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Blueraydick
If you didn't watch tehran s3 last year, it is out now
The english subtitle should be fine too

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick
If you didn't watch tehran s3 last year, it is out now
The english subtitle should be fine too

I've lost interest in the series jare.

I'm currently watching The 100 on Prime. I watched it way back but I stopped at season 3, I'm now on season 6 (It has 7 seasons)

Of late I've been enjoying Prime. I just wish other platforms like HBO, peacock, AppleTV etc were available for easy sub in Naija and at reasonable cost; one would not need to be doing unnecessary download up and down.

CrystalTiger:
https://www.nairaland.com/8598761/fg-hires-lobbying-firm-9m

See the money BAT is wasting instead of just dealing with terrorists head on..

IMHO he understands trumps game. Likely the lobbying firm is attached to Trump family one way or another. That is the trump way.

GloriousGbola:
IMHO he understands trumps game. Likely the lobbying firm is attached to Trump family one way or another. That is the trump way.

Inflated lobbying contract. Lobbying firm has links to Trump allies.

Dot connected. What’s understood need not be explained.

GloriousGbola:
IMHO he understands trumps game. Likely the lobbying firm is attached to Trump family one way or another. That is the trump way.

Na Republican lobbyists

It was all over the news yesterday

izzou:
Na Republican lobbyists

It was all over the news yesterday

You sure say Dayo no dey the team

Favor starting early in 2026

GloriousGbola:
IMHO he understands trumps game. Likely the lobbying firm is attached to Trump family one way or another. That is the trump way.

So they have to waste $9million of tax payers' funds just to inform America they have plans to fight Jihadists?

Na wa o.

They refused to name Terrorism sponsors , we have not seen much prosecution efforts from FG to terrorists and we have state governments busy negotiating with terrorists.

They should take action instead of wasting tax payers money on lobbying

GloriousGbola:
You sure say Dayo no dey the team

Favor starting early in 2026

We all know what we are doing

BlueRayDick:
So they have to waste $9million of tax payers' funds just to inform America they have plans to fight Jihadists?

Na wa o.

They refused to name Terrorism sponsors , we have not seen much prosecution efforts from FG to terrorists and we have state governments busy negotiating with terrorists.

They should take action instead of wasting tax payers money on lobbying

My guy you are a Nigerian. When Atiku lobbied to have his case closed and warrant sorted, he paid a lobbying firm 300k if I recall.

Trump is the most genial, most corrupt president America has ever had. That is why Qataris are dashing him plane, why he is doing real estate deals in Saudi Arabia. That money is going to team trump.

What your mafians call protection money. Maybe they will Throw in a Chieftaincy title or medal as well.

Naija ultimate peace prize as the guy has so a love of that sort of thing

Nigerian Federal Government hired a lobbying firm, but Trump is to blame. I never know say Hundeyin get brothers for this thread. TDS on steroids.

GloriousGbola:
IMHO he understands trumps game. Likely the lobbying firm is attached to Trump family one way or another. That is the trump way.

Is this a justification?

Cos me no get ur point

BlueRayDick:
I've lost interest in the series jare.

I'm currently watching The 100 on Prime. I watched it way back but I stopped at season 3, I'm now on season 6 (It has 7 seasons)

Of late I've been enjoying Prime. I just wish other platforms like HBO, peacock, AppleTV etc were available for easy sub in Naija and at reasonable cost; one would not need to be doing unnecessary download up and down.

Yes prime and Netflix are easy to subscribe to
Maybe apple if you have ios device

GloriousGbola:
My guy you are a Nigerian. When Atiku lobbied to have his case closed and warrant sorted, he paid a lobbying firm 300k if I recall.

Trump is the most genial, most corrupt president America has ever had. That is why Qataris are dashing him plane, why he is doing real estate deals in Saudi Arabia. That money is going to team trump.

What your mafians call protection money. Maybe they will Throw in a Chieftaincy title or medal as well.

Naija ultimate peace prize as the guy has so a love of that sort of thing

Don't u think Nigerian government showing efforts at fighting terrorism, naming & shaming terrorism financiers and prosecuting terrorists arrested would be more beneficial to Nigerians instead of spending as much as $9m of tax payers money to hire an American lobbying firm? Let's not forget that the Nigerian firm that hired the American lobbying firm on behalf of NSA will also be paid hundreds of millions for their "serices"

So what is now the difference between this current government and the past one? They are currently hounding Malami for hiring international lawyers for ridiculous amount of dollars in processing refund of Abacha's loot. Then we have this government doing what they are doing with this American lobbying firm. Na wa o

iamoyindamola:
Yes prime and Netflix are easy to subscribe to
Maybe apple if you have ios device

I use an iphone but I don't know how to go about subscribing AppleTV to watch on SmartTV. And it seems AppleTV always have some really cool series

Ellexy:
Nigerian Federal Government hired a lobbying firm, but Trump is to blame. I never know say Hundeyin get brothers for this thread. TDS on steroids.

I don't blame Trump, but it's starting to look like a racket.

How come the US wants to listen to a lobbyist?

I mean, these are people who have dragged this country on air for weeks. Suddenly, there's an arrangement to pay a lobbyist who is also known to be backing the very same people dragging Nigeria?

Whether na dem bully us to go price lobbyist, or na we go phoooolishly price am, someone is going to chop free $9m.

BlueRayDick:
Don't u think Nigerian government showing efforts at fighting terrorism, naming & shaming terrorism financiers and prosecuting terrorists arrested would be more beneficial to Nigerians instead of spending as much as $9m of tax payers money to hire an American lobbying firm? Let's not forget that the Nigerian firm that hired the American lobbying firm on behalf of NSA will also be paid hundreds of millions for their "serices"

So what is now the difference between this current government and the past one? They are currently hounding Malami for hiring international lawyers for ridiculous amount of dollars in processing refund of Abacha's loot. Then we have this government doing what they are doing with this American lobbying firm. Na wa o

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we do a lot of construction projects. during those projects different regulatory agencies will come to harass is. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT SAFETY OR STANDARDS OR ANYTHING ELSE. it is simply a shakedown. show them all your papers - if you don not drop for them , your job is going nowhere.

that is what this is. we are america and if you want to continue to operate, drop money. there is nothing trump is doing that should be strange to you as a nigerian. do you not get harassed by regulators all the time? dpr taht we used to call d[b]PR[/b]

that is all this is really about. drop PR.

is it trump that you think suddenly cares about nigerian christains? same trump that killed usaid? same trump blocking visas?

GloriousGbola:
My post was deleted

we do a lot of construction projects. during those projects different regulatory agencies will come to harass is. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT SAFETY OR STANDARDS OR ANYTHING ELSE. it is simply a shakedown. show them all your papers - if you don not drop for them , your job is going nowhere.

that is what this is. we are america and if you want to continue to operate, drop money. there is nothing trump is doing that should be strange to you as a nigerian. do you not get harassed by regulators all the time? dpr taht we used to call d[b]PR[/b]

that is all this is really about. drop PR.

is it trump that you think suddenly cares about nigerian christains? same trump that killed usaid? same trump blocking visas?

I completely disagree with this "shakedown theory" sha. So u are saying Trump decided to bomb terrorists in Nigeria because of $9 million or whatever amount that ends up being paid to American lobbying firm?

BlueRayDick:
I completely disagree with this "shakedown theory" sha. So u are saying Trump decided to bomb terrorists in Nigeria because of $9 million or whatever amount that ends up being paid to American lobbying firm?

in front of us trump deployed a strike force to arrest maduro. for months he said it was about narco terrorism. now it is all of a sudden about oil. and he then had a big meeting with ceos of oil companies.

read it up. those who understand trump have been lobbying him. ceos paying big money for his inaugural ceremony. you think fifa dont know why they gave him a peace prize? who did he inform after the venezuela mission was complete? congress? no. oil companies.

to this day we don't have actual clear information about terrorists that were decimated in the xmas day attack. somehow we have no videos, no pictures nothing. from the us that has satellite imagery, etc it may as well be a nigerian army report. what we do have is ordnance in offa - a story for another day.

Ellexy:
Nigerian Federal Government hired a lobbying firm, but Trump is to blame. I never know say Hundeyin get brothers for this thread. TDS on steroids.

They either have selective amnesia or barely informed about American intrapolitics and global sociopolitics.

Lobbyists are big money machines. The UAE, Saudi, Japan, China, Iran, Israel...have been spending billions accumulatively on lobbying.

They should learn about AIPAC and other such foreign interest groups.

If you don't have a lobbying machinery on the world stage, you become the most tossed around pawn.

$9 million is little compared to the lobbying warchest of other countries annually.

Definitely TDS since it's been going on for 120+ years before Trump's father was even born.

Saudi Arabia, until 2022 when Elon Musk bought it, owned a percentage of Twitter. It became a US ally through lobbying despite its past terror links.

When Khashogi was ãssassinated by Saudi, the US danced around sanctions. Tweets were suppressed.

Last November, it hosted the most famous American comedians and the ones who rant most about free speech and freedom. It was a lobby to paint a more tolerant image of Saudi. Even Trevor Noah who didn't attend was trying to say Saudi Arabia was almost as toreant as the US is. Dave Chappelle laughed it off in his new special. Those who watched it know the punchline I am referring to.

Read historical and contemporary angles instead of waiting for CNN recaps or the talking points of Nigerian media houses whose editors I argue with daily like I mentioned here and they are just as biased on these issues.

Ellexy:
Nigerian Federal Government hired a lobbying firm, but Trump is to blame. I never know say Hundeyin get brothers for this thread. TDS on steroids.

I blame Reno Omokri for trying to do it on the cheap and recruiting Mike Arnold which caused more harm than good. Now we have to throw $$$ at it.

GloriousGbola:
in front of us trump deployed a strike force to arrest maduro. for months he said it was about narco terrorism. now it is all of a sudden about oil. and he then had a big meeting with ceos of oil companies.

read it up. those who understand trump have been lobbying him. ceos paying big money for his inaugural ceremony. you think fifa dont know why they gave him a peace prize? who did he inform after the venezuela mission was complete? congress? no. oil companies.

to this day we don't have actual clear information about terrorists that were decimated in the xmas day attack. somehow we have no videos, no pictures nothing. from the us that has satellite imagery, etc it may as well be a nigerian army report. what we do have is ordnance in offa - a story for another day.

You are conflating issues here. Everyone have always known what US interest in Venezuela was.

Comparing the Nigerian situation with Venezuela's is a bit of a stretch; it is very very far fetched .

https://www.icirnigeria.org/report-says-us-spent-over-30million-missiles-on-sokoto-terrorists-bombing/

The report in the above link says US spent over $30 million on missiles that were deployed in the bombing of terrorists in Sokoto. Are u saying because od $9million lobbying contract the US decided to expend 16 Tomahawk missiles that cost $2million each on terrorists in Nigeria ?

If you had said Trump spearheaded the US intervention in fighting terrorism in Nigeria just in a bid to flex American muscle and military might, I may agree with you. But this "shakedown theory" no just add up at all

BlueRayDick:
You are conflating issues here. Everyone have always known what US interest in Venezuela was.

Comparing the Nigerian situation with Venezuela's is a bit of a stretch; it is very very far fetched .

https://www.icirnigeria.org/report-says-us-spent-over-30million-missiles-on-sokoto-terrorists-bombing/

The report in the above link says US spent over $30 million on missiles that were deployed in the bombing of terrorists in Sokoto. Are u saying because od $9million lobbying contract the US decided to expend 16 Tomahawk missiles that cost $2million each on terrorists in Nigeria ?

If you had said Trump spearheaded the US intervention in fighting terrorism in Nigeria just in a bid to flex American muscle and military might, I may agree with you. But this "shakedown theory" no just add up at all

we experience the same thing on site na. when one lasbca official will mobilize govt resources. mopol, five pickup, black maria etc. what you will pay is not going to be equal in value to the total value of resources expended by the officials.

In 2017, AIPAC had already picked Kamala Harris. She was a Senator then and still married to a Jewish husband. Both of them attended pro-Israel events.

Trump had just gotten into office then but they wanted to be sure about Israel's interests so were co-opting serving Senators.

Trump eventually appointed his Jewish son-in-law to serve Israel's interest without much push from the Senate.

The same AIPAC contributed to Kamala's campaign. It's another reason people were so certain she was never going to sanction Israel as she was deep in their pockets.

You think the mainstream media will tell you this? No. You think ours will post about this? No. You think they even immerse themselves this deep in such issues beyond the depth of Fubara and Wike? Debating with many of them, I doubt it.

Dig up things for yourself. Information is fully democratized thanks to the internet.

The U.S. kicked against China owning a part of TikTok and had to call a congressional hearing which was so hostile. Please watch it on YouTube.

The U.S. didn't kick against Saudi Arabia owning a percentage of Twitter until Elon bought everything.

Congress' excuse was foreign influence on a critical US mass media platform. Twitter always had more mass media reach than TikTok.

That's what proper lobbying gets you.

If I try to explain this on Facebook or some other platform, emotional newts who think the world is in black and white will jump in to insult and call me a paid hack for the BAT administration.

You will learn to analyze world issues without emotions someday, hopefully.

Again, regardless of how you feel, $9 million isn't too much for lobbying by a country like Nigeria with SO MUCH negative press in the West. I'd dare posit a $50 million warchest isn't even too much.

Imagine the investors from silicon valley alone if we succeed.

Paypal began allowing Nigerians again last December as we are no longer on their blacklist. It took lobbying. Imagine what it signals to other countries about our image and in the global venture capital industry as a whole.
Imagine what it would eventually do for our FDI.

@Gloriousgbola read the excerpt of this frontpage thread:

According to documents obtained by SaharaReporters, OSW, working in collaboration with the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), arrested several high-profile suspects in March 2021 based on detailed financial intelligence tracing money flows linked to terrorism financing.

Ali-Keffi stated that some of the suspects were linked to former Chiefs of Army Staff, including Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd) and Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya (rtd), former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele, and former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN).

He clarified that he was not directly accusing any of the named individuals of financing terrorism but said investigations connected them to some of the arrested suspects.

Specifically, Ali-Keffi disclosed that two suspects arrested by OSW were linked to Buratai, two others were linked to Malami, one was linked to Emefiele, while one suspect was linked to Yahaya.

He further alleged that Malami interfered with the investigation by orchestrating the removal of a key prosecutor and influencing the handling and eventual release of certain suspects

https://www.nairaland.com/8598947/army-detains-brig-gen-gabriel-archibong

All of that happened in a country that claimed to be fighting Terrorism.

Are u telling me if the FG decided to revisit this case, bring the suspects in, prosecute them and trace the various financiers with full workings shown, it won't be more productive than wasting $9 million of tax payers money on hiring lobbyists to convince trump they are fighting terrorism?

Let them put serious efforts into fighting terrorism and leave propaganda & lobbying for now.

BlueRayDick:
@Gloriousgbola read the excerpt of this frontpage thread:



https://www.nairaland.com/8598947/army-detains-brig-gen-gabriel-archibong

All of that happened in a country that claimed to be fighting Terrorism.

Are u telling me if the FG decided to revisit this case, bring the suspects in, prosecute them and trace the various financiers with full workings shown, it won't be more productive than wasting $9 million of tax payers money on hiring lobbyists to convince trump they are fighting terrorism?

Let them put serious efforts into fighting terrorism and leave propaganda & lobbying for now.

If i recall it was reported that they found guns in malamis keffi residence

and you can do BOTH at the same time

hold off the US and whatever their agenda is while going after the internal saboteurs

Lobbying for Paypal to come to Nigeria is one of the wildest ideas I’ve heard in a while.

@disstroy Do you have any evidence of this? I believe Paypal opened up the Nigerian market due to competitive pressure from big players like Stripe. As someone who worked in the Fintech industry for a bit, I understand that Paypal did not want to take on the heft of fraud, compliance, legal and regulatory frameworks etc and other existential problems that would have cropped up.

It is much easier to just cut off a country from payment services especially when the numbers are not adding up. The emergence of local behemoths like Flutterwave, Moniepoint, Paystack etc means that instead of taking on all this risk, Paypal can simply use any (or all) of these entities as switches since they all satisfy international requirements such as PCI-DSS compliance.

DeadPresidents:
Lobbying for Paypal to come to Nigeria is one of the wildest ideas I’ve heard in a while.

@disstroy Do you have any evidence of this? I believe Paypal opened up the Nigerian market due to competitive pressure from big players like Stripe. As someone who worked in the Fintech industry for a bit, I understand that Paypal did not want to take on the heft of fraud, compliance, legal and regulatory frameworks etc and other existential problems that would have cropped up.

It is much easier to just cut off a country from payment services especially when the numbers are not adding up. The emergence of local behemoths like Flutterwave, Moniepoint, Paystack etc means that instead of taking on all this risk, Paypal can simply use any (or all) of these entities as switches since they all satisfy international requirements such as PCI-DSS compliance.

paypal is available again. they came, they went and i believe they are back

issue is that charge is in dollars not naira. i have used them in the past to pay for software subscriptions

GloriousGbola:
paypal is available again. they came, they went and i believe they are back

issue is that charge is in dollars not naira. i have used them in the past to pay for software subscriptions

I think this is a sound business decision. Historical volatility of the Naira must be the culprit

DeadPresidents:
Lobbying for Paypal to come to Nigeria is one of the wildest ideas I’ve heard in a while.

@dis.stroy Do you have any evidence of this? I believe Paypal opened up the Nigerian market due to competitive pressure from big players like Stripe. As someone who worked in the Fintech industry for a bit, I understand that Paypal did not want to take on the heft of fraud, compliance, legal and regulatory frameworks etc and other existential problems that would have cropped up.

It is much easier to just cut off a country from payment services especially when the numbers are not adding up. The emergence of local behemoths like Flutterwave, Moniepoint, Paystack etc means that instead of taking on all this risk, Paypal can simply use any (or all) of these entities as switches since they all satisfy international requirements such as PCI-DSS compliance.

I did a post on Facebook highlighting in details the points you raised in early December when PayPal made the announcement. Every single thing. It was on the 20th of December or so, including to push their crypto product.

I still haven't used PayPal since then as some sort of personal protest. Paystack, Flutterwave and Grey are doing great jobs I can live with.

But days later, when the news saturated, PayPal had major meetings with industry players prior.

One of the main reasons for the Paypal blockade was Nigeria's suppose proclivity to cybercrime and laundering the proceeds (even though we aren't even top 10 and major fraud havens were never blocked in the first place).

PayPal's reentry was too coordinated. Syndicated headlines, media briefings, influential government officials in the startup and finance spaces present... And it is only a smokescreen.
After the media frenzy, there are still quiet restrictions others are reporting.