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afrodoc2:
Probably Shettima. That guy no look like person wey go gentle when such an opportunity comes along. Plus i don't think the North will be happy for another Southerner to get the top job and stay for another 8 years making it 12 years of Southern rule.

With Wike, the north would not believe that he will agree to serve for only four years. So, if push comes to shove, the northern caucus of the APC may settle for someone like Fashola, who is one of Tinubu's staunchest disciples, and who is not as garrulous as Wike, to serve one term before handing over to Shettima in 2031.

clems88:
All this money wey go just dey bank if person die opari

Lol. Actually, she may not have more than $25 million in the bank, as net worth includes cash + investments such real estate, stocks, and valuation of any companies that the person controls

Question: Assuming that Tinubu for some reason, declines to seek reelection in 2027, would Shettima be the APC nominee, or do you think the likes of Wike, or Fashola would be the party’s nominee?

So after all, Ethiopian Airlines were begged to form a national airline for Naija; because the front page thread suggests that they were even reluctant to get involved with Nigeria Air project

Deltamani:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ZohOi5bkE?si=axlHMKfmcUfo0XvM

Wow!! This result is definitely the most shocking of this qualifying round 😳

iamoyindamola:
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The first and last time I enter gym, I no fit sleep because of body pains
Shey Ogun laye ni abeg 6packs no be for everyone

I remember the first time I went to a gym, I started curling 25-lb dumbbells (I was super skinny then😂). It was when I got home that my arms started hurting, and the pain lasted for about a week. I could barely lift my hands then without feeling pain, like person wey suffer arthritis

Amigoss:
$1= 1300

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Calma,First class accountant and university of Chicago economics graduate is working

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- Pressured by the impact of higher interest rates on the mortgage business, Wall Street deal-making, and funding costs, the six largest U.S. banks have cut a combined 20,000 positions so far this year, according to company filings.

- Bank of America closed 21 branches within the first week of October

- Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings have increased by 61% this year, compared to last year.

BascoVanVeli:
Akudo is finishing strong but our midfield has run out of gas

I guess it’s the high altitude of Addis Ababa that is responsible for her running out of gas

FT

No were close to the best game that the SF have played, although general team play was improved in the second half.

5 consecutive (competitive) matches without defeat is the other positive to take from the game.

Ibime:
I don't think we understand the meaning of the above, that means say our Foreign Reserves don't exist. £20bln committed to importers and foreign companies and they haven't been able to honour any since February

Shey na PDPGuy say N2k by December, maybe before November finish oh

For context, Nigeria spends $12bln a year just a maintain the same price of Naira to dollar

I’m not sure the FG still spends that amount to defend the Naira, judging from its recent free-fall in value

Based on recent polling from USA Today, RFK Jr is on the brink of qualifying for the general election debate….

Love how Chelsea are playing with renewed Gusto!

AdisaOwala:
Jackson is a glorified Benedict Akwegbu

What a useless striker

😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Murdryk!!!!!’

Cucurella has been solid vs Saka so far 👏🏾

Ibime:
Nigerians suffering has just started. Wait till $ hits N2k. There's nothing Tinubu can do about it. A country that relies on Foreign Exchange reserves to maintain it's standard of living having no foreign exchange reserves will only lead to an inevitable outcome. Nigerians should have known there was fire on the mountain when Nigeria was trying to defacto borrow foreign reserves from Afrimex. That means say water done pass garri and PWC calculations on the state of our reserves is true.

Sanusi words come to mind.

“I can only plead with the people to endure the hardship, and those who have the means to help the downtrodden should do so.

It will hit 2k by December

The prosperous and wealthy American middle class of the 1950s and 1960s was a historical abnormality and it is never coming back.
Boomers just had a super good time for a couple of decades because of circumstances that we can't repeat and many people in the US really struggle to wrap their heads around this notion.

A large and affluent middle class is the cornerstone of the American dream. A dream in which anyone with a high school diploma and hard work should easily afford a nice house in the suburbs, 2 cars and a nice vacation with the family to a cool place once a year. Americans assume that this is the way the universe should work. That things were always like this, and that Americans have the "God given right" of the American dream.

However, this reality of a exceptionally wealthy and prosperous middle class by global standards is NOT the norm or the natural way of things, but a by product of a very unique and relatively recent set of historical circumstances, specifically, the end of World War II. At the end of the second world war, the US was the only major industrial power left with its industry and infrastructure unscathed. This gave the US a dramatic economic advantage over the rest of the world, as all other nations had to buy pretty much everything they needed from the US, and use their cheap natural resources as a form of payment.

After the end of world War II, pretty anywhere in the world, if you needed tools, machines, vehicles, capital goods, aircraft, etc...you had little choice but to "buy American". So money flowed from all over the world into American businesses.

But the the owners of those businesses had to negotiate labor deals with the American relatively small and highly skilled workforce. And since the owners of capital had no one else they could hire to men the factories, many concessions had to be given to the labor unions. This allowed for the phenomenal growth and prosperity of the US middle class we saw in the 50s and 60s: White picket fence houses in the suburbs, with 2 large family cars parked in front was the norm for anyone who worked hard in the many factories and businesses that dotted the American landscape back then.

However, over time, the other industrial powers rebuild themselves and started to compete with the US. German and Japanese cars, Belgian and British steel, Dutch electronics and French tools started to enter the world market and compete with American companies for market share. Not only that, but countries like Brazil, South Africa, India, China, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, South Korea and more also became industrialized. This meant that they were no longer selling their natural resources cheaply in exchange for US made industrial goods. Quite the contrary, they themselves started to bid against the US for natural resources to fuel their own industries. And more importantly, the US work force no longer was the only one qualified to work on modern factories and to have proficiency over modern industrial processes. An Australian airline needs a new commercial jet? Brazil's EMBRAER and European Airbus can offer you products as good as anything made in the US. Need power tools or a pickup truck? You can buy American, but you can also buy South Korean, Indian or Turkish.

This meant that the US middle class could no longer easily outbid pretty much everyone else for natural resources, and the owners of the capital and means of production no longer were "held hostage" by this small and highly skilled workforce. Many other countries now had an industrial base that rivals or surpasses that of the US. And they had their own middle classes that are bidding against the US middle class for those limited natural resources. And manufacturers now could engage in global wage arbitrage, by moving production to a country with cheaper labor, which killed all the bargaining power of the unions.

If everyone in the world lived and consumed like what the average American sees as a reasonable middle class lifestyle (i.e. drive an F-150 or an SUV, families with multiple cars, living in a house in the suburbs, high meat consumption, etc...), it would take 4.1 Earths to provide enough resources to sustain that lifestyle. But we don't have 4.1 Earths, we have just one. And unlike before, the USA no longer can outbid the rest of the world for those limited resources.

That is where the decline of the US middle class is coming from. There are no political solutions for it, as no one, not even Trump's protectionism or the Democrat's Unions, can put the globalization genie back into a bottle. It is the way it is. Any politician who claims to be able to restore "the good old days" is lying. So yes, the old middle class lifestyle of big house, big car, all you can eat buffet, shop until you drop while golfing on green grass fields located in the middle of the desert is not coming back no matter what your politician on either side of the isle promised you.

We are going back to the normal, where the US middle class is not that different from the middle classes from the rest of the world. Like a return to what middle class expectations are elsewhere, including the likes of Europe, Japan, South Korea and Malaysia. Their cars are smaller. They don't change cars as often. The whole family might share a single car. Some families don't even own a car and rely on public transportation instead. Their homes are smaller. They don't eat as much meat and their food portions are smaller.

They are not starving. They are not living like peasants. But their standard of living is lower than what we in the US have considered a "middle class" lifestyle since the end of World War II.

Now, that is not to say that there isn't a lot of inequality in the US or to deny that policies are needed to address that inequality. But my issue with most of the "give us equality" folks in the US is that they imagine the rich being taxed so that they can finally afford that house in the burbs and the F-150 in the driveway like their parents were able to. That is NOT going to happen for the reasons I've already explained. No amount of taxation and public policy will make that happen. That version of the middle class is never coming back. Where I see public policy for wealth redistribution having an active and effective role is making healthcare more affordable, making the cities more walkable and livable so that young Americans can transition from the suburbs to smaller and more affordable homes in dense urban neighborhoods where cars are not a basic necessity to earn income. Our middle class will become more like other countries' middle classes. That cannot be changed. What we can aim for is having our social services and social safety nets more in line to what exits and is available for the middle classes of those other countries.

Deltamani:
And she plays mainly as an Attacking Midfielder/ Winger..

Nice
She will definitely be a good addition to the team’s creative midfield options

chrisooblog:
Fun fact:

Do you know anytime Nigeria has beaten or drawn with CIV we've gone on to play in the finals of the AFCON winning 3 out of 4 finals.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking

I am thinking victory 😁

inoki247:
Lol we go soon start another maths like this...


If team A beat team B 5:0 the we qualify buh if dem play 3:1 we don go home....

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Jeez the Scots are 20 mins away from Euro qualification. I don’t know how much more pressure they can withstand

fredoooooo:
D linesman at old trafford is my friend

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mostob:
What are the criteria please?

I don’t know yet
But here are the slot allocations for the 2025 Women’s Futsal World Cup:
AFC: 3 slots
CAF: 2 slots,
Concacaf: 2 slots
CONMEBOL: 3 slots
OFC: 1 slot
UEFA: 4 slots, and the host country will receive 1 slot.

FIFA will introduce a new women’s futsal World Cup tournament in 2025.. I wonder if any of our SF players would be eligible

IjeBos:
Agreed that they would just ignore the rules (Republicans are good at that), but disagree that Trump would be speaker. There are too many Republicans who won seats in moderate (swing) districts for that to happen. Can't imagine them going to their constituents in say a swing district in NY, and explaining they thought it was prudent to elect a person who is under multiple federal criminal indictments and a person the NY court said just committed fraud. Especially when Trump will most likely lose their districts by a wide margin. Survival would steal the day as getting reelected is the only way to continue their grift.

I get your points. You just described the dilemma that House Republicans from swing districts/Blue states face! It’s not an easy choice at all

budaatum:
WolfStreet does not do politics. And 8 the are not villians I guess neither are all the Democrats that helped them.

And dump never said anything of such, since the post requires work he can not possibly do and Gop rules disqualify him anyway.

When you consider Trump’s popularity amongst Republican voters, the House GOP may have no choice but to amend their rules to accommodate a Trump Speakership

Ibime:
That's madness

As in, I don’t understand FIFA’s reasoning in having such an arrangement🤷🏾‍♂️

2030 World Cup will be hosted in Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.
However, the South American nations will only host 3 opening matches, while the rest of the games will be hosted by the Iberian countries and Morocco

What’s up with the Lekki airport project? Why hasn’t construction commenced on the project site?

It’s over for Liverpool

iamoyindamola:
I thought they are hosting with Mexico

You’re right. But the US will host all the matches from the quarterfinals to the final.