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This is the first college of medicine (or even hospital) of recent construction that looks decent. Most of what we've seen have been shacks disguised as clinics. Good work governor... now that people can't travel anyhow like before due to corona

"The CBN did not place restrictions from use of Cryptocurrencies and we are not discouraging people from trading in it. What we have just done was to prohibit transactions on Cryptocurrencies in the banking sector."


I have to admit I'm still confused: if I can't use any banking platform to make transactions into or out of a crypto account, how do I trade?

Na wao... buying new craft left and right... and some people will be complaining there's no money. All the passengers on these planes, do they have two heads?

Excluding the US, the United Kingdom led among the most affected countries followed by Canada, India, Greece and Australia.

Which is why I never understand why people don't focus on USA, UK, Canada, but start complaining about cyber crime in Nigeria. Easily 80% of the crime is committed in those 3 countries. Yet they won't let us hear word about "Nigerian prince scam". We just don't have good PR (public relations) in this country, that's all.

Sentiments aside: When government provides cheap electricity so Dangote no longer has to buy diesel for his generators; when the cost of fuel for the trucks that distribute the cement doesn't double every 5 years, maybe the cost of cement will come down. You also know he is servicing dollar debt with a naira that has nearly halved in value since 2015.

Government provided licenses to import, then manufacture cement. Don't blame Dangote for taking advantage of an opening, when most of Nigeria's wealthy chose to keep their money in London and Dubai real estate.

*Electricity is provided cheaply in large economies like USA, Japan, Germany, and China. You can't take on high risk, with high cost of production, and expect lower prices.

All the money and investment needed is here in Nigeria. They should be courting Nigerian investors who will pump naira and get their profit in naira. We have people with bastard money in this country, yet, we're going around with hat in hand.

We have nice places here in Africa - Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, etc - to spend our conference money, but as usual, we'll give it all away then wonder why their buildings are looking nicer.

But good for her, let them go and enjoy Dubai.

1.5 BILLION DOLLARS. If anybody still thinks APC is different from PDP, I have a 100% sure business opportunity for you to triple your profits in 4 days.

PrinceOfLagos:
Tinubu should call his boys to order before we unleash the military on them and their sponsors

Eh? So FG won't call herders and BH to order. But when people rise up to protect themselves (a task FG has apparently abandoned), you want soldiers to be deployed? Who does that?

I honestly won't mind a Oduduwa Republic, as long as they give me visa
It's not the size of the country, it's the quality of the people, working with one mind. See Israel and what 9 million people have achieved.

Likely cholera... original water source is contaminated, and pure water manufacturer barely treat the water.

FG: provide potable water to all Nigerians. It's the least you can do. As a child we were singing in 1985 to Fela: "na 1990, dem go give us water"... this is 2021 and this is not sorted out yet?

And for those thinking "it's a northern thing"... I remember puking out my guts for 1 week due to sachet water I drank in Asaba in 2017. I decided I've gotten too old to be getting this sick, and so swore off sachet water... the money you think you're saving will be spent on medicine and drip when you get sick.

I know some of them will be happy for the free deportation flight, because normally, they don't even have enough funds for return ticket before

And they did this in spite of you, Mr President. Let that sink in.

You won't provide electricity for their studios or music videos. You've just raised cost of fuel for gen.
You make it hard for them to move money needed for their tours (what's the daily limit on foreign ATM use? $500/month)
Your boys arrest and/or kill people with tattoos or dreadlocks - some of them the same artists you are now congratulating.
If they complain that you're not doing well, your DSS goons show up faster than flies to cow dung. Or your people gun them down.
You call them lazy, indisciplined, and frustrate every endeavor they undertake to better themselves. Opay, ban. Crypto, ban.

And when they succeed in spite of all the roadblocks you and your people put in their way, you send congratulatory messages.

What are you doing to helping 2 hundred+ millions souls in this Nigeria, Baba? Abeg please keep your congrats.

Prussian:
Ogbonna doesn't have loose 20M to give his wife. She is just fooling herself. Those who know, know.

You wicked!!!! (in Ma Peace's voice) Chai!!!

I guess Laura didn't heed her sister Linda's words for girls to "pray to be rich, and not for a rich man"

https://www.nairaland.com/6460203/linda-ikeji-ladies-pray-god

Abeg, leave matta for Matthias

Good one. But I'm not going to try it because it's only a matter of time till enemy of progress in Aso Rock will ban it

After seeing what happens to protesters in this country - especially in these last 12 months - who in their right mind is going to leave their home or work to shout in the hot sun, only for teargas, injury, and arrest to be their portion. At the end of the day, NLC leaders will collect their envelopes, fuel prices will rise, and CBN will start freezing accounts.

After all is said and done, the money you will spend on bail and hospital bills pass the savings from fuel, and Wike himself will not spend shingbai to bail or heal anybody.

Mompha, this is boring. Yet another wrist watch. Is that what you were sent to this Earth to accomplish? To be yet another consumer? All you do is consume, consume, consume the things made by other people.

How about creating something? Here are some ideas: start a factory just to employ 50 people. Open a world-class primary school in your home town. Build a kick ass hospital or clinic. Establish an endowment with your money in mutual funds so the proceeds can pay the recurring costs of the school/hospital forever.

There's only so much time left ... to spend your entire adult life just consuming luxury goods. It's boring man. Maybe I'm wrong and you are doing some things behind the scenes... I wish you would show those instead.

*For those who will say "he can spend his money anyway he likes", or "jealousy dey worry you", or "what are you doing with your money". My reply: I have started a factory just to employ people. I have opened up a solar hostel that costs me more than it brings in, just so that students in my home town have a comfortable place to live without worrying about light or fetching water... I hope to make more in the coming years. I'm also in the early stages of opening an after-school center to train secondary school children to invent with Arduinos and other embedded electronics. Way more fulfilling than drinking champagne or wearing fancy watches.

For an account of the headaches we encountered while making the first building, see
https://www.nairaland.com/2583312/building-solar-powered-hostel-learning-experience/4#47018143

This was back in 2015-2016... I can smile now thinking about nearly going mental because of land matter...

studentofTruth:
The madness is just starting. Wait until they complete their plans for the supreme court (increasing the number to 13 to achieve liberal majority).

By then, most freedom of religion rights will be shredded. As a conservative pastor, a gay couple can insist you wed them or find yourself in court for discrimination. As a conservative doctor, a pro choice can insist you perform her abortion or find yourself in court for denying her the service. As a conservative institution, your pro-choice employee can insist you finance/insure her near-term abortion.

By the time these guys are done, there will be no religious right to object any service based on conscience. Everyone will have to dance to their music.

These are the real issues!

I can sympathize. A government has to walk the delicate line of whose rights get infringed upon ... either support the conservative (who use religion as justification for discrimination), or the liberal who view their rights as supreme. In the past, governments were founded on the principle of "serve God", and so they sided with conservatism. However, modern governments have been established with the notion of "we the people... with inalienable rights"... so they often have to side with the liberal.

It's a hard problem, and both sides of the story often take things too far, instead of being reasonable...

luminouz:
The California decree will erode whatever decency lies in the coming generation. Western kids are getting more confused day after day with who they are supposed to be. Their parents have lost it in the area of upbringing by using feminism and modernism as their status quo

Lately, when the US Senate met, after one of them prayed, he said Awomen, instead of amen. Apparently, the 'men' is not allowed again since it's so sexist. Is there any sense in that?

If you go back to the 1700s and 1800s Europe, you might be confused with the sight of manly men skipping around gayly with fancy feathered hats, tight hosiery, kilts, and high heels. Fashions, trends, concepts change over time. Europe wasn't always Christian, nor did it always have gender-specific toys and colors. You just happen have grown up this current phase, shaped and formed by people who preceeded you, and - like most humans - aren't comfortable with changes from what you have grown accustomed to.

The rigid gender-roles were invented by people to fit the times, and they can be changed again by people - to fit the times.

Why are people getting their panties in a twist?

Most toys have been - for millenia - gender neutral. It was Western marketers, in the late 1800s into early 1900s, who decided to create gender-specific toys and color code them accordingly. Now Western marketers, with growing pressure from the public (by way of the government and social media) are getting with the times and deciding to end the practice.

Gender-coding is discriminatory: it implies girls don't like football or the color green; and implies boys don't need to practice social skills with dolls and teasets. A boy in the pink section is considered funny, but think about it: that decision was made by marketers. There's nothing in nature that says "pink is a feminine color". It's all in your heads.

If the girl's section is filled with replicas of domestic life - kitchen sets, baby and fashion dolls; yet the boy's section is filled with replicas of professional life - carpentry, trucks, robots - what does that say about society at large? If we as a society accept that women and men can have the same type of jobs (women can choose to be doctors, and men can choose to be home makers), it's only natural that the acceptance extends to other spheres like toy stores.

I find it especially funny that T-billz, a man who depends on the hard work of the women he makes babies with (instead of making his own money), is complaining about changes in traditional gender roles...

I'm so happy that, after making things worse for the past 6 years, Buhari will turn a new leaf and resolve all our problems in the remaining 2 years he has.

Why start now? He can wait until Feb 2023 to start resolving our problems.

This government of "will" and "plan to"... it's getting late... a child born in 2015 will start Primary 1 this year. 6 years no be moin moin

And how much have the fraudsters called banks cost the Nigerian people?

But seriously, who actually loses to fraudsters? Do banks refund money to people that was stolen by yahoo? I doubt it, so the headline is not that "banks lost money"... but that "ordinary people lose money"

MrGoood:
I am a businessman and the thing is I am in for money in any choice I make. I made around 22 million in savings last year. Though I cut family and girlfriends off my life to achieve that and am in Nigeria.

But seeing the doings of people outside The country, there was an America based lady that spent over 12 million naira on her mother's burial. For her to spend that much I believe she will have 20x of that amount.

At least for an upright thinking fellow, I feel like am making less so am thinking of relocating. Can I make over 22 million yearly in savings in USA, If no how much can I save? Talk from your personal experience pls, Let stop deceiving each other pls, How much did you save annually in USA? Please let be sincere.

According to American statistics, "... nearly 70 percent of Americans have less than $1,000 stashed away, according to GOBankingRates' 2019 savings survey.", "most Americans don't have enough savings to cover a $1,000 emergency", and "the typical American household has an average of $8,863 saved up"

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/most-americans-dont-have-the-savings-to-cover-a-1000-emergency.html

This is a survey of average, middle-class Americans. This is their total liquid* saving even after 10+ years of working. I can only assume the average would be worse for recent immigrants, though by being focused, a Nigerian immigrant can do much better than the average.

I have two good friends who are earning around $70k and $85k annually, and with focused effort, they are able to send $6-8k to build their homes here in Nigeria. If one is focused, it can be done, but it's not easy - even for Americans - to put together that kind of money annually.

If you're able to save 22milli here in Nigeria, bros, you are way ahead of most Americans. Then again, if you take that same drive that makes you successful, you could become a millionaire if you move to US.

Far too many people on that side borrow money to pay for things way beyond their means - cars, plane tickets, and perhaps funeral expenses...


*By definition, liquid does not include home, retirement money, etc.

LikeAking:
Their is a diff between been educated and been over educated.

Class room knowlwdge is an infant knowledge.

The black man believes he can find all the solution to his problems in the class room.

Crazy.

That's a funny statement to make, considering that the West is FULL of Masters programs... and they are the one offering the "African Studies" program at Oxford. Most large US companies are run by people with multiple degrees. Yes, there are a few examples of those who didn't go to school being highly successful, but the evidence overwhelmingly supports further education. The problem is Nigeria does not harness its educated youth, but that's not because post-graduate education is the problem. If one was to follow your statement about education to it's natural conclusion, there should be no masters or phd schools in the US...

She already has a successful business brand BTW.

Shut up there, mr man. you wan open APC yansh?

budaatum:
“I assure you that we will do all that we can to ensure that you emerge as the Director-General of WTO, not only because you are a Nigerian, but because you are a hardworking Nigerian. You deserve this,” he added.
https://m.guardian.ng/news/well-push-till-you-clinch-wto-dg-seat-buhari-assures-okonjo-iweala/

I am quite aware of that article, however, I still believe this statement to be true: "if this woman was vying to be a minister in this Nigeria, our very own bigot - PMB - will pass over". One or two examples of being pan-Nigerian do not wipe out scores of examples of not being pan-Nigerian.

Nevertheless, I'll echo your "Nigeria Amaka!" so as not to be disagreeable.

Owajigarrisson:
Don't tell me if your mum is from Aniocha North coz you're full of lies, I can't believe someone from AkwaCross is impersonating as a Deltan so he can argue about the ethnicity of NOI, something Ngozi stated in her book!!! You should be ashamed of yourself, as for the 5 states stuff LMAO, no matter how much you cry, it won't change the fact that any Enuani man from Anioma you meet will always tell you he is Igbo!!

I am an Enuani man. As you know, there has been a complicated relationship between Igbos East of Niger, and their brethren West of it, who I'll collectively call Anioma. Many people whose families have lived in Enuani since time immemorial trace their origins to Edo, Esan, and of course Nri, among other places. Migration, settling, marriage ties, trade, etc has resulted in a melting pot of people who are distinct from the Igbos - in the same manner Americans are distinct from the English, though they speak English and some do recognize their English ancestry. An Irish American, however, would balk at being called English, as would a German American, Spanish American, etc. The acceptable identity is American; similarly, the acceptable identity is Anioma.

Throughout recent Nigerian history (past 150 years or so), there have been repeated incidents where Anioma was grouped either as Edo, or Igbo, South-South, or even Western Region, based on the prevailing political expediency.

That Anioma is not Igbo could not have been made any clearer by the declaration: "We, the Chiefs, Elders, and Representatives of Eastern Nigeria ... do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria together with her continental shelf and territorial waters shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of 'the Republic of Biafra.'"

Eastern Nigeria did not include Anioma at that time, the Governor of Eastern Nigeria was not in charge of Anioma, and thus could not be referring to them when he says "your governor". There was also no subtext in the declaration that mentioned: "including the Igbo-speaking communities West of the Nigeria..." or anything to that effect.

Before you argue, also consider the phrase: "Midwest_Invasion_of_1967". The invasion began on August 9 when 3,000 Biafran soldiers led by General Victor Banjo crossed the River Niger Bridge into Asaba. One cannot invade your own country.

Yes, there were Biafra sympathizers from Anioma - several fought with distinction in the Biafra army, as did a few Europeans for that matter. There are also those who conclude that, since we speak Igbo, we are all Igbos. There is room for folks like NOI and Major Nzeogwu to recognize her Igbo ancestry; there is also room for others to recognize their non-Igbo ancestry as well.

Anioma is redefining its identity - on its own terms - not based on the patronizing opinions of Igbos, and not on the confused understanding of other Nigerian communities, but on its own terms.

budaatum:
Nigeria Amaka! Congrats.

Fahdiga:
Shut up and acknowledge her tribe

budaatum:
Shut up and acknowledge her country and her gender, like she does, veryproudly!

We all know that if this woman was vying to be a minister in this Nigeria, our very own bigot - PMB - will pass over her because of her tribe, and her gender. He and his committee won't say, "what a well qualified Nigerian"... they'd say "... but she's Igbo... and a woman, haba we can't fah".

Let's call a spade a spade and acknowledge that woman Igbo Amaka abeg

Can't wait... the first was very well done, though towards the end it was a little "hollywood predictable"...
Great story, great performance from Madam Sola; even Reminisce and Ill Bliss did quite well for rappers-turned-actors.

Man, I usually take time to read article, but this epistle of "nka a si, nka a siro" tire me mehn

Hopefully the law will take its full due course and not be swayed by some naira

I'm late to the party but, the Nigeria we see today is a result of how the previous generations were raised, which I'm not sure was the best way.

pepperdemzombie:
You go to a Church, you see them spend on Electricity, gen, fuel, fans, seats, give snacks and drinks to children in the childrens' department etc, you give N20,

I swear, this has got to be the sanest post on this topic. At the very least, OP, pay for the services you enjoyed. It's not free

This giving thing is very complex to understand... for even Jesus once said, and I missquote: "Bleep the poor, their ass will be here, always asking for handouts and shit... Mary, be a dear, pour that expensive oil and rub my feet baby, for my ass is tired"

I sometimes think the "giving to the church" is some made up cock-and-bull story written by, guess who... the Church. Before you say anything, consider, the Church had over 1,500 years to insert whatever they liked in the retelling of the stories.

One more thing: the sole requirement for salvation is believing that Jesus is your saviour. Every other thing is just mental masturbation. If you feel giving to the needy is the right thing to do, do it. Afterall pastors have zero qualms buying jets.