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Macsjebs:
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First, Musk is truly a lucky guy to have gone largely unscathed from dating that Amber Heard Delilah.
This lady singlehandedly destroyed Johnny Depp's career.
Second, what's with the X in the names of the children

9gerian:
Who else noticed that the only time the pope was alleged to be a conspiracy theorist was when he alluded to what every informed person knows about the deliberate poking of Russia by NATO, which led to this crisis? This is because there is a script, and anything outside of that script is regarded as conspiracy theories and censored from the news.

This is how people are brainwashed and programmed to think and react in a particular way using the media who work in sync with specially scripted narratives for people to soak up without an opportunity for an opinion of their own. Watch all the mainstream media and you would see the pattern for what it is.

They've purged almost all alternative news sources from the information space, especially news from Russia and Chinese origins, leaving their people to solely consume what they want them to consume.

MASTAkiLLAh:
Must everything involve government ? Those tanks are sold with covers, cover your tanks and monkeys won't go inside. I saw this same video today and the person who posted it said location is Abuja, bloggers are something else

Imagine how infantile he sounds.
Government attention to deal with monkeys

Racoon:
Bullshit! Abeg rest this Jonathan nonsense.

I don't know GEJ to be smart but I know he's not dumb.
It's a bait to lure him to the APC. He'll lose the primaries but he'll remain in the party, with his supporters of course.
Game over for PDP before the elections even starts.

Simeonjoe1:
As in I'm even shocked the way people agrees to that post. The man is talking as if the money is already there, all that's just left is a stroke of pen. In as much as we want to increase local distribution so also we should enhance our export. And which better customer can we sell to if not those in Europe. How many gas will our west African buy or can afford. Even the Nigeria market here is it profitable?
We have more than enough to export and for domestic use. All those industries mentioned requires money and this is an avenue to make such money. Nigeria is a very poor country and until we find a way to increase our IGR all those things mentioned will only be meagerly accomplished and we will still continue on the borrowing trends. Like almost any major infrastructure now we have to borrow to fund it.
This is normal market. If you have a shop and want to expand it you have to sell to the public not even your family members cause only then can you make more money to expand your shop. How many people fit consume gas for Nigeria, or we should start introducing gas subsidy another avenue to grossly decrease our income generation. Or we should start distributing free gas to people with stoves? Or creating more power generation plants when obviously the disco and consumer isn't on terms.

Spot on!
The guy is a fictitious economist Full of unrealistic ideas.
Like you put it, he writes as if the money to build the infrastructure is cash in the CBN waiting to be disbursed.
Economic concepts can be complicated yet simple. Your "shop expansion" instance is a very good hint for dummies on how things work; I hope he sees it.
That's why I run to Quora, too many halfwits on NL making us all dumber

Fronesis:
Honestly, you said every word out of my mouth. People applauding him have no knowledge of reality and what global economics is. I was just laughing; sounding so genius in everything he said. Though he's right about the internal utilization of gas and using that to boost our economy but the whole idea that we dont need to build foreign reserve through gas export and it's because of colonized mindset opened up how dumb he is...like seriously? Does he know what it would take for Naira to become a dominant currency in global trade and foreign reserves to start stocking up naira as a global trade foreign exchange. No matter how strong your currency is, you have no choice to stock up dollar. Your currency is only strong within, it would take a miracle to beat dollar in the global market. What's the level of your country's partcipation in the scheme of things globally. That guy should be writing fictional movies...hehehehe. You statement said it all though; he's out of touch with reality. Even China and singapore won't ask for your naira when they see dollar no matter how strong your naira is.

That guy should be writing fictional movies
Sounding all woke.
The guy whitewashed the importance of foreign reserve, I was shocked.
Even the Chinese, as mighty as their economy, they've not figured it out yet how to dethroned the USD.

Ttalk:
2023 will not be monkey dey work and baboon dey shop. Every region will reap their contribution to their beloved party in 2023.

No one can cajole blackmail or intimidate his way to AsoRock, the principle of fairness doesn't support working for Innoson but expecting salary from Dangote group.

The Igbos are the most industrious tribe in Nigeria. They're well capable to be president of Nigeria and I believe they'll do well.
But they should earn it like others.
That's politics, if the Yorubas didn't work for the APC during the last 2 polls(2015 and 2019) there would be no questions about zoning it to the South or Southwest being the preferred beneficiaries. They earned it!

The GEJ admin was benevolent to the Southeast and South south. The Yorubas did vote for GEJ too, he was a lucky guy, the whole country fell for his "I don't have shoes".
But the Yorubas didn't probably do as much as the Igbos, even then, they didn't deserve the GEJ treatment. But no one said a thing until he was booted out!
Then Yorubas suddenly became traitors.

What honor is there to have what you did not earn?

aribisala0:
We do not have any for domestic use. Nothing significant compared to need
To use it domestically we need investment in infrastructure. As long as that infrastructure does not exist and we are cooking with kerosine it is self deception to say we have excess. That infrastructure costs money and should BE PRIORITIZED over export infrastructure. If you do not get that you will never get anything

This is not about right or wrong but priority and interest
You talk about boosting foreign reserve as if that is a virtue? Does US boost foreign reserve? That is not their concern They sell their gas in their own currency .Why? because we are reserving in their currencyas is the rest of the world .So demand for dollar is always high
Boosting foreign reserves is not a pointless thing it must have a reason and that is to pay for imports . So if we can reduce imports WHICH WE CAN then boosting foreign reserves is an academic exercise. As we have learnt from The Ukraine war . Dollar based foreign reserves can be sanctioned For any reason the US can cook up . We do not need limitless foreign reserves rather we need to improve our balance of trade and domicile surplus in OUR OWN banks



No currency has intrinsic value. It is all down to demand and supply.
So the idea of "boosting foreign reserves" come from a colonized mindset. That is because we manufacture nothing and import everything
If we reverse that trend our own currency can become a reserve currency too.
Colonized minds will never envision that.
The other strategic consideration is if we decide to enter energy intensive sectors of the World Economy then those we sell gas
to are our competitors. If they cannot get cheap gas then they MIGHT be forced to shift production to our country. As long as cheap gas is an option that will not happen.

Finally your projection about boosting foreign reserves is weak

How much exactly are we talking about . Gas is very cheap and from our perspective at current prices is not worth selling .
Let it stay in the ground. Last year how much did we make from gas sales abroad?

You're being a idealist.
I admire your "uncolonized" mindset though your optimism too; Naira can become a foreign reserve
Excerpts from your submission;
That is because we manufacture nothing and import everything
That infrastructure costs money and should BE PRIORITIZED over export infrastructure.
If they cannot get cheap gas then they MIGHT be forced to shift production to our country.

All coming from your "uncolonized" mind.
We barely produce a thing, we import everything where do we get the money to "Prioritize" the infrastructure if we don't export our natural resources? Or would you rather have us borrow like we've been doing?
You use what you have to build what you don't have. Common sense!

And talking about "forcing" investors to shift production to our country as if we're the only country with natural gas You see how idealistic you are. You seem to be out of touch with reality.

victorv12:
This project must not be allowed. The EU must solve their problem with Russia. It seems like our leaders can be so gullible to the level that they can throw anything to them.

Well, if you think you want to spite the EU whilst letting a great opportunity like this one slip away, you are spiting yourself too.
See what the Indians are doing with Russia.
These guys are taking advantage of the situation by getting the already cheap Russian oil at even cheaper rates, shunning all consequences that might come from the West.

The idea of the pipeline was conceived long ago(April 2019), before the Ukrainian crisis but largely docile because Russia has been filling the space. Now, there is a political will to have it done from European investors.
The project was estimated to cost 90.1m USD to be splitted 50-50 by Nigeria and Morocco.

PHIPEX:
Who needs the gas pipeline, Nigeria or Morocco, why are we the one seeking the fund?

We both need it.
It'll pump our gas to Morocco. Morocco will pump to Europe.
It might branch some coastal nations like Liberia, Senegal, Gabon et al on its way to Morocco.
All they need to do is to build wellheads.

aribisala0:
Huge and stupid?

We are still cooking with kerosine and Firewood and think the best thing to do is export gas.

When we export gas we export our children's future and jobs
Let us ask a simple question

What do those countries that buy our gas do with it and what do we buy from them in return

Google
List of top gas consuming countries you will find the top world economies

What we need to invest in is our capacity to distribute and use gas INSIDE Nigeria

That money should go on gas power plants in Nigeria and not gas pipelines for export.
Last year we made less than a billion USD from gas.

When that gas reaches Europe it would be retailed for much more(we lose)
It will contribute a lot more to their GDP and used in products which we then end up importing e.g. fertilizers(we lose again)

Among the most energy intensive products are
Basic Chemicals( Germany is one of the leading producers)
Steel
Cement
Foods e.g chocolates,beverages,tobacco
Paper
plastics
Glass
Aluminium
ALL products that we import a lot

All products we have no business importing

Strategically we should focus on using our energy for Value Addition

Does it make sense for us to

Sell cassava to anyone and then buy gari in return?

But FOR DECADES

we are buying petrol and diesel

We should not compound that folly by

putting our money into pipelines for gas to Europe

We can never get a fair price for it and we should focus on using it to boost our own economy

Let us aim to be a world leader in Glass and fertilizer . We have everything needed for that. Why export it?

Rather les us offer free or very cheap gas for 10 years for companies to come and open manufacturing plants

Glass is a big deal not gas
There is growing glass market of $120 billion worldwide, growing fertilizer market, growing steel and cement market

That should be our focus

Come on!
We have excess for export and domestic use.
Inasmuch as I agree that we develop the sector domestically, there's nothing wrong in building international pipelines and exporting gas to Europe.
Apart from crude oil, natural gas has the potential to boost our foreign reserve. We need to export all we can export.
It's a welcome development.

OkuFaba:
Everybody wan swindle this one money all in the name of election.

This one just wants to go and disgrace himself all in the name of election.

You have everything money can acquire yet your eyes are on those presidential seat trying to block the path of we younger generation.

You're just an unfortunate grandpa

We prevailed with our #NotTooYoungToRun but they raised the form fee to 100Million.

If you're 30, do you have 100M naira?
These guys are greedy

Minjim:
You don't know how international politics work.

Unlike the Article 5 that bound NATO's members to fight for each others, Russia doesn't have any of such pact with all the countries you mentioned, are least to my knowledge.

As close as the Great Britain is with the United States, the US didn't come to GB's defense during the WWII until Japan dragged them into it.

If the US can claim neutrality when it comes to GB, do you think China won't do same to Russia?
Or you think China is gaining more from Russia than the US?
This is war we are talking about, not just an invasion.
India is just exploiting the desperate situation of Russia. So forget about any relationship they have now .

I agree with some of your points.
However, you have a bloated sense of the knowledge of international politics.
The US was militarily and strategically neutral just like the Chinese are now but there was no doubt to whom they aligned with.
They sent aids to the allies too.
What you can't deny is that most of the countries I listed in my submission earlier will not stand aside and look while Russia is being obliterated by the West.
There's a popular Chinese saying that explains the Western evil but ridiculous intentions for the Chinese; "help me fight your friend so that I can have enough time to prepare to destroy you afterwards".

In short, if one or two nations engage in a conventional warfare, it's just a matter of time before it becomes a world war 3 you'd agree with me.
They don't have to join the war at the same time.

The Indians have come to realize the West do not have their interest at heart, especially during the peak of COVID when thousands of Indians were dying and cases hitting the ceiling. The West was indifferent.
It was a major turning point for the Indians. They've been buying not just oil from Russia but military hardwares.

babasolution:
What a primitive people,the Yoruba are so primitive

Yes. We love it

Minjim:
That's not WWIII.

All those supporting Russia now will never go to war for them.
Even those that Russians colonised aren't their friends. Except Belarus.

So who will fight along side Russia?

You think Iran, Syria, Pakistan, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Philippines, Indonesia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and China will fight against Russia in favor of the West? Or you think they'd be neutral when NATO attacks Russia?? Come on!
Even India has been drifting towards Russia lately economy and military-wise.

That's the most unsophisticated submission I have read all day.
Modified: As against your impression that "they're not going to fight for Russia"...I think that's where you missed the point.
They're not fighting for Russia but for themselves!
In a world war, even superpowers needs allies, let alone small nations. You stay neutral, you get attacked and no one will come to your aid.

Russia came to the aid of Al Assad in Syria, annihilated ISIS and anti-Assad rebels backed by the US and ended the Syrian war.
If Assad was neutral the US backed rebels would have dethroned him long ago.

Agbegbaorogboye:
It's Tinubu he's doing it for not Atiku. Tinubu has more to gain if a southern president is required and Osinbajo is painted a bigot. It cancels him and leave Tinubu as the only viable choice from South for the north since he's Muslim. Besides, Farooq hardly attacks Tinubu.

Not true that he hardly attacks Tinubu.
Tinubu was his main punching bag; probably because he declared earlier than the rest.
You can check his Facebook page Farook Kperogi.
He's attacked all the presidential aspirants but he rarely attacks Atiku and Peter Obi.

It's important to mention that he believes the president should come from the East.
So he's been soft on the Eastern aspirants and PDP mostly.
But lately, Osinbajo is at the receiving end of his endless banters. This is probably because of the resistance from Osinbajo media team.

timay1:
Absolutely.


It's called strategic thinking.
Putin simply took the less bitter of the two pill.

Russia is not dumb. I'm sure their intelligence analysts have analysed the whole scenario and outcome before going down this patg

Apt.
Putin is a meticulous strategist.
If he didn't expect all that's happening and hadn't planned for it, the Russian economy would no doubt have crashed as we speak.
As against popular Western propaganda, the Western media is not censored in Russia.
The Russians are in behind Putin.
His approval ratings is all time high.
In contrast, the US and EU have purged all alternative news especially from Russia and China leaving their citizens to listen and read from only one source which is from within.
No matter how weaken Russia gets, they'd still have their nukes.
You're never weak with nukes and hypersonic missile capabilities.

BigBelleControl:
Osinbajo has bought market from Kperogi. He's another version of Reno Omokri.
RCCG shouldn't have made their partisanship known. Would they have created a Directorate of Politics if their top-ranking member wasn't in the Presidency?

If this were done by a Muslim group, they would have been accused of trying to Islamize Nigeria.

These topics are very controversial.
Like you said, the Kperogi guy is a guy who can singlehandedly destroy one's political career.
This guy seems to be attacking everyone except Atiku.
He's also planting sentiments into people's minds, especially in the minds of his northern audiences.
Some of his claims may be true though.
Osinbajo has a good PR team but this Kperogi guy seems to be prevailing. They need to work hard.
If he continues dishing out these articles and he's consistent, believe me, it's going to damage not just Osinbajo's reputation but the entire RCCG.

For the northerners, it's time to pay back the never ending "They want to Islamize Nigeria" rhetorics by CAN whenever the president is a Muslim.
Because Osinbajo is a pastor, the "They want to RCCGify Nigeria" rhetoric will sell.
He's more specific at least; RCCGification not Christianization.

Quiny32323:
I was sure all these precision strikes on Russian troops where supervised by highly trained foreigners because Ukrainian forces are as obsolete as their Russian counterparts but I still blame putin for falling into this trap by the west. He is the main maga here

Depends on how you see it.
Putin's words; "If th fight is unavoidable, hit first".
It could be a trap like you said, but there's a bigger trap if he doesn't take the pain of this small one.
It's easier to fight Ukraine as a non-NATO member state than a Ukraine covered by NATO's article 5.
That's outrightly WWIII.

Maynman:
They sent a whole Canadian general to go kill people in Ukraine, sounds very convincing

He went on his own accord.
Bottom line is, he's been capture, not as a soldier but a mercenary.
He's not covered by the Geneva convention; He's in deep trouble!

michlins:
If he gets the ticket,he will most likely win because of his Christian background. But he needs a Hardline Moslem to convince the North to vote for him

All he needs is to win the primaries.

naija4life247:
After 7 wasted years as VP.

So, the mentally unstable MURIC miscreant Ishaq Akintola is right. RCCG wants to start partisan politics. I hope RCCG is not digging its grave because politicians will bury the Church at the brothel .

That's if he doesn't win.

DanseMacabre:
There's no point in willful martyrdom, cos this is what it's beginning to look like. He who runs lives to fight another day.

He'll run eventually.

Indispensable85:
Trust me nobody will disgrace him. He'll be received and listened to. I'm not sure someone like Sanwo olu will descend so low to disrespect the VP. The party will only politely tell him they're with Tinubu. I'm sure he'll eventually summon that courage. They all need one another to win the main election after the primary. It's a family contest.

Not Sanwo-Olu.
I'm talking about paid agents.
Or just Tinubu political halleluyah boys chanting betrayal outside APC secretariat or whatever venue they're hosting him.

Indispensable85:
We're saying the same thing. It's the lack of courage.

Something like that.
Why do you have to go to a place where you might be disgraced?
Just to prove that you have courage. Lol

Indispensable85:
First I commend Amaechi for his courage to even visit at all. The coward VP avoided Lagos and Osun. I'm beginning to rate Amaechi above Osinbajo. Leaders must be courageous at all times. This is one quality the president of Nigeria from 2023 will need because lots of tough decisions are required to set Nigeria on the part of greatness. The VP obviously lacks it.

Tinubu is a leader of leaders. His mentees are everywhere. No bitterness can change that FACT.

In fairness, It's far easier for Amaechi to visit Lagos than it is for Osinbajo.

LegendHero:
In Lagos, they don't do bojuboju politics, it is a state with confident politicians.

Even APC chairman used a infinity logo face mask to welcome Amaechi.

Amaechi himself even mentioned that it was a hard decision for him to come to Lagos to canvass for delegates.

No hard feelings. These guys are clearly not hiding anything or raising his hopes.
It's a "Thank you for coming" atmosphere.

lecowas:
Russia has resumed the supply of the gas they halted, why if I may ask?

Warning shot.

Brendaniel:
Till you guys can prove to the world that muslims will not kill or support killings because of their God, religion or prophet for any reason, then I can accept Islam as a non-extremist religion, Islam is the only religion in the world that I know that If I am given the opportunity today to ban and proscribe, I will do it without looking twice till modification is made in islamic ruling to remove killings for any reasons that has to do with your prophet, your God and you religion(islam), because it is these 3 reasons that has caused terrorism all over the world that has taken thousands maybe millions of lives and you want me to support such...

Ok. I hear you.

Brendaniel:
https://allafrica.com/stories/201606050149.html

https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00043738.html

https://www.christiantoday.com/article/nigeria.christian.man.killed.for.blasphemy.as.religious.violence.grows/87359.htm

https://guardian.ng/news/four-killed-in-riots-in-niger-over-alleged-blasphemy/

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/292549/blasphemy-killings-impunity-and-ethnoreligious-vendetta-in.html

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/muslim-mob-kills-eight-in-nigeria-over-blasphemy/story-2uUTsMqDscGaEjwThVOUZO.html

the is just a few of numerous cases then you want me to enter mosque and try, how wicked can you be, first read all the articles then ask me why I should accept that islam is not a religion of extremism, then send me links that Christians killed anyone for insulting their God to prove to me that Islam is not a extremist religion...

So, the links above are your ultimate proofs that ALL Muslims are extremists?
You're a typical Islamaphobe.
Have a good day.

Brendaniel:
Dodging the main thing and beating around the bush, can you go into a mosque and say Allah is mad and leave there alive, if you can't then all your point is totally useless, but you can do that in other religions and come out alive, my issue with Islam is the fatwa, why must you kill for your God because your God or prophet was insulted and even justify the killing...

That's exactly where you are getting it wrong.
You're being too presumptuous. Between your lines, you've concluded by your "if you can't...". Why not give us an instance of someone who did that and got killed?
Why not go to a mosques and find out yourself?

VillagePipu:
If they kick him out, at least it won't be the fault of we village people.
You call non-Muslims kaffirs but you are mad that they call all Muslims terrorists.
Religion is a big problem.

The Arabic word for an unbeliever is Kaffir.
Which refers to someone who doesn't believe in Islam. Do you feel insulted still?
Now, this is a Bible verse.

“Do not be bound together with unbelievers,” says Paul in 2 Corinthians 6:14, “for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?” Believers can and should relate to unbelievers' situations, but we must never emulate their lifestyles of separation from God.

Now compare being called a terrorist to being called an unbeliever.
Seek knowledge!