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anonimi:
How far is N1,200 from N300/$1, which was Tinubu’s short term goal when he hit the ground running 33 months ago?

How far is N1,200 from his May 2027 target of N200/$1

At least if Tinubu’s 2011 expired old soldier failed to deliver his promised change in exchange rate for eight years of cluelessness, the Lagos tax reformer and renewed hope architect should not be a failure also.

Buhari printed too much naira and to get 300 to a dollar then you have to remove majority of naira in circulation from circulation. Prices will drop like a rock. There is no point in doing that. Just stop printing recklessly, increase wages and leave the market to self heal and correct

seunmsg:
In fact CBN is now a net buyer of forex. Basically, dollar inflow is now so significantly high that CBN is now mopping up dollar supply from the market. That is, CBN is no longer intervening in the market to defend the Naira, they are now buying up excess forex liquidity to ensure Naira maintains the current exchange rate.

So as it is, the Naira is under priced and once the CBN feels the time is good, they will further strengthen the naira. For now, stability is the goal.

People fail to realize it is the reckless printing of the naira that causes inflation and naira devaluation.

It will still drop more. The government said they have not printed any naira note since inception. Some experts say it should be around 1200 by now

Osariemen12:
That you visited a Yoruba dentist who graduated from the over hyped college of medicine in the so called premier university doesn't mean that there are no good dentists across the country. Just visit UBTH, UNTH, ABUTH or any other university teaching hospital in south south and southeast and you will be fine.

Sorry for the experience though.

The best dentists in Nigeria are majority Yoruba. So far it is Nigeria you can hardly avoid Yoruba

https://heliumdoc.com/ng/doctors/general+dentistry/

Some big shots are sponsoring the terrorists and it is high time one of them is arrested

internationalman:
At the bolded, now you are pushing it. Do you know what it means is to be paid as high as $200k to $300k. That would put you in the list of the highest earners in the US and the world at large by average.

Bro, nobody is comfortable being poor, they are just used to it. Humans are adaptive in nature. When you are Elon musk or Elon musk child for too long you would begin to get used to it and not appreciate or understand the privileges you have. A wealthy person would understand better if he suddenly became poor.

Rich people may argue that money don't bring happiness entirely but wouldn't want to become poor either. Same way a poor man may feel comfortable and think he's very happy with his life but would 99% of the time choose the option to become rich.

The point is, you can find happiness wherever you find yourself. All you have to do is creat your own happiness.

Yes there are actually people that I know who are in that category. Some of them even studied abroad and are renown in their field. Then most Professors in Nigeria are doing well and what really can you have as a Prof in the US earning 300k per annum that a Prof in Nigeria can not have? Apart from an expensive car.

Nobody is comfortable being poor but poverty is relative. No Professor in any country can be described as poor.

MaxInDHouse:
Jesus did exactly what any right thinking Jew needed to do because the money changers and herders weren't expected to bring their businesses into the temple courtyard.

He taught them and expected each one of them to act on what he is teaching not forcing his teachings down their throats.
You could as well claim that both Jesus and all his disciples were money lovers since one of his disciples sold him out for money after teaching them to store all their treasures in heaven! Matthew 6:19-21
Ọmọ you can run but you can't hide it's better for you to advertise your scamming business here peacefully but trying to incriminate Christ and his friends will never ever work for you!🙂

I am not forming anything as those are bible stories. I have read accounts online by Jews who said Jesus and his disciples were renown for street fights in their day. The Bible did not expressly state that but it is implied in the story of one of his disciples assaulting a soldier .

INJESUSNAME:
Ok. At least we all know Jesus Christ never killed or commanded anyone to kill.

Well we have no records of him killing anyone but he once beat up people in the temple who were going about their lawful business and he and his disciples used to go about with weapons evidenced by when one of his disciples attacked the soldiers that came to arrest him

Kobojunkie:
Stop telling this looney lie. They are happy that their poverty keeps them from getting better healthcare, drugs, and better options on a whole in life? Give me a break! 🥱

There are people that are happy with the little they have. You call the little poverty but they are happy and not missing anything significant. There are professors in Nigeria that refused offers from the highest paying US universities. There are British people working in the Nigerian civil service. They don't need more and are not fighting for more

franchasofficia:
I don't like it when Yorubas try to deny their decision to align with Northern Nigeria to stop Igbos from seceding in 1967.

If Yorubas were fighting for the so-called invasion of their land, they ought to have stopped the moment they chased Igbos out of their perceived Yoruba territory or even tell Gowon to let Igbos go with their region while they, Yorubas continued with the one-Nigeria with the North and Midwest, wasn't that supposed to be the case?


On how Tinubu has been destroying the fabrics of Nigeria; are you not a Nigerian? Can't you see the dangerous, toxic, nepotistic and divisive politics Bola Tinubu has been playing ever since he became President even though he has always used same to hold down Lagos state even before 2023 Presidential election.

If you doubt me, go back and make a google search about: Jimmy Agbaje of PDP being accused of being Omo Igbo as far back as 2015 and 2019.....it will be a total dishonesty on your part or on the part of any Yoruba man or woman alive today to deny that Bola Tinubu divided Nigeria so badly along ethnic lines even more than Buhari that started it

How I wish it were possible to have driven out the invaders and returned home but in war, it is never easy like that. Once a war starts, there must be a winner and if no winner, then a third party have to step in to restore order.

Then the westerners and Midwesterners no longer had any excuse after the invasion not to fight alongside the Northerners.

franchasofficia:
No, you are wrong.


The North already know that they have a major problem in the South coming from the Southeast, so having another major tribe from the South angry will definitely spell doom for Nigeria.



It is the Yorubas that have held Nigeria from breaking up because they are the people always partnering with the North to force Igbos to remain in Nigeria, so it's common sense to pacify your partner in crime to avoid bigger problem.


So it has nothing to do with Yorubas fighting for Abiola, it has more to do with Northerners applying wisdom to save Nigeria from total disintegration when Igbos and Yorubas together want to leave Nigeria, of course Northerners cannot stop it but when Igbo alone wants to leave, it's easier to stop them through majority partnership of North and Southwest.


Same way, it's easier to stop Yorubas from ever leaving Nigeria if North and Southeast partner together.


That's why for many years, North always worked with Southeast to keep Southwest in opposition until 2015 that Tinubu led Yorubas to partner with North against Southeast that wanted Jonathan to remain, and that disrupted the North-Southeast political partnership and led to the emergence of a first ever pan-Yoruba President Tinubu now destroying every fabric of Nigeria.

Yoruba did not partner with North to keep Igbos in Nigeria. The Midwest did not partner with North to keep Igbos in Nigeria. Resisting the invasion of your land is a noble task that you should expect any group to do. Why should Awo trust Ojukwu when he was part of Ironsi government who refused to release him from prison despite his plea? Put yourself in his shoes. You said the first Yoruba and North alliance is 2015 and you said Yoruba partnered with North earlier when the resistance against the invading Biafrans was just a reflex action. I don't count that as partnering with North politically. Though there is nothing wrong in partnering with the North for as long as Nigeria is one. Any mutually beneficial partnership is not wrong.
How is Tinubu now tearing the fabric of Nigeria apart? In what way? People are still free to form alliance to remove him

TenQ:
This is certainly NOT one of the problems.
The cost per unit electricity in UK is $0.35, USA is $0.17 and i. Nigeria is $0.13. The cost difference between USA and Nigeria is not that great especially considering the fact that salaries of Electricity workers are much smaller.








This is an administration and management problem as the unpaid gas suppliers do jot have anything to do with consumer not paying.


I think until we generate up to 8GW of electric power, we have no right to blame the transmission networks.



I am 100% in agreement with you here. Nothing else to add.





What do you think would happen if a company like Siemens is contracted to build a 20GW turbine station powered from direct supply of crude oil?

Do you think the company cannot build a Modular Refinery to produce the kind of fuel required fro their turbines?

Do you think that a company like Siemens after Building such a power station cannot build parallel national grid for its energy distribution?


Unfortunately,even if our politicians are convinced to do this, they will look for a Chinese or Indian company to execute the project rather than giving it to a German, UK, Korean, Israeli or Japanese companies?

Why they don't give contracts to companies from the high income world is because they quote more because of high personnel costs due to high cost of living in those countries. If the Chinese are asking for one billion dollars when Siemens say they will take three billion dollars, how will Siemens win the bid? It is the same reason manufacturing has almost all left high income countries.

Ojiofor:
Geometric power plant can serve more than two states with its current capacity.

If they are àgrarian states as are most states in Nigeria then maybe.

Yu have to have vision then plan and strategize. No need to be heartless. For family and others you must do what you can afford to assist them

Gerrard59:
Life expectancy rates in tropical Barbados, Singapore and Malaysia are very high. Temperate weather conditions have nothing to do with life expectancy rates. See Russia and its low LE rates.

Our low expectancy rate is due to poverty, nothing else. Nigeria has to become rich for people to live longer. No wonder some say poverty is worse than death itself.

Many poor people are happy with the little they have and are living a fulfilled life. So poverty is not worse than death. All this craze about money is the problem not poverty in itself. How much do you even need to have a roof over your head and live well?. Many people have the income yet still choose to live frugally. You only get happiness and fulfilment from adding value to the society and never from money. What you need is happiness and fulfilment
High life expectancy in any country is by over 90 percent from low infant mortality, other things are just tangential. I hope you know poor people live to over 100 years and billionaires die young.

ismodiwa:
If Islam is the problem, why are Muslim-majority countries like Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia far safer than Nigeria? Same religion, different results. The difference is governance.

What religion wants is submission. Yes economic prosperity can be possible after submission but it is not guaranteed.

Do you want to submit and become cattle?

Awoleesu:
Interesting how you tried to simplify it yet dodging the fact that the foreigners you conveniently tried to compare your local self to, come in with hard currencies...

If you still don't get it, convert the #22M the OP said he has to USD and please tell us which among your "successful" foreign investors did that model of business you're insinuating with such an (miserable) amount?

Still need a definition of RE?

There are many foreigners who came here relatively empty handed or to work for others and are now doing well. Some are HNIs. I have met some. If you have 20 million cash in Nigeria you have escaped poverty if you are careful. It is your decision to make to go and start from the bottom in another country. Then 20 million naira can do in Nigeria what 200 million naira can not do in western Europe in rent and services, therefore converting the money to USD does not tell the whole story

SisterAnn:
You are being too emotional now and you are not seeing clearly.

It is actually better for any society to restrict Islam and Christianity to private homes. They have no business in public

Gajagojo:
The point is simple
No one can stop glitches
But
Tinubu if he is losing can cause glitches
Obi if he is losing can cause glitches
Atiku too
If the rule is glitch and cancel glitches will not stop

Foreign powers
Even Starlink can try to influence outcome if it is bought or believes in one candidate

So we return to the Adult question

When. Glitch happens because in this Nigeria that we know it will happen

What next

Your argument about fair is sentiments

The issue is not transmission but vote buying and intimidation

As far as transmission goes 2023 was the BEST EVER

Peter Obi and Atiku had agents at polling units

Did they come out to tell you INEC declared something else from what they have

They had the results on Sunday and knew they had lost

That is why Dino Melaye started his drama

No matter the challenges, if that is what all contestants want then give it to them. They know that if the result is not uploaded in time, the polling unit will be cancelled. They may not understand, so it is better to clearly explain to them. It is not right to go with what only one party wants

P1PrinceKT:
Kaduna has few migrated southerners.
That's why 90% of their elected officials are Muslims. While Kano has no single elected official that is Christian. Continue deceiving yourself and listening to brainwashed media.

In Kaduna, Five out of 23 local governments can be up to half of the population. That is the number of local government chairmen. In Osun, Ife East senatorial district has 10 out of 30 local government with 54 percent of total population. I have met some Kano indigenes that are Christians. So 90 percent Muslim will be hard for even the NW and it is simply not the reality for any other zone in the North more like 50/50 for the other zones.

Gajagojo:
many shouting electronic transmission like parrots

Tell us what should happen if there is a glitch
Should the election be cancelled

Or are you saying a law will stop glitches?

That is the only valid argument but if they can get internet access by other means as some people say it is possible via starlink then everybody should support what is fair.
For real politicians they don't need any concession. The APC did not ask for any concession before voting out the PDP

P1PrinceKT:
Northern Nigeria has over 90% of the population as Muslims so therefore Nigeria is Islamic country weather you like it or not.

You can not try Christian Christian ticket but we as Muslims Can there's nothing you can do about it.

In the NW, Kaduna is after Kano in population and it is at least half Christian. Kano is more than ten percent Christian. Therefore the NW is at least twenty percent Christian and that is the only zone Muslims greatly dominate in the North. How then did you arrive at the figure of ninety percent Muslim?

Gajagojo:
The solution honestly is to shutup and stop making noise
Good morning
It is when A Yoruba man got there that election problem started?

In 2023 total votes for ALL candidates was 24.5 million
But somehow in 2011 Goodluck Jonathan got 22 million votes
The SE alone alone gave Goodluck Jonathan 5 million votes
FIRST TIME SE HAD MORE VOTERS THAN SW BUT COULD NOT REPLICATE FOR OBI.?
Why? BVAS WORKED

In 2023 Peter Obi as popular as he was with 99% votes could only get 2 million votes in the SE

You did not talk about reform in 2011 when Buhari was crying and all the SS and SE states had millions of voters

When the Yoruba complete their 8 years you can reform

It is better to support what is fair. If it gets down to ethnic voting then it is not sure for anybody. There are over two hundred ethnic groups. Support electronic transmission or even voting. It does not mean your candidate will lose and even if he loses, you can still contest in fiture

MrUnitedstatesA:
Does the Emirates that produce oil like us have a high tax regime ? Stop the excuses . You know APC is evil and your master strategist the biggest loser of all Nigerian presidents. Even Buhari seems more educated than the druglord

You want a welfare country but don't want to pay tax? That can't be possible

getcut:
You are absolutely right!! Christ didn’t choose random, unprepared people to lead. He spent years teaching, correcting, rebuking, and shaping His disciples before sending them out. Paul didn’t endorse ignorance he confronted false teachers, demanded sound doctrine, and insisted that leaders be apt to teach,blameless, and rightly dividing the word of truth. Those are qualifications,those are standards,those are forms of training.
A society that refuses to regulate its religious environment becomes vulnerable to:

1. exploitation

2. extremism

3. manipulation

4. imported ideologies

5. leaders who answer to no one

That’s not faith.
That’s danger.

A responsible nation has every right to say: If you want to lead people spiritually, you must be accountable, trained, and safe.
That’s not fighting God,that’s protecting citizens. The supernatural does not excuse disorder.
And people getting used to invoking Jesus to defend chaos is not spirituality it’s avoidance of responsibility.

What is in Christianity apart from promotion of and excuse for immorality? Your past, present and future sins have been died for over two thousand years ago by a foreigner

AMINDA:
All the Northern Sheikhs who supported Tinubu's muslim-muslim ticket are fast turning their backs on him after clocking he's a serial betrayer. Tinubu is not gaining Christian votes at the same rate that he's losing muslim votes. This should concern Agbadorians when you consider the fact that he won with 5.6m Northern Muslim votes and still had the slimmest margin of victory by any presidential candidate in the history of this country. This was simply because the South didn't vote for him and largely still won't, despite all the defecting governors. Dropping Shettima at this point will only do more damage but he has no other choice.

President Shagari's 1979 victory has the slimmest margin of victory in the history of Presidential elections. Tinubu won with a higher margin in 2023.

MasterTeeUSA:
Personally I do not see a big deal about cows moving about. The Govs are not ready to create ranch systems. A lot will also go into a ranch system...feeds and all. Until that is done, the cows can move around eating all the weeds we refuse to cut down.

My proposal

Create a ranch system. When Farmers send food from the North, we load them with feeds.
You create jobs by having people go into farmlands to cut grasses and weeds....then you have central locations like we do for plastic bottles.
They weigh them, store and pay the locals.
They gather them in bulks and alert trailers so they can load them back to the ranches.
You need to build massive tanks to store water and sewage systems to process wastes.

You create JOBS in the South and stop the movement, but you must be ready to pay more for meats because instead of cows eating for free by moving about, farmers will be paying for daily feeds.

No you won't pay more for meat. Pork today is cheaper than beef. I believe dairy products can pay for the feed.

Kobojunkie:
It is about food affordability if you read the OP. Affordability is the primary reason why the average Nigerian considers getting spaghetti and rice instead of maybe meat or eggs on it instead. 🥱🥱

The topic is about why Canadians live longer than Nigerians. Not specifically about food affordability.

Kobojunkie:
A minimum wage earner can afford to eat well in many developed countries thanks to food assistance programs that provide them enough for them to obtain nutritional meals daily. This topic isn't about rent but about food affordability. Let's stop with the numerous attempts to derail from the important issue here. 🥱🥱🥱

He talked about rent. It is not wrong to respond to him. I don't think that should be counted as derailing the thread. And the topic is not about food affordability! Check again

internationalman:
That's not true. A minimum wage earner in high income countries will have money left to save after paying rent and eating good food, not to talk of the numerous other benefits like water electricity, good roads medical emergencies and the rest. Not to mention most minimum wage earners here share apartment with others and split the rent.

Talking about rent, can a minimum wage earner in Nigeria pay their rents in this present day Nigeria unless they are renting in a remote places. If they manage to pay their rents, can they pay for their electricity if peradventure they happen to be in band A area where electricity bills is more than half of their salaries? Or can they be buying fuel in their generator everyday if there's no light?

The only reason we have not been seeing homeless people littered everywhere in this present day Nigeria is because Nigeria has a very good support system and culture; very family oriented, not because people can pay their own rents. Any family members can stay in our family house in Benin and in Lagos as long as you are not a criminal and running from the police, unlike abroad where you are solely responsible for yourself.

There's no basis for comparison between a minimum wage earner in Nigeria and Abroad.

Minimum wage earners are struggling in any country and in high income countries many can not afford rent. The struggle is everywhere. Rent is only expensive in only a few cities in Nigeria while other places are very cheap. Some can be as cheap as 50k per annum for a room. Nigeria is very informal too and most people have more than one source of income. The average family in Nigeria can fully own their home by the time the couple are in their fifties. There is safety net in high income countries but there is no government revenue for that in Nigeria yet. The safety net is what makes the big difference

Kemetian:
I SAID USE YOUR BRAIN.

Your next door neighbours, that have driven out the westerners, have you gone to ask them WHY?

Don't you CARE to know why?

You are the one not using your brain. Not at all. Can the Francophone countries drive anybody out without the clandestine support of either the USA or Russia?

Kemetian:
I've spent my life LEARNING WHAT THE WORLD IS REALLY ABOUT, UNLIKE YOU.

Your next door neighbours are throwing out the same people that you are inviting into your house.

Won't you go and ask them WHY they drove out those westerners, before inviting the same westerners into your house?

You no get sense?

Did oyinbo do juju on you Nigerians to not use your sense?

You ask if I have sense when you are obviously not thinking. Without the US having bases around the world then the world would have to be partitioned among the people with the biggest guns for any semblance of peace to be achievable. How much are you paying the US for that service?,How much did you pay them for helping you hit the terrorist camp in Sokoto forest? If the Nigerian government has agreed to work with them then I support the move and it should be to a full extent. The war against terrorism in Nigeria can only be fought with US help. You don't want them to help you because they are white people? Don't worry majority of US whites have some west African ancestry