₦airaland Forum

omoharry:
They charge for self transfer ooo...i was charged N50 for transfering money from my savings account to my current account gtbank to gtbank.

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You should go challenge the bank on that. Let them know they cannot do that. They should refund it.

adipemcanis1:
The issue is.....we are not earning money from oil.....so we have tolook for alterante sources of funding.

Modified.....I am really amused by some of the comments calling this extortion.Well.....here are some facts.

1.When the law was being processed in the National Assembly.....you Nigerians were busy with your videos of the latest scandal to pay attention.

2.Oil is our only source of revenue.The price has fallen. Meanwhile....you people want govt to continue feeding you....without paying. How can?

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Does government feed any one in Nigeria?

mightyokwy:
My dear you just spoked the gospel truth. Since I was born it has been from one bad government to an other. It still beat my imagination why Gej is being singled out from bunch of criminals that destroyed this country.

Because he is not from one of the major ethnic groups with large population to blindly defend him. Nigerians show strong allegiance to the tribe.

psucc:
Truth is that we didn't like it. We yearned for change but now we got much more than what we longed for.

Exactly. But the elders in Afenifere and Ohanaeze were clearly warning us that Buhari was not the change we needed. But the loud, overzealous, gullible majority refused to listen to sound advice. Now we have to endure 4 years of very incompetent, autocratic rule. we are in deep trouble.

HungerBAD:
Kini big deal?

So what does the Election Poster say exactly? that the Naira has been on a free fall from Jonathan's time. Jonathan and his minions mopped up all the Dollars that was in Circulation in Nigeria, when it became clear the PDP will lose the election. And the one that was not mopped up, was stolen by Dasuki in the Billions.

It is this artificial scarcity of the Dollars, created by ALLI BABA(Jonathan) and his 40 Thieves, that is giving us problems now. As i have repeatedly said, things in Nigeria will first get a little worse, before it gets better.

Nigeria's economic woe did not start today, it started from Goodluck Jonathan's time.

you are trying to save face, right? Don't worry. By the time $1 starts exchanging for 1000 Naira, your eyes would clear very well. It is becoming obvious that Buhari cannot run Nigeria. The gullible ones have gotten us into 4 years of economic crisis.

A someone already explained, we do not have enough dollars to flood the market with. Oil sells around 33 Dollars per barrel right now. It was said that it costs us about 30 Dollars per barrel to produce our crude oil. So we are making only about 3 Dollars per barrel. And we are struggling to find buyers because there is oil glut right now. And we have to have some reasonable amount saved in our foreign reserve so that we can pay for our imports. I hear we have enough to last about 6 months right now. So we do not have enough to flood the market.
I am not an economist too, but that is the way I see it.

HopeAtHand:
Yorubas would be angry if cocoa is produced in SWest and the processing factory is in Enugu.

Definitely. We Nigerians don't like being objective. But I thought the dry dock project is private. Private investors should be free to locate their investments anywhere they feel comfortable with. People from the Niger Delta need to take the lead in oil and gas and ship projects. Why are they not doing so?

CyberWolf:
And what are they gonna discuss at the economic conference? ... The only remedy to our situation is true federalism...

Exactly.

wink2015:
[size=16pt]Nigeria is paying a big price because we built our economy on oil and gas. No country succeed on a monoproduct platform such as the one Nigeria finds itself.

Diversification of our economy is the key solution to our prolong suffering all through this years especially now that things are getting much bitterly worse.

Keys sectors the Nigerian leadership must address is:

The power sectors which is the generation of regular electricity: Nigeria need foreign partnership to succeed on this. Forget about this talk about local content. We are still far from developing a standard power sector on our own in Nigeria.

Agriculture: All the 36 states in Nigeria must run Agricultural farms such as ( crop agriculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, and also agro allied industries. It is a shame that at this 21st century, Nigeria is relying on local fulani cattle men for the supply of our cattle meat in Nigeria. We are suppose to have a standard cattle farm with modern technology being run at an industrial level with graduate engaged for employment.

Information technology: we must set up mobile phone assembling plant in Nigeria with foreign partnership.

Solid Mineral sector: The solid mineral sector must be revitalised for economic growth. Take for example, countries such as South Africa are doing well in this area. We have a lot to learn from the South African.


Political Re-structuring: The Buhari government and leadership in the 36 states must sustain the fight against corruption. Secondly, Nigeria must merge our states to regions for economic development. We have to abandon the expensive american presidential system and maybe copy the British parliamentary system of government. The parliamentary system is cheaper and easier to run under our present economic woes.[/size]

Good recommendations there. But we obviously have an incompetent man as president.

49cents:
My friend wake up

Politicians are the same everywhere, wake up and be wise.

Nigeria's only way out is to collapse the expensive state structure the military created and collapse them into autonomous, federating regions and see if healthy competion and use of resource control won't change this overnight

Don't mind Nigerians. Let them keep wasting time looking for messiah. Nigeria must be restructured for us to start progressing.

LegalAnalyst:
I entirely agree with you Prof.. But sir, do you really think this administration will do that? I doubt. Although I support Buhari's government but I know that the FG, out of short sighted arrogance, will not accept this obvious truth. My opinion

*NaijaLegalAnalyst*

Wonderful. And you still support Buhari's government?

saxywale:
Inflation may hit naija soon like a tsunami...

Did you say "may"? We already have serious inflation on our hands.

emzila:
why d protest in the first place, were they the ones that employed those VCs.
the topic should be Nigerian police dispersed paid tugs on protest with tear gas. I don't even know what the youths go to school to read these days.

Get informed please. The government actually does not have the power to arbitrarily sack and appoint VC's. The university governing councils are supposed to do that. I believe the case is heading to the court and ultimately to the supreme court. This is what I got from Dr Femi Aribisala's article on the budget of fraud.
So I believe the students' protest is in order.

Bamsupremacy:
Another long epistle from a pained crook who has been blocked from dipping his crooked fingers into our national cookie jar. We sane hard working nigerians still have unflinching support for our able presido.

So you think the fraudulent 2016 budget is alright? And you include yourself among the sane hard working Nigerians? Wonderful.

greatbrian:
Look at u....... U claim to be educated buh u ain't reasoning or speaking like one... Yea am an illiterate buh hv managed to pass my waec with distinction, I happen to be a medical student b4 I gained admission to the defence academy.... If am still an illiterate den I will tell u am proud to be one if dz ur definition. U DAT u r so learned what hv u done with ur live?? U just sit dia hating a general of which am sure if ur father could achieve half what the man hv achieved am sure u will hv a little wisdom in ur dumb skull not to call pole fighting for ur peace thugs. My learned clown am not in for an argument. Coz am nt good at it. Peace bro

In these days of incessant cheating in exams, I would not be surprised that you actually have waec and with distinction. It's a shame and testament to the level our educational system have degraded that someone like you can hardly write correct English but would be throwing curse words all over the place, ostensibly to cover your low self-esteem.
Which decent country do soldiers beat up on civilians? The government really needs to review what they teach at NDA because it seems they are producing nothing but thugs who have the wrong idea of what it means to serve in the military.
Some people refer to Nigeria as a zoo. It is thugs like you that continue to earn us such tag.

greatbrian:
Thugs parading Luke soldiers?? And after God those thugs are d reason u r still alive, those thugs are still d reason ur country z in peace and u can sit down and sleep in ur house u stupid civilliam idiot. Kai u no u r a bastard ba?? Go to borno see how they r killing our brothers. Do u know how many soldiers die everyday just for dz country to be in peace. U bastards WOnt see DAT u already made up ur mind nfin good can come out of d Nigerian Military. Hv loosed many loved ones just to bring peace to dz country still we didn't complain ciz if we won't shed our blood to the grass for it to grow and bring peace of d nation who will U stupid clown z in ur house eating and chatting no offence. 2 of my officers brother hv died in borno and 3 of my families r still dia fighting day and night. My immediate brother has been in Maiduguri for almost 2 years now. He haven't even see is one and half yr old son since he left for operation u bastard won't see DAT its only d odd news u guys blow. His many time hv I seen a post on nairaland where soldiers are praised who r dying for u to live. Clowns are so ungrateful sha. Anyway dz t u guys r civilians. Ur thinking z so poor abt ur country military I saw one oda bastard write DAT a us captain is equal to a Nigerian general. Who am I to blame the backward thinking clown. Crazy bastar

Hey, from your very horrible grammar I can guess you are an illiterate. You need to go get yourself some education. Then you can come back and we can have some decent discussion. Of course an ape like you is not the reason I am alive. And an as* hole like you cannot be responsible for the little peace we are enjoying.

Charly68:
I think he deserves the punishment for disrespecting the man in uniform..we learnt in those days that those who do that do so against the nation the man represents. He was in uniform & so he must be respected

Keep quiet there. So to you, anybody in uniform can do anything to anyone they think disrespected them. Smh.

nkowaputa:
I support the soldier. Most of these commercial drivers need serious beating. If I were a soldier I would have dealt with many of them uncountable. They are so reckless that they do whatever they like without blinking.
You can imagine he almost hit the soldier and did not know.
One scratched my car the other day at oshodi. They enter the road at will, stop anywhere at will. They literally do not know the road is shared.
I wish the soldier beat more of them. They need sense beaten into them.
Most traffic gridlock are caused by these miscreants.
Oh! I wish I were a soldier. God knows what I would have been doing.

Keep supporting the soldier. One day it would be your turn to be battered by soldiers. Then your view would change.

The foolish army spokesman is already denying that the culprit is a soldier. We just have thugs parading as soldiers.

LRNZH:
If he does not stand with his boss then with who again?

He needs it. With the kind of high profile arrests Magu has overseen, if Buhari leaves power, he may suffer the fate of Ribadu under PDP


PS. I gather that the anti-corruption solidarity group actually marched to EFCC's office and Magu came out to greet them. OP, you have no case.

It's not if Buhari leaves office but when Buhari leaves office, because he will eventually leave.He should have no reason to fear if he is doing his job following due process. But if he keeps witch-hunting the accused, disobeying court orders, then standing with Buhari will definitely not save him when pay-back time comes.

mynd1:
Dis op is a IPOB youth. U can Cry us a river.

#istandwithbuhari#

God bless Nigeria.

Don't you think that the EFCC should be seen to be non partisan? May be you don't realize that the EFCC are working for Nigeria and not for Buhari. If the Senators know their responsibilities, they should ask Mr. Magu to resign. He is obviously a fool. Little wonder he was complaining about senior lawyers representing the accused as if one is automatically guilty as soon as one is accused.

Horlufemi:
Ask for a divorce. If she asks why tell her that she's a selfish human being. That you'll rather help your sibling than not help at all. You want a wife who will support you helping others.

Not a good advice. It's not easy getting a wife you can happily live with. Nobody is perfect. The woman seems mean but the op said she has redeeming qualities. I believe they can work around this problem. The op should just understand that he has a selfish, mean wife and work around that fact. He does not have to always tell her when he wants to do something for his family.

AFRICANDICEY:
Your brother does not need to come to your house for money; you can do a transfer. Your wife must not always be in the picture. She is not a bad wife but ''over protecting her husband finances''. Be diplomatic with her, always convince her of your reasons. If you can help your brother get a job.

Is she really protecting her husband's finances? The op said that she is happy when he helps her family and that she also helps her family. How about the old items which the op replaced with new ones and the wife still opposes his giving it away to his brother. Let's call a spade a spade.

nasha1:
If it was him doing this to the wife,will u have said all this? You claimed that you bought "a house" without ur husband knowledge because it is ur money and as u lot call it "enemy of progress" whenever the husband demand 2 know.so why are u now telling him 2 explain 2her?
u can't just keep being one sided and demand 4 equality anytime it's about a woman.be objective sometimes.
She is EVIL,period and he has everyright to help his brother as long as it is HIS MONEY.

Wow! at her buying a house without her husband's knowledge and she is here talking about the op having to consult his wife before giving things to his dear brother. That is clear-cut hypocrisy right there.

Yes, I believe you married the wrong lady. She seems mean. But if the only serious problem is her having problems with you helping your brother (who is really in need), I would not advise for divorce.
You can sit her down and have a serious talk with her to let her know why you have to be there for your family. Let her know that you and her could find yourselves in similar problem in future. Assure her that this is a temporary situation.
Does your wife work? How does she feel about helping her own family? If she contributes to your family income, then it might make sense for you guys to operate a joint account into which each of you would pay a percentage of your income monthly for family expenses. Then you can do what you want with the leftover. Same for her. That way, you don't have to tell her when you need to help a family member.

4Play:
This is part of the story but not the full story. At the heart of the problem is dollar inflow into Nigeria. Oil exports are a major source of dollar inflow and so a fall in oil prices reduces dollar inflow. However, dollar inflow may also come from foreign investors attracted by an improved business climate or even corrupt loot being repatriated.

The pace of Naira's collapse is not simply an oil story but it is a reflection of souring investor confidence in Nigeria both in terms of the policy direction, or more aptly the lack of policies,and a rapidly deteriorating business environment. I have also noticed from speaking to Nigerians that many are looking for a way to get money out of the country to hedge their Naira savings in a foreign currency. So not only are fewer dollars coming in but we are experiencing capital flight.

For years I used to try to drum it into people's heads that Nigeria's economic underdevelopment is not simply a corruption issue. Our poor choice of policies is a more significant factor than corruption. If you have a regime that reduces corruption by $2bn but causes capital flight of $10bn you have not gained anything. The reason why Nigerians like to reduce our problems to the single issue of corruption is that we are a people with a religious mindset and an affinity for simplified moral narratives. Economics is a very complex subject and Nigerians struggle with complexity. Better to construct simplistic narratives based on a foundation of ethnic/religious loyalties and hatreds - Hausa/Fulani Muslim oligarchy v IPOB/Ibo conspiracy - than to tackle the headache inducing complexities of the modern world.

I agree completely. That is why I did not vote Buhari although I believed he would run a less corrupt government. I felt he would mess up the economy. A lot of Nigerians believe that as soon as corruption is fought, everything falls in place. But it's not that simple.

mystic70563:
i'm curretly at the bank and 1 dollar = 197 naira at the exchange board

That's the official rate which would be almost impossible for the average Nigerian to get.

So what's the reason for the sackings since some of them seem to be doing a good job?

adajiboyy:
Some zombies that have been hipnotized by the sai baba chant,nd charmed by the the change symdrome,would still not see valid and good reason wit wat SR said.this government is not only clueless its useless.I wonder the place buhari got his juju from that some people would still be defending him even wen they no he is not getting it rite.we rite thinking nigerians second wit SAHARA REPORTERS.

Those fools know that Buhari is messing up; they are just trying to save face. They don't want people to start telling them "I told you".

Very good. Assert your right as a Nigerian. Nigeria is not Buhari's private property.

NgeneUkwenu:
See IPOB Youths Showing Their Frustrations Above...

And you want us to believe you are happy with the state of things right?

The guy is very rude and proud. People are different. Some guys would be ok with a girl that does not prove hard to get. This guy is obviously not that type.
You should move on. You will find someone that appreciates you.
But you should stop asking a guy for money. Try to make do with the little you have. That would make you look more respectable in the eyes of a guy.