The question should be what is the pastor's contribution to the wedding and what will the church contribute to the marriage ?

If you ask me, the question from the pastor is insulting.......and is making fool of the parents....


Let assume the father's answer is NO, what would have been the next step for the pastor ?

And if the both parents of the groom and the bride were dressed in their choice attire, smiling from chin to chin with each other in the venue of the event, what then is the necessity of the question?

I have been using the yam and pounded yam analysis to explain the stupidity of the Nigeria oil sector since about five years ago to the illiterate educated economy experts that claims government does not have business doing business.

Our economy performance and the excuses tendered by most economists for it is an evidence that something is fundamentally wrong with Nigeria education system.

Another issue is out Radio and television anchors and presenters............ people that have bachelor degree in mass communication, linguistics, etc there job has turned them to expert in almost everything.........I get agitated and irritated listening to some of the opinion of these presenters.....and the shocking aspect is that majority of their fans/listeners gets/picks their fact from listening to them......it's disheartening to say the least.....they mislead the general public too much............one popular news analyst supported the naira redesign with a very childish, myopic and scandalous reason.......

The fact of the Nigeria situation is that.....we always have variety of options but we always listen to the cabals whose interest and businesses need protection.

Another problem is low self esteem.....many Nigerian do not believe they can be different......they don't believe in their own brain, opinions and probable solutions because the results does not look like the foreign ones..........citizens and leaders alike.
We believe our ideas are bad but foreign ideas are excellent.
This doubts limits our thinking capability, deprived us of breakthrough invention from our peculiar challenges. It also make us skeptical about indigenous ideas and innovations.

For example......the subsidy removal announcement was one option while stopping fuel importation to aggressively and deliberately encourage local production is equally a tough option.....

Let say the president announced that henceforth, it is whatever the Nigeria refineries produced we would consume...........this will put pressure on the refineries.......and other citizens will invest in the business......infact, it will get to a point that each fueling station will be refining their own fuel to sell..........just like bakery......each bakery bakes what they sell.

If we talk now, they'll say it's victim blaming...



Abroad man and Igbo gals........


Those times you were looking down on your fellow gals dating local men......you no tell us.

Jovialjune1:



Next time you want to quote me, make sure you come with facts instead of ignorance

Men are more than women in the world

Men are more than women in Nigeria

Now if Men are more than women,
1) [quote]marriageable age of men will be more than that of women, this is basic common

[/b]sense,
Note that 2) [[b]quote]marriageable age is different from wanting to get married because statistics says that men are more willing to marry and stay in marriage than women, that's why men do 99.9999% of the proposing than women(again, common sense)[/quote] while women mostly initiates divorce and opt out of marriages, an example of this thorough research is China because they are the 2nd highest population with the highest ratio of men to women ( I intentionally did a little research this night on this facts to negate your baseless comment) so digest this basic fact and rest.



[/quote]
Read what you wrote again....when reality defiled statistical analysis.....it speaks volumes about the analyzer.

Yinkusgold:


You are an ignorant and and misleading,

There are more boys born at birth in human population and biology, the only area there are more females is in elderly range upward but that range is more or less insignificant because the population is more from say 16 to 55 years old , productive ages.

there are more males in the world, ignorants and religious "dogmacentric"ones should know that..

Continue with your oluwole data

Yinkusgold:


You are ignorant Ignoramus with stupid and misleading statistics, go and check population of male to female in the world, nonsense!

Read and research more , don't you know that there are more baby boys at birth in human?


IconicR

Are you juxtaposing male/female birth ratio with male/female ratio in population ?

Even though you birth ratio figure is not correct, birth ratio does not translate to population ratio

Who bought you this phone!

I don't even understand the aggressiveness with which women peddles false narratives and half baked truth

Jovialjune1:


Are you okay? Who told you the population of women is 60-70%? Where did you get that statistics from?

Female are more that male in population...
Population of Female of marriageable age is more than the population of male of marriageable age ( famale mature faster)
Population of Rich male is more than the population of rich female


If I can help you with the factor of the statistics especially as it relate to probable relationship between male and female

talented321:
That is the africa man problem'' how can somebody that doesn't feed his one woman will look for another woman or girlfriend'' those are the things affecting the nation' we just born children we can't take care for.

Feeding is subjective....
Contentment is virtue....

It is a well know fact that a man with one wife loves his wife
A man with more than one wives loves himself.

What would you have done when loving someone else becomes a disadvantage?

Think about this
Female = chaos
Male = Order

I hope you understand?

Puss360:

Wahala... Chai.. too bad we have lots of half baked educated elites here ....
It's easy to condemn someone points, but very hard to prove your own...
Now to someone reading this on the net, don't you think the person will want to know why you rule out my points?
Worse, you come online, take one side, attack the other side and run..
It is well ....

And no, it's not your fault that I don't understand Basic statistics... .
All of us no Sabi the thing ..

It seems you're deficient in statistics.....it very sad that you don't know what proving a pint is.

MT:


Your response gives me good impression about you. You want to "criticise" someone's experience on a thread.

I made my point without referencing your post, but you quoted my post while you were responding. What happens to respecting other people's perspective . You cant force your experience on me.

Consider this as my last post to you.

It is good to learn and unlearn...Yoruba used arrow, machete and chant in war.......
There are numerous movies that portray these

Go and watch Idagiri, Jogun Omi etc.....even if you think you know Yoruba history by Yoruba movies.

If NLC will live up to her responsibilities, I expect nation wide protect tomorrow over petroleum price hike.......how can petrol be sold #620/liter.......who can afford it.

Cunning husband married cunning wife

Dem no gree for am, e kukuma turn am to award!!!

nairalanda1:


Also, a big problem I have with you Nigerians is that you guys think that everything is too expensive, and that prices must be beaten down.

Having worked in the private sector for most of my working life...and having had my salaries and at one point my job security threatened by people not paying my employer on time because 'it is too expensive'....

Plus, at the end, we are , for the first time since 1973, learning how much fuel really costs. And it is a shock, but eventually, economics would do its thing. Of course, prices won't return to the low levels it used to be, but it would fall nonetheless.

Remember GSM? So expensive in the begining, then competition brought prices down.

Nigeria know how much fuel is......since 1967.....

Use Kerosene and Diesel as a reference not GSM........Nigeria government killed Nitel for a foreign private company that extorted and is still extorting her citizen as we speak........the sad aspect is that South Africa won't oblige any foreign private company such....

They Bastardized NEPA before dashing it out in the name privatization to private individual that jettison the terms of the deal one of which is prepaid metering......and yet for how many years now, nothing has changed....in the power sector

Dangote refinary is the same scenario......you earlier asserted that subsidy payment is what deprived the Nigeria nation the initiative to build refinaries....the same government invested an amount that; if you add some money, would build new refinary into Dangote refinary, and in addition still lend him money for the project....... Dangote refinary is a already monopoly.....I pray he won't hold the country to ransom.

I can go on and on

nairalanda1:


Yeah, and the problem with subsidsing importation of fuel is simple. The cost differential between the subsidised price and the price of transporting and producing fuel always rises...which leads to a rise in the cost of subsidizing fuel

This eventually means we spend more and more of our earnings subsidisng fuel , and at the end of the day, we not only lose money, but we have to borrow to cover the resulting deficit.

At the end of the day, we are borrowing to pay for subsides, AND borrowing to pay for the normal budget.

Also, subsidies discourage local refining...which is why it had to go now that Dangote refinery is ready...because of the potential losses.

You are free to disagree with me, thank you.

Subsidy in Nigeria is actually the Dollar to Naira exchange rate......

Price of pms did not increase anywhere....but the naira is losing value against the dollar....hence the increments in subsidy.....

You don't actually understand economics........stop embarrassing yourself in public.

Dangote refinary is a private business, it is set up for profit.......and profit, shareholders, foreign partners and debt services shall be the basis for the company policy.......not Nigeria predicament.....which a choice anyway.

nairalanda1:


If you were selling bread that cost you N1000 to make one loaf at N1200 a loaf, would you agree to government telling you to sell that loaf at N200 to help the poor? While they compensate you with N500, meaning you lose N300?

Be serious.

Rather, if you sold 10 tubers of yam at #1000 and then buy 1 rap of Pounded yam that weigh 0.1 lb at #500.............this the actual Nigeria oil deal scenario...

nairalanda1:


That's because we never earned enough in oil revenue to satisfy all of us.

We produce just as much oil as Libya and Qatar, and both Libya and Qatar have 8 million and 2 million approximately...compared to our 200 million people

We also produce about one tenth to one eight of the oil Saudi produces, and Saudi has 40 million people compared to our 200 million.

Plus, things that we should use taxes for...we use oil money for.

Note: I did not say there is no corruption. E dey well well...but what corruption does is make our already bad situation worse.

Seun should put total ban on illiterate from writing on Nairaland...... your literacy level is disgusting to say the least.



Everything that is advantages to other climes is a curse in Africa.... Nigeria is the headquarters of the brainless citizens of the world......is high population not an advantage in America, China, Indian etc.......why is it a negative factor in Nigeria?

Librason:


Fashola is Ekiti by origin while Ambode is Ondo by origin.

Are related to the two of them ?
Funsho Williams is from Edo state
Musiliu Obanikoro is fromoyo state
Michael Otedola is probably from Kwara state....
Also Lateef Jakande is from kogi......


You people will go any length to prove that Lagos have no indigenes.

Are related to the two of them ?

UyaiIncomparabl:


Your wife cannot just start disrespecting you like that. Men and victim mentality. What did you do to warrant her disrespecting you? She just started disrespecting you just like that? It's no news that you men lack discernment and the ability to be introspective. If we ask her now, perhaps you cheated, refused to provide, or was even disrespecting her too. One-sided story no dey sweet.

You come beat am join. I swear, na smack down I for use finish you if to say na me. After everything, I go call boys to finish the work for your body. You can't touch me and go scot-free. We go settle the matter for court.

You just get mouth like aja'kara

Men without foresight are actually the problem.....when you hear its good for the youth, especially the female gender.....just know it a trap....but men help the female gender to destroy uninformed fellow men

TheZooHasFalln:
All these kids eeh.... Who dey dash una data for this Tinubu subsidy?

What class are you ?

The supposed first announcement of president Bola Ahmed Tinubu instead of the Subsidy removal.
Next should be Hadi Sirika
Followed by Ogbeni Aregbesola, Sunday Dara, Rotimi Ameachi, Zainab Ahmed, Ali Pantami, Sadiya Umar Farouk etc

Always akwa ibom gal........run for your life!

SultanOfAbia:
Nigerians are lazy..
There are many job sectors like .
Cleaning the roads and collecting refuse
Not body wants to do that
Everybody wants collar job with office blowing A C

Agriculture sector is heavily lacking in youths. All youths want fast money and agriculture takes patience dedication and discipline which this generation lack

My point is that in reality
There is no job scarcity .
What we have in Nigeria is job saturation
There are job sectors that are avoided by the youths.. Due to prestige or ego.
But when they travel abroad they don't mind washing dishes in restaurant and doing garbage man.

You're naive, lack experience and exposure.....do you know collecting refuse is capital intensive......?

The agricultural sector (you mean peasant farmer)...?

How much do you pay dish washers in Nigeria and how much is self contained apartment (called studio abroad).....dish washers abroad can afford basic living necessities......

No shook mouth for topic you have no experience of........

Nordy:
Is that what he called robustful legislation am not surprised. When we have glorified agberos at strategic position they find it difficult to identify whether chicken or egg which comes first. Lagos is multifaceted in so many ways and that can't be changed overnight. Oba_saa and his goons will come and go but the people of Lagos will remain.

Who are the Lagos people that will remain?

Talking about agbero.....when last did you visited the South East and South South ?

Lagos Agberos only disturbs commercial vehicles....at their parks and bus stops

In Onisha, Owerri, Port Harcourt, Abia, Delta, Enugu, Balyesa etc agberos have road blocks just like the Police....you can't drive your pickup van and private cars through 1km without being molested.......you'll collect permits everyday in every local government............ everybody in the East are tax collectors and Landlord.

SmartPolician:
This is a great move! If you are a genuine Lagos indigene reading this, I must commend you for allowing others do in your state what they will never allow in their own states.

I hope those who will formulate the so-called laws are people whose ancestorial homes are Lagos State though. A Lagos indigene has never been governor of the state since 1999 and they all kept quiet. Those indigenes tolerate a lot of NONSENSE from other Yorubas!

Babatunde Raji Fashola is from surulere
Akinwunmi Ambode is from epe
Olusola BabaJide Sanwo-olu is from Lagos island

The

Tinubu is a learner.......what is the role of those in attendance, oshiomhale is a senator, Faleke does not have portfolio as we speak, emefiele is a disaster for the immediate past administration.......

I hope Tinubu will not crash Nigeria economy ?

dacool1:


Let him continue to wallow in his ignorance. OPEC DOES NOT regulate any price. They only try to influence. There are so many players in the energy market that don't belong to OPEC.

If you think subsidy removal will make Nigeria better then you are on your own.

The real questions should be how did the cost of subsidizing petrol for almost 16years of pdp suddenly become something we pay yearly to keep subsidies on.

Nobody should be quoting international prices of energy without comparing the general cost of living, earnings and standard of living.

Let them subsidize Nigerians abeg, let them arrest and prosecute those behind the subsidy scam. Why would over 200million people pay the price for the crimes of less than 50,000 people.

If Nigeria is so broke then let them start with themselves, why will less than 1million people get to enjoy about 25% of the statutory allocations legally and still have access to steal up to 50%.

No stupid increase in wage too. Are you all not tired of this persistent rate of inflation. If you think the government of Nigeria would give you a minimum wage that will buy a bag of rice you are on your own. The moment they increase the minimum wage the cost of every commodity will react to counter the benefits. Why do you think despite the increase in wage people are still poor all over the world. That's because it's the SYSTEM.

Capital punishment should be meted out to public officers who are found guilty of corruption.

Why do ignorant people think competition would drive prices of petrol down and make it cheaper. Haven't you heard of price rings? How much is a litre of LPG, Diesel, kerosene? E Don come down? Why is competition not driving the prices down.

It is the duty of government to regulate prices, there is no market that cannot be manipulated forget all these demand and supply theory, there is a reason why there are abnormal demand and supply curves. All they need do is create a disruption In The normal flow of things and blame it on an event.


How many times will they remove the so called subsidy self. Don't be surprised that after some months or years you will begin to hear subsidies again.

Our problem is actually proper education......we take education at the certificates value........basic economics of supply and demand is not applicable to a product you're not a producer of; especially in this prodigal approach of Nigerians government.......you're a customer of a product and and you're thinking market force will work in your favour........the actual market force is at where it is been produced not in the country where it been consumed.

N3TRAL:



Prices of Petroleum products are governed by OPEC. As a member state of OPEC , for instance, an oil company in Nigeria should not be selling lower than Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia.

The oil prices are fixed by OPEC. They're international. If a barrel of crude oil is 10$, Dangote won't be buying it from Nigeria at $5. He'll be buying it at 10$. When we bring the factors of comparative advantage and the economies of scale, the cost of production in Nigeria should ordinarily be higher.

Dangote's refinery is projected to export its output to African countries and he cannot sell to them below the international prices. The refinery cannot also sell to Nigeria at a lower price because Nigerian smugglers will benefit from such arbitrage system which could see neighboring countries get more supplies than Nigeria as neighboring countries would be getting cheaper fuel from a Nigerian refinery than anywhere else in the world through the backdoor.

If the price from Dangote refinery changes from the price of imported fuel, it would be because of logistic and transportation reasons. Like elimination of the cost of shipping which would mean not more than 30 to 50 naira difference. Dangote's refinery is to improve our balance of payment as a country and prevent a balance of payment deficit but not to make fuel cheaper through another form of subsidy.

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The NLC chairman is empty and his opinion is not without prejudice.

Price of crude is different from price of petroleum products......
OPEC regulate crude production not the price of petroleum products........... don't be arrogant in ignorance.

renderme:

Who asked u to celebrate the government? Reading comprehension.

Governments have no business handling business. Yaradua should have never reversed the sale of the 3 public refineries obasanjo sold. Obasanjo made the right decision - that was good governance. And if you want to compete enter the industry. Nobody is stopping anybody. Just because u don’t have the capacity to does not mean dangote should not venture into the business. Grow up.

Government cannot handle business..lies that lazy private business owners feeds the ignorance/gullible Nigerians.

1) Ras Lanouf Refinery (Libya)
2) Sidi Kacem Refinery (Morocco)
3) Alexandria Refinery (Egypt)
4) Durban SAPREF Refinery (South Africa)
5) Mostorod Refinery (Egypt)
6) Mostorod Refinery
7) Zawia Refinery (Libya)
9) The Zawia refinery

These are some profitably Government owns refinaries in Africa.......go to Switzerland, Qatar, Kuwait, Canada, UK, Chile, china, UAE etc.......where there is public transit system, public portable water system, low scheme housing system, national carriers, mining operations, musium, parks, phonebooths etc.

If government cannot run business, then what is Governance ?