₦airaland Forum

PlayMaker14:
.... This is someone that is barely a year in office making meaningful development for his country.

Meanwhile ,Tinubu is Launching, Private yatch and jet for himself and launching Hunger, pains and Bad Governance here in Nigeria.


Shame.

And you think he was responsible for conceptualising and funding the project within four months?
I wonder where the standard of Nigerian education is going.
SMH

This is an embarrassment to say the least.
What is the net contribution of those countries to ECOWAS purse, zero.
So, why are they being lobbied?

Contracts are mostly cancelled to either spite a predecessor or re-award to a crony for kickbacks.
Unfortunately, there is no consequence for such malfeasance.

KingOfTheDamned:
The only people I pity are the very few good Yoruba because this protest will quickly turn all tribes against the Yoruba. [b]Everyone will start attacking any Yoruba living in their stat[/b]e. Here in Edo, we have them, and trust me when I say that whenever we think of bad governance, the first point of anger is towards any Yoruba neighbors, its just that everyone is holding back for now.

So much stupidity in one post.
I doubt if you know the implications of what your delusional mind is considering.

AlbertNewton:
The orthodox churches are more concerned about purity, spirituality and are "heaven-focused", which don't quite appeal to a lot of people. The Pentecostals on the other hand use the promise of prosperity to deceive the people. It turns out that the vast majority of people are indeed gullible!

Consider deeper life, no Nigerian orthodox church is even close to the church's level of purity and strictness.
According to your theory, the church shouldn't have grown beyond a village due to its so many rules.
Yet, it expanded.

erico2k2:
Brainwash and perfect Acts by these scammers. Also these guys thrive where the government has failed its citizens

As to the theory of government failing citizens. Take the US as an example, Nigerian migrants overwhelmingly
convert to protestantism when they migrate, why?
These are people who aren't paupers and have nobody pressuring them on what to do with their life.
Is it that they are the most gullible or stupid people?
If that is your belief, how about the gradual death of orthodox churches in the US?
Catholic churches are closing down at a fast pace because nobody comes for service anymore
or they moved to pentecostal or so-called scammer churches.

Even the UK with a state church, church of England.
Many of the churches branch have closed down and those remaining are just charities with church name attached.

If past events can be relied on, even the original OP will likely abandon the perfect oyibo church and go back to
the scammer type or stop attending church in general.

I think it is time you guys re-examine your belief and accept that the phenomenon is much more complicated than the scammer/victim
paradigm you attach to it. While such reductive idea is appealing, it is inherently flawed.

erico2k2:
Does anyone on thier own open a new Anglican church in one corner? NO, these are the traditional churches and we should go back to them not these new John 3.16 churches

Have you wondered why people are leaving Anglican and other traditional churches
in droves to the so-called John 3:16 if they are so perfect?

Even in the Oyibo countries, these traditional churches are being
closed down every year because attendees keep leaving in droves.

So why do some christians prefer "thief" churches, don't you find that interesting?

hmm

hmm

shame

Mindlog:
You have a written contract binding you but you believe you can get your way through bullying. 😅

Nothing special about having a contract.
What is unforgivable is failing to include specific terms of termination in the contract
thus indebting the state.
All those who created and signed the contract should be sent to life.

calabaman:
Hope this is not another skit?

As why would a kidnapper leave your phone with you.

If it's not....I pray help comes your way.

Obviously, it is the kidnappers that posted the message using the victim's phone.

Bull

RingRoadCartel:
Yorubas have to band together and denounce this man or else he will forever dent the image of the Yoruba Race.

Don't be an idiot.
Reread your statement and see if it makes any sense.

[quote author=saddler post=131537628]Very illogical response!

First a human can be religious in one hand and also be scientific on the other hand.
Its a fact that when religious people are successful scientifically, they dont use their religious beliefs nor dogmas. It was their logic and scientific side that gives them that ability.

That's what the line you quoted means.

I wanted to give a full response but didn't want to risk wasting my time on what I assume you really believe.

Could you just indicate any of the following statements you agree with.

1. A religious mind can not be scientific
2. A scientific mind can not be religious
2. Religious beliefs impede scientific inquiry in an individual
3. A religious mind can be as scientific as the individual's intellect and motivation


[quote]Of all things ever invented, no one was done using principles found in the bible or Quran.

It seems you have a pedestrian view of science in general.
Science isn't about invention, that's technology. It is about understanding how and sometimes why things work the way they do in nature and the effects of manipulating certain variables.

Take fire technology for example, we were able to make fire(technology) millions of years before
we have an idea why fire burns(the science). BTW, this invention was courtesy of primitive homo erectus who are as superstitious as a human can be.

So if we are going to proceed on this discussion, we have to use specific language and not general ones.

CodeTemplar:
It may take some civil servants 100 years to afford a hajj slot. The assumption for elective offices is that majority of the people are making the best choice. I cant fault an SSCE holder finding himself in HoR or Senate.
The comparison is a lil bit off. How many professors have truly advanced the body of knowledge they are suppose to? Ask them to look inwards for extra revenue and you start hearing about pure water and bread factories as ideas.

The job of professors is not to help you generate ideas for business.
There are business and entrepreneur focused schools for that.

An average professor is a researcher not a business person.

As to pure water and bread business.
As long as it is profitable in the target environment, then it is appropriate.

saddler:
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A religious mind cannot be productive scientifically. Only a logic mind can.

Your conclusion is nonsensical.
Science is a product of inquiring and smart mind regardless of religiosity.

Moreover, the foundation of modern science were laid in highly religious societies.
Not that I am arguing that religion has anything to do with scientific progress.

Kobojunkieee:
$500,000 in the 80s/90s is approximately $2,000,000 in today's money. Wow! To have that kind of seed money back then, you could pretty much build anything

No.
Much bigger wealth have been wasted by bozos with large capital.
Capital is not the only factor of production.
There is also business brain and management skills which are more important.

After this period, the ceasefire can be extended if Israel receives additional hostages every day in exchange for the Palestinians. The deal itself will neither resolve the war nor address the roots of the conflict between Israel and Palestine - its goal is to bring home more American hostage

This isn't really a peace deal.
Anything short of a legally recognized border is just windows dressing.

He was the vice president and not the Pope.
This post is even more absurd when we consider that their is no "pope"
for Nigerian christians who are mainly pentecostals.

Mide70:
For a company to think of seizing a presidential jet then the whole china government can decide to seize this country to pay off debt . This is insulting and shameful, and a politician somewhere is having $69b in his account from oil fraud that can pay off the nation’s debt
Anyways
God just have mercy on this country please

Name the politician, the bank and the account where the $69b is residing.

DeLaRue:
That is about N120 billion to be paid by Ogun State government.

Where will the State government find that kind of money. The federal government will have to step in if it wants to get these aircrafts back.

One thing I know is most Nigerians have no respect for contract. You reach agreement with them, they short change you. If you protest, they'll tell you to do your worst

Terrible people.

I agree with you about the irresponsible government we have towards contract.
But the issue is more than that.

Most cancellations are due to dispute over informal kickback payment or the need
to re-award the contract to a favored crony.

It is the same reason why Dangote left Ogun for Lagos.
Unfortunately, the state government can't come out to state its own side because
it will be incriminating itself.

But I doubt the Chinese firm deserved the $70 million dollar as they definitely did not invest
that amount before contract termination.
The ignorantly arrogant government probably didn't show up for the hearing and lost by default.

idahme:
This is not about a specific niche od females but females in general. In general it's a pathetic story.

The General, I hope you have about a million samples to back up your generalization.
If the OP was not chatting himself up just to trend.
I bet he just selected only the negative responses and left out the others.

No one is falling for this.

So Uganda passport is now a hot cake for illegal immigrants?

Sagay shouldn't reason like an illiterate.
The senator's salaries is indeed about 1 million Naira by law as stated by RMAFC.
The extra they get about 20m currently comes from allowance.

OBJ clarified that the senators set their own allowances not RMAFC.

jaxxy:
He's competing against exporters and that's why he should be supported. This is not about monopoly but economic priority and which is the cheaper option short/longterm.


There is nothing bad in asking for special treatment in special cases like this.

He cannot compete against exporters when he is not an exporter of crude.
He is an importer.
The only support he can get is from the government and helping him will reduce government
revenues.

If the government comes out to say that it will reimburse exporters for any loss in revenue
due to trading with Dangote at lower price(subsidy), all the exporters will be jostling to supply Dangote due to the
easier logistics.
Anything outside of that, Dangote will have to wait until Nigeria crude production hits at least
2 million barrels per day when NNPC will have enough to go round.

Bigkoko:
When Oil majors started divesting heavily from Nigeria, i suspect a foul place. I thought they were seceretly funding ba break up of Nigeria, or worse. But i recently found my answer. This my small coconut head no go stayone place. The West is preparing for a post-era economy!

Word of advise i learned many years ago about following the trend in Economy! Mechanic wey no upgrade from servicing only peogeout car, will beg for food when the craze for peugeot cars weans out! dangote is like Nigeria politicians so obsessed with the free cash that comes from oil or is it our oyel money. Smell the coffee, party is over. Oil economy is gradually grinding to a halt, and dangote just finished building himself a gigantic one....no wonder, no foreign lender is willing to throw him loans since he has such a behemoth facility.

You should have researched more before penning your thoughts.
The idea of the end to oil era is figment of climate activists imagination.
During this so-called transitioning period, America became the largest oil producer in the world.

The mistake many analysts make is to equate crude oil with just petrol and diesel and think
with electric vehicle, crude oil is dead.
It is much more than that, products from crude oil is found in almost all manufactured
goods including electronics and household items.

If an impoverished country were to discover crude oil in substantial quantities today,
it will be rushed and courted by oil giants who are allegedly running away from crude!
And with careful management can achieve record-breaking economic growth.

Dangote's problem is self-inflicted.
When the refinery was first launched, several big lending and oil clearing houses in Europe
courted and begged Dangote to accept loan deals, but he refused preferring to set up his own global network alone.
He was banking on unconditional support from the FG but he miscalculated as the economy can
no longer support spoon-feeding any businessman with scarce forex.

NNPC didn't invest more in Dangote, because it has no money to invest, it has gone broke for a while.
So, there was no imaginary divestment into CNG which by the way is being majorly driven by private efforts.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/dangote-wants-to-set-up-trading-arm-for-lagos-mega-refinery/

If the issue continues, he will have no choice but to renegotiate the deals he once rejected.

jaxxy:
This man forgets that dangote is the only local refinery working and should receive government support. That's how it is done in most oil nations especially when starting out. They support their own not open it up to unfair competition.

Nobody said there aren't other or bigger players but dangote is ours and needs our support despite foreign and bigger players who are only making our fuel prices high so what are we doing?

Who are the competing Nigerian refineries to Dangote?
Zero, nill.
Try to understand an issue before analysing it.
Dangote is asking for special treatment for a private company.
He usually gets his way but not in this case.

He wants to pay cheaper for crude than the IOC will get selling in the open market with their
existing contracts.
The only way to get such a deal is from the government not from foreign private companies.

BTW, the foreign players in Nigeria deal with crude oil, not petrol.
NNPC is the sole importer of petrol, so they have nothing to do with price fixing.

kedeojo:
This dumebi, is just a fool. No wonder Nigerian's take such character for granted when they contest under mushroom party. How can an importer will be a bigger player in the oil industry than a refinery owner of that magnitude. There is nothing hate will not bring. Most of the importers with refinery licences, couldn't build a lesser capacity over the years. He is so dumb and no wonder his name is dumebi. Is just like the biggest trader in alaba, who deals with electronics (buying n selling), will now become the bigger player of another man, who set up a manufacturing unit of the same product, been imported to the country by the trader. Shame to dumebi, the block head.

You are obviously ignorant.
Who is the importer?

perfri:
I really dont understand this, why can't NNPC give him crude oil contracts?. NNPC is now operating more as a profit making organisation rather than a government agency.

Nothing strange here.
NNPC is now a profit making organisation, that is what the law says since Buhari's era.

Georgry:


You can only block money in centralised exchange or wallet because the private keys are with the exchange, government can easily block that one, you see the one in decentralised wallet? Not even Tinubu himself can block it.

Nigeria government cannot even block the one in centralised wallets.
First, a court order is needed for that and most importantly, the government
has launched a war against crypto exchanges for the past 1 year and consider them
economic saboteur, no exchange will cooperate with the federal government.

The only issue here is the word Naira.
They should have used dollar, pounds or others.