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PoliticsRe: Major Problems Facing Africa In 2019 by porka: 1:28am On Jun 23, 2019
The number 1 problem of Africa is low average IQ of the populace. Poor nutrition at formative years has deprived many Africans the necessary nutrients for adequate brain development. Just look around you.

The results are wha you listed. There has to be a solution to poor nutrition first before anything. Special formula combination, beginning with breast milk at infancy, will go a long way to alter the brain configurations of average Africans.The program should be given between 30-50 years before results can be seen.
PoliticsRe: Religion Population According To Geopolitical Zones In Nigeria by porka: 9:31pm On Jun 22, 2019
tuniski:
God bless you.

Niger State is bigger than the entire South East. The population of Almajiris alone is almost 50% igbos.

The rate at which population is exploding in the conservative north, by the time we reach 733m projected by world population monitor inn 2050, the conservative muslim north alone will be 350m+. Christians have small family sizes and like you said monogamous. To top that Late marriage or no marriage for many ladies sef.

At 30 a typical lady in the conservative north maybe divorced but, has between 6-8 children Spread across different failed marriages.
Just how many christain ladies have 3kids at 30 even if married?
These are just very simple things that a credible census will decide.

Why go through this lengthy conjectures when a proper headcount will take care of the confusion?

Without a credible headcount, everything remains mere assumptions.
PoliticsRe: Trade War Getting Worse: US Blacklists Five More Chinese Tech Companies by porka: 7:46pm On Jun 22, 2019
mrvitalis:
With EU looking towards china and brics looking to fight dollar this is the end of american reign

5G is already in the bag for china thats game over
This is really funny.
PoliticsRe: Kyari, SGF, 100 Other Presidential Aides In Office Illegally — Falana by porka: 11:05pm On Jun 21, 2019
blacknp:
Keep quiet,the appointees are serving at the pleasure of the President,interim appointees don’t need confirmation from the Senate,President Buhari is only copying his Good Friend Donald Trump who says he prefers interim appointees over those confirmed by the Senate,instead of wasting time with those democratic Babylonians Nancy Pelosi,and Chuck Schumer in the Senate,be there dreaming of confirmation,least you forget Prof Osinbajo is a Constitutional lawyer.

Same way you were making noise before President Buhari and his cartel got rid of former CJ onnoghen?
You don't understand what they are saying?

Donald Trump has a master's degree and ran businesses for years before he became president. He certainly understands the difference between appointment (whether temporary or non-temporary) and non appointment.

In other words, Falana is saying that Buhari has not reappointed any of his aides, whether temporarily or permanently.Their tenure ended when Buhari's own tenure ended on May 28. And without reappointment, even for a day, they might be acting illegally. They don't have a perpetual tenure.

Do you understand?
PoliticsRe: Kyari, SGF, 100 Other Presidential Aides In Office Illegally — Falana by porka: 10:54pm On Jun 21, 2019
What about the bills passed by the 8th Assembly that Buhari suddenly started signing in this 9th Assembly?

Are they legal laws?

What is the view of the law about them?
PoliticsRe: Festus Adedayo : The Festus They Thought They Could Pull Down by porka: 8:24am On Jun 21, 2019
Ehn
PoliticsRe: 5 Things That Would Have Happened If Atiku Was Sworn In by porka: 2:47am On Jun 20, 2019
olajizz01:
Stop saying gibberish, tell me a country that doesn't has good telecom in the world,telecommunication was a global revolution then,but it surprises me when you people keep saying gibberish always when we asked of the duo achievement when the crude oil price was all high globally.

Besides,is mtn a state owned firm or privately owned,no good transport system, no power,all the state owned firms was sold to themselves and their cronies,you keep saying gibberish.
FACT CHECK: How Buhari got it wrong on Nigeria’s oil revenue

https://dailypost.ng/2018/05/24/fact-check-buhari-got-wrong-nigerias-oil-revenue/amp/

Be guided.
PoliticsRe: Alleged 1.2bn Travelling Budget By Fayemi: APC Fires Back At PDP by porka: 12:14am On Jun 20, 2019
Oyinlomobambam:
Even Buhari will not present 2019 budget in December 2018.
Like u don't know how things work in this country?
They usually pass budget middle of the year.
Note : Am not in support of anyone o, just telling you I don't believe the budget will be passed in January. Not in Nigeria ��. But you can help me with this news paper. Thanks
Ekiti Assembly removes deputy speaker, passes 2019 budget

https://punchng.com/ekiti-assembly-removes-deputy-speaker-passes-2019-budget/amp/
PoliticsRe: Alleged 1.2bn Travelling Budget By Fayemi: APC Fires Back At PDP by porka: 12:13am On Jun 20, 2019
Oyinlomobambam:
Even Buhari will not present 2019 budget in December 2018.
Like u don't know how things work in this country?
They usually pass budget middle of the year.
Note : Am not in support of anyone o, just telling you I don't believe the budget will be passed in January. Not in Nigeria ��. But you can help me with this news paper. Thanks
https://punchng.com/ekiti-assembly-removes-deputy-speaker-passes-2019-budget/amp/
PoliticsRe: Osinbajo: Extreme Poverty In Nigeria Gives Me Sleepless Nights by porka: 1:54pm On Jun 19, 2019
2 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

23 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.

Luke 18:22, 23
King James Version (KJV)
PhonesRe: Whatsapp To Take Legal Action Against Spammers by porka: 1:19am On Jun 19, 2019
Whatsapp, how about Nigerians sending Happy New Month to several people? Is that spamming too?

Why will you prosecute someone for sending good wishes/prayers to his/her friends?
PoliticsRe: Killings In Nigeria: Fulani Group Asks Buhari To Listen To Obasanjo’s Advice by porka: 4:17am On Jun 18, 2019
Obasanjo sees beyond your subterfuge, Alhaji Sale Bayari.
BusinessRe: Jim Ovia Expresses Optimism For More Investments In Nigerian Economy by porka: 3:30am On Jun 18, 2019
30 years?
PoliticsRe: Kwara Must Change Calls For Unity In APC, Warn Against Exclusionism by porka: 6:04pm On Jun 17, 2019
There's nothing you can do about that, Kwara.

APC is synonymous with clannishness and vindictiveness. Just look across the country, the party was settup for a clique.
PoliticsRe: This Country Recently Became Africa’s Largest Economy by porka: 3:20pm On Jun 17, 2019
What kind of daydreaming is this now? What can any say is the possible cause of this delusion now?

Foreign investment into Nigeria drops by 43% – UN report
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/foreign-investment-into-nigeria-drops-by-43-un-report/amp/
PoliticsRe: Why We Suspended School Feeding Programme In Some States - FG by porka: 3:02pm On Jun 17, 2019
Yet, the number of out of school children is rising in an alarming proportion.
TravelRe: The Lagos Light Rail Project: The Sights, The Feels And The Vibes by porka: 11:03pm On Jun 14, 2019
KenOne:
From the infrastructure i am seeing here lightrail and monorail are the same, because this is same structure used in Rivers monorail maybe the train is where the difference will be.

For you to say monorail seating capacity is 50 is a total false luxurious bus seating capacity is more than 50 not to talk of a monorail or lightrail.

Rivers state government under Amaechi under studied Malaysia monorail before embarking on it, more than three international companies were working on that project, South Africa company supervising the project, Italian company doing the electrical, megastar doing the pillar and trevor doing the tracks.
You have been heard.

People would normally get ideas from somewhere, don't you think? And companies would naturally work on projects, whether they are national or international.

But, this is how thenationonline (an APC paper) reported the project in 2017 when Ameachi himself had already joined them...

Abandoned Rivers state Monorail project
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thenationonlineng.net/abandoned-rivers-state-monorail-project/amp/
Also, a monorail is not a luxury bus.

Rivers State Monorail

"Each train will be able to accommodate 172 passengers, with provision for 44 seated passengers included."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_State_Monorail
Your response shows a typical third world mindset of viewing pillars and beams as development regardless of the usefulness.

Whether Lagos lightrail and Port Harcourt monorail projects are the same? No, they are not. And it has little to do with the 'infrastructure' you see there

The "structures" you see are pillars erected inside the lagoon to hold the rail. That you saw pillars in Port Harcourt doesn't make them the same. Bridges are built across waters for the passage of motor vehicles as well. It doesn't make the Third Mainland Bridge a lightrail, for instance.

Definitions

Monorail - "n. a railway in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated and with the trains suspended from it."

Lightrail - "n. A rail transportation system involving trolleys, streetcars, or other, usually electrified methods of conveyance, whose rails are primarily on surface streets that are shared with other forms of transportation. light′-rail′ adj."
Your contention that the monorail in Port Harcourt amounts to development is the issue. The people there are not convinced that a 5.2km monorail is development. They think it's nothing more than "effizy".

Roads, bridges, railways, electricity/power grid, airports, telecommunications masts, etc are not just build for people to come and "see the structure", they are built for economic purpose, otherwise they end up as the "Bridge to Nowhere".

Amaechi already performed wonderfully well in healthcare and education. The schools and hospitals he built are excellent and he employed thousands of people to run them. He also built many roads. These are what people can relate to. No one criticized him for those. But for you to come and make assertions that they rejected your 'type' of development" because he is APC is distasteful.
TravelRe: The Lagos Light Rail Project: The Sights, The Feels And The Vibes by porka: 5:43pm On Jun 14, 2019
Wantedmiller:
Some River State people said they don't want this kind of project that they are not yet ripe for this kind of project Amaechi initiated just because he came from APC.

I was pushed to ask what is development then?
It is not this type of project. This is a lightrail. Rivers type is monorail.

Ameachi initiated it when he was still in PDP.. APC was not in existence when the project was conceived and started.

The sentiment is that it is merely for aesthetics if you consider the total length of 5.2 km with the costs.Total passenger capacity is not upto 50 per trip.

If you are one of the people who feel that development is all about taking pictures at train stations all over Europe and North America (like the piece of mirrow that the Europeans used on African brains in those days), then it should make sense to you.

But if you consider development as adding value to human existence you would know that infrastructure should aid productivity and not just for leisure.
TravelRe: The Lagos Light Rail Project: The Sights, The Feels And The Vibes by porka:
You have tried your best.

These people like pictures more than actual riding in it.. Pictures are their own definition of infrastructure.

After boasting so much about their pictorial infrastructure like this, their next brag is the almighty IGR. That's what they use to wow their Abuja overlords to give them 'juicy' positions': just pictures of pillars o. And of course, some mumbo jumbo about IGR this IGR that.

In the early 2000s, all the Enron hype did not produce 1kilowatt of electricity in the state, but it didn't stop them from ģetting the job of providing 100,000 megawatts for the entire country, as experts, several years later.
CelebritiesRe: 10 Nollywood Celebrities That Have Died In 2019 by porka: 3:58pm On Jun 14, 2019
This is actually a national tragedy.

The average age of these young men and women is 44.8 years; below the national life expectancy of 52 and 54 years for men and women respectively. Highest age is 58 years while lowest ages is 36 years - too bad.

These people were in their productive years with dependants whose lives may not be the same again after their demise.

In places where human lives are valued, the authorities will not ignore this ominous signs.
PoliticsRe: Oyetola Cries To Buratai As Criminals Take Over Osun by porka: 10:24am On Jun 14, 2019
Bulleye:
This is contrary to the press statement issued by the DAWN commission dismissing people's alarms to the menace of insecurity in the region. The DAWN commission is sacrificing Yoruba interests to please Buhari.
That is most unfortunate. And these are the intellectuals that many young people are looking up to.

They are probably part of the 2023 strategists. They don't want to upset their lords up north. They dont want to be called BIGOTS. But the lords are capitalizing on that desperation to quickly advance their course.

Very unfortunate indeed.

Nobody thought that a day would ever come that invasion of Yorubaland will be so tolerated and explained away because of personal ambitions of some of the leaders.
EducationRe: ASUP Wants President Buhari To Sign Polytechnic Act (amendment) Bill by porka: 9:41am On Jun 14, 2019
This bill will have to be represented. The former one has lapsed, it ended with the 8th Assembly. ASUP will have to go for another round of lobbying.

Most of the fine bills that were passed without Buhari's assent will have to be represented. For some of them it may just be the end.

The CAMA amendment and the heavily broken down petroleum industry bill didn't see the light of the day. And with this pliable senate and house of representatives, it could well be the end of those bills.

Their major preoccupation for now is perhaps looking for how Buhari will be handed his much desired EMERGENCY POWERS.
CrimeRe: Herdsman Beheads Girlfriend In Ekiti by porka: 6:56pm On Jun 12, 2019
Is this one also caused by climate change?

Can they say that this man was only using his machete to cut FOLIAGE for his cattle now?
PoliticsRe: Femi Gbajabiamila Appoints Sanusi Rickiji As Chief Of Staff by porka: 6:18pm On Jun 12, 2019
victorDanladi:
And have your fact right before posting.
The annointed candidate for yaradua PDP government is Foluke etteh and he was speaker for 2 good years...google is your friend
Etteh was speaker for 5 months, Ogbeni.

Meanwhile, which party was Dimeji Bankole again? Remind us.
PoliticsRe: Femi Gbajabiamila Appoints Sanusi Rickiji As Chief Of Staff by porka:
victorDanladi:
They will be indifferent just like they were during yaradua time when



VP-christian

Senate president-christian

speaker-christian


They are not wailers and partisans like CAN!
Before you take rumour mongering to your next level, you should know that Sabur Dimeji Bankole, the Speaker of the House of Representatives during Yaradua's tenure (from 2007'-2011) is a Muslim.

Always confirm your information before spreading rumours around.

Patricia Etteh, a Christian, was speaker for 5 months out of 4 years (48 months). Even at that, her deputy, Babangida Nguroje is a Muslim.

From1999, Nigeria maintained a balance in alloacation of its political offices to manage its social dynamics until APC and Buhari introduced their divisive and bitter politics.
PoliticsRe: Akeredolu: My Orderly Was Shaking When Kidnappers Confronted Us by porka: 12:59pm On Jun 11, 2019
MetaPhysical:
Talking security my @ss! He failed to act and secure that road.

He caused kidnappers to retreat into bush when his ADC fired warning shots. He identified kidnappers, no consequence, no arrest, no shoot at sight and kill, no body bag.....but now the people coming behind governor on that road are at risk.

This Governor is telling us kidnapping is a trend and to bear through it like we did armed robbery. People did not bear through armed robbery, we just did not have choice and many people lost lives and property. Is the Governor advising us that government will treat kidnapping and terrorism like they did arm robbery.....use citizen lives and bloodshed to earn security allocations?

This Governor should not return to govern anywhere in Yorubaland. We donate him to go govern in SE.
Ok. It is good you quickly jettison "talking politics" in favor of security, which should have been your concern ab initiio; even though your main intention remains politics, which is veiled in your last paragraph about preventing "this governor" from returning to "govern anywhere in Yorubaland".

Be that as it may, can you tell how many Fulani kidbappers have been shot at sight... or killed by any governor or security agency?

Since Fayose left last year, how many so-called SW governors have raised any issue with the Fulanis activities in the SW?

Akeredolu's statement is a confirmation of what ordinary people fear that the governors (especially in the SW) cannot curtail the rampaging jihadists without offending their lords.

The Buhari that all of them are sucking up to does not joke with "his people". El Rufai the "heir apparent" has left to one in doubt in words and deeds that "his people" are more important to him than any other person. Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso is the first person to deploy resources to effect the release of "his people" any time they have issues.

We have heard governors shouting in the North, including the governor of Buhari's Kastina State, for help in combating security challenges in their domains. Why then are all SW governors keeping mum so as not to offend their masters? What about the VP? Do they not have any attachment to the their own land and people?

Is 2023 presidency worth the land, blood and lives of the SW people? Why are they treating this threat like the people just have to live with it till "they allow us the presidency in 2023"; as this governor is saying? How many people will be left in 2023? How much Yorubaland will still be left from the occupation of the invaders? This is clearly an existential threat but it is being treated as politics.
PoliticsRe: Akeredolu: My Orderly Was Shaking When Kidnappers Confronted Us by porka: 5:48am On Jun 11, 2019
MetaPhysical:
Im not sure Akeredolu was ever ready for governance. Its not every SAN that has the capacity to govern and Akeredolu is one of those.

I pity Ondo people. Your Governor does not fit in the political class of a Yoruba politician. This guy does not know how to talk politics at all. What a mess!
Ok. But he is talking about security here.

Do you think he should have kept mum because of 2023 presidency like others, or what?

Dont you think sacrificing Yoruba people and Yorubaland for anyone's 2023 political ambition is too much?
PoliticsRe: Akeredolu: My Orderly Was Shaking When Kidnappers Confronted Us by porka: 5:42am On Jun 11, 2019
A governor is not safe with his orderly? Has he changed him now?
PoliticsRe: Bandits’ Attack: Gov. Tambuwal Attends Burial Of 25 Persons In Sokoto by porka: 7:10am On Jun 10, 2019
Is this one also caused by climate change now?
TravelRe: Pius Adesanmi’s Mother, Daughter Sue Boeing Over Ethiopian Airlines Crash. by porka: 1:10pm On Jun 08, 2019
iswallker:
Were they not flying before it grounded..were they falling off the sky..haven't they being moving them from one airport to another without passenger since the grounding... huh

So 2 isolated cases in Africa and Asia with mostly inexperienced pilots means something is wrong with the plane. By the way the co-pilot did not have enough flying hours to fly a 737 in the US..the main pilot was scheduled for a training on 737 max the month the incident happened.

They mostly want to cut cost by employing inexperienced pilots and not attending trainings..its an African thing..it led to loss of lives unfortunately.. huh

Let's wait for the full report in any case.. huh
You have already made your conclusion.

What other reports are you waiting for? You have done your own findings, haven't you?

If the two cases were that isolated (within few months) as you claimed, would they have grounded that model in the whole world? Did they take such measure after the first one happened?
TravelRe: Pius Adesanmi’s Mother, Daughter Sue Boeing Over Ethiopian Airlines Crash. by porka: 12:52pm On Jun 08, 2019
Mosesotu123:
Accident happens but most accidents are cause by human error.
Boeing are to be blame for this but let's look at it from anoda point of view. if he was driving and had an accident, will the family sue the car production company? or if he was killed by some armed men. The accident could av be diverted just like the one obasanjo board but God knows beta.


Let the family let go of the case, God will take control...... thousand have been dying in plane crash due to some pilot error and life still moves on................... RIP to the lost victims
The lawyers think otherwise. They think they have a good case against Boeing.

Plus, each accident case is treated on its individual merit. It is not all cases that you cannot hold the manufacturing company responsible.

There are instances of manufacturers' defects in cars that lead to accidents and have led to several lawsuits.

If a car's pedal is faulty from the factory, as was the case of Toyota about a decade ago, they have to be held accoutable.

See https://www.cbsnews.com/news/toyota-unintended-acceleration-has-killed-89/

That is one of reasons car manufacturers recall their products in millions.

Our third world mentality probably has its own place when the issue concerns our way of life and the like. We can always hand everything to God who is the ultimate justice giver because we seem powerless, helpless vulnerable without a system for redress; that dispense justice with fairness regardless of status.

But when we are involved with people who have established methods (established by the use of the brain that God endowed all humans with) and who value one single human life above any other thing, we just have to wait and see the process to its logical conclusion.

They don't celebrate thousands of people dying as if humans are goats; they will always look to find out the possible cause(s) of the crash and make amends, including sanctions to any entity found culpable.

They do that to prevent future occurence. That is what you see is responsible for the phenomenal progress they have achieved on behalf of humanity.
TravelRe: Pius Adesanmi’s Mother, Daughter Sue Boeing Over Ethiopian Airlines Crash. by porka: 8:35am On Jun 08, 2019
Nig4Greatness:
..

Oga save yourself this epistle.there is statutory $100k Insurance compensation for any aviation fatality.end of story.it is your duty to protect yourself by buying adequate life insurance because things dey happen for this life.
If you lose your goods as a result of whatever reasons in an ocean vessel,do you sue the shipping company or you sue the maker of the vessel??or if a dangote truck kills someone,do you sue dangote or you instead sue the truck manufacturer??.it's a matter of common sense.
You seem to know a lot.

It's almost like you a lawyer or you are very close to the judge (jury) in this case to be so certain of the outcome; considering that law is not science which produces the same outcome all the time.

Have you seen this, though?

Airplane Accidents
https://www.justia.com/injury/motor-vehicle-accidents/airplane-accidents/

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