₦airaland Forum

Exactly the reason your country became Poverty capital of the world.

Imagine how much you have to loot, go to Central Bank and take the lion share of the Foreign Reserve to train children that will only come home for your funeral or visits.

They do not speak your language, understand your culture or your African religion.

This is what foster corruption and deplete foreign income at the expense of the majority of Nigerians.

Your Colo mentality is the problem. Always looking to reap where you or your grandparents did not sow.

Chimpretty:
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Keep on comparing Apples to agbalumo, you hia.

Apples says he is happy in his country which is well run. Agbalumo says he is not happy because the cost of living in Apple is too high.

If no be kraz, Apple cares about your country? Abi dem invite you before you say you must eat apple before you die.

Stay in your lane or country and stop holding up traffic.

You ever hia say doctors dey complain that they are making about the same as common man?

Can you compare the percentage of poverty with US?

Happy2020:
This is not a lot in “Switzerland”. The cost of
Living is 5 times what it cost in the states in a comparable lifestyle. It’s deceiving but it looks good on paper.

See your life?

cruxgemmata:
Show me a proof of this - any kind from newspaper publication, pictoral evidence or website mentions.

Saudi Arabian royal family used to visit Nigeria for treatment – Health minister
Published March 3, 2020

Senator Olorunnibe Mamora
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Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, has said Nigeria used to benefit from the proceeds of medical tourism.

The minister, who stated this in Abuja on Monday, said citizens of other nations used to travel to Nigeria for treatment in the past.

He said, “In the 50s and 60s, Nigeria benefitted from medical tourism even as the royal family from Saudi Arabia used to come to the University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan for treatment.

cruxgemmata:
Show me a proof of this - any kind from newspaper publication, pictoral evidence or website mentions.

I am sure Nigerian travel agents and the
Swiss Embassy have seen humogous increase in applications.

oz4real83(m): 4:00pm
The people of a country will determine how a country goes. Switzerland is working because of her kind of people , if u take all Nigerian leaders to Switzerland and make them lead the Swiss people, they will provide quality leadership because the Swiss people will not sit, fold hands and watch bad governance being perpetuated like in Nigeria

Those that have destroyed their Country looking for ways to destroy another.

Most countries deserve their leaders, especially Nigerians blaming the same leaders every day rather that examine their own heads and contribution to make life easier in their villages.

No, they are looking for soft landing. Food without work don come.

cruxgemmata:
Show me a proof of this - any kind from newspaper publication, pictoral evidence or website mentions.

Google us your friend:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/saudi-arabian-royal-family-used-to-come-to-nigeria-for-treatment-health-minister/%3famp=1

Africa leads in low Covid-19 cases

https://www.nairaland.com/6108491/africa-leads-low-covid-19-cases#93755119

This not a joke. If Africa had taken its rightful position in the world stage, many world leaders would be coming to Nigeria for treatment.

In case you have not heard or read it anywhere. The King of Saudi Arabia came to University Teaching Hospital, Ibadan for treatment.

So was Mandela and others.

Right now Africa leads in Covid-19 prevention and treatment.

Without the West, Nigeria falls into pieces.

Yeah, as suckers.

Costoma dada ni.

Biodun556:


https://www.facebook.com/Emirates/photos/a.196512987125125/3200623400047387/?type=3

Indians, Lebanese, Arabs, Chinese know the value of Nigeria more than many Nigerians

Same old excuses. You forgot the threat of shutting factory down and making workers jobless if CBN do not let you launder money.

Do you know what I do or all of us have to be in the same business of political cronies called business men?

It is your only way to generate value. Learn to respect every dignity of labor.

Gerrard59:
Maybe because these companies import the raw materials necessary for automobile assembling? The devaluation of the naira - spending in dollars but generating in naira? High taxes? Electricity?

If you despise what these entrepreneurs are doing regarding inflation of prices, how about you start your business and help reduce prices?

That is the beauty of capitalism.

tensazangetsu20:
Border closure lead to increase in the price of food. That was the most stupid policy ever.

Every and anything lead to increase in prices, not only border closure that was supposed to keep food at home and cheaper.

Rice, petrol subsidies and even incorporation of cassava into flour led to price increases.

When Nigerians that have opportunities in business and as retailers want excessive profit on each product, Nigerian consumers get poorer since they have to spend more. This is how we create poverty.

Since automobiles are made or assembled in Nigeria, prices has been going up giving imports room to compete with local automobiles.

What do they do with all the profit?

Launder it out!

It is called greed by middle retailers. It starts from the Oga at the top too.

When Dangote promised to flood the market with cement, price fell by 200 naira but if you remember a retailer in Akure, other retailers were going to burn his shop down for not raising his price.

Most retailers would rather lock their shops and hoard the commodity than sell at reasonable price.

Prices for the same products, even those imported from Nigeria, are cheaper in those countries.

Even lace materials and shoes were taken over the border and brought back as made in Europe.

It is called GREED while your fellow men spend more of their incomes on goods, getting poorer and poorer.

tensazangetsu20:
It's true though. Nigeria can never be developed. Anyone who thinks so is a joker. Things get worse each year. Just two years ago, one could get a derica of rice for 150 today it's 500 naira and might be 1000 by December and it's not as If people's earnings or income increased to match with inflation. Time Is coming the average Nigerian would spend like 98 percent of their income on food.

Who cries for lost sheep like you? Your fate is already decided.

How can you clog up Lagos and turn it into slum and still complain?

Bifrost:
Crybaby. Lagos is shit. A megaslum. That's my point. You're just crying all over Nairaland.

Ndi Ara, you will never realize that Christian and Muslims religions have no relevance in Yoruba Culture only a distraction for those like you.

ejanla077:
Yoruba Muslim Miscreants YMM and dry chest beating

Asslicker, you are going to die looking up to your slave masters. It your curse, nobody can change you.

Chinese spy, copy and flood America with cheap goods for their prospectrity. Going from famine to richest competitor of America in your lifetime.

While you suck up with your warped colo brain in your lifetime to become world's biggest porverty stricken country with used goods.

Bifrost:
Chinese hate America, but Chinese are tripping into the US in thousands. Stfu

Some people cheat because the high price of the consequences makes it sweater.

Others do, rather than be starved of sex. Many just like the taste of what belongs to others.

You know where you belong, so why don't you just move on instead of making a stinker of it.

The same people that gave Igbo Notice to leave are scared to the Core that if Yoruba leave, it is the end of Nigeria and the end of Parasitic existence of the Arewa.

Unfortunately, even the Hausa are waking up from Southern Kaduna.

New Yorkers, actually most Americans, say Love It Or Leave It.

If you guys hate Lagos so much, why are you still trooping in thousands every day?

How many people are taking credit for Edo, Wike?

I thought Obaseki and his Deputy went to Abuja to thank Buhari.

Wike don dey beat his chest bloody.

Stop comparing the richest countries with the highest debts with Nigeria or the states.

These countries print their own currencies and are International tenders. Naira is not even recognized by your money launderers.

USA states are not allowed to run deficits except in emergency.

It is one thing to get a loan to buy a car so that you can get to work to make money or buy a house to live on and pay it off in about 20 years.

Borrowing money for vultures to embezzle is another thing.

Nobody would lend a poor state money. Not even relatives would lend poor man money they know cannot be repaid. They give them what they can. This is why viable states and people always do better and have access to loans. But you can overdo it and go burst.

Op, why do you think your sister does not know?

You just want to embarrass her. Ladies know before a man even think of cheating. But a man may not know about his wife cheating until it is too late in the game.

OP, did you visit your home, why Lagos?

Lagos be your home?

Ask your people, Lagos na their Europe and America. They come in thousands daily. A beg take dem with you.

You will soon shut up where you are the same way you shithole your home.

Ada, why are you always licking and following Nigerians everywhere?

Everyone is holding on to the only home they belong to. Leave you won't, stay home you won't but you get high on Nigeria. You have been kicked out of every country soiling other Nigerians.

In the country you live, they treat you and everyone that looks like you as dirty thrash. Yet after been scorned by Yoruba boyfriend, you still circle around them sabotaging their sites and organizing the destruction of their honest livelihoods.

Devil, stay within your people. Save your wish for your Promised land.

Arda1000:
people like you are the reason why Nigeria will never progress and why we Biafrans want out, instead to find the guy who take his time to analyze this rubbish and give him a serious beating you are here defending it, so if i put 1 naira and 1 dollar on a table you will go for the 1 naira? Iyi

Goke7:
chai see vexation

Nothing wrong with standing on your own two feet in your village.

The world has changed. Everyone is holding on to the only home they have.

Compare your country, yourselves and NAIRA all you want. You cannot change the facts that:

1. You are not wanted in any country no matter who you are or achievements there.

2. On top of that, some Nigerians are nuisance soiling other Nigerians, even in Africa countries.

3. You are known Internationally and locally as empty vessels that make the most sound. In other words, Chest Beaters.

4. You celebrate even dogcatchers once outside your country.

5. You have no other country but Promised Land in the sky.

6. You lie to yourselves and exaggerate your selfworth.

Finally somebody gave you a simple way to reassess what you have, which is NAIRA and ask you to turn it into valuable currency within your borders. You bark!

Live in your ISLAND because you cannot survive outside looking for Salvation. You have been rejected over and over. Yet, you are looking for all types of rationalize excuses to escape. To where?

Londoner, Berliner and New Yorkers would rather live in their villages than anywhere else. So stay in your villages appreciate and spend NAIRA to make it stronger before others can even look at it as a means of exchange.

You have been spending Oil Income like a drunken sailor since the eighties, now you are hooked experiencing withdrawal symptoms.

So you come from a rich arable land to see a Zoo on sale.

With all the riches, brains, skills and fertile land you come from, how much would you pay for a Zoo whose President is a P.hD holder in Zoology?

Op. Lagos to Onitsha or Onitsha to Lagos.

Weytin the train go carry go back from Lagos after dumping the whole East in Lagos?

Without train thousands dey enter Lagos everyday. People never finish for East.

Abeg, no let me call Thunder!

Please note that the wives of sailors, some soldiers, those working in coal, gold, diamond, uranium and other mines, are left at home.

Even under your nose, a wife can turn your house into beer parlor while you are at work.

When you are gone for weeks or months and each time you come home, your wife annoys you enough to start a fight, don't wait for neighbors to tell you.

This country of greed and instantaneous gratification is far gone.

Somali might end up buying Nigeria better than China paying.

I am not going to pretend as Mr. Know all.

But until we detoxify ourselves and go through hard withdrawal, which will be painful, we will be in the same situation we degraded our economy to from 50 years back.

In the first place, Diasporans should be able to send money home and those making money abroad legitimately should be able to bring their money home.

Our richest companies and billionaires always drain the Foreign Reserve based on need for foreign contents. What foreign contents do sugar and water beverage companies need? Why is a company like Dangote, Otedola or Innoson sourcing or the biggest drain on Foreign Reserve when they should be contributors to our Reserve?

If these companies were bringing profits home with Diaspora remittance and earned foreign incomes like yours; Niara would be in demand outside as it used to to be mostly in African countries.

Instead of looters buying Diaspora dollars and earned dollars coming from outside, their looted money would be invested at home.

This will create surplus dollars and strong naira. If you think our experts do not know that, we are fooling ourselves.

There is too much demand on our Reserve in a poverty stricken country like Nigeria buying garbage outside.

homebase:
Please suggest way out for Nigerians abroad sending remittance home (which the experts are saying it is one of the mean by which we are boosting our foreign reserves). Their remittances to love ones are being locked down in various Dom accounts.

Also how should many Nigerians offering their skills as freelancers online collect their hard currencies other than via DOM account.

What is certain is that with these out of reality policies the dollar rate in the black market will be 500/$1 in the next 2 months.

To encourage local production which will lead to strong naira government just need to create enable environment.
E.g stable power supply, security, business friendly tax policy e.t.c

What government is doing is just artificially defending the naira instead of getting the fundamental rights like China and co

All businesses that are not vital to people's health and cannot survive on indigenous goods and services must DIE.

It is the only way African and Nigerian Economy can survive.

This cry about businesses dying because they have no access to foreign money most of which is laundered has been going on for 60 years turning the country into Poverty Capital of the world.

Enough is enough. Die if you cannot survive on local products and skills.

So that indigenous brains, skills and businesses can develop and survive

It is how Oxford and Harvard trained economists plugged us into dumping ground for used and discarded materials under the guise of Liberal Market where foreign unwanted food and used clothes show up as delicacies and fashion in Nigerian bowls and killed our textile industries.

DIE. DIE So that most people can survive!