₦airaland Forum

ovieigho:
So it’s only Idi Amin and Abacha you know among all the outstanding military men that have ruled in Africa

Moreover no democratic government in Nigeria has beat the record of the military in Nigeria in terms of infrastructure
Check your fact
You are the kid here

You are so ignorant that I don't even know where to start.
List those outstanding military men and their legacies for their country.
I am waiting.

Ok

Mrpojj:
The revolution that will free this country will start from the north
Then the south will join

There is no such thing.
If in doubt ask Syrians or Yemenis how there "revolution" is going.

RoxyBrownAutos:
Deploying armoured vehicles in the street of Enugu will help people sit at home for fear of being killed by security agents.

Don't kid yourself.
Nobody will sit at home for 2 weeks.
At least not the responsible ones.

Okay.

BigBashiru:
they invite wagner to keep off the french... the aim of all recent coup plots in the sahel is to drive away french imperial savages.....

They didn't invite anybody yet at least not officially.
Otherwise, ECOWAS won't have declared a no-fly zone with Russian troops on ground.
Unfortunately for the coup plotters, ecowas made the first move and Russia doesn't play second fiddle.
Of course, they will send arms but men, very unlikely.

nedekid:
Funny you.
You think naija military is like it was during abacha and babangidas time? When you had generals such as Victor Malu, maxwell khobe etc?

Nigeria's military was actually worse during those period.
People with military background and knowledge know why.

mrvitalis:
Lol u want to impose no flight zone in a country with US drone base? Be serious abeg

You really have no idea what is going on.

Good.
No useless illiterate recruit should be allowed to rule a country
just because he can operate a gun.

This fool again!

Namdeenero:
Armed robbers are now termed IPOB😂. One of them is a gym instructor at Maxmaobi Hotel Spibat road. The only winner here is their dead colleague because these guys caught alive would wish they were shot dead at the scene. Those tiger squad guys ehh!!

Most Ipob armed members are criminals and escaped ex-convicst.
They operate as part time Ipob, part time robbers/kidnappers.

JealousCobra:
Brave soldiers 🤠

History will be kind to them.

Same way history is kind to Idi Amin and Sani Abacha.
Kids everywhere.
SMH

I am surprised they didn't invite Russian army already.
Every African coup plotter know that they need Russian troops to maintain power.

tsdarkside:
draw out of all deals....leave uno,icc,rave party,skidrivin and such....

This is funny. Countries don't join international organisations just for fun.
They do because to gain benefit from it!

I thought you are going to list specific Nigerian deals that benefits the US and
they cant do without.
You are listing ICC that is 100% European affair which the US was never part of
and the UN which Trump would have pull US from if he had his way due to
the amount it drains from US treasury every year.

Not even China or Russia are interested in cutting ties despite having huge leverage
in the international scene. Any action they have taken is in reaction to US' move.

There is a reason Russia FM is travelling the globe at an unprecedented rate.

Nigeria cutting ties is like beggars going on strike.
It is comical to say the least.

tsdarkside:
if nigeria cuts all ties with the west,then rest of africa will follow....

ofcourse they are scared....
and south america will automaticaly follow too....
every none white individual in the world is tired of this global poverty system....

What do you mean by cut ties?

Clinton14:
America,Canada and Russia to mention just a few are large producers of oil,and they have no subsidies.
Many people on nairaland are not informed and they are always eager to demonstrate their ignorance.

America, Canada and Russia all have fuel subsidy.
Don't just assume what you don't know and demonstrate your ignorance.
All the major oil producers in the world have fuel subsidies, all of them.

jmoore:
The frightening import of the situation Dokubo has brought to the attention of Nigerians needs to be appreciated. If, for instance, Dokubo’s private army is present in six states, according to him, including
Bayelsa, Rivers, Abia, Imo and Anambra, it means that, in some of the gun incidents that occur intermittently these days, say, Imo State, in which incidents the police and the Nigerian Army peremptorily declare the
Eastern Security Network (the other unapproved private army) responsible, the actual culprits may be Dokubo’s approved unofficial army on duty. Is the reality of Nigeria’s present security conundrum getting clearer? Yet nobody ever told the citizens about the approved existence of Dokubo’s army and the extent of its operations or the relationship between it and the armed forces and the police.

Dumb cowardly Ipob writer.
ESN is a terrorist group and not a private army.
The dull writer even try to blame Asari for what is happening in Imo
even though Asari only got involved after Ipob turned the state to terror
headquarter.
They boasted of chasing Uzodima to Abuja.

Anambra has unofficial vigilante group, does it mean the group is responsible for gun violence
and crime in Anambra?

Small time now, they will start blaming Asari for decalring sit at home while Simon Ekpa is innocent.
SMH

RuggedBiafran:
When those guys retaliate now and I know they would. The trumpeters from the region of fallen demons known as that Sadwasted region(SW) will come out to hallucinate foolishly..spits

Don't be a coward.
Who are those guys?
Call them by their name, Ipob.

Shameless beggars everywhere.
Putin's henchman, Lavrov went to Asia for campaign, Asians deal with him like equals.
Business or nothing else.
He went to middle east. Middle eastern leaders were only interested in serious
business dealings, no fawning.

But Lavrov came to Africa and promised Africans free fertilizers and corn and he got
them hooked immediately.
He summoned 50 African countries with a promise of free fertilisers!

Which other continent leaders can you summon with free corn?

What a bunch of disgrace we have over here!

Melezenawii:
The Women
👇
Dr. Berta Edu
Dr. Dorris Aniche Uzoka
Hon. Nkiru Onyeojiocha
Hon. Stella Okotette
Barr Hanny Musawa

So 5 of 28 is taking over for you?
SMH

All these mushroom groups fronting for Ipob.
They only deceive the gullible.

It is funny that liars love to name themselves as "Truth" and traitors "Patriots".
The least you could have done is declare your religious demographics so readers can
understand your frustrations and intentions.

floret23:
There's no type of governance that can works for us? Black Africans are not capable of ruling themselves.

I hate it when I stumble into a thread opened by dunderheads.
What's the point of asking a question you don't even understand?

nairalanda1:
Petrol subsidy as practiced in Nigeria (you do not have to believe me)..is not the same as agricultural subsidy done stateside.

Here we force the price of petrol below the production cost, and (roughly speaking) pay a subsidy to compensate for that loss.

Stop talking about force. It has specific meaning.
Every country has strictly regulated industries. No one is forced to participate!

The bold shows you don't really understand how the petrol subsidy works or the petroleum business generally.
You need to read more on it.
NNPC was the major importer of petrol throughout Buhari's regime.
Marketers simply bought the fuel to redistribute around the country.
No business person(not even dumb ones) will buy such fuel, run into a loss and continue to buy more for more loss.
They are forced to sell below production cost as you claimed and yet application for loan to start filling stations keep
pilling up in banks. Tell that to illiterates.

What you have just described about agric subsidies is implicit subsides. The equivalent in Nigeria would be giving exisitng refineries that are working...cash breaks, tax breaks, and so forth.

I don't think you fully read my response.

We practiced explicit subsides...over here.

Again, you try to pigeonhole a complex system.
I gave several examples to clarify the differences between subsidy and price control
but you only latch on to one which you assume buttress your point but it doesn't.

Again, if you want subsidy, you can call your senator and ask for it to come back. But we cannot afford subsides, and that has been the case for decades. We just refused to see it.

Senators didn't introduce subsidy in the first place so I see no
point in asking someone to call senator over that. I understand you are trying
to deflect blame from your principal but this is entirely an executive affair.

If we really look at it, the government can't afford 30K minimum wage giving our debt profile, it should
be slashed to around 10K. People don't just want to see the truth, don't you agree?

nairalanda1:
Price control is an element of subsidy.

If there was no price control, what was DPR enforcing then?

Nope.
Price control is very different from subsidy.
When the government distributes free fertilizers, that is agricultural subsidy
and it has no conditions attached.

If the government mandates that house rent in Lagos should not exceed 1 million per annum
or that DSTV cannot charge more than 10K per month.
That is price control, it has nothing to do with subsidy as the government contributes 0%
to landlord's building materials or Satellite maintenance.

When a private entity want to participate in a government-controlled industry and agreed to abide
by stated rules, there is nothing wrong if the DPR decide to punish defaulters as none of them were
forced to participate.
They applied of their own volition and went through a lengthy approval process willingly.
You cannot collect a conditional subsidy fund while at the same time want to operate freely.
It is never done. You either agree to the terms or exit the industry.

New York has rent control for certain apartments with ZERO subsidy. The funny thing is that investors aren't running
away from New York real estate. In fact, it is a highly active investment market. Anyone who doesn't want to be subjected to
rent control simply avoid dealing in the regulated sector.

Back to the subsidy vs price control.
If a body awards 50% scholarship to a student(a kind of subsidy).
The school cannot start crying about price control because the student is
only paying half of the fees. That is illogical. No price is being controlled!

nairalanda1:
The problem with subsidy is the price control that is needed for the thing to work. In other words, the price control maintained by DPR.

I think you are confusing price control with subsidy.
They are not the same thing.
Your other arguments are based on this misconception, hence I
cant engage with them as is.

nairalanda1:
And for me, the solution is simple.

Remove subsidy, which in turn makes it attractive to investment to come in, since there won't be price controls anymore, and everyone is free to make a profit refining at home

Investment doesn't come because a country remove subsidy.
Every country which got rich through oil had subsidy and still do.
Investors go where their investment is safe from political instability
and are assured of fair justice.

For me, the best time to remove subsidy was in 1992/3, when we still had some domestic refining.

There was no best time to remove subsidy ever.
Many African countries don't have fuel subsidies, yet they cant compete in any economic indices
with middle east big subsidy governments.

citygarden:
Nobody to represent lagos? Lagos people are not shouting marginalization

Only 28 states are represented, wait for the others.

Ok.
Bunch of beggars.

STRI1:
What's the difference between 9th century and 800AD?

And fir the bowed instrument, are you aware India was once a thriving Islamic civilization. Islamic republic of Afghanistan, Islamic republic of Pakistan and Bangladesh were all part of India in 19th century, that not even too long. So, you never thought of it's invention by Muslims there.. even till date the Muslim population in India is over 240million far above population of Nigeria.

You are not dealing with an illiterate.
Ethiopia, not any Arab invented the coffee.
Islam has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with Indian .
I think you are confused by dates.
It will help you to read about Indian civilisation, majority of its achievement
happens before christianity, let alone was born.
We are talking about Pharaohs-old civilisation and you are mentioning muslims.
Very funny.

leroi01:
What type of useless...brainless permutation is this?

How did this clown become a SAN?

You are not a kid anymore, just because someone posted
something on Twitter doesn't make it true.
Get a copy of the address and read it yourself.
Even without reading, there is no way a lawyer(even charge and bail one)
will agree that 25% is compulsory when it is against their clients interest.

Dialpad:
Whats the population of Egypt?

Stay off topics you don't understand.
It is not a must!