₦airaland Forum

GeneralShepherd:
He could have walked away like adult, not getting brow beat into spending an arm and a leg about his means to get married and then sulk like a teenager.

The guy needs to grow up. Go to your father-in-law and demand for some reimbursement

"The guy needs to grow up. Go to your father-in-law and demand for some reimbursement"

For real?

Atarakpa:
My dear when he came back from work. Ask him the loan is how much and how much is remaining so far and what are the schedule of payment. And discuss with him on helping out or supporting in payment and you will see the happy hubby

Very wise.
That man is under pressure. A simple man that does within his means, now forced to over do.
Someone that does not take like debt, now forced to take.

Jecci:
Who needs your notice. Like it pays my bills or what.

Thought with age comes reasoning but sadly I can't say the same for you.

Lolz

adebayo987:
Putin declared war on Ukraine on behalf of Russia. Tinubu did the same on Niger on behalf of ECOWAS. An organisation is represented by its leader. If you see the face of Biden, you're equally looking at the US because right now, he's their leader. So, it is in all things.

Got it?

Ok

ivolt:
Their is no CBN governor!
He is practically receiving instructions from Aso Rock.
If their is a rerun, Nigerians may still pretend not to care about price of fuel.
What gave Tinubu the boldness to cause this hardship is that Nigerians didn't
push back when all of them were promising to crash the economy by removing fuel subsidy.
If at all subsidy is to be removed, it must be done in small increments.
You don't throw millions of people into poverty because you want to be seen as bold.

Well said.
Unfortunately, the poverty is likely to increase. If possible, go and fill your tank with fuel. Few minutes ago, I bought 10k to top up, but my guy, the manager told me to fill up as by this evening or latest tomorrow morning, they are ajusting their pump for a higher price. Had to buy 30k extra, total 40k and tank still not full.

SmartPolician:
Do you know what it takes to produce something in this country?

How will you power your machines? With diesel or petrol that's very expensive?

In fact, many people would prefer to import things than produce in Nigeria because importing from China is cheaper than producing in Nigeria.

Nigeria has no enabling infrastructure for driving businesses like steady power supply. If you run on diesel, you will incur huge losses.

Diesel was 650 last week. It is 750 today and rising. Few minutes ago, I bought 10k fuel the manager of the station ie my paddy, told me they sent 2 trucks, they only loaded one and told them to hang on till tomorrow as the second truck will be loaded at new price.
Based on the above, the manager adviced me to fill my tank, that there will be increase this evening or tomorrow latest. I had to buy extra 30k ie total fuel 40k!
How do you run a business, factory, transport etc under such cost?

Can this cunt shut his trap for once? I wonder who is more irritating between him and Manna.

tsdarkside:
what can he do....??
print dollars himself....??

Ahaha..
That is where compitence and skills comes in. You do not just place you regular "Joe" economist handling eg the economy of a rich state that has excess inflow. Rather someone with financial skills, that in a dead economy can still turn around things.
Two people are sent to an island opposite a city. One complains, nothing is here, it is barren. The other agrees, but few months later, he is processing salt from the sea and selling while the other goes empty.
I spoke the other day of how no school, transporter etc could buy buses due to high cost. Hummer bus now 40m, coaster but 50m, korope from cfao motors 10m.
Some guy goes to Japan, buys 1st class used buses, cuts them up in 3 places, loads 30 of them in 1 container instead of the maximum 2-4 units a container contains. Brings them to naija and reassembles them.
He cuts the cost, korope becomes 1.5m, hummer bus 8m. Nigerians can then afford to buy. A way out of nowhere.
Why do you think companies will be doing poorly, the go hire a sound professional that turns the place around?
Go read about Carlos Ghosn and Nissan.
Dont even go far, read of Olushola medupin of Enish restaurants uk, even where he served upnorth which was a dead zone, he took over a neighbour's dead shop and within a week, the shop could not handle the trade going on there!
Watch his interview on YouTube with Tayo Aina.
Let me not use an ex governor as an example (for obvious reasons) , how with merger resources was able to fix important aspects and still save billions out of no where.
Where people see nothing, just as you asked what the cbn gov should do, print dollar himself? A proper competent person will be in that same spot and will figure out what to do.
Ask Osibanjo how he did it when he handled power for few months, how dollar crashed from 750 to 300.

Holla911:
How could he have repaired the refineries while paying subsidy ?
One had to go for the other. We have no choice but to endure the difficult time while hoping and praying our leaders get it right.
The current hardship is a global pandemic.

Hope and pray they get it right, maybe, and if they are genuine and have the capacity.
As per the current hardship being a global pandemic, that is disagreeable. Ours is self inflicted. Where is their global hardship pandemic? Where is there hardship different from what it has alway been?

Only on naija does nothing make sense.
They said subsidy was killing the economy, we were using scarce income ie dollar income from crude sales to subsidize. Subsidy was causing devaluation of the naira and other tales. They removed subsidy and floated the naira, yet naira keeps crashing to the dollar. As I said some time back, make price of petrol ₦1500 per liter and in few months, they will make it 2000, it is an upward spiral.
The acting cbn governor the other day was prectically saying he did not know what to do again.

adebayo987:
You're right but Tinubu is not weak. A weak Tinubu would not declare war against Niger. A weak Tinubu would not remove subsidy. A weak Tinubu would not retire generals. A weak Tinubu would not act before thinking (here you confuse wise with weakness). Tinubu may be sick but when his dream of becoming Nigeria's president happened he became joyful and happy. Tinubu is bringing the best ministers to work with him. Although it appears he didn't have much plan for the country of which you'll be correct, he's not the kind of leader you'd want to mess with.

So it was Tinubu that declared on Niger. I thought folks said it was ecowas.

Smithkafors:
From one mistake to another….. nothing is working in Nigeria.

Seems sane mistake is playing out with the economy. Hope it is corrected asap.

Nice, looks tasty.
One of my favorite soups.
But I hear palm oil heavy foods, especially banga soup should be eaten sparingly as it tends to be heavy on the kidneys. It brings down your Gfr.
Can anyone knowledgeable confirm?

Moh227:




Nigeria produces 2.3 million barrels of crude oil per day

Just crude oil alone, Not LNG

Brent crude oil sells at $86 per barrel

$180m to Nigeria is like a penny, even Dangote, Otedola, Adenuga and Rabiu or AA Rano won't blink an eye over $180m

Look at the International Shipping routes map that Cargo ship follows... You will understand Niger are in real trouble


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You think $180m is like pennies to Nigeria? Guess you may be a government official. They are so rich that they buy lexus 600 suvs for 250m a piece.
$180m Nigeria could not provide for international airlines to the extent the money had ballooned to over 800m today causing airlines to remove cheap tickets from the Nigerian route. That contributed to emirates and other airlines stop flights to Nigeria. Nigeria broke the records as having 70% of the debt world wide to airlines.

Na wah. 250m for lexus suv vip edition.
Not that is bad oh. But in the present condition of the economy and the way people are suffering, does it make sense for an official with human feeling choose to buy a 250m vehicle?
Supprisinng thing is that these officials are mostly what we call government pikin, people that have not worked out money in their lives, that have not eg driven a bus, buy fuel, run maintainance, carry passangers and see little profit at the end of the day. Someone that has not made and handled his personal money then becomes a LG chairman with a budget of 2billion. First thing is to buy 2 units of 250m lexus and 2 hilux at oluwole price of 150m each. Blow the money without conscience.
Nndc and apabio comes to mind.
Anyway, some of us decided to vote for a candidate in the last election not based on tribe but because we felt under him and based on his lifestyle and antecedents, we believed rightly or wrongly such shenanigans will stop or atleast reduce, some thought otherwise(which is their right).
Today, we are reaping the adverse benefits.

Nice one op.
Pardon my digression
Is it advisable to send a 16+ year old lady interested in medicine to school in Russia? What of the war? Admission nko.
Do you have a whatsapp contact we can chat on?

Person weh never chop bellefull de marry second wife especially in this economy?
Anyway, it is obvious this econs is favoring him and his family. Lol

Yeah be is not necessary, also spending if money is not necessary.

Na wah, when they drive their gwagen, you wounder how far, when you hear some pay for 2 room flat in lekki 120m, 4 bead room 300m 500m, 1billion naira, you wonder if some have two heads while you have one.
This is not to say legit no de ohh.

All I see is the beautiful airport built by the Chinese. Westerners were there for donkey years exploiting, nothing like this was built.

Kobojunkie:
Oh, I am convinced that you believe this experience you had was indeed for real. What I am not convinced of at all is the story itself.

Ok. You are right.

Kobojunkie:
You mean he did not commit to the magical place that save his life for all of his life? Why?

Every way you can twist this kain tale, we don hear am before. By the way, you said your father was sick and them immediately cured after a tree was felled, but you never mentioned exactly what kind of sickness it was. What was his diagnosis?.

So you think an agbalagba like me will take time to write such and you think it is a joke?

Aunty is never too late to find your way, expecially as you stay abroad. You seem independent and probably earn more. That bros will likely not marry you or commit any more which will tie him down, rather he will make you have more kids, then later label you his baby mama. A lady told me that was how her hubby of over 12 years refered to her as his baby mama when police was invited over a quarrel.

Flamemignon1:
I think of love,romantic affection and your mind quickly sways to sex. Also not all gay people engage in anal sex,anal sex is a type of sex not gay sex, straight people engage in it too and I don't see your vitriol for them as you have for the gays. I guess you also don't believe asexual gay people and asexual straight people exist too right?

Oga, if you are a man and you do what you should be doing with a woman with another man, you are gay, a homo.
Simple as ABC.
No offence meant.

Kobojunkie:
So never mind the fact that trees everywhere means less exposure to destructive solar rays, less money spent on air conditioning during the hot seasons, more fertilize soil for planting, Shade from the hot sun,... na witches and where they congregate dey your own mind?

Oga, even me that do no believe on such issues, still recognize there are things you cannot explain.
When we were very young kids, in the 70s, dad was so sick, he was at the point of death. He and mum got married quite early and so she was barely in her early 20s. His family had to tell her to move with the kids to a neighbors house not to witness his death (Who knew their plans). All she could do was grab his Rolex and one or two documents incase he did not make it.
To cut a long story short, some "Cele" oga at the top, was brought in, it was alledged a tree at the front of our house at aguda was a den of witches. That night, they cut it down. I hear the whole neighborhood felt the cutting of the tree. Miraculously, dad recovered immediately. I remember he bought in appreciation, container loads of musical equipments then for Cele church headquarters under the late oga at the top of the church.
We attended there for a while before his lawyer introduced him to pentecostal church.
Have you noticed even in oyinbo ie western movies, witches also live in trees, or trees open and it is a doorway to another dimension? Have you watched "strange things" ie the series.

Flamemignon1:
Sex is the only thing that comes into your perverse mind when you think of homosexuality, it's no wonder you Nigerians don't know what love is,you mistake sex for it and when women use you for your money,y'all will be crying

Tell is what love is Mr foreigner since we Nigerians don't know.
So when it comes to homosexuality, what else do you think of, since we think of sex and you think of something else. What is that "something else" you think about.
And what makes women use us for money that we will be crying? This one made me laugh trying to figure out what you meant.

DenreleDave:
Even as I don't agree with the bolded, what do you think these Nigeriens will do to us?

Even their country military and their whole populace can't do nada to us talk less of the ones driving Okada to hustle..

If you think they will revolt amidst us, I must beg u to consider it again... I doubt if they will think of such

Hopefully they cannot do anything to us.
But once some people hear "piam", they and their family will be on the next flight to monitor events from abroad. Hopefully it will not get to that stage.

illicit:
While the presence of ECOWAS in Niger MAY trigger unrest, their mission still remains flushing out the coupists and retaining order.

Remember that Niger has an Army, they have Police etc

A resistance to the coup is already building up locally in the country

For now, it seems the coupists are in total control but it won't always be like that when there is an intervention, how many are the criminals?


If the Nigerien army didn't back them, what power do they have?

So don't go on thinking that all Nigeriens are on the same page, it's not so.

Imagine if some powers had intervened when Abacha took over power in Nigeria, do you think he would last that long?
We all know that he has some Nigerians behind him but majority were against him...

Ok valid points noted. Let's see how it plays out.

Goodlady:
Tinubu never said so and has never given such order. Talks of military is from ECOWAS not from Tinubu alone. All of you hearing up polity cos of post election trauma should stfu! Face tribunal.

So Arewa, the norther governors, the senate, the northern politicians that have spoken, adeboye etc are all suffering from post election trauma? They should face the tribunal?
If you hide under the guise of ecowas, have you heard the saying "he that pays the piper dictates the tune" Nigeria funds ecowas 70%, Nigerian troops makes up over 80% of troops and equipment for any intervention force. Nigeria will bear most of the finances especially as some ecowas countries have withdrawn their support. The staging ground is likely from Nigerian soil.
Oga, Nigeria and Tinubu is ecowas anyway you look at it.

illicit:
Sure

Yet, it is not Nigerias personal mission, Nigeria is not invading Niger

ECOWAS doesn't have the mandate to fight wars, it is just going after coupists not warring with Niger

A layman will get it wrong tho

Ok. If there is resistance from the populace and attack on the ecowas troops, they will not shoot back at the civilians? You honestly think the ecowas troops will just drive to the capital, release the expresident then install as president then drive back to Nigeria in victory?
Anyway, wars are easy to start, ending the war is the problem.
Do you realise 90% of all the okada riders in Lagos, all the SW states, SE, SS are from Niger? Almost all the currency dealers too. The manual laborers are also mostly from Niger.
If you have the means, codedly interact with them and get their opinion. Some say that war Tinubu (they don't know ecowas) is taking war to their country, to kill their family and friends and they will be duplicating it over here.

Goodlady:
All your plan is to see that something bad happens to Tinubu but you v forgotten that God that you served also recognized Tinubu. If invading Niger is the right decision after diplomacy, so be it. And nothing ll happen to Tinubu, Nigerians or Nigeriens except the coup plotters. Shame won't leave your sight!

Do you know the implications of what you say? We should go to war because Tinubu thinks we should do so? Do you think Tinubu will act in your best interest when it concerns him and his ambitions? If you do, then I have a river to sell to you.

helinues:
No need to stress as this na another concorted bunkum.

We go dey burst una left and right

So this is fake news written by the reporter, Animashaun Salman, and published by punch newspapers owned and based in the south west?