₦airaland Forum

Zonefree:


Tinubu should just step down make this vawulence reduce. The voltage of this vawulence is higher than Nigeria current

My prayers are with Baba Emilokan. I pray God should give him the fortitude to bear this great pain.

Tinubu/APC will still win.
All these aren't effective ways of garnering votes.

pricklewane:
So rail of 759 KM only cost $4.5 billion yet no Igbo governor whether jointly or separately can think of building 10KM in the entire length n breath of Alaigbo yet those building it are the ones you are castigating. What happened to the billion Peter Obi saved why can't he use it to build train .

The ways the people think is quite funny.

Shascky33:
wil u keep kwayet? Must u keep defending rubish? Apc won plateau governorship and lost presidential in 2019. With this electoral act, power lies with the people, fvck the governors,

You just corroborated my point, there are great differences between Gubernatorial and Presidential elections especially in a State like Osun that the two will be conducted 8-months apart and has a homogeneous population.

Coldie:
A lot of these guys campaigning for Apc don’t have a reasonable and unbiased reason for doing so.

They are doing it for their immediate or selfish reasons.

They know it, they know it deep down.

U that know that you won’t benefit from these people directly but there decisions will affect u, yet u are supporting them.

Nigeria is broke, already taxes in Nigeria is already too high, they asked Peter obi how he would remedy this broke situation Nigeria is, he said his first thing to do is to cur cost of governance as in Nigeria it’s too high and expensive, for FG to build a small road it would cost over 1billion naira, they would budget billions of naira for aso rock clinic that nobody is using. What’s the use, where are all those moneys going?
They asked Tinubu how do u remedy the broke situation he said he would widen the tax net or bracket.
In reasonable countries there’s a certain amount of money u would make u are not supposed to pay tax, u can’t be earning below minimum wage and they expect u to pay tax. Everybody knows the extreme revenue drive that goes on in Lagos, in Lagos even if u are earning #5k a month u must pay tax, people who don’t have jobs would reign down on your business and want to kill u just for not settling boys inorder to own a small kiosk in Lagos, they say they are Tinubu boys. then imagine if this so called widen tax bracket by doing things like this is replicated all over Nigeria with the suffering this present administration has driven us into?


In Atikus case I know pdp would always have this irresponsible nature, if pdp comes back their first 4years they would use it to be blaming Apc/Buharis government as the reason they couldn’t perform.
Both of the same

The real campaigns have not started according to INEC guildlines.

In the 2019 presidential election;

PDP: 11.2 million
APC: 15.1 million.


What do you think the LP will get in the next 6 months when the 2023 presidential election is held?

majole:
My rough estimate for those 4 states as follows:
1. Kogi PDP 35 APC:38 LP: 25 NNPP 2
2. BORNO PDP 16 APC 80 LP 2 NNPP 2
3. RIVERS PDP 30 APC 15 LP 55 NNPP 0
4. KATSINA PDP 37 APC 50 LP 3 NNPP 10

Results of elections are usually in hundreds of thousands, not 35, 38 or 40 as you are quoting.



For instance,in the 2019 presidential election in Kogi State,

APC: 285,000
PDP: 218,000


Do you honestly think that in the 2023 presidential election which is actually 6 months away, the LP would have impressed the people of Kogi State enough to get 100,000 votes?

Abdu81:
40% north central

What is your estimated vote for PDP & APC in Kogi, Borno, Rivers and Katsina States?

IamAtikulate:
All APC 21 Governors worked with Oyetola, a sitting Governor and he still lost to Adeleke who has few PDP governors working for him.

The BVAS has taken away the Governors rigging power. The masses now have the power not over-rated governors.

Tell me how Ikpeazu working for Tinubu will make APC win? Will he tell Abians to vote for APC and they will follow him foolishly?

If Tinubu who just won APC presidential ticket couldn't convince his own people to vote Oyetola, his core loyalist, is it a Wike, Ikpeazu or Ortoms that will tell their people to vote for a Moslem Moslem ticket?

Like Reno said, nobody campaigns for Tinubu without sounding stupid.

You don't know the differences between a Governorship and a Presidential election.

Princessogaraya:
Old man dey denied his age
A lier want to become Nigeria president but God will review himself again in Nigeria.

Haba,we have suffer enough
God forbid Bathing

This is Tinubu's picture in 1991,he couldn't have been 56year old here if he was born in 1934.


MKO Abiola , Wole Soyinka and Obasanjo are far older than Tinubu. All these propaganda won't work.

Tourvew:
Tinubu is a PLACEHOLDER for Gov Shettima, the earlier you people realize this, the better.

Most of the people pushing escoBAT do not know there's an agenda to just install him by fire by force, and when he is tired and sick before 2 years, Shettima will be sworn-in as President and more Kabiru Sokoto will be hiding in his house.

Even Yaradua was way stronger than him before he became president. A sick country does not need a sick president

Every Attempt To Convert Aso Rock To Retirement Home For The Elderly & Sick , We Cancel & Destroy in Jesus Name.

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But you guys just said that Tinubu won't win?

2moroshine:
Very very sad. Another gone and some still won't have sense.

Why not condemn the evil men killing our young guys for rituals or just out of wickedness!

Even the girl is doing hook-up or outright prostitution, she deserves to live.

Hook-up girls are some people's daughters. They have families , friends and other loved ones that need them alive.

Splendid235:
I am surprise that human beings are supporting Tinubu even when it is proven that he is not qualified and also incapacitated.He has not certificates nor health assurance.

Chai!!! Who this to Nigeria?

You need to go to the courts to prove these.

tripoli007:
Interesting read ,I think one of the sons Of this ejigbadero just bought gowon estate playing ground known as “kuwaitfield “. He is vying for the post of Baale of a certain part of Alimosho ,which the Raji oba street falls in but is meeting strict opposition..wow history is good ..Heading to iyanaipaja from Egbeda .. Ejigbadero now has. B/stop

It's so unfortunate that the Federal Housing Authority could distort the original plan of Gowon Estate by selling it's playing field (Kuwait Field) especially to somebody whose father committed such a heinous crime.


It's double unfortunate that the LASG or the Alimosho LGA approved the renaming of the B/stop from BANIRE (named after one of the original Land owing Families) to Ejigbadero.


Ejigbadero had a bad reputation in that area, it will be a slap to make his son reign as 'Baale' over the aboriginal families whom he grabbed their lands in the 1970s and even killed one of them, Raji Oba.


Everything should not be about money! Let's uphold integrity.

Omoslim26:
Ok but that will not stop well meaning Nigerians to continue to speak up against such agendas so that there will be no room for such agendas to bear fruits at all.

They will speak against such based on their prejudice but other Nigerians will also support it , based on their prejudice or perceptions.

Overall, Nigerian politics will be better and religion will lose it's allure in the electoral process.

Muslim-Muslim, Christian-Christian North-North or South-South tickets will still happen, it's a question of time.

Omoslim26:
Just look at you calling a case for equity, fairness, justice and inclusiveness that drives unity in diversity religious bigotry
Will the muric and muslim community ever accept Christians to hold power for 16 straight years not to talk of Christian-Christian agenda?
Muric already made it known that they will not support a SW Christian for Presidency yet you want Christians to accept muslim-muslim agenda,tells of the kinda person you will be in reality

Who is MURIC and what is their electoral values?

Every political party want to win.

Tinubu has chosen a running mate he thinks can help him to win.
If you don't like the choice , you can vote for Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankanso whose running mate is a real Bishop.

With passage of time, Muslim-Muslim, Christian-Christian, North-North or South-South tickets will happen.

Omoslim26:
All Apc had to do was give the ticket to Osibanjo or Umahi or Amaechi then look for a Northern Muslim,but the sick shaky old desperate emilokan crooner no gree.
There is an already existing pattern for picking P/VP respect it, don't try to use our Faith as a card to score political points.
As long as Christian-Christian agenda will never be accepted by muric and the Muslim community expecting muslim-muslim agenda to be accepted makes you a dishonest person.

Both the Constitution of the country and constitution of APC clearly stipulated how a flag bearer of political parties should emerge.

The APC conducted it's presidential primaries but you are suggesting that the winner should not be given the ticket and the people who came second or third should be given the ticket, so as to balance religious bigotry?

fman:
Buhari's children are more modern than abacha's kids.
But all the same the are fulanis...
Check my signature

Abacha was a Kanuri man who was born and raised in Lagos and his wife is a Shuwa-Arab.

Ezmans:
have you seeing a state build ports before under nigerian law?

They have reformed the processes such that the FG acting through the NPA serve as the regulatory agency ,give license to any company that want to build a Seaport.


The LASG and a private investor floated the Lekki Deep Sea Port Ltd. The share of the FG is just 5% through the NPA.



Akwa-Ibom has been budgeting money yearly to build Ibaka Deep Sea Port for over 10years

Onyiridike:
Alex Ekwueme did not choose name for them.

He did.

Without names, it would have been difficult to identify the zones.


In any case, the people in that zone don't complain about the name, it's mostly people from the S/East that always complain about the name.

There is nothing abusive or tribal in what El-Rufai tweeted.
After all, you guys reported it to Twitter and Twitter said they didn't see anything offensive about it.

Using the word 'import' in the statement is a figure of speech and nothing is abusive about it.


One of my Ajebo friends once told me years ago in a jovial mood that once he finishes NYSC and gets to Canada, he will 'import' many people in his family into Canada.

Onyiridike:
And they could not choose South Central or Even Mid-West since they hate Igbos.

Does South South make sense to you?

Must you give the wrong impression that igbos must complain about everything?

How does the term 'South-South' mean hatred for Igbos , even when it was Dr Alex Ekwueme that first introduced the concept of the six Geo-political zones at the constitutional conference in 1995 as a vehicle for rotational presidency and sharing powers and projects in Nigeria?

ITbomb:
Sometimes, when a man suddenly turn cold after the first sxx, it's not always because he has gotten what he wanted, the nature of the hole may be something he couldn't cope with.
Too wide
Odour
Extra Large labia
Dryness
Too wet
Thickness
Response

Number-2 always put me off

CSTRR:
Not possible.

Even if he wins all the votes in Kano.

He will get more votes than Peter Obi.

Agitations for Biafra has been paused for the presidential election.
Most supporters/sympathizers of Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB are now the arrow heads of the OBIdients group.

By May,2023 the agitations for Biafra will resume with full force.

james078:
When you convert in official and black market rate where do you get profit?
Am just asking for a friend

For Government, the convertion is done based on the exchange rates.
The figures of export by the country was released by a Government Agency, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

james078:
I would collect the official rate if I used the official rate to buy fertilizer
Else I would sell it to exchangers that would be begging me for #600-#650 rate

Government don't do business in black market rates but use the official exchange rates.



On Government records, the dollars will be recorded based on the official exchange rates.
Ask experts in the Financial Sector.

james078:
Oga I don't know how to explain to you again I
First off why are people storing dollars?
Reason is because the dollar would rise in value compared to the naira
So if I had bought dollars at the rate of #400 and it increased to #650 rate and I sell it how much profit have I made? #250 sweet profit oga

How else you want make I spin am make you for understand?

Suppose you export 800tonnes of Cocoa to Netherlands, sold it in Dollars and the money sent to your Domiciliary account in dollars.


If you want to withdraw from the bank in Naira, which exchange rate will the Bank use to calculate your money in Naira? (CBN rates or Black mate rates)?

obaaderemi:
This thing is simple. You export cashew beans to Korea from Aba. The Koreans will not hand money to you in cash, will they? They wire your money into your account in dollars. Will the bank give you #450 or #650 for a dollar? Oya, answer.
Obi needs to take it easy with his mouth.

They think export trade is done like buying & selling at Ariara or Ladipo Markets in a cash-and-carry system.

Owopariola001:
First of all, export earnings are in dollars. Because we're paid by foreigners using an international foreign exchange which is dollars.

Even Intercontinental football transfers are done/quoted in dollars ($), while International transfers in Europe are done/quoted in Euro (€) and UK transfers are done/quoted in Pounds (£).

Another example is Gas Russian trade which was conducted in dollars ($) before the Russian-Ukraine War started.

2. As of 2021, the average official dollar exchange rate was #403/dollar, and the black market was around #500 at the highest.

3. Since the earnings are in dollars, that implies that NBS converted dollars to naira, thereby getting the #18.9trillion amount.

4. To know the amount in dollars, that means the #18.9 trillion will be divided with an average rate of #403 which equates to "46,898,263,027.295285" ≈ $47million.

When using the black market rate of an average of #500, we have about $37.8million

5. Hence, Peter Obi is either a bad mathematician, a poor economist, or just a chronic liar.

Peter Obi makes too numerous mistakes with the Statistics he always quotes which reflect his poor understanding of the subject matters.


Even if he wanted to convert based on the black market rates, he ought to have used the prevailing black market rate for 2021 (#500= $1) which will still be far higher than $30Billion, instead he said he used the prevailing black market rates of this week to calculate what Nigeria exported in 2021.

james078:
Abeg o that phone wey you get how much wey you think say the importers dey give the dollar rate
You forget say CBN ban banks from exchanging forex so no one is compelled to use official rate?
Fertilizer sells at the black market rate so everything being imported uses aboki rate abi aboki, hausas no be Nigerians again?

NBS didn't give that stat in dollar currency oga

Do you know the differences between EXPORT and import?

Esseite:
Stop being ignorant... do you think export goods are submitted to Government to be given to international trade companies.. you deal on your transactions from top to bottom while paying Government levies for various charges..

When you export, would you as a business man want to receive your payment at black market rate or CBN rate?...

E.g - you are owed $2,000 × 410 = 820k (CBN)
You are owed $2000 × 650 = 1,3m (black market)

Don jump into arguement with mentors on half knowledge, you would only disgrace yourself.

Try and be objective, the Statistics is for Nigeria as a country ,not individual business men.


The sum total of export as reported by the NBS have been converted to local currency based on Government fixed exchange rate.


Government Agencies quote Government Fixed exchange rate for their calculations, not black market rates which Obi quoted.

tctrills:
Bro doesn't be fooled. The official CBN rate is the dishonest rate. If you want to buy dollar, you can never get it at the official CBN rate so why quote a rate that doesn't work?

You don't understand this simple fact; you don't need to buy dollars when the export are sold in Dollars!


Dollar is the currency of international trade, the only reason why you need to buy dollars is because you are earning in Naira, so you will need to convert it to Dollars to IMPORT.


EXPORT: you earn in Dollars and need to convert it to Naira to use the money in Nigeria.

ThrownBack:
This is how you people destroyed the economy with your ignorance. NBS using official rates to compile their statistics is an attempt to give a good impression of a very bad economy, but the people bearing the brunt of their madness is me and you, and the masses on the streets.

It won't surprise me if you are not benefitting from this government, and you're here mounting this strong defence for their wrong policies and wrong data, only to enter market later today and buy goods imported with dollars bought at #680. In the end you still come back here and blame the traders instead of the wrong stats from your government.

Nigeria needs new leadership that will say things as they are, not sugarcoating figures to push a faulty narrative.

You are digressing from the main issues.


If Peter Obi wanted to quote the export earnings,he could have quoted it directly from the source without using misleading convertion rates.


There are multiple reliable institutions like the World Bank, IMF or Reputable Economic Journals like The Economist that publish exports of different countries in dollars.



If you take any data from a source ,alter it for any reason before presenting the data, you must disclose the alternation to retain it's credibility.