₦airaland Forum

KanuSE:
Has Dangote's skin colour changed?

How exactly can you tell if his skin colour has changed or not? Do you have an old picture of him when he was a poor man suffering under the scorching heat of the sun? If you cant provide an old picture for comparison, then this Dangote example isn't valid.

By the way, not everyone's skin would change; there will always be exceptions to every rule.

airsaylongcome:
So all those Caucasian that spend hours under the sun in summer they get black yeah? Like 5 shades different? Cos the difference between the before and after here is extreme.

And before you talk about money will change your skin please have a look at Aliko Dangote

Yes when Caucasians relocate to hotter climates like in Africa, they become tanned, they become darker. Even in summer when they just spend few hours under the sun, they get darker.

Likewise when Nigerians relocate abroad, they typically get a shade lighter (I am a personal example; I dont even cream my body at all). Whenever I visit Nigeria for 2-3 weeks and return to my base, I get darker.

Have a look at Dangote? What am I comparing him with? Maybe if you can show me a picture of when he was poorer and suffering under the heat and sun, then your suggested comparison would be valid.

udemzyudex:
Lol.. you have nothing reasonable to say.

Prolonged exposure to sunlight, heat and/or hardship can darken a person's skin. That is a fact!

slawormiir:
Damnnn niggarrrr
Too bad

I see bleaching niggarrrz as pussy asss niggarrrz


That is not true Ogbeni
When you stopped staying under the sun as you suggest ...your skin will retain its natural colour, texture and appearance..and you will start glowing

There's some truth in that. The sun and heat in Nigeria darkens your skin; I've seen this in numerous people who relocated overseas.

Regarding the topic, there isnt enough evidence from those pictures to conclude his skin colour has even changed over time. The old picture was obviously taken with a poor quality camera and in bad lighting condition; the newer picture looks edited and with high light intensity.

Raph3177:
Don’t forget the raw material (crude oil) is actually produced in Nigeria like our natural resources so for me it has spoilt your explanations above I chose not to reason With it Cos I don’t see sense in it. Other nations that don’t have oil as natural resources are selling petroleum at far cheaper price to its citizen. To me if the price of petroleum is going up Nigeria should be making more money and if it is refined abroad then cost of the raw material which we produce should count for something.

In my previous comment, I tried to give a very basic explanation, but since you mentioned the above, maybe I'd try and give some insight 'the way I understand it'...

Current global price/value of crude is about $55/bbl; even though the crude is produced in Nigeria, it doesn't change the fact that the crude is still valued at $55/bbl and is still sold at $55/bbl. Nigeria currently runs a 'Direct Sale-Direct Purchase (DSDP)' crude swap deal which basically means, NNPC sells crude to a foreign refinery and then buys refined products back from the said refinery; the crude is still valued at the prevailing global price, irrespective of the fact that it is Nigerian crude.

One might then wonder why NNPC doesnt just exchange the crude at a reduced rate of say $40/bbl instead of the prevailing global price of $55 so that the imports would be cheaper; after all it's Nigerian crude. But then, that $15/bbl loss would effectively amount to a form of petrol subsidy, i.e. the govt subsidising the sale of crude oil to a foreign refinery so they can in turn sell cheaper fuel to Nigeria. Just recently, a similar form of subsidising was termed 'under-recovery' by the NNPC. I may be wrong somewhere in my explanation, but maybe a petroleum economist can help out.

...and lest i forget, there's an assertion which you made which is wrong; there's absolutely no 'non-oil producing nation' which sells fuel cheaper than Nigeria. In global comparison, I doubt if there're up to 5 countries which sell petroleum products cheaper than Nigeria, and they're all oil producing nations which subsidise the products.

I think I agree with this... In my opinion, it amounts to 'bullying' for those social media platforms to 'permanently' suspend Trump.

Okoroawusa:
You go school. Simple explanation that even a lay man can understand. You must be a teacher.

I swear the matter dey tire me whenever I read comments from people asking 'why pump price is increasing'. Someone on this thread even asked why pump price should be increasing after govt claims to have deregulated and stopped subsidy payments. When you read those kind of comments, it just gives you an idea why Nigeria is the way it is.

When I open threads like this, I expect discussions to be centred on what the best solutions to the current problem is or should be; but instead, the threads are always filled with people who dont even have a slight understanding of what the issue, throwing insults at each other and at govt.

The govt itself is to be blamed though, instead of employing sound minds to handle media and publicity to educate the public on simple things like this, they keep appointing imbeciles and degenerates whose only past time is to attack and insult even genuinely concerned Nigerians who ask questions online.

Raph3177:
What I will never find sense with is why the increase of crude oil price equals to increment of Petrol pump price for Nigerians. This only means if crude oil price gets back to around 100 dollar per barrel Nigerians will be paying up to 250 naira per liter I can never find sense with this even if the world most brilliant person comes to explain to me.

The logic behind the pump price increase is quite simple and straightforward. The only reason anyone (at least educated) wouldnt understand it is because they intentionally refuse to understand it.

Nigeria buys its petroleum products from overseas with dollar$ and 2 things mainly determine the cost of that product in Nigeria - crude price and exchange rate. If crude (raw material) price increases, the cost at which the foreign sellers sell it to us will increase, and that would mean an increase in the final selling cost to Nigerians. Likewise, if exchange rate increases (i.e. Naira devalue drops), even if crude price in dollar$ remains the same, the increase in official exchange rate means an increase in final pump price of the products on the street. So yes, with exchange rate currently at over N400/$, if crude price jumps to $100, pump price may hit up to N250.

In the last few months, the exchange rate has increased (because of the lack of forex caused by covid palaver) and in the last few weeks, global crude prices has also increased. What that translates to is an inherent increase in pump price. The fact that an increase in pump prices hasn't been announced yet means that the govt is still bearing the price difference occasioned by the recent increase in crude price (in otherwords, govt is subsidising).

ceaser:
I sincerely hope the Chines will not give them money again, at least for now. Not until things are looking up for the government economy-wise. Or till when they decide to cut loose their excesses and overbloated emoluments - both the legislature and the executives I mean.

If not, what they'll do is collect the money, construct a sunatandard rail to Niger republic, swallow the remaining dollars and hoard them against 2023 elections.

China does not give cash loans; it's strange that a lot of people commenting here arent aware of this...

China builds the infrastructure and you pay them back with cash, so how exactly do the politicians get hold of the loan money to steal if china doesnt give cash?...

Chinese loans are the safest loans past and present Nigerian governments have taken cos we get to actually see the completed infrastructure; our filthy politicians cant steal the money.

sulaak:
The Calabar to Lagos is not a priority. We can use shipping and road to move goods between the East and West.

Lagos -Ibadan - Kano
Port Harcourt - Enugu- Maiduguri

Why exactly do you think it's okay to move things between east-west by road, but it's not okay to move things between north-south by road?

realstars:
I Dont Overstand It, When Blame Game Was The Firs Tearm Agender, Then The 2nd Tearm Is Next Level Of Insecurity,?

I'm not sure I understand what you've written here; maybe you might want to check autocorrect function in your phone. What's the connection between "level of insecurity" and what I wrote earlier?

Also, whats the link between 'blame game' and what I said earlier? Someone said ApC wants to sell Nigeria to China; I pointed out a flaw in that statement being that more than half of the money Nigeria currently owes China today was borrowed under PDP, so it doesnt exactly make sense politicising the issue along apc vs pdp lines cos both are guilty.. Is that what you call blame game?

2mercy:
https://www.herald.ng/kaduna-farmer-arrested-for-feeding-herdsmans-cattle-poisoned-cassava/

A thief walks into my house, steals and eats my food.

Thief dies later cos the food was poisoned and now, the Nigerian authorities arrest me for poisoning the food which the thief stole and ate?

Imbeciles in power!

realstars:
Do I Hear You Well?

Yes very well.

chiemmanuel:
the only winner here is China

Nigeria desperately needs the infrastructure and will be a major winner if our leaders manage the infrastructure properly.

realstars:
so dem no give the money again? or dem no rich agreement, or we the masses no gree, or una don loot the money?

Obasenjo (PDP) Paid all dept that Nigeria owe'.

Yaradua (PDP) sustain the growth.

Goodluck (PDP) Sustain And grow the economy, and make Nigeria nxmber one in Africa.

Buhari (APC) borrows trillions from china and only service it once, then pushed it to the next level.

Now Who will pay all this Dept,?

More than half of Nigeria's current debt owed to China was borrowed under PDP.

GamalNasser:
You can't borrow someone's money without the persons permission , doing this is outright armed robbery...Dormant account is a faux there is nothing like that ..No account can be said to be abandoned when all accounts have Next of Kin ...why are banks not informing next of kins as the law suggest

But thinking of it, banks do this all the time (i.e. take the funds you deposit and use same for business) without you even knowing it. Most important thing is that whenever the owner of the funds decides to withdraw their funds, the bank would provide the cash.

If there's any party that should be worried about this, it's the bank whose access to liquid cash would be reduced. But then again, lending is the standard business of banks; they lend the cash from their vaults to the govt and then the govt pays back with interest.

mabea:
Y'all often attribute every success of this administration to Buhari even though the foundation was laid by Jonathan but when it's the other way round you don't waste time reminding us how Jonathan started it all. Let's stop this bac and forth comparison because Nigeria is bigger than both Buhari and Jonathan and also not about we against them

I wouldn't attribute anyone's success to someone else and neither would I blame anyone for the indiscretion of another. I don't go about hailing any politician cos I havent seen any admin worthy of my praise. The only reason I mentioned GEJ in my earlier comment was because of the person who hailed GEJ on the tariffs and cursed Buhari; I simply wanted to point out that the current tariff hikes we see today were agreed and signed by the GEJ during the privatisation, and there's little to nothing the succeeding govt can do about it, except either paying subsidies or reversing the entire power privatisation (which would come with a staggering cost and stifling legal consequences).

By the way, regarding the trains even, the railway modernisation plan was developed and approved as far back as OBJ's time; the first standard gauge track was also laid during that time between Warri and Ajaokuta (i.e. the line which was completed and I think commissioned just recently), so you cant really even call the railways a GEJ project - govt is a continuum.

mabea:
Hope you say the same about the rail revolution

Say what exactly?

desmond2pk:
I used to pay N5,O00 under Jonathan. Now,,i pay N60,000 and I am still using generator.
It will never be well with anyone that,supported or voted for buhari.

Jonathan was the person who as far back as 2013/2014 signed this privatisation agreement and approved this phased increase in electric tariffs which you are seeing today. There isn't much Buhari can do to reverse it except the FG starts paying electricity subsidy to power companies..

Jake19:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM7VPWot4gI

The singer had called the man to inform him that he is one of the lucky winner of the ongoing zoom promo. The superstar who is the host of the show was startled when the man received his call and told him to get out that he is not peter Okoye.

He wrote on his Instagram handle:



https://www.instagram.com/tv/CJpzBBlF7Z6/?igshid=71qmhlzi490f

In a country where almost half of its population are scammers, and where just about every single human with an active phone line has received scam calls before, why exactly should Peter or any normal Nigerian feel surprised that people doubt the genuineness of his call?

thebosstrevor1:
Even though it is true that there are paternity frauds in our society, the reality is it is not so much like how social media are publicizing it.

Nigerian dna market is unregulated, dna is your human footprint, your personal data. Dna is not only about testing paternity but it can be use for many things.

I believe there is a plot on Nigerians by some Dna tech companies in Nigeria to raise the discussion about DNA Test in our society because they want to create a DNA bank For Nigerians.

For instance, there is a company called 54gene in lagos that is building an African DNA bank, the company raised almost 15 million dollars from Bill and merinda gates foundation. The company claim that the Greater availability of African genomic data could lead to medical breakthroughs for the African’s 1.2 billion people.

As far back as 2019, the company has almost 60,000 dna samples of Nigerians in their Bank, in addition, the company is based in Washington DC and Nigeria.

How many of you are concerned about your privacy, don't let social media discussions fool you, some of these dna companies might be the ones sponsoring the discussion so that people can go for Dna test, soon they will gather your data and also sell it to the highest bidder in the United states or to law enforcement agencies.

People should know what they spread online, you might be claiming woke, understand that your privacy matters and that anybody who has control over your dna data has control over you.

Privacy? If someone has my DNA data, can you give me just one reason why that is something I should be worried about?

Rossintii:
The person lying down to be the CIA's bi..ch is telling others to see a psychiatrist. Comical.

You actually need a native doctor, to cure you of the jazz whites did on you to make you an unquestioning donkey for their machinations.

Lol... when you finish barking, you should go yake your drugs.

Rossintii:
Oh please shut your trap.

I'm not one of of those who ''complain Nigeria is a useless country''. YOU ARE.

So, don't come here projecting.

And we are not so desperate for 'liberation' that we will succumb to the machinations and manipulations of FOREIGN INTERESTS whose IMPERIALIST INTERESTS cannot possibly align with OURS.

If you're too thick and dumb to see the basic logic of that stance, you need to go get a refund on your education, because it was years wasted.

I'm sorry sir, there's nothing wrong with my education; rather you should be the one to go check your psychiatrist for help.

The only reason Nigeria is and will continue to be a useless shithole nation is because there are too many Nigerians who reason like the Op.

Everyone sits in their homes complaining about how Nigeria is a useless country. But the very few people like Sowore who for 25 years have braved the odds and dared police bullets by trying to speak up, instead of being supported (or at least just ignored), they are being vilified and insulted by the same Nigerians who keep lamenting behind their keyboards everyday about how bad Nigeria is.

Oluwasaeon:
You mentioned he's been smoking when you people were younger. I guess you leave him and let him be, as long as it's in moderation. Weed is not bad. You're lucky to have such a gangster dad

Besides the fact that we were born into a world at a time when weed smoking is considered 'Irresponsible', has his weed smoking in any way or manner affected his ability to cater for his family as a man? If the answer is NO, then you should stop worrying yourself cos he's never going to stop. If you don't like it, the best you can do is make sure you don't ever indulge yourself in it. Leave the rolling stone to keep rolling; there's a lot of stress in Nigeria and some of these things are more like mental therapy for those who indulge without 'abuse'.

This same girl was reported to be 23 few years ago when she contested a beauty pageant; now she's celebrating 23 again with a car gift from imaginary fans.... Amazing how humans feel comfortable living fake lives - fake age, fake boobs, fake butt, fake hair, fake lashes, fake non-existent fans etc... But I guess one man's meat is another's poison.

Bless her!

Whiteangel1234:
Igbos are Travellers it make more economic sense to link the South East with this so called Buhari Train for easy accessibility all over Nigeria .

Thousands of Igbos travel in and out of South East Daily

The railways are expensive and are being built with loans, one at a time. In the coming years, more will be built, and it will get to the south east. For now, we only have 2 main ones; the one built in the FCT and the one built in the commercial capital Lagos.

Higher oil prices, higher revenue but higher petrol prices. I'm sure Nigerians would be visited with another pump price review by January.

As usual, big men hardly go to prison. Even when they do, they always come out early.

...and we still have myopic fellows who dont understand why the Naira is worth nothing today.

N400 billion!!!!! This would be the icing on the cake.