₦airaland Forum

Deemas:
Because your papa increase fuel price without any wage increase and as such dem need to go do side hussle before coming to work. Yeye question... Indefinite strike loading

You're going insane

jaxxy:
These train stations are not built to international standards despite money spent.

So how did you know this?

sulaak:
Lekki Free zone is a special economic zone - also called Export Processing Zone, with none to minimal custom restrictions.

https://ownahome.ng/blog/lagos-free-trade-zone-explained/#:~:text=Lekki%20Free%20zone%20is%20a,none%20to%20minimal%20custom%20restrictions.&text=To%20manage%20the%20general%20and,companies%20in%20these%20free%20zones.

So what point are you passing across exactly? How does this dispute the fact that, the US dollar Dangote will earn will stay in Nigeria?

sulaak:
Dangote is in the Lekki Export Processing Zone (The Dangote Refinery is located in one of the Free Trade Zones in the country) I will advise you to figure out what a EPZ means

You keep on saying is located in a free trade zone as if that answer the issue on ground. It's in a free trade zone, and so what? Did it mean Dangote won't be getting his money or what? Cause I don't understand why you keep on saying is located in a free trade zone

Dangote will sell to local and international buyers in US dollar, but the US dollar will stay in Nigeria because Dangote is a Nigerian company.

gidgiddy:
In other words, you guys dont care about what the constitution says about freedom of movement for all Nigerians in Nigeria?

My point exactly

Did you talk about freedom of movement when IPOB stop kumuyi from holding a program in the south east?

Why did they come to work late?

ReligiousCritic:
The protesting staff were chanting “Umahi Must Go”, and lamented that they reside far away and there was no way they could come to the office early.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDIOjzd_ROA

See foolish talk

Wujio:
An ethnic street rat i mentioned. You're ignored

Your tears because of Lagos state is too much. Stop shedding tears on behalf of lagosians from far away Abuja

gidgiddy:
They feel threatend? Over a claim? Thats childish. Even some Bini people claim that Ikwerre land is Bini land

You can't blame them if they feel threatened. In fact, am glad they settled out the issue through the right channel. Now everybody knows their boundary and there is no bloodshed.

Wujio:
Noise. Break down Lagos and rebuild. Mainland Lagos has failed across all ramifications. From tragfic flow to housing to health care, to sanitation, to waste control, to wet lands management, to foods market, to foods provision, to security, to electioneerring handling, to quality of life, to water body management, to taxation funds use and management, Lagos has failed woefully across all facets of life. I'd rather be in Ogwashi Ukwu, Ogbomoso, illorin, than thrashy Lagos


The street rats would defend it not understanding what we elites see given its financial prowess. For a state raking in almost a trillion from taxes across every fifteen, months, it has failed to get any thing right. Whereas. Governance is easier with large pool of funds. Repair one sector and move to thr next and one by one, the entire system would be revamped, but no, Lagos has been sand-bagged and captured by elderly cultists eho see it as a


Abuja is saner !

No one is asking you for all this explanation.

Live in Abuja and stop crying because of us that are living in Lagos.

gidgiddy:
There is this ridiculous, stupid and outrageous story that an Ikwerre group petitioned the CP off Police in Rivers State that Ohanaeze should not celebrate Igbo day in Portharcourt, and the CP actually heard the petition, and warned Ohanaeze

I dont know if the story is true or not, but it doesn't make it any less stupid. Chapter 4 of the Nigerian constitution gives every Nigerian the right of free movement across the Nigerian state, unhindered. It also grants every Nigerian freedom of association and belief.

In other words, any Igbo man is constitutionally empowered to celebrate Igbo day, anywhere in Nigeria. So why would a group petition against a constitutional right granted to all? Why would a commissioner of Police even entertain such petition that is unconstitutional?

However, the revealing thing about that story is that it showed that many Nigerians dont care about the constitution, they only care about practising their own version of 'one Nigeria'. In other words, you have superior rights than all other Nigerians when you are in your own locality, even though the constitution says otherwise.

One Nigeria is a fraud.

The Ikwerres felt threaten when some igbos claim ph is Igbo land and that's why they want to celebrate Igbo day in ph.

Good news

Ajimobi created the dry port at Ibadan. May his soul keep on RIP

Ibadan needs to be link with Abuja

The lagos state government should fix the potholes on 3rd mainland bridge, it's causing traffic on the bridge during rush hours

sulaak:
Dangote refinery is in a free trade zone and subject to international law. Hence, Nigeria will need FX to buy oil from Dangote.

Is Dangote a foreign company or Nigerian company?

Dangote won't be selling to Nigerians alone, some other countries will also buy petrol, jet fuel, diesel etc from him.

So apart from the fact that dollars we use to buy from him stays in Nigeria, foreign countries will also pay in US $ which will also stay in Nigeria.

sulaak:
I think Nigerians should stop thinking about Dangote Refineries and focus on the four local and modular refineries. These have a combined capacity of 600,000, and since they are in Nigeria and not a free trade zone, the logistic and insurance costs will be very low, the oil will be extracted in Naria, processed in Naira and sold in Naira.

Dangote refinery is located in Nigeria, when we pay in dollar to Dangote refinery, the dollars will be in Nigeria, not in a foreign country.

In my post, I didn't talk about Dangote refinery alone. Two refineries will start working in Nigeria this year, the Dangote and PH refinery. When warri and kaduna refinery start working, people will also focus on them too.

One of the things I have come to detest about Nigeria is how individuals, especially the ones with means, get to use security agencies like they are personal thugs. Once upon a time in Nigeria, when you needed to settle scores without recourse to the law, you hired urchins from a motor park to beat up people. These days, you use the police or the Department of State Services for the same purpose. Both agencies differ in scope and responsibilities, but they fulfil similar functions of punishing people on behalf of those who can afford to summon them. They so cheaply make themselves available to service anti-democratic causes that they leave you no doubt about which master they serve.

Many instances of people using security agencies to abuse others do not make it to the news, but all the ones that do reflect the shameful fact that Nigeria has too many puny-sized gods in high places. The latest example is the case of Chioma Okoli, a Facebook user who shared her thoughts on a brand of tomato paste, Nagiko tomato mix, on social media. She complained that the product contained too much sugar, and suggested it might be harming people. Boom! She was arrested and has since been transferred to the police headquarters in the Federal Capital Territory.

Briefly setting aside the very troublesome fact that someone could be arrested over a review of a product, you must wonder why the company marketing the product, would meet a review of their product with such imperiousness. If they failed at managing a simple situation like responding to a product review tactfully, then we must also worry about the quality control of their production process. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control should probably investigate them because the truth does not need that amount of high-handedness to be defended.

In this age of online marketing and social media networks, businesses contend with subjective consumer tastes in ways they probably could not have imagined decades ago. We live in times when almost everything (and everyone) has become a product, and consuming them warrants feedback. There is no escaping the tyranny of public judgment. Even religious organisations are now regularly dragged to consumer review websites to be reviewed. People will scrutinise based on other people’s momentary feelings, and unfortunately, the most brutal opinion will stay permanently online. Anyone and anything can be hurt by public opinion. Whether or not the intentions were malicious, mischievous, or an expression of the reviewer’s sincere thoughts, we all live with this vulnerability.



For businesses, harsh reviews require having (and maintaining) organisational purpose and deft public relations management. Since Okoli did not tag them in her Facebook post, they could have ignored her. The exchange would have passed like the many million small things people chinwag on social media every minute. Even if they must respond to a reviewer, they could have done so from their official account. All they needed to do was list the contents of their products to counter her assertions that their product had too much sugar and was therefore injurious to public health. By instead responding with police arrest, they have shown that they are the kind of people who will force anything down your throat.

As they have shown themselves, their actions are not isolated. As I stated earlier, there are many instances of this abuse of power happening every single day but they just do not make it to the news. Too many people in Nigeria cultivate networks of access to power to abuse others and thereby assert their self-importance. From politicians to government officials and even at varying middling levels, it is all the same story of disproportionate use of force over what could have been resolved through civil means.

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Take another recent example of the Ogun State Local Government Chairman, Wale Adedayo, who petitioned authorities that their state governor, Dapo Abiodun, had hijacked allocations meant for local governments. What he alleged surprised no one. There is a reason the local government in Nigeria is comatose. The wonder is not that one person eventually spoke up, but that other local government chairpersons have been (and are still) quiet about it. In a place where governors are not above accountability, the response would be to disprove the claim. Because it is Nigeria, the DSS arrested Adedayo instead!


It was a turn of events that shows that many things in Nigeria just do not make sense. Why was any of that the business of the DSS? If the governor is defamed by the accusation, he has enough resources to pursue a civil case against his accuser. Now, Adedayo is being tried for making an allegation that he “knew was a false allegation and likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or to disturb the public peace.” The officers who wrote the charge sheet likely do comedy part-time. The Nigeria police might not be outstanding where it matters, but give it to them when they want to punish you, they know how to strain logic to make spurious charges.

Again, another recent example of the DSS being used for personal scores happened when their official was summoned by an unnamed Nigerian whose tailor did not deliver on their promise. Some things one hears in Nigeria and one’s head bursts. How does anyone consider it appropriate to call a DSS official to harass a tailor in the market? How did the officer too not think it was beneath their professional profile? That is an indication of how unserious that organisation has become.

There is a similar story of ex-First Lady Aisha Buhari who also sent the police to waylay a young man who had written an unflattering comment about her on then Twitter (nowX). Listening to the police officer who arrested the young man testify in court detailing how they went about it, you realised how entirely petty our leaders can be. Their mean-spiritedness is, unfortunately, serially enabled by security agents who seem unable to define their role within Nigeria’s so-called democracy.

Mubarak Bala, the Kano atheist, is another person suffering because we have a police force that has conditioned its reflexes to attend to the errands of oppressive forces. One man, ironically a lawyer, petitioned the police against Bala and threatened Muslim violence if they did not punish him. That was enough for the police to have him arrested, incarcerated, and eventually imprisoned. Tani Olohun (real name Adegbola Abdulazeez) is languishing in jail for the same reason. Time and space will not permit me to reel out more examples, some of whom are even pastors, who have also used the police to arrest individuals over personal issues. They could have pursued a civil case, but no, they must use force because what is at stake for them is proving themselves as connected to power.

It was bad enough when politicians and regular individuals used the police (or the DSS) to harass regular citizens. Now things have degenerated to the point that even a business operation thinks that is the way to address issues. Gone are the days when customers were always right because buying something with their money gives them the privilege to be right or wrong about their assessment of a product. Writing an unflattering review of a tomato can now get you arrested. The resources expended in taking Okoli to police headquarters would probably fuel the patrol vehicles of their hapless officers currently begging for money from road transport workers as you read this, but they would rather spend it proving a useless point.

https://punchng.com/so-now-you-can-be-arrested-by-a-tomato/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

Tinubu administration have not shown or tell us how they want to solve the insecurity issue all over Nigeria. We can't continue like this

Poultry farmers warn of impending collapse, says farmers can no longer feed birds
Poultry farmers call for maize import licenses to prevent collapse of industry

Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, called on the FG to save the sector from what they termed as an imminent collapse facing the industry and urged for new maize import waivers as the landing cost of maize should not be above N200,000 per metric ton, but now a metric ton of maize costs about N600,000.

They blamed the issue of egg gluts which has become an annual problem that has almost become permanent as purchasing power and demand have dropped drastically.

This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday by PAN Lagos State Chairman, Mr Mojeed Iyiola,at in Lagos.

FG’s efforts

Mr Mojeed Iyiola appreciated FG for its previous efforts in the sector but called for a quick intervention over the unavailability and non-affordability of maize for feed production.


“We really appreciate the government’s contributions to the sector; they have moved the sector ahead in various aspects.
“So we want to express our appreciation and at the same time, let them know our predicaments and the problems we face as an association.
Egg glut
They also added that the egg glut added with the reduced purchasing power means many farms are on the brink of collapse.

“Due to the hardships faced in the sector, the issue of egg glut has become an annual problem that has almost become permanent as purchasing power and demand has dropped drastically.
“We appeal to government at all levels to assist this sector from total collapse; considering the importance of our industry to food security we need the government’s intervention.
“The industry is at the point of total collapse and we need the government’s help urgently.’’
Maize import
PAN noted that without maize the poultry industry cannot exist, due to the high cost of maize for feed, most poultry farmers have closed shop because of the situation and called for import licenses of maize.

“We want the government to grant PAN at the national level the license to import maize for the survival of the sector.
“The already existing importers of maize are working against farmers, the landing cost of maize should not be above N200,000 per metric ton, but now a metric ton of maize costs about N600,000.
“The poultry sector caters for over 180 million Nigerian workforce and contributes 25 per cent to the agricultural GDP; it should not be allowed to collapse.’’
PAN said it is seeking for long-term solution to the problems, by addressing the issue of banditry that affected the productivity of crop (maize and soya) farmers.

“This will enable our farmers to return to the farms and subsequent availability of maize and soya at the lowest cost.
“If we can get maize and soya at the lowest cost, the rising cost of poultry produce will also drop,” he said.



https://nairametrics.com/2023/09/28/poultry-farmers-call-for-maize-import-licenses-to-prevent-collapse-of-industry/

Bullet01:
Can you imagine! A country that has crude oil in abundance. It is finished 😃

When the Dangote Refinery start operating, Nigeria won't import petrol again till after 2030. Dangote and the NNPCL refinery in PH will take care of our needs

Wujio:
It is..Erisci wont because they want to avoid dirt at all costs. Notice Erisco Tomatoes has been suffering lots of setbacks since its inception. Last thing it needs is such filt now its beginning to understand the Tomato paste ecosystem. Theyll settle out of court to avpid FCCPC Compliance wahala and give her 2M to avoid such next time

I've never heard of Erisco tomatoes before if not for the lady that talked about their product. So I don't know if they have been suffering setbacks or not.

Well, tomato paste importers should also drag Erisco for defamation

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/how-tomato-paste-importers-are-killing-nigerians-erisco-foods/amp/

Omobude244:
Is Buhari not APC again?🤣🤣

Can anything good ever come out of that evil party 😁

Buhari was the President when she was appointed. All this your shalaye is not needed.

Wujio:
Negative rieview is expected in life. Moderation is needful in life. If only they knew the number of people who die untimely from speaking to people anyhow. We must give only what wr can receive

Well, let's see if EriscoFoodsLtd will sue her to court for defamation.

Reinaldo:
Same APC

I'm correcting the people who claim tinubu appointed her.

Wujio:
Go and understand the difference between criticism and defamation. Smh, Gen Z and the generation after. Badly trained people formed out of poor delapidated educational system

If its a review, show us the PROs of using the product as against the CON she heavily spoke about

If the likes of Glo start picking up people that make a negative review about their network eh

slivertongue:
Buhari did but Tinubu's men were behind it

Explain what make you arrive at this conclusion

slivertongue:
both are same. the head of service organized it with the knowledge of the incumbent

What are you trying to say? Buhari appointed the lady, not Tinubu.

Well, Nigeria hardly have up to 5 billionaires on the list at the same time.

Naira losing value is making Nigerians poorer sha. Traveling out for vacation have become more expensive

slivertongue:
everything about this administration is about forgery

felong:
Tinubu's government is riddled with forgery, Corruption, bribery etc. I wonder how people feel defending this man. I wonder how they sleep at night.

koiki4bat:
Tinubu had to appoint his own crook there but the crook can't even pass the exam meant for occupants of the office and his also a forger like the principal

this kind interim gofment is veri disgraceful fa

The lady was appointed under Buhari administration