₦airaland Forum

Jakumo:
Good point. Practices that a corrupt and venal government may regard as legitimate business conduct, may later come to be defined as brazen daylight robbery, by subsequent administrations, who are then free to lower the sledge hammer as needed.

I await such declarations.

Jakumo:
If due process was NOT followed in the secretive allocation of national oil fields, then such allocations were and are ILLEGAL, meaning they should ALL be revoked, whilst the billions of dollars already stolen and hidden by criminal beneficiaries of nepotism, such as this former hairdresser, should be declared to INTERPOL as stolen public funds, as the first necessary step towards RECLAIMING what is left of such loot, for reversal BACK into the Nigerian federal treasury, sooner rather than later.

The keyword is "if", if the government determines the allocation as illegal
they should sue but I haven't seen any move to that effect. However, you
can't label someone as a thief when there is neither investigation nor charge against them.
What we imagine doesn't determine reality.

Jakumo:
The money is being stolen from Nigeria's oil fields on a daily basis by many people who gained such access through the back door. The looting of public wealth is not only a matter of public interest, but one that should be denounced for precisely what it is - EMBEZZLEMENT, on a gargantuan scale, that is sadly, ongoing, even as we type these inconsequential rejoinders in discussion forums.

Is there any money in Nigeria that is not viewed as stolen ?
I find this kind of view as ridiculous, and it is like recommending
communism where government controls everything and we are all
poor(in theory) and we have to queue to get our daily bread courtesy
of the almighty government.

Profiting from ones investment is not stealing, if that is the case,
we are all thieves until government becomes our sole provider and
we lose ability to own anything.

eyinjuege:
Let us tell ourselves the truth...

Nigeria has no business receiving aid from foreign countries.
Their average Joe in those countries resent it.
Those giving the aid do know why they do so. Its not exactly due to the magnanimity of their hearts, but more of a control thing.

You are missing the point, any average Joe who resents aid should fight
his/her government instead of blaming the "powerless" receivers for their woes.

You can help them by suing the British government for sending aid to Nigeria,
you will become an hero to the cowards who can't confront their own government
but choose to paint the aid receiver as some kind of devil.

Financial Aids isn't about "control", you can't eat control, it is about reaping profit
from a smart investment but the dummy joes couldn't see that.

Martinscue:
I'm not in anyway entitled, even though you are right about the larger percentage of the country in regards to our entitled mentality. My issue with the wedding is that the money was stolen from her own people. Kindly tell me how she got the oil blocs that was meant for the whole population? You don't see private people owning oil blocs in a right reasoning nation.

Sorry, the money was not stolen, you get oil blocs by bidding, that is if,
you have the capital to develop such bloc.

Managing oil bloc is not meant from the entire population the money government
got from such partnership is what is meant for the population, even in communist
countries, private individuals still run part of the energy industry.

Oil do not fly from wells into vessels, someone has to invest money for its
exploration and the profit from such investment is not stolen money but
legitimately earned.

Jakumo:
This is what happens to Nigeria's oil wealth when it is made available to the former hairdresser to a head of state, via the back door allocation of oil fields that are being milked for billions of dollars to this day.

Enjoy the money, y'all, because it was ALL diverted from the national treasury of the Nigerian federation. The forgoing pictures are the closest any of you mortals will ever get in the way of benefits derived from all that stolen wealth that grows exponentially by the hour, in that woman's offshore bank accounts.

How is it your business what a private individual choose to do with her money ?

Smooyis:
People are hungry back home in Nigeria where the money was exploited and they are there lavishing it In UK. Issorite.

So free money should be distributed to the hungry
because they deserve it ?

eyinjuege:
Concerned racists are tired of sending aid to our country, and to Africa as a whole. They send millions of dollars in aid to many African countries. Ideally, Nigeria should be giving aid to other countries, but its sad the situation we find ourselves. The rich getting richer, and the poor, poorer.
Most in the country of the concerned racist can only dream of such an extravagance, many live from hand to mouth even in the country of the concerned racist and yet he feels money that could be put to good use is being sent to a country flowing with milk and honey like Nigeria.
Do not blame the concerned racist because he's only human.

No they are not. Nobody sends money to another country with a gun pointed to their head.
Naive average joes usually think that money sent as aid are a loss for them but their
politicians and intellectuals know better.

If the racist was not a coward in real life he would hold his government responsible
for his pathetic life or run for election to correct the anomaly instead of hating on
how a private Nigerian citizen chose to spend her money.

Prince williams spent $34 million dollar state money on his wedding, yet we
didn't see the poverty stricken concerned brits troop to the street in protest

obowunmi:
I'm not a troll.

Of course you are not a troll, probably the king of trolls:


https://www.nairaland.com/1977020/what-should-slept-married-man

bethyz:
She doesn't deserve to die for whatever reason she decided to be with that man

Yes, she doesn't,
but dying from cocaine overdose is nobody's fault.

calderon:
LOL nothing like "concerned racist" here. What he posted is the absolute truth unless we're in denial. I have nothing against how anyone chooses to spend their money though.

What is truth in what he posted ?
That English billionaires dash money to the poor ?

Martinscue:
Your brain box must be faulty to ask for the meaning of my post. If there is any one who is racist here, then they are Nigerians that are not patriotic toward the nation. How could someone make billions of money from the oil bloc that belongs to the whole country and spend it lavishly while places like Makoko and Ajegunle still existed in this country.

Your entitlement mentality may limit your achievement.
Private money can be spent anyhow the
owner wishes, it is not in your place to dictate how it is
spent.
She owes you nothing unless of course the money was
illegally taken from you in which case you can sue for
theft or fraud.

Since you are educated, you should be able to think
better than an average joe on the street but unfortunately
that isn't the case.

I repeat again she owes you nothing even if that stupid
racists was able to fool you.
You could have avoided being fooled by asking for just
one English billionaire who spend his/her money
building public roads and bridges or even sharing it to "poor" people.

Alhaji can't be convicted of murder maybe manslaughter,
he should stop running from the law.

Martinscue:
A foreigner reaction to the wedding

What is the point of your post ?
I wonder why many Africans easily get fooled by "concerned" racists these days.

pmc01:
Not making a case for the action, but the cows seem to be feeding on the lush green grass and not roaming around the classrooms. How did they chase the students away?
I'm only making a case for objective reporting here as against sensationalism.

Cows being in a school environment is itself an anomaly and should be condemned,
there is no excuse to be made here.

This topic was on FP some weeks back

I trust Trump to put Americans first.

Those who love division will never be satisfied and will
stop at nothing to create more artificial divisions.
Imagine discriminating against a priest just because he is
not an indigene even though he is igbo.

What a shame.

Tinyemeka:
What has office harassment got to do with his income bikonu?
Not every Nairalander is a young hire. And yes some Nairalanders earn close to a million and more monthly.


Obowunmi, please skip the girl. She's quarrelsome, she's quarrelsome. If you guys are not compatible, there's no point forcing it, or you'll be deluded into thinking that being in love, something could be worked out. Worse off, you'll end up marrying her and get to regret for the duration of the union. She's still a GF and not a wife. Start afresh with someone else.

P.S. You also have to rethink your perception of enjoying love. Please divorce millions of Naira from the equation. Do not make that a qualifying factor in relationships. You'll just get unnecessarily distracted.

Oh. And stop patronising prostitutes. It's common sense.

The guy you are defending is a well-known troll.
He can be male or female, rich or poor whenever the situation calls for it.

TPAND:
Shows how Nigerians Ladies are infested with Slavery Mentality. The Worship money and social class. this is why so many girls from the rich social class are unmarried in their 40s

What do you worship ?

maximunimpact:
Yesterday United States President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 Paris Climate change agreement. He said Ameria will re-enter a renegotiation of the deal.

Trump believes the deal is not fair to America on the long run.

Lets take a look at what this agreement demands from U.S:

- Gives 3Billion a year to other countries from 2020 (countries that may include china and India)
- Destroys manufacturing jobs in the US (over 6 million in the next 23 years) and cost the economy $3 trillion
- Allows China (economic rival) not to do much until 2030 while America pass draconian laws to cripple its own companies immediately
- increase energy costs for the average American

All these for reducing 0.2 degrees of warming by 2100. Keep in mind America is already one of the leaders in clean energy both oil and gas. Yet, liberals want to spend the money they dont have on other nations.

Trump and many other Americans believes this have nothing to do with the science of climate change. The ECONOMICS of this deal is the problem. Europe is now refusing to to renegotiate the Paris Accord. Why? Because it was NEVER about saving the planet - it was about the money America will roll out - more like milking America dry.

Besides believing on the science of climate change is a little bit weired, maybe the whole world is towing the way of gullibility - Trump thinks otherwise! He calls climate change a hoax!

Nigeria just recently signed the pact. Only U.S.A, Syria and Nicaragua turned their backs on the deal.

Many also believes U.S pulling out will weaken their influence politically, but actually agreeing to the Paris accord will weaken America economically.

You should have done a little bit of research yourself as there are a lot of
conspiracy theories around any issue that has a blue/red division.
And Trump is never an authority on any scientific matter, no reputable
scientist will deny the effect of climate change, the argument has always
been whether it was man-made or natural.

Science doesn't rely on faith but evidence, anyone can believe whatever fits their
worldview but it doesn't change the observed evidence.

American manufacturing jobs save secretive defense projects will continue
to be outsourced to countries with cheaper labor i.e China and India and
there is nothing anyone can do about it.
Even Trump's company outsource its manufacturing jobs to china.

While the agreement itself will cost America more money, it is important
to separate sentiments from reality.

What I see is that ill-informed Americans are fighting against the inevitable
decline of the US as an economic and military power, the ship has already
sailed.

fake news

lailo:
atheists won't be happy as people were attributing to the Almighty God.They would say wy did d God in d first place punish them for 10 years?But His ways are mysterious.

You just admit you don't have a clue how your "faith" works,
which can be equated with gambling.
Remember, in gambling someone always win.

Very likely, Nigerians hardly gather for anything if money is not involved.

Nma27:
No one is truly broke

That is just living in self-denial, being broke is a state not a process
and broke people know when the are broke.

Preach on beverly.
Easier said than done.

seyi360:
You deserve to be slapped

Are you denying the veracity of my claim ?

Effect of having unlimited number of kids you can't cater for
thinking it is the "blessing" of god.

frenzyduchess:
What is gospel about this one that his erection controls his brain?

That is a common characteristics of pastors and spirit people.

omokab:
They will say polygamy is not good instead they will prefer to divorce their wife to give them opportunity to marry another one. Hypocrite! The one you divorced who are you expecting to marry her after four children? Copying western culture since 1900

Polygamous men are not different from others, they womanise and cheat.

kid23:
The simple truth is that Nigeria is not united
IF YOU ARE A PRESIDENT FROM IGBO YOUR DOWNFALL WILL BE PLOTTED BY OTHER TRIBESMEN D SAME GOES FOR OTHERS
D BEST THING IS US GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS
#DIVIDE PEACEFULLY NOW

Even family members plot their own downfall,
are you going to call for family separation ?

laudate:
Oh, I just love points no. 4 and no. 9!! So the South-East governors do not support IPOB?

Were you thinking that jobless e-warriors have the support of their governors ?