₦airaland Forum

meobizy:
You admit that you don’t take reports seriously. Why should I waste my energy? I have complained repeatedly about situations. You don’t take action.

I will let Seun know about your request

They will be oppressing with their luxury cars, giving speech on how they made it . Now they are prison serving time. It is embarrassing to see a Nigerian who is highly admired in the dispora Nigerian committee oversea for being brilliant, hardworking and in a highly respected profession , only to discover he or she was into fraud or overcharge the government for service not rendered or charge private companies for service not rendered. Giving the hardworking and honest Nigerians a bad rep.
US or Uk givernment will let a scammer think they get sense, they allow the scammer to chop big money for a time period mean while they arrest that person.
There is no short cut to success, work hard , trust God and let God reward you for your hardwork.

Host78:
Una wey want marry single mum una dey try o.

As a man nothing suppose concern you with single mothers. But you no go hear.

The white man suppose dey furious !, to solve the matter, let the daughter decide

Should the Federal government allow vunerable citizens bear arms and work with the police? If kidnapping and security is becoming rampant in some parts, the federal government should allow vunerable citizens to bear arm for protection or a deterent to terrorism or kidnapper. Some say arming citizens will cause more wahala or anarachy, but what choices do such people have. Say they should stand still, hope and pray that they should not get kidnap? Can a person outrun or dodge a flying bullet .
I wish life is a hollywood movie where one superhero kill the bad people and rescue those who are kidnap or attack by terrorist . The police and soldiers that are trying and saving people, Nigerians thank you. How can Nigerians even help those who are rescuing thosw police and soldiers rescuing kidnapping Nigeria.

To avoid story that touch or to save you a lifetime of future headache and heartbreak. Please study the person first before you marry. Study them like person dey study for JAMB, ask questions so you will know or will not be surprise, knowledge is power.

See how they react to you when he or she is angry with you. Do they go incognito for days or weeks after an argument? Imagine a boyfriend or girlfriend who is not generous to your family or to you but is very generous to his or her family but you come marry person and expect them to change. You are in for the biggest surprise.

Do not assume that when she or he is married to you , he or she will change and improve. That is the biggest lie, you will just see their true color.
If your fiancé is stingy to you before marriage, your fiancé will be stingy to you during marriage
if your fiance do not like your siblings or family before marriage, you fiancé will not change.

Many women working in hotels are not sleeping with men or boss to get favorable position. Work in the hotel is not prostitution, tell your friend to quit worrying and stop having trust issues.

Silence is the best answer.

Fix the insecurity
Fix the unemployment with good paying jobs
Improve light

Do not do it if you do not want to cry premium tears. It is not an African thing to do.

ayoncox:
They have done the best they can, you are the next

So you concluded that they have done their best. If it was them, then the refinery built would mentioned Dangote and Adenuga or Dangote and ko build a refinery.
Personally I do not care who build a refinery, all i care is that Nigeria need more than 1 refinery to stop importing oil. I do know that there are wealthy Nigerians who can do such project . We can agree to disagree, no shaking

ayoncox:
he is one of those involved in Dangote Refinery, let's stop being entitled, if you can't do it don't feel others should do it

For the betterment of Nigeria, if I had the money, capacity and the opportunities , yes I will do gladly. But there are people who can, so they should be encouraged to do so. 1 refinery is not enough for Nigeria.

ayoncox:
How many of them can take the risk of coughing out or borrowing $1B and above for that, how many will want to collaborate these are the issues

even Dangote took loans from Banks, there are few Nigerian who have that money. Mike Adenuga is one, Cuppy Dad is another one and sure there are couple Nigeria is bleeding serious cash when the unrefined oil is being exported out to be refined and send back to Nigeria as diseal , petrol , jet fuel , kerosene . Those countries refinering Nigeria oil are not doing it for free. They are enjoying and making cash while Nigeria lose cash

ayoncox:
Is not easy as you think, many Nigerians don't think long term. Although let's say apart from Dangote there are other smaller refineries but they can't do large volumes. What you are asking them to do is quite tough, for instance to build a refinery of 100,000 barrels per day and above it takes roughly 10 years to complete, no short cuts. For 10,000 to 30,000 per day it takes between 2 to 4 years. How many of them have the resilience to wait that long. I know that BUA is working on one around 250k and they have been on it for some years now, let's say some others. It's tough to think long term in some businesses in Nigeria, that is why many settle for trading.
That is why I often laugh when a particular set of people beat their chest saying they are the financial powers of Nigeria meanwhile they are mostly traders and are not into heavy manufacturing. Look at Dangote Cement for instance, they spend at least 50m per day on Diesel for production, if one is not tough skinned you can't run such a business so you settle to be an employee or a trader.

A few is enough to start building a refinery. Many are called , few are choosen. There are at least 10000 Nigerians who are wealthy , even if na 6 , it is possible. It is far better than a politican storing money in an offshore account. Building refinery creates jobs, help reducing Nigeria dependency on imported oil and help keep capital in Nigeria. Nigeria need at least 4 refineries to work. 1 working refineries is not enough for Nigeria population of at least 180 millions.

nnamdi640:
Build refinery and struggle to get crude oil to refine, who does that kind of business. Dangote refinery expose lot of things in oil and gas sector. Imagine Dangote importing crude whereas his country is one among the world crude oil producing countries.

1 for the whole country is very bad.
Nigeria need more than 2 refineries. If it was bad business? Why did Dangote enter the oil business?

ruggedtimi:
We don’t need too many refineries because of the greenhouse gases they produce

We only have 1 working and the other one currently be repaires ans are going to Chinese.

Monopoly is not good if the oil price is decided for Alhaji Dangote and a very few powerful men. The oil cabals are fighting to make sure oil prices remain above 2300 naira per liter, they do not care if Nigerians pay 2000 naira for a liter at the fueling station. These oil cabals including the former NNPC president singlehanded make sure Nigeria imported oil instead of allow the citizens to build refinery to run. They allowed the old refineries to spoil beyond repair so that Nigeria can import oil. While the masses are paying for huge money, these cabal are cashing from importation of oil.
Now that Dangote has opened a refinery, other Big men can now open their own private refinery. Oil is still big money , every big man / madam in Nigeria has his or her hand in oil. This is why they do not want petrol price to get low. The lower the price, they lose money.
So remember that as you pay petrol at the fueling station or on the black market price, remember the higher you pay, the more these big men eaT.

Why? I thought we are an oil producing country. I thought there is now a brand new refinery built by Dangote. Nigeria has the highest price of petrol for a major oil producing country, Even Saudis do not pay that much for petrol with the current war going on. The petrol price is affecting many people here and someone is talking about campaigning. Is Dangote broke that he cannot reduce the price and help alleviate the prices on the market? How much money does Dangote want ? What about the fuel subsidy? is it even working that now it has been removed.
Can other big men in Nigeria at least start building their own refinery apart from Dangote, so there can be competition so petrol price can go down.
And these oil cabals who are fight to keep oil price as high as possible, is the money that you have chopped not enough? Some of you have millions of dollars in your offshore account Even billions in your account. How much do a man want? Abi you want to beat Elon Musk for the richest person on earth.

A cautionary tale where no one knows tomorrow but one still need to apply sense to avoid story that touch.
It is very sad to see an ex footballer who was earning 10 thousands of pounds in a week struggling to look for money in his 40s. Once retirement begins, no more football contract and now no money to come in. The same apply to musicians who era of music has faded. Your song was the songs in the year in 2010, you were making money , now money don disappear.

1. You are not God, you cannot save the world. Stop dashing all your money.

2 . Spending money like tomorrow is a guarantee. Spending 50 thousand dollars for a month only upkeeps without investment but your football contract is only not planing to even 3 million for 5 years.

3. Divorce in UK , France , Spain where a woman scammed the once successf footballer in the name of marriage- he married for love, she married for cash.

It is just not in Nigeria but in the US too. Some of them go back to Nigeria to look for husband.

My uncle is 50+ , he still hustling

as long money Dey come, Modern women are very understanding. As long you are working or sha doing something like work, you are responsible to them. as long as you get money whether legit or illegit, they will understand. God forbid that a man get sack letter or sack from work, they do not want to understand at all. God forbid a man business collapse or his hustle did not meet quota, then that is it, he is irresponsible or he is lazy, I wish i never met him , i wan divorce him. Mind you, when you meant him the first time, he was not lazy. When he was buying or taking them out.

Love800:
Its not broke.
Within that age range you don't have financial power to raise a family or taking part in major responsibilities.

I did a research. The truth is, men actually start gaining useful incomes from 40s

Thank you for understanding and reading.

marlow1962:
Did any girl call you broke recently?

No old woman

Merry100:
Being broke doesn't mean a guy is irresponsible; there are actually broke guys with potentials. Dating while broke is fine, but the idea of people proceeding to marriage while they are financially unstable is irresponsible. Personally, I can't be broke and consider marriage.

I don't have an issue with just dating a broke guy. I recall a guy I once considered dating. He had just finished university and was preparing for his NYSC, so he wasn't financially stable at the time. I supported him financially, sending him money and airtime, even though he didn't ask for it. He eventually became financially okay, but I had to abandon the idea of dating him because I later realized we weren't compatible.

You are the exception but many modern women just reject potential husband because he does not have money. And where these women are in their mid 30s or early 40s, they will be crying that it is hard to get husband. My own younger female relative was like that, i had to tell her that she stop doing so . Told her to date men because he is kind to you and responsible. The idea of proceding to marriage is good because if he is barely start working and so. He is not expected to make serious money until he has put into years in his career.

Menses:
This must be a self consolation 😂

I am doing quite well😀 olodo

Many modern women in their twenties see young men in their 20s as broke. They miss out on serious potential husband because they cant date a broke guy. What do one expect? Even a well earned respected cardiologist was a student when he was in his twenties. Most male students generally are not rich expect he is a successful yahoo guy. Many men in their twenties are still looking for work or at the very beginning of their career. So yes , he is expected not to have money and be broke. The only set of men who are rich in their 20s are professional footballer, famous musicians or actors or a rich man whose is from a wealthy family or someone who is into smuggling hard illegal drugs.

Do not confuse broke as lazy or irresponsible, please know the differences. Just because he is broke, does not mean his condition is permanent.

Ballmer:
Certainly just as 9ja no work for no me say he no work for others, so rest from making foolish n senseless commwnt daily on NL n get something meaningful doing with your life.

Rich man, your friend is loyal

Some people are doing very well in Naija and have this general assumption that Naija is good for everyone. If petrol is N2000 or more, they will not feel it at all because it is still cheap for them. Naija is sweet for them because once you have money- Naija is paradise.
Late legendary Fela used to call such behaviour Ikoyi Blindness. The well to do not see anything wrong with Nigeria as long they are fine, have drivers to drive them around with security or police escort, housemaids to attend them ,gateman to open their gates, people to hail them and ask for money. They love when elder men or women even greet them first. Any criticism of a current Naija is being ridiculed. In fact they hate when people protest. They lack and fail to understand that many Nigerians are going through inflation or fail to have empathy. Na weitin Fela dey call Ikoyi Blindness

With all xenophobic or racist attacks on Nigerians, many of these people forget their ancestors too were once immigrants who endured and suffered from their own countries due to war, famine, religion presecution and so on. Their ancestors japa in millions because their home country was very bad. So Japa is not new and not a crime.
To the Nigerians who are doing criminal activities in south Africa, Europe, America and Asia, you dey f up big time, you don spoil naija images and even well meaning Nigerians are having it hard to travel.
To the South Africans who believe all Nigerians are criminal and cannot differentiate between the bad ones and good ones, you can continue to hate. Nigerians are not going anyway until South African government do a visa ban. Till then noise makers continues to make noise.
The funny thing is Nigeria is home to many foreigners and we do not disturb them like they disturb Nigerians in their home country

This matta no cosogn naija at all, i do not why nairaland is making this front page news.