₦airaland Forum

Shugavee:
feminism isn’t about men or women taking charge , feminism differs from one lady to another !!! And as for me,, I hv no issue with a man taking charge ,, as far he isn’t controlling n a narcissist . N yes I believe in equal right !! It’s not a competition between men n women !!! It’s a compromise that humanity comes first !!! Treat a women the way u want to be treated !!! ,,, Feminism isn’t about a woman being in charge !!! Lazy men think feminism is about us sharing bills !! Feminism is not about sharing bills !! I do not see myself sharing bills with any man in marriage !! Lie lie !! N yes I believe in equal rights!! Ask why ? Because there is already equality in marriage .

You believe in unequal rights because if you believe in equal rights you wouldn't feel entitled to a man's money.

Men who work hard for their money don't toy with it, it is people who get their money through dubious means that play with it. The western world you girls try to imitate, men and women share ALL costs evenly.

If you want me to spend then you have to be LOYAL in ALL Ramifications. You will accept ALL I say because you can't eat your cake and have it!

What do I get from you in return?

Rozaytee:
u sound pained...Its only broke people dat rant about broke people...if u have a job and u are rich u won't have time to post dis shit u just posted ...every time women keep ranting about broke men dis and dat...no go hustle make ur own money they there

They don't even understand feminism they try to identify with, feminist don't allow men take charge. They have their own resources. If they settle for a man it is because of who he is and not material things he could offer.

Niggsrdumb:
True but 4 billion out of the total human population make less than 1.5 k dollars per annum.


Why is this so?

Lack of knowledge!

CAPSLOCKED:
What is the importance of "an almighty unchangeable changer" God, if he cannot solve simple real life matters?

All the major religions in the world have all lost their voices. They're isolating and hiding, begging science for the medicine, instead of trusting in their prayers?

"If prayers worked, Ambulances will be driving to Churches instead of Hospitals".

I can't speak for other Faiths. In Christianity God gave dominion over the earth. God expects us to spread his dominion through our actions.

Sickness and physical death was brought to this world through sin.

Only understanding who you are through Christ can return you as a human to God's original plan and purpose for mankind.

www.smhos.org

Salvation ministries (home of success)

[quote author=Niggsrdumb post=87652018][/quote]Very sure!
Nigeria's enemies are within. Those who feel they have to slow certain parts of the country in a bid for other parts of the country to catch up.

Mizwisdom:
There's no harm in trying something new, America shouldn't have the monopoly in determining other nation's prosperity. I think China has a better deal for us and should be given a chance. Yes they flood markets with their products but we get them at a much cheaper rate than America offers. In short every country no matter how good their intentions may seem, will always look out for it's own interests. We know how ferocious America's appetite was for Arab oil before it discovered it's own large reserves. No country is holy, It's time for world economy to have a new leader especially one that lives and let's others live. Even if the naira is eventually devalued, there's no need for this outcry. How does this even affect them?

Nobody stops Nigeria from prospering! Nigeria failed to prosper because it is at war with itself. Bigotry makes people promote people they hope will advance their ethnic, religious or regional interests. These factors also play a much greater role in the government's decision making process. The South seems to be in favour of reforms that will reduce government participation in the economy. The last 20 years, the two occasions Northerners took over there were deliberate attempts to whittle down those reforms or wipe off the gains.

Broke women should pair up with broke men!
Why would a broke woman want a well to do man?

Guys, run away! Some of these broke women can kill faster than corona.

Spending money you never earned is quite easy. Spending the one you have is a lot more difficult.
That is why many of them cannot call to say thank you after boo bought recharge card for them. The polite ones will send; "call me back" text, the rude ones will wait until you call and ask.
Many Nigerian women are gradually turning themselves into a laughing stock.

alexistaiwo:
Pardon my curiosity but your first and second paragraph, is that not a recipe for inflation?

Yes, it is! It is a recipe for inflation but you can minimize the impact of inflation if the right fiscal and monetary policies are implemented. Hoping the price of crude oil will rise like Nigeria did in 2016/2017 is a recipe for failure.

America and China used to be the world's largest importers of crude oil 15 years ago. That has changed!

What areas does Nigeria have comparative advantage? Which sectors can start yielding the desired results in 12 to 24 months? Apart from the import of petroleum products what are the top ten imports? Out of these ten can we produce 5 to 7 here? What time range will be required to go about that?

What Is our overall strategy?

Can PDP/ APC and all the ethnic nation help develop the plan so that any government who comes in sticks to it?

Other than that, there will be no discipline to follow through.

Sometimes we have choose between growth with inflation and inflation without growth!

What we currently have is 12 percent inflation with barely any growth!

In the past we've had single digit inflation with high growth. For me high growth is 7 percent and above.

If we remove fuel subsidy inflation will drop significantly. Much of our inflation is imported.

uncle005:
Still struggling with your point, Nigeria Govt cannot pay salary under this present circumstances, meaning with current value it is difficult for govt to pay salaries.

Then with devalue naira by say 50% according to you, govt will spend double, i am still strugling with that.

The only point i will agree with is removal of subsidy. But this present govt are not proactive enough to prepare structure for subsidy removal

Let me try to explain it. You have $100. With current exchange rate it is 380. A month ago you used to have $200. Then exchange rate to Naira was 300 Naira. Meaning your $200 will fetch you 60,000 Naira. If exchange rate falls by 50 percent it means you will get 60,000 for $100.

Let's assume you had a cleaner and cook, both are being paid 60,000 Naira per month. When you had $200 you could conveniently pay them. Now you have $100 you can only pay half of their income with the current rate, borrow to pay or hope the exchange rate changes.

In the case of the government it is different, they can influence demand or supply of the Naira. With that, 30,000 minimum wage can be paid despite the fact Nigeria's net US dollar earnings has dropped.

What this means is that Nigeria can earn 1 dollar but decide to treat it like 300, 600, 900, 1,500 or any other amount they wish to treat it as.

Often what people look at when 'subsidy payments ' are made is the subsidy component. We tend to forget that the commodity is paid for in USD. In essence we deplete our reserves the moment we import and we further deplete it through subsidy payments. In a bid not to deplete the reserves rapidly our government 'devalues' the Naira to pay petroleum marketing companies. Those companies know that and always find a way to pass that cost to the Nigerian customers.

Sammy07:
You're stu.pid and don't know what you're saying.

Ode, you don't know what you're saying..
Even if Charles soludo and Alison diezima were to be president and vice of this country

There is nothing they can do about it.

Are we the cause of Saudi and Russia price war??

Do you think our agricultural products sell that much??

Always think before you talk.
If oil further falls below $30, there will be loss of jobs everywhere

Ode, Samsung is more valuable than your entire economy!
Only Russia and are Saudi Arabia currently influencing the market. If other countries join the fray I wonder what would be the fate of that geographical space called Nigeria.

DexterousOne:
What will be the end game after oil becomes valueless?

For who? Nigeria's ruling elite? The Niger Delta region? Nigeria at large or players like America, Russia and Saudi Arabia?

uncle005:
Can someone tell me why we should devalue our currency?
In the case of China, they devalue their currency because of her product, which will ease country like Nigeria the major buyer of chinese product to buy comfortably and other countries as well.

But in Nigeria apart from crude oil and its equivalent what are we producing again? We import virtually everything even the waste product of crude oil sold was imported into the country to tarr road.

Buhari should remain firm on this issue, devaluation will do us more harm than good

....because Nigeria has got no choice!
Whether she likes it or not, the Naira will be devalued until she starts doing things the right way or cease to exist as a country.

There is no way Nigeria's government can pay salaries or contractors under the current circumstances. If Naira loses value by say 50 percent, it means the government will have double to spend in Naira terms.

That is one of the reasons some of us insisted on a deregulation of the downstream sector in 2012. The 'know it all' people in Lagos had their way.

Many unsustainable policies are being embarked on. In 2016 there was a golden opportunity to deregulate, Buhari failed to. There is another opportunity in 2020. Nigeria has failed to use it thus far.

We can avoid devaluation if we remove fuel and electricity subsidies. Reinvest all of that money in industrialisation, cut recurrent expenditure ( including Aso Rock & NASS). Place a permanent cap on how will be spent on budget from oil sales. Any excess should go straight to the Sovereign wealth fund. Weigh the funds investment to be 20-25 percent Nigeria, 30-40 percent Africa and 20-30 percent the rest of the world.

Anything short of that, we are just playing like children will usually do.

VolvoS60:
^^^^
We've been told the refineries can't be fixed because there's no money. But somehow there's always enough money, year after year - to sustain a multi-million dollar fuel importation racket.

We've been told that the federal government cannot successfully manage state owned oil enterprises because "government has no business in business". Fair point. But again somehow, the Norwegians, the Saudis, the Russians etc. have been able to successfully run their own state owned oil enterprises and turn a healthy profit, year after year. Do the Norwegians have two heads each? I am asking for a friend.

Truth dressed in rags and nobody recognized her.

All the countries you mentioned, their people share a lot in common. In Nigeria people know the country is fake. Patronage is what has helped the country remain one till date. The patronage has to stop or patronage will kill Nigeria! You can't keep on living fat at the expense of others.

Russians speak Russian, Saudi Arabians speak Arabic, Chinese speak Chinese, Norwegians speak Norwegian
and Nigerians speak...?

Do you get the drift?

Nigeria has two options, return it to the ethnic nations who own it or commercialise the entity. It will NEVER function as a government owned company under a ministry.

Where are the advocates of state sponsored 'jungle justice '?

Is it only when the assume crude oil could be involved they find their voice?

RichBoy247:
Ate you okay? If you say Buhari is incompetent, what do we say about the people that gave birth to nincompoop like you? Giving birth to a child with no brain like you a sardonic incompetence and a great disservice to the human race.

Your diction tells how much that jungle's educational system has collapsed.

You are probably as incompetent as Buhari. I can't employ Buhari's type as a security guard. He lacks the intellect to govern a homogeneous community not to talk of a plural country like Nigeria.

I won't delve to your gutter level. Since English language is difficult for beings like you to comprehend, you hurl insults. I stated a very obvious fact, Buhari is incompetent in ALL ramifications one could think of.

Simplyleo:
It's just yesterday I was made to understand this virus didn't occur naturally, but a failure of laboratory activity in China.

If that is the case, I still dont understand why the global economic migrants remained quiet about the failure of an almighty China, rather, their energies are directed to Buhari for several reasons on same virus.

Why some people so hit by complex that they can even insult the hell outta their parents because of oyibo?

Will you keep kwayet?
People criticize Buhari because of his gross incompetence. When ebola hit Nigeria it was no fault of ours but the then government adopted a hands on approach.

Buhari has at best been always reactive while he should be proactive.

May God help Nigerians! Most of them feed from hand to mouth, a lockdown may be like a death sentence for many. In other countries people have reserves. People have none of such in Nigeria.

God please make the price of oil fall below $15. This I pray in your holy and most high name.

MelesZenawi:
I forgive you... You call those stealing your resources onyeoshi not those who doesn't know how the products looks like...

Meanwhile all those nnpc scattered there, are they for decorations?

Check well..it should be functioning.

Read this article; at least this NdiIgbo man is better informed on this issue than you are.

I wonder why you will spew trash on something you know nothing about.

https://saharareporters.com/2019/06/11/billions-naira-meant-petrol-price-equalisation-unaccounted

MelesZenawi:
You just ended up calling them Ndiara not me...and as for onyeishi or onyeoshi go and meet those stealing your products not us..


As for 30 Percent above pump, still lie unless you are talking of black Market

You just proved you are truly a onyeoshi. Didn't you choose to speak on behalf of those stealing our products?!

You said unless they are buying from the 'black market'.

Since you claim to be NNPC or PPRA's spokesman. Tell us if NNPC or the private entities they are subsidising have operational filling stations in Bomadi, Kolokuma/Opokuma, Egbema, Taribo, Opobo, Asari Toru etc.

Before you argue on if they are buying at a higher price or if they are buying from a black market.

MelesZenawi:
There is no way the rest of Nigeria buys it cheaper than any Ijaw

The prize for the petroleum products is general.

If somebody calls you ndiara or onyeishi you will say they've insulted you!
Keep your ignorance to yourself. You don't know the pains Ijaw people go through to get petroleum products. Ijaw people get petrol for at least 30 percent above the pump price.

MelesZenawi:
Subsisy is for all not for Ijaw communities.

Nothing is special for the oil to come from there. The oil belongs to the state called Nigeria.

So your argument is weak.

How is it weak?
The rest of Nigeria buys it cheaper than Ijaw people!
How do you justify that?

kikero:
The only way to fix this problem is via deregulation, and if we had deregulated as far back as 1993...when the idea was first suggested (and shot down by Nigerians as a 'world bank plot to impoverish us' with a certain Baroness Chalker demonized as the architect of the plot)....fuel would probably be costing N100 or less by now....and we would be earning far more from fuel, and have more refineries.

If we want to have enough cash to fund subsides, we would have to have oil at a cost higher than $139, our breakeven price. (which is that way because we have a very high population)

Ijaw communities where most of these oil comes from don't enjoy the subsidy!

We ALWAYS buy above the 'official price'.

jham01:
Some ppl here find it difficult to understand Nigeria's prblm. The oil producing states have 13% derivation with larger portion of revenue allocation but still there is nothing to show there. Go to Katsina, Jigawa, Gombe, Kano & otha northern states and see many newly built schools all over, road network everywhere, water supply is ensured in most places, salary is being paid on time & on monthly basis with little allocation they're collecting.
Unfortunately, masses in SS states never questioned their leaders abt their responsibilities, always wasting their time in Nairaland abusing leaders at the centre instead of holding the right persons accountable for their allocation. The point is, even if resource control is accented to the states those people will keep complaining forever because they've the worst governments in Nigeria. If ur leaders are brainwashing u and always using hatred to mislead u then u can neva understand where the problem lies in. Think again!

Your level of ignorance is unprecedented!
By the way, where are you from?

LegendHer0:
Lol. Trading that I mentioned was during centuries ago. In the 1600s when the likes of Ahmad Baba of the Mali ventured into present day Nigeria. The Hausas were trading with the Oyo empire then.

I haven’t seen any relationship between any Igbo or Ijaw with the Yorubas of the old. Hence I don’t think there is any similarities between us going by the past.

Jonathan is a clueless man that turned his back on the people he needed most. We Yorubas voted in our majority for him in 2011 even when ACN was the party that won governorship in the SW. The same Tinubu supported him then coz Jonathan won Lagos and it’s public opinion. Jona paid back with abuse and thought he can do without the Yorubas who are the second most influential tribe in Nigeria in terms of vote number.

We owe no one any apology for voting out that thing in 2015 and you can all go to hades if you think the Yorubas owe any southern group any allegiance. So Tinubu need your oil well? Is there any source to back your claim that he requested for oil well from Jonathan? This is a public forum and not a village square!

That you never knew there was any contact between Ijaws and Yorubas, before Britain trapped Ijaw people in the same country with you,shows you are too ignorant to have an opinion on the matters you want to discuss.

No group in Nigeria has a large voting bloc to win elections or to singlehandedly determine the results of an election if it is free and fair.

Buhari, your current president is an ethnic minority in Nigeria. So Nigerian election are determined by your ethnic votes.

Jonathan was not clueless, he was way too advanced for people like you. To be able to identify talents and hire them, a certain level of intelligence is required.

When Jonathan took over about 800,000 barrels of crude oil was being produced per day. He never complained, he managed to adopt policies and processes that ramped up production. Under him Nigeria was Africa's top investment destination, growth in Nigeria was amongst top 10 in the world. Ratings as country improved. For the first Nigerian companies for the first time were in international market.

Several international organisations and countries adopted his development plan. To call such clueless shows you lack the capacity to understand such complex issues.

LegendHer0:
How can't you guys see that we are different people? The Yorubas are totally different from the Igbos and there is no law that says we should think alike.

All through our history, there is little contact between the Yorubas and the Igbos and infact the Yorubas have more relationship with the northerners than the Igbos coz of trade centuries ago.

When your people were voting against Yoruba interest between 1959 - 1999, where is the southern unity? When you guys voted the Fulanis against the Yoruba frontline contestants during those periods where is the acclaimed similarities?

Bro, you guys should understand we are both totally different. In our approach to situation, the difference is very clear!

Why can't you see that the same law applies to other Southern groups apart from the Yorubas?

Continue trading with your Northern partners but some using the Niger Delta's wealth to trade with your Fulani partners. Why form amotekun when you can freely trade off your land as you've done in the last 2 centuries.

Where on earth did you get the idea I am Igbo?!

The earlier Ijaws and other ethnic nations in Nigeria learn Nigeria is a fraud programmed to benefit the Fulani and Yoruba, the better it will be for them.

It is obvious the Yoruba elite are hell bent on creating a Yoruba hegemony in Southern Nigeria that will be subservient to their Fulani partners.

You are free to trade with your Fulani partners but not with the resources of others.

The sole reason Tinubu fought Jonathan was because of oil bloc he failed to give him. Despite the fact Jonathan had oil blocs in his village he never alloted one to himself yet Tinubu expected him to give him oil blocs without following due process.

LegendHer0:
When have you ever presented a presidential candidate that the Yoruba did not support?

Since 1999, no Igbo man was on the ballot as the presidential candidate for the two leading parties. So how is that Yoruba problem?

The question is not if an Igbo has been on the ballot of a major party. The primary problem is the Yoruba attitude towards the rest of Southern Nigeria.

Blue3k:
It wouldn't make difference in reality? The FG will still eat your taxes and have regulatory power. Btw it shouldn't be regionally or state owned. It should be owned by the entity that purchased said mineral rights or whoever already owns said land. What are your thoughts on the land ownership vs occupancy?

Let them make the changes first and let's see!

I don't support states having that right. Power should devolve to the respective ethnic nations or homogeneous local government areas. Anything short of that is outsourcing federal problems to the state level.

Diamond and Access bank also denied initially.

Can APC tell us why they opposed subsidy removal in 2012 and support it in 2020?

LegendHer0:
The Yorubas have never depended on you. We know you guys are hate personified, you are spoilers, anything you can’t have you must make sure that other person must not have it.

Thank God you guys already gave up even without starting the fight. Now go to your village and watch how men play 2023
real politics. Soon you will all have the face of a Yoruba president sitting in your offices in Ala-Igbo.

Accept my sympathy in advance!

That is NOT true!
The Igbo have supported Fulani candidates, a Yoruba candidate and an Ijaw candidate.

They took a principled stance against APC and Buhari in 2015 and 2019.

If anyone says the Igbo cannot unite, 2011, 2015 and 2019 says otherwise.

The problem of Southern Nigerian politics is the Yoruba, not the Igbo. You guys are so fixed on your interest and make no room to accommodate that of others.