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mekuzi09:
Resorting to emotional plea will not save you. You’re inundated with phobia for Igbo; your comments, a testament to this fact. When you mock at a particular ethnic group because of their stand, what does it translate to?

On that thread, you camouflaged your hate with non-existence humor, while fronting your attack. A common strategies employ by your kind on this forum. I don’t need to delve deep to spot your hypocrisy.

Besides, you already held a preconception on my character, which was the factor that motivated you to launch the attack in the first place. Remember? Or you want me to post excerpt of the tirades?

Nevertheless, I don’t give a fuvck what you think of me…. You can be a saint for all I care, but desist from making derogatory statements on my tribe, else you will have my type to face. #YourConscienceIsYourGod.

Chukwu biko! Emotional plea? From who? Bros, you can lie, sha! Chai! You are seeing hate where there is none, and whining like a toddler. It is obvious that you have issues. There was NO attack launched against anybody, so stop playing the victim card.

You are now issuing threats: "desist from making derogatory statements on my tribe, else you will have my type to face." By the way, who da heck are you to make threats?? Na yah towns union get NL? Hehehehehe... let me laugh very well, first! Who do you think you are? Voltron? Ị sùḷù ̣afịa.

Your kinsmen, brethren and fellow iPoBs that have launched vile vituperation against other ethnic groups on NL are called what? Cheerleaders?? Let me guess, you did not see any of their vile epithets & caustic comments on that thread, did you? Oh I forgot - you simply chose to turn a blind eye in your rather hypocritical fashion.You are really too funny for words. Honestly.

It is time you got a 2nd ban, blues20 a.k.a mekuzi09. Adā m àchọ ūḳpa onye nā-agọ àgùg̣ò ̣ife o mēlụ. Now where are the mods?

LastProphet:
my broda how u dey jare?

I dey kampe! I just siddon for one corner dey watch di drama.

Ndubuisipaul1:
Let's leave tribalism alone . I am an igbo man but I will never call a yoruba man Afonja . That is very very unacceptable . And I hope u collect 4 weeks ban for that .

Guy, na so dem dey find trouble. If they call the Yoruba man, Afonja and that man responds by calling them Osu, they will get hysterical and take offence. I don tire for dis matter.

Anytime Yoruba & Igbo e-warriors are exchanging e-fisticuffs on NL, I go just bring out my mat, hold my popcorn and siddon well to watch the match...

LastProphet:
thank u reasonable brother, they don't know how stupid they sound, am igala from kogi state almost border town with enugu state but yet anytime i hear them talk it has very little sense in it, as if the only parent they have is money, no home training and pompous even in total ignorance. thanks my bro

I don talk say I no go laugh today, but....

Ugik:
hahahahahaha...the requests are good but the issue of oil bloc ownership, even if it will be owned by the bourgeois, I still believe the region will benefit from it still

Do you realise that there are quite a number of Niger-Delta indigenes that already own oil blocks? How has the ownership benefited their people? It is one thing to be allocated an oil block, and another thing to be able to put together adequate technical & financial resources to prospect for crude, undertake exploration activities and recover oil in commercial quantity.

The idea that if oil blocks are awarded to ND indigenes, it would lead to a transformation of their communities and people, is negated by the reality on the ground and rooted in fallacy. Their mentality needs to change first, while the principle of accountability needs to be entrenched.

Have you ever tried to carry out a project in the Niger-Delta before? Then you must have parted with some hard cash which would run into thousands or hundreds of thousands, before your project can take off. Such fees are called 'Community Development Fees' or Deve, for short. These communities collect such funds from all & sundry on a regular basis. Have they ever used it to develop their communities. Capital NO. Have they ever used it to educate their people? For where??!

Now they are asking for oil block. Biko, let me laugh in Chinese first!

mekuzi09:
Mr. Man, you talk too much, and make little sense. It’s very obvious that the tribe that is majorly against the Igbos, both on and off this forum are from a particular region. Conduct a poll, 89 to 90% of ‘em from the supposed region. So, in this case the generalization is justified, based n measurable quantum number.

Are you complaining of stalking, when in the first place, you stirred the hornet nest unprovoked?
What was your mission on this thread, if not to derail it?

https://www.nairaland.com/3433037/rethinking-south-east-political-stand/4#50651653

You launched your attack on my moniker, unprovoked and expect me to keep calm. Dude, your rhetoric and throbbing comments bares your persona and innate revulsion toward a particular group. Desist from your antics before it gets late.

Yes, my moniker received a ban, but it won’t stop me from engaging felas like you. #thinkbeforeyouspeak.

Guy, dis matter don pain you enter bone. I did not derail any thread. I only posted a response to a comment. There is no rule on NL that says a person must seek permission before responding to a post. Seriously dude, you need to get over yourself.

It is quite okay if you do not understand all what I posted earlier. I always knew you lacked adequate comprehension skills, and that was why you took refuge in insults.

You have an exaggerated sense of your own self-importance, and it drips all over your post. I do not hate any particular ethnic group, because the words "hate" and "revulsion" do not exist in my dictionary. I leave such toxic emotions to your kinsmen. Since you have chosen to act as their Voltron or their ethnic e-warrior, you can have the floor. It is good to see that you are unable to dispute the facts outlined in my last post.

You claim that I " launched your attack on your moniker, unprovoked and expect you to keep calm." Bros, you can lie, o! I did not launch an attack on you. What was wrong in wishing that you & your folks should get your Biafra speedily? Since when has that become a crime? Afterall, you expressed a desire for it, under your previous moniker as blues20. You responded to my comments with insults, and I replied to you in kind. In fact, my response to you was rather restrained and mild, given the fact that you were rather rude.

Your last ban made you whine. I am waiting to see what you will do, when the next one is dished out to you.

armadeo:
Lol
No 1 is mostly true. Not a bad thing though depending on how the nurse puts it across. After all the nurse should be able to give advice on weight.

Yes, ke? The nurse too wants to show off her knowledge by making fun of you. Some of them even ask you cheekily: "How long have you been this skinny or fat?" as if they want to prescribe one medication for you to alter your weight.

armadeo:
No 2 is only for poorly run private clinics. Even in government hospitals that's really rare.

Taa! How many govt hospitals have you been too? It is only govt hospitals without DSTV or GOTV that you will not find this kind of situation. If it is a govt hospital in Lagos with cable TV, forgerrit!

armadeo:
No 3 is true for busy private clinics and most govt hospitals.

Delays are common in both public and private hospitals, due to the unbalanced patient-doctor ratio. But na govt hospitals get Ph.d for ungodly delay. I have spent 5 hours on the queue in a govt hospital before, waiting to see a doctor. By the time I eventually saw the doctor my body temperature had grown worse and risen by over 5 points.

armadeo:
No4, well health is wealth. No need to come with one germ and leave with 100.

No 5 again poorly managed hospitals

No 6 only in private clinics. How do you expect them to make thier money. Government hospitals don't care if you buy from them or outside hence you see many pharmacies surrounding them.

No7: isn't everything pricey these days

Bros, for No. 5, it occurs in several hospitals, not just poorly managed ones. As for No. 7, pricey get degrees. Why should a private hospital charge me =N=2,000 naira for one satchet of 10 tablets of panadol, which costs =N=150 in a reputable pharmacy outside the hospital? Haba!!

Clinton9000:
Did America not think about revolution from Britain while paying taxes? Did they not chant GIVE ME LIBERTY OR DEATH? Same with what Biiafrans are doing now.

Fine, but America did not clamour or whine that Britain should create infrastructural developments for them, within their own axis while chanting that slogan. You sef check am nah!

gabrielahamz:
Whenever u want to export any agricultural produce, make sure u have d relevant documents like phyto-sanitary and the rest.. When u have your attendant documents, u can't be harrased by any govt agency. We forget in a hurry and we like to cut corners, which is why we get ripped off by these agencies. We also shouldn't forget some of our agricultural products e.g beans were banned for export by the E.U because of the presence of weavil, which is perhaps the reason why d quarantine dept is asking for fumigation.

You don't get it. Nobody is saying the agricultural products must not be fumigated. But what we are against is the fact that they ask for bribe, cause unnecessary delays to genuine exporters, hinder relevant commercial transactions, give the nation a bad name and clog the wheel of progress!! Or did you omit the section where the exporter spoke about different agencies collecting bribes, which is why most exporters have shifted their transactions to Ghana, Benin Republic, Togo etc.?

It means that this govt is not serious with all their talk of diversifying the economy. Yeye people!

CeoNewshelm:
Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, Nigeria's Vice President, Honourable Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babtunde Fashola And Kemi Adeosun, Honourable Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in a meeting discussing Alternative Gas Supply Proposal at OVP Abuja.

http://www.newshelm.com/2016/11/vp-osinbajo-fashola--kemi-adeosun.html

Another highly unnecessary meeting that will have intangible, negligible results. How many meetings have been held on gas supply in this country? How many workshops, conferences, seminars and communiques have been issued by stakeholders, technical experts, exploration firms, non-governmental organisations, oil & gas engineers etc., in this country?

We know how to talk very well, but do very little when it comes to implementation. There are so many concrete blueprints & recommendations that have been given to successive govts on this issue, which have been buried in someone's locker. Govt authorities hold meetings, receive reports with fanfare and media attention, then they sit on it without executing it.

The time for talk has long gone. The time to act is now!!

niyisky:
Murtala Muhammed International Airport

NCAA defends presence of multiple officials.

Despite the Federal Government’s campaign for economic diversification and export promotion, there is growing exporters’ apathy due, among others, to logistic difficulties at exit points.

While the availability of supply is not in doubt, the bureaucratic bottlenecks at the airports and alleged extortions by a legion of government officials have more or less made the export corridors almost a no-go area for local exporters.

In the alternative, The Guardian’s investigation reveals, farmers have taken to smuggling to neighbouring countries, including Benin Republic, Togo, Cameroun and Ghana, where freighting is cheaper and unhindered by officials.....
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An exporter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Guardian that all the officials must be “settled from table to table” before the produce can be loaded onto an aircraft.

According to him, “We usually start with the Quarantine. They will insist on fumigation and you must pay about N12,000 per pellet. Besides, you still have to bribe and continue bribing from one table to another You must bribe your way through all the agencies if you don’t want to miss your flight.”
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Aside from the dearth of infrastructure, there is also the issue of five per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) on freight cost. This is an additional barrier which makes the export of Nigeria’s farm produce more expensive than Ghana’s, or Cameroun’s.

For instance, the Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana is now a logistic hub in the Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS) because of its ease of export processing. It hosts only one government agency at the export shed to check the export of unauthorised goods out of Ghana, but there are absolutely no duties on authorised goods.

The Accra airport alone exports an average of 25,000 MT yearly, which include 95 per cent of fruits and vegetables, and five per cent for general cargo and mining extract. In contrast, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, being the busiest in Nigeria, is doing 16,000 MT yearly, Kano 1,000 MT, Port Harcourt 900 MT, and Abuja 400 MT.

Air France KLM Cargo Country Manager Nigeria, Gabriel Lalande, reported that yams exported from Ghana, actually originated from Nigeria, due to the cumbersome export process and high duty cost.

In defence of the multiple agencies, the NCAA explained that for every aerodrome, there are agencies that are required.
The spokesman for the authority, Sam Adurogboye, said that for an international airport, “it is a must to have those multiple agencies because of cargo, personal, drugs, security issues among others that are involved.”

According to him, what is usually done is to hold airport security meeting and the Joint Intelligence Board (JIB), led by the NCAA to address concerns as they are raised.

Source http://t.guardian.ng/news/how-government-agencies-frustrate-food-export-at-nations-airports/

Na dis kind thing dey make me vex! This is where we get things wrong as a country. Ghana is reaping benefits that should come to Nigeria, simply because they have managed to put their house & airport in order.

Our govt likes to pay lip service to everything, instead of actually executing steps that will make it conducive to do business in this country.

We have made so much noise about making our airports a hub, and diversifying our economy, but when it comes to putting in place the actual things to make it happen, our authorities fold their hands and go to sleep.

In this country, we spend more time on rhetoric, than concrete action; more time playing to the gallery than actual implementation. Chai!!

AnonyNymous:
Yes. . .but according to my friend who's from Taraba and lives in Taraba, he says people of the middle belt generally don't like the association with Hausa's. . . he said the population of the middle belt is largely Christian and is very diverse(in terms of tribe).

Middle-belt consists of Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Plateau, Benue, Taraba, Nassarawa & Adamawa. Some people have included the southern part of Kaduna and southern Kebbi into the mix.

The region is made up of diverse ethnic groups, who have their own distinct identity. They are not Hausa indigenes.

Martins301:
Assume Delta, Edo, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom all agree to join the East in a new country, given population strenght, homogeneity and domineering attitude, who do think will produce President in the "new country" for the next 1,000 years? Igbos Sir. Niger Deltans will be sidelined and silenced. We won't be foolish to join such a union.

Eziokwu! You talk am well! Those of us that understand where you are coming from, wish you well for taking this stand.

7lives:
When we preach collectivism una go preach individualism, the chicken is finally coming home to roost.
The ND elders are simply saying they are comfortable with OYEL blocks to some selfish long distance relatives who cant even practice what they preach.

Baa-aa-ad boy!! Chai!! Pity the guy small, abeg!

mekuzi09:
@bold, from today quit over-generalization. It’s not a rational cum academic way of drawing conclusion.
"Do you have a brain at all" yes when it relates to you, I'll be ruthless, seeing that you hate anything Igbo. You don't deserve my civility, except you retract your steps.

Guy, I will post whatever viewpoint I want, whenever I want to do so. You do not have to like it. God did not create clones. And if you don't like it, you are not compelled to respond. So kindly walk on by. No be by force.

When it comes to over-generalisation, you and your brethren win the prize. Unless you want to pretend you have not noticed their responses on NL.

Anyone who disagrees with their viewpoint, is :
a). A Yoruba man .... even if he is Gwari, Kanuri, Idoma, Itsekiri, Nupe, Kalabari, Bachama, Yagba, Jukun, Kubawa, Birom etc.,
b). They are quick to always claim their tribe is forever marginalised, and everyone hates them;
c). They blame all their real and imaginary woes on other tribes, and never take out time for introspection to see what part they played in their own misfortune.

So why not address the uncouth over-generalisation and sweeping remarks of your people first, and stop being a hypocrite?

Last time you decided to stalk me, guess what? You were banned. So little kids like you threatening to be ruthless, are nothing but a bloody joke! By now you probably have multiple IDs. But it doesn't bother me one bit. Your antics may leave a lasting impression on those with uncultured minds like your own.

mekuzi09:

Going by your prejudiced submission the entire Niger Deltans should be tagged militants, seeing that majority silently supports the activities of the NDA. Do you have a brain at all?

Why don't you go and ask the Niger-Deltans those questions and get a feedback directly from them? Do you have a brain at all? Your responses show you are not well brought up to relate politely when it comes to an intellectual discourse.

mekuzi09:
In your myopic garbage overloaded cranium Igbo, as a nation is equivalent to Biafra. What a sick way of over-generalization

Nah ....in your myopic, overloaded, intellectually-challenged mentality, a nation with a great proportion of its citizens who clamour for Biafra, and organise multiple marches, protests, market closures etc., to press home their demands for a separate state, in full view of the powers-that-be, and do not dissuade their brethren from such treasonable activity, will get a high-five from the ruling government.

Abeg, swerve if you have nothing better to say.

Clinton9000:
Useless Afonja...we don't pay taxes abi? So we pay taxes, duties and levies to federal government only for your lazy azz to collect billions abi? Most of you afonjas have no sense, at all

Sorry, I don't know what an Afonja looks like or who he is. Seems like you are addressing the wrong person. Just because a person disagrees with you does not mean he comes from a particular tribe. There are over 150 ethnic groups in Nigeria, and there is no one that bears a name like that in my own district. So swerve.

As for paying taxes, did you not think about that when you started clamouring for Biafra, you short-sighted dolt? Oya, call your director in prison Nnamdi Kanu to come & implement infrastructural projects for you in Ala Igbo... Agàm anò ̣ebe à genye nà ò ̣bìạ̀lù. We are waiting!

ImperialYoruba:
Where are Ibos? You guys believe this?
This cant be true account judging from claims of SE being the best developed region in Nigeria.

Chuku okike obioma!

Bros, the correct word is Igbo, not Ibos.

Clinton9000:
It's obvious this government has a scripted plan to marginalize and strangle Igbos to death. What these mofos don't understand is the more you marginalize Igbos, the more successful they get to be.

Why are you talking about marginalisation? You guys want Biafra. So why on earth do you expect Nigerian govt to invest in infrastructural developments in Biafraland??

kedeojo:
how will you see when you are becloud by tribal sentiment. You can't stop FG from access d loan. Even Ekweremadu and his fellow can't also. Yesterday u people shout biafra republic, today u cry of marginization and tommorow is no federal character involved in appointment. What do you people really want self.

Help me ask dem, o!!

dEastActivist:
But your little brain didn't tell you that your small enclave where you are hiding was former Nigeria southeastern region controlled by the Igbo nation and brothers like Ibibio that in realistic sense you(urhobo and co) should be the one to pack and go.

Igbo will continue to rule supreme in the southern Nigeria and the mere mention of her name will make its haters tremble with despair.

Je kwa ju ese

Er..point of correction. Urhobo land fell under the old Midwestern region, which had Benin as its capital. It was never under the old South-Eastern region. Please check your history books and the geography maps of the first republic. Thank you.

omofunaab:
See, i have no problem with your biafra
If you want to leave the west, please go, nobody is forcing you to stay.
We flogged your eze, deported you guys back to your villages but you still want to die here.

Is it biafra you want or Pdp in power.

Confused people

Chukwu biko! See finishing...!! Guy, this yah reply no go let the boy sleep well dis night.

tivta:
Agreed there are a few in the industry but am talking about the whole country, kindly look at the people who quoted me and see their justification for what i asked. Hate it or deny it, this country is tribalistic, am just glad yoruba boys and men are seeing beyond tribe, have two yoruba male ffriends who married from the east and are in marital bliss.

Bros, shine yah eye. I have a lot of Yoruba friends, and I can tell you that for every single Yoruba guy that marries a non-Yoruba woman, there are more than 20 of them that marry women from within their own Yoruba tribe. I have lost count of the aso-ebi caps that I have purchased this year alone, for such weddings.

Just because you have seen one or two Yoruba guys on NL marrying from another ethnic group does not mean that majority of them would toe the same line.

Did you conduct a survey in Akure, Oyo, Ikare, Otta, Osogbo, Lagos, Ife, Ibadan etc., and all other South-West towns before you jumped to your flawed and inaccurate conclusions?

onDjobtraining:
Hi

Brilliant contribution from everyone, i will like to say that the major infrastructure required for an automated or
smart/intelligent building is:
* An internet services
* A smart phone/device

You forgot to add stable, constant electricity supply that is available 24x7 and does not fluctuate. All those switches, modems & devices through which the internet gets connected to your appliances, need to be powered by electricity. And before you start talking about alternative power supply systems like generators, solar power etc., please be aware that the Nigerian environment is peculiar.

Generator uptime is dependent on diesel availability and functional machinery (i.e. the genset). In Nigeria, where fuel scarcity does not give you appropriate notice before it starts, and a lot of adulterated diesel can easily make nonsense of your generator's functions, tell me...how reliable is this source of alternative power supply?

As for solar power, the initial cost is rather high, and you need to replace the batteries at regular intervals. With the current unpredictable forex situation, you can be sure that cost of batteries would continue sky-rocketing for several months. With inverters, again cost of back-up batteries & spares come into play, and proper maintenance of the equipment. You also need regular power to ensure the batteries are fully charged. So if the Discos or your genset does not provide adequate power to charge your batteries over an appropriate length of time, bros' you are on your own. I know houses where their inverter systems are now like relics, because they have not been able to muster enough resources to change their battery bank.

My point? We have a poor maintenance culture, and the smart city thing is something that only the very rich can afford at this particular point in time. Even the middle-class that aspire to have a smart home, will find that there are too many interruptions to their efforts to have a seamless, continuous smart-home experience.

We are good at putting the cart before the horse in this nation. Let us fix the power issue as best as we can, then work on perfecting our maintenance culture, ensure the supply of quality parts and equipment, instil the best technical skills in our pool so we have an adequate pool of trained hands to fall back on.

Then and only then, will smart cities make sense. Just my 2 cents..

Can you post the price per block, for each of the different sizes you have for sale? Thanks.

ayindejimmy:
lemme get it straight
An Igbo man made a statement advising Igbos in their lapses and as usual you fellas managed to drag Yorubas into it and blame anyone supporting the statement.

Now,you see OUK is not far from the truth

I say you Yoruba people, una get strong jazz. If the Ipob youths have not mentioned your name in one day, their market will not sell. How do you guys do it? You need to share the secret of your popularity with the rest of us who come from minority ethnic groups. Haba!

ifyalways:
Nonsense post.

You wanna compare the wedding of a divorcee of 40 years, married off as fourth wife with that of a young couple

This is pathetic!

The woman even has 4 children from her first marriage, o!

calliope:
Nna please don't ever quote me and sprew nansense.. I have had first- hand experiences of what she listed up there and would categorically tell you there were atoms of truth embedded in it.
The earlier you realize the Ibo have a problem and need to fix themselves the better.

Face the bitter truth and stop wallowing in ignorance.
Now take your lunatic arse off mentions.

Chukwu biko!! See finishing....

Wey my mat and my popcorn?? Sukkot, abeg pass that bowl come dis side...

I don miss all the action wey don dey happen since. Why una no call me?

sekundosekundo:
Bode George said that Tinubu stole the property of the dead and the living in Lagos State

Guy, those were two individuals disagreeing with each other, not one state fighting with another state, or one community abusing another community, nah. Bode George and Tinubu are both from Lagos State!

mekuzi09:
The sucker is still masturbating on my mention. What a derailed old chump. Who give a fuvck about ban? Mtcheeew.

Wow!! You mentioned masturbation. Is that what you are currently doing?? How shocking!! No wonder your responses have been so crude.

And since you do not have the guts to mention my name or respond to me directly, it shows how scared you are.

If you didn't care about the ban, why were you wailing about it in your previous post? Were you not the same person claiming that I had instigated the mods to ban you? Tsk, tsk!

mekuzi09:
You’ve achieved your aim, by instigating the mod to place a ban on my moniker, which was your objective from the onset. You’re pained by the obvious progress of this thread. You are making a big mistake; my/our resolve cannot be disenchanted.
You talk about intellectual ability, I consider it an insult to engage in an intellectual discuss with someone that is already bias towards my people. You’re from the slimy afonja tribe, so bro, you can’t get me talking sensible issues with you, cuz it ain’t worth it.
Cyberspace does not begin and end on nairaland. Once again, kudos to you……. Believe me, we will match on. And this is the last response you'll get from me.

Here are some more details about the First Lady's opulent accessories.

@DTaj, a lot of taxpayers would appreciate it, if Madam Aisha Buhari could disclose the source of her wealth. Maybe then, they would not jump to conclusions about public officials and corruption.

Aisha Buhari Spotted Wearing a £15,000 Chopard Diamond Wristwatch by KINGSLEY KANAYO on September 19, 2016 | Signal Newspapers |

In what appears to be another display of brazen opulence, wife of the President of Nigeria, Mrs. Aisha Buhari has been spotted wearing a £15,000 Chopard Happy Sport 36 MM stainless steel diamonds encrusted watch, raising more questions about the frugality, anti-corruption and man of the people image that got her husband elected as President of Nigeria in March 2015.

A statement released by her Future Assured pet project via a tweet on Monday contained an image of the First Lady and a short message disclosing that she was in New York to meet with United Nations hosted organisation, Stop TB Partnership at the 71st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 71).

The last time Aisha Buhari visited the United States, she said she was on a visit to hold discussions with aid organizations on how to help the women and children facing starvation in the north eastern part of Nigeria. Her visit was however marred with the scandal of a Hermes Birkin 35cm Porosus Crocodile Gold Hardware Bag worth $105, 000 (over N40 million) which she was carrying as she arrived the United States.

Many questioned the rationale of her fund-raising visit to the United States when the price of her handbag alone is enough to feed thousands of IDPs for months.

In this new visit to the United States, Aisha Buhari is seen wearing a £15,000 Chopard Happy Sport 36 MM stainless steel diamonds encrusted watch. When converted to Nigerian Naira at the current exchange rate of N545 to £1, the wristwatch is worth N8, 175,000.

To fairly appreciate the value of an N8 million wristwatch (yes, wristwatch), N8 million is worth 4 times more than the annual salary of a serving Nigerian minister and twice the amount a minister is entitled to for his/her annual housing allowance.

The Chopard diamond brand has become legendary and famous amongst the world’s wealthiest individuals. Upon purchase, a buyer gets a certificate to authenticate that the diamonds on the watch are not blood diamonds.

Breaking it further down for those who would dismiss as a non-issue, an N8 million diamonds encrusted wristwatch for the wife of Nigeria’s frugal President who claimed having only 150 cows before his election as President, reports indicate that more than 50 percent of Nigerians live below the international poverty line of $1.25 per day, according to the United Nations.

Coming at a time Nigeria is officially in recession, recall that prior to Buhari’s trip to New York for UNGA, a statement from the Nigerian presidency disclosed that the president would also use the opportunity to scout for investors to invest in Nigeria’s critical sectors. Political analysts however insist that the continued flamboyant spending of the Nigerian government under Buhari sends across the image of a nation that is not in any serious financial or economic crisis.

It gets worse when Nigerian athletes who risked their time, efforts and talents to represent Nigeria at the just concluded Rio 2016 Olympics received what has been described as the worst funding support from the Nigerian government ever. Nigeria’s Minister of Sports Solomon Dalung reportedly announced to distraught Nigerian athletes in Rio the government’s reward of $2,000 (two thousand dollars only) for winning a prestigious Gold medal at the games.

Buhari’s frugal, austere, man of the people image was first diluted when his wife, Aisha, was pictured wearing an expensive-looking watch at her husband’s inauguration in May 2015. The wristwatch, a Cartier Baignoire Folle 18-carat white gold diamond timepiece was estimated to have cost around $50,000 – more than £30,000 or about 17 million Nigerian naira. Report of the development sparked public outrage, making international news headlines. http://www.signalng.com/breaking-aisha-buhari-spotted-wearing-15000-chopard-diamond-wristwatch/

mekuzi09:
When the sucker quit quoting me, his deceased brain will start functioning.

Thanks for letting us know your brain is 'deceased.' Hehehe... this matter don pain you enter bone. Sorry, o! Be careful, so that you do not get banned a 2nd time!

DTaj:
Reading majority of the comments on this thread, one had to pity the younger generation of Nigerians! That every topic under discussion on major online platforms are riddled with exchange of insults on the basis of religion and ethnicity is an all-time low for Nigeria and its future! God help us!

Now, to those ignorant clowns insulting Fatima Buhari on her wedding to Gimba Yau Kumo, see FACTS below:
1. Fatima Buhari is in her 40s, while her husband is in his 50s (so the daft comment about marrying someone as old as her dad, who is in his 70s is pure fiction).
2. The husband, Gimba Yau Kumo, a management staff at a bank, was appointed MD/CEO of Federal Mortgage Bank Nigeria Limited (FMBNL) by former President Goodluck Jonathan (PDP) in 2011 and he just finished his term last year, just before the 2015 elections.
He had been dating Fatima Buhari even when her father was a member of APC and her husband was serving a PDP Federal Government.
3. Fatima Buhari had a first marriage to a man who was more vicious than a beast!
The former husband almost made her an emotional wreck by being irresponsible, wicked, and inhuman. But for her family members, friends, old schoolmates, old neighbors, etc who prevailed on her to get a divorce, she might have died in that former husband's house because she wanted to stay for the sake of her 4 children in spite of the constant abuse from the husband!
4. Fatima Buhari and her former husband had 4 children together, and unfortunately, the 4 children are ALL sickle cell patients ("sicklers"! To compound the challenge, the former husband was so wicked that he practically abandoned her to her fate even after the divorce proceedings (which Fatima Buhati initiated in order to save her own life).

Right now, she manages the 4 "sickler" children on her own, hopping from one hospital to another.
Any sane human being who have had any encounter with anyone raising a "sickler" child (let alone 4!) would sympathize with Fatima Buhari and not run a vicious tribal and religious hatred on her for no reason!
5. So, talking about being the 4th wife, what do you expect a woman divorcee, in her 40s, with 4 children from her first marriage to be? A fresh-mint bride? People should just mind their business and shut up, because they do not know what those they are unfairly insulting are going through!

Alright, now we all know the reason for the low-key wedding that Fatima had. It was her 2nd marriage, and she already had 4 kids, coupled with the fact that she was going to be a 4th wife. Okay, now... that explains why there was no need for fanfare.

I hope the clueless columnist who originally wrote the piece in a local newspaper, will have the guts to retract his statements comparing the wedding of GEJ's daughter and PMB'S daughter. In short, he goofed big time!

May God Almighty heal her children and give them long life!

DTaj:
6. The hate-filled average Nigerian (those on Nairaland and elsewhere) thinks that everyone whose parents have held public offices is corrupt or has benefitted from corruption.

Er...you will have to forgive them from jumping to that conclusion. When Aisha Buhari, Fatima's step-mum wore an expensive designer wristwatch known as a Cartier Baignoire Folle 18-Carat White Gold Diamond Ladies Watch that cost £34,500 to President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration on Friday, May 29 2015, which is valued at =N=10,453, 000 (Ten Million, Four Hundred and Fifty Three Thousand Naira), and we all know she does not have a thriving source of income apart from her husband's salary.....well, then tongues are bound to wag and fingers will be pointed at corruption. Don't you agree?

As for the simplicity of the Buharis, I am waiting for the day that Zahra Buhari will get married. Am sure the expenditure for her wedding, will be far higher than what was spent on Fatima's wedding.