₦airaland Forum

mrvitalis:
Enough of this 18000 minimum wage... Who earns that in the fedral or State services That's level 1 step 1 no body earns that am sure of that.. . Even a ssc holder in government earns over 40k...
That's over 480k per month.. If u foolishly think u can get married to a house wife with this... why should u disturb someone??
With 480k per year anyone will survive.. .

We are just too bad in these country... What's concerns dollar and garri?? Meat?? Even fish that is imported didn't increase much in price Compared to garri....

why are you lying like this? do you not fear God?

this statements by Bayo onanuga is without a doubt one of the most insenstive statements ever made. this stupidity within it is honestly baffling. how can you judge the suffering of the masses based on a flight to london. even the prices he called out for a plate of semo and other foodstuffs is honestly above what many nigerians currently see in a day.

smh

just gonna say two things.
first of all those of you critcizing the boy for his statements should please keep quiet since you dnt know what has happened.the fact is, father or not, respect has to be earned and if his fater hasntdone anything to merit such respect, then i see no reason for complaint here. i respect my dad a great deal but not because he contributed to my birth but because he has contributed to my life and growth as a person in virtually every aspect. maybe its because i am not much of a traditionalist but i see no reason to respect an irresponsible man irrespective of any biological connections.
secondly for those critcizing the boy for making the matter public, you all should remember that his father actually started the whole thing by issuing a public statement even making allegations that the occurence of his son's death was hidden from him. not saying the boy was in the right for going public but please remember to include his father when looking for who to blame.

kudos to burnley's goalkeeper. that guy really helped burnley's goal deficit today.

skysailor:
wrong comparison.. wrong
but trump is not even yet in power na..
let him be president and someone tried that ...

bruh, stop being ignorant. even obama gets mocked and insulted on multiple occassio s. george bush himself as a sitting president was a punchline for just about every comedian in the country at the time. the u.s. government only acts on DEATH THREATS made against the president and even then, they dont just go about arresting every dick and harry who makes such threats but rather make assessments to determine whether said threat is viable.
basically even if trump becamr president this instant, there isnt a damn thinghe can do about that statute.

tbh, i am currently in shock at the level of ignorance displayed by some of the posts i have read through. why is it that we love celeberating stupidity and mediocrity in this country.
this was honestly a non-issue that could have be resolved quitely and peacefully yet it has bern blown out of proportion by our inept police officers. also shocking is the fact that some people not only support this arrest but also feel the complainant was justified in making death threats whereas in saner climes, he would have been placed on immediate survellance while the police attempt to resolve the issue.
LASTLY, for the *christians* among us who support this arrest, i hope you will not voice any complaint when missionaries are also arrestedor threatened with death for trying to preach the gospel in moslem communities as that could also cause "civil unrest" as it is "highly provocative".

OPCNAIRALAND:
Dude, go and sit somewhere. Keep following that news and you will see in coming weeks that the grievance is resolved. Look, we Yorubas are members of humanity, we are not immune to the general problems humanity face in structuring society but far above others we posess the intrigues and savviness to work around social problems. In other words, we are far more socially superior and far advanced in evolution and intelligence ttan most, Igbos included.

*facepalm*. just when you were starting to make sense, you just had to ruin it with your last sentence. SMH

logicab:
Ifeajuna was the leader. EOD.

really? thanks for the correction.

southpole:
The 4 top planners were all Igbos and when the killing of political leaders was carried out no Igbo learder was killed, and when ironsi took over he refused to punish the planners may be because they were Igbos and you are saying it was not a tribal coup? After the failed Dimka coup, Vatsa coup and Orka coup what happened to the coupists?
It is not a tradition that the most senior should automatically becomes the Leader, Gowon was not the most senior not even from the North but he became the Leader after the counter coup, Abdulsallam was not the most senior when Abacha died but he was made the head of state

1) still doesnt make it an igbo coup. nzeogwu, the coup leader was igbo but had spent most of his time in the north such that he took up the name kaduna.
2) like i said, ironsi clearly erred in judgement.
3) except thst is the norm in just about any "normal" coup (except in coups successfully carried out by junior officials). in the case of gowon and abdulsallam, they were clearly favoured by the northern elites whom after ironsi s death had control. particularly in gowon s case where even the british govt clearly wanted "jack" to become the next head of state.
the main point of the military is a hierachial structure based on merit and service. thus, for your junior officer to suddenly become your superior without any merit would ordinarily be seen as a large insult by a true military man.

its even been acknowledged that ojukwu acted like any soldier would given the situation.

https://www.nairaland.com/814135/anybody-ojukwus-shoes-1966-wouldve

southpole:
The 4 top planners were all Igbos and when the killing of political leaders was carried out no Igbo learder was killed, and when ironsi took over he refused to punish the planners may be because they were Igbos and you are saying it was not a tribal coup? After the failed Dimka coup, Vatsa coup and Orka coup what happened to the coupists?
It is not a tradition that the most senior should automatically becomes the Leader, Gowon was not the most senior not even from the North but he became the Leader after the counter coup, Abdulsallam was not the most senior when Abacha died but he was made the head of state

1) still doesnt make it an igbo coup. nzeogwu, the coup leader was igbo but had spent most of his time in the north such that he took up the name kaduna.
2) like i said, ironsi clearly erred in judgement.
3) except thst is the norm in just about any "normal" coup (except in coups successfully carried out by junior officials). in the case of gowon and abdulsallam, they were clearly favoured by the northern elites whom after ironsi s death had control. particularly in gowon s case where even the british govt clearly wanted "jack" to become the next head of state.

southpole:
You Igbos are too tribalistic, first it was the Igbo tribal coup, second the coupists infirmed their Igbo stakeholders to run away before the coup was carried out, third an Igbo man was made the head of state, fourth, the Igbo man head of state was not ready to punish the coupists may be because they were Igbos, fifth, when Ironsi was killed ojukwu an Igbo man started nursing ambission. why?

actually you are being biased.
1) it wasnt a tribal coup. there were other officersalongside nzeogwu who werent igbos.
2)??
3) ironsi was head of state because he was the highest ranking military officer at the time. and while it was clear he erred in not immediately punishing the culprits, he actually made efforts at unifying the nation. iirc, he was even on a national tour when he was murdered.
4) ojukwu s grievance was the fact thar gowonwas made head of state despite being below ojukwu himself in rank. however, the agitations by ojukwu for biafra started after the massacre of reportedly milions of igbos in the north as well as the implied complicity of the gowon regime in the massacres.

amzee:
I'm not surprised cos violence and lawlessness is in the blood our 5% neighbours sorry Jews. Is that the right way/channel to deal with the situation? Yeebos

just gonna leave this here.
https://www.nairaland.com/1092756/four-armed-robbers-caught-burnt
https://www.nairaland.com/3228277/jungle-justice-popular-ritualist-burnt
https://www.nairaland.com/3244659/rapist-baddo-burnt-alive-ikorodu

HungerBAD:
This Judge is too dramatic.

Judges are supposed to be preside over cases,and not be the cases themselves.

There was no need for this unprofessional tantrum,by this Judge. That said,this is a Democratic Country,and the DSS should not be disobeying any court order.

sorry to say, but this comment is honestly quite unwise. why shouldnt the judge, a person constitutionally enpowered to interprete the law complain when his orders are being disregarded?
sir, no judge worth his salt would keep quiet in such a situation lest he sets a dangerous precedent.

pedrilo:
abokiii, u must be mistaken, Abuja nor be northern state, u hear?

abuja uses the penal code bruh.

saintdennis:
I kinda smile when us(southerners) keep vilifying the north.

This is an igbo man o, who has charged a fellow igbo man to court using the penal code(which applies ONLY TO THE NORTH) since he realised adultery isn't a crime under the criminal code(which applies ONLY TO THE SOUTH)

Abeg free the guy jare...or convert to Islam. Lmao

actually,the penal code is being used because the crime in question took place in a northern state. you cant willing chose which crminal law to apply in a case. it all depends on the jurisdiction where the crime took place.

bettercreature:
I think you are the sick man here,even ISIS the worst terrorist in the world today are not bombing infrastructure facilities,you need to shuurt the fucck up and gerrraoutofhere

1) isis dont bomb infrastructures since it can be used as revenue to further their inhumane agenda. bad example bruh.
2) vandalism has been a prevelent problem inthe power sector since time immemorial. heck even the previous administration made same excuse whic fashola and APC conveniently chose to ignore. the fact is fashola isnt being sincere.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/power-how-vandals-constrained-generation-to-4500mw-minister/

saiNDAvengers:
You too should stop embarrassing yourself.

Conquered Afonja Warriors also think they have got an opinion

i m sorry, i just find your apparent joy at the misfortune of others disgusting. and yet some of you will go about calling yourself godfearing christians. smh

saiNDAvengers:
You should let us know when the raped begin giving birth...


Ndi ara

Shey Una Don use politics destroy your OPC that defended the entire Yoruba land

pls if you have nothing better to say, just keep shut. you are embarassing yourself and your people.

slimz10:
Not Again

What offence did France committed to deserve this vicious (terrorist) attacks?

Is there any war(s) the country's troops are currently engaged in?
What really went wrong in one of the most peaceful European country?

personally i believe its a strategy by isis to discourage western nation frm accepting immigrants and create tension between legitimate muslims and the west which would mean more men for isis's army. also the fact that france is likely to retaliate which would also push more citizens of the middle east towards isis.

"murder dozens of nigerians and nobody panics..........blow up one pipeline and everybody loses their minds"- the joker

24 is infinitely better than the blacklist.

tunjijones:
Anambra state university igbuariam (spelling might not be correct)

unfortunately i cant immediately verify your friend s story. i ll look into this claim though.

mrkayusfit:
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The lagos state government pays it's workers on the 23rd of every month without owing any one while u shamelessly brag about anambra's 27th day of the month payment. The monthly IGR of lagos dwarfs the entire IGR of the 5 South eastern states combined. The work rate of Ambode at developing lagos makes every igbo youth wanna migrate to lagos to sell gala in traffic. Now that street hawking has been banned, the igbos are the ones lamenting the most. Obiano might be a demi god to your village, but when it comes to comparisons with lagos, he is not better than a local government chairman. I am an indigene of lagos and I'm proudly yoruba

SMH

tunjijones:
My friend school in anambra state uni. And she said there is no electricity in the town the school is located. Are there still places in Nigeria that don't have access to electricity?

who is this friend you speak of?
where exactly in anambra did he or she school in?
what was the name of the school?
pls answer these questions or forever hold your peace.

cersei was definately the mvp of the season. she just entered my top ten list of fictional villians.

this isnt the smartest move. even if the soldiers are battle hardened frm fighting in the north east, the niger delta is a completely different terrain. the troops would be at the mercy of militants in a direct confrontation. just sayin.

ibitzbarlow:
I wonder why your likes can't make comments without name-calling or casting aspersions. That's negative and not good for anybody especally our country as it is so divided now.

You need to pay attention to details, my dear. The said land was acquired in 1992 (in the military era probably under IBB) by the FG and not "mapped out" by Goodluck. That was before democracy or Jonathan came on board. Goodluck couldnt have acquired that land in 1992 for his " sight and services" scheme as you claim between 2010-2015. Do the maths please.

I dont see any hatred here rather genuine complain. Not all states are blessed with large expanse of land in the country. In the military era "lands" were acquired under the guise of FG and owership later changed to private individuals. No work, construction or activity on the said land since 1992; that could lead any state govt to revoke ownership of the land and appropriate same for better use.
Questions I would ask before taking sides are:
1. Did the FG attempt dialogue with the Anambra state government b4 filing the suit?
2. Did the FG acquire the land the right way (was due process followed?)?
3. Did Anambra state follow due process in revoking the land ownership?
4. Is the 50billion damages sought by the FG rational?
5. Is it right for the FG or any State government to tie-down such size of land without making efforts to utilize them?

Criticise or support wisely without bias or hate. Thanks.

*slow clap*

mohince:
If Buhari visits Ogoniland today and an attempt is made on his life, two things are bound to happen and both leads to only one end. One is to take him out using snipers or whatever and then what? The army will wipe the entire Southeast and South South off the surface of the earth. The army, Air force, Navy and all other security forces will be given a 'shoot at sight order' to keep shelling the entire region until nothing moves again, yes, nothing. The other is to make an attempt on his life and he escapes the assassination plot; either ways, the security agents will still kill everyone and everything. So, who wins?
No matter how it plays out, the northerners will immediately commence ethnic Cleansing against the Millions of southerners in the North and the Southerners will also annihilate the Few northerners in the South and a full scale war that is worse than the Biafra or bokoHaram war will begin. Every ethnic group will take up arm against the other and continue to kill one another till the whole country is littered with corpses. Then the international community will wade into the crisis in the name of quelling the fight and take our oil and lands away from us. Then another round of Colonialization will begin in full gear and the few ones that are lucky to be alive will become slaves to the West. Biafra is lost and One Nigeria is also lost. So, who wins?
Then 60 years from now, one of the few lucky survivors of the war will author a book with the title: 'There was a country' or 'Buhari's visit to Ogoniland: The beginning of the end of Nigeria'; or something like that. Again, who wins?
But after a deep thought, I told myself that Buhari was right to cancel his visit and take the Shame that comes with it. He has clearly demonstrated a rare statesmanship that is worthy of emulation. The Buhari that I know is not worried about his life; he fought in the Biafra war 49 years ago. He is a war General who has seen death on several occasions. He is only concerned about the millions of life that will be wasted because of him as well as the aftermath effect of such bloody situation on the over 170million lives of fellow Nigerians.
Thank you baba for saving our lives. You have just earned yourself the title of 'The father of a new Nigeria! Shame on you Wailers!
God bless Nigeria
God bless President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR!

awful awful AWFUL analysis.

kolmart:
Dont you know that whenever there a low purchasing power the economy of such nation is bad. Workers are the distributor of cash to various people in the country. The reason why the people are complain now is that the purchasing power of the workers are very low and there is no much cash to be circulated by the workers to the people. Once the income of the workers increase, the purchasing power will be improved and more cash will be in circulation for the other people. Secondly, workers are the one that usually carry the burden, minimum wage have not been increased since 5 years now, and everything is increasing almost every second, how do you think the workers survive the hardship?. My brother we need increase in workers salary, without that the artisan, traders and other people will not get the cash.

i m no expert but i dont fully agree with your analysis. while an increase in workers salary might increase the cash in circulation, the removal of fuel subsidy will inevitably lead to significant inflation of most goods and services in the country. thus, while federal workers may get more cash, there is little guarantee that their purchasing power would experience similar increase.
there is also the fact that the salary increase only affects federal workers, thus i think you are over estimating the impact of the minimum wage of what amounts to about 1% of the total population on the overall economy of the country.

Quakertellicus1:
You want my opinion.....I don't think that Government should be giving people loans and grants right now....because we cannot afford it.

Sorry....I know people would hate me, and I have already been shouted at for saying this....but right now....Nigeria cannot afford mass welfare projects with oil prices at $50 per barrel.....when we were having issues with such projects at over $100 per barrel.

(And I have even more bad news.....oil is going to keep going down. The $100 barrel era is over.).

For me, there is only one way out of this. Telling Nigerians the honest truth....we do not have enough money right now....and we need to spend money on becoming a self sufficient nation.....by improving power, roads, rail and education....so that we can no longer be affected by sudden drops in the oil price.We may go through some austerity....but it would be worth it at the end.

So sorry.....but APC and every other party should be thinking about saving money. Awoof government is forty years out of date. Time we became a serious manufacturing power...the hard way.

my thoughts exactly.

kalohkaloh:
The write up is rubbish! Ignorance is killing us in this country. Fraudsters took advantage of the susidy policy, in league with Jonathan's officials, to rip off the treasury few years back. Rather than this writer leading a protest to accelerate the trial of subsidy thieves so that our money can be recovered and the thieves jailed, he is busy doing a jaundiced analysis. Mark my word, the wicked marketers behind fuel scarcity will come back soon to ask for higher price! Cost of living will hit the roof. The social cost of the removal will be higher than the expected savings! Respite will only come when local refining capacity is shored up. This is why Dangote and other modular refineries should be supported to come on stream quickly. Before then, government must subsidize petrol price and manage it transparently and efficiently.

wow!! i am actually starting understand why APC supporters are termed "zombies". how exactly was the op's analysis jaundiced. if anything, this is probably the most balanced, well written article on this issue.