₦airaland Forum

Boss13:
Emefiele is a joker and I hope he is reading this. He talks about diversification; how will diversification come to play when the interest rate in this country is extremely high. Currently only about 0.05% of the Nigerian population is creating jobs. Who is going to diversify the economy - Dangote Emefiele, in a recession, you reduce interest rate and not increase interest rate. You should put enormous pressure on Bank CEOs to start lending to start-ups. Enough of the currency trading and bond purchase practice of Banks, there should be real lending to support our economy. The profitability of Banks should be seen and felt in the economy. Banks should not grow without any economic growth.

To jump start the diversification and hopefully the exportation of good and services, which in turn will bring the much needed forex to the economy we need to do the following

1. Reduce to no greater than 6% personal loans, to encourage consumer spending.
This will increase the purchase of goods and services, improving gross domestic product via service purchased and VAT

2. Reduce Business loans to not greater than 3%. This will stimulate the real, production and manufacturing sector. Improve SMEs and create vibrant middle income belt that propels the economy in terms of job creation and the flourishing of ideas that turns to wealth.

3. Mandate the Banks to reduce the personal mortgage loans to no more than 3% spread over a 25% repayment period.
Housing is the major anxiety for any family, a affordable means to achieve that is key to settling a happier citizenry. Apart for improving the real sector of the economy the spin off of this industry will create jobs and wealth for skilled artisan and Engineers in various fields.

This will stop the anxiety for Nigerians, eliminate the get rich quickly and get money or die trying syndrome associated with us Nigerians.
As the basic needs of a person is food, shelter and clothing. When funds are made available at low interest rate these basic needs can be satisfied and hence less propensity to steal or be corrupted by others as your basic needs as a human being can be met easily.


We have to seriously try to put the money in the hands of people to create the spin effect of money. The Multiplier effect of money will disappear if the banks keeps making safe money with Government money like interest in forex and bonds

They celebrated US classification of Nigeria unsafe under GEJ to further their claims on how badly GEJ government was.

Now their former paymasters have served them a hors d'oeuvres.

The pressure is coming.

The US listens more to the street than the present government seems to.

Lai Mohammed should rather take this to his masters and forge policies, economic and otherwise that will even keep the foreigners working here safe at least before we talk of tourism that is dead already.

This is the index of safety of a country not what we the locals feel about how safe it is.

Do we have any vacationers wilfully coming to Nigeria for vacation.... the answer is hell NO.
The International Flight travels tell it all.

The people coming in are those working here, doing biz here already hence are stucked or those invited and would be restricted to Southern Nigeria and Abuja at most.
The rest are Nigerians travelling out.


We need to reboot this system.....ko le work bayi.

OP oya take biblical clay and mould this type of men.


Eleke the bird said; since women have learnt to size a man pocket and bank account from their smartphones that him the guy has learnt not to perch (stay) with any woman for long.

Pat Utomi
Emeka Anyaoku

From the south west
Former Agric. minister Akinwummi

From the Northern side none.
Except Ribadu can be sponsored by 1 naira each from all Nigerians and owes no allegiance to anyone. Then he will act.


Wild cat. Me

mrkayusfit:
Even though i condemn the killing of innocent people, i think the Igbo's need to be law abiding and respect their host for peace to thrive. Not everyone will be peaceful and accommodating like the yoruba's who ignored several provocations from the Igbo's despite calling Lagos a no man's land, calling yoruba's tenants in lagos, and calling Oba of lagos names for stating his opinion concerning governorship elections. Even though we are one Nigeria, i think the Igbo's should stop their dominating attitude and let peace reign when they are away in the SW or North

[b]I do not think they are wrong here.
To kill someone for the sheer fact he is Igbo does not augur well for Nigeria and anyone for that matter.

If the Northern person can claim the oil in outback of SS and SE.
If the Yorubas can claim development and the federal infrastructure built by the tills of the oils and taxes of traders, workers of igbos and non igbo alike.
Why should the Igbo not be able to claim any land where they live, pay their dues and legitimately do their business Legit business that it.


This is the same notion held since 1960 that has kept the country backward. the country tried to firewall the Igbos even as way back 1962. Just 2 years after independence.
Why? Nigerians and indeed the Northern Elite had the notion igbos where arrogant, too forward, forceful and their never-back-down spirit. These notions is still prevalent today. Instead of embracing their nature, free entrepreneurial spirit and celebrating their acceptance of one Nigeria as pronounced in the No Victor No Vanquish statement after the war.

They are rather hounded, suppressed and told to be grateful and be respectful to their hosts anywhere outside the east else they will repeat what they did in the past. A sad macabre genocide in my opinion. With the proponents still in power and majority of them alive today.

My dear, a fool dies so many times before his death.

the Igbos are dearing. It is there nature.
We all can not be the same thing.

We should tolerate our difference, as even with all their mouth or "supposed"arrogance they still move to Lagos or North to do their business because they know at the end it all about securing your life and pronounce that you are alive, since there is a silent agreement to shut-out the igbos.

They blocked them from employment in early sixties in the North.

They introduce the Quota system to curtail the numbers of igbos and indeed southernerns (including the Yorubas who were reluctant to join the Army prefering Civil services and white collar jobs instead) in the Civil services and other professions even when on merit they are clearly better then the others.
From 1966-1970 the Nigeria state under the young military officers of which the present President was the driver of the truck that picked up the killed Igbo military men in the 1966 Northern Coup and the extensive Killings of Igbos and other Southernerns in the North for the fear they are Igbos and the fear of Decree 34 announced by Agunyi Ironsi.

My dear, if you are from this tribe you will do worst after what they have been through in the hands of Nigeria.


So don't blame them.
Walk in their shoes or read their history then you will understand their angst.

I read it and i have not remained the same again as i could not reconcile my hatred against these people before now.

I sympathise with them now. We need to talk about the 1960 to 1999 Igbo conundrum for them to be at peace.[/b]

Bubu over to you.

Remember, if any christian should loose their lives you are responsible as the threat here is clear on the mandate of the group.

With the immediate response to ND, IPOB and Nah Buhari group's threats deal the same hands to your Northern brothers to stop this madness.

Bolustic:
Get this straight.

General JT Aguiyi Ironsi was the first to restructure Nigeria from regional governments to unitary one through Decree 34 of 1966 immediately the Ibos got power.

The northerners tasted it and saw how sweet it was and wouldn't let go.

Actually the Norhern rejected it, the mass riot in Kaduna and other Northern states then when Southerners were killed was partly due to the suspicion the Northern Elite felt about the unitary decree 34 of JTU Aguyi Ironsi.

Though they will later embrace it after the Northern coup and the Igbo purge of 1966 as the best form of the system after a 3 days lacuna ensued due to a marathon meeting between the "Human tempest" Gen Muritala Muhammed and the former Northern leaders displaced by the Ifeajuna/Kaduna coup.

They accepted it after it was discovered if they seceded as was the plan in the 1966 Northern coup they will not be able to survive financially knowing that Oil was recently discovered in commercial quantity in Mid West and the Central bank and Money is situated in the South.

In addition coupled with the Northern geography it will be landlocked with no seaport hence a ethnic suicide.

A revert to regional control was agreed by Gowon with Ojukwu in Aburi Accord in Ghana but was reneged after the Elites felt the agreement was a political suicide for the Northern Military Hegemony and gave Biafra and the East more than fair advantage in a well articulated front by Ojukwu.

Floyd45:
How can i lay my hands on this book? Did you read a soft or hard copy?

Floyd45 I read a softcopy...was able to download same yesterday.

Henrodah:
Am no igbo or yoruba, but I commend you all to try and read Max Siollun's book 'Nigeria's Military Coup Culture' and get clear information about nigeria's history on 'violence'.....contrary to most people's belief, Jan 15th coup wasn't an ibo coup, it was the most nigerianistic coup since this country's inception. But trust the Victors way of narrating stories, it must suit them....please let's read more and Avoid tribalism in any simple historic news we read bout nigeria.

Thanks for the reference.
Just finished devouring the master piece.

Cured my ignorance largely.

The causative factors that drove the imprisonment of Awolowo.
The division of the west--by 1964 called the wild west.

The botched first coup planned by Awolowo, the first real plan to get us to safety.


Never new that the first parliamentary fight was in the west, by the western premiere.

The real reason why Azikiwe "betrayed" the Yoruba, by forming alliance with Nigerian National Alliance to form a government in 1965.

How is Azikiwe's love for power made him a sellout to the Eastern premiere and the western premiere and why there was a mutual suspicion till today.

The counter punitive plan by his ally who felt betrayed in the civil war.

The origin of Igbo far out indiscretion and arrogance.


This book is a must read, to clear all grey areas of our history and to straighten all attempts to re-write history by these self serving fathers Azikiwe, Awolowo, Sardauna and Tafewa Balewa to claim heroes of our shared history.....


In fact am glad I read the book and thanks.

Fajuyi was a soldier's soldier. You can only follow someone to death if you love him to his/her soul or you are professionally loyal to death.

He was the later and yes he is a Soldier's soldier.

Truly humans live, die and repeat.

The same scenario is playing out again with the South East.

It is their turn now to produce a Nigerian President and a son of perdition was conscripted to speak in Hausa tongue, prepare ye the way of the North in 2019.
But unlike the Biblical John the Baptist, he does not sing or shout of righteousness but for the promise made to him and the hope of a vice president which will serve as an appeasement of the Northern King makers for him in 2023..

Like John the Baptist, this forerunner should remember that when the SE & SS are asked to dance, their price will be the political dynasty and head of Rochas.


lol...even me go spiritual.

If you can not find suitable qualified persons of SE extraction that can match toe for toe, qualification for qualification, achievement for achievement, integrity for integrity to any anointed candidates from Northern or Western extraction then you can simply confirm the marginalization of the zone and the systematic firewalling of people from these zones from main stream power equation.

Solution: Conduct a referendum for the two zones to decide whether they would like to stay or leave.

GreyLaw:
I want to consider what you wrote a huge joke! The problem is not whether or not the man's action would correct the girl, but the damage his overreaction has caused.

Do you even consider it that till the world ends, that girl's unclothed pictures will be all over the internet, to be feasted upon by both genuine viewers and perverts?

Fatherhood or not, the man got it absolutely wrong. Trust me, in developed Western countries this man would be facing the courts now and the girl taken away from him.

In fact, whatever the girl did is a reflection of the moral decadence of her home and, of course, poor home training.

The kid was foolish; the father was more foolish!

The morally advanced society you cited are still studying more conservative cultures as a cure for the malaise in their style of parenting.
Last year, a survey in the US put children from Indian, Asian and Nigerian families to be better behaved than most children in the States.

Have we not seen or read these statistics of those advanced country and ours tirelessly?. the result are evident.

What pervs are you talking about, even if they gore at the online picture from now till eternity comes does it bore a hole in her skin. Hell No!!!

People have risen from much worse here in Nigerian.

So please spare me the archive threats of the internet, this is the least of her problems.

The man is not a citizen of an advanced country, but that of a "less advanced society" so he hasn't erred here. It is the norm and it is expected.

In fact, those days she would have been given a thorough beating by other women, remember it takes the whole village to raise an African child.

Now these benefits is lost in prisons we called flats, Duplexes and Private Homes/Estates and virtual world of internet and smartphones.

As no one claims a bastard child, except nowadays where shame is replaced with baby mamas syndrome.

The problem is that we are torn with identity crisis, we can not be whiter than the white and we have long sold our cultures to remain truly African. Hence we are not all white in our culture now and can never be and neither are we still 100% African in values, norms, and culture. we are lost somewhere in the middle.

Did you grow up in an African home where your sisters were sexually active at this age or had the temerity to bring their bed mate to their parents home, I am certain you did not, you dare not dare to dream about this.

As family name and reputation is everything back then not these days where followings on social media and the craze for views/blogs traffic is a measure of your role model capability or your trustworthiness of being a better character and judgement.

it is now official.
Since the country is broke we should try something different for a change.

They say, the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result each time.

Plus all the money stolen here and there, and since we can not trust our National Assemblies to Enact laws that are selfless, then we should think outside the box.

go into special agreement to outsource our National Assemblies.

Since they cannot be trusted to enact laws or economic policies and plan to favour the electorates.

Look for German House or a good European Country-Finland is a good one, outsource the duties of law and policy formation plus Budgeting for a yearly payment( surprising less than one tenth what these bastards earn) for them to enact laws and policies for the country after feeding it with our needs and peculiarity.


Discuss, with America and develop a currency whose value is tied to the dollar. So all this scavenging for dollar and speculative buying and selling will stop.

grossintel:
hey young man keep quiet animal!! Who said he shouldn't beat his daughter? Allow this to be taped and uploaded online could damage this girl for life. Quit being an ass anu mpama!

The measure can work in both ways.

Make the girl either emotionally detached, rebellious and withdrawn socially or serve as a reminder of what disgrace pre-marital sex offers and hence abstain from it in every form until married.

She may even look bad now, but when she has a daughter of her own, may bless the dad for what he did to straighten her up.

The call to fatherhood is not a populist job, or a call to friendship with the kid. He is a parent, a custodian of a future message( the girl).

and how good or bad this message is depends on the quality of training and discipline.

My response is found in Ann Taylors last verse of the poem "my mother"

...
When thou art feeble, old and grey,
My healthy arm shall be thy stay,
And I will soothe thy pains away,
My Mother.

Ibraheem May God grant you justice here on earth and in Heaven.
Whatever we can do to help this Nigerian save his dad, we need to help.

Being Shiite Muslim is not a crime, it is a conviction and belief that does not carry death sentence.

The appropriate response for slapping a major general is not the brutality exhibited nor the trolls of death that followed in its wake but a professional crowd dispersal technique or even stopping to allow them pass.

This will not make him miss Ja'nnah or reduce him to a lance corporal either but put him in a class of democratic major general that knows he derives his authority from the people and the people is what matters.

Holy smoke.....another goofy policy by someone who should know that security of life and properties is the number 1 responsibility of a sitting government.

Audu Ogbeh, should not have been recycled back to government in my opinion.

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mrkayusfit:
Why is the federal government slowing down their bombardment of this touts? By now the Tanks, warships and bomber jets should have been deployed in full force to the entire Niger delta cos it seems the Indigenes are sympathetic to the scAvengers. Bombing of our oil facilities alone is a treasonable act that must be considered an act of war against Nigeria and here they are threatening to declare Niger Delta Republic. Many states cannot pay salaries and people are dying of hunger because of the actions of these few vagabonds crippling our God given oil wealth. The federal government should not negotiate with them but instead warn innocent people who cares to listen to vacate the region so full military might can be deployed to wipe out the terrorists with brutal force. Anyone caught in the inferno will have themselves to blame cos this nonsense has to stop.

The oil is our collective wealth and no group of people can hold us to ransom. We once fed the whole country with cocoa and groundnut pyramid money and no youth from those regions formed militancy. I can smell the hands of the Biafrans in these renewed militancy and they think this approach will blackmail the FG into releasing Nnamdi kanu or restoring the dead and buried biafra of 1970. We will resist any attempt by any groups to break away and we shall never support any form of referendum. A word is enough for the wise. Do anyhow, see anyhow

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I like your angst, but it is wrongly premised.
Firstly, nobody i repeat once fed Nigeria.
Not groundnut, Not Palm Oil, not Cocoa, rubber or Agric produce as the North wants us to believe.

I like you to know this, that the people have every right to do what they do, and if it annoys the FG they should go and bomb the SS, annihilate the good people of the SS.

There is always a cause and effect.
If they had not left the area in such terrible state, the people will not take up arms.

A little thought for you.
Your land in the SouthWest, you can still sink a borehole and get clean water. In the SS you can't, as water tables are severely contaminated with heavy metals.
You can still farm on it, and produce something out of it. The SS cannot as the land will require approximately 50 years before a biological life can survive in it due to the level of degradation/pollution helped by selfish FG who let them off the hook every time they spill the produced crude oil to the environment and do a poor or next to nothing clean up.

Your Children don't die of skin cancer and other cancers due to the carcinogenic materials in the crude and in the chemicals used in crude oil production.
You don't worry about the increased heat of nearly 10 degrees C everyday, that keeps you and your kids up all night. And you cannot explain the breathing disorder that follows the birth of kids since 1951.

You don't need to worry about environmental degradation that kills all aqua life, meaning the fishermen will have to travel up to 50 to 60 nautical miles to get anything worth eating.

My dear time will fail me to explain to you, why gas flaring that has been stopped in most countries cannot be stopped in Nigeria, and yet the evidence are overwhelming of the damning health hazards it posed to the health of the people in the SS and the enormous financial lose to the country due to continued flaring.
My dear, the death due to heat stroke, heat rash, skin cancer, uncongenial/ congenial breathing disorder, organ failure.
Loss in fertility and to mention but a few.

If you think about life slowing ebbing from you, and the man who is doing the killing is telling you to have patience endlessly or bluntly telling you like GMB that you are 5% against his 95% and you are inconsequential, then you will rather be king in hell than be a servant in Nigerian heaven.

How much does he earn for him to acquire the property in Dubai.
If a career military can earn that much then we need to review the wages of the military men to meet with present reality.

Baba oya come travel again O!!! as e bi like say na when you travel your Govt dey release their bombshells.

All the bomb shells released so far has been when you are away.

Now that you are in London, a lot has happened.

Now currency as been officially deregulated in disguise of floating the currency.

This bombshell will cause the economy to rise from the ashes of terrible currency management decisions that has battered the economy.

However, I like you delegation style with no guilt of pronouncing some of these hardship inducing policies.

If only men were gods.

How certain are you that you will see tomorrow, thou fool?

I thought she is married already. have some decency for your husband.

tone-down your e-presence.

Like the Hotel California, I guess you can check-in anytime but you can't leave when you like. Some Ladies don't know when to leave the marry-me(spinster) market.

I thought she is married already. have some decency for your husband.

tone-down your e-presence.

It makes a lot of sense at this point to expect a spike which will trough out over some weeks.

Good decision.

jpphilips:
It is one thing to read the dailies, it is another to have the IQ to process the information you read. Do you know the spec of the Military and police rifles? let us start from there

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What fool is this.....do I have the IQ to process a picture indicating Yobe Contituency.
Do I have the IQ to identify an assault rifle when I see one.

I do not need IQ to know a fool like you if I see one. Am pretty sure you will not know a gun even if it is far up your ass.

Get off my mention. Mr. IQ.

Can anyone remember how just a few months ago, Oliseh expressed grave concern for his life?
Can anyone also remember that the same Oliseh was so scared that he fled his homeland plus how he complained that he was mysteriously falling sick anytime he is back home?

Coincidentally, we are getting news of death back to back from this same organization.

Lesson learnt is that, a man may look scared and outrightly silly plus incoherent, fetish or damn right silly by what he does or say out of fear, but never ignore it.
Na eyes wey see dey talk.

Ijaya123:
Quit ranting and don't be too excited. All you've got here is a fake story.

If you believe this, then you equally believed GEJ finished and completed the 2nd Niger bridge.

Are you a zombie?
Excited nah!!! Disgusted is the right word. That people like you will even contemplate the authenticity of the story when we know it is so true....which of those on the list is innocent.
Get over the GEJ disease constantly being played by APC and their Zombies.
He is now history.

But Buhari and APC are still with us.

Hearing this for the first time.
Truly heroic.

Haha hahahaha
APC go get heart attack after this expose

Hahahaha ha
Let's see where the fighting corruption mantra will hide now.

Haha hahaha
Zombies be like....o boy all man to thy tent.

This is bad market for the ruling party, actually one that cast a condemning shadows on their integrity. In fact, a bad market they cannot afford for now when their poll ratings is at the lowest.

Second there is no way any of them on the list can worth that much in 20 life time.

Forget if the list is only APC or wit out any PDP. The issue is FBI has exposed corrupt persons and amount, the president should confiscate all money and demand immediate repatriation of the funds.

All these guys should be cooling off in the jail for the countless many Nigeria who go to bed hungry, frustrated and without hope of the next day's food.

Or the needless pain suffered by Nigerians hopelessly seeking a good job.

Plus those hoping helplessly for a better social life but shortchanged by this thieving politicians that has made them live in abject squalor, queueing up outside embassy for a taste of a good life when the money here can make 10 mini Las Vegas in Nigeria.

Plus those of us who still remain to find that we sleep daily in darkness, no water, no fuel, no money, humiliating accommodation and ghetto colony with the world worst social infrastructure.

A people disillusioned daily by plea to manage the hardship that things will get better soon.



Hahaha zombies over to you.

For me corruption mantra of the Buhari government will be tested by this FBI revelation.

Yian...o boy see money.
Fashola am watching you....Okorocha I see ya. Tinubu confirmed pillager.

Abiagirl777:
can someone explain what sync means and how can I stop this pop ups from fb and my other apps on top my screen.
NO INSUlTS pls!!

You can view syncing as linking. A threading if you like of one or more applications to another where updates and changes are updated and displayed.

So if you have sync option ticked off for you google account deactivate same or if you have sync option activated for your FB, then deactivate it.

That way no update on FB are updated on you email application, contact application or probably your display screen.

However, you may loose update as you will be required to manually update emails, contact or news feed.

The list should be published.

Temidayo9:
Forget all this oyinbo saying rubbish, my grand pa ate same beans till he died at age 120, how come he no die young due to chemicals beans?

....because your grandpa ate his beans fresh from the farm.

No storage pesticide was used except good old manure.