₦airaland Forum

I always knew Argentina will fail. It was obvious from the start. There are certain steps a leader will take that you'll just know that he is not well-equipped to strengthen the economy.

As for the obidients, don't mind them, they don't like good news. They want this country to fail so that they'll feel better about themselves.

Naira is stable, 4% GDP growth, prices of foodstuffs has reduced significantly, our reserves is growing. With all of these and the increased IGR coming by next year, I know that our worst days are behind us.

But then you cannot trust our politicians.

Racoon:
The most sophisticated military gears ever seen is that of an Israeli Mossad or US marine corps.

Mossad is an intelligence agency, perhaps you mean the IDF?

The thing that's surprising to me in this whole saga is the sympathy Africans are showing.

There is a lunar eclipse going on right now and the moon is red, can you see it in your area?

ShobayoEmma:
Thought this country was against the IDF onslaught in Gaza against Hamas, foot soldiers of IRCG?

What has to be done, has to be done.



Tinubu, a bad man with good intentions.

Two things can be true at once.

onuman:
Where was the police? In saner countries, police detect many crimes like this before they are committed
Nigeria police instead guard politicians and mount road blocks for extortion.

What kind of talk is this? How do they stop crimes like this? Do you how many serial killers were never caught in the us?

Racoon:
Imagine! It means Palestine have an embassy in Nigeria? It won't be surprising that Hamas. Hezbollah, Gaza too have. Imagine these terrorists laden enclaves having the same ideological inspiration with their Nigerian brethren.

Nigeria recognises the Palestinian state. We've always had.

This is great news!

If we have been this serious for the past 15 years, terrorism would've been a thing of the past now.

Buhari! Buhari!! Buhari!!! 🧏

There are sick 🤮 people everywhere.
Na God go save us.

Kukutente23:
Food inflation keeps rising but headline inflation keeps dropping?
NBS needs to explain this their arithmetic because even energy prices are not falling which are the main drivers of inflation

Which food inflation keeps rising? Don't you go to the market?

Rice is down
Beans is down
Garri is down
Palm oil and vegetable oil are both down
The price of seasoning has been stable for the past few months.
Even golden penny pasta that at one point was around ₦1400 is now ₦1000

Don't let hate make you deny reality.

Risingblue008:
What else do dey expect?
For the consumption to be higher or what,when men are moving to carbonless source of electricity and cars,
Solar don come to stay likewise electric cars


Na small small,time sha come when uranium will be the only valuable mineral on demand

Even demand for uranium will soon drop as the next-Gen reactors will use thorium.

Reality has a liberal bias.



Oga seun na wa oh, this one no too much?

WritterNg:
There goes 50% of his properties.

They never learn.




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Na Ronaldo propose,

Na you dey cry

Crying more than the bereaved 😂

dawnomike:
Well, seems the only military Junta governance seems to be a bit stable after numerous coup dè tat and assassination plots is that of Burkina Faso!

Please read what you wrote again.

..... Stable..... Numerous coup de'tat..... Assassination plots

Seunpapa65:
This one don turn the presidency to his birth right
The west will turn a blind eye as they use to do

What do you want them to do? If they talk now, you people will accuse them of interference.

SmartPolician:
If Dangote refinery shuts down, these irresponsible marketers will finish Nigerians. BTW, why is the BUA refinery taking so long to come on stream? Nigeria needs at least one refinery with 100k bpd refining capacity for each of the six regions to satisfy regional petroleum demands.

Building a refinery takes time boss. Have you forgotten how long it took to build Dangote refinery?

henryboyspaco:
I remember the early 2000s when Internet no dey rampant, bad things no much like that then for we 9ja o...

As we start to watch the westerners dey do anyhow, we self kon follow dem dey kolo.

May God airpos

Who told you this things didn't exist then? It's just that there was no internet to spread the news.

Barrywilly:
He was given a soft landing. Most of them had signed undated resignation letter before their appointment. How could a serving commissioner stand as a guarantor for a drug pusher? This is a gross abuse of office.

Do they really do this? I'm talking about the resignation letter thing

ukukaegbu:
The revived project no get names? Why not mention them so that we can judge.

This APc man is speaking for his stomach.

He mentioned them na. It's right there in the post; the projects and the cost.

AmazingELixir:



I chai i would have loved to worship here oo....no noise just sign language....i detest noise so much and i won't be bombarded with...Fire...fire fire prayer worriors.

Who told you there'll be no noise? Deaf & mute people make noise, a lot of noise.

Have you not interacted with a deaf person before?

See as jabi lake resemble erosion.

You don go disgrace yourself kon come nairaland dey find sympathy?

You probably said something disgusting and the lady called you out on it.

Next time respect yourself

Lionessza6:
Nigerian men strike again ...where are they to condemn themselves?

A global mena**ce to any society

Is the thread not full of condemnation. Nobody here is supporting this evil.

Botragelad:
I wonder why some believe they can guilt-trip Israel or the Jewish people into surrendering their rights. What exactly is “Palestine”? The term “Palestine” was imposed by the Romans after they crushed Jewish revolts in 135 CE, renaming the land “Syria Palaestina” in their evil attempt to destroy Jewish ties to ancestral homeland. It was never the name of a sovereign Arab state. It's a geographic label, not a nation.

The record is clear and there to read. Long before the rise of Islam or any Arab rule, the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah existed in this very region. Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish people as early as 1000 BCE under King David. This was thousand of years before Muhammad was even born. Even after the Roman exile, Jewish life never disappeared from the land. Communities were being persecuted by Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Crusader, and Ottoman rule, especially in cities like Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron.

So I'm confused, did all the Jews did “vanish” until World War II return home? Which you people call Palestine. Lol. Jews have always been there, persecuted, marginalized, and scattered, but never absent. The return was not a colonization, it was a return home. You can’t claim ownership over land just because my people were suppressed for generations and you happened to live there during that time.

Again, before 1948, there was no “Palestinian state.” The land was under Ottoman, and later British, control, not Arab sovereignty. When the United Nations offered a two-state solution in 1947, the Jewish leadership accepted it, but the Arab states chose war. Five Arab armies invaded the declared State of Israel, and lost.

Let’s not forget: after 1948, over 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries. Yet no one is demanding “right of return,” and Israel absorbed them without complaint. Should Jews claim Baghdad, Aleppo, or Cairo just because ancestors were exiled from there?

You folks love to talk about Palestinian suffering, but where is the global outrage over centuries of Jewish persecution? There has never been a sovereign Palestinian state. Israel is the only nation that has ever existed on that land in history with a continuous national identity tied to it.

As for Gaza, the West Bank, or any area trying to assert a statehood rooted in fiction. Israel will defend its sovereignty and its people. Arab residents who oppose Israel's existence have dozens of Arab countries they can go to. Jews have only one home: Israel. Cry!!

Point made but Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians and killing the ones who come to the aid centres for food.

Have you listened to Israelis talking about Palestinians? If it's a white man saying things like that about black people, we'll call him racist.

Israelis are not kind people. They see nothing wrong with killing civilians.

A two-state solution is the only way to guarantee peace but now I don't think Netanyahu will agree with that.

Kobicove:
The government should make it a capital offense for anyone who commits murder for the purpose of using body parts of a victim for voodoo

It's already a capital offense

DMerciful:
You don't even need to listen to anyone, check how much petrol is sold in the international market. If you're buying it almost half the price, someone is bearing the cost

Which particular market are you talking about?
The US, China, Iran or the EU? Petrol prices vary significantly depending on the market.

bigpicture001:
At OP... There are things Obi would have done that tinubu cannot never do.. and this is tinubu did right that Obi will also do, but not as tinubu did it..
Tinubu is Nigeria's second most courageous lader aside OBJ...

I respect him for that..

But u see infrastructure development... Tinubu isn't doing it.. he is only enriching himself... Why will obi spend 27billom to resurface The ICC in abuja..

Why will obi spend 15trilliom do do a hopeless Lagos calabar rail way...

Tinubu is triabilistic in both appointment ND project execution... Obi won't try that...

Tinubu lives in luxury and borrows too much obi won't do that... U see..? He can't match obi..

But u see.. the big guts of subsidy removal that regulated the oil industry. Obi will do it in phases with 12 calenders month unlike tinubu.. because if u don't Dangote will b on your neck justifiably...

In all... Tinubu is just like 60% Obi by never OBi...

Obi takes time to. Meet the ordinary ppl while he was governor... Tinubu is an emperor....

Obi will never seek to dominate and control the NASS.. ND we will withness the most vibrant NASS in history...

In all, I must say tinubu is doing very well, but someone else can do better...

I like your last paragraph. Some people can't just admit that he gets somethings right.

Though I don't totally agree with you in the area of infrastructure. Are the project's price overbloated? Yes but he is still doing something.

Obi was my choice in that election but Tinubu is doing better than the disaster I was expecting.

DMerciful:
You're extremely naive. Subsidy is being paid and thats why petrol price is N830+ and not N1530 as sold in the international market

That's not true. I am sure that some places even have it cheaper than us without subsidies.
There is no mention anywhere both in international media and local media that Nigeria still pays subsidy. You don't expect me to believe a random person over trusted journalists and organizations. Even opposition politicians and journalists like rufai oseni admits that fuel subsidy is gone.

Streetinvestor2:
You only failed to say that all you have listed are ideas SW president stole from obi
Then he went ahead to fail in implementing them well thereby creating unimaginable hunger and poverty in just 2 yrs.
He failed in most because he had nothing to offer and too corrupt in his management of our wealth.
So he is never an option in 2027 as we didn't equally vote him in 2023

I don't know about the others but during his campaign, he pledged to remove fuel subsidy and fix exchange rate. Does that means he stole them?

And there's no way that the removal of fuel subsidy and the exchange rate deregulation wouldn't have caused hunger and poverty. It was inevitable.

Now 2027, for me it's still up in the air. If Obi contest as president instead of vice president then I might vote for him but if he contests as VP under Atiku, or El-rufai or Amaechi then either I stay at home or I vote Tinubu.

What I expected from Peter Obi vs what Tinubu is doing

On the 25th of February, 2023 I left my house and trekked for over 45 minutes to vote for Peter Obi. I was tired of Buhari and his incompetence and I felt Peter Obi was the right man for the job. I felt he had the guts to take the hard decisions and bring back Nigeria from the edge of collapse. Well we all know what happened; he lost and Pres. Bola Ahmed Tinubu became president much to my displeasure. It's over 2 years now so I want to compare them using a simple format — what I expected from Mr. Peter Obi vs what Pres. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is doing.

1. I expected immediate removal of fuel subsidy from Mr Obi. Fuel subsidy had become a cancer to the economy, sucking us dry and leaving us feeble. Fuel subsidy had to go but successive administrations had been too scared to remove it.
PBAT removed it immediately (at least that's what he told us). I was pleasantly surprised.

2. I expected unification and stabilisation of our exchange rates. At the end of Buhari's regime the disparity between the official FX rate and the black market was around ₦300, that's around 80% of the official rate of ₦460 ± ₦5. This gap encouraged corruption and discouraged investment. We needed stability in the FX market and that stability required liberalisation. liberalisation that will devalue the Naira and increase our hardship. I expected Obi to do just that and I thought PBAT will not be bold enough to do it. I was wrong, again. Colour me surprised.

3. I expected Mr. Obi to pay off the backlogs of loans and FX owed to multinationals with the money saved from the aforementioned measures thereby reducing our debt servicing to revenue ratio and showing the world our business readiness. PBAT is doing all this.

4. I expected tax reforms from Oga Obi. Nigeria cannot continue like this. A country where taxes are merely a suggestion for the vast majority of its citizens cannot thrive. We need money and we need it now. I didn't think PBAT will even think of doing it but again I was wrong. I don't know yet how effective the new tax reforms will be like but I believe it'll be alot better than what we have now.

5. I expected Mr. Peter Obi to be bold and decisive. I needed someone who has the political will and power to make the changes he wants. One of the reasons I dislike Mr. Jonathan was his indecisiveness. Oga say something and stand by it. Peter Obi was that man to me but PBAT has surprised me. He has stayed strong on tax reforms, fuel subsidy, fx rate etc.

6. I also expected huge gains in security from Peter Obi. PBAT is still lacking in this area but we've all seen how the security agencies have been neutralising terrorists in their hundreds.

7. I also expected increased infrastructural spending and I knew we will need loans for that which is why I was impressed with the 2025 - 2027 MTEF. It was beautiful. From roads to ports to rail, just what Nigeria needs right now. Again colour me surprised.

Now Nigeria has a lot of problems but these ones listed were what I expected within the first few years of Peter Obi's administration and I am surprised (there's that word again) by PBAT.

There are a lot of things that he has not done and a lot of areas where he is lacking (Wike, bloated Lagos-calabar highway, Edo gubernatorial election etc) but compared to the disaster I expected, he is doing better.

Like the saying; the darkest hour is just before dawn, Nigeria's dawn is almost here, we just have to endure the darkness a little longer.