₦airaland Forum

olaskul:
Some flat heads won't like this... continue your kidnapping, drug pushing and other crimes while the West continue developing.

Air Peace is owned by flat heads you know... and easily 50%-80% of the new business will be developed by Indians, Chinese, and Igbos, with the remaining 20% by Lebanese and Hausas, with one or two concerns by Yorubas...

I think he meant: "first time in Keke this month, in Warri"

Ezyp:
Bros abeg calm down.....Niger deltans are not fools ehhh

I am a Niger deltan, so I want this story to be accurate, so we don't start saying what is not true

1. Are you 100% sure there are absolutely no muslims of Delta origin (by marriage, choice, or one parent?)
2. Nigerian placards have spelling mistakes all the time. The fact that Itsekiri is spelled incorrectly does not mean.
3. Epie (in Bayelsa) is distinct from Ekpeye (Rivers)
4. Can friends from other parts of Nigeria not join Delta people in demonstrating - particularly as this is a pro-Buhari rally?

Not disputing your argument, but the evidence is not iron clad, as you posit.

Daboomb:
And taxpayers should not have been forced to bail out dying Banks, Ford Motors, Freddie Mac and May just because some folks were going to lose their house or go under... right?

1. People who don't pay their fair share of insurance (health or car) simply pass the burden to others who do, and Obamacare was a way to put responsibility where it belongs. Afterall when the uninsured motorist gets into an accident, who pays his hospital bills, damage to other private car and property, the hospital bill of the people he hit, as well as repairs to road, light poles, fences, fire hydrants, etc? The taxpayer, at a much higher cost than if that person were forced to carry insurance. BTW it's a misdemeanor to not have car insurance, so there is precedence for the government insisting on insurance, as it's recognized to be in the public interest. The same applies to health insurance.

2. If large banks and car companies are allowed to fail, it will have ripple effects - many many tax payers will become jobless.

Take Ford. If Ford fails, about 200,000 people will be out of work. Then all their dealers and parts manufacturers will take a hit. This could easily affect 1 million people and their families. This translates to fewer people buying houses, paying rent, buying gadgets, or even food. Now housing, electronics, meat, rubber, steel (and many more) industries will take a hit, spiralling down into long term depression - a much more serious consequence than bailing out.

Take JP Morgan Chase - a bank that holds 2.5 trillion in assets. Should it be allowed to go under, loans to other banks, loans for mortgages and cars, working debt/capital for a lot of business, retirement plans, and 254 billion in equity suddenly goes whoosh! That would be catastrophic... bailing it out (and Chase was actually one of the stronger banks in the crises) is a far cheaper price to pay.

Should companies get so big that they can't be allowed to fail? No, and this was a huge debate about a decade ago. With the economy recovered and growing robustly, however, the argument has died down and talks of dismantling large companies have been shelved... until the next bust cycle.

Ha hah.. corpers who have not started real work are striking...

Kwantinu...

AAinEqGuinea:
No one should be forced to buy healthcare insurance ensuring that Americans continuously pay insurance companies for overpriced medical attention, unless of course you see the world like Obama

Yes, and taxpayers should also not be forced to bail out those who get sick and depend on government assistance because they didn't have insurance. One core reason for Obamacare was that people will fall ill, or have long-term health needs, paid by medicare, medicaid, or some other government program, instead of them contributing their own money to their own insurance programs while they were healthy.

Una don start again. Instead of seeing this as a good thing, that a Nigerian state is taking steps to identify erosion spots, and give reasons for why people should change their behaviour, u people are doing ntooor. This is a good thing for us all, and there are good lessons to learn. There should not be a single part of the country that has erosion issues every year, but instead of helping each other get better, we're here pointing fingers and soiling ourselves with our own poo.

For you name checkers who want to distract from the message of my post, I'm from Asaba, raised in Ibadan, and now resident in Asaba as an adult.

What pains me most is our hypocrisy...

You know, there is no smoke without fire. There can be no sellers if there are no buyers. Instead of bashing this boy/(man?), when are we going to start calling out our politicians, ministers, business folks and other high-ranking officials who patronize gays behind closed doors? You think it's poor men who are buying gay sex?

Here's the REAL IRONY: we have had gay people in our societies for millennia in Nigeria (and Africa), yet our societies were relatively tolerant and turned a blind eye. It's the God of Western religion that taught us to hate people for who they love. Now the West has mostly forgotten/abandoned their intolerant God and is becoming a more humane society, yet the recently christianized Africans are still holding on to intolerant behaviour, claiming it is un-African to be gay.

Abeg let me hear word...

CutenaijaMedia:
If U you were my brother, I'll disown you idiot!!!

People here think you can take somebody's 7.3M and just disappear... hmm...

As for me, I will return it oh, but not because I'm honest...

It's because of fear... you want hitmen and village witches to start looking for you? People get killed for 5k, talk less 7M.
At least, maybe I can collect 5% for whistle blowing on myself

jingh:
how does integrity and his sick leave mean the same thing ?

brain u lack my dear

During campaign he was abusing those who went abroad for medical tourism. Rather than improve hospitals, he has imitated his predecessors.
The office of first lady... still stands. The N5000... unfulfilled. Exchange rate was 210 and he was asking "is that OK"... what was it in January this year? Power... worsened. And to cap it off, he has not been in charge (delegating authority to VP), for almost 6 months out of 2 years in his tenure.

Integrity implies you keep to your word, especially after you enter office.

We must acknowledge and praise PMB's fiscal prudence in ensuring money is not frittered away. We should also acknowledge that GEJ did spend a lot on capital projects - yes, money was stolen, but we can't deny the facts that rail, airports, roads, power got significant cash during his time. I saw roads and bridges being worked on, railways been rehabilitated, airports being expanded, hospitals and libraries being built/repaired, etc. This country is huge, and we need to spend more, but to say there were no capital projects during GEJ's time is just not true.

I am neither a wailer nor zombie, just want the best for our country, so I'm open to reasoning:

Despite the fact that PMB's economic policies made things hard, perhaps it would have been much worse under GEJ who didn't curtail the excesses of his cabinet or would not have had the backbone to defend the Naira and slow down importation. PMB said if we didn't hoard dollars, we might get into a situation where we could not buy anything at all - and I believe that.

The fundamental problem is that the country relies too much on oil for revenues, and most states are too reliant on the center for their survival. Another big issue is that we, the people, want to get rich by any means: our sellers want to sell the cheapest fakes, and our buyers want the most authentic things at the fakest price. Too many of us want to work the least for the most money, and we take many shortcuts to maximize profits.

ajalawole:
All of them na thief........... Those school by plot of land like 50k per plot from locals, but will ask students to pay almost 1million for tuition..... Iyalaya somebody

To be honest, the tuition is worth 1Mil. (about $3000 USD). The cheapest public universities in US start at $9000 or so; UC Berkely, at a higher end is $50,000 for tuition and fees for non-residents. Public, not private. 1 Mil is a minimum to employ good professors, pay for electricity (gen) and other going concerns, get and maintain standard equipment, computers, libraries, buildings, security, groundskeeping, etc. This is for quality education that is recognized worldwide.

The alternative is that parents spend upwards of $20,000 USD to send children abroad to get that same quality.

Our public universities have been heavily subsidized for so long that they mask the true cost of education in today's world. I'm not saying subsidization of education is a bad thing, but the government has proven its incompetence to provide services of value.

Seguntimmy:
Naija tire person, wea can I go?

I hear Ghana is very OK...

So if I enter market, buy meat and some other things, how will I find okada to take me home?

sHOTdownHawk:
Do any of this companies manufacture in Nigeria? Cause its seems they import to Nigeria alot. Makes me think china is dissing Nigeria low key!

It's far easier to manufacture and do other business outside Nigeria. That is the situation Nigeria has created so nobody to blame but Nigeria.

As in 16th August or something. Why does 16 have to automatically mean age?

mesoprogress:
What is this one talking about? What is paining you? Doctors are meant to save lives, if you so much like money, read a regular course. Your type are not supposed to be a doctor assuming you are one.

It's hard to save lives when you're not paid for your work and equipment. Does the landlord who owns your office collect "save lives" as payment? Or the petrol station? What about the drug and drip companies? When you say to them "I don't have money but I save lives", you think they will gladly hand their products to you?

Max24:
Hate him or like him, Obasanjo remains the most effective President Nigeria ever had. Highly intelligent. Even bubu still consults him from London.

I have to agree with you. I used to be an OBJ hater thanks to his first military regime, but even then, I realize that the country has always made progress with him at the helm.

realborn:
Summary:
The criteria for his action to retire affected officers-
1. If ever involved in a coup
2. If ever benefited from a coup.
3. If ever given political appointment where free food and perquisites were enjoyed.

Obj should have retired himself too. He was the beneficiary of the Dimka 1976 coup.

Obj is very narcissistic and self serving.

The tactics may have worked but it is inappropriate to indirectly vilify these affected officers who bore no guilt at the time they were unceremoniously retired!

He was a retired general when he was president in 1999

Zico5:
Ha! Haba! And some misguided youths who could not afford 100 megabites to browse will come here to support this bastard thief. I pray that the ailment this woman is faking in London shall be the portion of anyone supporting her henceforth.

My own mumu don do. Please FGN sell these properties and build schools with the money, and jail this thief for 30 years.

ihatesycophant:
Buhari has handicapped everyone by handing over to his deputy as required by law. It's only insane, bitter minds that would ask him to resign. He also fulfilled conditions for sick leave by transmitting same to National Assembly as required by law. Taking to cognizance the same law never stipulate time limit for a sick public officer to resume. This is where people's confusion comes in.

You make good sense... but perhaps, given the current situation, the law should be amended to include a time limit on absence. The President has been incapacitated by illness for a cumulative total approaching 6 months. That's 6/48. Meaning that, even if he returned today, he would have been absent 1 month out of every 8 he was supposed to be in office, doing what he was voted in to do. According to the law as it stands, he could even be gone for the next 24 months, yet still remain president. I think you'll agree that modifying the law will discourage excess.

Perhaps the amendment is too late for this administration, but it would avoid this kind of issue starting from 2019.

In addition, the Public Service Rules (specifically PSR 070316) "stipulates that the maximum aggregate sick leave which can be allowed an officer, who is not hospitalized, during any period of 12 months, shall be 42 calendar days.”

I think the President is a public officer. (he doesn't mind being called that when drawing a salary)...

dangotesmummy:
Is this man serious at all? Yes he might be fighting a legitimate cause but he's not putting in the seriousness it requires.if you're protesting and you're posing for cameras dressed up like touts,how will you be taken seriously? APC and her goons don't give a fok about anyone protesting so you better go hone and sleep

It's not for APC or their goons. It's to raise awareness among the voters (something like 60% of all eligible voters are under 45*)

*I'm inferring this from the population pyramid at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html
If you sum up at the bars of 20-44, you'll see that it far outweighs the bars from 44-84, and if elections were based solely on age, any candidate that did not cater to younger generations will simply not make it. This is a fact we need to emphasize in 2019

hollowpot15684:
hmmm..

For real. I really hate protesting because it usually resolves nothing.
Activist who have resulted to Protest achieved little or nothing. Talking of Martin Luther king Jr, Nelson Mandela, Saro wiwa.. etc

All we need to solve any problem is WIT and not aggressiveness .. this is even more reason to conclude Nnamdi Kanu will fail!

Let them use the Constitution abeg.

Not sure where you got your conclusion from but:

MLK and associated protest movements led directly to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that "outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."

The protests within and outside South Africa (of which Nelson Mandela was a focusing point) led to the end of Apartheid

Ken Saro-Wiwa's death added more fuel to the fire that eventually saw the mysterious end of Abacha. It also gave voice to the many communities who had been ruined by oil, and encouraged a militancy that aims for better treatment from a government and industry that could not have cared less about the damage they were causing.

This was liked by an individual - who should know better. Nevertheless, as the standard disclaimer goes: "The opinions expressed a the author's own and do not represent those of ..."

So this is a non-starter. They'll still ask it to be deleted tho...

Neminc:
All I can glean from the story is that two promiscuous slay queens went for all night olosho runs and after several rounds of marathon knacking by uncircumcised rods they were too exhausted to escape when a fire started in their hotel room. And now I am supposed to say R.I.P right? Even when I know that in hell right now, the devil is boiling them in a big pot of hot water and singing Ajekun Iya. No, I can't deceive myself. I can only advise those slay queens who are still alive "beware of runs, it kills"

Wow... it's rare for me to read something so callous.

RIP to these women, who died so unnecessarily for something that could have been prevented. This could happen to any of us, for whatever reason, and for you to judge so haughtily is just... I don't know...

Who would expect that faulty AC in a hotel room would be the cause of ones demise? Not disease, not hunger, not kidnappers or robbers, not accident, not even failed powerline? RIP and condolences to their loved ones. I pray this fate does not befall us.

Please, let's stop polarizing this thing along ethnic lines... is there any difference, fundamentally, from those who murder for ritual, those who murder out of religious righteousness, or those who murder by selling fake drugs? To those who have died, the reason does not matter - it's all a result of human cruelty. We are ALL victims and need to watch out for each other.

That said, it's an irony that the good luck charm did not work, and in fact is the very reason he's going to be imprisoned and (hopefully) forced to face a firing squad.

Marotzke:
How many Megawatts of electricity do you think a functional American university consume in a day? Then add the massive student hostels and staff quarters.
Then add a massive industrial complex that bottles hundreds of thousands of Faro water and Faro fruit juice daily.
Savanna sugar refinery nko?
Fertilizer blending plant nko?
Radio Gotel?
The most massive mechanised farm in the north east nko?
Massive real estate follow join ooo.
30 megawatts is a very modest estimate.

Don't mind them jare... some people are busy laughing that he doesn't know what 30MW is Maybe he meant MWH per day or even per month... who cares? His point is he spends a lot of money to buy, fuel, and service the generators in his business empire. If you look at the numbers - even if it's a modest 300kw... na coins?

I wonder if she had no experience the first time, and had become a better candidate by the second time. Also company financial situation might have changed. Good for her though... I hope she'll use some of her salary to build house.

bakynes:
Na wa for u o! Are you a blind man?

Partly right... though the 10k is only promo... I was wondering what the real price was once the promo is over...

Integrityfarms:
Africans and love for unnecessary respect is the height of stupidity.

Very soon he will want to be addressed as not just his name and regalia but additional names to suit his ancestors will be needed.

Right... in the West, try this:

Instead of "President Trump", say, "Yo Donald"
Instead of "The Most Reverend", say, "Dear Justin"
Instead of "Mr Mayor", try "Dear Sadiq"

and see if they would even respond to you. Oyinbos like to pretend they are all equal but they have their own pecking order, and prefer to be addressed as such. It's not an African thing. Addressing somebody by their first name implies a familiarity that is just not there.

Those of you complaining, can you accept a small 4-year old calling you just Tope or Wale, without adding Sister or Brother?

Ladies are all the same, and he'll soon find na Grace get wahala pass