₦airaland Forum

Kobojunkie:
A Bible is lot a charm but simply a book. Unless you want the cops to go around arresting folks for having books, I suggest you give your reasoning there a thorough sweeping.

As for the arresting of people carrying what you call charms, your anger should be directed at the Nigerian police and laws that enable such ridiculousness.

Bibles are charms, or have enough significance to be considered one: people use it for swearing in officers, and have a general belief that holding a bible can ward off evil spirits. As in: hold the bible in front of you, or wave it as you pass by and you won't be harmed. Some turn to the bible if they wake up from a nightmare, with the latent hope that it will keep them safe. If that's not a charm, then I don't know what else is.

Kolaboluv7:


Charm no problem but why the cutlass mr op.?

Next thing... why a hoe or rake? And what is that pickaxe for. Are these tools also illegal now?

jchioma:
I have no problem with the charm, but cutlass? Why nah? Are you going to war?

How about going to farm? Or to clear grass on building site. Or to go and cut some palm fronds. Have we forgotten that many people work with cutlasses, knives, and other such tools?

NaijaSatanlst:
So I just came online and I saw on the front page that an EndSARS protester was arrested for possessing charm and cutlass. This is not the first time the Nigerian Police Force has arrested someone for possession charms.

I just wanted to make this clear that in a country where there is supposed to be religious freedom, arresting someone for possessing charm is like arresting a Muslim for possession the Qur'an or a Christian for possessing the Bible.

If It was a Christian/Muslim that was arrested, people would have cried persecution/islamophobia. But now a traditional worshippers is carrying what He believes in and was arrested for it, y'all are real quiet. I'm sure some of you like are even happy with the arrest.

Una good evening.

I doubt the guy is being arrested just for charm. But this is Naija, where having a smartphone or smart clothes can get you arrested.

NGpatriot:
While many folks from all over Nigeria are out doing ENDSARS protests, how come SE folks are not protesting against all the needless deaths, killings, burnings and pillaging in the SE, students and little girls are getting slaughtered, Doctors are getting slaughtered, even Royal fathers are getting slaughtered in cold blood.?

Why? Are they not human beings or their lives doesn't matter at all?

What gives?

SARS has been a long-term irritant, a well-defined enemy, and it took people posting on social media to organize and the protests. The killings in the East are relatively recent, without a well-defined enemy (e.g. who's definitely responsible for the killings, is it FGN, ESN, Ipob, ungun knownment, herdsmen, politicians?), so it's a bit harder to point at the enemy. With enough time and publicity (by people in the East, mind you), it too will galvanize protests.

Lagosians (as in all Nigerians living in Lagos), are protesting the killings in Lagos (e.g. Lekki toll gate). I don't see people in Enugu protesting about what happened in Lagos.

What about killings in Kaduna? Did Awka people come out and protest on their behalf?

Let people living in the East protest about what's happening in the East. Let them organize and put plans on social media.

It's not about lives mattering or not, because that's descending into dangerous rhetoric.

That's the state whose governor was recently boasting about size comparisons abi...

Baba Fela lived life to the fullest, mehn.

For those who are laughing, you want somebody else to die for you?

Somebody has livestreamed, put herself in harms way, is now a target of the state, and people are laughing that she's gone into hiding to save her life? Come on people.

You won't listen to the protests of people who are making their voices heard, at great personal costs. And the sad part too is if she died, people will still mock her saying: "who send am"?

It's really hard to satisfy Nigerians I swear.

Curious345:
no be strategy, her boyfriend na yahoo boy from delta state based in Accra Ghana..
Him Done alert him guy/Picker to download the sextape from snapChat as soon as him post am.
He will Later delete the video and lie to tiwa that he uploaded it by mistake. (and tiwa buy am)
NEXT MOVE NA TO ALERT THE GUY TO PRESS TIWA TO PAY 15M.
inside the 15m the Bf get 10m..

Mehn, this is the most sensible take I've heard on this saga. Sensible and plausible. No be Naija we dey? People are being distracted by the thing we all do every damn week instead of seeing the real scope. Abeg chop knuckle.

Ordinary sex tape will stay in your head? Seriously? I watched all 6 seconds of it yesterday, and already I can hardly remember much...

honestivo:
That doesn't mean you should not respect your self and your family

I'm hearing people taking about respect, and being disappointed...
So... what did she do wrong exactly?

Is it having a boyfriend? Or having sex in a boat? Or recording it for ones personal enjoyment? That is was leaked (by accident)?

Which is it that's annoying people? After all we all have accidents with technology.

Personally, I think she's cute while getting crunched. And I'm glad she's taking control of the situation. The leak has happened, but instead of being blackmailed, she's taking all that power away from the blackmailer. Works for me.

In a few weeks we'll all have moved on to the next shiny news.

AmericanDad:
I thought William Uchembah was a godly Christian? Why he is he bowing down for mortal man? well maybe na eye service

You mean the same way people bow and kneel before pastors and cardinals?

AntiWailer:
The problem AbokiFX bring is speculation issues. it is one of the problems and others would be tackled accordingly. There are about 7 other reasons to be tackled.
1. Inflation rate.
2. Interest rate.
3. trade balance.
4. Government debt
5. Terms of trade
6. Political and stability of performance.
7. Recession
8. Speculations.

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You obviously are not reading or u probably lack understanding.

if you have 8 problems affecting you and make effort to take out 1 will it work ? will it be a divert of attention. ?

will your issue disappear. ?

I don't know dude... your list makes sense but it reminds me of a foundation breaking yet somebody is busy painting the walls ... it may be a step in the right direction, but boy is it the wrong thing to be focusing on...

You know where else can fit into Kaduna many times? Lagos.
I wish the able governor would make jokes like, how many people are actually secure and can go to farm unmolested, or can feed well, or how productive and educated Kaduna citizens are. Instead he's comparing by size.

Meh...
this time next year there'll be an unboxing of yet another new iPhone... which looks exactly like the ones before it; for which some people will be making noise up and down, some losing their morals, some losing their senses.

And no, it's not hatorade, over the years, I've bought two of most iPhone models (one for me, one for my wife, and sometimes for a family member) since the 3Gs. I don't buy them new... I wait till they're a year or two old. Only reason I buy iphone is for her. I've decided to start using a very simple dumb phone that I don't have to deal with upgrades and notifications and people on whatsapp.

Heh, at first I thought you were going to say that you found out she is your elder brother's fiancee or something

Normal things now, just keep dating... will you be the first man to chop your sister-in-law?
At least in this case you were dating before she became in-laws

igbowoman:
Must it be on camera? Doesn't this girl have one friend with commonsense?

But she's advertising market na... shebi you get

Does the OP only want to avoid sinning? How about not wanting to damage your body?

DontBullshitMe:
Visa application fees will refund them.

Quite right!!! Sad but true...

Just imagining how many panties will drop in this mansion

I'm also imagining how some broke babe forming I love you will demand half of this mansion after she's tired of our guy.

NGArmyTerrorist:
Have you people blamed ipob today for this news?

Not yet... I'm actually surprised. Usually the blame starts towards the bottom of the first page

SarkinYarki:
Just 100 precent Lean meat and ground water..the healthiest man on earth and I am beast with assault rifles

Really? You must catch all your food yourself... the cost of meat is atrocious now

RiceProducers:
Go and source your raw material locally or start consuming a substitute.
IQ is low if you want USD to be low and still consume imported wheat at low prices. IQ is generally low in Nigeria anyway

On the farms that have become dangerous right? Abi you're not hearing of farmers (large scale and small) being kidnapped or killed?

Granted, if we were serious we would have started planting wheat years ago, esp in middle belt where the weather is a bit temperate, but still, lot of countries import wheat from where it grows easily - it's just that we don't have any other goods apart from oil to exchange it with.

Cassava is a decent alternative, but you need people to actually want to buy it.

Nigeria does not have to exist.

It didn't always exist, and after more than a century of failure, it's good to put an end to badly thought-out plans like the 1914 amalgamation.

Philipmems:
Who cares? The attention your parents don't give you is what this clown comes to collect/ attract on social media. You got into Oxford because your father is rich, not because you are intelligent. Clown.

So... are we to assume then that most kids in Oxford are there because of rich parents? Why then does Oxford have a history of graduating intelligent students?

UTILITYMAY:
Whatever shade they like they should throw. Na them sabi. Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are still universally accepted than them. They joy in the downfall of the most successful competitor! Shioor.

See where Telegram and Twitter is on the chart!

True, but don't forget Facebook and Whatsapp were nobodies before... and they replaced other apps/social spaces that seemed unstoppable. Remember MySpace? Yahoo? Netscape? Altavista?

Instagram announces their status when they're down on a competitor's platform

Another reminder that we can't have a single entity control apps; not put all our data in one infrastructure.
Sites that use facebook for authentication, including for IoT will be down. Imagine not being able to enter your house because you can't open the smart lock from your phone - because the infrastructure is down.

Keisha! Keisha!...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ9_8k4KoHo?t=132

Blackberry babes in those days

chatinent:
Independent from what?
Terrorism? Crime? Suffering?

Thank you, my person. Please help me ask them? What "happy independence?"

Brainwashing at its finest. It's the kind that makes one accept that olive oil can be holy annointing oil, but yet udaku or shea oil cannot be.

DrBiyums:
What you are saying is just like you’re in an official function, and they’re singing Nigerian anthem, but you say you have the right to sing the American national anthem, and you start singing it. It’s madness. Just like you’re in Nigerian army and when you go to war against the U.S. soldiers, you turn round and start shooting your fellow Nigerian soldiers. You must understand that currencies are virtually at war with each other. Having the option for Nigerians to save in dollars is like a soldier having the option to turn around and shoot his own fellow soldiers. There’s a word for that. SABOTAGE. It has to stop.
No matter what Nigeria exports, Nigerians will prefer to save in foreign currency, and with that option, naira can NEVER appreciate. NEVER. A responsible govt can not tolerate that nonsense.
If you need to buy anything from abroad in dollars. You go to your bank, they do the conversion, and debit you in naira.

The fundamental problem is that this country only exchanges raw materials for dollars, and it has no say in the price it gets for that raw material. If Nigerians - I mean Nigerian companies - are able to get dollars in exchange for their goods and services (e.g exporting modern equipment and consumer goods) - and more importantly, gain a positive balance for adding value - there will be a much larger pool of dollars flowing around.

There are practically only two inflows of dollars into Nigeria (there are many, but only two are sizable for the purpose of my reply): commodity sales by FGN, and remittances by citizens. I don't really count FDI because they take out more in profits than they bring in investment.

Here's my understanding of the real problem (using some made up numbers to make a point):

a citizen abroad labors, and sends $1000 to Nigeria, where it is converted to naira, and eventually used to purchase foreign-made consumer goods. The problem is: Nigeria pays $1000 for essentially $800. The remaining $200 goes to the value-adding production/manufacturing systems in US/China. They take $800 worth of material and labor cost, and voila, it's now worth $1000, representing a $200 profit for them. The value-add to Nigeria is -$200, and to the foreign manufacturer +$200. US Fed gets its full $1000 back.

You could also apply the same to oil sales: Nigeria sells $800 worth of crude, US sells $1000 worth of petroleum products to us. Guess where the positive balance of payment is going?

Until Nigeria starts getting positive balance of payment, it will always lose value, irrespective of whether the money is "hoarded in a dom account" or "used to buy the latest phone".

htdot:
This is the problem and you are one of them... why buying dollar that you are not using just to hoard? This is selfish and greedy... Buhari is not just the only problem of nigeria.... Do you no the effect of what you are doing and how it impact negatively to the poor masses? How this causes scarcity of dollar ans thereby leading to the price of things skyrocketing? Ppease also care about your neighbour and not just yourself.

You're asking why I hold assets that don't depreciate? I'm not hoarding, yet we know if I hold on to deposits in naira, my money will be worth half the amount in 5 years. I have money in naira, but through no fault of mine, nor my fellow citizens', the money is worth less - subject to the whims of the CBN and president.

An example: I want to save to pay school fees for my children - in naira mind you - but between this January and next, the naira drops in value by 30% (actually, inflation has eroded my naira since fees cost more than they did the previous year). With the dollars I saved, I can recoup more naira to pay the fees. Is government going to give me the extra 30% shortfall?

Another example: I'm saving to buy some equipment for my business - in dollars since we don't make equipment in this country and the sellers only take dollars, yuan, or euros. So like a good business person, I save for two years, only to find that what I wanted to buy is now 1.5x more expensive in naira terms. And who knows what forex restrictions on what equipment will be cooked up by a certain fellow in two years time? What incentive do I have to save in naira?

If I keep 1 million naira in treasuries - do you call that hoarding? Ok, what about 1 million naira in gold coins? Or real estate? Or in oil futures? But 1 million naira in dollar notes, that's different?