₦airaland Forum

Openifemy:
This country is indeed finished

Imo State is finishing you mean.

The ordinery people in the state need to wake up and stop supporting nonsene.

Youtube him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE_7HRvgLT8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNh04l_h0Wc

In March, SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted that he wanted to create a city encompassing Boca Chica Village and the surrounding area.
Its name? Starbase:
"Please consider moving to Starbase or greater Brownsville/South Padre area in Texas & encourage friends to do so!" Musk tweeted this week. "SpaceX’s hiring needs for engineers, technicians, builders & essential support personnel of all kinds are growing rapidly."

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Picture example of Embarrassing piecemeal Stuff


If the threat to Nigeria is as serious as many fear then perhaps the time has come we depart these piecemeal, third world, handouts from the West; these patchwork arms acquisitions and sitting-on-the-fence foreign policies ways of ours and plumb for acquiring an enabling ally such as China. What do we have to loose? What’s the point of being picked to death, over a long period, which is what our cautious and sensible foreign policy approach is achieving? I’m not sure there’s any need to continue with the perception of ourselves as beholding to any black cause due to our size. The black world seem somewhat selfish, backstabbing, and hostile to Nigeria itself and it is perhaps time we looked out for our own interest exclusively; the rest of Africa does same, limited by their capacity. I’m not an expert on defence, I don’t know about systems, but it does seem to me that certain nations like Egypt, Israel, North Korea, Brazil – to name but a few - have in place radar or something that monitor their entire airspace, also ground to air missiles, and other mature system that are part of the gains of aligning themselves with one of the world powers. Cuba, as part of the socialist block, was ready for Russia to station nuclear missiles on her soil.

The Arab world is afraid to provoke China regardless of Chinas clampdown on the Muslim Uighurs, but na Africa them won come flex for, from Mali all the Way to Mozambique.

Johnayoola:
You are evil,what do you stand to gain by causing tension in the land with your lies,how I wish dss can pick u up

These types of persons have deformed minds and are usually ugly physically in most relative terms. Often you would classify them as psychopaths. Such individuals have stunted empathy, therefore are unable to sympathise or care for people in instances when there is misery and death. As for DSS, they just need to monitor Troll houses and they will apprehend much of those that are hard at work online trying to engineer war in Nigeria for the pathetic gain of their own miserable corner of Africa that would amount to nothing anyway if Nigeria breaks up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns__YpRneBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYgGHJaji-g

Venezuela replaces national currency with bitcoin
In a fascinating move Venezuela, which has been a basket-case economy ever since Hugo Chavez died in 2013, has dropped their national currency (the bolivar) and any ties to the US dollar, and decided to link their national currency to bitcoin instead.

This follows years of hyperinflation where the bolivar – both the old and the new one – became worthless.
The result is that the society moved from dealing in money to dealing in barter, preferring to receive a loaf of bread, a toilet roll and a bag of sweets for a day’s work than a currency that in the morning was worth $1 and in the evening was worth 1 cent.

That’s the nature of hyperinflation.

Thing is that I’ve seen this in Zimbabwe and other countries, with Weimar Germany in the 1920s being the one that most point at, and the characteristics of hyperinflation are:

Hyperinflation is extreme or excessive inflation where price increases are rapid and out of control.
Most central banks (such as the U.S. Federal Reserve) target an annual inflation rate for a country of around 2% to 3%.
During periods of hyperinflation, a country experiences an inflation rate of 50% or more per month.
Venezuela, Hungary, Zimbabwe, and Yugoslavia have all experienced periods of hyperinflation.
After the Beirut blast in Lebanon, this is the latest country to move into hyperinflationary times.

Lebanon’s inflation rate reached a high 365% [in November 2020], which is 3 times its percentage rate of August where it was at 120%.

I would hate to live in a country that faces this issue, but equally wonder how you stabilise an economy in freefall? Well, first thing to recognise is that hyperinflation is often not a homegrown issue, but an issue that arises through trade wars and barriers between demand and supply. This is well articulated in this Quora response, which concludes:

The ways to fight [hyperinflation] are:

Never take foreign loans denominated in foreign currencies – always denominate your loans in local currency.
Never have sanctions placed on your exports.
When your trade goes into deficit, create import barriers and protect local markets
Aid in exports, for example, by creating business development parks like South Korea and Japan did before their booms.
Require exporting companies to exchange their export profits to local currencies at a fixed rate like China is doing, and save the external currency proceeds as a defensive buffer against aggressive trading partners.
In the case of Venezuela, which has been in the news recently, dealing with the issue requires that people understand first that this is as much something the US did to them as something they did to themselves.

Therefore, bearing in mind that Venezuela is in this position, due to poor domestic policy and a major squeeze from the USA, it is unsurprising that they are trying to regenerate. They’ve tried it once before by redenominating their currency, and now they’re trying it again by linking to a currency that Venezuela perceives is more stable than their own, more stable than the US dollar and better than gold.

bitcoin.

How will it work? Apparently, the government has issued a BV Wallet as their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), where any Venezuelan can convert their existing currencies – dollars or bolivars – to bitcoin. The money is more stable, but still subject to the wild swings up and down of bitcoin’s daily flows. Is this better for the people? Possibly, if bitcoins go up, but how many Venezuelans are happy about digital money? Apparently, physical money is no longer welcome, so maybe more than you think.

As a result, I’m renaming Venezuela bitcoinzuela. Do you think it will catch on? After all, if it does, just like Puerto Rico became Puertopia, Venezuela could regenerate to be the crypto capital of the world? Equally, the bigger question might be whether Venezuela is setting a precedent that other nations, starting with Lebanon, will follow for, if that happens, you may well find that bitcoin becomes the global currency for international trade happening almost overnight, as predicted in this Citibank research paper.

PatriotExact:
unfortunately, I and the whole Nigeria do strongly declare that we trust thw words of Bokoharam than the words of APC led government or Army

refer to yourself only, thanks..

Shellsploit:
His sister lives on enugu

Very unhealthy, best supplement it with fruits and veg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXT00BC82Cw

Uniformed outfits (pun indented) ? Mister Soyinka , learned as he is, should know better, abuse goes with the territory, which is why Nigerians need to consider these paramilitary creations carefully. Don’t be blinded by short-term gains and empty satisfactions.

Nigeria needs to work closer with China on defence, this should be the response not despair and panic. I understand Nigeria works well with Pakistan, I’m not a fan. I mean work real close with China, if possible; enough of our current, timid, third world approach. Let’s not be limited to Africa, let alone West Africa, in our mentality, even if it means debt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM8ndU0NAfU

I’ve always felt this black woman was driving this way out of panic and a feeling deep inside they would kill her.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWTiOE0VqYw

If you’re a relatively wealthy nation in a beggarly neighbourhood, and you’ve no border control, you can bet figures quoted 30,000 or 900,000 are possibly conservative. At the heart of Nigeria’s difficulty in resolving many of these insecurity issues lies in that Nigerians refuse or are being misdirected from seeing that much of it is foreign.Nigerians always seem to punch one another in response to punches thrown from outside. In short, Nigeria is not so much shithole but is in a shithole continent. When I first joined Niaraland, swarms of unemployed youth joining terrorists groups, bandit groups and or narcotics groups etc, sweeping like locust, ravaging and destroying the little that is hope in Africa, such as Nigeria, may become reality. I hope nations like Kenya, Rwanda, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa recognises this and invests heavily on border control and immigration, they still have time. Also none of them should trust any foreign nation except China. By all means, work with these foreign nations but, as an African nation, always remind yourself that they are out to get you one way or another. Trust China but only in the form of my enemy’s enemy

House1411:
The scripts 2021 is playing is madt ooo. It's an action movie

lol

House1411:
By who

On the radio. Man tried to ram barricade. Report of Helicopter flying madly nearby. Man arrested now. But reports, unfolding still.

gun shots

Owodiran1:
I don't understand are these people using juju or our military personnel are not kombat ready or they just don't know how to Handle military activities.... I don't understand..... A military camp where we have lots of soldiers easily raided. I don't understand........

Depends on what the article meant by Military Camp. The article is a little unclear on this point, meandering, as it was, between mentioning camp and mentioning village. Military Camp, in the popular imagination, conjures images of military buildings, parade turf, military vehicles roaring up and down, flag pole, soldiers milling about etc and all of this activity confined within parameter walls or fences. In such a scenario, you would be right in wandering how on earth, terrorists could burst in, gun down soldiers, kidnap and escape with others unchallenged. The article however is not clear; it gives the impression that the incident took places in a local village that hosted military personnel. If this is the case then it shouldn’t be that surprising terrorists could ride in on convoys, gun blazing, and achieve the success reported...

Having stated the above, one Nidal Hasan opened fire on 'armed forces' in the Soldier Readiness Center of Fort Hood, located in Killeen, Texas, killing thirteen people and wounding over thirty others.

SuperSixSeven:
No nuclear bombs this time? What a disappointment.

If JOSCOFELIX is such a joke, why are you this intent on persuading others that he is a joke?

Aconomist:
It is a Papuan tree house. Aside from the point, I actually find it quite impressive too. Papuans are creative people.

Yeah, I love it. I actually never was ashamed of being accused of living on trees because I was always able to envision what doing so would entail in terms of liveability Possibilities.

OOzz:
we all know that Boko Boys have taken delivery of their new jet
if you know U know

Whatever the cause turns out to be with the missing aircraft, Nigeria would be short-sighted - in any of their threat assessment scenarios - not making contingencies for scenarios involving Foreign Western Powers as backers of terrorists groups, regardless of misdirections such as convenient "Nigerian Sponsors" in Dubai. Any group backed by the West, faced by a relatively organised Nation like Nigeria, are sooner or later going to be provided with anti aircraft means.

Aconomist:
I'm fully aware of environmentalist architectural trends. But that's not what you Africans are talking about. You like trees in the same sense a monkey likes trees ie glorifying underdevelopment and primative living.

The first pic is the Asian ideal of a "green city". The second pic is the African ideal.

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Well, Abuja does not resemble the second (bottom) photo and the development of Abuja appears to be as if her former design and current developers are rightly integrating nature. This automatically invalidates your view on how Africans envisage urban development integrated with nature.

And incidentally, the second (bottom) photo, I believe depicts Native structures among the Polynesians Melanesians or indigenous Indonesians - i may be wrong. In any case, far from what you indented, I quite like it. I can see how to evolve it into cities that would be way better than the Asian, nature-integrated, high-rise buildings above it (top photo).

Aconomist:
Also what is it with Africans and trees? While other races are building unique architecture to beautify their environment, Africans are worried about trees. If you love trees so much, go live in the forest. That's were savages belong.

Setting aside current environmentalists trends in urban development of which you appear oblivious, evident in your ignorant comment - “what is it with Africans and trees? While other races are building unique architecture to beautify their environment, Africans are worried about trees. If you love trees so much, go live in the forest. That's were savages belong" - even the extreme example of a city amidst the “jungle” setting that you scorn would be more futuristic, pleasant, unique and beautifying of the environment of its inhabitants than any sky scraper cemented over city you could imagine.


Abuja's attempts at a mixed blend of buildings, trees and shrubs is far in advanced of Nairobi’s 70's recently-independent-banana-republic-in-the making-stodgy- high-rise-slum-buildings- architecture picture you posted..

aremuforlife:
No place is safe on earth, America is more dangerous than Nigeria, but you will never see their media or social media blacklisting their country, it's unusual of them.

Indeed. The thing is, he who writes the story, controls the narrative. Let’s hope the killer is apprehended and the family overcomes this period of despair unbroken.

Well, discouraging Southerners joining the army with refrains such as 'Nigeria is not worth fighting for", 'Only a fool will join the army' and " leave them to their fight if you know what’s best for you" etc wont help alleviate the disparity referenced by the article...


Military should just ensure that Nigeriens and Chadians are not inadvertently recruited among Northern Nigerians.

The world will witness an explosion of Nigerian fintech and software start-ups and jobs in same if not stopped or prejudiced against in some way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zVyznBrHNI

Please could someone explain a couple of things to me? Firstly, how Nigeria’s economic development and future is dependent on Niger republic using Nigeria ports? Secondly, why Nigeria does not stand to benefit more in terms of security, unity and economic development by investing this money on linking more Nigerian states and towns by rail?

I wonder who paid him,Amaechi, to excuse this rubbish idea of investing money - mortgaged on the backs of Nigerian children yet unborn- on infrastructural project for Niger republic?

Question:
What Are The Benefits Of One Nigeria?


Answer:
Multiple times the benefits of any country broken off Nigeria.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/africa

Heavy gunfire was heard in the area around the presidential palace, which houses the presidential offices and residence, in Niamey on Wednesday morning.

The gunfire was heard around 03:00 local time (02:00 GMT), and it lasted at least 15 minutes before stopping, followed by small arms fire, local residents said.

The situation remains confused and the city is on high alert.

The shooting took place less than 48 hours ahead of the inauguration of newly elected president, Mohamed Bazoum.

The government of Niger has not yet reacted to these events.

There has been increasing attacks by militant armed groups as well as political tensions in the country following Mr Bazoum's victory in February’s presidential election.

His challenger and former president Mahamane Ousmane, who lost in the run-off, has rejected the results and denounced a court ruling affirming the results.