Pietrak1:
We should start importing from Russia everything we need and trade in their currency. This will drastically reduce demand for US dollars.

Same issue sir.

1. What are you going to be importing from Russia? Crude oil? Cheap clothes or toothpicks or refined fuel?

2. How do you source for rubles to buy all these from Russia since you don’t have anything to sell to them?

BodyCount:

You're ignorant and illiterate to say this.
Nigeria is 5-6 largest producer or exporter of crude oil. This is enough for a country with good leaders. It's the same crude oil that many Arab nations are living large with. Don't let anyone fool you that Nigeria is not producing anything. All the countries of the world can't be producing gadgets.

1. Most of our current oil exports have been paid for during Buharis tenure. So we are earning little dollars currently from the extras.

2. Exporting unrefined crude is no issue. We are importing refined crude oil and other refined products. The later zaps all the dollars from the initial exports of crude oil.

3. The Arabs for example UAE and Qatar invested heavily and divested with the initial crude oil exports and still doing so till today. We didn’t. We can’t do magic all of a sudden.

4. All the Arabian countries that have crude oil have always had functional crude oil refineries that fully serves their countries from day one. No case of importing refined products.

Look baba, Exporting extractive materials is not same as production. It’s actually a setback or disadvantage.

Nigeria is actually producing nothing.

1x2x3:


You don't know anything about economics. The value of a currency isn't determined by the amount of $$ in the country. How many Pounds and Euro do we have circulating? Is Naira not falling against them? Go to countries whose currency are doing well against the dollar and you'd be surprised you won't see dollar circulating there so hoarding has nothing to do with this.

We must start producing and exporting.

Don’t mind them.

How much dollars can one hoard?
Hoard it where sef? For what?

Where can you even get it for hoarding?

Just like you said, you must export. Not only that; you must produce refined products for the exports. That in turn earns you cheap dollars . This is no magic.

No other way out!

Thabothabo101:


Not only that, the stolen iPhones are probably bricked as soon as they leave the store.

Everyone of those phones is a dummy.

Waste of time and energy.

Big lie!

Cost of electricity and diesel is the main problem.

And this is not peculiar to only chicken republic. Most big eateries will shut down soon if things continue this way.

N25m is not the issue here because it has been paid back long ago.

The issue is Psquare trying to stop or retrieve the payment by using the court.

And the court having thoroughly looked at the case felt Psquare wasted their time and that of Patrick and then awarded 1m to Patrick for the time.

The main issue now is the 1m. It’s too small for all the time and money Patrick would have wasted.

For me, Patrick lost heavily in this case and that was what the naughty twins wanted.

sweerychick:
yeah it sounds nonsense but it's a fact they do that. Maybe not the way they do it in Africa but they don't like to intermingle. During the Rodney king LA riots in the US 1992, most Asian shops were attacked (although mainly Korean shops) because of their discriminatory attitude. Bruce Lee had to escape China to the US because he exposed Martial arts to the western world and Chinese people weren't happy about it. Hence his mysterious death. Those people are mysterious.

Haba, who thought you all these?

1. Bruce Lee was an American by birth but never lived there. He needed to get back to USA before he turns 18 so the citizenship would not be cancelled. As at that time, American citizenship was a very big deal. Nobody pursued him as he was not even popular in Hong Kong after some failed movie attempts. He simply went to USA to pursue the American dream like most people from Hong Kong.

2. The Chinese find it hard to assimilate into any society as they have that belief that their culture is not necessarily superior but the right culture to inculcate as a society. Confucianism comes into play here.

It’s not about being secretive but about their way and rules guiding their lives.

I lived in Hong Kong and mainland China for years and nobody stopped me from entering into any public space. Matter of fact, the Chinese are usually over exited to invite and give you a tour of their community.

I don’t speak for the Chinese but these are my experience with them. A few Nigerians would have started shouting and constituting nuisance at the supermarket. Same situation taking place in black neighborhoods in USA. And for the fear of being labeled a racist, most of these shops owned by whites and Asians are closing shops.

That being said, I totally condemn the restriction in Abuja Chinese supermarket and urge the necessary authorities to investigate and punish the perpetrators thoroughly.

No name.
No ministry.
No portfolio.

Very useless reportage.

We mistaken a lot of things in this country.

Just like constituency projects, creating new bills is not the most important thing a representative is supposed to be doing.

The most important function is being actively involved and genuinely deliberating old or new bills brought to the floor.

But if it’s by how many bills one has sponsored, then Dino Malaye should be the best senator Nigeria has ever produced.

Juliusganduje:
They should increase the jail time to two years. Nonsense.

Why sir?
Is that what the law says?

Or because you are not okay with other aspects of her life?

If so, why can’t you advocate they charge and jail him for those things?

Let’s not add sentiments to certain things. Most Nigerians are guilty of this crime he was jailed for but yet walking free. Then the one that was convicted properly, you are requesting that more jail term should be added. Why?

That’s clearly advocating for oppression and injustice.

Richtaiwo:

Pain, is that you? The more you hate the country, the higher it soars. Increase the tempo of hate please. We Nigerians are happy with the hate.

The question the guy asked is not out of place. But as usual, some of you will find a way to make it a tribal thing.

N30b fraud by a single government official in less than 4 months calls for questions.

Is EFCC lying against her or is our system that porous for one person to steal such amount in a short time.

It’s shocking and thereby requires questions and simple answers. Everything shouldn’t be about political affiliation.

cloud7:
Pls.When is (Evans) coming back Expecting same heroic welcome from his community and well-wishers?

Trust me, nobody will give him such welcome in the south east.

Whenever you see calls for the release of such people in the south east, know it has to do with sad cases like this. ‘You do for your people, why you no do for our people?’

Almost all the people I know in the south east were disappointed when Orji Kalu walked out of jail.

Obec70:
I don't why people think that equity can only favour them, every state has 3 zones and they all have the capacity to rule their various state but some selfish individuals like Shaibu thinks that it's the birthright of his own zone yo continually produce governors at the detriment of other zones as their are zombies.

Shaibu simply go and rest.

Three pages and only you and two other guys could talk about the real issue here. Instead they are talking about Oshiomole and Obaseki.

Are Nigerian youths lost?

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geoworldedu:


Judaism remain indigenous to the Jews up till date. It wasn't sold to other countries like Christianity or Islam. My argument still stands. ATR that is indigenous to African countries was eroded while Judaism remain where it began till date. You said where is the type of Judaism still being practised today and I will also tell you that the ATR I know today has evolved too, but since it's African things, people don't go into it as much. We prefer follow follow. Mind you, most things you watch on TV today as babalawo or dibias are just false version of thr reality. Ritual killings attached to it is just an escape route for Yahoo Plus who sell body parts under the disguise of ritual killings.

So what issue do you have with Judaism if it has evolved to better the lives of the people who practice it?

As for ATR, at least the one I know in my village in south east is crude and dirty in practice. Most of our grandparents and great grandparents abandoned it because it had no middle ground for evolving. Its basic principle is oath taking which doesn’t restrict itself to an individual but an entire clan. I can go on and list 5 other basic principles of our village ATR here that is barbaric. But I won’t for the shame of being mocked later.

I don’t know about ATR in your state or other states of Nigeria and Africa at large. Maybe your people did follow follow even when your type of ATR wasn’t that bad. Ours was.

Ours was bad and we had to choose what works for us. If you call it follow follow, okay.

What’s even this love to embrace everything African even if it’s bad so one won’t be termed a self hater.

geoworldedu:

Have you not seen the instruction of Judaism god that you should tender your stubborn child to be stoned to death or how their god told Moses to kill a man who worked on Sabbath day? Maybe you didn't see the commandment of their god to kill animals and all babies of other lands. Or you chose to close your eyes to the fact that their god supported the killing of a man who refused to smite a prophet. Maybe you forgot the instruction of their god that people should feed faeces to their children and also smash them against the wall or you forgot that their god accepted the ritual killing of Jephthah's daughter to him.
As for Hinduism and Buddhism, I never said that it is barbaric, rather I view it as being very archaic and irrelevant to this century. You van check back my previous statements to verify.

You keep talking about Judaism as if I care about it.

But if we must talk about it, where is that type of Judaism still being practiced? People evolve and so their doctrines and core values. And what is the percentage of people still practicing Judaism compared to some of the most barbaric religions still practiced today?

Again, We are talking about some religions and barbarism. Buddhism and Hinduism shouldn’t have come up in your argument in the first place.

And why term them archaic? Ever heard of Confucianism and later remodeled into Neo Confucianism? Which religion do you think it is?
*Basic principles of Confucianism, a part of Buddhism are Ren (benevolence, humaneness) Yi (righteousness, justice) Li (propriety, rites) Zhi (智; zhì: wisdom, knowledge).

All OECD in Asia are using Neo Confucianism to get to where they are now.

Why do you think it’s archaic?

geoworldedu:

ATR is not always barbaric. As i once said, it is not a uniform kind of religion. Some may be making it barbaric while others are making it mild. I know people who still practice ATR today and there is no barbarism or ritual killings involved at all. But do you know that Judaism is as barbaric as ATR and people are still practising it in its place of origin till today. Check the barbarism in Judaism from bible stories and come back to explain why it is still being practised in its place of origin like almost 100% while ATR is already relegated to the background in its own place of origin. As I said earlier, it is the colonisation and the follow follow factor for me.
Buddhism and Hinduism is still in vogue today despite how old and irrelevant to the 21st centuries they are.

I said ATR for the most part is barbaric. And it’s very true.

I don’t care about Judaism but it funny you are emphasizing its barbarity more than other well known barbaric religions we have today.

Mosaic law (Judaism) of an eye for an eye may not be totally seen as barbaric by some people. That law keeps people in check. Matter of fact, every serious country practice it. You kill, you are taken before a judge and sentenced to be killed too. An eye for an eye.

Buddhism and Hinduism are not barbaric and shouldn’t be compared to barbaric ATR. Otherwise, tell me how they are able to disrupt human and community development?

Truth is that most Africans didn’t ditch ATR because we dey do follow follow, they let it go because it was for the most part barbaric and an obstruction for peaceful coexistence, communal and personal growth.

geoworldedu:
This is because it is hard to change the united religion of a particular place. Traditional Religion in Africa is not a united religion, that is why it is easily changed. We cannot also rule out the colonisation factor though.
See India, China and Saudi Arabia who created their own religion, it is impossible to bring yours and overwhelm theirs. Africans in general love follow follow.

United African religion or not. Follow follow or not, once a certain practice is no longer suitable and progressive to the society, it should be outrightly discarded. African religion for the most part is barbaric and cannot blend in this century.

God1000:
No Israel on the list, the so-called christian country.

According to a report At the end of 2022, Christians made up 1.9% of the Israeli population, numbering approximately 185,000. 75.8% of the Christians in Israel are Arab Christians.
Imagine, in a country of 9.5 million people, only 185,000 are christians.


The worst thing that can happen to any man is to ignorantly support the wrong cause.


Happy Sunday nairalanders

Wrong cause? How? Where?

Which Christian told you that Isreal is a Christian country?

If you wan denounce a couple of people on internet, please call them out and stop roping in Christians.

CSTRR:

He is just a bigot nothing more.

Anything Igbo is what annoys him.

He skews his opinion based on that.

Many people didn’t understand where the guy was coming from. They thought he was just being unreasonable and unintelligent, not knowing he was coming from a place of bigotry.

No where in the report did they say Airpeace was complaining but somehow he has to find a way to blame Airpeace even if it goes against his job of promoting the effort of the current government in this process.

He doesn’t know whether to be happy or sad with this report.

He’s sad because Airpeace is sold out for a long time and also nowhere in the report suggested the malicious headline.

He’s happy because he’s believing the malicious headline would someday come to pass.

Very malicious headline.

1. Airpeace is not complaining.
2. Airpeace is sold out towards end year.
3. Airpeace will most likely slash price if other airlines catch up with their current price by the end of the year.

Nothing spoil yet.

Most Nigerians are lawless and has gotten accustomed to lawless societies.

And so when they get to where a society is orderly, they term it miserable.

This massive sense of lawlessness is as a result of lack of effective justice system.

Continue dey play..

mrvitalis:

The problem is most of you mistake electricity or access to electricity to national grid electricity

You can't power a modern factory without electricity that's a fact... But that electricity doesn't need to come from the national grid that's my point

With this plan it's 50% cheaper to power your factory with CNG than tap power from the national grid

What we need is access to gas supplies not access to national grid for industries

I didn’t mistaken anything when I countered the argument that development does not require electricity.

Now that you have agreed with me, let’s talk about your latest argument that we don’t need national grid to power our industries. Another unrealistic approach.

I said for years, I lived and experienced development in Asia and slightly Europe. For Asia, especially China, Singapore and Hong Kong; they subsidized electricity for any willing investor in heavy industries. I saw it first hand. I visited and transacted businesses with these mega factories. Non generated their own power. Even up till now.

How are start ups and even heavy and high tech industries supposed to be burdened with production and at the same time generating electricity which is a big deal.

CNG is good but not that affordable in terms of massive production.

This is not about politics and alliances. For Nigeria to develop and try to catch up with developed economies, government needs to provide cheap and stable electricity.

Telling people to provide their own power through cng is not realistic.

mrvitalis:

You absolutely do not need electricity ( constant national grid electricity)for development

Electricity is a symptom of development, not needed for development

Access to electricity is needed for development... In fact some people would say access to gas

Which of the industrail revolution was caused by electricity? Lmaooo check e go shock u.. None

I can’t even believe we are arguing about the importance of electricity as if we are still in medieval times.

The fits achieved during Industrial Revolution is far different from what we have now.

From the 50s, without electricity, you cant compete at all in the Mordern world.

Go and read how the Asian tigers developed including China. Their governments first invested heavily on electricity and made it cheap.

How do you power modern factories and services industries without electricity? How do you manufacture without electricity?

I lived in south east and east Asia for some years. The magic cheap electricity did to their development right before my eyes cannot be understated.

From factories in Wenzhou to high speed trains in Shanghai to skyscrapers in Beijing. Haba!

Well, I think I understand your view. We see electricity as luxury here only meant for use of having a good time with our wives and girlfriends here.

Jeez!!

richiemcgold:
Lucky dube was killed by his fellow south African people

AKA the rapper was killed by his same south African people

So I'm not surprised that a south African gospel singer is killed by her husband





We are talking about music stars here pls. Has any Nigerian killed wizkid, burna Boy or davido?

Lucky and the rest you mentioned about their business casually.

AKA was out in a not too safe club with just a close friend even when there have been death warrants from the streets hanging on his neck.

Lucky Dube went to drop his kids alone.

Wiz and Davido are not that accessible.

Even street boy like portable has become inaccessible by the streets.

mrvitalis:

I have always said it here, Nigerians that can afford 24 hours electricity already have it

There is no one that wants electricity 24/7 that can't get them

Nigerians want the impossible which is free/cheap and steady electricity... Electricity is luxury and we are too poor for it right now

We don't need electricity for development

There is absolutely no company you can start only when you have electricity 24/7 that u can't start now

I just hope you are kidding.

Otherwise you should know by now that electricity is the number factor for development anywhere in the world.

But like I said before, I know you were joking around with your comment.

richiemcgold:
Lucky dube was killed by his fellow south African people

AKA the rapper was killed by his same south African people

So I'm not surprised that a south African gospel singer is killed by her husband

So who killed Funso Williams?

Who killed Bola Ige?

Who killed Oyibo Chukwu?

Who killed Deborah?

Who killed singer Osinachi Chukwu?

…and more?

South Africans killed all these Nigerians?

Na Waoh!

tyup:


Who told you?? Are you allowing Hollywood get into you by chance??

Even Hollywood doesn’t make such mistakes.

Na so so sir you go dey hear for their movies. The least you can do is call him by his rank if you get mind.

But officer? Such mistake never occurs anywhere in the world.

Basic rules in the army is almost the same everywhere in world.

Uncle Dele is a media personality and influencer.

They usually have over 8 original and fake accounts of the same app they use in manipulating and influencing the public interests.

For example, the first 8 comments on this thread could be Uncle Dele, but with different different accounts and views. He doesn’t need to be signing in and out. All the phones have their own fake accounts.

Watcharena:
it's slavish if she is no paying them for that

You know absolutely nothing about slavery.

This video is just for fun, otherwise why would fanning your boss while she’s working and teaching you to be a designer a big deal?

Na Waoh!

A strong man called Lee Kuan Yew built strong institutions instead of strong and corrupt politicians in Singapore.

It will take 2 generations for that legacy to be destroyed assuming they start working to becoming a failed state.