₦airaland Forum

patrickmuf:
That Kano Governor is mad. Instead of destroying buildings built on government land, why not seize the property and put it to good use?

The archaic method of getting at political enemies doesn't sit well with me.

The roundabout was a provocation, done in Ganguje colours in front of Govt house.

Na Kwankwaso start this colour branding nonsense. E get some things you go allow but you can't be driving past your opps design and colours everyday when you are going home. Maybe he for just repaint am sha

larride:
This guy looks like a scammer because I dont understand this his post.

Jackrich na gee boy. He dey romance Tinubu well.

He is one of those that stepped down for Tinubu at the primaries and immediately after was the first to announce that he is turning over all his campaign offices and vehicles to Tinubus campaign.

His grass to grace story at the primaries never added up, only baba knows how he got where is today. But bros married one of the most beautiful women in Nigeria sha

BlueRayDick:
As a Nigerian , I can’t dispute the bold .

When a Nigerian businessman starts quoting dollars up and down , he won’t tell u about part of the dollars he accessed at a cheap exchange rate o. With Emefiele well known for his round tripping , I won’t put it beyond him if he’s enriched himself while making the Dangote dram come true .

How about a proposition where the dollar cost of the refinery is inflated to 2x, dollar are sourced at cheap rate and exchanged back at normal rate to pay off the local loans? That theory follow too

GloriousGbola:
the real question for me - wetin concern emiefele with dangotes refinery?
exactly who made him a spokesperson informing us of dangote's spending plans?

Dangote is Emefieles (outsized) majority customer in FX provision. Emefiele.is currently under arrest for crimes related to FX provision

Dangote who is worth $13bln has mysteriously paid off an $18bln refinery long before loans were due while keeping all his other assets intact
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Questions should be asked by any logical mind

BlueRayDick:
Lolz …. In Nigeria things don’t usually work like u expect them to .

I will give an example of a popular lekki pastor who took a loan from a commercial bank to roof his ultra modern worship center . The loan is spread for a 4 years period and the loan documents clearly showed means of repayment as “ offering , tithes , special donations, pledges and special seeds “ .

The repayment of the loan is not even tied to what the loan is being used for . U will be surprised if the man repays the loan within 2 years cos his source of repayment ehn, miracle fit happen in form of crusade 😆.

I’m not saying Dangote is clean o, but I think whatever he’s doing to be repaying those loans , only him knows . I’m just for us not thinking it’s false he’s already repaying even when the lenders through the CBN confirmed he actually is repaying .

I'm not buying it. Dangote is good for foreign loans on foreign repayment terms any day.

Let me get this right, if Dangote is worth only $13bln (most of it illiquid) and his refinery is worth $18bln, of which he owns $14.4 bln of it unencumbered, plus his other assets, who got their calculations wrong?

Some serious FX magomago may have taken place on this refinery. They should put electric shocks to Emefieles testicles, the truth will come out.

BlueRayDick:
I had to go back and read the news about Dangote paying back over 70% of the loans advanced to him for the construction of the refinery .

I think Emefiele is responsible for the confusion surrounding the Finance of Dangote’s refinery and the loan repayment .

Reading the excerpts in the screenshot below , I think Dangote actually borrowed from local commercial banks , he channeled the funds to the refinery construction but was servicing his loan from other business earnings like Dangote Sugar , Dangote Cement , Dangote Fertilizers etc .

So basically I’m assuming Dangote group the owners of Dangote refinery sourced for funds locally and abroad ; then Dangote group has been repaying those loans from earnings from its many subsidiaries .

Emefiele just opened his mouth waaaa ! didn’t make any clear distinction to people who don’t have deep understanding of these things saying “ Dangote refinery has been repaying it’s loans even when it’s not yet in operation” . now everybody is wondering how a company that is not yet in operation can afford to pay back loans taken to set it up .

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It sounds funny to me. Businesses don't typically pay loans unless due, and logic dictates that the repayment dates of those loans will be tied to when the asset for which the loan was borrowed was supposed to start generating cash. This kind of loan will typically be structured over 10 years plus. In addition the project exceeded budget handsomely so he is likely to need more loans rather than pay down the ones that are not even chasing him. Maybe the 20% NNPC cash injection was used for loan restructuring since the project was delayed

liveLongNprospa:
Lmao.. Dangote got FX from Nigeria at 450 or so to build that refinery.

NNPC owns (officially) a 20% stake in that refinery.




Also, If you believe that dangote has paid back 70% which is 6billion dollars before the refinery has started refining then you can as well build castles in the sky.

Maybe Dangote was roundtripping the 450 rate and selling for 800, that's the only way he could pay off loan without refining

OasisX:


Former President Goodluck Jonathan meets President BAT at the Villa.

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I guess those Raymond Dokpesi documentaries are now water under the bridge

Tinubu no dey keep grudge, this nigga is only ever out for his political interest. He can even work with Dino Melaye who threatened to rãpe his wife. Nigga is a PROFESSIONAL politician, no emotions involved

Olowunl01:
The above you listed are direct known taxes, Naija own na tax by stealth, and by god they are many... abeg whats your UK equivalent of Cof O? Or Omo Onile?

Council tax

Unlimited22:
Omo but how will someone on less than 500k annual family income access Two civil servants on GL 12 or higher or lawyers 10 years post call to be guarantors?

It's the set-up for increasing school fees. It's designed for low uptake. Especially in a country that cannot track its residents

Student loan is one of the worst performing loan types in Western countries, even when they can track their residents, so FG have written it in a way that fixes their liability to a manageable amount

The honest truth is tertiary education is not for everyone. Let the decision on going to university be a business decision. You will pay that money to study a STEM course, law, medicine etc but those Masscom guys need to find their square root into the jobs market than wasting time on a non value adding course.

Amigoss:
Uniben 1000LT invigilator;

“Some of you took student loans to come to my hall and write rubbish"…

"Young man with what I am seeing in your scripts, you don't have the potential to pay off your student loan."

obainojazz:
I agree with you… Why I did not rule out the Chicago accounting graduate as I believe he might actually cook something.

Everything he is doing so far looks like someone who looks at budget and P&L and understands it, and let the numbers dictate his policy..

GloriousGbola:
This feels like a subtle dig. An actual trained and experienced accountant/ bean counter vs a philosophy grad who talks about saving money

Even Obi is not bad in that aspect. It's the lawyers I actually don't like in Government

In my experience, I am yet to meet a good accountant who won't be a good public administrator, unless his MO is just to steal. I have seen corporate execs expound for hours on problems with organisations performance and miss the boat, something a junior accountant could have told them in minutes.

Nigerians don't do enough research. I like this write up.


Putting clock front of you cooking for hours is not how records are broken.

GWC has set out standards, procedures, they have rules which a contestant must follow. Please remind me if ekiti girl has done that.

See how this ekiti girl is disgracing herself just to compete with Hilda. To her, if she gets to 120hr she has broken Hildas records.?

There are over 40records that could be broken in cooking in GWC but ekiti girl did not see it, her problem is to beat Hilda's time.

Mindset of poverty.

OasisX:


....real opposition we know ain't LP by the way. They are simply nuisance chasing shadow up and down.

Omokri is looking for job, don't mind him

obainojazz:
I just received a notification from world remit I can now send money to Nigeria and the receiver can be paid in Naira directly to their bank account…. They stopped sending Naira to Nigeria since like 2020 and we had to use third party apps.

Emefiele and Buhari fvcked up that country in many ways people don’t understand….

That's Emefieles wahala. All agents stopped using black market rate about 3 or 4 years ago. That's when I switched to a WhatsApp agent. Later I discovered Ohentpay which does the job seamlessly at black market rate

obainojazz:
We are watching but the President is already making some smart choices which are commendable.

Accounting is the profession that suits public administration the best, you should know.

larride:
The plan is towards University Autonomy.

I think so too

DontBullshitMe:
No, it's not.

Tertiary Education is already been heavily subsidised. What are the loans suppose to achieve?

Unless Tinubu has the intention to stop tertiary education subsidy.

It's either a cheap publicity stunt (which 17 year old knows a 12 year plus civil servant that will act as guarantor, on top that for a paltry sum that's not worth the effort)

Or. . .

It's a precursor to raising fees materially which is a step in the right direction

Nigerian tertiary education is subsidized enough. Which one be student loan again.

They should limit it to STEM courses please. We have enough Masscom graduates already

Alhamdulillah, which believer will not want to live in Makkah?

We still have Bakayoko, Ziyech and Mendy who will enjoy the holy land.

popizaino:
I remember watching the replay of 1999 UCL finals between Manchester united and Bayern Munich around 2008, and i was asking myself if this was the match they said man united won. I couldn't believe it was the finals and thought it was a group stage or something but the commentator kept saying UCL finals which reassured my believe but i was still very much in doubt because Bayern Munich were all over and couldn't remember man united creating any decent chance. Somehow, Sir Alex Ferguson did the unthinkable in the added minutes of 90mins to bring in two players who later scored both goals to clinch the title and this has been the Hallmark of Sir Alex Ferguson's beautiful managerial career. Reading the game and making substitution that instantly changes the game. Man united fans are almost guaranteed an instant impact once SAF makes game changing substitution. It is common to see players from the bench coming on to decide the game either through goals or assists during Ferguson's reign as Manchester united coach. But this doesn't make special according one idiot who rate Tuchel has the best thing after slice bread.

Scholes and Keane were suspended for that final. United did not have central midfield apart from those two and Nicky Butt

So the whole midfield was disjointed for that final as they brought Beckham (who didn't know what he was doing in CM) to CM. On top of that, they had to switch Giggs to RW to replace Beckham there while bringing in Jesper Blomqvist to LW, who also didn't know what he was doing.

The midfield was a complete shambles. It was a miracle that Bayern did not kill that game 3-0 before halftime, Effenberg, Jeremies and Basler had complete dominance. Pure luck smiled on Utd that day. I remember my little bro waving his fist in my face when United scored those late goals, e pain me wella, I nearly beat him. The werey still switched to Arsenal halfway through the next season to join Kanu train and has been in sifia pains since.

lordfalcao:
ibime lie a lot.

Nobi today he don Dy lie to make a point that holds no water

Is it only 2019/20 season that Rodri has played? What of the 3 other seasons. Even as of this season, City has once again conceded 33 goals and failed to make 90 points, a far cry from the 98 points and 23 goals conceded that Fernandinho signed off with as starting DM.

Good that Otamendi name was mentioned

Fernandinho legit protected a clown like Otamendi in 2018 to 100 points and 23 goals conceded, and Swiz123 is talking about Rodri that can't protect Dias anywhere close to that.

Swiz123 said Rodri is crucial to Pep style of DM not Fernandinho. Is the DM supposed to reduce your points total drastically, increase your goals conceded drastically, and even reduce your goals scored column which is supposed to be the trade-off for defensive solidity? Which of these metrics did Rodri bring to Man City that got close to the tallies under Fernandinho? Man City even scored more under Fernandinho, hitting 100 league goals in 2018, without Haaland sef. Man City also kept possession more under Fernandinho than anytime under Rodri.

Even individually at Rodris greatest selling point which is possession play, Rodris best possession season (91 passes per 90 mins) is not dissimilar from Fernandinhos (89 passes per 90)

Rodri is a very noticeable downgrade on Fernandinho in that DM position. Rodri is only lucky he did not meet the Liverpool of Fernandinho time. Fernandinho was a blessing to Pep, only old age will make Pep replace him, that's why Pep kept extending his contract and made him captain even long past his sell by date.

swiz123:
All these gibberish you type doesn't change the fact that Rodri won City the UCL after they got rid of Fernandinho for him.

Must be the same way Mikel won Chelsea the CL after they got rid of Essien and Makelele for him. Foolish talk.

You might as well tell us David Silva was holding Man City back and only when they got rid of him for Grealish could they progress. You sound foolish.

I never said Man City would not win without Fernandinho. I said there will be a decline defensively from Fernandinho to Rodri. That has happened, and 4 years later, Rodri is nowhere close to matching the consistency of output of Fernandinho. When Rodri starts making 99 and 100 points instead of 80+, and conceding 23 goals instead of 35, let me know. You cannot force agenda that doesn't exist.

BlueAngel444:
If Jorginho and Rodri were hated by a certain moniker and they won UCL player of the season then I pray that person hates Enzo as well, make Chelsea win UCL and make him win UCL player of the season

Which year did Jogginghoe win UCL Player of the Season?

You best stick to your usual transfer window speculation, hyping your Cucurellas and Bakayokos than stick mouth in discussions you know nothing about and misrepresent with your foolish interpretations. I like Rodri as a CM, he is no patch on Fernandinho as a DM. That's all. Now swerve.

popizaino:
Fernandinho wasn't all gidigbo and muscle like the way you try to paint him,he was also an intelligent DM and better than Rodri,not taking anything away from Rodri whom as been an exceptional DM for pep and city also,i just couldn't stand the false narrative you want to peddle about the Brazilian midfielder. After all said and done you can continue to torment ibime with his robust DM points.i support you 💯.

In the world.of leprous fingers, once you have physical capability, you are automatically a dunce. Fernandinho is as intelligent as anyone and also has speed and physicality.

How Man City lost to Real Madrid last season in the second leg from despite being 2 goals ahead in the tie

The winning goal.

Pic 1 - Camavinga receives the ball with Rodri well ahead of him to close any gap

Pic 2 - Rodri has responsibility for Camavinga and City leftback has responsibility for Rodrygo. Camavinga is closing the gap to where Rodris sluggishness would soon cause an overload.

Pic 3 - City left back leaves his man Rodrygo to cover Rodris sluggishness as Rodri cannot keep up with Camavinga. Camavinga plays in Rodrygo to whip in the cross for the winning penalty

These are DM duties that go unnoticed by laymen that make the difference between 100 points and 80+ points. A weakness Stones was brought in to cover. This was the winning goal that knocked City out, not talking about Vinicius washing a 38 year old man in first leg that City have recovered from.

Bombblacks:
Not accurate. Liverpool finished with 92 points in the 2021/2022 season and City still won the league with Rodri.

Rodri points record - 81 points, 86 points, 92 points and 89 points

He inherited 98 and 100 points from Fernandinho and immediately downgraded it

Rodri goals conceded record - 35 goals, 32 goals, 26 goals and 33 goals

He inherited 23 goals conceded from Fernandinho and immediately downgraded it.

Fernandinho was clearly a more effective and consistent DM.

swiz123:
Like Lordfalcao said, Fernandinho will exchange you, your weak rebuttal and his very own 99 points for what Rodri achieved for City yesterday.

What was a 38 year old grandpa doing on the pitch on that day if not to try and win something which has escaped him for long. So, quit this weak response and accept your L in peace. Rodri lost a league to exceptional Liverpool, but your robust DM lost it to a now relegated Leicester

Please, take your L and download it with Sunday rice.

I did not know Pep was City manager when Leicester won the league

See your Rodri getting washed at Rightback by Harry Kane, and you are talking about Vinicius against a 38 year old.

Next time you want to make a point, do so logically instead of stupidly.

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Pep knows each player strength and weakness and decided a 38 year old Fernandinho is the fastest player he had available after Walker and Stones injury. He could have easily put Rodri there if Rodri had any sort of speed. Man City still left that first leg with 4-3 aggregate. And were leading the second leg 1-0. It was Rodris sluggishness that actually lost them that game. Ask me how, and I will show you. I know you don't notice details in football matches.

That robustness is why City made 100 points and high 90s, not having DM jogging back on halfway line while points are behind dropped in their box. Hence the difference between 99 points and 80+

swiz123:
Do you know Fernandinho is the reason Man city didn't win the UCL last season after Vinicius rounded him and left him for dead. Actually, City was on course to win the tie before they turned Fernandinho like thick amala. Now, City got rid of their weakness and they have a UCL finally.

Without Fernandinho, Pep would certainly have won all those EPL but Rodri has finally won him that golden price.

I will always choose sense over muscle as it has been proven that smart players generally achieve more. So please, change your football philosophy Mr gidigbo.

Stop talking trash

Fernandinho was 38 years old and asked to play right back

A position Rodri could never even at 25

As if Vinicius won't turn Rodri to mince meat at RB. As if we didn't see a sluggish Kane of all people sprinting away from Rodri on the wing the other year. in 10 seconds, Kane had already left Rodri behind by 20 metres. If Kane could dust Rodri like this at the same Rightback what will Vinicius do to him?

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These are the things John Stones was brought in to cover

UCL is a knockout format, anything can happen. We can as well say none of them succeeded until Stones was brought in to do the job. When Rodri starts leading City to 99 points instead of 80+, let me know.

The last time Liverpool scored 90 plus points in the league with Rodri as anchor, we saw a gap wider than Panama canal. A gap that Fernandinho used to eat up every season. Rodri is just lucky Liverpool fell off. His performances at DM will not win a single league against a prime Liverpool like Fernandinho used to do. There is a reason they call Liverpool 97 points, no title. Rodri could never.

lordfalcao:
terrible point.

Fernadinho will sacrifice the 100 points to win a ucl

The point is made, that Fernandinho was able to more consistently prevent damage to the backline. Rodri is just lucky to play in a time when Liverpool are no longer scoring 90+ points like in Fernandinho time when that consistency was required.

UCL was going to happen sooner or later. If a student keep repeating exam, one day he will pass. That's got nothing to do with the consistency of a DM. That Makelele was not able to win UCL for Chelsea as a DM does not make Mikel who did a better DM for Chelsea.

airmark:
I hope it won't turn to be like Obidients waiting for tribunal's judgement. 😄

We will do double celebration when Barca get relegated for buying off referees for 17 years