₦airaland Forum

richmond500:
Tinubu was never a master strategist in 2023.
Obi was just too stupid to see that he was used, how can such a senseless idiot want to run the affairs of a complex country like Nigeria.

Used to do what exactly? What's up with this widespread nonsensical logic about OBI being used? How does it benefit OBI or Nigeria if Atiku wins?

Besides, in a country of over 90 million registered voters, the gap between OBI and TINUBU was just about 2.7 million; in other words, OBI almost even won the elections (that's if he didn't even win it and was just schemed out). A man with such electoral feat, a man who almost won the election, is that the person you're referring to as "being stupid" for daring to contest?

If true, then Tinubu's own strategy almost swallowed him. After underrating OBI, I'm sure he must have been peeing on his pants seeing the level of unexpected momentum OBI gathered just before the election. Anyway, the Tribunal is still ongoing so it's too early to conclude; Tinubu might indeed have shot himself on the foot with his OBI gamble.

favor914:
Naive man Vinnie2000, stop yapping nonsense.

Huh? Are you talking to me?

Vinnie2000:
No way they could have controlled someone like Obasanjo
BUT don't forget the first thing OBJ did in 1999 was to Forcefully Retire Hausa/Fulani Generals in the Nigerian Army.

As for ur 2nd claim, Dat's Inconsequential.

Dangote is simply Favoured above those Northern BusinessMen you mentioned. 😕

On the second claim, all I tried to do was to deflate the widespread allusion that his tribe is the reason he keeps getting favoured. I feel that's a lazy conclusion especially when you consider that he gets these favours from everyone in power (regardless of tribe, ethnicity or religion). The truth which many have refused to accept is that there's something Dangote does bettter than his peers.

Vinnie2000:
A Powerful Northern Cabal made of IBB, Gen. Abdul-Salam, Sultan of Sokoto,etc controls Nigeria.

They Determine who is President or Not, in this Country.😒

Dat's why Jonathan Always Tried to Please the North.
Dat's why Obasanjo Tried to Beg them to Support Peter Obi.😕

These Guys have Clearly given Dangote their Hausa Brother, an UPPER HAND above other Competitors!

IBB, Gen. Abdul-Salam, Sultan of Sokoto,etc controls Nigeria indeed! So they also controlled Obasanjo (their Oga) during Obasanjo's tenure?

By the way, is Dangote the only Hausa businessman in Nigeria? How come all other Hausa businessmen aren't getting the same favours (since you claim it's because of his tribe)? How come Hausa businessmen like Abdul Rabiu (BUA Group) are also in line complaining about Dangote?

Berrityga:
God will forever punish you Reno. With all the oil sillage in the south south, the unemployment, lack of good schools, hospitals and roads. Your here bragging of trash, how many barrels of oil can Lagos produce a day?? Rubbish.

This is a perfect example of the questionable reasoning pattern which Reno talked about and which made Dangote flee from the Niger Delta.

Dangote isn't government; he isn't responsible for the oil spillage in the south and neither is he responsible for the unemployment, lack of roads hospitals, good schools etc which you complained about. Dangote is simply a businessman who needed a favourable environment to install one of the biggest single investments in Africa which would definitely uplift the economy of wherever it was sited. But unfortunately, people with your misplaced entitlement mentality chased him (and thousands of other investors) away.

Vinnie2000:
OP, totally, Agree! 👍

Let's be Honest,
As a Northerner or an Hausa Man, Dangote is highly Favoured Above his Competitors.

I wonder if an Urhobo, Ijaw, Efik, Idoma, Edo, Igala, Tiv Man,etc can get such Privileges from the FG. 🤔😕

All the same, He is an Astute BusinessMan who should be Respected!

If it's a north vs south thing, why are other northern businessmen not getting the same priviledges from government?

If its a nepotism thing, how come Dangote was favoured by northern, southern, eastern, western, Christian and Muslim leaders?

Fact is, like you said, he's an astute businessman, a very shrewd one who knows how to curry favour from anyone. He's also very good at engaging in strategic investments; the kind of investments that'd make any govt in power lick his feet.

Every businessman bribes, lobbies, schemes and kills to get favours from govt; how come this same man is always the one who wins, regardless of who's in power?.... We need to give it up for the man abeg and quit trying to rubbish his acumen with the "nepotism" or "he is favoured" narrative; he's clear ahead of his peers.

VTJN:
Respect is earn, not demanded for. I'm glad your brother respected himself and stay on his lane which made you guys to respect him. It is natural to disrespect a liability at that age who wouldn't respect himself

You think it's easy for someone to be crying over his elder brother? Even the mother dey cry with his old age. Op is going through a lot in that family. Op is not responsible for the family problem but look at how he carried the family problem on his head, when himself never find him bearing. Will you respect such an elder brother who doesn't respect himself? Ofcourse if he respect himself, Op should respect him. But if otherwise, you know the rest

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

You need to understand that the elder brother's problem is psychological; he might look all sane and sound, but the truth is, he doesn't know what he's doing. Even if he knows he isn't acting right, for some inexplicable reason, he's just powerless to change the situation.

Such situations should be treated delicately. The Op seems to have exhausted his options on what he or the mum can do, but if he really loves his elder brother, the least he can do is to try and still accord him that respect, no matter how difficult it may be, cos disrespecting him would worsen his already terrible psychological state.

IDnoble1:
As the fact sheet on the newly constructed Dangote refinery has it that the refinery which has the capacity to process 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day,that is the refinery is more than able to meet all of "Nigeria’s domestic fuel consumption", which is about 450,000 barrels per day; whilst the excess production will be available for export.

And with this, it means we will be refining our crude oil locally and no need of subsidising the landing cost again.

So why was the FG recently hell-bent on removing the fuel subsidies when the end was already in sight.

Or can we say they unduly wanted to hike the fuel price to favour.......

Landing cost only makes up a tiny fraction of the cost of petroleum products. Even if Dangote decided to sell at ZERO PROFIT (which we all know is impossible), the cost of petrol wouldn't still go below N300/litre. The only way the price can go lower is if the FG dashes Dangote free crude, or if it sells crude to Dangote at a SUBSIDISED rate (whic effectively is still subsidy).

Must the bridge have a name? How many important bridges in Nigeria have a name?... The kind of senseless psycophancy we see amongst african politicians is disgusting.

Lol.. Space stone has fallen into Ekiti...

kingthreat:
Was just wondering what happens to the wealth of Aliko Dangote when he dies.
Would it be inherited by his children, which is most unlikely because his only biological children are his daughters.
Will it be inherited by his extended family?
Or will the Nigerian government take it over as his companies get special treatment from the FG?

What's the meaning of the bolded?.... Are his daughters tadpoles? People who reason like this sometime I wonder what planet or century you guys are from.

001Lagos:
How many times will they commission this bridge ?

Buhari and commissioning of uncompleted projects

Useless president

When was 2NB commissioned?

What's Peter Obi's connection with Dangote refinery and why should Dangote not mentioning his name be an issue? Too many clowns in this country.

CodeTemplar:
sadly the govt is trying to leave the masses to suffer for a weakened Naira by removing subsidy and continuing the wasteful governance instead of taking it as a challenge and trying to strengthen the Naira.

Only consolation is that a major stumbling block sitting against the recovery of the Naira is retiring on the 29th; I'm quite confident the Naira will recover a bit after handover, and especially with the launching of this refinery. May be a gradual process but regardless of whoever takes over the helm, I predict the Naira recovering to around the N360-N400/$ level within a year.

Tflex01:
Sometimes I wonder whether you guys really know how daft you all sound to ever imagine 25% in Abuja should decide who govern Nigeria.

It's like saying Adeleke should not be declared Osun state governor because he didn't get 25% in Oshogbo LG or makinde in Ibadan LG.

It's actually written in black and white in the Nigerian constitution, so the daft people cannot possibly be the ones who are just quoting the constitution as it is. On the contrary, the real daft ones are either the people who wrote the constitution and knowingly or inadvertently allocated special status to Abuja residents, or the ones who try to cleverly disregard or twist the interpretation of what's clearly
written in plain English.

bentenny:
Its possible if the following are strictly adhered to......

1. Other local refineries should start working immediately in order to create competition which will ensure the prices reduce!
2.Crude oil is sold to local refineries in naira and at a slightly affordable rate
3.There must be constant and reliable power supply to the refineries
4.There must be tax incentives to encourage refineries to moderate their price.

If crude is sold to Dangote at a rate lower than the international market price, that's the same thing as SUBSIDY cos the government would be sacrificing revenue to make petrol cheap.

The only thing that can really make petrol cheaper now is the exchange rate. If the dollar drops down to N150, then petrol may sell for N100 or less (if govt tightens the noose on Dangote to not inflate his profits). If the dollar remains at N750, petrol prices would remain high except govt subsidizes.

Revolution2022:
This is why petroleum products is subsidized in Nigeria.
The foreigners will come to Nigeria and buy our crude oil at an OPEC price of maybe a $100per barrel or they will buy stolen crude oil at a very reduce price from the Nigerian elites who tap oil from burst pipelines.
They will take the oil to their country to refine products like aviation fuel, vehicular fuel,diesel, engine oil,etc.NNPC approved petroleum marketers will go there and buy it and transport it back into Nigeria to sell.
This is where they swindle Nigerians.The oil marketers will add their own pockets money.
There are different charges that are imposed in the oil vessels by the government.Like the number of days the oil vessels stays in the sea and landed in Nigeria before the petroleum products are discharged into the reservoir.All these are incurring additional charges daily which is call "Demurrage.
Another charges are the ones the oil marketers pay to the Nigerian government which is VAT and many others.That is why the government say they are subsidizing fuel which in most cases are lies.

Everything you said here is true except the last statement; govt truly subsidises petrol prices in Nigeria and the logic is extremely clear (except of course to politicians who just want to make political arguments). E.g. Buhari who was claiming subsidy wasnt real is now the one lamenting that subsidy payment needs to stop. We need to drop the political arguments and just face the clear facts, subsidy is real.

All those other logistic costs you mentioned are real and cannot be wished away. Even if we exclude all the logistic costs, just the price of crude alone (currently at $73) is enough to drive the price of imported petrol above N200, especially when you consider the current exchange rate.

Even if Dangote refinery starts and Nigeria stops importing fuel, the global price of crude (in dollars) and the exchange rate will still push the price of petrol above N200, except of course the govt subsidises it again.

Cc: chymeze

Not a chance!.. except the exchange rate drops down to N120/$ or except the government continues paying subsidies.

MyMouth:
It's possible. Nigeria will sell crude to him at subsidized rate so he will at sell at reduced price.

That's the same thing as Nigeria subsidizing the cost of petrol. If the government would sacrifice its revenue to make fuel cheap, the sacrificed revenue = SUBSIDY.

goodnessme1:
Too bad.



APC government agents doing everything possible for US to Join them in fighting freedom fighters.



But US are not dumb like most Nigerians.

Who are these freedom fighters you talk about? And whose freedom are they fighting for?

You mean the miscreants murdering innocent people everyday in cold blood are freedom fighters?

May an angry thunder fire the heads of those your stupid freedom fighters and all of you stupid people who support and/or excuse their carnage.

Lutherblaq:
https://dailypost.ng/2023/05/18/adeyanju-drags-obi-for-parading-abure-as-lp-chair-despite-court-order/

Does this Deji dude even have a job?.... What's his business with LP chairmanship?

Jones4190:
are you not going to retrieve your mandate from APC again?

And what does retrieving mandate have to do with what I wrote? What does retrieving mandate have to do with Akpabio visiting LP HQ to seek support for his ambition?.... Can you be kind enough to answer these questions or are you just here to prove my point that too many ignorant folks are packed in this thread?

Jones4190:
Sen. Godswill Akpabio of the APC met with the former Chairman of Labour Party, Julius Abure at their hqtrs. yesterday.

Julius Abure enjoys patronage from Peter Obi and OBIdients. He is their beloved Chairman.

But the upright, diligent and authentic Lamidi Apapa is the one accused of working for APC/Tinubu. You people no really get sense walai.

Chaii.... the level of ignorance flowing about this thread is mind blowing.

So because Akpabio (a contestant for the senate presidency) visited the LP HQ to seek support for his ambition, it automatically means the LP chairman is working for APC? Are you aware the LP doesnt have any candidate contesting for the senate presidency? And that the LP senators literally have to support one of the contestants from APC?

Sermwell:
Stop fooling yourself! Why was APC voted for? Did they not claim to fix what PDP destroyed for 16 years!? You're here defending them for the same incompetence! Foolish people everywhere

Only a dumb brain could have read my posts and interpreted it to mean that I was defending APC. If you truly read the trail of my comments and all you could interpret from it was that I was defending APC, then all the school fees paid for you was wasted.

Gerrard59:
Sequel to these threads (https://www.nairaland.com/7678352/hookup-culture-nigeria-bad-even/1#122971617; https://www.nairaland.com/7680544/what-caused-hookup-culture/5#123045490) where Nairalanders, mostly males, keep complaining about the rise of hookup in Nigeria. I thought it pertinent to outline solutions that will REDUCE, not stop the trend.

The demand for sex by men is rising and consistent. As long as men crave sex and women are the only suppliers, nothing can be done. For hookups to reduce, Nigerian men should reduce their insatiable quest to have sex with random women. It is like having a department where male lecturers don’t do engage in sex for grades, ladies who are open to such will be forced to read their books whether they like it or not. Men create the system and women integrate into it. To buttress this, when women who have been doing hook-up attain 30+ years, there is a declining demand for their services because sexual service is tied to age and how young a woman is. As a result, she is either forced to retire or accept lower fees. This is because her customers – all men – have either stopped patronising her or are offering less cash. The men control the system.

It is a biological fact (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22552705/#:~:text=Sexual) for men to yearn for sex more than women. Women are literally the only people who can quench this thirst. Some will say it is because of greed, but c’mon! If you own something which is in high demand that is not regulated nor banned by the government, are you saying you won’t charge prices for it? Remember, this demand is consistent and persistent.

But errm, hook-up is the same with yahoo yahoo or drugs trading.

That is not true. Cybercrime, like the name implies, is a crime in almost every part of the world. Some governments legalise sex work and even offer health care services and tax them. But no government has legalised defrauding people online. This is because policymakers realise that sex is a natural phenomenon in which humans and animals indulge. You cannot outlaw people having sex. It is not possible. Even in conservative Dubai (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/01/05/women-in-the-middle-east-are-leading-a-revolt-against-prudish-men), women are going behind the corners to import intimacy gadgets. The government by law bans it, but does not arrest those who import it. But try importing guns into the country and see the government’s reaction. Dealing with hard drugs is not a natural concept for humans. It is acquired, so governments ban it or regulate it tightly compared to sex work.

For instance, in Geylang, Singapore, young women mostly from China engage in hookups under regulation from the Singaporean government. But if you transport drugs to Singapore, you get the death penalty, no ifs or buts. Japan has the second biggest porn industry globally, but you will be arrested, denied a lawyer for 21 days and detained or deported if you transport drugs into the country. The UAE restricted Nigerians’ entry, mostly men. The UAE would rather have Nigerian girls doing hookups in Dubai than her men committing cybercrime. There has not been a break-in by the Emirati police to arrest hookers compared to bursting cyber criminals.

Whether we like it or not, the hook-up culture has come to stay. Prostitution is as old as mankind itself; it can't be stopped but can be reduced.

3 factors that led to the hookup pandemic:
1. GREED
2. Erosion of morals
3. POVERTY...

Before now people had a bit more self-value and would feel embarassed to sell themselves for money. But all that has changed; our value system as a people is totally eroded. Old men and women alike, without any iota of self respect or shame, brazenly stealing and behaving like imbeciles just for financial gain once they find themselves in positions of authority. Then we have young boys fully soaked into the Yahoo-Yahoo culture. Even the adults have lost the moral right to chastise the younger ones; previously respectable members of society such as Pastors, Imams etc. can't even chastise these guys any more cos they are also involved. Was only a matter of time before our younger girls (who for a long time have felt left out) would catch-up on the shameless parade.

From the 3 factors I listed above, only 1 can be controlled = POVERTY. Greed is already a part of our lives and our lost morals are already lost for good; the only thing that can be changed is the poverty pandemic. If the people were economically empowered, our girls would place a higher value on their kpekus and the inflation would lead to lower patronage from men, which in-turn would reduce the prevalence of the problem.

Edipet:
I think say na soap

Haha... No I meant the bread-like snack at the top, not the soda soap at the bottom.

udomma1005:
It's a staple in Bayelsa 🍞

Emmacy001:
You will see it in Bayelsa

By popular opinion, it's like it exists mainly in Delta and Bayelsa...

Edipet:
you find it everywhere in akwa ibom. Most people use it to wash plates, cloths

Haaa! ... Wash plates?... The madiga in Akwa-Ibom must be different oo...

ahnie:
The kpokpomandiga and soda.
In warri we call it kpokpomandiga I don't know the English name.

Kpokpo-Madiga... Like play like play, this thing doesnt exist outside Warri..

I believe Mr Apapa... No one paid him any money!

Taking a look at this kind of babalawo, there's no way in the world anyone would have paid him money. He's only disgracing his children in hope that someone (in Tinubu's camp) would appreciate his efforts financially. Poverty na bastard!