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ehbellsho:
I am trying to understand but still can't/don't get it.
pls, anyone with the summary package?

No need trying to understand. What they are trying to hide from the public is that they are on a gradual and steady course of Naira devaluation.

grandstar:
This is a fantastic development and sound economics has been allowed to carry the day.

I suspect the severity of the economic crisis presently before the country may have forced the government's hand.

Nonsense.
How many times in the past has the policy been proposed, when has it ever worked?

Dollar will never be easily available at any official rate to majority of Nigerians. Therefore , the black market will always thrive.

Demand and supply + corruption will always win the day in Nigeria.

temmypotter:
We have a president who has said nothing, not one word about this issue since the start, our borders are wide open as if to bring in even more of the virus - I'm weak!

Enter Pastor Adeboye - One of the most influential and respected Nigerians in the world, giving words of hope, prayers and lays emphasis on preventive measures in these trying times and Nigerian "woke" trigger-happy youths begin to insult him to his face! What in the hell!

I'm a youth as well and I must say I'm deeply worried for our generation! We have lost what little manners we had growing up, He's not just an elder, He's a man of God, you don't have to be religious to have simple moral ethics like respecting the elderly - while not all of us may believe in the supernatural, we all pray and hope for a better tomorrow and I dare say the words from some tongues are more potent than others - one of those tongues is that of Pastor Adeboye, There is a force behind him that has kept him at the pinnacle all these years - and that force is ever ready to curse as well as bless.

No one's saying you must agree to his ideas or bless him for them.... but don't curse him! don't invite curses to your lives.

He is a fraudster, the chief among the many we have in Nigeria.
Nigerians are waking up and begining to seeing these fraudsters for what they are.

dominique:
Most of these structures were constructed by the governors of the states using the same allocation granted to all governors nationwide. What is your governor doing with his own allocation?

Physical structures constructed with state funds is not a measure of development.

Per capita income, education, quality of health services, number of doctors per 100, home ownership , commerce, GDP, productivity, etc. These are the real measures development and progress .
Sorry to have to remind the op that Northern Nigeria comes last in Africa.

helinues:
I created the thread for record purpose.. Cos I knew you guys would eventually blame Buhari for the fall in oil price or possibly if we slide into recession.

Vindicated already

If the Naira crashes as a result of oil prices, why shouldn't we blame the government that has been in power for 5 yrs ? Whom should we blame ?
Why shouldn't we blame a man that admits that he doesn't understand how the economy works ?
Why shouldn't we blame A leader that loves to borrow but no clue about how to increase productivity?

helinues:
Una hatred for Buhari Don cause so many damages to you people oblaganta. I created this thread less than a week ago

https://www.nairaland.com/5723254/coronavirus-nigerians-start-saving-now

Save what, mr genius?
Save from the N30k that workers are paid? How much do you save a month out your own N30k ?

Asking Nigerians to save because hard times are ahead is an Oxymoron. The hard times started on May 29th 2015.

Your so called thread once again shows that you Buharideens are dishonest, even to your selves.

tevinsolt:
The examples you gave are situations where the detainee is being arrested on the spot because they've physically harrassed or assaulted someone which is legal ground for an arrest at the discretion of the officer........(there is some type of evidence presented even if doesn't tell the whole story)


No one would be arrested for an inappropriate comment (except of course a threat to take someone's life), until they've been investigated and found to actually engage in what they post on the internet.

Duhh!
The Facebook post itself is all the evidence the police needs to arrest the perv.
What other evidence do you need ?

And Yes, you can be arrested for a Facebook post if it sexualizes a minor.

tevinsolt:
False, in a democratic setting.....At least in America, you will not be arrested.....Arrest only occurs when a warrant has been granted by the court after substantial evidence has shown the individual to be a predator. If it were not the case, he or hhe will be investigated asked questions to determine if he or she is a threat.

An arrest is found to violate the Fourth Amendment because it was not supported by probable cause or a valid warrant. Any evidence obtained through that unlawful arrest, such as a confession, will be kept out of the case.

Not true.
Police routinely arrests people based on a complaint. Police do not need a warrant for every arrest. Police will easily arrest you in your own house if your wife complains about violence , or sexual misbehaviour . Touch a woman the wrong way and she can call the police and have arrested immediately, even before an investigation is carried out.
If you doubt it, to American and touch a lady , stranger, without her consent.
Sexually harrass a minor, and you will definitely get arrested as soon as the complaint is made. An investigation of the veracity of the claim will then determine whether you are charged to court or released.

Cuntface:
that's your belief right? did anybody call you a fool because you think god is impotent? now if you're smart enough you'll understand everyone has the right to practice what works for them and do what they believe in.

My dear, of course everyone has the right to practice their beliefs.
But, and hear me clearly, if as an influential person, your belief, the expression of your beliefs , your statements or acts threaten public health and safety, and confuses and endangers public attitudes about a very critical health matter, then it becomes my responsibility , everyone's responsibility to call you out and push back strongly against erroneous notions.
And, the notion that prayers can mitigate the spread of a contagious disease is a VERY WRONG and dangerous notion.

Cuntface:
so what have you contributed towards its eradication?

Easy.
Advising everyone I know or care about to avoid travel to high risk areas, avoid large crowds as much as is possible, wash hands as often as possible. That's the most that we lay persons can offer at this time, until medical science comes out with medical solution.

Prayers are futile against pandemics. God is impotent against deadly viruses.

Cuntface:
you're the fool here. in fact you are hopelessly stupid for calling men of God fools! they're not doctors, they're not government, they're religious and their job is to pray! even in China, the Buddhists pray while scientists do their job it's that simple.
they're not the cause of your misfortune in life idiot

They are indeed fools.
At the end of the day, is it the science or the prayers that would save lives ?
Only a fool would pray against a deadly virus infection.
How many rounds of prayer does it take make a headache go away, or to neutralize a malaria parasite?
Show that prayer cures headache first, and then we can take it from there .

Repeating the same act over and over again while expecting a different outcome each time is either gambling or insanity.

ikorodureporta:
Source: https://punchng.com/catholics-bishops-compose-special-prayer-against-coronavirus/

Fools.

Why are Africans so averse to scientific rationalism?

justtoodark:
i didnt said i hate her....but you must understand whats going on....
things are not so simple as you think....

i was a satanist....i know stuffs that will realy confuse you....
she doesnt know....you cant blame her that much....

but after you know this stuffs,you wouldnt try....
she is to be your help and not the head....

Indecipherable nonsense.

justtoodark:
good....we dont have to go that far back....

have you studied her....??

study her well....you will notice some strange flaws....

do you say flaws....i dont remember....

Are you saying indirectly that it is your fear of women that is responsible for Africa's perennial misrule and underdevelopment by MEN ?

justtoodark:
not true....it was eve that birted that basstard into this world....

Oh gosh!
Here we go again.
., blurting out stone age nonsense to justify an a stone age viewpoint.

Ausrichie:
I know but is it not stupid that your country would be borrowing money for rubbish, just to loot borrowed funds. Think am. When it comes to repaying the borrowed loot both the business class, the working class and the lower classes would suffer it bet me now. This rubbish increase in tax is killing somebody data no dey last again, power supply worse than before, lack of water supply (some states don't even have a water system), this is the government's JoB. Abeg I hope this MIT shit I wan do go click, Africans disgust me in general with their happy being oppressed mentality.

Don"t mind the fools.
We even have one dimwit here , Rossinnki, even celebrating and bragging about who should not get a piece of the foreign loan.
Can you just imagine ?
A fool, obviously suffering from acute stockholm's syndrome, celebrating and bragging about the debt enslavement of himself and his generations of children.

justtoodark:
she is too brainwashed....

study her for a moment and tell me am wrong....

A very silly statement considering that all the woes of the African Continent, the wars, the bloodsheds, the lootings, the life-Presidents have been caused by the MEN who have been ruling in the Continent.

Area4Area:
You could be 9 years for all I care, you hate the zoo and wouldn't want anything to with it, are you now an animal in the zoo since you're demanding your share?

Not boasting, but I'm proud to claim that I'm superior to you. Explains why I think you're in a Zoo.
You see, where I come from , men don't take on debt to enslave their children and grandchildren, talkless of celebrating it and squabbling over who deserves to get what part of the debt.

Area4Area:
Why the epistle, why not answer the question straight? You want a share of the money for the baboons don't you, what makes you different from them?

Obviously, your brain cells are too opaque to understand the epistle, or that the epistle invokes cognitive dissonance in you.

Area4Area:
Why the epistle, why not answer the question straight? You want a share of the money for the baboons, don't you and what makes you different from them?

You know how really really idiotic it is to squabble, even mock others over a loan, a foreign loan, money that you didn't earn, a perpetual yolk on your neck and those of your children ? .
What kind of fools are you ? Mocking a particular region over a foreign loan? Is this the first time Nigeria has taken a foreign loan ?
Are you just turning 10 yrs of age , or are you really born retarded ?

I actually feel embarrassed for you lot.

Rossinnki:
Everyday they come here to spew hatred for Nigeria.

''The zoo''.

Now ''the zoo'' is sharing $22.7 billion and they are demanding their own ''fair share'' of the zoo's money.

The ''zoo money'' does not come from Igboland, or even from the Niger Delta oil, but is an international loan applied for by ''the zoo''.

So why do secessionists want any part of that money, even demanding ''their fair share'' of the ''zoo money''?

What 'fair share' are they talking about?

Are they now ''zoo animals'' like the rest of us?

If I was Buhari I won't spend a single kobo of that $22.7 billion in the South East until they totally renounce Kanu and his secessionist madness.

Until then, let Nnamdi Kanu fund them.

Emergency zoo citizens attracted by money.

Laughter.

What a very laughable , but very sad irony.

I just can't figure out why Baboons in a Zoo are soooo scared of Nnamdi Kanu.

It seems that the Name 'Nnamdi Kanu ' seems to rob some Zoo residents of their manhood. In him they see the real piece of crap that they are and destined to remain.
Their obsession with Nnamdi Kanu is some kind of psychological projection of self-hatred, self- rejection.

How can they be Soooo scared of a young man whose only weapon are his stinging words , at a time in Nigeria that Boko Haram are on multi-year terrorist campaigns, killing maiming, destroying, killing Nigerian soldiers, draining the resources of the nation. A time that murderous Fulani herdsmen are reigning terror and bloodshed all over the country. A time that unnamed bandits are carving a swath of blood all over the christian parts of northern Nigeria.
It is a young man, Nnamdi Nnamdi Kanu, armed only with words that prick the national conscience, with no guns, no knives, no bombs, no arrows , no rocks, that give baboons in this Zoo sleepless days and nights.
What a very very sad irony indeed.

Indeed, Nigeria is truly a land of fo.ols.
Fools that celebrate Tyrants, sociapaths, psychopaths, and then calumnize real men, calumnize brave men.

Keep your Zoo. Stay in your Zoo, keep your $23b debt. He goes a borrowing, who goes a sorrowing.
Surely , with a fresh $23b to be squandered, with the national cake today at $31 per barrel, there is much more sorrows ahead for the baboons in the world's largest Zoo.

unbitchable:
Since Uzodima was declared Governor of Imo, he has not had a day of rest in Imo state. Like his predecessor, Okorocha received the biggest insults of his life all through his tenure, not for being the worst governor in the southeast, outperforming his Abia and Anambra counterparts in all metrics but for being a member of the APC.

With the recent attack on the governor's convoy, igbos will never get APC Presidential ticket for 2023. They will look at it, smell it but will never touch it. APC leadership must ensure that a region with the most hatred for her party must not be given neither the presidential slot nor the Vice presidential slot of the party. Until they are healed of their festering wounds through deeper introspection, they cannot administer the affairs of the healthy people.

What a deluded slowpoke.
Soooooo many morons in Nigeria .

chumakk:
That's a pure lie. You can be made to register as a sex offender when you didn't commit any crime.

Making sexual advances, or sexual innuendos, even and especially online , to a 5yr old is A CRIME in most societies. , and rightly should be so.

chumakk:
I'm asking you to drop any link or news where anyone was arrested on what they said online on someone's child in USA or UK

You might not be jailed for making direct sexual comment to a 5yr old, but you will be arrested, questioned and put on a national register of sexual predators. You will be restricted from working in any capacity where children are present or involved. The local police would be notified in every community you move to. You would not be able to pass a criminal background check, and therefore would not find good employment in banks, government, school boards, hospitals, parks or theme parks.You would be basically ostracized from mainstream society.

What Daddy Freeze did was in order. I can't think of any good father who should not do the same.

obailala:
Oga, dont take this the wrong way, but with what you've written above here, I can categorically say both you and that fellow above who assented to your opinion " don't have sense".

If a person in any enlightened/developed part of the world makes a loose terrorist remark, such a person will be arrested, detained and thoroughly investigated, irrespective of whether the person has committed the actual crime or not.

Similarly, in the developed world, if you make such paedophilic remarks like that dude made, you will be arrested, detained, thoroughly investigated and your name could be engraved in the sexual offenders register for life.

Daddy Freeze only helped the police do their work by bringing their attention to the case... and by the way, it was his child involved so it was in his place to do something.. In sensible nations, a Daddy Freeze or any 'big man' doesnt have to be involved before the police arrests people like that. You dont wait for the crime to be committed before you deal with potential paedophiles.

Don't mind the OP and his warped thinking.

Aidejay:
Thanks to the undoubted increase in Agricultural exports from Nigeria hopefully when push comes to shove people will clean their eyes and see that this present administration is not as clueless and hopeless as they presume.
What if we didn't diversify? Now agriculture is on its way to become a major source of revenue and you want to say buhari is not doing anything?

In what alternate universe ?

Who told you that there is a significant increase in agric exports ?

Kindly post export figure and the Agric products being exported, and to which countries.

The only Agric products being exported in significant quantities are basic Nigerian food products being exported to Nigerians in the Diaspora, by the same Nigerians in the Diaspora.
I'm quite sure it runs into millions of Dollars per annum, but one can hardly say there has been a very significant increase over the last few years. Funny enough, the increased export of basic Nigerian food products abroad corrollates strongly with the increased exodus of the Nigerian middle class and economic refugees from the desolate land that Buhari has turned Nigeria into.

DModeCntStopMe:


I will take this news with a pinch of salt

Experience they say is the best teacher, I will never shallow hook, line and sinker whatever this lying gov't and her appointees say

Don't be surprised if a statement is issued by the minister in the evening denying to have said such

A pinch of salt indeed.
In fact, the statement itself is vague and opaque to have any merit.
First , he says the US is testing Iwu's compound. Does he mean the US government? Which department of the US government?
Does he mean a research center in the US ? Which one ?
Does he mean a US pharmaceutical company? Which one ?

Secondly, you cannot use the terms ' testing ' and 'cure ' in the same statement. If it is being tested, then it is not yet a cure .
No doubts, prof Iwu believes he has isolated a compound that he believes shows promise as potential treatment and possible cure for the Corona virus diseases. That is a good development.
But that is just one first step in a long and rigorous journey, And he should be a tad more circumspect in his utterances about his work.
A scientist would normally start with low expectations, and then as the positive test results flow in , you then raise public expectations little by little , until all human trials are completed.

Beating ones chest before the basic tests are carried is the easiest way for a scientist to fall flat on his face and loose reputation and respect.

Not surprised.

Tyrants and Churchmen have historically had a symbiotic relationship.

The Churchmen dumb down the population, soften their agitations and fervour for freedom and accountability, making it much easier for the rule of Tyranny.

franchasng:
1966 Coup by Maj. Nzeogwu – The Biggest Mistake of The Igbo Military Officers & Political Elites


Whenever I read a new book on the January 1966 bloody coup that ended Nigeria’s first indigenous government led by Tafawa Belewa and Nnamdi Azikiwe, tears roll down my eyes.

Igbos lost so much after that unfortunate coup of January 1966 and the counter coup + civil war that followed. Imagine no matter how much an Igbo man or woman had in Nigerian bank before the war, they were given just 20 pounds after the war to start life with; courtesy of Obafemi Awolowo’s 20 pounds policy after the war.

Personally on my family side, my father had close to a million pounds in his bank account before the war, though he managed to take some back to his hometown before the war broke out, but he lost over 500,000 pounds after the war.

On my maternal side, my mom’s elder brother was a head engineer at Enugu railway station, he died in the war as a volunteer special Biafra forces that went to recapture Ebonyi from Federal forces with no weapon, they were only trained to fight with their bare hands to capture weapons from federal forces.

Now enough of my family story.

Nzeogwu had no reason, I mean no reason at all to carry out or lead the first coup of January 1966, and if at all their action was to be justified for any reason like to stop the Western Nigeria political crises between Awolowo and Akintola, then the manner in which they carried out the coup execution – killing Northern political leaders and some Mid-West and Western Premier, while abandoning the Igbo political leaders was the greatest mistake of the Igbo race!

Aguiyi Ironsi who was supposed to correct this mistake when he took over power after the coup made the most stupid mistake of not heeding to Ojukwu’s advice of executing the coupists to pacify the already angered and boiling Northern Nigeria heavily cooking up revenge. He wasted time trying to reconcile the boiling issue through regional tours and dialogue when the North already lost their key political leaders in the unfortunate coup.

The mistakes of Nzeogwu, Ifeajuna, Anofuru, and co are the root cause of every predicament the great Igbo race are encountering in Nigeria today.

Igbos were completely in charge of Nigeria; from politics to leadership to military to trade, to business to almost every sector and were already the envy of other regions, so carrying out a coup was totally unnecessary when you were in charge, what else did you want

Before the coup and the civil war that followed, Igbos were the President (Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe), Igbos were the Senate President (Sen. Nwafor Orizu), the Chief of Army Staff (Maj, Gen. Aguiyi Ironsi), Head of Nigerian Military Intelligence (Maj. Chukwuma Nzeogwu), richest person in Nigeria & Africa (Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu), first Vice Chancellor of Nigeria who headed University of Ibadan (Prof. Kenneth Dike), and so many other things.

I am writing this to awaken all Igbo sons and daughters home and abroad, we must resist every attempt to repeat the same mistake we made in the 1960s that pushed us out of national political relevance and others in Nigeria, which is one of the reasons Igbo region is struggling with infrastructural developments compared to other regions.

Oh Gosh!!
The Nigetian education system is predictably producing a lot of garbage.
Don't mind the axxs h


In this one's stuuupid tiny mind, the whole Igbo tribe sat together and conspired to make a coup.

Trying to figure out whether this writer was born really stuupid or that the educational system in Nigeria is worse than we thought.

How can someone be so wrong, so ignorant about a subject for which he opens a thread on a public forum?
How can he be completely oblivious of the fact that officers from all major Nigerian tribes were duly represented in that group that carried out the coup ?.

In fact, the most senior officer in that group was not Igbo, and that the coup was ostensibly done to Benefit a Non- Igbo who languishing in prison for Treason against the Federal Republic Of Nigeria.

chidexleo:
Op pls don't drive pleasure in mocking a man of God and also be careful when you doubt or speak against the Holy Spirit. The army officer that doubted Elisha knows how far. If you are not acquintted with d things of the spirit better mind your business

Sharap dia.
We should all derive pleasure in mocking charlatans and fraudsters and the mindless fools who follow them.

Blabbermouth:
What is peddled around about God are diluted Info's broadcast by people that know almost nothing about God.

1. Prayer does not mean ASKING ALL YOU NEED FROM AN HIGHER ENTITY.....

2. If you jump up, you must come down. No matter who you are, be it a PASTOR, ATHIEST, MONSTER OR WHATEVER. As long as you are defined by the physical realms, you are bounded by physical laws.

What I mean is; God is very principled. His ways, laws and wills are forever established. So, if God designed that; HARDWORK is what will YIELD SUCCESS.
Pray from today till tomorrow and be a very lazy person, almost nothing will happen (in a normal case).
God said; My people perish because they do not KNOW ME OR KNOW MY WAYS.
Even though they are His people, they still perished because they lack a tangible revelation about God over a certain thing.

Again, you're indirectly reiterating that Religion as we know it, was founded on ignorance and constitutes a colossal waste of time and resources.
Agree ?

Blabbermouth:
If He is stopping this and that. That automatically means He did not create or at least have no power over the effect of this and that.
God is not a superMAN, he is God. He is aware of whatever happens and if AIDS wipe out your whole family, it means He is aware and had allowed it to happen.
Now, you will say this is not Love.
God said; "Just as a potter can do anything with a clay. I, your creator can do anything with you my creation"...

Lol.
Ok.
So you do agree or by your logic , imply that religion , prayers and endless supplications are therefore redundant and superfluous ?

If the supposed creator of universe does whatever he likes with the universe whenever he likes, then the entire monstrosity built around him, praying to him, asking for this and for that, it's all been a waste of time and energy.