₦airaland Forum

SpecialAgent:
It seems you are new to this, let me break it to you, as long as you earn the dollar to spend in Nigeria, na same thing unless you are into export

Lol, you ended up confusing yourself

What do you mean by "unless you're into export"?

By the way I have heard people say that those earning in dollars and spending in naira gains nothing when naira depreciates but that's not true. Everyone earning in dollar gains once naira depreciates. Now, let me break it down for you.
Someone earning $500 monthly when naira exchanges at 400 to a dollar would have 200k but once naira depreciates to 500 per dollar, his income becomes 250k monthly i.e. 50k extra.

However, when dollar appreciates, only imported commodities are directly affected. Rent remains static, likewise transport and locally grown food. Remember that FG still subsidizes fuel while means that they will offset the increase due to exchange rate.

So, while salary earners and businessmen would have a static income regardless of exchange rate fluctuation, the person who earns in dollar is now 50k naira richer and all of them will still go to the same market, buy the same commodities and pay the same rent.

In summary, when dollar appreciates those that earn forex gain.

Shooyie:
You're still asking the whereabouts of the President and the Vice President in 2020? You have to be ignorant as to happens around you.

My friend, you're the one who is ignorant of what is going on. Your so called president is senile, his vice has been side-tracked and made irrelevant. Their government has been hijacked and there are shadowy individuals calling the shots from behind the scene.

Many Nigerians are not smart at all. SMH!

Deputy1111:
You mean you are still asking where is Buhari and Osinbajo, you must be the one who is lost

Why should Gambari be the one to hold crucial security meeting with service chiefs?

Buhari is the GCFR for a reason, and he ought to be the one holding meeting with these guys.

BigBabyJesus:
I was at the forefront attacking that adulterous afonjess from the minute she was appointed

She had no business being made finance minister as she is not an economist but a mere accountant.

We all know how she got her appointment because she was warming the bed of one afonja APC big whig

She was a disgrace and has since been disgraced to silence.

Her chapter don close.

It is this useless one that may one day find her way back to Nigeria and be appointed by Tinubu into one capacity and Afonjas will not let us rest.

She needs to be exposed as the mentally unstable idiot that she is before afonjas try shoving her down our throats just as they did Kemi.

Biko, umu nnem, unu jiri nwayo n'agwo ndi Yoruba Ara. Anyi n'akuzi ha nkpori n'eleghi anya n'azu

Oge n'adighi anya, nke iberibe ahu ana akpo Mynd44 ga abia wepu ihe ndia anyi dere n'ebea.

So cabal Abba Kyari died and cabal Gambari took over yet the I'd!ots that was given a mandate are no where to be found. Where is Buhari and Osinbajo Nigerians voted into power? So, they have absconded and left Nigerians at the mercy of the cabal?

What a useless and phantom government.

Look at how Egypt is running the AU like it's a ministry in Cairo yet some zombies still believe Nigeria is the giant of Africa.

Just imagine their useless excuse. Well, they have lost their best opportunity of taking the post because Ngozi Okonjo Iweala is their best chance of clinching it.

Dark continent

Lol, he wasn't called mere commissioner for no reason. He is doing his job of attending to irrelevant things while key issues are being discussed behind closed doors.

Afonjas are being scammed back-to-back by Northerners

Admissionclass:
Restructure Nigeria and watch Niger delta states blow up.I

I doubt so. Would there be improvement? Yes! Would they become a model soceity? No!

Niger Delta states like Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa Ibom are richer than some African countries yet there is nothing on ground to show for it. Akwa Ibom is the only one trying while Bayelsa is the most abysmal.

Having natural resources alone is not enough to make a state or country advanced if it does not have a commensurate human resources to back it up. If states like Imo, Anambra and Ekiti have the sort of money Bayelsa has, they would have become far more advanced and developed.

However, the biggest obstacle standing against Nigeria's development is the core North i.e. NW and NE. These two regions are on self-destruct mode and a disaster waiting to happen. The accumulation of decades of terrible governance is now sinking the region down the abyss and is threatening to pull the rest of the country alongside. The anarchy and chaotic situation in the North is yet to peak, and once it does, their is going to zones and areas that would be completely in the hands of warlords and there will be many of such areas that the army and police will be overwhelmed.

Whether some people want it or not, Nigeria is already restructuring or even breaking up due to the weight of its accumulated structural imbalance. Ultimately, states/regions in the South will have their own independent security arrangement that will be in place due to the need to counter the violence that would be coming from the north in guise of herdsmen and bandits. Some NC states will be forced to follow suit but their attempts will be seriously sabotaged. At this point, two things will then happen, a completely restructured Nigeria or total breakup will take place.

Primitive bastards ammasing I'll gotten wealth while millions are dying in poverty. Nigeria is now a country that is surviving on loans yet these barbarians keep looting even loans they took from China!

America should do us a favour by confiscating all their stolen assets and banning them all from ever visiting US.

I have not seen a more wicked set of people like Nigerian politicians. Tufiakwa!!

Oil is fast losing relevance yet these ones are busy wasting scarce resources in looking for more. Money they would have used in developing agriculture is being wasted.

They used their own hand to destroy their region.

IduNaOba:
The question should be... Why should they support him?

Or better still, charity begins at home, so why did his people abandon him?

Or do they now want to push for him now that project Tinubu has failed

Why always Igbos

Such a tribe of developers and progressives unlike those that live on audio and propaganda.

This is coming too late. Northern Nigeria is gone, it is now a terrorist Haven. Except they want to intervene before it escalates to the South.

helinues:
The recent daily killings in North lately is nothing but an effort by Northerners to retain power.

Both Apc and Pdp supporters are working together to undermine this present government.

That a region will be using their own people as a pawn just to retain power is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read/heard.

Proofs don't lie

This is just 2020 and you afonjas have started crying already. The funny thing is that you think you're smart and sophisticated, but in reality you're naive.

The North has played you guys once again. Just the same way they used and dumped Awo, used and dumped Abiola, they've used Tinubu and about to dump him as well.

History keeps repeating itself over and over again yet you all won't learn.

The handwriting is now on the wall and you all are beginning to make noise about Oduduwa but no one is fooled. Everyone knows you love Nigeria more than the Fulanis, so that blackmail won't fly.

By 2023, it is someone from the SE, SS or North that would rule and there is nothing you or your people can do about it except to rant online but be rest assured that we Igbos have enough presence online to quash whatever propaganda you will come up with after losing out.

FieldMarshall06:
So assuming they can cripple Naij, we should facilitate it... By exposing our inner security. So, you make it easy for your enemy abi...

So much illiterates on nairaland . Smh .

Stop fantasizing out of ignorance. There is no inner security to breach to start with. Your country is as porous as any banana republic can be. I can get classified info from inner government circles if I dig deep enough and of course bribe one or two people.

Why would France go the length of investment millions of dollars in Nigeria if their primary aim is to get information about Nigeria when they can still get same information by spending very little money and time?

You're living in Lala land and obviously ignorant of how Nigeria is. Don't be the proverbial butterfly that thinks it's a bird.

Meanwhile, you need education since you don't even know the meaning of illiterate.

Unnecessary paranoia. France can get any classified info they need on Nigeria at the speed of light, they don't need to operate a telecommunication company to do so.

Stop making it appear like we are a military power because we are not. We just happen to be a little more influential than other African countries due to our large population and resources.

France can cripple Nigeria within 24 hours if there is any hostility between us just the same way they cleaned out Ivory Coast's air Force during the Gbagbo imbroglio. So better know your mate, we are no match against France.

rationalhuman:
There was no Shot fired, always Fist, Stick fight and stone pelting so no point of bringing any weapon argument here. they always fight like that.

And if you think Chinese can physically fight Vietnamis forget about Indians, i leave that to you.

Secondly, Evidence comes when you accept, China never released any report, confirmation.(as it never does like N. Korea).

Yesterday Hu Xijin(Editor Chief) Tweeted that there are causalities on Chinese sides and now i am unable to see that again maybe deleted, I have screenshot attached here.
I am a person who never discuss what i think or my Ideas. i just post data, Credible facts and leave it to every member to analyze and decide. Thanks

Lol, all these casualties from just physical fight with sticks, fists and stones

I guess both sides are scared of an escalation and nothing escalates hostilities into a full blown war than when shots are fired.

It's good to observe that China too can apply restraint since they know they're equally vulnerable.

olugabbie:
Both India and China buy weapon from Russia. Apart from Russia the country that has the highest number of Russian made fighter jet (SU-30) is Indian. China also has a quite of number of SU-35. SU-35 is the Russian most sofisticated fighter jet. The supposed Russian best fighter jet. The fifth generation fighter T-50 is not operational yet.

The good side of having a strong and aggressive rival as neighbor is that it will push you to develop or perish.

India has no choice but to keep developing too in order not to be left completely behind by China. Since they see themselves as competitors, each side would always want to achieve or surpass whatever the other has.

rationalhuman:
43 Chinese also died.

Dont spread Half News.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/20-soldiers-killed-in-face-off-with-chinese-troops-in-ladakh-sources-2247351

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8425875/Three-Indian-soldiers-killed-fighting-Chinese-forces-disputed-Himalayan-border.html

Did you even read the link you provided? There is no evidence yet to prove that 43 Chinese died too. Those peddling that figure are just doing so to save face.

Inasmuch as I hate China and hope they meet their Waterloo, but I doubt India has the capacity to win China in any war.

If China could win India in 1962 when that Communist nation was poor and largely underdeveloped, is it now they've turned into a rich and technologically advanced country that India would stand a chance?

Except you will be hoping on using nuclear missiles and in that case it would be a MAD situation i.e. mutually assured destruction.

Such an IQ reducing thread. Imagine how these ones are celebrating thugs People that are supposed to be nuisance to any society, juvenile delinquents are what these "children" are celebrating here

I just tire for all of you here.

seunmsg:
Who you support is irrelevant. Power will return to the south in 2023. Period.

Be specific, when you mention South, you must zero SW out of it.

SW has had more than its fair share, and we would rather allow it to remain in the north than for it to go to the SW.

Say no to greed.

Hahaha, Tinubu don enter one chance. Look at how they are dragging him around like a common criminal.

The Arewa guy was continuesly hitting at the SW yet they still believe they stand any chance in 2023.

The presidency is between SE and NC, and the North will definitely have it for keeps than allow it to go to the SW but they continue dreaming anyway.

I laugh in abobaku

asha80:
for abia agricultural hub has areas in ngwa land that can feel that gap..for imo it is within ngor okpala and oguta axis..okigwe soil can be rather rocky ..I know because I schooled there

Ohaji is another important agrarian community in Imo state.
Ngor Okpala also has large expanse of lands that can be used for mechanized farming.

B2mario:
You must be sick if you said so. Maybe you were a baby then.

Who planned and constructed Aguiyi ironsi/government layout in umuahia? Who dualised library road, akanu ibiam and mission-hill road in umuahia? Who built ehimini housing estate?

Who reconstructed portharcourt-enugu road? who asphalted all the township roads in Aba north and south? Who constructed Ekenna road and adjoining roads connecting Ekenna and Okigwe? Who tarred all the roads in old and new GRA Aba? Who constructed umule, Umuocham and some of the adjoining roads? Who reconstructed faulks road and Osusu road? Who constructed Owerri road and cemetery road. Who constructed MCC? Who reintroduced free education in Abia? Who upgraded Absu?

In overrail Aba, any tarred road apart of Osusu road, Okigwe road, Omuma road and faulks road were constructed by Orji Uzor kalu. If you were small then please go and ask question. Any strong Igbo man that has a presidential aspiration must be tarnished in the face of media like Rochas Okorocha after all the good work he has done. Take it or leave it, Orji Uzor nwa Kalu did very well in his first tenure before the face-off between him and Obasanjo. I heard Obasanjo stopped Abia allocation in order to frustrate him which I've not confirmed.

Orji Uzor kalu is innocent of most of the things people are saying about him, one bad about Nigerians is that when they heard that someone is a devil whether confirmed or not they will add voice to it. He is accused of embezzling 7billion naira for the whole 8yrs he ruled as a governor while some people that ruled just for one tenure and some 8 months embezzled more than 19billion naira. Run the analysis and give me result.

You were in Aba during his regime, ikukwara nkwu Orji Uzor? Do you receive his costomised maths set?

You really must be a paid sycophant to be saying all these trash. I was in secondary school in 1999 when Orji Uzor contested against Eze Ogbulafor. His deputy then Enyinaya Abaribe used to visit his friend who was our neighbor then.

Orji Uzor tarred some roads in "Town" area of Aba then, especially those roads off East Street and some others during his first tenure and people were hailing him action governor. Fast forward to his second tenure and he was nowhere to be found and all those roads went bad.

Sanitation problem did not start today, it was equally present then.

If he had ended his bad governance in 2007, it would have been bad enough but he went the extra mile of trying to become a godfather along with his mother.

The mother was living in Aba then and people had to go her house whether commissioners, contractors etc to seek her blessings. There was even a popular mantra then about "...igaala na nke mma Orji Uzor ga gbaa egwusi?..."

TA Orji was foisted on ndi Abia by Orji Uzor. TA was his chief of staff and he was picked up by EFCC for questioning during that time but Orji Uzor rigged him in.

Orji Uzor's 8 years and TA Orji's 8 years were the locust years that destroyed Abia.

Minjim:
The op is the bigot here.

He deliberately said Igbo when he could say Nigerians.
When you use tribe instead of race or country to profile someone, you're a bigot

Stop being hypocritical and jealous. If it had read "Three Yoruba Colonels who are the highest ranked Nigerians in the US army" you wouldn't be saying this.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the title since he equally acknowledged they're Nigerians yet you are pissed because they belong to an ethnic group you don't like.

Mbaise has the single highest concentration of human resources in Nigeria. They are not just highly populated but also highly educated and we'll traveled too.

Commonsense99:
You spoke well bro, but as it is, we don't need the presidency please, we want out!

Aside from useless bragging rights, an igbo presidency that will favour less than 20 people, and still keep us all in this contraption is a no no for all of us. We are better off as good neighbours. Afterall after Brexit Britain is still in good terms with other EU countries.

A 10 minutes video from a 17 yrs old minor had snowballed into the global black lives matters protest, these guys will think everything is all talk and politics until it happens like a movie before their eyes.

To be honest with you, the only reason why I'm still giving Nigeria a chance to redeem itself is because of the market it offers our people. I know you will say that ECOWAS will guarantee that, however, there is a limit to what ECOWAS can do. Look at that recent video of Yorubas crying that Igbos have bought up Lagos. If we are not a country, they would use all manner of policies to chase Igbos out.

Let our people start bringing their investments home and stop developing areas that won't go with us when Nigeria breaks.

To me, 2023 will be the last straw that will determine how everything is going to end. If we can get an Igbo president who will help to restructure Nigeria, then states/regions can protect themselves against herdsmen while using their own resources to develop.

A Nigerian president has powers to bring about a lot of changes but if all that fails, then nothing can stop Biafra actualization.

Both demands are not mutually exclusive.

Saveme99:
Nne, biko gbarunu ogwu gi ñuo. Maka ndi uta
Aburom Afonja

Taa gbafuo gi there! Akwurugi ego ole mere iji choro ire umu nna give, Judas

Ikwesiri ima ihe. Oburu n'iwere ogugu isi dika nwa afo Igbo, igaghi ano ebea na akwado Osinbajo n'amaghi now oriri.

Saveme99:
[s]I am from Enugu State!
Fellow Nigerians, let's shun tribalism and ethnicitism and get it right for once in 2023.
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is the best man for the office of President come 2023. He is the most detribalised politician now to the best of my knowledge. He is intellectually sound, selfless. Let's just take a look at the few months he ruled in acting capacity, he unified, brought smiles to the oppressed zones within a short time.
I hate tribalism. Let nobody quote me to play the Yoruba/Igbo tribal game.
To my fellow Igbos, this truth is very bitter but I must tell us, Osinbajo is 200% better than any living politician in the south east now (with the exception of Peter Obi who may not be generally accepted). Who can you compare to him, Thief Orji Kalu, Thief Okorocha, Thief Ekweremadu who allegedly siphoned all the money for the reconstruction of Enugu/Onitsha express way? Greed men are all we have, sorry to say it.
To my Yoruba host and Landlords, don't let Tinubu's greed cost the south 2023 presidency. The Man is not just a thief, he has a cleptomaniac appetite for stealing public funds. The gang up against him will be epic! Just watch out.
Let nobody come here to tell me Yorubas has ruled for 8 years. That's a fantastic 'bullshit'. OR The East won't vote a Yoruba man come 2023, that too is a fat lie. I will vote Osinbajo if he contest and I am sure Many Christians from the SE/SS will do same.
Osinbajo is the only marketable candidate from the entire south for 2023. The cap fits him, he is qualified, a nationalist and very humble.
Please don't call me AFONJA 'maka ndi uta'. We must shun tribalism and work for our future generation.
Finally, if Nigeria fails to elect a 'unifier' by 2023, this country will collapse. Mark my word[/s]. Udo!

You're lying, no normal Igbo man will advocate for Osinbajo for these reasons:

1. Osinbajo is a weak man, and the way the cabals turned him into a "mere commissioner" and he couldn't do anything shows he is a weakling who does not have what it takes to rule Nigeria. He will be worse than GEJ in being docile.

2. Yorubas have had their turn. Only an efulefu will be campaigning for another Yoruba president when they have ruled for 8 years and another 8 years as vice. No normal human being, talkless of Igboman will advocate for such rubbish.

3. You can reinforce failure. Osinbajo is the number 2 man in this failed government and he couldn't do anything to save it yet you want to give him another chance!?

Lastly, after Yorubas have discovered that the drug lord is not sellable as a presidential material, they've started pushing for Osinbajo. However, this one too is already dead on arrival. Op is a yoruba man, so nobody should fall for his antics of being from Enugu.

BlackfireX:
Igbos and there cousins said this buhari is a disaster


Hausa and there cousins are protesting against buhari 's incompetence



Guess the only people still supporting him and insulting fellow southerners all because of 2023??

Don't mind them, posterity won't judge them well for supporting this disaster.

Okoroawusa:
Totally in support of this protest. The blood shed is too much. The Northern Elites have failed the Northerners since 1914

Abo.ki, you will always support everything the North does but criticize the ones East do yet you claim you're not abo.ki.

Having the ability to speak Igbo doesn't mean you're Igbo. Be proud to identify with your root and stop claiming to be from Anambra.