers without exception pafuka from 28 to 32.

Mikel was finished at Middlesbrough in 2019. That's 5 years ago at the age of 31, when his mates are still going at very high level till 35.

You want to vouch for the age of someone whose name is Michael John Obinna, and NFF made passport for him that spells his name as Mikel. His identity is already a fraud ab initio, and anything that comes with that identity such as age is under question. Dey play..

Shegzdave:
You seem so sure of this

Evidence boku be that
But he look U17 in that picture someone posted

That picture also look 19 to 23 with no shaking. He does not have sideburns which join up with goatee even now, you look naturally younger when sideburns no full ground. Go and check Babayaro picture at under 17, Baba finished at 28 years old.

This is his picture 10 years ago exactly, that is a 17 year old boy, 16 at best. I put him at 27 now, 26 at best. The picture is definitely not that of a 14 year old

Kilishihunter:
But you'll probably believe several age cheats from south America, France, Italy and other backwater European countries na
There was a trending picture earlier this year of one of our 16 years old u17 midfielders light eke during his secondary school graduation, had it been better Nigeria hadn't lost to Burkina Faso in the quarters, qualified for the ongoing world cup in which he performs well and grabs the attention of the various scouts watching, progresses well in his development, bulks up,. matures well and starts shining in his future club, that's how we will be hearing he's an age cheat, for every uzoho and chrisantus there's a Mikel

Tell your story to the Gods

Even Mikel is an age cheat. Mikel was already finished completely 5 years ago at 31 in Middlesbrough. P Square who played in academy with him are 42 years old officially.

If we check well, if not for benching, he done pafuka since 2016 if put under the first team microscope.

These countries you mention in Europe have birth registry, National health records that follow you from birth to death and NI number that follows you from the age of 15, all recorded online, you think you are talking about Bongo countries? Travel small.

Non-age cheat in Nigeria is 1 in 1,000. I cannot name a single one in the last 30 years except those born abroad. That's why you dominate Under 17 and flop at men's level. Keep lying to yourself, country go surely better with such self delusion.

I've looked into Osimhen and I will put 3 years on his age, he is one of the best ones in that aspect, him and Taiwo Amwoniyi. Rule of thumb is usually 5 years plus.

Amoto94:
Chelsea are in the front row to reach an agreement with Napoli for Kvaratskhelia and are ready to do crazy things to get signing done.

{Calciomercato via Sport Witness}

Another left winger when Sterling, Mudryk and Carney are yet to bear fruit

This club stupid I swear

Shegzdave:

But na you cut the umbilical chord abi

I have enough evidence from 99% of our other youth players whose age is deflated

Burden of proof is on anyone who claims a Nigerian Under17 is Under17, not me.

Capaldi:
It's only people that didn't watch Oshimen at under 17 tournaments will be questioning his age.

You cut the umbilical chord abi?

What makes him different from the other 99% of senior men parading at Under 17 level

Melvyn11:
This guy is always hilarious with his theories. So you actually believe someone that won Face of Edo didn't have men far richer than Israel jumping into her Dm's before they met?. A virgin in Benin, do you know how rare that is and you think she needed Israel to uplift her. Continue to dey play

Who face of Edo help? Infact who was the last one before her?

All these numerous mushroom beauty pageants sef. Na so Chidinma take chop cucumber that year.