₦airaland Forum

KosiGee:
Calm down mister. Not everyone will find this story funny.
I laughed till he saw the landlord’s daughter and the ‘three bats’...mosquitoes. Rubbish. He exaggerated a bit too much and it took the shine out of the story....then the dog coming out from the cage and chasing him and his friend!....

You believed this story?? Did you find it funny?

No disrespect to the op and all those who liked the story...

The script was badly done and it was childish.

Take it easy man, it's not that deep. The OP didnt claim his story was factual, and he didnt tell you he was a professional writer or story teller, so please save your needless criticism for elsewhere.

Talking of childish, you're actually the one who sounds childish for inferring that those who enjoyed the story believe it to be m factual. The very fact that you couldn't recognise a fictional story, but rather think it's a poor job because of some exaggerations, that already exposes how unqualified you to judge any art.

BSdetector:
Lol... rEaD mORE bOoKS on h0w tO bE a sUcCeSsfUL bUsInESs mAN....lmao.

The government issued licenses for little modular refineries produce at a really small scale but gave a highly subsidized loan and support to dangote to build and construct a single refinery in one location that would meet the petroleum needs of Nigeria and would still remain for exports... virtually making dangote the largest producer giving him a monopoly over price because he can easily crush the small modular guys because he produces x100000 of what they would produce combined... it's either you're ignorant or you're a mallam but I won't drag this argument any further.

Dangote wasn't the only one who got those subsidised loans and support from govt; all those building refineries today also got similar favours cos building a refinery (which successive regimes have been unable to do) takes off an enormous burden off the shoulders of government.

Dangote just happens to be the best at taking advantages of these kind of offers; he knows how to stroke the balls of govt., which explains why he's always being supported by all administrations, irrespective of party, tribe, religion, ethnicity etc. Even if you were president of Nigeria today, you will also desperately give all support to Dangote to ease your burden.

Ujahson85:
Before going to the East for my marriage introduction, I was skeptic because of what people do say about marriage in the East(Igbo land). But to my surprise the list giving to me was far from what people do say. Their marriage also wasn't as expensive as some part of Benue state where I came from. I was giving 3 list to choose from one or the one that is best for me.

There isnt a general rule to marriage lists. One tiny community might have their list running into millions; the next community less than 15mins drive away would have a list which N50k would fulfil. Even within community level, it depends on the family; family 'A' might cut your neck with costs but family 'B' (both neighbours within same village) would give you their daughter literally for free. Lastly, in most places, marriage lists vary depending on how wealthy they perceive the suitor to be. So if you like, drive to your in-law's place in a G-Wagon; you will probably get a commensurate list.

Kebbiprince:
Which future, when Britain is fast losing its economy, don't be deceived, stolen money maintains the UK

Uhmmm, massive industrialisation is what sustains the UK, dont be decieved too. By the way, I'm not sure how these fit into the bizarre exchange rate of £1 to over N5000 .

Hmm... never knew £1 = N5,270.... Could these Punch editors be seeing the future?

Gilbertase:
the sacrifice isnt him leaving, it is the trail he left when he was leaving. If my fathet says, dont marry this woman and i stand my ground and go ahead and marry her, it is better for me, than to go ahead and marry her and intimate the whole country while doing all that about how my family sucks. The NOISE is where he was very very unwise. Who the hell ia OPRAH wey he dey report the royal family to? Why would he insult his own heritage like that for a woman who isnt even cohesive with HER OWN family?

Oga, you aren't a member of his family and you and I haven't got a clue what he goes through. He's been lamenting and subtly rebelling against the family way back before he even met his wife; he's also previously lamented what his mom went through in the family. With all this as public knowledge, you still think his current actions are a fallout of the wife he married just yesterday?

Like I said, he wears the shoe and knows where it hurts.

Gilbertase:
what you dont understand is in the very very near future, she will leave this marriage too, and only then will Harry learn just how shameful it is to publicly villify your own family and heritage, a heritage that preceeds his great great great grandfather, because of babe. He should ask himself what earth-moving sacrifice that Meghan has made for him to warrant this sacrifice he has made. Woman wey i go do this for, maybe she go gats dash me like 7 of her vital organs..and even then, i wont bring the british royal family to public ridicule, i will simply do whatever i want to do without making any NOISE.

Silly lies and excuses..they didnt accomodate you, but they allowed you marry the prince, they were present at the wedding, they formally acknowledged your child. If they didnt wanna do any of these who will challenge/question the head of the freaking great Britain!? Her own family dey dysfunctional, she dey complain about another family. Same family that raised the man she wan die on top put. Harry will soon realise his folly, and na here we go read am, when the soup don done. Wetin concern Meghan with sanctity of marriage??

What sacrifice did he make? Leaving the royal family, the wealth, the prestige and all the toxicity and depression that comes with it? Do you realise there are people who actually just prefer a quiet simple life?

Not everyone fancies all that boring royal lifestyle (which so many out there like you admire from afar). Prince Harry has never really comformed to the royal life, so with or without Meghan, he didnt seem like someone who ever wanted all that royal burden.

Arrant nonsense!

Matawalle claims he's aware of some politicians and elites who are involved. Instead of naming the damn politicians, he's calling out a gate man?

Bola146:
1 million kill you there na by force

1 million to chop ram suya

MummyD2020:
Oga, you and I know very very well that is was not this bad. You are the one suffering from amnesia. IT WAS NOT THIS BAD. Acknowledge that

Over 300 kids were kidnapped in Chibok and thousands of other lives were wasted on a regular but you think the man was wrong for speaking up against insecurity then? So because the kidnapping is higher now, are you saying those who criticised or protested against the insecurity and loss of lives then were stupid simply because it was ONLY 300 that were kidnapped?

HotPoundedYam:
oga we gather match det time. come and lead us,
make Dem test their bullet 4 yourh body

You want 90 year old man thats been protesting and taking bullet and sleeping in prisons since the 60's to also come and protest for you? #LazyYouth

MummyD2020:
Someone should remind this man that he is part of the problem when he supported Buhari. So he should enjoy the change. Mteeewwwww

What even prompts this manner of reasoning in people? Did we not have large scale kidnapping under GEJ's time? Or are we just suffering from selective amnesia? The man criticised the govt then for insecurity, and now the man's still criticising govt for insecurity. But I guess you'd have felt better if he had remained quiet then and licked the ass of GEJ.

inoki247:
Lead wetin he don rent appartment for DSS Lodge be that...

Himself know say he no be like olden days wey he dey go Ojota go du Occupy Nigeria occupy anything now dem go du am any how...

That man you try to insult from the comfort of your laptop has been leading protests since the time of your grandfather, even under some of the harshest military regimes. The man has also spent years in prison as a result of protest. Yet at 90 years old, you want to insult him for not protesting for your lazy self?

slimjosh231:
Okay Prof, we hear you. The question is, are you going to lead the protest??

Man has been leading protests since the time of your grand father, your father and in your time. Yet you want the 90 year old man to still lead protests for you in 2021? Is that how useless the youths of Nigeria are that everything has to be done for them?

Nigerians can easily pass as some of the most bitter, judgmental, hypocritical witches and wizards on the planet...

omenka:
Ipob, graduating into the demons we long predicted they'd be. What's the difference between them and the bandits/terrorists wreaking havoc across the country?

Why kill little children?

Was this also sanctioned by Chukeu Okike Abiama?

Omenka you actually believe Ipob members or ESN, whatever they call themselves, would just go into a fulani community in Anambra and slaughter 6 children?

These people are really idiots. Bandits, bokoharam terrorist, armed herdsmen militia and all manner of heavily armed insurgent are ravaging the north and various parts of the country, unleashing mayhem, genocide and all manner of terrorism; but the stupid government and military choose to prioritise a group of people who haven't harmed anyone?

magicminister:
It’s okay to be ignorant but it’s your responsibility to educate yourself. Read the comments, see opposing views and understand their reason being on the opposing side! Don’t just be happy being stupid lol

So because I have a different opinion from you, it automatically makes me 'ignorant', 'happily stupid' and in need of education? And you think you're normal upstairs for reasoning like this? You think insulting strangers online makes you sound smart? I just feel deeply sorry for your parents who birthed a retarrded idiot.

'66 year old grandmother becomes head of WTO'

Am I the only one who doesn't exactly find anything offensive about the statement? People are just too insecure and sensitive.

adeolakemi:
even you

Meaning?

Ykc2:
where is your 1 dollar to 1 naira ?nkpi Gambia

$1 = N1, what does that have to do with the oil price and fuel price we're talking about?... Like I said before, your brain needs dusting, not buharis ass.. ezi ohia!

Ykc2:
thank god you no dey live for Canada or German na all us go suffer it even if na you dey wipe Buhari's ass every morning

So explaining that oil price dropping to $10 will cripple the economy and not necessarily reduce fuel price, that automatically means I'm wiping Buhari's ass? That's the best your brain could pick from that explanation?.. Wonderful!

What actually needs wiping is the dust in your brain; our educational system indeed needs an urgent overhaul.

Racoon:
Everything boils down to failure of the government to implement the plan it had from the beginning.The residual refineries were not revamped as nor the new ones built as promised while they continue to loot while quiet claiming the subsidy they denounced as a fraud.

NNPC continued to be a huge source of economic wastage despite huge TAM, overhead costs etc while operating @ zero-capacity.Privitize the NNPC they said no.

Pass the PIB to regulate the downstream sector & open up the competitiveness they refused.Now global oil price continue to fluctuates.This is happening under the supervision of the president-the minster of petroleum.

Not sure of the link between this your response and what I said. Someone prayed for oil price to drop to $10 so pump price can be cheap. I simply advised the person to be wary of what they pray for cos a drop in oil price will cripple the economy in so many ways that pump price would be the least of our worries.

Meanwhile, you talked about govt fixing refineries - I personally dont want govt to spend a dime fixing any damn refinery cos the inherent Nigerian corruption would never let those refineries work; I prefer that the govt sells off the refineries. But then, the govt is currently following a good approach to solve our age long refining problem; i.e. providing licences and giving all the juicy incentives (forex, loans etc.) to private establishments to build refineries. Currently there are between 5-10 refineries under construction which would end our 3 decades long refining palaver. I prefer this approach to govt spending money on TAm.

Joysticks:
Na una dey Abuja dey calculate nonsense in other to steal.

Huh? So explaining the dangers of oil price dropping to $10 automatically means I'm in govt stealing money?.... Our educational system in Nigeria really needs urgent attention... tueh!!

Bornu1stSon:
We were seriously praying that Price of Oil will rise from 40 dollars per barrel to 100 dollars as Bulhari has been complaining that fall in oil price led to his inability to build economy. We prayed day and night not knowing that we were seriously praying for more hardship.

Please God forgive our foolishness and make oil to be 10 dollar per barrel make it useless world wide so that my useless can enjoy what they have in abundance for once.

If oil drops to $10 as you pray, the forex scarcity the country would face would be unprecedented. When that excruciating forex crisis comes, Naira will drop to N1000/$ and that would in turn increase the cost of importing fuel. In effect, pump price will still rise.

An expected effect of subsidy removal...

jaxxy:
I’m not hating on dangote I have admiration for him bt based on comments I’m hearing on this particular project lets not pretend like he’s doing us any favors if the fuel price will only go up rather than down. Will the dolly drop to below N200 or back to N1 like Apc promised in 2015??

What’s are the benefits of having this refinery here really?

Dangote isnt doing just you or me a favour, he's actually doing the entire Nigeria a favour, taking over the responsibility of government which succesive administrations since 1999 have failed to fulfil. And of course, he's going to cash out massively from this favour so in essence, he's also doing himself a favour; it's definitely a win-win situation for everyone.

You asked what the benefits of his refinery are to you and to the rest of Nigerians. Firstly, just like any other industrial establishment, the benefits are simple; massive employment, more revenue to govt through taxes etc. And of course, the icing of the cake, forex savings.

Today the Naira exchanges for ~N500/$. As a helplessly import dependent country, do you know how badly that rate affects productivity and standard of living? The exchange rate is rising cos our thirst for importation keeps rising and there isnt a commensurate rise in the inflow of forex (thanks to recent oil price trends, covid etc).

Do you know that Nigeria spends almost 50% of its forex importing petroleum products? If Dangote refinery comes into full operation and we stop importing fuel (i.e. slashing Nigeria's forex outflow by up to 50%), do you know the effect rhat would have on the value of the naira and Nigeria's productivity index in general? Do you still think a fully operational Dangote refinery will only benefit Dangote?

wman:
Obailala is talking like a sycophant. In sane countries, hurful monopolies like Dangote are broken down and split into smaller companies.

Obailala here is advocating for Dangote to sell petrol at N300/liter without caring about the millions of lives that will be impoverished.

Huh? Sycophant? Its a pity you're not clever enough to understand my point. Where did I advocate for N300 fuel or where did I support monopoly?

For clever people reading this, I'm simply stating what is happening currently and what will inevitably happen in Nigeria when Dangote completes his refinery. I'm also pointing out why it's misplaced aggression to start hating on Dangote (a fellow citizen) for simply taking advantage of the successive failures of our useless leaders. Our anger should be against the useless leaders we elect.

Governments have been issuing licenses to private firms to build refineries but they refused to buold any; governments have been collecting loans for to finance consumption, but not to build refineries. Now Dangote has taken a daring step to do what no govt could do, but what you advocate for is the splitting of Dangote's companies?... what exactlt do we call that?

jaxxy:
The government can’t stop importers from importing elsewhere that pays them and then allow dangote fix pump price at N300. Don’t u wish ur country well? Must one man grow at the expense of a country? This same thing Atiku did with generator importers and sabotaged our power sector. It is criminal!

Yes I absolutely wish the country well, that's why if I'm the president, I will ban all importation of petroleum products the moment Nigeria has suffcient refining capacity to meet local needs.

It is not Dangote's fault that he is the only one building such a massive refinery to take over Nigeria's entire petrol supply; so why exactly are you angry with or hating him? Dangote isnt growing at the expense of others, he's growing because others are lagging behind 'willfully'.

Since the days of OBJ, govt has been begging and begging and begging investors to build private refineries; private refining licenses have been issued over and over again to investors. But instead of building refineries, they rather used those licenses as an authorisation to go take loans and cheap FX from banks which they ended up using to import fuel and fraudulently claiming subsidy. Those are the people you hail but you now demonise Dangote for taking such a bold investment step which even successive governments are reluctant to take?

lexy2014:
1. Are u now acknowledging that dangote is a monopoly?
2. Do u think that dangote became a monopoly because he is better than other businessmen in every sector?

Of course Dangote is a monopoly... I saw your conversation with the other guy and had to jump in. Yes Dangote is a monopoly, and he's the most successful monopoly cos he knows how to play the game better than all others.

The typical argument is that "oh he gets favours from govt, that'swhy he's successful." But in my understanding, every single businessman out there wants to get these same undue favours from govt. So then the big question is, why is Dangote always the one who gets favoured by every single govt? North, East, West, South, Apc, PdP etc.. I think the answer to this question is that he's smarter and more daring than the others.

lexy2014:
All d products u mentioned are d products he monopolised. U said "struggle to see just one product", but u ended up mentioning 4

Wherr were the other businessmen when Dangote was taking over every sector?