₦airaland Forum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx9wLvJhoUI

Can Buhari or Tinubu talk like this

raumdeuter:
This is the same ESN that Obi the habitual liar claimed was created by the governors in the East



https://www.nairaland.com/7409129/south-east-governors-meet-enugu-raise

That was a stoopid statement from Obi saying the governors created ESN

Hope they are dealt with severely

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
commercial drivers embarking on strike in lagos...


some people go cash out

Agbero system of tax collection need to stop in Nigeria

See as men pushed Bangkok to number two

PDPGuy:
Naira has further plunged to N775-$1.. Diasporans have never had it so good, but the rate is terrible for people in Naija

See me sending emails to my two Nigerian banks so I can start internet banking or something

I just changed all my passwords… Damm

OasisX:
.... but do come home at least once in every 2yrs.

No wonder
APC government didn’t even hit you

OasisX:
Sorry bro, your phone is gone. My Home was burgled last year when I visited the Country. I did all I could to track it. Even paid Police Officer 20k for tracking.

Contact a Brother working with DSS, yet they couldn't find it. They told me they've replaced the Keypad Chip, thus IMEI code has been distorted.

So you not in the country sef

raumdeuter:
To travel anywhere you will be going into a different culture and you need to be careful and not assume their rules are like yours.

See how Brittany Griner got into trouble in Russia because she decided to take a vape because its legal in America

For example all the freedom you enjoy in America and Australia you cannot do that.

If 2 men or women are kissing in America people go look away, Are you sure people will look away if you do that in Nigeria?

So you cannot come to Naija and demand people look away and abide by your own standard

My point exactly… Even though we should always abide by the laws of the countries we are visiting, you can end up being a scape goat for the most minor issue.

Brittany Griner is getting like 9years and you can just sense it’s political….. US won’t do that to a Russian

raumdeuter:
Dubai is a beautiful country at least the part tourists are exposed to

Living and hustling there is a different thing though

It’s good for picture taking and riding in the deserts but the idea you might get arrested and not get a fair trial should be noted.

You mistakenly kiss your wife in public…. Boom jail that man

I’ll probably go with a different passport one day sha, maybe na naija news Dey deceive me

seankafor:
Omo naija peeps dey fall hands ahswear

https://www.nairaland.com/7402654/dunchi-lar-nidcom-statement-nigerian/1#117892035

How d fvck will you allow these pigs treat you like this?

See small Dubai of yesterday oo

I always wondered why people travel to Dubai… never freaked me

If you want to holiday or hustle, go to countries that a least respect human rights

Their own citizens never even get right finish, it’s Africans they’ll be bothered about

immortalcrown:
iPhone has value. It is very rugged and durable.

Any day I have enough money to get a Samsung phone and an iPhone, I will get an iPhone. I am not saying iPhone is the best brand of smart phones. But I know iPhone truly has value. iPhone is the most rugged brand of smart phones. With severely crack screen, it can still work. iPhone 7 and later versions of iPhone are water and dust resistant. Android is more vulnerable to virus and hack. Apart from Samsung, no other brand of phone has OS and camera quality that can challenge iPhone. Counter these points with facts, if you claim iPhone has no value.

Those who claim iPhone is overhyped are either ignorant of iPhone features or those people are indirectly expressing jealousy for iPhone owners. It is true that most Nigerians who use iPhone choose the brand just to brag, they don't need and cannot utilize up to 60% of iPhone features. Yet they buy iPhones just for show off. But it doesn't mean iPhone is not wonderful.

The only reason I don't have iPhone now is because I don't want iPhone as my only phone and I cannot afford two quality phones now. iPhone is very expensive to acquire and maintain. This is why many iPhone users in Nigeria use Android charger (many of you call it charger head) for their iPhones. Some of them can't even buy Apple USB cable (many of you know it as Apple Chord). They always borrow the cable or try to steal the cable. Most of those Nigerians can't even afford to pay for Apple music. Most of them use Oraimo headphones for the iPhones Oraimo is not bad but combining it with iPhone is like using Toyota rim for Benz.

I, as a guy that is yet to be rich, don't want iPhone as my only phone because of my environment and what I do with my smart phone. I don't have an Apple laptop for quick and smooth sharing of files between an iPhone and my laptop. My laptop is Windows. Snapdrop for iOS and Android does not work as well as airdrop for iOS and iOS. And I cannot afford to use internet data (subscription) for everything. Otherwise, I would have bought an iPhone and use cloud storage space to share files between my Windows laptop and my iPhone. Also most of the people around me use Windows and Android and I constantly share files with those people. This is why I have been using Samsung for years. I have bought at least 3 different Samsung phones for myself. The last one I got cost almost 300k and I know I can use less than that amount to get a used iPhone 12. If I want iPhone as my only phone, I could have gotten one already.

IPhone is really durable… I wanted to get the 14 but my 11 is still performing so well and very clean… Hard to leave it

Plus the smooth interface and security features…

pamcode:
[left][/left]Kai. How the mighty hath fallen. Lost by a point despite captaining foden. Shame on me.

You had Haaland but captained Foden

600…. God bless Nigeria

GloriousGbola:
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/rice/reporter/can

maybe obainojazz can show us the nigeria exported vs imported rice scales - since he is celebrating food insecurity and thinks it is normal to import all your food

Canada spent half a billion dollars importing rice and you think it’s just to have varieties… you are a clown

You are a bigger clown for lying I said we should import all our food.. we already have garri, corn etc and we can improve on our rice production

Look at the screenshot you posted and see a steady decrease in US import… that’s long term planning

You don’t make a decree banning import of rice and since it has been implemented… we are yet to see any change… price keeps getting higher

Rice that’s the cheapest thing in other countries.. what’s your salary and how much is a bag of rice

Segedinho:
Oga...you just don't have to reply every post cos at times yiur2 reply makes u look devilish i swear...


Do you think if Naija rice is 15k per bag people will think of foreign rice going 4 46K or talk about its impacts ....?

Presently local rice is 40k wch cannot be overlook......

When trying to fix what is not even an issue...you start it slowly......

What is d sense in shutting d door to rice importation why you are not strong enough to feed yourself...

Jonathan was cursed for corruption but food wasn't much of an issue....

It’s obvious but dude is blind to issues

GloriousGbola:
you must have done a lot of desperate googling before you settled on australia, a nation with very hostile environmental conditions

why did you not list us, uk, canada, japan?

on the one side, you are all wailing about unemployment, but on the other side, you are supporting importation of everything - which places jobs in the hands of the foreigners . no nation becomes wealthy running importation. if peter obi comes in without a plan for indigenous production, but more importation prone business - on the excuse that it is too hard tom locally produce, you will see the naira drop to n2000

In your mind, the whole of Australia is a desert… Canada, US and UK all import rice so choose another story mate

Na wa… Have to scroll down to see some people

A40:
This is what happens when you have people in power that don't possess any form of human kindness and compassion

How do they expect the average person to survive growing costs of gas, electricity, food, rent at the same time without commensurate increase in income

These guys don’t care, previously if you lament…. DSS will bully you like we a communist country

APC came to kill, steal and destroy

A40:
It's not possible to defend this government and sound like a sane person. In a country that has not managed security you're talking of farming. How do you farm with herdsman threat on your neck everyday, to transport your produce to the market or cross country with fear cos of insecurity

No plan no coherence everything is just to ban, ban, ban

When you want to fix something that’s not broken, you better make it better.

As it stands, price of rice is never going down but minimum wage will remain the same

GloriousGbola:
you are absolutely right. it is better to let this country go completely bankrupt

let us continue with importation economy. let us import even toothpicks, rather than have native industries

the countries people are all japaing to for economic succor , do you see them importing basic foodstuff?

where do you think all this pressure on the naira is coming from?

maybe dangote should also subscribe to that thinking - why should i build a refinery when there are pipeline vandals, hostile communities, etc?

. Countries people japa to ensure security for their farmers and still import rice

You stop importing food when you have the capacity to produce excess…

90% of rice eaten in Australia is still imported while they slowly increase their own production.

We’ve not even produced toothpick enough for 200million people, it’s rice they are banning

GloriousGbola:
as long as this country continues to import items that can be made here, the naira will continue to slide against the dollar.

importation economics is not economic policy. especially for a country with only one stable export

importation is NOT viable business - and it will fk up your country in the long run. this is already happening.

the government has the right idea, but the wrong implementation. or maybe it is NIGERIANs as usual, who fked it up because importation is quick and easy money. setting up a farm, building a rice mill, setting up distribution channels - this takes time, discipline and money. but bringing in a container of rice - quick money, but at the expense of our dwindling reserves, and our food security

Politicians with billions in looted funds did not see it fit to start producing rice…

Why won’t price go up when there’s scarcity and in our case, government created the scarcity and still did not intervene

An oil producing nation without light and imports petrol suddenly wants to raise a magic wand and farm rice to feed 200million people

If you had a billion dollars, would you risk farming in Nigeria with the farmers and herdsmen clashes…

larride:
While I agree that people should be able to buy and eat whatever they want as long as they can afford it, theres nothing wrong with a protectionist policy if done at the right time.

The problem was that the ban on imported rice should've been gradual. Though the ban has helped farmer greatly and has greatly improved our local production but it's still not yet enough to feed the whole population. Without the ban, the local farmers and investors cant compete with Thai rice because it's cheaper to import it than to produce here so the govt made a decision to protect local farmers from going out of business.

The main reason why price of rice is currently soaring is basically because of Arbitrage.

My point exactly… we are not there yet to be banning rice importation.

It’s just like telling a sick person not to see a doctor yet and instead wait for his sibling in med school to graduate and treat him.

Our decision makers are not bright

sod09:
But that's exactly what you mean when you started substituting other food for rice

I gave up myself…. Food that should be the cheapest thing, government use bad policies kill am

OasisX:
.... hence we should keep importing rice? Slowly but surely we'll get there. Rice is not the only food we can eat; cassava, garri, ewa and co are there.

By the way, Imota Rice Meal is 98% completed and will begin Operations soon. Its capable of 32 metric tonnes per hour. 768 metric tonnes per day. 20k+ metric tonnes per month - though at full Operation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0sviZ3wgSo

Kebbi grow rice, Lagos mill and package it.

So what’s bad in importing rice… how do you ban rice importation when you currently can’t feed 1/4 of your population.
Next year, the price of petrol will go up and Nigerians will have to pay more for not just food but every other thing.
Any serious country makes food the cheapest, even the west negotiated with Russia to allow grain pass.

Your statement of we should suffer till we get it right is wrong cos when will they get it right… we don’t even have light after all the promises

OasisX:
If you care to know why Rice is getting expensive, it's because we are moving from consumption to production.

In 2020 we imported 5,050 Metric Tonnes from Thai. It fell by 98.4% to 15 metric tonnes between Jan - July, 2022 as against 957 metric tonnes imported in 2021.

We've got to sacrifice till we get it right. Let's grow what we eat. Let's save Naira, let's save Naija!

http://www.thairiceexporters.or.th/export%20by%20country%202022.html

What kind of statement is this… can we even produce enough rice to feed Alimosho local government.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Uruguay,
Austria,
Australia &
Belgium all do have mandatory voting yet they're not dictatorship

You get fined $20 in Australia

izzou:
[color=royalblue]What we are seeing now is the result of decades of hardwork and strategic planning

These guys select the niche that they want to dominate...Mostly IT, Engineering and healthcare.

They also behave like a cult wherever they go. They have strong attachments to their culture and traditions. So, it is easier to keep in touch with each other in a foreign land, and also network too.

I don't really think population played any role. Nigeria is bossing every country in Africa in terms of population, yet we have achieved little strides in getting to the top[/color]

The Indians you see abroad are the best of the best… their parents know they are book smart before even sending them abroad…
These guys in those top tech firms have lived in the Us or Uk for quite some time… they were not hired from India.
Unless Nigerians and Africans travel like them, we might not get to the same level
UK that’s filled with our politician kids
US, once people can’t pay tuition…. They abscond and marry oyibo
Canada is good for Nigerians but how many big tech firms are there
Australia is a blue collar country… the village of the west

Donjazet2:
Really obaino You literally highlighted my own response to his insults. Who threw the very first punch here today? I keep saying you shouldn't let this people gaslight you or just be subdued due to their ganging up.

They are a gathering of fools with ill intention. Don't put yourself in a position where you have to defend statements like these.

Nihilist insulted your family today first??

raumdeuter:
They are 1 billion, Nigeria is 200M so we are one-fifth of them. So if we go by ratio we should have one-fifth of their success thats Nigerian alone, African generally should match them gven we have over billion African

2. India is also a poor country some places there are like Ajegunle. But when they get here. Almost all the rich neighborhood here you will find Indians

3. They take academics seriously, Their parents are like Naija parents they push you towards certain careers and even punish kids for not excelling. Which goes to your point that hardly will you find Indians studying Arts, but once you have a high paying career, they flood there. They barely even do Nursing. Its only Doctors, Pharmacist, Investment Banking, IT

4. In school they do collaborative effort. Even when they get their first jobs they still live together and save money
My realtor once told me Indians are bad renters because in 1year they will buy their own house but Americans can be renters for 10yrs because they never save enough. But Indians have a saving target and they will make it

The last part, you rent to one and five different families move in… seen that a lot.
There are probably many factors one can point at, they are competitive, read good courses, travel to the best countries for study and still stay grounded in their communities
Most Nigerians I meet here are just happy to japa, few will want to continue the academic line
Nigerians are not bad as well, we have Okonji Iweala at world bank, we’ve had some great guys in Science/Medice I reckon

Donjazet2:
When you opened up about how you were molested as a child and how it damaged you as a person, was that premium shalaye?

When you described to the world how your wife's vagina and how wide it was, was that premium shalaye?

When you were ranting as to how your father abandoned you, was that shalaye??
Oga, drink your medicine you've been cautioned severally.

I believe this is what started it today….
I’m all for Tinubu and APC banter once a while but shouldn’t create enemies because of politicians

Donjazet2:
Where did I do this obaino, don't let this evil people succeed in gaslighting you.

They are trying soo hard to bring me down to their level.

Go back 3 pages today and tell me who attacked who first?

Also, show me where I have denigrated an entire tribe. Tell me which tribe I denigrated or something remotely similar to these posts below where someone is saying igbos are ugly, igbos are transgenders and the rest.

You've allowed these evil people gang up and subsume this space.
These people have tacitly made this a space where Tinubu matters are favorable and Obi is consistently downgraded.

Every single person knows that obi's candidacy is better than Tinubu's candidacy. And the best path for our country moving forward but you see how these people poison the atmosphere when any Obi issue is discussed.

Again don't let yourself be gaslighted by these individuals. They are deceitful. And they don't mean well for our country. Enough said.

raumdeuter:
Nihilistjnr afrodoc2 gloriousgbola izzou, joezinho everyone Why do you think Indians are so successful abroad

See the below, How can Nigerians and Africans get to this level

There are more than one billion of them, so the probability of attaining such is higher than the rest.
Secondly, they are well traveled and not just to japa from poverty… but they collect student loans from their banks and study courses that will bring them sure success.
Never met an Indian studying art in Australia, they go for IT, Engineering and so on
I believe there’s a conscious effort from their government to see them dominate cos the student loans they collect is a big factor… they come here and study only working to pay rent and feed as tuition is covered… then they apply to the big four firms where the IT people are probably Indians as well
Took me few months to get a job when I landed but you go to OTR here, the biggest petrol station and you see Indians barely a week old already have jobs cos they own all of these things
Finally, diversity is a good inclusion in sustainability reports and since most companies want to look good… guess who’s waiting to grab such opportunity