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It is better avoiding it. Most times people never drink with the intention of getting drunk!

Tinubu your bullion Vans @ bourdilion wouldn't help you! It would be better for you if you 'enjoyed' your loot quietly.

BSdetector:
You guys are really pathetic lamido played a role in removing Jonathan and won't touch an Igbo presidential candidate with a long stick... Yoruba's are evil but the herdsmen raping your mothers and sisters in the village are fulani.... you're a pathetic fool who will die of misplaced yoruba hate. Stinking flatin0

Did Lamido Sanusi say he would contest?
I believe if he does, they will probably tackle him.

From the look of things a Northerner will take over from Buhari in 2023.

Tinubu and Amaechi destroyed any possibility for "Southern unity " in 2014. Any united front in the South would take time to grow.


Nothing will convince me to vote Tinubu or his political structure.

The North would be VERY foolish to ignore the opportunity!

Was the bible written for only men? Is it a sin if women in Nigeria give?

Pat Utomi, a staunch supporter of Buhari and his failed APC has reeled out data that proves Jonathan's administration was not just better than Buhari's, it was better than late Yar'Adua's. For instance inflation was less under Jonathan. There are other things one could list. All this shows ignorance, ethnic extremism and religious intolerance made people choose a government that was bound to fail and retain them for two tenures while a much better administration was pushed out of office.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/01/17/utomi-faults-buhari-says-nigeria-better-five-years-ago/

Gboyega Akinsanmi

Nigeria’s leading political economist and Co-convener, National Consultative Forum, Prof. Pat Utomi at the weekend rejected a claim by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that Nigeria is better than it met it more than five years ago.

Contrary to Buhari’s standpoint Wednesday, Utomi claimed that Nigeria was not the poverty capital of the world seven years ago, but currently had more people living in extreme poverty than any country worldwide.


He expressed these concerns on Friday during a phone conversation with THISDAY on the rising inflation rate and shrinking debt to revenue ratio, which was as high as 99% in Q1 2020 and 95% in Q3 2020.

Buhari had, in a self-assessment report Wednesday, claimed that Nigeria was better than he met it more than five years ago while hosting the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, Revd Yakubu Pam.

While the dust raised by the president’s self-assessment report was yet to settle, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released its Consumer Price Index (CPI) with an indication that inflation rate increased by 15.75 per cent (year-on-year) in December 2020 compared to 14.48 per cent in November 2020.


Unlike the last six years, the year-on-year inflation rate was 13.74% in 2010, the year former President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office after the death of his predecessor, President Umaru Yar’Adua.

In 2011, the year-on-year inflation rate was 10.83%; 12.23% in 2012; 8.5% in 2013; 8.05% in 2014 and 9.01% in 2017, the year President Buhari assumed office.

Under Jonathan, the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was $546.7 billion in 2014, the year before Buhari assumed office. It plunged to $486.8 billion in 2015; $404.7 billion 2016; $375.7 billion in 2017; then rose to $397.2 billion in 2018 and $448.1 billion in 2019.

The official data of the World Bank put Nigeria’s 2020 GDP at $250 billion, though the bank’s projection revealed that rate might be around $360 billion in 2021 and $450 billion in 2020.

Confronted with these stark realities under the Buhari administration, Utomi, founder/CEO, Centre for Values in Leadership (CVL), said: “The truth of the matter is that Nigeria is not in a good shape. Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world today. But it was not seven years ago.”


He, also, said Nigeria “is more divided and tense today than it was seven years ago. Nigeria has been getting progressively worse. Every government has been worse than the one before it. That is the tragedy of Nigeria.”

Amid worsening socio-economic indices under Buhari’s administration, the political economist warned that national disaster was looming if the country’s political leaders did not change their behaviour in public service.

Concerned about the future of the federation, Utomi said: “I have talked about this several times. National disaster is looming. The fact is that political actors do not understand the meaning of public service any more.”


In concept, the political economist argued that public service “is a place where people make sacrifices to build a greater tomorrow” contrary to the thinking of the present political leaders at virtually all levels.

He lamented that the country’s political actors “always want their rewards on earth and right now even if it destroys tomorrow,” which according to him, was the reason the federation was descending into deteriorating socio-economic and political conditions.

Utomi lamented: “If we look at the scramble to borrow and what it is being committed to, which is not in productive activities, we know tomorrow will be scary and perhaps most uncertain. There is no question about that.”

He, however, admitted that Nigeria could still be rescued out of the woods only if political actors, irrespective of their ethnic nationalities, political leanings and religious bias, could change their behaviour in public service.

To tame the country’s intractable debt crisis, the political economist observed that the policy option that the present government should consider “is to focus any borrowing on intense production concentration.

“When you produce enough to meet that concentration will not only amortize the debt, but also will also provide you more employment and expand the economy. General borrowing can only lead us to more trouble.”

In specific terms, Utomi recommended the need for all political actors across party lines “to change behaviour. There is no point in borrowing when no investor wants to invest in Nigeria because of the behaviour of our political leaders.

“Nigeria is considered an unsafe place to invest in because of the regulatory risks. The investors are more likely to fail in business because of the actions of the government than any market force. We spend so much in infrastructure and no person comes to invest. What is the point?”

Utomi, therefore, argued that the starting point to rescue Nigeria from descent into insolvency “must be the behaviour of political leaders in Nigeria. If they do not change it, we are finished. It does not matter what else we do. One business fails everyday because of the government.

“Most of the money spent on infrastructure is unnecessary. There is private money we can attract and spend on infrastructure. But that private money is scared of Nigeria because it does not know if the next governor will come in, he will continue or discontinue with the project.

“Nigerian political leaders, quote me, are irresponsible. Quote me ten times. They are ruining the future of their children and grandchildren because of unintelligent pursuit of money or reckless pursuit of personal aggrandizement,” he lamented during a short conversation with THISDAY.


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PETAN: Elemelu's OML 17 Acquisition, a Strategic Move
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The Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) yesterday said Tony Elumelu’s acquisition of Shell’s OML 17 was a bold strategic move for the oil and gas industry in the country.

PETAN’s President, Emeka Ene made this remark in a statement he issued yesterday.

He said the bold move to acquire OML 17 “is certainly strategic from the industry perspective.”

According to him, three mega-trends have emerged from the impact of the global pandemic including deglobalisation, capital flight and digitalisation.

He said: “While we in Africa and Nigeria specifically may appear helpless, this scenario presents opportunities to grow from the inside-out.

“With this context investment in idle assets becomes an essential path to generating near team growth in an industry that has flat-lined over the last five years.

“Nigeria was only able to attract less that 5 percent of the over 74 billion dollars in FDI that flowed into Africa. The answer lies within and the OML 17 acquisition creates new opportunities for growth.

“The major concern is that the Nigerian investor recognises that the acquisition places a burden to utilise 100 per cent local services companies to develop the asset and not fall into the trap of believing that multinational companies are the way to go when Nigeria companies large and small have proved competence, delivered technology and operational excellence even at times of grave economic and environmental constraints.”

Rather than seek credible companies locally, he said there “is a tendency to circumvent the provisions of the Local Content Act through MOUs with fronts and briefcase operators.

“Local content is a 360 degrees commitment that applies to the Nigerian operator and the service company equally,” PETAN’s president said.

Expressing his joy at the purchase of such a huge asset by a Nigerian investor, Ene said he was confident that Elumelu recognised the strategic importance of the effort.

He said Elumelu, a Delta-born billionaire, “has always been in the forefront of Nigeria and Africa first. These are interesting times.”

Meanwhile, another PETAN member and major player in the local content arm of the nation’s oil and gas industry, Diran Fawibe also congratulated Elumelu.

Total Nigeria Oil and Gas Limited (TNOG), an integrated energy company founded by Tony Elumelu, recently acquired a combined 45 per cent interest in Oil Mining Lease 17 and related assets belonging to three international oil companies operating in the Eastern Niger Delta area of Nigeria.

Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Nigeria Limited, Total E&P Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited ceded 30 per cent, 10 percent, and five percent interest respectively in the lease, to TNOG.

SPDC had, in a statement, announced the completion of the sale of its 30 per cent interest in the OML 17 and associated infrastructure to TNOG for a consideration of $533m. The completion followed the receipt of all approvals from the relevant authorities of the Federal Government of Nigeria.


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Chipink:
Hahahahaha... I bet it u ain't shit and u have nothing other than a phone and a nairaland annonymois account
A jobless mofo who is always on nairaland talking rubbish is claiming Igbo gals are rushing him
We got class and only follow real men who make money and can take care of our needs I'm sure u know. And those are our amazing and caring Igbo men

Any Igbo gal "rushing" some1 like u , ask some questions about her and do a background check, u will find out something not pleasant.
My dear U CANT GET A REAL IGBO GAL talkless one rushing u see mumu

Your spellings are very poor. You need to improve on that for a start.

No, you got no class! A woman with class and self worth will take care of her needs. Most of you are whores and that is why people like me wouldn't touch toxic beings like you. It is people who don't know you girls who would fall for your artificial antics.

Some years ago your people brought your women and begged from house to house till one of our people decides to take them in as a concubine. Those are not the kind of women we will hold in high esteem.

Close to 80 percent of the whores in Port Harcourt are Igbo with a very large contingent from Imo state.

Even in terms of bride price, it would cost me more getting a bride from Rivers state. Marrying an Igbo bride would be a way cheaper option but that notwithstanding it is not worth it.

If you Igbo women are so good and your men are also very good, stick to yourselves and stop throwing yourselves at other ethnic nations.

People like you who borrowed virtually everything you call "culture" today shouldn't be talking about class. Just keep quiet and avoid confrontations because it isn't in your best interest.

loswhite:
Women are always the victims...supported by pussy men

Most times they are victims. If men like you supported what is right most cases of abuse would never have happened.

Chipink:
Lemao if gal dey rush u? With ur incoherent English?
Must be a dumb Igbo girl.
Igbo gal has class and are only ment for Igbo guys.

Tell us d name of urbvillage and stop claiming porhacourt because its a central city.

Finally ANY IGBO GAL RUSHING U has underlying issues.
Because ur head is empty

See pot calling kettle black!
What is coherent in the trash you just wrote?
Not one, not two, not three, not four!!!!
Finding people like me is their stock in trade. The will do all that is humanly possible to get married to people like me. My "village" is Port Harcourt. Are you satisfied?

Most of them are the type of Igbo girls you will never have the chance to talk to.

They chase us like bounty hunters.

Quaddafi29:
This girl deserves to be executed in a very painful way. You went to visit your boyfriend and you bout fuel of N840 and matches? Pure pre meditated murder. Who know how many people she has killed before chidinma.

No, she probably needs rehabilitation. From the little I can deduce she is a victim of paedophilia.

Forumobserver12:
Stop misinforming the public on issues you know nothing about, that's how some of you go about spreading hates everywhere....

It is something I KNOW very well, Igbo men I am close to have opened up on this issue.

Chipink:
U are a very useless man, to say this thing in a topic like this...this could have anybody from any region both the guy ad the lady.
I can undur story an igbo guy impregnated ur sister and another one took ur gf away because u were lazy to take care of her.
Go and vent ur anger on them directly.

Igbo tribe still the best

Na you useless!

If I wanted an Igbo girl I for get dem well, well...na den dey rush us!

Port Harcourt guy man like me.

I just stated the truth. Igbo have a lot to correct. They are largely a liability to Nigeria, not all, many!

valentineuwakwe:
I don't know why most politicians in Nigeria at too greedy n selfish..a country like Nigeria where ethnicity n sentiments is the order of the day, is where some on will call rotational presidency old school.
Even if its not constitutional but a gentleman agreement was reach since 1999 by the various politicians n political party to allow power shifts btw north and south.this have been going on until Yar adua death. GEJ was suppose to adhere to that agreement but selfish southern politicians lure him to contest.even wen GEJ agree and beg Northern Elders n Elites to allow him contest n promise them to go for a term in order to win his support, he still tried going for second term and the result is what we are seeing now; the north still want to rule for another 4 years after 2023..

Now who hold claims to 2023 presidency? is it the south south, wishing to complete there 2nd term....is not the north, wishing to match n finish Yar adua term.....is it the west who claim TINUBU had an agreement with president Buhari to take over or the south east who are not yet organise but are spitting fire to occupy the seat....

I pray Nigeria don't boil over by 2022......everyone is talking about 2023 while the real timebomb will be 2022..May God intervene in the affairs of NIGERIA!

Adhere to which dirty agreement?

What is "greedy" about people who produce 97 percent of a country's assets wanting to have a say in the way their wealth is being managed or mismanaged?

Does the South west that have had 8 years of the presidency and 6 years of vice presidency have 2 heads?

If it was the North would anyone even have the boldness to ask Jonathan to step down?

What is 5 years out of 60 years?

You guys shouldn't take us for dumb. We are not in anyway stupid.

SUPOL:
Okay, mention one southeastern politician who you think can handle this country. I had rochas in mind but that one be like say Na only mouth e get. His scorecard in imo state is very low. Let’s take ZULUM as VP.

Peter Obi, Kingsley Moghalu are good candidates. The only potential candidate that can match them in the South west is Akinwuni Adesina.

We can manage Ogbonaya Onu.

If you are not Igbo and you date an Igbo man anything you take eye see take am like that!


Most of them only marry non-Igbo girls who are better than them in ALL ramifications.

Other than that, they use and dump and settle for an Igbo girl when the chips are down.

Buhari you've already divided Nigeria so keep your advice to yourself.

SmartPolician:
Buhari is not doing enough to reposition Nigeria for a life beyond oil. That man was singing diversification since 2015, yet he is expending huge resources to prospect oil in the north. Perhaps they see Nigeria disintegrating in no time.

He is doing nothing! In fact he is doing all in his power to further entrench Nigeria in an oil economy.

No!, No!, No!........this is not the way forward!

Murderers, oppressors, terrorists and rapists dominate Nigeria's military.

Nothing to remember!

All I remember is Odi, Oproza, Okrika, Buguma, Zaki-Ibiam, Zaria and the Lekki shooting.

Queenlovely:
I know how this stupid portharcourt boys drive, they drive as if they have duplicate life at home

when they are high on every substance available on Earth. they turn on their music to the highest blasting oma lay . and forget they are driving.



As an atheist I sympathize with him and happy for him.

in Canada people smoke because the weather is cold, they hardly see the sun for months, i lived in Ontario for years, The white man land is cold, they have a responsible reason for smoking

but in Nigeria, frustration in killing our boys and old men. that is why they are smoking, even under the hottest sun on Earth. they graduate from abusing tramadol to marijuana, to refnoll to SK. they do the most absurd mixture just to forget their problem.

Nobody has reason to smoke. Cold or warm. Majority humans don't smoke. Those that smoke, smoke because it is a bad habit they adopted.

You come on social media and display your stupidity.

For whatever reason you have animosity towards Rivers people you cannot turn the entire Male population of a city or state to drug abusers.

I have stayed in different parts of Nigeria, until other Nigerians started coming to Port Harcourt the has orderly. The reckless driving Port Harcourt can be attributed mostly to ABA based commercial drivers who drive in Port Harcourt .

Na you and your village people go high on everything
Nonsense!

Tozara:
Lmao. How can you be so blunt!

The same clowns who emphasize black pride more than anything see any expression of overt White pride as racism and white supremacy. Idiots.

Of course, there are white supremacists. But there is a problem when it is denied that BLM has similarly empty racist vermin among its pathetic ranks.

Biden just said on TV that his administration would prioritize women, latinos, hispanics, and blacks with struggling small businesses hit hard by COVID-19. White males with similar economic conditions can go fück themselves. Imagine being that racist and divisive and still complaining about racist hostility. Is it not retärded?

These people talk about Trump’s ridiculous behavior while ignoring the cretinism of these buffoonish Democrats. Such tiring hypocrisy.

You can see how everyone thinks Trump should take full responsibility for the Capitol invasion, but never advocated such standards of political accountability when BLM burned down large sections of American cities, destroyed properties, and indulged in months of violence that led to greater loss of life, while protesting the extrajudicial killing of some criminal scum known as Floyd.

Nonsense.

It is so annoying! They make it look as if all Blacks are weak, battered and need help from the "white saviour ".

White saviour syndrome is another strand of racism. The same Black people that are quiet despite all Buhari has done and Museveni has been doing for 35 years always find their voice when it involve issues with minimum or no direct impact to their lives.

If they had sense they won't be celebrating Biden's win. Not in Africa and not in America!
Who would have benefited from a stop to illegal immigration? Black people.

Who would have gained if China shipped less goods to America? Unskilled Black workers

Who gained from Trumps decision to look inwards instead of outwards? African countries

It is from things like this you know most Black are emotional and not rational. That is why it is easy to make them work against their interests for symbolism.

Fahdiga:
It is so glaring to all that Buhari is a disaster. his record of failures will be hard to beat

I think not just in Nigeria but on a global scale.

tamdun:
That man is a white supremacist, almost all trumps supporters are...

What stops you from being a "Black supremacist"?

If you Afticans don't accept or exhalt white supremacy it will be nonexistent.

Ironically, Trump's "white supremacist" government favoured blacks more than the government of that guy with black blood who made same sex people his constituency.

Biden is a known racist. I wonder why that is important to you guys!

Look for ways to make your lives meaningful as black people. No group on earth likes people who barely add value to the world.

One military that doesn't deserve remembrance. People who kill those they are paid to protect.

Allen102:
Stop being arrogant,she is an ijaw woman from Okrika

Just as agbani is an ijaw woman from kalabari.

Okrikans and kalabaris are two different People!

Where do you see people talking about Ngwa Igbo, Owu Yoruba etc?

Ijaw is Ijaw and I don't see the need to say somebody is Okrika, Kalabari, Nembe or Mien etc.

No, I am not arrogant, there is no reason to be.

ubmech:
50 million naira or civil service job, which one will you choose?

If you lack integrity civil service job, if you have integrity 50 million.

Nigeria's civil service is all about bigotry, religious radicalism, nepotism, corruption, criminality, infidelity and all the evil vices you can imagine.

If you lack morals you can make a lot through Nigeria's fraudulent system.

It is a system that allows police officers to work as part time armed robbers and kidnappers.

It is a system that allows soldiers work as part time terrorists and gun runners.

It is a system that allows custom officers work as part time smugglers.

One can go on and on!

Elvixbeatz:
HV u taken cocaine before..!!! Or weed.. do u know sugar in d form of diabetes has killed more than those hard drugs... D problem is in d excessive use not d use

No, I won't take cocaine or Igbo because I don't associate with beings like you.

Comparing sugar with hard drugs just tells how morally bankrupt you are!

Sadly, due to decisions Britain made I am forced to share a country with beings like you.

tutudesz:
I should show you my 2 uncle's that were killed by Biafran troop in delta You see why nobody trust Igbos, you will never agree that Biafran troop killed innocent Niger Deltans but you want the world to believe Nigeria troops killed innocent Igbos.

Don't mind them! They know many of our relatives were killed in their concentration camps so they believe we would never have evidence since they had most of the bodies but God pass them.

WorWorBoy:
Anyone is not correct. Okrika is not the only ijaw clan, we have kalabari, Opobo/Nkoro,Bonny,Andoni and co.
You should have type fine Okrika- ijaw woman instead of just fine ijaw woman peace.

No, I don't and I won't!
An Ijaw woman is an Ijaw woman. I don't make those distinctions. I would have mentioned Okrika if I had to state where she is from. Other than that Ijaw is Ijaw.

Even Buhari is unqualified! That Nigerians accepted his illegality made them inadvertently accept every other illegality.

Elvixbeatz:
I jst booked this space to see some morherf**ker being tribalistic in appropriating blame to ppl trying to make a living after our dullard political classes have made making a living here an almost impossible mission...what am I even saying.. abeg later make I reach studio

No, they are not "trying to make a living...". They are destroying people's lives and families.

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