₦airaland Forum

aalangel:
That's why I'll never believe that Dangote is Nigeria's richest man.

Dangote by far, is the richest of them all... Trust me, if those others were anywhere as close as the Dangotes or Adenugas, even if they were silent, their money would be doing the talking. If you doubt me, ask the quiet Mike Adenuga.

Meanwhile, Dangote and Otedola were at this wedding.

kalufelix:
1.Because oxygen is free through out the earth .

2.They paid huge monies to the same immigration to secure their visa

3.Nigeria is also an illegal country

Some Nigeria nationals are useful to the Nigerian society while others are a nuisance same way some of these migrants are useful to their host countries while others constitute nuisance. It's not about living legally or illegally.

Why do you take businesses to Lagos, PH Kano, Onitsha, Aba, Ibadan.

Stop sounding like a jealous deportee or do you live and work in your home town?

What exactly is this nigger talking about?... I'm struggling to understand why you're lamenting the treatment. Of course oxygen is free, but why complain about being hounded like animals on the streets?... Why would anyone go to a place where they know they are clearly not wanted, stay there illegally, and then complain when being treated badly?.... I struggle to understand the rationale behind this.

martineverest:
it's Nigerian English..respect it .

Americans and Aussies would have adopted the name instead of coach bus if they were the ones calling it that name.

I find it appalling that my friends tried to correct me when I say 'go-slow'(traffic jam) or off-head...those expressions are Nigerian brand of English

You're very much in order! I guess it's the inherent inferiority complex we suffer that makes us think our nomenclature is wrong or inferior.

I had a similar argument with someone recently who made a mocking joke about how Nigerians 'ignorantly' call coke and fanta 'mineral'... I was seriously enraged! Just the way the Brits call coke and fanta fizzy drinks, and the Americans call them soda, we in Nigeria call them 'mineral' drinks, and there's absolutely nothing wrong in that. People still dont reqlise that Nigeria houses one of the largest population of English speakers globally.

AutoJoshNG:
https://e9r8e7v9.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/luxury-bus.jpg?x66560

One of the most popular buses used for interstate journeys in Nigeria are buses confusedly referred to as “luxury” or “luxurious” buses.

Indeed, this bus type is typically designed to be luxurious. They offer some kind of comfort or luxury to passengers. Well, as they age, they lose most of their "luxury". At that stage of dereliction, can we still call them luxury or luxurious buses? Definitely not.

The appropriate name for this model of the bus is “Coach Bus”.

Coach buses are designed for longer-distance service. This is in contrast to transit buses - or mini-buses.

Though they are used for several purposes, in Nigeria, Coach Buses are mostly used for interstate journeys, etc..

https://e9r8e7v9.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Yutong-Luxury-Bus-6.jpg?x66560
https://e9r8e7v9.stackpathcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Yutong-Luxury-Bus-13.jpg?x66560

Source:

https://autojosh.com/why-do-we-call-these-buses-luxurious-buses/

There's nothing wrong with those buses being termed 'Luxurious Buses' in Nigeria; it's just the Nigerian nomenclature. The term may have been coined out of the fact that unlike the smaller transit buses (typically Toyota Hiace) which are the most common form of inter-city transportation in Nigeria, these bigger buses offer much more space, comfort, safety and 'luxury'.

Just the same way the Brits call coke and fanta fizzy drinks, and the Americans call them soda, we in Nigeria call them 'mineral' drinks, and there's nothing wrong in that.

linearity:
Ghaddafi was linked to the downing of Pan flight AM103 that killed about 190 American citizens. Despite the handing of two people, Washington still believed that Ghaddafi commissioned the PFLP-GC with about $10 million to do the dirty deed.

And America never forgets, it does not matter who become President or how many years goes by, Ghaddafi had been penciled down to take the fall, Obama just happens to be the President when the CIA checked off Ghaddafi on their todo list.

Same thing is going to happen here, Iran made a big mistake for downing that drone, agree it was pilotless, but they will paid dearly for it.

Trump had order strike on the Iran...preparations were in top gears, the fireworks were to start falling on strategic locations in Iran early Friday, but Trump called off the strike, and I believe it was not called off because of lack of zeal...Trump wants an external conflict as US switched into election year 2020 to galvanize support for himself across the US and Iran is foolishly giving him a reason to use them for the experiment.

Lol.. this dude here has watched too much CNN, too many American movies and has swallowed too many American propaganda all through his lifetime.. You're not alone though, we are all victims of American propaganda cos 99% of the media content we have watched since birth was crafted by the Americans to configure our minds and see them as G-O-D. Believe it or not, the US is just another mindlessly self serving country looking out only for its own economic interest and they dont give a flying fvck whose ox is gored.

I'm not a fan of Iran, but I refuse to be trapped in the mind control bubble created by the yanks which makes many believe it is right for the US to have over 1500 nuclear warheads, they even plant these warheads in different countries of the world and gift some nukes to even Islamic allies like Pakistan, but then the same US teaches the world that it is immoral for countries like NK or Iran to possess even a single warhead. Meanwhile the same US which happens to be the only nation in the world to deploy nukes TwICE, thereby annihilating a quarter of a million people, this same US happens to be the moral judge and jury today for who should have and not have WMDs.

Why exactly are we made to see it as a crime for Iran to bring down a certainly armed enemy drone encroaching its airspace?... Would the US tolerate it even if a harmless Iranian kite is flown near its territory?

FashionCapital:
am nt a politician just a student of political science (foreign policy).. as Reskid stated"it will solve our temporary problems"....let look at our political and historical antecedents in the 70's during the arab-isreali conflict (i suppose you'av read/heard the story before) and all that led to the oil boom when Nigeria Was The Giant Of Africa(if Nt Read Up)...i love ur arguement abt jonathan regime and it inherent corruption, but money was in circulation (oyel money). to cut the boring story short , increase in oil price is an increase in fed-state allocation, payment of bursary, commencement of projects, employment of work force e.t.c. ALL AM SURE OF IS THAT WE WILL ALL DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BENEFIT...thanks

Increase in oil price should wait until Dangote and the others complete their refineries. Else whilst other oil countries would be enjoying the benefits, Nigeria would br busy spending all the profits on expensive fuel imports and subsidy.

imam07:
You are the slowpoke here. Dont you think if Iran should have the power the US has, the world is in trouble. I don't know why all u guy use to side these terrorist countries. If most of these arab countries are strong like US, Isreal, Britain, Russia etc, the world will not be at peace.
Iran does not have power to invade other country that is d reason they can't do it. Is this not this same US who rescue Iran from Iraqi oppression in many years back. Now Iran have forgotten that.

When did US rescue iran from Iraq?... Could it have been the other way around?... I mean the US backing and illegally arming Saddam Hussein in the 70s to fight iran?... And after arming him, they later returnen 20 years later, told the world again that Hussein was bad, and returned to kill him.

muykem:
Obama maintained peace with almost all the nation's of the world. He killed Osama without any drama after USA previous government has failed to achieve such even with a lot of resources committed. US will regret ever voting Trump.

obama killed Ghaddafi fir no bloody reason and the destabilisation which that act caused in the northern African region is what equipped and strengthened the blood thirsty bokoharam group to become a formidable terror cell that has murdered over 30000 people.

SouthSouth1914:
Where is Fashola? Mr minister that says power is not rocket science

He will say he has a valid excuse to fail... When he made the statement, the power companies were owned and operated fully by govt, but by the time he got to power, the companies were already privately owned so his power is now limited to policy regulation.

kinghopex:
I really need advice on this..

I asked this lady out back then in 2015 and she turned me down completely without any reasonable excuse...

Now she is in the university studying and today while we were chatting, she told me she is seriously broke that i should help her with money!!

If i were you will you help her

If you have the money and can spare it, why not?

The fact that you're still chatting with her means you guys are friends; you mustn't get everything you want in life, you mustn't date everyone that catches your eyes.

Mcreloaded:
And will heaven fall if INEC bring the poported server they have and did not use for verifiation by professionals because the way INEC is behaving I think there is note to this server issue.

bi what's the big deal to release the server not used so that this case can end once and for all and we move on to more important issues like bobrisky and Tonto dikeh

But since the matter was taken to court, shouldnt the court be the ones to order INEC to surrender its equipment to a political party? Or has the court ordered INEC to do that and they refused?... Why do Nigerians like jumpung the gun and making issues where there's none?

All these server controversy is just confusing. INEC claims they have a server but didnt use it, PDP claims they saw a result inside the INEC server which gave them a wide margin win. Abeg who we go believe? If INEC didnt do electronic transmital of results, how then did PDP hack out results from a server?

Lol.. politicians! dem don carry come again. That's how not too long ago, some other ones claimed they built 21,000km of roads in 5 years.

Both the interviewer and the interviewee are madly dressed.

Does any good news ever come out of this school?

Donald95:
lol, Buhari knows the right button to press to deceive his followers the more.

[b]If buhari can produce his then WAEC result with passport where he looks older than my dad and his zombies believed it to be authentic, then they will also believe this crap[/b]

On a side note.... If you misplace your WAEC certificate and you return to your secondary school to reissue a new statement of result. What passport do you expect them to use on your re-issued certificate?.... You expect them to use voodoo to conjure your old passport picture taken 60 years ago right?... WIth this your kind of reasoning, you actually feel comfortable calling others zombies?.. lol

BIGGIE121:
It should not be killed oo dolphins are wonderful creatures

What exactly do you expect the people who caught it to do with it?... Release it back to the sea? Or keep it in a tank and feed it?

alsudan:
Hahahahaha. Just watch as some dolts will still come and defend this.

Much ado over nothing... the real and first dolts are the ones loosing sleep and bitterly throwing tantrums over a meaningless change of title.

Another case of much ado over nothing..

dre11:
https://www.thecable.ng/buhari-goofs-on-reelection-date-gdp-growth-projection

Much ado over nothing!

Codes151:
thats a prince! Even Buhari kneels to speak to a monarch!!! That’s not necessary

Theresa May isn't the first person to greet a prince, other British people, both within and outside government greet even the queen herself without having to kneel down. There is no law in the UK saying you have to kneel to greet the queen, let alone her grand son. Theresa chooses to kneel out of her own personal will; so if you see nothing wrong with that, what exactly is your problem with El Rufai or Omo Agege who both come from cultural backgrounds where people kneel to greet elders? COuld this just be black man mentality (i.e. self hate)?

agbangam:
Theresa May knelt down for a Prince which is a must do . but the other two bingos

stephleena:
That's the usual way Theresa greets the senior royals..

El-rufai,is a midget so going close to the ground is natural..

But Omo-agege a full grown southern man, did it in style, beautifully and gorgeously stupid.

stephleena:
Not at all..that's Theresa's signature greeting to the Royals.
I'm yet to see the same Omo-agege kneeling before monarchs,apart from when receiving prayers..

El-rufai's kneeling is habitual..he has done it for Atiku, OBJ ,it's now Buhari's turn.

Culture and eye service are two different things.

Another way to look at it is this.

Theresa May (62) knelt down to greet a 36 year old prince.
Verdict = He's part of the royals

El Rufai and Omo Agege knelt down to greet someone who's not just about 20 year older than them, but is also the president and emperor in chief of Nigeria.
Verdict = In Africa, we respect elders, especially elders with influence. Besides in Urhobo culture where Omo Agege is from, the Urhobo greeting 'Migwo' literally translates as " I am on my knees". So anyone angry with Omo Agege for practicing his culture should go and sleep.

When I hear the word 'RENAME', what first comes to mind is that it's an already existing structure. The tweet from Shehu was pointless.

They should float this thing already.... All the investors and economists have cited the non floatation as the problem of Nigeria. They should just float it already so we can have the perfect economy.

SouthSouth1914:
You are the one who is off the mark! Trying to paint a satanic person as a messiah so that the public can buy him is totally unwarranted, myopic and simply ass licking at its best!

Lol... You're just going on and on wailing over Buhari even when the discussion isn't about Buhari. If you were emotionally stable enough, you would have noted that.


Okay let me bring you back to where this started. You complained that the current NASS had been bought over by the Presidency, and I pointed out that even the previous NASS which purportedly wasn't bought, was also as useless as they come. To prove my statement, I challenged you to name a single bad policy of the Presidency which the NASS successfuly blocked? Furthermore, I pointed out that guys in the NASS were nothing more than self serving rogues who only seemed to oppose the presidency only on issues of their personal interest. Once again I challenge you to prove me wrong in this.

Nowhere did I praise Buhari or call him a messiah of any sort as you allege, but your inordinate obsession for Buhari makes you see any comment not throwing jabs at him (even in unconnected topics) as 'praise'

If it makes you feel better, YES, Buhari is an incompetent buffoon who has no business being the president of a great nation like Nigeria today. But I wasn't talking about Buhari, I was talking about the NASS, the focus of my discussion and the focus of this thread is the NASS. That Buhari is bad does not automatically make the NASS saints (that was my point). The so called "unbought" NASS under Saraki was as useless as they come, they did not give Nigeria any progress, rather they were a clog in the wheel of progress with their incessant delays of the budget and insistence of padding federal budgets with meaningless constituency projects.

Anazp:
where was he? after the last humilation. seems he was banned. haha

Who humiliated him? How was he humiliated?... Probably he was humiliated only in the prejudiced minds of his die-hard haters. Sorry!

dokiOloye:
Buhari would always tell IBB to recognise Abiola cos IBB is his sworn enemy after he overthrew him but why did d hypocrite not tell him man Abacha who he served as PTF chairman d same thing?
Anyway,you na zombie,you no fit dey logical.

OBJ who told Abacha something similar ended up being sentenced to 30 years in prison. At the time,

Buhari had just recently come out of prison and had just recently married a fresh wife. Even though you call him a dullard, do you really think he was that dull not to know when to speak and when to shut up?

Venerable612:
That’s not good for Democracy.

The reason the Uk and the US are so developed is because they have a healthy opposition at the helms of affair. Otherwise one party would have sold all of them out without any scrutiny.

Why do you think Brexit has taken this long and Theresa May had to resign?

I pity Nigerians. They have just started selling the country.

Healthy opposition we need; but remember, not every opposition is healthy.

The opposition of Saraki and co who kept delaying budget passage till Q3 over disagreements arising from their insistence on inserting flimsy constituency projects, I doubt if that could really be termed 'healthy opposition'.

tactius:
My problem is that he and many other Nigerians kept quiet and allowed the Army run over is for another five years.

Indeed, most Nigerians allowed themselves to think it was a tribal thing and as a result we lost our chance to get back to democracy for another five years.

Mind you, Abiola was not the Messiah. But if we Nigerians had been courageous enough to realize that democracy is not about who wins, not about all your tribal issues, etc... maybe history would be different.

I don't like PDP or APC. I'm dissatisfied with this democratic epoch. But I won't support any coup or attempt to subvert it.

I may be selfish and arrogant to say this, but I wish Nigerians thought like that too. Maybe we would have avoided things like the civil war and the pogroms if five majors decided to go into politics and fight on the electoral battlefield instead of organising a coup. Maybe we would have been a democratic country for much longer. It won't have been perfect, but it would have been better than one man army rule.

Hahaha... OBJ who tried to speak, what happened to him?... 30 years in prison! You really do think Buhari doesn't like his freedom right? Especially for someone who had just come out of prison and who had just married a fresh new wife at the time.

tactius:
No. By 1993,Buhari had zero power, and was just known as an ex head of state.

He did condemn the annulment, but that's all he did.

Ended up serving in Abacha's government as ptf head.

Politics is just funny; when people hate you, they hate you till the end, and will always find something to pin on you.

You say he condemned the annulment but you still aren't satisfied. Point of correction, by heading PTF, he was serving Nigeria, not Abacha.

SouthSouth1914:
This whole mirage isn’t about hate! It’s about common sense! Talking about hate for buhari why would anyone like him when he has constantly rape the laws of the land in all entirety?

Someone who vowed to end subsidy payments, end Boko Haram, provide electricity and all. Someone who is a saint and want to end corruption while corruption thrives in his government.

Someone who failed and brought hunger and hardship during his days as a military ruler. Buhari is anti democratic should never have been elected in the first place!

Oga why dont you go back and read my comment and try to focus on the question I asked?... All I see here is you just lamenting off the mark, saying Buhari this and Buhari that... Anyway, you just fully confirmed the point I made above; hatred/disgust for Buhari will make you support anything or person who you think is also against Buhari, irrespective of whether the person is helping or ruining Nigeria. A classical case of 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'

NOC1:
Hahahhahhahha, politics is deep only the smart ones can swim in it.
Uwajumogu will emerge, the reason for all this things you are seeing was just to have a smooth ans less free emergency of the Presiding officers in the National Assembly. since it has been achieved everyone will have his ticket. even Akpabio might come bk via tribunal judgement.
those guys where to forward with their ambitions, Akpibio was ready to Senate president, Rochas and Uwajumogu was planning to be DSP.

I think you might be right about this. The way Rochas' certificate was withheld just till after the election of principal officers was suspicious.