₦airaland Forum

docadams: I was lying on the bed when I logged onto this thread and going through it sent my mind back to years of wonders in Nigerian music scene especially wit 'love can make it work, dont u know I'm falling in love.... I need u, u need me' by Alex O. Tears of fond memories cascaded down my face.
Please, can somebody call my wife to tell her to leave me alone. She thinks I'm bereaved.

deekseen: Loved him so much back then. Played and danced to his music a lot. The voice, the boogie/bubble dance step, the relaxed hair and the fine face were part of his selling points.

solomon111: From the various comments on this thread,i have not seen a single logical argument against the new system.
Everybody wants to complain because Nigerians must complain and condemn.

sylve11: To be honest we the commoners r not enjoying democracy.

toba: is it a v6? try scan the car. 02 sensor may be bad or other things. scan first

rume: You come across as someone who only knows about the olympics and not someone who follows athletics as an atheltic fan(correct me if I'm wrong). I can assure you that even other competitors and other nations(journalists/athletes) will take notice of her performance. It is an African Record for crying out loud and there are not many 10.7 female runners so her accomplishment while not being an olympic medal(which she already has) is worth taking note of.
With the world championships two weeks away, it's even more exciting. Also, the diamond league events are major, money generating and a chance to race your fellow competitors. Would you prefer she did nothing and turned up at the "Olympics" expecting to win a medal without doing the work needed before?

Acidosis: Sir, you can design a convincing website such that the prices won't be on display for "potentials" to see. When they call, all you need to do is "negotiate" professionally. You can't rule out the "pricing mechanism", cos its bound to happen.

I just feel its better and its cost effective as against the cost of hiring a Marketer.

Acidosis: Sir, you can design a convincing website such that the prices won't be on display for "potentials" to see. When they call, all you need to do is "negotiate" professionally. You can't rule out the "pricing mechanism", cos its bound to happen.

I just feel its better and its cost effective as against the cost of hiring a Marketer.

deene: Ol boy. U r such a fool ooo ... Who told u dat shelly ann fraser started winning Golds overnyt

Shellz ann has been running professionally and in d shadows of Veronica Campbell for years... Okagbare started sprinting only in 2010!

Its a gr8 feat comin from an African in a race dominated by the Americans & Jamaicans... No Nigerian has ever been close to her feat (No offense to Mary Onyali n Chioma Ajunwa)
We should learn to praise our own!

And BTW make sure u post a comment when she wins a medal at the World Championships next 2weeks ... Infact 3 medals ... 100m, 200m and Long Jump!

Acidosis: Cool.

Do you have a website? Thats the first step to take if you really need a wide/wider coverage

Acidosis: What exactly is the goal and objective of the company?

Acidosis: Lest I forget,

It may not be easy to create a demand for your services, but it's very easy to create a service that meets (solves) people's demand.

This is the foundation of all businesses.

amAZEing: Which one any member of ya family don break?

wirinet: Devaluation in isolation is not the answer, it would be counter productive. Remember the arguments for SAP in 1984. The naira was devalued from about N22 to the dollar to about N80, all it caused was hyper inflation. And now its N160, has it help local production? no.

Basic economic sense shows that devaluation helps only a net exporting country to make their products cheaper in the international market, because foreigners would need less dollars to buy the same goods. but for a country like Nigeria that wholly depends on exports it will only lead to making imported goods more expensive as we would need more naira to buy the same goods.

Since we produce very little and even where we say we produce, most of the raw materials and machinery is still imported from abroad, so how would devaluation help us.



Devaluation would not stop most of the vices you stated above. Devaluation would not stop nigerian elites from travelling to dubai to buy bags, luxury houses, champagne, etc. Govenment officials and their cronies would still steal the same value in dollars, the only difference is the equivalent in naira will run into trillions instead of the normal billions.


What we need to do before we can contemplate devaluation is to reduce our dependence on imported consumer goods, especially food and clothes and encourage local production and consumption. Then we would not be so dependent on the dollar.

wirinet: Devaluation in isolation is not the answer, it would be counter productive. Remember the arguments for SAP in 1984. The naira was devalued from about N22 to the dollar to about N80, all it caused was hyper inflation. And now its N160, has it help local production? no.

Basic economic sense shows that devaluation helps only a net exporting country to make their products cheaper in the international market, because foreigners would need less dollars to buy the same goods. but for a country like Nigeria that wholly depends on exports it will only lead to making imported goods more expensive as we would need more naira to buy the same goods.

Since we produce very little and even where we say we produce, most of the raw materials and machinery is still imported from abroad, so how would devaluation help us.



Devaluation would not stop most of the vices you stated above. Devaluation would not stop nigerian elites from travelling to dubai to buy bags, luxury houses, champagne, etc. Govenment officials and their cronies would still steal the same value in dollars, the only difference is the equivalent in naira will run into trillions instead of the normal billions.


What we need to do before we can contemplate devaluation is to reduce our dependence on imported consumer goods, especially food and clothes and encourage local production and consumption. Then we would not be so dependent on the dollar.