Easyincome24: Unlike what some families bill their would be son-inlaws, this lady was grateful for her family being considerable by cutting down the expenses on her bride list.
1 whole cow in this economy? And she thinks this is considerate?
basilico: Iran was flouting the JPCOA deal before the ink was dry.
1. Exceeding heavy water stockpile caps (First Breach): In February 2016, Iran surpassed the JCPOA's strict 130-metric-ton limit on heavy water by roughly 900 kilograms. 2. Exceeding heavy water stockpile caps (Second Breach): In November 2016, the IAEA found Iran in breach again, exceeding the heavy water cap by 100 kilograms. This forced Iran to quickly ship the excess out to Oman to regain technical compliance. 3. Testing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles: In March and throughout 2016, Iran conducted multiple ballistic missile tests. This flouted the spirit of the deal and was deemed "inconsistent" with UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the JCPOA and called on Iran to halt missile work. 5. Advanced centrifuge R& disputes: Iran and Western powers clashed over interpretations of the deal regarding how many advanced centrifuges (like the IR-6 and IR- Iran was permitted to operate and test for research and development purposes.Illicit procurement of missile technology: Reports from German intelligence agencies in 2015 and 2016 noted that Iran continued covert, illicit attempts to procure missile technology outside of the officially mandated JCPOA procurement channels. 6. Secret low-enriched uranium (LEU) exemptions: Prior to Implementation Day in early 2016, Iran held quantities of 3.5% low-enriched uranium hexafluoride that would have immediately breached the 300 kg cap. The Joint Commission quietly exempted this un-bonded material, which critics flagged as Iran exploiting loopholes. 7. Exploiting loopholes on "heavy water export" language: Iran initially challenged the interpretation of the 130-ton heavy water cap. They argued that if no international buyers were available to purchase their excess product, they were permitted to keep it stored inside the country.
On centrifuges,Iran was positioning to refine further than the IAEA limits . There is absolutely no reason to have 60% highly enriched Uranium apart from building a weapon or threatening other states that we can quickly build one.
Lordreed
Bro can you produce the evidence that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon?
Ifeoluwadev: Let me start by saying this: I know what you are thinking. "This guy don craze." Even my own mother cried when I told her I was coming back.
I left Nigeria in 2019. Got a visa through my company's transfer program, packed two bags, and landed in Manchester on a cold Tuesday morning that nearly killed my Lagos raised soul.
For 5 years, I did everything "right."
Got a better paying job. Sent money home every month. Upgraded my family's life. Got my indefinite leave to remain sorted. On paper, I was living the dream every Nigerian prays for at night.
But last December, I packed those same two bags now four and came back to Lagos.
Here is why.
1. I WAS LONELY IN A WAY I CANNOT FULLY EXPLAIN
Nobody warns you about this.
You can be surrounded by colleagues, housemates, even "friends" and still feel like a ghost. British people are polite but not warm. There is a difference. You will smile at your neighbor for 3 years and never know his first name.
In Lagos, my street alone has more genuine human connection than my entire postcode in Manchester. My landlord's wife used to bring me food when I was sick. My neighbor knew my name within 24 hours.
I did not realize how much I needed that until I did not have it anymore.
2. THE MONEY LOOKED BIG UNTIL IT DIDN'T
Yes, I was earning in pounds. But London/UK cost of living will humble you fast.
Rent: £900/month for a small flat. Food: £400/month if you cook mostly at home. Transport: £200/month. Bills: £150/month.
By the time you finish doing the math, that "big salary" is already half gone before you enjoy anything. And if you have family back home depending on you, which most of us do, you are effectively running two households.
Back in Lagos, with the savings and investments I had built up, I now run a small logistics business. Last month I cleared more in naira than I was taking home in pounds after expenses.
People forget to calculate purchasing power and cost of living when they are dreaming about abroad.
3. I WAS AGEING WITHOUT LIVING This one is personal.
In the UK, my routine was: wake up, commute, work, come home, cook, sleep, repeat. Weekends were for grocery shopping and rest because Monday was always coming.
In Lagos, even with the chaos, there is LIFE. There is noise and owambe and suya at midnight and people who actually want to sit with you and argue about football for 3 hours. There is color. There is energy.
I went to the UK and became productive. I came back to Nigeria and started actually living.
4. MY PARENTS ARE GETTING OLD I watched my father shrink over video calls. My mother's hair went completely white in 3 years. They never complained, that is the Nigerian parent way, but I could see it.
No amount of money sent home replaces presence. I know that sounds like something on a greeting card, but I promise you it is true. My father's face when I walked through the door in December is something I will never forget.
I refuse to be the child who shows up for the burial after spending the last good years sending money instead of time.
5. OPPORTUNITY IN NIGERIA IS UNDERRATED This will be controversial, I know.
But hear me out. Nigeria is hard. The infrastructure is a disaster. Fuel prices are criminal. The government is not your friend.
AND YET, for someone with skill, international exposure, savings, and the willingness to grind, Nigeria rewards you in ways that a saturated Western economy cannot. The competition is not as fierce at the top. The gaps in the market are enormous.
I identified a logistics gap in my area. Started small. Now I have 6 staff and three vehicles. I am building something. In the UK I was building someone else's dream.
THE HONEST DOWNSIDES, I WON'T LIE TO YOU
Light situation is still a spiritual attack. Generator fuel is expensive. The roads want to kill me daily. Some things that should take 30 minutes take 3 days because of bureaucracy. I sometimes miss the simple efficiency of abroad. Ordering something and it actually arrives. Bills that just work.
I am not here to sell you a fantasy. Nigeria is hard. But it is MY hard. And I am building something meaningful inside it.
FINAL WORD
I am not saying don't Japa. If you have the opportunity and you are young, GO. Gather experience, save money, build skills, see the world.
But do not let anyone make you feel like returning home is failure. It is a choice. And for me, it has been the best one I ever made.
I am home. I am building. I am alive.
[/i] Drop your questions or your own experience below, let us talk.
400GBP a month on food for aa single person is quite a lot. Were you cooking for the whole street?
DeepSight: Why so polite, the correct reaction should be to woz them all a round of hot slaps, then frog-jump the would be mother and father in law, followed by a round of 100 lashes of a bullwhip for all family members , cancellation of the wedding and confiscation of all their assets.
FreeStuffsNG: And because Trump criminally assasinated Gen. Qassem Soleiman while on official visit to Iraq.
Trump's recklessness did not start today. He has only first being held to account, not even in his US, but in Iran by Iranians after beating him in a war.
The US always seems to think the only path to victory is superior military force. The lessons of Vietnam seem to be lost.
Baxilexi: It’s futile to parse through this silly list, but for clarity,
When did Iran develop the largest missile stockpile in the Middle East? When did they enrich uranium upto 60%? Who gave the Houthi’s and Hezbollah hypersonic missile?
When was $25Bn released? When was all sanctions lifted?
Where’s the Ayatollah? Where’s Iran’s naval fleet? Where’s their fighter jets?
The unpatriotic nuisances of democrats are the only reason why write ups like this exists. If Trump has half the power of Xi jinpin, Putin, Netanyahu or Kim, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
The extremists love leftists, bunch of useful idiots.
America should remember, their constitution is not a suicide pact, they have real enemies that wish to see them bleed.
The enrichment was increased AFTER TRUMP tore up the JCPOA, so go figure.
BTW Trump said Iran is allowed to have missiles so go talk to him.
Marvieduke: Actress, Angela Okorie sets ablaze the dress she attended Alex Ekubo's burial with.
She stated that: This is the outfit I wore to Alex's burial, my Godmother said is not good to have the cloth you wore to a burial around you 🔥 them So family and friends take note, I felt I should share this information May the lord keep and bless us with long life amen 🙏 Chaii💔😭😭
basilico: The charlatan has held over 100 press interviews since leaving the presidency. None with a conservative media house
He is afraid of being asked real questions. Coward of the Country. From 2010 Obama held no more than 6 interviews with conservative media houses. Compare to Trump
Bro your attempt to shift the goal post won't distract from your lies. This was your initial statement:
basilico: Link me to am interview of Obama appearing before a conservative media house .He only went to mainstream liberal media.
Which was your response to my comment on his presidency.
LordReed: Bro when Obama was president we criticised and made fun of him without getting sour. You on the other hand turn to bitter lemon anytime Trump is critised or made fun of.
basilico: He doesn't go to enemedia , it's that simple. An interview in 2010 is no proof that he goes . Trump is always being interviewed by very hostile political hacks . He has won $$$ after they edited out parts to make him look bad. He won against a network who twisted Kamala Harris answers to make her sound sensible. Obama always gets softball questions. Questions that are sent to him days before. That way he looks smart and eloquent not the stuttering mess he is when a teleprompter suddenly breaks down . Hillary Clinton had a townhall in 2016. It didn't go her way , the questions were not what she expected. After it was Iver she flew into a rage , flung glasses towards her aides using filthy curse words. One person said he had never come across such a vile woman.
It's mainstream media who lie on behalf of democrats. Sadly you are a victim ,question is whether you are too far gone to realize it. Whether you are redeemable remains to be seen.
lionshare: I believe the president has the courage to do what’s necessary. The national grid no longer poses the security risk it once did; telcos and digital infrastructure matter more to our economy. So remove subsidies and fully deregulate power to attract private investment and expand service for those who can pay. Meanwhile, the government should provide targeted relief — for example, partnering with China to distribute solar panels and batteries to rural constituencies through National Assembly members. Investors will prioritize paying customers; govt support can fill the gap.
lionshare: What you don’t realize that the same cabals will shift base once the market is allowed to charge a fully-cost-reflective tariff that guarantees profit for them.
Correct. I totally agree. They do it all the time.
lionshare: In my view, the government doesn’t need to spend or borrow to finance the power sector. It should let operators set cost-reflective tariffs within a capped framework—similar to how telecoms are regulated—and transfer its equity stakes across the value chain into an SPV. The government can then list shares in that SPV on the stock market while retaining a meaningful ownership position. New capital would therefore be raised privately, not from public coffers, and would be accountable to investors to deliver returns. That private investment can fund the infrastructure needed for reliable electricity. To make this work and lower the cost of capital, we must keep fighting inflation.
Good idea but you know what it will mean? It will have to upend the current manner the sector is currently run which is my point. We need strategic systematic overhauls midwifed by strong-willed groups of leaders.
nairalanda1: How many years does it take to fix a moribound refinery or build a new one?
That;s why we should have removed subsidy years ago.
You are asking the wrong question, to be honest.
Even the TAM that you are talking about, subsidy essentially meant that we skipped TAM from 1994-2009 to save money. Add the fact that subsidy also meant that there was no money for upgrades of the refineries. TAM doesn;t upgrade refineries, it just keeps em running.
Hence their becoming moribound, run things at a loss, expect to lose them
Exactly what I am saying. If the subsidy was removed and we had the money to do the upgrades but the cabals spirited the money away, what would be different from what we have today?
nairalanda1: 1. Issues in the petroleum industry arise from us not taking a decision that should have been taken much much earlier.
2. If fuel subsdiy had gone since the early 1990's , we may have long since passed the teething stage, but we said no, and kept on saying no.
When a hard decision is delayed, this is the result.
The subsidy removal alone would have still led to the same result. Has subsidy removal fixed the moribund refineries? Do you realise some people are making bank from the never-ending Turn Around Maintenance that never does anything significant?
nairalanda1: Well, the phone and internet sector had the same issues as our electricity now, until companies were allowed to charge cost reflective tarrifs.
NO one is going to invest in a sector where over 80% of consumers are not paying for the power they consume at a cost reflective level. You won't see return on investment. And you will pull out.
That's why Glo is working, and indigenous discos are suffering.
And again, see what Prof Nnaji said. Has nothing to do with cabals.
And the West would even want us to have light 24/7. Because it would make Nigeria another place to outsource their manufacturing to, ditto China and Japan. Keeping costs of making things down.
Nothing like cabals...if there was cabals, why would they let us have working telecom, now petroleum, and not light?
Bro seriously are you going to act like Dangote is not facing serious challenges in his bid to be the anchor point for a stable supply of petroluem products? Are you forgetting all the hullaballoo of subsidy? What did it take to overcome some of these challenges? Was it simply pricing? I can name a myriad of such issues and it wasn't just pricing that sorted them.
Bro there are many systemic issues this country faces which some people are making serious bank from, electricity included. Pricing alone will not fix them.
nairalanda1: So recently, Peter Obi made a comment that he was going to improve our power supply by 10000mw, which would take us up to 32000 mw...which should be enough for us to get light 24/7 (subject to the Siemens project working)...and the response was tinubu supporters making fun of Obi as a man without ideas, while Obi supporters praised their man as being wisdom incarnante.
Except that Obi did not tell us how he plans to do it.
Which essentially begs the question, how do we vote for a guy who promises us something, but does not tell us how to do it.
Which leads me back to Tinubu. IN 2023, tinubu said...if you vote me and I do not give you constant power supply, vote me out in 2027.
Naturally tinubu supporters were praising their man as being a tough minded leader, etc, etc....while Obi people are now calling in the receipts. Man has not done as promised so he should be kicked out.
Which leads me to my point.
Tinubu and obi never/have not told Nigerians how they intend to improve power supply.
The truth of the matter is, we have a plan, laid out by the experts, about power supply. A decent , strong plan....cost reflective tarrifs, ending power theft, and rolling out metering.
But neither tinubu nor obi, nor even atiku or any potential candidate would mention that because it does not win votes. (Sowore would probably announce a plan to give 24 hour light a day at N1 per kwh).
Nigerians , regardless of political party, like hearing populist language. If a leader came into office and started doing the things the experts have said we should do, he would be voted out. Or chased out. You will see the Fulani herdsmen marching with the Igbo farmer, the Yoruba trader marching with his Hausa counterpart, and there would be riots.
And the leader would be voted out.
That is why whoever takes office, won't be allowed to improve power because Nigerians think that electricity should be free of charge.
When in reality, it is not possible.
Electricity costs money. If you won;t pay for it in cost reflective tarrif, you will pay for it in generator and inverter monies. That is what Band A taught us.
And on that Band A, the idea of tinubu was not original. India has a similar system, present for decades, that commercial and industrial properties would pay a cost reflective tarrif and the profits would be used to pay for subsidising the poor farmers and rural people
And after doing that, has power supply in India improved? (No.).
Infact India is planning to make everyone pay cost reflective tarrfs in five years time.
SO, if it didn't work in India, how e go work in NIgeria?
The only way we can get free power is to take massive loans totalling nearly 2/3rd of our budgets for the next ten or more years...and while it may give us enough light, it would also put us in heavy debt for it.
In 2025, Prof Barth Nnaji, who is definetly not a Tinubu supporter put it well
I have been saying the above for years, but people here abuse me, so I may as well quote the actual expert, who is a qualified engineer, a former ministar of power, and an owner of a GENCO.
And he is not the first or the last to state that this needs to be done. PwC have said it, several experts have been saying it, a BBC report said it, and so forth.
Yet, Nigerians and their candidates choose to believe the fiction of corruption or some evil Western zionist overmind does not want to give us light.
It is easier to believe conspiracy theory fiction
Like NIgerians, like candidates.
Good afternoon.
I expcet to be abused and to be told about other countries that somehow magically give free power(the macs won't add that those countries pay for it with heavy taxes, or heavy debt).
Bro let's not sugar coat anything, there are powerful cabals invested in keeping things a certain way in this country because they are profiting heavily from the status quo. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's the reality. And it will take a strong-willed set of leaders to break this mind set or else no matter what plans are laid they'll never amount to anything.
(Exodus 20:3, 1 John 2:15, Colossians 3:2) Football and the rest of the sports are idolatry and a Christian should not engage in them.
As a result, I no longer play football on saturday mornings with the guys. I don't watch televised football or sports. No champions league, premier league, boxing, mixed martial arts, athletics and the rest of the sports. Sports betting is not allowed.
Jesusjnr2020 come and see o, your god has changed his mind again o! Football is now idolatry.
basilico: Thank you. That was in 2010 before his healthcare bill passed. Not good enough. Get me one where he is being asked about Libya or JPCOA or ISIS by hard nosed journo like Bret Baier. Or the Russia.hoax with all recent revelations. In 2010 his malevolence had not lit up the radar.
I'll give you a B for effort.
Bro you LIED and now want to deflect from your LIE by shifting the goal post. Na who dey follow you I dey pity.
basilico: Democrats and liberals are the masters of projection. Accuse me of worshiping Trump while they worship a charlatan.. Tell me honestly ,do you get a high when you call me a Trump worshipper while you can't bring yourself to criticize Obama?
Bro when Obama was president we criticised and made fun of him without getting sour. You on the other hand turn to bitter lemon anytime Trump is critised or made fun of.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by LordReed(m): 5:33pm On Jun 25
disputes: Iran and Western powers clashed over interpretations of the deal regarding how many advanced centrifuges (like the IR-6 and IR-
Iran was permitted to operate and test for research and development purposes.Illicit procurement of missile technology: Reports from German intelligence agencies in 2015 and 2016 noted that Iran continued covert, illicit attempts to procure missile technology outside of the officially mandated JCPOA procurement channels.