₦airaland Forum

Afamed:
Are you one of the the smugglers?

Are you one of the investors?

Charmingrascal:
Poverty capital of the World closed her border and the so called rich Countries are crying.



















Las las Naija na Bros to many Nations

lol...the country can never grow with so much dullards

isthatso:
try and be patriotic for once, America is a great country because the average American will always choose the American product over imported even when the foreign one is better. Must you eat rice?

keep lying to yourself

tony1918:
A bag of imported Rice sells for 15k and local rice sells for 12k before the border closure ..After the closure the local rice the poor masses are meant to buy sell for as high 18k and the imported now sales for 25k..Please what is the gain of the Poor Masses in the border closure

the gain is for buhari to enrich the investor they gave free loans to invest in rice farm...

odave:
Abeg what's so difficult for Nigeria farmers to get a better seed from wherever they can, plant here, parboil and give us good rice? Everything na rocket science for naija.

Imagine using local rice to make fried rice, lol

they are just greedy fools....

Afamed:
it only hits hard on the smugglers in Nigeria. Genuine investors are smiling to the banks

it is always about the investors...smh. what about the citizens?

Afamed:
keep quiet, Akpabio case is in the court. Tinubu has last held any political office since 2007. Yaadua was in Power, Jonathan spent 6 years. They had all the years to probe Tinubu . If you have any evidence, go ahead and present it in court but don't rely on the one Jonathan government presented against Tinubu in 2012, definitely indomie like you will not know Jonathan government took Tinubu to CCT where Tinubu was found no guilty.

keep quiet you can pretend like and idiot and act like you are not aware of broom Passover. Just keep deceiving yourself

Afamed:
We will surely get there.These set of people really did a lot of harms to our national treasury when they were in power. Not only did they loot our money they further looted our youths sense of reasoning .
Carefully watch , you will soon see those calibre of youths whom they have looted their sense of reasoning to coma, they will soon arrive here to defend Aluko .

Nobody is defending nonsense...but if you have sense you will know it doesn't make sense that akpabio is now a saint and tinubu is also saint simply because they are part of the ruling party... Is it a crime to demand equal justice for all? Selective justice is not fighting corruption but fighting democracy

paparazzi1987:
90% of those rice are smuggled into Nigeria. I served in Ilara-Yewa Ogun state/benin republic border

is that the answer to this simple question ? Should we just buy any rice simply because it is produced in Nigeria? If you produce a quality rice won't ppl buy it? The problem with Nigerian business men is simple they just jump into the business with the hope that government will force us to eat any substandard thing they choose to produce... rubbish

Afamed:
Obama healthcare is subsidized in US. Over 100 agricultural products are subsidized in Us, cotton, . Fuel is subsidized by federal government for the benefit of Nigerians living in Nigeria. Not for smuggler like una

what is healthcare? Is healthcare imported? The agricultural products are they imported to the US? We can subsidize the amount for crude oil sold to local refinery for the purpose of refining not subsidize imported refined products.

Afamed:
Keep quiet. Even in America, there are services that are subsidized by government.

can you list the services that are subsidize? How can you subsidize an imported products... please just keep quiet

Afamed:
The goods we import from Benin,( Rice.) Are they produced in Benin. Capital No
When Rice is imported from Thailand to Benin ( Who gets the import duty <{ Benin) govt.
And who are the consumers of 90% of such Rice ? ( Nigeria) You shortchange our Government. When it only takes 3/ 4 months to plant the same rice locally here

have you asked yourself why Nigerians choose to import rice through Benin Republic?

Afamed:
By December when you can't avoid a litre of PMS in Ghana, you will know Nigeria is truly your colonial master

Illitrate post

Afamed:
They have been benefiting a lot from our pourous borders.
The Fuel in Nigeria is one of the cheapest in the Africa because of the Government subsidy. Through the border here, they get the fuel into their country at a very low price of which Nigeria government bears the cost of the subsidy at expense of our Budget here

If you stop subsidy you naturally kill the problem

Harlem2:
That's how Giant do......
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But some people said Ghana is more developed

Very dumb statement. At least they have stable electricity and they did not need to place a ban on importation of generators to achieve that

Afamed:
This is a great opportunity for us to grow our local productions. For how long should Nigeria be a dumping site? At this 21 century, you have to rely on importation of Rice, Turkey and Pine Apple. How do we develop if we simply can't produce what we want to eat ? How do we reduce unemployment when virtually 100% of our consumptions are imported? My Brother we definitely have to start from somewhere. We have the very reach fertile soil with over 923,990 land mass.

can our rice production meet up to the demands of over 200 million ppl? How can you import a rice all the way from Thailand and yet it is cheaper than the one made in your backyard? What is the role of branding in business? Is it not the responsibility of rice producers in Nigeria to ensure quality and proper branding of their products and reduce cost so as to make it enticing for Nigerians to patronise them.
No country can ever grow local production in darkness please get that into your thick skull. You tax ppl and yet no single plan to reduce cost of governance. The nass budget did not reduce from 125 billion and yet you tell Nigerians that the there economic downturn..lol

Jimi24:
Buhari is the BEST President Nigeria has had since Yakubu Gowon/Awolowo. If you dont think so maybe you are so much a product of the Nigerian system that you not using your full faculties to see the need for economic restructuring .

Economic restructuring should start with taxation reform. You will be surprised how much national restructuring comes from this when "regions" and "states" start getting stronger and more powerful out of self generated revenue improvments driving infrastructure and growth

saying that buhari is the best president Nigeria has had without stating facts to back it up shows you are clearly on weed...mad ppl everywhere

helinues:
You should have used your father instead cos my father is not reckless..

The meaning of IMF is International Monetary Funds.. This is not a personal business.. They have rights to questions and monitors what the governments are taking the loan for... Perhaps, they only care about the interest not the fairness of the country.

Nonsense and Ingredients.. The funniest part of the IMF frauds, The legitimate countries that have good intentions wont get IMF loans

so you agree you have a reckless Government right? Instead of holding your government accountable you are blaming IMF

helinues:
Where were IMF when the Ecuadorian governments have been diverting the loan taking.. No be I didn't care dem do?

If your father takes loan for the purpose of paying your school fees and after taking the loan he decides to carry women with it will you blame the person that borrowed him the money? When will ppl start taking responsibility? The CBN restrictions have been on for over 4 years have you seen any improvement on the economy? Why have multiple exchange rate? The economy is slow and yet you have Nigerian leaders not ready to cut down on their budget...yet you blame IMF.
NASS budget is still 125 billion even with the economic downturn

PoliticalWitch:
In fairness to the IMF, their advice to Ecuador is sensible.

Oil prices are low, Ecuador isn't earning enough cash. And they are finding it hard to sustain their fuel subsides.

So, IMF advising them to cut subsides, and also to embrace austeirty...is good advice.

The alternative....Ecuador takes more loans (even worse idea!) to pay for all those wlefare programmes.

don't mind all these illitrate, they just jump into news without analysing

queenitee:
You know I actually wanted to ignore before, but then sometimes you have to help people out of their ignorance. I never asked anyone to wait and get justice from social media. All I said was that if she couldn’t speak up immediately and it took her 50 years to find her voice, no one should shut her down simply because it has been long or whatever. My post is actually encouraging everyone to speak up, regardless of the sex. Be it a male or female. So next time, don’t be so eager to type something, read and understand. And I’m not going to reply rudely to your “mad people everywhere” ‘cos it actually got me annoyed and I won’t want to give a reply that would cause issues. So FYI I am not mad and you are the one who should read and understand instead of giving a reply even a patient with BAD wouldn’t give. Thank you

sorry for the "mad ppl everywhere" I know you are not mad...I admire your response tho

queenitee:
I'm telling you, people saying why don't they speak up then, I pray you never experience it. Rape most times is from people you love so much, people you trust so much. It would be hard for you to believe they actually did that to you, so tell me how the he.ll do you tell, explain or narrate to others what you find so difficult to believe yourself, what seems like a dream to you, what feels, I can't explain the feeling, all I know is even if it takes 50 years for you to be able to stand up to your victim, it is still rape and that 50 years is your now, it's the right time.

And who would people say a 17 years old is old enough or nonsense? So far she never said yes to the sex, so far she never gave her consent, even if she's 50 years old, it's still rape.

And the fact that she waited for him to bring a drink and share it with her or something, you people don't know the emotional and mental trauma that follows rape, you don't. And that it happened many times, you still don't know, you don't know how a rapist is capable of toying with your emotions, making you feel no good, spoiling your self esteem, you just don't know.

And that she could have told a family member, you don't know how a rapist will manipulate you to thinking telling your family member will not belive and hate you and yes that's true. Most parents are insensitive, they really are. If not, a kid that's always cheerful on seeing an individual or always wanting to be with the person suddenly becomes isolated from the individual and never wants to be around the individual, wants to be alone instead of being with the individual and you dismiss it as a childish behaviour or childish rebel, you simply don't know what's up, most times it's not

And saying she's married and so she should keep quiet, you don't know how the psychological effect of the rape is affecting her marriage, you don't know how it's affecting relationships, you don't know. Forget the smiles and all, you really don't know.

You don't know how it hurts seeing your rapist move on with his/her life and living fine while you carry the hurt and trauma all along, while they are the reason why certain things are never the same in your life, You don't know.

Yes, you don't know the everlasting effect rape has on an individual psychologically. It's true that if you've never been in someone's shoe, never say you know where it hurts, because you don't and you can never do.

There are just some hurts we don't speak about, some hurts that's difficult to speak about and if someone eventually find the courage to speak about it, we just have to encourage them because they will never go away until we have spoken about it.

so after 50 years you come and tell us rape without evidence and you want us to just accept simply because you said so....lol. Instead of telling ladies to speak up immediately and investigation carried out immediately and the guilty one sent to jail immediately you are advising them to wait and just get justice from social media...mad ppl everywhere

safarigirl:
I'm sure people like you will provide much needed support for them, while calling your daughter a liar and an olosho, so, they will be okay, will your daughter be okay though?

so when anybody claim rape without evidence we should just accept because of your foolish sentiment right? Educate your daughter's to speak up if anyone comes close to touching them and they will always speak up

PoliticalWitch:
Subsidy is still being paid. They call it underrecovery, and NNPC is paying it.




1.NNPC is now the sole importer of fuel since 2017.

2.A lot of people selling fuel at government prices also sell across the broder to Benin, Niger and Cameroon, where fuel costs N300 per liter..and make profit.

3.Before 2017, a lot of importers were losing. hence a big part of the reason why we kept on having fuel crisis. Since NNPC took over, things have sort of changed.

4.Until subsidy goes, domestic refining cannot improve. And Dangote refienry won't save us. It is planned to be producing at half capacity by 2030.




1.Well, businessmen are in it for profit. Or what do you think they are? Charity workers? Not only do they have to make profit, but they have to make sufficent profit to pay workers and make new investments

2.Here is how subsidy works. I buy shirts at N3000 per piece. Want to sell them at N3500 a piece. Government steps in, tells me to sell at N1500 and then pays me a subsidy of N1000. Not only do I not make a profit, I lose money on every sale.

I cannot expand my business, cannot pay staff, cannot employ new staff, etc.

Same thing is happening in the oil sector. Paying a subsidy means no profit made. You import fuel at N200, sell at N137, all government gives youis N63 per liter. No profit....nothing.





Power supply is another discussion. Suffice it to know that DISCOS cannot rsie sufficent money because the law setting them up essentially forces them to charge prices below the price of production of electricity...so they don't have enough cash to pay GENCOS....and thus reject power.

Then many Nigerians don't pay their power bills. (Yes, it is true, and no, I am not accusing you of being one of them, so relax).

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Irrelevant to our discussion, plus rice improters increaisngly get forex from private sources. CBN has been increasingly hositle to allowing them obtain forex from the government. And then there is massive smuggling...which is parly why the broders are closed today.

Your analysis of subsidy is wrong....I'm not in support of subsidy but just so you know subsidy made alot of fuel importers billionaires.
I stand by my last statement

PoliticalWitch:
At the moment we cannot ban fuel imports for these reasons

1.Our refinereis, the last one which was built some 31 years ago, cannot meet local demand even at full capacity.

2.Because of subsidy, anyone building new refienreis would be selling fuel from these refinereis at a loss (Kerosene, gas et al have been deregulated).

Basically, under subsidy, a domestic refiner would refine fuel at N165 or more per liter...and then sell the same fuel at N137 or less. Losing as much as N30 per liter sold. (That's why of the 60 licences given for refinereis in this country, less than 10 are building something//have something on ground)

has government stopped paying the subsidy? The ppl that imported same fuel and sold at the stipulated government price did they make losses? So if as you claim domestic refiner would loose as as much as 30 naira for refining in Nigeria why is it not applicable to those importing? Or are you saying they are loosing? The average Nigerian business man wants immediate profit so those license were giving with an option to lift which means an option to import fuel. If u were giving a license to build refinery and option to import fuel and a guarantee of no loss since the government will be paying the difference (subsidy) what would you do? Understanding that the reason for high consumption of fuel is simply because of lack of electricity... The country you mentioned that do not subsidize fuel consumption consume far less petroleum products... Zero improvement on the power sector after 4 years and no signs of improvement so it also means the fuel consumption will also be high and ultimately high Forex spent on the importation of fuel. Please can you compare the amount of Forex spent on fuel importation to that of rice? Why is that we hear of billions of Forex spent on rice and we don't hear of that on fuel importation? Fuel importation is sabotage to Nigerian economy but yet you see successive governments pretend as if it is not

PoliticalWitch:
Well, one solution is to remove fuel subsidies...

Here is the thing. Fuel is being smuggled to neighbouring countries...because

1.In Benin, fuel is N298. In Niger, it is N370, and in Cameroon it is at least N300 per liter.

2.Subsidy works this way. Importers buy fuel at N200 per liter, and sell it to depot at N137. Government pays the difference (N63) between the cost of importation and sale...meaning many importers cannot make a profit.

3.So importers import fuel, smuggle some across the border....and make a cool profit.

4.Also, a lot of fuel marketers make a lot of profit by smuggling fuel across the border too. Buy fuel at N137...sell across the broder at N300 and above....that 's a tidy sum made.

5.Deregulation, while being hard on Nigerians (before you shout at ,me, I am fully aware that removing subsides is going to be harsh, and God knows I wish it was not so), would end this smuggling.

6. We could save over N500billion annually or more from removing subsidy...which could eventually lead to making improvements in trasport, education health, etc.

7.Investors in our oil and gas sector would be attracted, which means more refinereis, and crucially more jobs.

The most important thing to a place ban on is fuel importation not rice. How can a country like Nigeria be ok with importation of fuel and yet scream when it comes to rice importation? In news you hear of billions of foreign exchange on rice, please hay you heard the one for daily fuel importation? Can Nigeria rice production presently meet the demand of over 200 million ppl? In as much as we need to promote local production there must be a systematic way of making it attractive to the citizens...

Xisnin:
Teenager aren't free from the consequences of criminal acts.
They get sent to jail even in advanced countries.
In fact, it is the rotten Nigerian society that allows rapist(teenager or not)
easily get away with their crimes.

It is appalling that you describe some victim's experiences as being funny.

While this lady cannot stop the wedding, she has every right to shame and report
the alleged rapist.

the fact that lady claims rape doesn't mean that she was raped...afterall anybody can claim anything

careytommy37:
Wow! By God's grace, I pray more are discovered in commercial quantity across many northern states. Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Nasarawa, Benue and Adamawa are next in line.
I also pray, the quantity they produce will be greater than that being produced in the South.
Earlier in the week, I read OPEC (a majorly Muslim organisation) has granted Nigeria more quota in oil production. Perhaps, it was in anticipation of this.
Hopefully the North will do the needful once they realise the South are actually the parasites

otondo

cashcity:
I met a lady in my neighbourhood about 3 years ago in a friend's birthday party. We exchanged contacts and started talking as good friends. With time I started developing feelings for her because of the level of her intellect and decided to ask her if we can move the friendship to next level.
She said no that I am not her type of man for relationship, that we are better off as friends that we were.
She said that there are so many qualities of a man of her dream in which I am not anywhere close.. I didn't take that statement seriously cos we guys knew how girls play hard2get at the initial time of toasting.

I met her again in one junction around our area and tried my luck again by explaining to her the qualities she should be expecting from me if she gives me a chance to be her man. She shouted at me, looking at her body saying " can't you see it, I'm not you type and class". This incidents attracted attention of people around us and I felt like digging a ground and bury myself alive. Mehn, that statement hurts me so baaaaad.

Then, I just concluded my NYSC and she was just in her 3rd year in university which made me to wonder the class or type she was talking about. . Gradually we stopped contacting each other cos shame wunt even allow me to see her.
I later moved to Lagos in a month time in search of a greener pasture as a fresher and few months later, I secured employment in one construction company as a site engr. Withing a year or so, God started blessing me with personal contracts to the extent that I was forced to resign in the company to manage my construction works and life became better and better as time goes on ....

I use to visit my parents in the neighbourhood as usual but never set my eyes on anything that resemble her all those while.
One day a lady shout out my name when I was trying to navigate a T-junction in my street with my newly acquired Toyota tundra. I struggled to recognise her cos its been long and you know women's body changes so fast. After little discussions, we exchanged contact again.

Now my phone can no longer rest because of her constant calls.. She is even forcing me to fix a date for her to visit me here in Lagos . This is a lady that insults hell out of me that puts me into depression and feeling emotionally abused when I was broke. Again, how did I suddenly become her type now when my stature and look still remain the same. I'm even looking more wrinkled now because of the stress that comes with my work.
Pls advice me pals. Those things she did to me back then, could it be a good reason to write her off or Should I take her as girlfriend or simply move on with my life?
I'm on the verge of chosen a life partner and Lagos girls I'm meeting presently are nothing to write home about in terms character and attitude problems...

You are mad....it seems it is only this girl that leaves in ur planet

Pettyprincess:
We see once in a blue moon because he is not living in Africa
He is also helping me me in every possible way
Nd he doesn't pressure me for sex because he want me as partner nd mould me fully.
Moreover why the rush?not every guy has Nigerian mentality!!

why would he pressure you for sex when he is not in Africa? He is enjoying himself where ever he is and just using you to pass time...grow up

Dshocker:
Its like you are 15yrs more than your woman

lol 20 years more....we are happy together...datsalllllllll