₦airaland Forum

Tomoyayi:
Oga Comptroller General how that one take affect you ?
You are complaining foreigners are coming to this shithole country.

Abi now? I was even thinking it's a good thing that foreigners are doing fake weddings to come here. At least they will work productively and spend some of their income here (housing, food, entertainment). Instead of government looking at providing solutions to real problems, they are here disturbing us with non-issues.

Theonlycoolmonk:
Four decade of repression, corruption and nepotism with no evidence of terrorism and economic woes. I doubt if you have any idea what the lives and future of an average Libyan looked like pre-Obama's involvement in Libya.

Can you show me any evidence that the security, economic and social lives of the Libyans have changed for good since the involvement of Obama as against during the time of Qaddafi?

I will be waiting for your evidence.

No evidence you say? People being tortured and "disappeared" is not evidence? Terrorist organizations being funded does not count as evidence? Elimination of political foes? You know, to some people, life in Africa (e.g. Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa) was much better under colonialism... in other words, to them, economic prosperity with little liberty - and the occasional massacre - appears preferable to what we're experiencing now. I'm alluding that Libya - though facing tough times now - will actually be better off in the long term. It's the same crises that _every_ country goes through with major political upheaval, from the French, American, Japanese, Chinese, (etc.) revolutions and civil wars. And having gone through that fire, most countries emerge with strong institutions, protections for citizens, and checks and balances on the re-emergence of tyranny.

Theonlycoolmonk:
I dislike Obama for ruining Libya. Right now he is at home peacefully with the future of his girls secured, while the lives of families and their children in Libya will never be the same. Many children's lives in Libya has forever been ruined.

I thought it was one particular ruler of Libya (along with his family and cronies) who ruined Libya with 4 decades of repression, corruption, nepotism, terrorism, totalitarianism , assassinations, disappearances, and a civil war (albeit one side was aided by the West)... but I could be wrong...

Adefemiaderoju1:
Apart from wealth this girl has nothing upstairs.

Really? Somebody who is DJing in similar venues as some of the world's famous DJs? Someone who's being invited to give talks, promote events, owns a fledgling media company, and is a graduate of NYU?

You may say it's all based on dad's wealth, but really, how many children of wealthy parents go to such great lengths to prove themselves and pave their own way? There are many children who would just rest on dad's laurels and eat and buy expensive stuff. Yes, her family wealth may have opened doors and enable her to go places most can't. But if you think that's a bad thing, then you might also suggest that all children go to bad public schools, since they should not rely on their family wealth to send them to good private schools.

Do you think any of the individuals pictured have the resources to buy a vessel and the connections to bunker and sell illegal oil? The real thieves are sitting in the House of Reps at the national and state level.

Our call for sack is misplaced... we should be asking his boss to resign.

Can you imagine this kind of nonsense? You will be minding your business jeje, and somebody mentions your name? I try to keep an open mind, I really do, but what kind of oloriburukuness is this 'tori Olorun?

Can you imagine going to a Nigerian father, telling him that a guy want to marry his son, and have come with bride price and palm wine? I don't know if it is with cutlass or machete that they will send that person running.

It's been a long time since I read such a sweet insult. After the poor girl supported him with her school fees, he will come out and abuse her. CDQ should have several seats and should be prepared for a lawsuit for exploiting a minor.

First rule of happy home: don't invite [unmarried female] friends to squat with you and your husband. It's bad enough with house girls and younger cousins... it's like keeping two goats and a tuber of yam in the same kitchen... never a good idea.

IdeyFindWife:
No be today!

Most times, first arrest for these boys na fact-finding and connection-making trip, once they're ready to play ball and didn'th it any high-profile target that IG etc may have interest in.

The rest na to walk out after small time and paying up.

After that, na the same police go dey shield them and give them tip-off and signals on how to dey waka on share/share levels.

E pay hungry-man police pass to dey rent gun to bag snatchers and robbers who bring in peanuts, not be so?

You sabi the koko wella. Unfortunately, our police are bigger parasites than these hackers.

wonlasewonimi:
No I don't know please enlighten me. How do you check your USSD account online without Internet connection?

USSD is a quick code (similar to, but not the same as SMS). USSD is that *555*N# *737*N# code that we type to recharge our airtime or transfer money. You don't need an Internet connection for these. If you've setup to do transfers with your phone number, then it's trivial for somebody to do the same if they are in possession of your sim. They don't even need your account number to do that.

The one that scares me is how they can do set things up even if you haven't done transfers. Unfortunately, since banks think phones are secure and send SMS confirmation alerts, a thief can do short codes from it, check for account details, authenticate and sign up for transfers. And in addition, some banks even allow use of a 737 code to create a PIN (which defeats the purpose of 2-factor authentication)

I'm not sure why they'd need an insider working at the bank, since an insider already has all the information they need to steal money without stealing the phone.

Unfortunately, the only things one can advice is:
- put most of your money in an account that is not linked to your phone, then transfer to your current account
- call your bank immediately when your phone is stolen (this is silly advice for obvious reasons, but also banks are really slow to react)

I hope the girls are safe and sound - and if captured - will be returned unharmed.

That said, it appears that with each passing day, we realize that Buhari is not the wizard with the magical wand that he is popularly portrayed to be. I personally realized this back in dry season 1985 (March or so), when my mom and I were standing in line for 3 hours in the hot sun to buy staple foodstuffs. Everywhere, people were being flogged, sacked, detained, humiliated, and starved. I was thus shocked when people supported the election bid of this coup-plotter with little regard for other people or for established authority.

Well, he has shown his true colours. Arrogant, headstrong, insensitive, vindictive, sectionalist, overly proud, selfish... these are some of the adjectives one can use to describe him. What other leader has had so much disdain for his own people to the point where he can utter: "my people are useless, my people are senseless..."? Yet it wouldn't be all that bad if - like the benevolent dictator he is made out to be - he actually was competent. We should have known from his "blood and baboon speech" that he doesn't have Nigeria's best interest at heart.

He spent so much time abusing and blaming previous administrations of being incompetent and ineffective, yet ironically, it is his own administration that will bear the label of "most ineffective, most incompetence, and most divisive" in Nigeria's history.

He promised so much yet delivered so little. We know politicians stretch the truth, but in his case, there was no truth to be found. At least, for the rest of Nigeria's history, nobody will say: "ey... if only we had elected Buhari, things would have been better"... When historians look at Nigeria's socio-political and economic indices, they will notice two periods of sharp decline: 1984-1985 and 2015-2019.

We've heard about the success of the Nigerian Army over BH, yet this evil keeps rearing its head and getting emboldened. We've heard reports of innocent souls being brutally murdered, yet our "saviour" offers little, says less, and does nothing. We hear of fights against corruption, and plans to do this and that... yet, it's like we're on a never-ending merry-go-round, seeing the same platitudes, the same excuses, the same inaction, over and over again.

I don't know which leaders are going to move us forward, but it's obvious that business as usual is going to give us the same results. Where you come from does not matter; how you can make this country better than you found it is what counts.

Baba Spirit trash talking, but he got trashed.
Baba Spirit writing checks with his mouth that his fists can't cash.
Baba Spirit aka "I too get mout", how far?
Next time, talk that trash from another room, or better yet, on the radio

Franzinni:
This keke rider should start writing Nollywood films.... The mumu carry olosho go pay hotel room then decided to dirty eye first before he enter the place( in 2baba voice). But he drink pass him Junction... He come enter hotel fire one shot.... And as he discharge... Sleep no need invitation letter... now we all know if you carry olosho, all your valuables must be hidden or locked away somewhere safe because when you sleep they won't.... ( please note. I no dey carry dem o) so the mumu wake up to find his keke done VOOM! He called his friend and they cooked up a good story as to how the keke take VOOM!!!

In all this, the bottom line is.... Wetin be my business self.

I like your summary. It makes much more sense than the deke driver's yarn...

Then why is she posting the fact that he blocked her? E pain am?

Nice one and a decent argument, except of course that there are also strong economies with high denominations:
Japan: 10,000 Yen
Europe: 500 Euros
India: 1,000 Rupees
Russia: 5,000 Rubles
Korea: 50,000 Won
Mexico: 1,000 Pesos

As Ken4Christ said: "The major reason why out currency is low in values is because Nigeria is not a producing country. We import virtually everything."

All our troubles - even corruption stems from this. The only way for most people to get stupendously wealthy in Nigeria is control/contact with virtually the only source of foreign exchange - oil. And since it's so easy to control oil money when you're in government...

By the time we buy anything, so much value has been added by the manufacturing countries, with zero-multiplier effect in Nigeria the consumer. Everybody in the value chain in China (for instance) adds their profit and circulates the money within the country several times. In Nigeria's case, oil is exchanged for consumer goods and there's no circulation of that money once it leaves.

Take the case of a rechargeable lithium polymer battery (it's in cell phones, power banks, laptops, flash lights, etc). Nobody in Nigeria benefited from owning a lithium mine, or a smelting plant, or slurry making, or machine tooling, or anode production, or casing, or assembly or even packaging. These are all industries that benefited from that battery being made and sold. That's a lot of people employed at different skills, in different capacities, multiple times within a country, for one battery. So a Nigerian consumer comes in with oil money (at the very low end of the value chain) to buy a battery (at the very high end of the value chain). There's NO WAY your currency would get strong, no matter the denominations.

The other oil countries on the list that appear prosperous are artificially so because they have much more oil per capita than we do. If Nigeria had as much oil as Saudi Arabia (it has about 1/4 the production), it would still need to use that for is much larger population (6 times as many people), which means no matter what, based solely on money earned from oil, individual Nigerian buying power can only be 1/24 that of a Saudi. It's even more skewed if you consider Qatar (less than 3 million people). These are not productive countries by any stretch of the imagination, and as the world increasingly moves away from oil and natural gas, these countries will not be able to import the goods and services they enjoy today if they remain solely natural-resource-based.

biacan:
It's because she's a lady that's why they are hard on her I bet they can't try that with a man

Er... they would do the same thing to a guy, typically after making him frog jump
Guys day suffer wella, don't get it twisted

Oh, we know you will take us to the next level. That's why we want you to go home in 2019 before you drag us into basement level.

#5 - avoid Computer Village. The packaging of soap and yam as phone is just too rampant.

Who blocked the canal? No be residents? Throwing nylon bags, peels, rags anyhow.
As you see, numerous tweets and letters do not clear canals... only rakes and shovels.
OP should be appealing to the residents to come and clear their own rubbish

I wish more people would see this an an opportunity... we can get these equipment in here and train people to make phones here... even if we're the worst... at least we would be making phones, which is much better than just consuming consuming...

MissTechy I don't know what your ultimate goals are, but in watching your expertise on reviews, I hope you have an eye towards manufacturing...

slowice:
For Nigeria to import palm oil simply means that we don't produce enough to Carter to our consumption need. The thing is Nigerians re very greedy and if not for imported palm oil we would still be buying a bottle for 700naira by now. It was this greed that made some folks to go importing palm oil cos of the supposed high returns which lead to flooding in the market and crashed the price of the product. So before they ban the importation of palm oil how do they intend to stop people from hoarding local oil and creating artificial scarcity.

I don't see how a high consumption of palm oil equals greed. It should translate to more people going into the business of making it. The trouble is, it's much much harder to take a grow a plantation, process it, and package the oil in Nigeria than most other places. Where do you get the can (metal or plastic), the cover, the kernel press, the industrial oven, the electricity? Transportation, storage, energy. These are much easier and cheaper to come by in Malaysia than in Nigeria, and the prices reflect that...

Wawaman:
banning is not the solution. yes my wife deal in Palm oil retail. the question is while should we buy Palm oil imported from Malaysia and snuggled through Benin plus the transportation cost for #9200 for 25liters keg . while the one locally produced in Nigeria is going for #11000. Govt should investigate while imported goods are cheaper than locally produce goods.

Exactly! Banning is not the solution. The reality is that it's more expensive to produce palm oil in Nigeria. People laugh, but when you consider bad roads, expensive transportation, inefficient agricultural practices, expensive industrial processing, you'll understand how palm oil will be more expensive when produced here. It's a result of the difficulty in doing business.

Fix the issue, not the symptoms. We ban, ban, ban, yet won't do the simple thing of making inputs and electricity more available for turning kernels into oil. We won't make it easier or subsidize imported machinery, but we'll ban end-products.

Trade protection works in serious places where you have a holistic approach to the solution. All that will happen with a ban is: those who import openly will become smugglers, police and customs will add to the cost of business, and palm oil will become more expensive.

That's my neighborhood na... but the guy is lucky he was here in Asaba. If to say he tried that nonsense in Warri or Benin... we'll be hearing a different story.

I feel sorry for the ladies who have to pay police bail money... that was my only concern

omohayek:
Even if it is a "witch hunt" (which is what the "kinsmen" of accused politicians always cry no matter how blatant the guilt of their "son" or "daughter", the right and proper response is to repay the favor in kind when power changes hands (as it eventually must), not to simply allow every kleptocrat to go scot-free. What ought to matter to anyone with a functioning moral compass and an IQ above double digits is whether or not the accused are guilty of the charges leveled against them, not whether all other big-time crooks are being chased down.

Quite right... I want all these thieves to be prosecuted, no matter where they're from or whose party is in office. I just wish a our country didn't have to wait for power to change hands to repay the favour... but as long as na turn by turn, I'm OK with that. Over the long term, thieves on both sides will be a bit less emboldened.

She wants "mutual understanding and peaceful coexistence"...

Madam P, please return our money... that's the only way to guarantee this peaceful coexistence you seek. Ole.

But of course, I'm also looking at some of PMB's people who are being allowed to walk free without hindrance, and can't help but wonder if this is a witch hunt...

Three things:

1. using a booster can interfere with other signals and degrade service for others
2. if NCC is using monitoring equipment, they can easily see who is using booster
3. In Nigeria, it's one thing to be flagged as a violator, but it's another thing to bribe your way out. Watching...

Chiedu4Trump:
How the snake fit enter jamb office, swallow 36 million and escape?


Jackass in evolution, who created the first things that started evolution?

Big bang needs 2 things to start, matter & energy..

Who created them, who brought them together?

This is the paradox nobody can answer: if you need a "who" to bring them together, how did that "who" come into being? Of course the Christian answer is: "He was, He is, and He always will be"... which does nothing to resolve the paradox. If you can believe that, then why can't you also believe that matter and energy always existed - and just like the Omnipresent one, can't be explained away?

Technically, matter and energy are equivalent (if not the same), and so cancel each other out. For some reason, an infinitesimal bit of matter separated from energy at some point, producing the chain reaction we call the Big Bang. But each time you look into matter (atom, lepton, quark), it looks like points of energy that interact to attract/repel each other (mass, electrostatic, nuclear). In other words, what we call matter is actually not there... it's all energy

What is that? You say na chicken? I've never seen this kind of chicken before in my life. If you told me they were chippings for construction, I would have believed.

Abeg, let me go and shower and sleep. Man's too hot to be typing in this heat.