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So upon all the crime, corruption, and bad services of NIS officials, it's this video they want to sack people for?
And I'm sure the person who penned this letter enjoyed watching both NIS and USArmy videos abi?

Anyways, likely the ladies will beg, oga will chop, and this will soon be forgotten.

Niyeal:
I too can fly a plane if I have access to one. No big deal. Just to fly a plane

Hell, anybody can fly a plane and bring it down.

Coming down in one piece... that takes skill

But seriously, see what America's youth are capable of. Was it not 3 months ago we saw a video of South African students assembling and flying a kit airplane? Here in Nigeria, our youths are denied every single opportunity to improve themselves.

It's accelerating.

Please people, stay safe and do your best to stay indoors. I know many people can't because they have to find means to survive, but those who can... hunker down because it's about to get fugly.

teadrake:
Wike primary responsibility is to protect the citizens of Rivers but this is something he can't achieve alone should there be any outbreak. While prevention remains the best option for now, synergistic approach is needed to win this fight. Having said that,those Organizations foaming big boys should be careful and not endanger the lives of ordinary masses.

...And where did the bulk of relief funds go to so far?

https://www.nairaland.com/5796470/katsina-highest-recipient-conditional-cash

From the body language, it's obvious if Wike's Rivers gets bad, it will be "tough shit" from FG's perspective.

rusher14:
Relief doesnt mean elimination of debt.
You can use forbearance or any fancy word but what it means is you do not have to service it over a period.
You know there is nothing you would tell me about debt being such a terrible thing because I wouldn't buy it.

Most of the nations you wish for your country to be like are all indebted ; Italy to 140 of her GDP, Japan a whoopikg 238% to her GDP whilst good old Nigeria is 23%.

All this scaremongering is not needed.

Oh I forgot:

USA debt to GDP = 107%
UK debt to GDP = 87%

What is important is utilising the debt for the purpose for which they were incurred.

Instructively, in the last couple of years, our debt have been tied to infrastructural projects such as railway and we are seeing them being utilised.

It would do you well not to lie to yourself.

If in doubt , point to any project for which Nigeria has borrowed in the last 5 years that haven't been undertaken.

OK, I agree there's such a thing as good debt: when it's used to finance productivity, not consumption. It's true with governments as it is with people. What you're suggesting is akin to saying "since persons A,B,andC have borrowed money to be where they are, person D should too". Not realizing that it's not the borrowing per-se, but what you do with it that's crucial. If given a large enough sum, would you rather borrow money to build a car manufacturing plant, or buy a fleet of cars? My question is a bit spurious, but should have the intended effect.

As for other countries' debts (I've copied and pasted from several sources, words are not mine):

Japan: mostly owed to the Japanese people in the form of government bonds. The Japanese government owes each of its citizens about 7.5 million yen. Since 95% of its debt is held domestically, its economy is not as precarious as it would be if it were debt to foreign countries.

UK: debt is primarily held by (50%) Private financial institutions, 27% is held by overseas investors (e.g. American investment trusts/Japanese banks), 23% is held by Bank of England – as part of Quantitative easing/asset purchase programme.

USA: Some 70% of the national debt is owned by domestic government, institutions investors and the Federal Reserve. A shade under 30% is owned by foreign entities, according to the latest information from the U.S. Treasury.

In all these cases, the debts are in form of bonds (market instruments used by companies and governments alike to raise money). And who do they owe the vast proportion to? their own citizens/businesses, so the bulk of interest payments stay within country and go into other productive endeavors.

In our case, we're not issuing bonds to produce, we're borrowing to consume. Take the trains for instance: in sensible countries, if the bonds are used to (say) build a steel plant, there are effects to other industries: mining, machine tools, electronics, and so many people are employed to create train bogies, bodies, the rails, the nails, paints, engines, motors, etc. Each sector has value-add and and money circulation effect is enormous. In our country, we pay for all these value-adds (at marked up retail) when we buy the train and the rails, and practically nobody gets employed. Yes, people are paid to lay down the lines and drive the trains - but the same applies to if the trains were deployed in Japan/USA. What is missing in Nigeria is the thousands of people who would have made train parts, the wheels, the steel, etc.

The interest payments go mostly to your own (US/UK/Japan) citizens who use this investment income to buy goods and services - further growing your economy. The governments also get a ton of revenue from the taxes on salaries, business profits, and on interest payment.

The money circulation effect in Nigeria? Zero. No tax revenue from profits, income, or interest.

We borrowed to build hydroelectric dams in the 60s, 70s. We will need trillions more to build more electrical capacity. We borrowed massively to produce pipe-borne water in 60,70s. We will need trillions more to restore our waterworks to any semblance of usability.

Our situation is: borrow money; use that money to fund foreign industries who pay foreign workers; pay principal and interest on that money. Then 5-10 years, repeat the same thing.

Since we know that we're not good at borrowing to spur development, we should stop borrowing. When we have our system in place to use bonds to grow our economy, then we can continue borrowing.

We can't continue borrowing development... we have to develop, and that's why it's so dangerous for underdeveloped countries to keep borrowing. You can never stop.

Ironic:
There's nothing special about this.

What do you mean? Entire countries have run out and are looking for where to get this "nothing special". From Japan to USA... wasn't trump vexing with 3M for exporting masks? Nothing special indeed.

Not from Aba, but I personally will proudly wear "Made in ABA!" and drive "Made in NNEWI"

But OP, what has the video got to do with tailors making masks? Abi is it only me that didn't see that part?

Original article: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/17/africa/hand-made-coronavirus-kits-nigeria-spc/index.html

rusher14:
Shouldn't you be happy your country got debt relief?

You hate the government more than you love yourself.

What a tragedy.

This is not relief (as in cancellation/reduction which OBJ was able to secure).
This is a forbearance (as in payments are suspended, but will resume in the near future).

I don't have to point out that "the borrower is slave to the lender", and we wouldn't have needed forbearance/relief if there was no debt in the first place.

rusher14:
And what exactly is wrong with borrowing ?

In principle, borrowing to buy productive assets has always been good.
In Nigeria, borrowing has rarely boosted productivity. In fact we end up paying more to service the debt than what we borrowed, plus we didn't see th productivity gains.

For example, most countries borrow to increase their production of goods and services. We borrow to buy already produced goods (liabilities) and not the means of production (assets). At the end of the day the value-add is taken back by the countries that made the finished goods that we consumed, and we're left with a depreciated liability. Countries may borrow to build a steel plant that will make more money for them. Nigeria borrows to buy the outputs of somebody else's steel plant.

I'm not even going to discuss the fact that the funds are looted. Even if you used 100% of the borrowed funds, but to buy consumables instead of productivity, you're not moving forward.

Forbearance is not debt forgiveness oh.
Buhari, who is going to pay all this debt you've been piling on once you're gone? And who is benefiting?

It's not the masses who say there are no jobs. It's not the health care system. It's not our educational system.

Let it not be that in 2030, China has us by the balls because you've been borrowing money willy nilly, and now have regulated us back to a poor country. Imagine, a country with GDP exceeding $600billion, with a huge potential workforce and domestic market larger than all of Britain, begging for debt relief?

Story...

Sumary:
Nigeria has proven ineffective against BH.
Chad kicked some ass last month.
Now Nigeria wants to say "coordinated efforts"

Abeg, Chad should handle this affair and get all the glory. BH should surrender to them, since we don't know what we're doing in this country.
But this is just a ploy. They need to get new weapons since the raid by Chad. Our Soldiers will get lax, and BH will steal their weapons.

Why should we accept surrender? Please, slaughter them as indiscriminately as they have killed innocent people.

Notice that McDonald's restaurants are local franchises... i.e. this restaurant is actually a Chinese business that licenses the McDonald's brand and processes. The only reason they are apologizing is that the US company HQ insisted.

What's sad is that Chinese society at large (and also the government), don't seem to think racial discrimination is wrong. There are still tens of thousands of Chinese companies that discriminate against Black (and other foreign) folks, which are not getting any media attention.

They'd be the first to complain loudly - like earlier when people of Asian descent were being shunned in US and Europe earlier in the year. Those countries however, don't turn a blind eye to discrimination, and put a stop to it.

Even if they bring fuel scarcity again. Who is going anywhere? Who has money to buy fuel for gen even? They can keep their fuel jare.

I'm very curious what sheeples' reaction will be when their pastors start using 5G-enabled phones. Will the pastors say they "prayed and anointed the phone, and God rendered the 5G harmless"?

I'm currently listening to "Urban Radio" Enugu 94.5 and you know what I'm hearing?

People are calling in, donating 1k, 2k, 5k, 30k, and more to a campaign "Igbo Love Themselves", to assist people in need during these trying times. Some are also donating bags of rice, garri, and so on.

It really warms my heart to see Ndi-Igbo getting together and supporting each other, without waiting for the so-called Federal Gov't with their bullshit audio palliatives. At the end of this campaign, it won't surprise me that the donations exceed whatever FG deigns to share.

I'm not usually in support of breaking away from this contraption, but it's times like this that I feel Biafra would have become a first-world country by now if it remained independent since 1967. See what Koreans achieved in 40 years. Every year we remain in Nigeria delays our ascendancy.

If you want to donate, feel free to send to UBA account #2131586156 "Igbo Love Themselves Charity Foundation"

https://www.facebook.com/igbolovethemselves/videos/359927054887947/
Call or WhatsApp 08032795016

I've been wondering what it would take to stimulate the growth of solid, long-term health-care and real pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria? The ones who do basic research, not import and package foreign drugs. It's a really tall order, as everybody is interested in quick money.

UnknownT:
Seun, you should also look at Taiwan. They are doing well fighting the virus

You mean China?

Like the WHO, we've got to be careful about mentioning that place called Taiwan, else PRC gets on your ass and yank your funding

1. Have an educated populace that understands basic biology, not theology
2. Foster technology, not twerking and flexing.
3. Spend money on health

But, jokes apart: they took the issue seriously from the get go; they had well equipped labs; they could quickly build up a stockpile of test kits; they used apps to track patients and inform the public if they were in an area that the patient had been in recently.

These are all the results of loving your own people. South Korea was a much poorer country than Nigeria until the late 1970s.

We have senators whose major contributions are dancing and showing off cars; pastors who only know to threaten people into dropping tithes; and citizens who think that cheating your fellow human is wisdom.

Descorts, don't be a dumbass... becoming a monster is actually the same thing as being a weakling: you're letting somebody affect your inner core.

You're supposed to have a solid core - like a fucking rock - that nothing can shake or change. That solid core is composed of self-confidence, love for yourself and others, continuous self-improvement, and abundance mentality.

Even pimps get broken hearts; even monkeys drop out of trees. What you need to do is get back up and keep enjoying life, not be bitter when you take an L. Ideally you can learn what not to do next time. Hope you don't choose the wrong lessons and harden your heart; at the end of it all you might realize you never enjoyed life... just spent it being a "hard monster".

You can make excuses, or you can do right.

Typhoid fever. Or at least some other gastrointestinal disease or worms.

STIs don't affect your poop, HIV least of all.
You haven't mentioned any effects on your peepee or groin.

I really like the matured response from the police... just a warning... keep social distance.

However in my dear Nigeria, the couple will be disgraced, dress torn and trouser removed. They may even be some beatings, dragging, and kneeling. Police will come, and at the end of the day, 40k must drop. In a terribly shaking video you'd hear the cacophony of 40 adults with nothing better to do, some ladies shouting combinations of "heeyyy.... Jesus", or "ashewo", or "God don catch una". Maybe there'd be one single sane voice saying "ee don do now"... SMH

Olarewaju89:
That's why God is angry with them by using covid-19 to finish them all. Idiots people.

This same God apparently loves them enough to give them clean water, constant light, beautiful streets, gainful employment, first-class hospitals, and many other benefits, including humane and matured police.

Here's a thought experiment:

Ghosts and witches are supposed to be human-based right? As in, they are either humans that died, or those who have a connection to that realm. Good. Ideally, ghosts and witches would only care about haunting or hurting humans, right? Of what use is a mouse to a ghost? Do ghosts also haunt mice?

Why would animals care about dead or alive humans? As in, does a bird give a shit about humans in general, whether in the flesh or in the ghost? Does a cockroach? What about a tiger or a mouse? Do they see or care about ghosts and witches? Why single out dogs?

Are there ghost dogs and witches? Are there mouse ghosts? Do ghost cats want to eat ghost mice? Why not? If a dead human can release a humanoid ghost, it stands to reason that dogs and cats and rats and roaches can also release ghosts in their respective shapes. Keep in mind that the idea of ghosts predates Christianity by hundreds of thousands of years.

If dogs and humans can perceive humanoid ghosts, it should be possible for humans to perceive birdlike ghosts.

What I'm getting at is, ghosts and witches are a human invention - existing only in the human imagination, mostly to aid the explanation of things unexplainable at the time. Dogs don't know about them, have never seen them, and don't bark because of them.

There are perfectly rational reasons for a dog to bark at night: sounds (including ultrasound), scents, or some other phenomenon like barometric pressure changes (which is how animals perceive a thunderstorm is coming)

Kenplay:
Ode.. Be there forming americana. You type just need a witch to look into your direction and sent you to your grave before you believe. No wonder you americana wannabe cant never hold political post because men who understand the spiritual world will always lord over you as your political leaders. Ode

Countries that don't believe in witches have been progressing and pulling the rest of the world with them. Thanks to them, we have antibiotics (we would have just blamed witches), actual human flight for everybody (not just witches), potable water, wireless communication (not witch messages), and many others.

Even the oil we sell, it's oyinbo that discovered its value, developed how to extract it and refine it, invented the machines that use it. When they deign to pay us for the oil, we turn around and give them back the dollars so we can get cars, phones, and clothing.

I'd sooner believe in tech than in witches, and I'd sooner be a regular person in US or Europe, than a politician in Nigeria.

Chosen1984:
Nigeria is Feared because Nigeria is a Spiritual Heavy Weight!

All anybody needs to do is stop ships coming into Nigeria for 1 month... ships bringing petrol, medicines, generators, cars, even suits for our pastors, etc. Nigeria with all its spiritual heavyweight will collapse.

Many other animals can hear, see, and otherwise perceive what we can't. For instance, many animals use ultrasound, infrared and ultraviolet, and magnetism to hear, to see, and to navigate. No witches here, just natural phenomenon that we don't (or have lost the ability to) perceive.

For instance, dogs and cats can hear ultrasounds (human perception stops around 22kHz, Dogs 50kHz, Cats 64kHz).
Meaning the dog was probably hearing things you couldn't... which is likely being produced by another animal (or in some rare cases, machines). Bats, mice, sloths, and some other mammals produce ultrasound.

Do you remember hearing the high pitch whine of a television tube? Even if the sound was off, you could still tell that the TV was on. Something similar might have occurred with the dog: some animal was making ultrasound, the dog was hearing it.

It could even have been a stranger or thief... dogs have a very keen sense of smell, and the dog might have picked up a strange person's scent.

Welp, apparently his creator wanted him back early, so he instilled in him the stubbornness and faith needed to catch the virus. His fellow members should equally be happy that they too are going home soon. They should wrap up their affairs and prepare for their rapture.

Technically, it's the husband's family that paid the dowry. Yes, the husband may be the one who actually put up the funds, but symbolically, it's from one family to the other.

That said, there doesn't appear to be a legal requirement for dowry (as in it's not in our Marriage Act), which means the divorce can proceed through the courts without any talk of dowry.

But we're talking about our traditional institutions: included in the dowry paid is the assumption that any children born in wedlock belong to the man's family... he may risk his traditional paternity rights by returning the dowry. I would vote NO, he should not "let her go" until he can guarantee his right to see or have his children stay with him, and for them to visit him at any time. This should be in writing so it's fairly balanced.

As an aside, I always wonder why people don't include inflation in the dowry. I mean, 50k paid 10 years ago is worth about 200k today, so in my humble opinion, the man is entitled to 4x what he paid

But this coro don expose all these girls... den dey complain say nobody wan invite dem over... no more lashing. Gehs just dey h0rny anyhow.

OP, please add ogberagas to your list... they will feel this extension o.

My fellow Nigerians, please calculate the money you would have spent on flexing and carrying babe this lockdown period, and use it to buy treasuries or some other bonds. This applies to ladies too. Don't be tempted into overspending when the lockdown ends.

Imagine, if you can put 100k away, it will bring you 12k/year (1k/month) for the foreseeable future. You never have to hustle for that 1k/month ever again. Don't ask me, ask your bank for treasury bonds (and not fixed deposit).

Grayoso:
Kyari is technically an appointee of the President. He does not answer to Nigerians because you can't hire or fire him. The comparison to Boris Johnson is nonsensical as Momoh concluded.

If we're going to be dancing technically, the British do not elect a prime minister: they elect members of parliament; the party with the most members becomes the government; the governing party designates their leader (without direct input from the public) who, upon appointment to PM by the Queen, becomes head of government.

But the issue here, which some people are tying to avoid, is that lack of transparency and accountability that our government is so fond of. It causes unnecessary FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) that countries can ill afford. Entire ministries have to go through this man to get anything done, but because he is indisposed without any (public) updates of his status, does government work get impeded? Who is empowered to make his decisions? Are they in acting capacity, or will their decisions be rescinded once Kyari is able to return? Anyways, it's business as usual for an unserious government.

Please report this matter to the police. We can't keep letting people abuse our children and keep quiet because of "harmony".

I am very curious about your Dad though. Why is he allowing this to happen? I've never understood how a man can tolerate any woman mistreating his children, whether stepmother, second wife, or whatever. You mistreat my kids, your ass is out.

pek:
It just too sad you believe such stories. Too sad.

It is sad... I've learned to accept that snakes swallow money, Gandollar never happened, Ibori is innocent, and many other tall tales. This recent fire - who knows? By the time this pandemic is over, accompanied with enough handwaving and misdirection by officials, billions would have disappeared, as usual, and it doesn't matter which way the news is spun or how many debates we have on nairaland.

Save and invest more of my income. Most Nigerians should do the same so they don't end up in a vulnerable position of not having money to buy essentials when they can't go out to work.

Of course, people will say they don't have enough money after expenses. To that I say, "you can either complain, or find a way"

I would also advise my fellow people to reconsider their tithing... apart from a few large churches, none of the tithes have been used to benefit those who contributed, but now don't have anything to eat.