₦airaland Forum

yinkeys:
Did you watch Egypt v Cape Verde
Nigeria v Cameroun

You don't understand.
Losing a bet can be very painful.

aribisala0:
Anthony Blinken was in Lagos and Abuja this week.
We don't know and will probably never know why he came.
It is reasonable to believe that he came to push American Interest.
What is American Interest? More on that later

Blinken will be a fool to promote any other thing apart from America's interest.
When it aligns with another country's goal, then it could bring great ROI just like the case of South Korea.
I hope you don't believe that any other powerful country does anything that does not align with their interest?

He was asked a question. Why is it that the scale of help available to Ukraine is no where near what Ukraine has received.

I don't know where this is driving at but it is irrelevant to Nigeria.

He was asked ,we have removed subsidy and floated the Naira ,where is the inflow of investment?
In response he was chopping mouth. He had no tangible response

What's this I am reading?
Blinken did not remove fuel subsidy.
He didn't write the "subsidy is gone" speech. He didn't get the accolades for taking a "bold" decision
that other coward president couldn't take.

Was there a written or oral agreement somewhere between Tinubu and the US government
on fuel subsidy?
The entitlement is awkward.
Before you mention World bank or IMF, those are banks whose sole aim is to promote
the interest of their major shareholders US and the west. Whatever advice they give is self-serving.
So is BRICS which was founded to promote the interest of largest shareholders, China and Russia.

The issue of corruption was all he could talk about We should stop being corrupt and our solders should respect human rights . No weapons to fight bandits

When all your newspapers, academics, columnists, politicians and even market women blame all Nigeria's
woes on corruption, then Blinken is merely echoing what the populace believe.
Even unrelated issues are blamed on corruption. Whenever corruption is mentioned,
the average Nigerian's rationality fly out of the window.

He supports the stance TInubu has taken along with ECOWAS against Niger
All during the military era,those all enough will remember, all they preached was democracy.

Yes, he does, because it aligns with US interest.
Nothing to see here.

We have been democratic for 25 years where is the American investment?

Democracy is not an ATM used to withdraw "American investment".
In fact, American investment is a misnomer.
The US government does not invest. It provides reconstruction loan
or general aid that's all.
If you want American investment, the people to convince are the private sector
not Blinken or Biden.

My belief is the USA wants a Nigeria that is weak enough to allow them to have a military base in Nigeria just like they have in Niger and for that reason they are not going to help us.

Here we go again with conspiratorial thinking.
US already have an unofficial military base in Nigeria located in Borno state. UK has one there too.
If US wants a military base, it will get it with no sweat.
These are some other "weak" countries with US military bases.
Germany, South Korea, UK, Singapore and Japan to list a few.

Let us look at Egypt. Egypt held elections that produced Islamic brotherhood. The US did not like that outcome and when Sisi overthrew and brought in the military they were cool .
You never see them preaching to Egypt about democracy ,Human rights and corruption in the same way as Nigeria. Is Egypt less corrupt am?
Egypt is getting massive investment left and right in Power and is not fully aligned with the US as we are.

Sisi is a democratically elected president.
The coup is old news.
Egypt is getting investment because it is an asset and it is a stable country.

We need to wake up. The US is interested in Nigeria supporting its foreign policy in Ukraine and Israel and in maintaining military presence in the West African region now that Wagner is emerging but it prefers a weak Nigeria that is prostate and begging for military bases from the US

There is no need to wake up.
We are not sleeping in the first place.
The dead Wagner?
I hope I have not been responding to a copy paste of an old opinion.

Now, back to the issue that confuses most of you guys in geopolitics.
To the US, you can be in the ally, enemy, asset, partner and neutral zone.
If you are not an ally or asset, you are never a priority.
Nigeria has never been a US ally. Just mere circumstantial partner and aid receiver.


Going by the 143 votes in favor of Ukraine while Russia got only 5 support in the UN vote,
the US does not need Nigeria's support.
It doesn't mean the 143 countries are US puppets, in fact some of them are not in good terms with the US.
They simply voted on principle since the other side offers them nothing too.

BTW, your "weak" Nigeria actually voted against Israel in the UN.
In fact, none of your so-called "weak" countries voted in favor of Israel.

I suppose the question you really wants to ask is why Nigeria does not
become "strong" by declaring itself an enemy of the US.
Unfortunately, it gains nothing by doing that and there is even possibility of a worse outcome
due to how dependent the country is on western loans and remittance for fx.

Maybe the Russians will move in if we cozy up to them.
But what value do you have to offer Russia?
Russia can't even help Nigeria's precarious economic situation.
And the Chinese don't do charity, just business.

Their is no sentiment in Geopolitics, you are either useful or you are not.

They have been suspended since.
This is like a man announcing that he is resigning after 1 year of being sacked.

HarryGleb:
Against the 48 laws of power. The first rule. "Don't outshine your master".

There are no laws of power.
48 laws of power is an entertainment book. Even the author knows this fact.

solmusdesigns:
We talk bad and demarket ourselves

Whether you talk or not, only a fool will visit a place where the risk of a kidnap is very high.
Tourists can tolerate many things except insecurity.

Mad yahoo boy.
What a combination.
Well, the mother enjoyed the ill-gotten wealth, it is proper that she share in the pain too.

Why don't you let the court determine that?

princemillla:
UK is the biggest thief of this world.

What's their quota in the international market yet they have one of the strongest economy.

Check what's backing their currency, gold stolen from Africa n other places.

Big thief

Lots of misinformation to unpack.

These are artefacts and not commodity gold.
BTW, UK doesn't even make the top 15 of major gold countries.
And gold make less than 0.06% of their economy.

No country backs their currency with gold anymore, perhaps maybe the extremely poor.
Also, currency and economy are not the same thing.

seborrhic:
What is there in this Mangu that is so lucrative that the insurgents are desperate to take hold of?
Is there gold,precious metals or even diamonds in that land to be mined?

Stop believing conspiracy theories.
Plateau crisis is a crisis of land grabbing, it used to be Barkin Ladi
but Mangu is now the flashpoint.

If there is any commercial minerals in the area, the government wouldn't tolerate
any competition whether from bandits or BH.

You might want to reply with "illegal miners" as usual but it is all lies. All miners are licensed
by the government. The labourers on site who people mistake as miners are mere
employees of the mining operators.

WannaHowzit:
Long thesis of lies. Where do you get 7% from?

Black Business Council president says its 30% - that's more than the size of Kenya which you'll willingly japa to🇳🇬👎🏾💩. We're in the rebuilding process, already we have Africa's largest black middle class, hence we dont japa like you do.

I see that you have ran out of steam and have to rely on news pictures.
It is obvious you are out of your depth.

You are not an illiterate aren't you?
The picture you pasted is a mere rhetorics just like politicians make promises.
The reality on ground is that the minority white colonialists currently control 60-90% of SA economy.

So don't go strutting about pretending to be superior to other Africans when you
are the worse when it comes white worshiping.

WannaHowzit:
No wonder Blinken was in Nigeria recently to check on his white worshipping minions, he knows SA is no longer under the West's sphere of control.

This is 2024.
When exactly was SA in and out of the west's sphere of influence.
You seem to be generally ignorant of the relationship

If Israel was a "tiny country" then you wouldn't be here wailing🗣️🗣️🗣️

Actually, it is tiny both in its consequence for SA history and its physical size.
My post was to address your pathological obsession
over a past friend of SA apartheid. We urgently need a new medical term for it.

You deliberately omitted mentioning it has the blind and unquestioning support of the the US and Europe.

Is this some sort of secret?
This buttress my initial point, why does your mainstream politician never mention the US or Europe
in their anti-apartheid rhetorics?
These are the same countries which offered massive support to Apartheid until they didn't.

Imagine if in few years time, Palestinians starts to hate on Switzerland while ignoring and
occasionally frolicking with Israel, US and UK after a 2 state is established?
That is insane right?
That is the current pathetic state of SA.

Your new generations are worse, some now think Afrikaners are from Israel.
Could this be the effect of PTSD or white witchcraft?

Before this judgment you were all praising Israel for its military prowess - all of a sudden its a "tiny" powerless country after SA crushed it at the ICJ.

Only kids like you praise the raw ability of a country to kill en masse.

Adults only talk about the current events, realities and their likely outcomes,
not out of puerile excitement as you do but of pragmatic consequences.

I haven't forgotten how you SA "right activists" were praising Russia for invading
Ukraine and how it could obliterate the populace if it wishes and no one could do anything about it.
Your politicians show their "neutrality" by falling over themselves to publicly identify with the invaders.
You were even secretly shipping arms to support the war.

BTW, tiny is different from powerless. I never said it was powerless. But compared
to the powerful ghost of apartheid patrons, it is tiny and an object of an illogical fixation.

ICJ ruling is just like ordering a driver to avoid over speeding.
It is only a win or loss if you think over speeding is good in the first place.
I don't see any problem with the ruling, it is what I expect any judge.

As for internal SA politics we're in the process of repossessing land without compensation from the whites - something white worshippers from Nairaland were wailing about 🗣️🗣️🗣️when we posted it a few years back. Should i retrieve those documents?

You should be ashamed of the bold.
You are in the process after how many years?
You are more than 90% of the population and yet you can't repossess land from an invading minority(yes, that's what they are)
but only issue statements every few years to cajole the plebs.
Come on, do it already. Don't be paralysed with fear of whites!

There is no where else in the world where a mere 7% non-natives who have neither
the power of the state nor that of the gun will be allowed to economically control the rest
especially when they have engaged in monstrous evil against the natives.

Even the 18th century slaves won't accept such state and would have revolted in similar circumstances.
But you guys who claim not to worship whites dare not grunt. But you are quick to attack, kill and hate on blacks.
This is more than worshipping, it is an extreme pathology!

Again, I ask, are the Afrikaners you worship, whites or not?
On what criteria do you chose your favoured whites?

thesolutions:
The dollar or naira doesn't rise and fall. The only thing that rises and falls is the demand for those pieces of paper and the general cost of production.

Stop confusing yourself.
The value of dollar like any other commodity does rise and fall. This is an incontrovertible fact.

But in Nigeria, everything is tied to the dollar as if the dollar has become our national currency. The demand for dollars by japa candidates and politicians that loots our treasury and business owners who are import based businesses makes individuals that earn dollars to sell to the highest bidder.

Aboki fx is not a broker.
Even if it is, it would have to be managed by the most unintelligent folks we have in the country
for it to price dollar at arbitrary rate as you claimed.
No one just announce to buy any item at an arbitrary price unless they are insane or jokers.

The banks capitalized on these and sell the dollar they receive from customers to these black marketers of dollar without letting it pass through approved regulated channels. This is what forced CBN to push up exchange rate to dollar and even offer extra 5naira to any dollar received but these guys at black market always tends to offer more.

Any money that comes into the bank is essentially in the right channel.
CBN do not push up exchange rate. In fact, it lacks the power to do so.

Because the demand for dollars is still high, you can only expect upward demand because most of those that pay these huge amount for a dollar gets the naira fraudulently and cheaply.

Again nobody pays huge amount for dollars. Dollar is not some heavenly ID card.

Dollar is mostly useless to those who gets their Naira fraudulently.
You can't get Naira cheaply, you either work for it or steal it from someone else.
That has nothing to do with ease or difficulty.

WannaHowzit:
Yes SA has won. Israel has 30 days to argue why it shouldn't be sanctioned.

It has to open humanitarian corridors & report its military officials with genocidal intent.

I suppose SA has a different meaning for a 'win'.

White worshippers like you are gonna kill themselves.

There is something strange about some white worshippers though.
First, they don't consider Russia to be white, they support and defend everything it does even
when there is nothing to gain from it.
Secondly, they allow their white population(a mere 7%) to control 60% of their national economy
even though they have the political power to change the status quo.
What do you call someone who leaves their main detractor(the whites), the whites and chose to exclusively
fight a circumstantial ally of the detractor.

This is essentially the current state of SA political consciousness.
SA forgave their tormentors, the Afrikaners, you forgave the countries which funded the groups
for decades.
In fact, you recently welcomed one of the Afrikaner's royal relics with paparazzi and fanfare.

But you chose one tiny country, the one with the least influence on the historical apartheid to
focus your aggression on and use it to divert attention from your economic failures.

In Nigeria, if SA was a person, we will consider them to be under a strong spell.

YoungLionken:
Portable, another Naira Marley in disguise. If not contained on time, might do the obvious in the nearest future..

Although, the only "Square" that I know, is the (defunct) "P Square" ...

Contained as in killed or imprisoned?
For what crime exactly?
Is he owing you or your friends' money?

SMH

They are free to hold services anytime as long as they are not disturbing
the neighbourhood and did not force anybody to attend.

What the hell is working hours?

According to him, “The FCT Minister is inviting the Israelis to come and provide security to Abuja. We have never known anything like kidnapping in Abuja until Wike came into Abuja as a minister. "

If you are going to run a propaganda, at least don't choose unintelligent idiots to do it.
These charlatans actually claim there was no insecurity in Abuja until Wike.

Nice2023:
If u have sense u wouldn't open ur dirty mouth to say what u don't know.

I followed up this guy when he was reeling out fake prophecies until his rape issue came.

If u are smart which u aren't,u should look away because I didn't say he didn't rape. But his ordeals started from his fake prophecies.

Stop being stubbornly ignorant.
His rape case has been ongoing since 2020.

elasticlala:
Rape is not not good but I still don't understand why arrested bandits could be forgiven and a rapist is sentenced to life imprisonment in the same country... something is wrong somewhere

When rapist starts to build large army of thousands of soldiers that can overwhelm
security forces, then they may also get "amnesty".

AtoningBlood:
The money is long gone.

He started asking for money months after selling the house.

Are you sure he wasn't duped of the sale proceeds?
Or sold at massive discount due to external pressure?

If he was not acting unstable before the sale incident, then something else might be going on.

Validated:
Foolbara = GEJ promax.
We warned this simp to stand firm, but choose to play dumb in the name of peace brokered by Tinubu. The same Tinubu that fought OBJ like his whole life depended on it.

The house can now restart his Impeachment.

Stop spreading lies.
Tinubu and OBJ had no meeting point let alone a fight.
They are not in the same party or the same state.

OBJ supporting his party members is not a fight, it is what happens everywhere.

Agboriotejoye:
Actually it's not about stock or profit but repatriation of funds to their home country under what they term technology transfer

Technology transfer has nothing to do with fund repatriation.
Everything has to do with stocks when it comes to publicly listed companies.

If you own 100% of a company's shares, you own everything even if it was founded in
Siberia and all the staffs and managers are Chinese. Stock is ownership!

MTN was once owned 100% by SA conglomerate but not anymore.

gaskiyamagana:
Nothing but true.
We must forever be thankful to GLO. We knew this. Infact,if not GLO minimum MTN recharge card could have been #500.

Are you currently using Glo as your primary line?
If not, you are living in the past.

anonymous1759:
BAT is better than most of our governors in terms of vision though all of them have some fair share of kwaraption ,

but some people will never admit theirs. Like I always say this present Yoruba generation won’t acknowledge BAT but the next ones will Eulogies him when his legacies starts to pay off

The bold is like a curse.
For that to happen, the next generation would have to be the most unintelligent group on earth
or the country would have deteriorated to a stage that any past leader is automatically more competent than the future's.

The issue of Lagos is like that of a rich man's son with big balance in his account.
It would be naive to conclude that he must be hardworking or prudent.

If Sanwo Olu steals 20 billion Naira from Lagos budget, nobody will notice but
should Ekiti governor try it, that is a large number of workers not paid, essential services
suspended and some ministries in coma.
That different outcomes doesn't make Sanwo Olu smarter or better manager than the
Ekiti governor.
They are operating in a very different world.

Cardoso should speak for himself and his ministry.
He either lack understanding of oil pricing or is lying for political reasons.

Are you sure, it is your daddy's driver and not you or your dad?

77up:
I agreed Oyetola didn't do it on time

Oga make we hear word, which kind problem is he creating for the government or his (Adeleke) government is not serious? It has always been like that in governance Oga, happened in Ekiti and Oyo , those once didn't sack them like this mumu governor did.

Those he sacked , are they not Osun indigen ? Are they and their families not among people that voted him ? His 4years will soon reach, 2nd year gone already.

You must be a clown to claim he didn't do it on time.
He hired them so the next administration can sack them.
A man leaving behind several months of salary arrears and huge state debt
suddenly remembered to hire 1500 teachers.

Rolings:
I'm looking to see if Ghana will accept to host one of their bases.... They will come with mouth watering offers . Nigeria may be able to resist.....but will Ghana?
They cant even afford the mouth watering offers they used to cajole Some Sahel states to host their bases and with Russia and China not allowing them any foothold in Africa they are now desperate more than ever to open new fronts.
They will approach many weak states with irresistible dollars and eventually have their way even if it's in Cabo verdo or sao tome/principe

US and the UK already have a base in Nigeria.
It is located in Borno state.
Blinken's visit has nothing to do with military bases.

The US has not lost a single military base in Africa since your China/Russia
allegedly chase them out.
Are you sure you understand what is going on?

If the US needs more bases, it will get it.

Don't be naive.
US is not like a higher court to Nigeria.
Presidents who had issues with the US was Abacha for his ruthlessness
and GEJ for his anti-gay law which angered Obama.
Those are the exceptions and not the rule.

MeineMutter:
Dangote doesn’t buy solely from FG. He buys from other oil companies and they sell to him in Naira since they are all based in NIgerDelta.
With increase in government’s crude oil production, FG can sell internationally, make $$$$$, and also sell to Dangote and make Naira.

The refinery would, significantly, help strengthen Naira because as FG was making Dollar before, so it was dishing it out to importers and that would stop.

I am sure before end of 2025, Nigeria’s ooo production would reach 1.8million bpd, at least.

When I say buy from FG, I don't mean FG operates any oil mine.
In fact all oil mines are in private hands.
However, NNPC have mediates all the crude that have been shipped to Dangote so far.

No oil company will sell in Naira unless the government mandate them to and for
those where significant stake are held by foreigners, they will also need to repatriate
some funds in dollars.

No one is saying Dangote won't have any effect on Forex but it is not like:
we used to import 10 billion dollar of oil before, therefore refining locally means we are
saving $10 billion dollars. Not even close.
Unless it cost zero dollars to produce and refine the fuel.

hakeemhakeem:
Dangote is additional sales (new customer)it doesn't the previous USD payment from others sales once the pipeline are not vandalized and ND is peaceful meaning productions are in optimal

He is only an additional sale , if crude production can be increased.
Otherwise he is just replacing some of our old customers.

If you know the scale of oil theft in the ND, you would realize we are a long
way from winning the war against oil bunkering.

Elieh:
This is where Community security outfits become very necessary

Let us not deceive ourselves.
Community security cannot tackle AK-47 wielding bandits.