₦airaland Forum

jagugu88li:
Comparing people to dogs is very disrespectful.

Disrespectful to humans? Or dogs?

I'm glad that aesthetics were taken into consideration.

Simple things like painted walls and street art can make a place a lot more hospitable.

How do you plan on paying back debt when you insist on destroying industry?

OP is an irresponsible slowpoke for this entire episode.

One of the most foolish posts that I've seen on this forum and there have been a lot of them.

My question now is - why is this on the front page?

mamabomboy:
Nice move Mr Dullard. But how about also supporting an amendment that will weaken the strangehold of the Executive on the Legislature and also reduce the powers of the Executive

Or how about measures to remove the stranglehold that the FG has on the resources of the states?

Oblang:
Oga Buhari abeg forget Ibos. They have bin hardwired to hate. Dont worry jst like 2015, there vote is irrelevant. mere 5%... ..

They're not the ones killing everyone or refusing to allow their children to attend school.

Africapitalism is a most beautiful portmanteau.

This man photographs everything.

brainpulse:
One of the modest, cultured and respectful wife of the president

You're not modest if you're always being photographed.

That is the polar opposite of modest.

And from what we've seen from the first day that her husband took office, this woman has expensive tastes.

I suggest you consult the dictionary to understand the meaning of 'modest'.

Etinan is a nice place but I understand that they don't sell land to 'outsiders'.

Muafrika2:
She's lucky she wasn't converted into a slave. Fear those places.

I remember hearing about how Indonesia was looking to stop women from going to the Middle East because of the prevalence of abuse that domestic helpers faced in those countries.

OP is ignoring all the thieving senators and pastors.

He ran out of skin bleach?

Ikorodu and MFM are going down.

Heartland too, they've been terrible and their ground is a disgrace.

Rivers United have looked the best this season.

I expect the Enyimba to make it into the top four along with the current top three sides.

FC Ifeanyi Ubah have surprised me - they didn't look so good earlier this season.

encrypt:
When you have a tenth of what he has then you are qualified to give him "Business" advice till then

No one is perfect and he has made much of his money as a result of his alliance with government which was founded on his prominence in the importation business that has handicapped Nigerian production for decades.

He doesn't strike me as someone with a great deal of imagination or awareness - it took a foreigner to push him to assist with the ebola issue and despite him coming from the North it took another foreigner to push him to assist with the issues there too.

So while he does some good he's not always on the ball and this is another of those issues where he has shown a lack of initiative.

I'm glad that the child is healthy but what caused the premature labor?

If this guy was living foul before the birth of his daughter then there is a good chance that the people around him were too, including the mother of the girl.

Where is that part of the story? Tell us what she was doing prior to and during pregnancy. How old was the birth mother?

There's always a cause for such dramatic events and the responsible thing is to learn what happened so that such an eventuality can be prevented in future cases.

Ascribing everything to an unfounded god myth is silly, especially when you consider that millions of babies die in pain and agony every day.

jossy4joseph:
Nice one Ifeanyi Uba....I don't know why the likes of Dangote, Adenuga, Jim Ovia and others don't have clubs in Nigeria?

That's what people were asking when Dangote was talking about buying Arsenal.

You come from the largest footballing nation in Africa and you don't see that as a bigger business opportunity?

bigtt76:
Wonder why Nigeria didn't invest in all these stocks sef All they know is share from Federation account week in week out chopping free money #ediots

The problem is that Nigerians breed recklessly so there is pressure on these governors and others to keep the money as a slush fund to pay for schooling, health care etc for their families and supporters.

Because Europeans are more individualistic and more private it is more difficult for people to approach them to make demands and easier for them to tell people 'no' and to subsequently keep and grow their reserves.

We just heard how this man is a reclusive, just as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are. It's easier to grow your money when you value your personal space and privacy. Keep your circle small and you will save your money but have too many children and associate with other fools who like to have too many children and your expenditure will most likely outstrip you income.

Quality > Quantity.

Seun:
Religion and sexism are close pals. You cannot separate them from each other. Personally, I think it's shocking that all women are not atheists.

Religion and sexism are the closest of friends but without the compliance of women very few children would be raised with indoctrinated into the various religions.

PHfinest:
The North is ready to protect the oil installations from the vandals.

The North cannot even protect its own people from being kidnapped and murdered by religious nutjobs but wants to go south to protect pipelines?

No mention of how they plan on dealing with herdsmen in the Middle Belt and elsewhere.

Some people are still pretending as though Boko Haram do not exist despite people living in IDP camps.

grodt999:
Even if the UK and US and Russia, the the entire world provide weapons and training and assistance to Nigeria it will still not happen.
You fail to discuss the MAIN problem, mentality, will power, patriotism - things the average Nigerian leader and citizens do not posses.
The weapons will be sold and the money stolen
The assistance will be diverted by both leadership, soldiers and citizens
religious divide will kick in
ethnic divide will kick in

Nigerians in general are hopeless people who manage to convert goodwill into badwill.
Deal with your inner inadequacies before blaming the rest of the world.

Most Nigerian soldiers in Borno area I spoke to went there for the allowance and benefits not to rescue anyone!

There is no willpower, the soldiers who die simply followed orders just to keep their jobs! The Nigerian army is not the North Korean army in mentality for example. Buhari gives orders and the orders are converted to whatever the soldiers on the ground want to do (with or without the right weapons)

Most soldiers are mercenaries, that is true wherever you go in the world.

That is why the US armed forces is full of people from the lower economic strata.

The UK is even worse because they have people from Nepal and various small islands in the West Indies amongst their troops - you think they fight because of patriotism for a nation that they cannot find on the map? That most have never been to before their enrolment.

Adminisher:
There is no safe , efficient , profitable manner to run refineries below 30000barrels per day capacity.
I am saying that authoritatively.

I have done some consulting in that industry. I know what I am talking about.

Even modular refineries DON'T if you do the business plan feasilbility work not to talk of "tin pot distillation pots".

It is serious confusion you want to cause with the supply chain of barges of crude from Bonny and Forcados, taking crude to 300 mini refineries inside fragile ND ecosystems for refining in small refineries. God, it is too scary to think of.
The pollution, insecurity, public health issues, destructive of ecology, social systems and so on is too scary to be imagined. And in 2020, electric cars come on the scene and we realise we are actually born STUPID in this country.

My heavy condemnation of the Jonathan government was due to the institutional weaknesses of the era which led to the masses thinking that cutting corners in anything was desirable and possibly government subsidised.

Where are you picking your statements from? Where did I mention 30,000 bpd? You keep repeating tin pot distilleries as if I said that is what they should be doing. If they are talking to financiers then they will need to come to an agreement that is worthwhile for both parties.

I've noticed that a lot of you guys are very peculiar in how you discuss issues - you introduce topics and statements that the other party didn't make in order to appear to have information, even though it's clear that you do not.

P.S.
You are not an 'authority' on anything, besides yourself.

You claim that Nigerians are born stupid, which is itself an idiotic statement. No one is 'born stupid', only raised in an erroneous manner. Maybe you meant that you feel that you were born stupid, if so you have my sympathy. From what you have written and the manner that you express yourself I can understand your self-doubt and low self esteem.

Adminisher:
This is the most uninformed view . Refineries are everyday industries. We dont need or shoukd be running old distillation pots and think we are doing good things to our economy. This is systemic breakdown brought about by indiscipline and large scale corrupt.
Why cant we maintain our existing refineries?. Why did we not support the private refineries we hsve licensed furing Jonathans time which i still believe was the wirst and most ineffectual government Nigeria ever haf.
Refineries are low margin businesses that require efficency and discipline, maybe that is why we are throwing in the towel and even thinking of regularising these distillation pots but you know what?. They use to have one in Sierra Leone. There are good refineries in Jamaica. So apart from Nigerian slackness, cortuption, weakness and mediocrity why couldn't we fix and expand existing refineries. They are not even profitable below 30000 barrels per day so even the licensed modular mini refineries will struggle. By the way how are we even going to supply modular refineries?. Truck?, Pipelines..how many of them? Railways..where are the tracks?.
Before PDP came into government, the NNPC was running refineries. In the 70s and 80s, they had the mist sophisticated distribution network for refined products called PPMC. All that has gone down the drain bevause of GREED and dead brain, clueless abd corrupt fools in government. We need to develop some DISCIPLINE for Chrissakes.

Any way the following are the harmful effects of crude oil. I know most Nigerians are dumb, lazy and undisciplined but there is a price to pay for every thing;

1. Crude oil is TERATOGENIC ' birth defects and fetal distortion
2. Crude oil contains benzene- Carcinogenic compound
3 . Liver damaging compounds
4 . Central nervous system damage
5. Pollution to fishing waters
6. Destruction of mangrove swamps - mangrove forests takes 60 years to grow.

You have made a series of uninformed, prejudicial statements.

I said that those who have knowledge of the business should sit down with financiers so as to come up with a plan to continue their business in a safe, civil manner. Not to continue the same low level bunkering that they engage in currently.

A well thought-out business plan presupposes that those involved have engaged in planning, which is the discipline that you speak of.

As to your claim that GEJ's government was the worst that Nigeria ever had, you must be drunk or just simply very simple minded. Nigeria had Yar'adua in which nothing besides bribe paying took place; OBJ in which money for electricity generation schemes vanished into thin air; Abacha, Babangia and Buhari who all destroyed Nigeria to such an extent that Nigeria was one of the poorest nations on the African continent in 1998.

I know that people like you hate data but the evidence shows that you are wrong on GEJ.

NNVanguard:
We want a restructured Nigeria where our resource endowments will be maximally utilized and not lying dormant because we all fold our hands and expecting the FG MONTHLY allocation.

We have natural resources in all states which is of importance in the global market.

#saynotoimportation of what we are blessed with!

Not even global market, they are needed domestically.

This stupid unitary, overly bureaucratic system is stifling so much opportunity.

Pavore9:
What is the quality of the fuel being refined there? If their refined product is not causing damage on the machinery it is being used on then their creativity should be harnessed rather than just burning them down!

That's a logical argument that you make but Nigeria is headed by a half-wit and his cohorts.

The smart thing to do in a country known for fuel shortages would be to invite those who engage in this business - have them sit down with financiers and lay out their plans so that both parties can arrive at a rational solution.

Alas, Buhari has never had an intelligent thought in his life and at 73 years of age it's unlikely that trend will change.

fromnigeria:
May GOD, who you deny open your eyes and mind to see and know the truth and be free.
Cos
even scientist, mathematicians, astrologers magicians etc, knows that there is a power that is greater.

They all (but for pride) believe that life could not have come by chance.



GOD is our source my friend.

Is your god the creator of all things good and evil or just those things that you feel comfortable saying that he created?

fromnigeria:
Please give answer to this question.



So where did the first ever two
other human beings originate?

I wasn't alive to see such an event.

Ask the requisite scientists if you truly wish to know the answer.

fromnigeria:
So where did the first ever two other human beings originate?



Only a fool says there is no GOD?

Only a fool believes in an unverified god in the age of information.

Why are you people so afraid to say that you do not know?

They're all terrible but Amaechi should be on this list for taking credit for a rail system that he claimed did not exist.

franciskaine:
you can lie for Africa, Obasanjo introduced the use of cassava in making bread.

Encouraged =/= introduced.

Learn to read, you dummy.

FunkyMetahuman:
You mentioned 5 states out of 36 and you think we should shift the burden of power to states are still struggling to pay salary excluding the infrastructural decay in those states.. (You smart) lol
Have you been able to bring your state government up to speed about road that passed through your house?

I only asked where the reform is..
After 6years of reformation/ transformation, we shouldn't be talking about importing rice and wheat in 2016.
Or did buhari destroy rice and wheat farms here in Nigeria?
Or you want to tell me Nigeria didn't import rice at all under gej?


I'm not pro obj.. In fact I hated obj and still do. He had so many opportunity to set nigeria on the right path but refused to.. But still better than gej in all ramifications.
In the end, both are just waste of space.
The 16years of ediots.



You see.. Blaming the military but we are not allowed to blame pdp.
I admit military left Nigeria in bad shape for many years, but why didn't PDP obj/gej fix those problems but left us with time bomb.

yeah.. All part of PDP the of thief thief 16years we are talking about.
If I list obj's visions you will still deviate with another meaningless excuses like you did when I posted what buhari is doing.

well I never said Jonathan didn't achieve anything.. He just didn't do enough with all the money in his possession..
Plus obj launched Nigeria's first satellite into space .. Whats your point?

Plus Nigeria became terrorist nation under gej, did we do anything about it?

yeah after rebasing GDP from 1991. I guess Jonathan was president since 1991.


Actually, 1994 election was tagged the freest and fairest election.
Well I still say kudos to gej for at least not allowing bloodshed and leaving the post when he was booted out. and i also say booooooo to obasanjo. That's one of the bug mistakes by obj that made me hate the ediot.

you keep jumping from pillar to post..
I answered your questions .. You will perambulate again and bring about a new set of meaningless set of questions without answering mine.

As you can see.. I'm not talking from an angle of blind support for anyone.

I campaigned and voted Jonathan in 2011. I supported all his policy until I saw he's just another political crook and that was around 2014.

By 2018, if buhari proves he has nothing to offer, I will gladly campaign for someone else unlike you lot that see things only from sentimental point of view.

I'm pro Nigeria and not pro government..

Your ability to reason is faulty.

Those 5 states have more dynamic leadership than that in the rest of the country. It is about responsibility. AKS for example has excellent roads and a power system that would allow it to thrive on its own, sadly it's saddled by the rest of Nigeria and states such as Katsina, Sokoto and Borno that are functionally useless. CRS is another good example of a dynamic state, they too have taken the initiative in generating power. The question is why others have not. You have managed to turn the question around because (and I repeat) you fail at logic. If Nigeria is to be a federation then each state has to pull its weight, each state should be looking to generate income and power for it's own needs. That is what a functioning federation would be. As it is Nigeria is not functioning because a great many states, especially in the North, are happy to leech from the proceeds of the South.

As to your PDP vs military government comment. How can you fail to see that as bad as any PDP government has been none was as bad as the military. The military could not even provide security with all the religious pogroms in the North, armed robbery and communal violence.

I did not say that you should not blame PDP - I simply asked how you differentiate between PDP and APC when they have had so many common members? Also, how can the government of GEJ and PDP be considered the same when the differences between the two were so stark - OBJ was the traditional overbearing yet useless African head of state, while GEJ was and was a democratic president who knew how to put a team together.

GEJ was not perfect, none of us are but he was the best that Nigeria has had because he had the sense to put together an all star team to drive the nation forward. What has Buhari done? Why did it take him 7 months to piece together such a useless cabinet? Have you listened to his foolish minister of finance, the same lady that drove Ogun state into bankruptcy? Or his idiotic minister of communications? If you knew how stupid he is compared to his predecessor, Omobola Johnson, then you wouldn't dare defend Buhari. Amaechi as minister for transport? Does that sound like an informed choice or someone returning a favour?

Nigeria in 2014 was significantly better than Nigeria as it was in 1999. Only a blind man would fail to see that. The democratic governments of the past 17 years have been better than the military, until now. This government is worse than Abacha or even Babangida in terms of economic devastation caused by poor policy decisions.

Africa's biggest, most dynamic economy that was attracting investment from everywhere has now ground to a halt and has in fact contracted and you are talking about GEJ. Oil is only 15%, that is not enough to destroy the whole economy. Why did his predecessors not see fit to rebase when other nations have the sense to rebase more often? How can you grow an economy when you don't measure the economy? Why was GEJ the only (or first) rational president in over two decades?

Buhari has long shown that he has nothing to offer anyone. He has no idea on economy or social policy. He was an Islamic candidate until he joined forces with the ACN to become a reformed democrat, making outlandish promises that he has never once come close to fulfilling, yet here you are hoping that he comes good on his promises like a blind akuya.

What happened to the millions of jobs that he said he would create within his first year? What of his N1 to $1? The electricity supply that Fashola claimed he would increased has dropped monumentally and yet you are here talking about giving them time? By their own words they are failures. It was clear that they were lying when they made these campaign promises and it is evident now. Boko Haram that they claim to have vanquished is still keeping people away from their homes and farms.

And Nigeria did not just begin to suffer with terrorism under GEJ. You are very fond of lies. Boko Haram were founded under Yar'adua's moribund term. Besides, Boko Haram is simply a continuation of the extreme, violent Islam that northern Nigeria has labored under for hundreds of years since the days of Usman Dan Fodio. Nothing has changed besides the date.

P.S.
I see you've squeezed in yet another lie into your mythology - that the 1993 (not 1994) elections were the freest and fairest which is simply not possible considering the difference in technological capacity of INEC vs NEC. But I'm sure you'll stick to that lie as you have done to the various other falsehoods that you keep regurgitating.