₦airaland Forum

ROSSIKE: You can lie and twist Dangote's words and meaning all night all day, that's your business. Dangote is the LAST MAN TO EVER call Nigeria ''a joke''. What he meant was POSITIVE ie that the country's economy was growing exponentially even with power supply issues, showing its amazing potential to hit double digit growth. Dangote is on COMPLETELY OPPOSITE SIDES FROM YOU. Where you see negativity, he sees positive. Where you deride and disregard the nation's future, he is full of hope and assurance of the nation's bright future.

Nobody throws billions of dollars into a place they consider ''a joke'', so do not twist Dangote's words here to falsely mirror your dark views about Nigeria. People like Dangote and other investors are smart enough to see the trajectory of the nation and the way it's headed, while people like you are so myopic, negative and shortsighted, you cannot smell any future. You dwell in the now. Power is bad now so it will always be bad. There is corruption, so progress can never happen. That's your mentality. Dangote and other investors pouring into Nigeria as we speak, have a very different mentality. They study the power privatisation program. They study the FG's power roadmap. They study the number of power plants coming on stream, the power transmission facilities being developed across the nation. They study the positive trends in infrastructural development. Then based on their projections of increased power and better infrastructure in the coming years, they make big investment decisions. YOU need to think like them. Learn to align your assessment of Nigeria with the current economic policies of the govt and execution of same, instead of this lazy approach of not wanting to know, and dismissing everything on the basis of ''corruption''. When you finally learn to do this, you will understand why investors are pouring into Nigeria, with the likes of Dangote investing their hard earned billions into this country. Right now you DON'T understand why anyone would invest in Nigeria, because you are hampered by your pessimism, disinterest, myopia, and inability to see the big picture.

See: https://www.nairaland.com/1249139/foreign-investors-pour-into-nigeria



I really don't know what you're saying here. Most nations on earth are developing states and they all have power supply problems. Probably less than 20% of the world's population experience 24/7 power. You cannot use that as something to keep beating us over the head with. Supplying uninterrupted power is a process, not something you just achieve as if by magic especially when you're a developing nation with a huge population. India, Brazil, Pakistan, China even, still experience power cuts. Still battle with power issues till tomorrow. If you dispute I could drop you some links. In Nigeria, so long as we can point to signs that power supply is improving, and will continue to do so - and we can - then we're on the right track.



More negativist claptrap....Do you see Dangote ''raising awareness about our problems''? NOPE. He is busy SOLVING problems. He's busy DOING. Creating. Investing. Strategizing. Empowering. Developing. GET OFF YOUR LAZY BACKSIDE, stop pointing fingers, and DO SOMETHING to help others and yourself. Your job on earth is not to point fingers at others or at govt and blame them endlessly for not being perfect, which you call ''raising awareness''. Your job is to add your own unique, positive value to the community/nation, move on, and let subsequent generations do theirs.

taharqa: Oh! Shut it. Watch d 2 Videos again. On the SR Video, d Chair of d Committee never shouted, was never aggressive; all those parts were doctored out by d SR crew. This was unlike d brief Channels. The whole purpose of that Vid was to present d Minister as d 'slaker' and d Chair as been professional. That was a complete negation of what transpired that day

Sincere 9gerian: Is that your best shot? Lol.. That was lame. Try another trick.

Sincere 9gerian: Lol...Trying to defend the indefensible. Anyway, I wish you goodluck

taharqa: You now have both Videos. Did SR remove parts of d complete Vid to make it look like NOI was d Aggressor here or not? Did they present d very uncultured and rude way the Chair of d Committee talked to NOI or did they remove most of those parts? Did SR manipulate their own video to push an agenda and make an individual look bad....PS: this Channels FULL Vid was what elicited d angry reaction towards d Childish behaviour of d Chair by very many Nigerians including Dr Ezekwelize. I remember saying matter-of-factly, that d Chair of d Committee wud not be able to be a Research Assistant to NOI in d real world but for politics...

LRNZH: Would you be kind enough to provide a link to the 'non-doctored' Channels TV version of the video? I'm sure a lot of folks would love to see it.
Thanks in advance.

taharqa: Exposed by who exactly? Are you IJIOTS sick or what? Watch d Video by Channels TV and the manipulated one by SR, and tell me which one is 'fuller' and a truer reflection of what happened that day in d hearing.

naijaking1: You know Kwankwaso, Amechi. Tambuwal and other never do good s are also in PDP

naijaking1: The anti - GEJ axis of evil is not playing fair as usual.

Sincere 9gerian: No surprises. APC and their allies in the media have proved over and over again that they'r incurable liars and shameless propagandists. They represent everything that is EVIL.

Fhemmmy: I am just shocked that they refused to read what was said, cos we never said Nigeria wont grow nor develop, only that those essential will make the growth even faster

ROSSIKE: Keep ''weeping for Nigeria'' while local and foreign investors are busy developing the economy. Sure, you know more about Nigeria than major local and international financial giants and think tanks. It is people like you, expecting a ready-made utopia, who cannot distinguish the road to perfection from perfection itself. ''Oh, we cannot develop without 24/hour power, excellent infrastructure and an end to corruption''..Yes you will have to, because development IS 24hr power, excellent infrastructure, and no corruption. You cannot point to the end of the road and say ''I can't get there because I'm not there already!''

scipher: nice response.. couldn't help but marvel at the level of ignorance exhibited by those 2..

Fhemmmy:

Fhemmmy: That means they are not any better than the bad people too, cos they are coming to you and i to deceive us and them do otherwise once they are voted in.

Fhemmmy: So tell your friends and i will tell mine that when the politicians promise them a bag of rice in exchange for their vote, they should say NO. . .let everyone go to polling stations with their camera phones and records any fraud seen, let all INEC officials record any malpractices for the world to see, let us make the next election a true representation of what the people want . . And tell our brothers to stop voting based on tribe but based on "Who can get the job done" and i will tell my people too . . Enough is Enough!

Fhemmmy: GEJ OBJ had the opportunity to give Nigerians light and what happened, he spent billions of $$ and still no light, but wont like to go into all that anyways, cos i remember he installed Yaradua and GEJ, so he either knew what he was doing or had a motive that backfire on his face, but in all, i just pray that we look and search deep this time to elect a man/woman of any tribe that will steer Nigeria to a higher ground

Fhemmmy: Well before GEJ someone else was there, and before that person was another, from the start till now, they have all been nothing but failure, so it is time for Nigerians to be educated about what it could have been, so we could vote with our head and not sell or votes in the name of he is Yoruba, she is Ibo and why would i vote for Hausa, let us vote for someone that MIGHT be able to get the job done, let the youth be involved, but them most youth of today knows nothing but the signs of money . . . So i weep for Nigeria

Fhemmmy: I honestly dont care what party is in power nor does it matter to me what region the person is from, and the gender is of no use to me, i just want someone that really have a vision and zeal to make that great nation be as great as she could be.

Fhemmmy: Write is down, until Nigeria has light and people can easily turn on the light and manufacture without diesel on hourly basis, whatever we experience will always be a shadow of what it could have been . . . Nigeria has all that is needed to be an economic giant but without light, good roads, health system and security, i am not sure we will be able to get there.
So please tell our govt and everyone too to take us to that level

MMotimo: Really funny letter but I feel his pain, especially after paying extra for premium seating

justwise: You don't have to open another thread you have this here