₦airaland Forum

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.

Funflipper:
Discreet LGBT.

I can’t speak for her but from past stories with Omeruo before he got married, she is very straight.

I just think some of these suspicions are malicious because she decided not to put her private life on display again like she did when she was friends with Omeruo.

Just4000:
Your option is great, we all advocate for a producing nation, but it is not feasible at the moment, as we still have a long way to go.

It is sir.
The Singaporeans and South Koreans did it in the 60s. The Chinese did it in the 70s. Why can’t we?

1. Declare a state of emergency of emergency on electricity! Get 100 Barth Nnaji (3 for each state. 5 or 6 for bigger states). Fund 30% of their plant and let it be government share in the company.

Invest heavily on transmission lines.

Invest in companies that produce prepaid meters.

2. Declare all secondary schools technical schools. Award scholarships to all science students. We don’t even have a good number of semi skilled workers to power our factories should production begin.

3. Massive importation of machines for different types of modern manufacturing including farming. No import duties. I’ve lived in China and Hong Kong for some years, almost every family have a mini factory in certain regions of the country.

4. Hire security machineries to subdue terrorism and banditry.

Shoot at sight. No hostage!!! Not even one!

5. Attack corruption with all your might. Don’t even allow your mother or wife stand in the way. If they do, send them to jail as an example of how deadly you can be to even someone you don’t know. That was Lee Kuan Yew’s style.

6. Again, attack corruption to a standstill.

7. More and more… but I no get time.

Kaycee9242:
So what good advice has the family given him so far? All these trial and error policies? They should stop advising him please

Be aware that I’ve never been a fan or have I thought I could learn any good thing from the little I know of Tinubu.

Having said that, don’t be surprised that even the little he may have done could be Seyi’s brainchild.

But I’m not even talking about policies. I’m talking about Tinubu having someone who will convey the true situation of things to him. Whatever thing or policies he formulates with the information is up to him.

As a president, you will hardly be allowed to be everywhere because of security reasons. And so you will need reliable lieutenants, not sycophants and praise singers.

Only a family member, especially their wives can stand in that gap. But in this case, his son.

When presidents and top leaders are being sworn in, their immediate family is sworn in alongside. There’s a reason for that.

Immediate family members are the only set of people who can tell you the truth and most likely the only set of people you take their advice without scrutiny.

The presidency is too huge a responsibility for a man not to have his close family members to assist him, at least with undiluted truths and advice.

Seyi Tinubu in Qatar or in Aso Rock is not Nigerias problem.

Some Nigerians are incurable lying revisionists.

Honestly, I find it very difficult to blame Buhari in all these.

Many patriotic Nigerians raised alarm on how buhari was an irredeemable failure. Come and see attack from the same people calling out buhari now. At a time, I started feeling unpatriotic for calling out the damages buhari was doing to our economy.

Buhari again in 2019 started preparations for a second tenure. Obasanjo had to write a letter warning Nigerians on why they should “never reinforce failure”. Again these same people who are now accusing buhari of running Nigeria aground for 8 years went on the attack again. Calling anyone who doesn’t support buhari an enemy of the state.

It’s happening again now. The easiest way to subdue constructive criticisms in Nigeria today is to accuse them of being unpatriotic.

On that grounds, I find it hard to blame buhari because those defending him then made him become blind to issues.


I solely rest the blame on those who supported buhari for good 8 years, especially for second tenure. We knew they were supporting him for their own personal ambitions. Those are the real unpatriotic Nigerians.

Just4000:
The thing you should understand here is that the Government has already made it porous, leading to disbelieve in the system. Otherwise why will people want to shore up dollars when it is not gold nor precious stone, not even a land. why will there be artificial demand when if there are tendencies that it may fall. This is simply because people have seen it that it will rather raise than fall against the naira. Their method is a short term, and every economics knows that and simply waiting for dollars to come a little lower, and they will rush to buy, pushing the price higher again.

[b]To curb this, the government need to keep feeding the naira with her dollars reserve consistently for at least 6 month, and then create a rugged policy that no dollar should lie in an account for more than six months. Meaning that any dollar in an account must traded with or converted into naira in a 6 months cycle, thereby frustrating the effort of those who have the means and intention to hoard for a longer perio[/b]d. Then, we must go cashless especially with the naira and other currencies otherwise a lot of loopholes will be created.

Don’t be carried away, the so called dollar people are “hoarding” in their accounts is not enough to solve the dollar scarcity. This your method is not bad but it can’t do much to relieve the naira in the long run.

Massive Local production for local sales and export. No other way out!

J3susFr3ak:
Pardon me, I was only inferring that Nigeria could organically evolve its own Local Trading Center that resembles the type of market aggregators like a Tesco or Shoprite for the sole reason of increasing their bargaining power with regards to price when buying wholesale from food manufacturers and farmers. Russia is currently facing multiple sanctions/currency crisis and a war but they have so far maintained stable lower prices for their food products because of the same aggregations in their production chains and farms to retail chain.

Even a local cooperative pooling the capital of their members together can create a better edge in bargaining for better competitive wholesale prices that they can choose to retail at lower prices to their members.

I agree to the potential of creating job losses in certain sections of the retail sector if that route is taken. What they call Mom and Pops have become relics. Current day Bodegas in NY thrive in niche local markets. But compared to the larger stores, smaller shops hold expensive prices.

But there is a reason too why most local farmers in developed countries are rich and well off. It is because they know that even before they put a single seed in the ground, a lot of interested food manufacturers, large Department stores etc., will likely bid for their harvests and pay up a year or more ahead of time.

In the Middle and pre industrial ages (before oil and gas) large cities and towns around the world were built based on this model. If you had a farm a few miles away from a large city population center you were guaranteed to be rich because of a guaranteed market. Except a natural disaster comes along. But the total reverse is the case in Nigeria. Why?

What type of economy do you really want in the long run?

Sir, you are a smart man. But this model you are proposing has not turned out fine for countries that have evolved into large shopping centers owned by one person or a group of people. It has made USA loose so many local businesses and created a huge income disparity among Americans in recent times. Small businesses are folding up.


Now, china’s pattern is a good way to go now. Not too different from what we are practicing here. Nobody regulates any retailer. The government is only concerned with the quality of the products supplied to their local market (they don’t care about quality of products for export).

How do you even regulate millions of traders selling Maggi cubes all over the country?

The ONLY way out is to stabilize the local currency which will boost traders confidence and thereby stabilize prices of goods.

Nothing too wrong with our type of economy. We just need to boost production so we can have enough to make price drop and earn in dollars to stabilize goods that we import.

Kukutenla:
In one breath you want a free market
In another breath you want a regulated market

Please pay NO attention to those guys making noise about petty traders selling their indomie with gain.

You buy a product at N1,000 to sell at N1,200. Naira depreciates and the current cost price of the same product is N2,000.

And this emergency economic analysts would want the same trader to keep selling at N1,200. So when he exhausts his product, he can look for who will lend him N800 to start building up another capital of N2,000 for another product.

What kind of wicked economic system is that?

I hear a lot of naive Nigerians calling these petty traders wicked and I laugh so hard.

Once there’s no monopoly, many traders will be willing to sell their goods with just a little profit margin so far the cost price is steady and guaranteed.

How do you sell off at old price while the new cost price is double the price of your old price?

The other one even suggested they hand over to multiple nationals like Tesco or ShopRite for easy price regulation and thereby leaving millions of petty traders jobless. He doesn’t even know that the countries he mentioned are having issues with these monopolistic shopping centers.

There’s no magic or wickedness there; once the cost price is stable; any trader who sells with an indiscriminate price margin will automatically loose customers and be out of business in no time.

Emyogalanya:
Nig that has never generated beyond 4000mw since its creation now wants to generate 30000. In six years by 2030 ?

Nigeria already have the capacity to generate over 30000mw. The complete structure is there.

Problem is

1. Lack of Gas supply to these structures.

2. Structures to transmit the 30000mw is not there. The little left is worn out and can only carry about 3-5000mw.

3. Vandalism.

4. Fraud in metering.


Solution..

1. Until the government declares a state of emergency on the power sector, nothing will happen.

The state of emergency should carry death sentence on any sabotage by corrupt officials and same to any vandal.

2. Massive reconstruction of transmission structures across the nation and most importantly strategic industrial communities.

3. Efficient metering. With this, the consumer and supplier gets exactly what is due for them.

But the major problem has always been lack of political will.

UpTown001:
Women have really made the world bloody. Truly "No woman , no cry"

Most people misunderstand this phrase in Bob Marley’s song.

He was trying to pacify the character in the song by telling her/him to stop crying. That everything will be alright. In other words, “stop crying woman, everything will be alright”.

You don’t expect Bob Marley to be that incentive.