Anyone know what dollar is going for now? I'm told N572 to buy today in Abuja, but that was just a phone call. Any info from "on-ground"?

Finally. A good response. The fact that it took this long down the thread to see this IS the problem. Solve your own problem. Stop blaming others.

ahiboilandgas:
why? Why not build your own and sell for 1k per bag

Why are so many people abusing him? Even if you don't like him did he lie this time? Abusing on Nairaland will not change Nigeria. Get involved. Thats all. Even touts that smash ballot boxes are involved. If all we're willing to do is press our phones then we should not complain. I for one I'm not getting involved. So I won't complain when Naira hits N1000 to $1 lol

I honestly can't wait till that thing is up and running. And for those that are doubting, he's running the cement factory just fine no?
And nobody gave him concession. He got off his butt and hustled to get it. Maybe not all of us could have had the resources to hustle like him, but there are other rich and influential people in Nigeria that have done nothing. Kudos to him!

Abeg.. Leave Dangote make e finish our refinery oh! Gold digger no go better our economy in any way!

Abeg, leave the man to complete the capital projects he's working on in Nigeria. He's not doing anything wrong. Especially not anything worse than the other non-performing "big men" in Nigeria.

I was pleasantly surprised when I saw a NIN on my GTB app. So the comments here verify that if your BVN starts with 221 you do get one. My question now is, my NIN is a 10 digit number. The code verification is asking for an 11 digit number.

That means you're using the older app the newer one gt world, shows it when you press menu.

iLegendd:


Thanks for this info. Just saw mine on my GTB. I couldn't see it on the app, but saw it when I logged in via browser.

Don't mind them. Can comment, but can't read.

Naughtysex:
common sense should have told you to read through people's comments before you spit out jargon

Ibrahimmrfish:
Elom musk is not having a good year,first the low sale of his electric cars and now this.

You couldn't be more wrong. Elon is probably one of the few having a FANTASTIC year!

1. Tesla shares have reported for the 5th year straight growth. Over 400%
2. Sent Six people to the ISS (2 missions) for the fist time from US soil since NASA 9 years ago.
3. His world wide starlink internet that will eventually give high speed internet even to my village started about 2 months ago.
4. His Tesla model 3 is finally meeting demand manufatcuring.
5. He just surpassed Bill Gates to become the 2nd richest man on earth at $147 Billion
... and many more!

If that's a bad year, where do I sign up!!

ZINIIBANKS:
Ode
Going through all this stress for a Nigerian hoe fool

This must be hard for you to watch. To know that your life is so sad, it makes you pissed that so many others have it good!

Fantastic point!!!!

People blame govt and politicians as if they're foreign invaders. They are young Nigerians that grew old. Be good to yourself and neighbor NOW so you'll be a good leader later.

allanphash7:
.....interesting perspective

"*Do we need youths to have a better country?*

Sadly, our current leaders started leading as youths.

Check their respective ages and subtract the last 20 years of democracy from it and let's see what we have.

Let's take Rotimi Amaechi for instance.

He is 55 now.

He's 6 years into Minister. That means he became Minister at 49.

He was Governor for 8 years. That means he became Governor at 41. Prior that, he was Speaker for 8 years, that means he was Speaker at 33. Freaking 33!

How youth can youth be!

Do the maths for all of them and you will see that youth has brought us nothing.

Fashola is 57.

He was in Tinubu's Cabinet.

Tinubu became Governor 21 years ago.

Remove 21 from 57, that's 36.

How youth can youth be?

Wike is 53.

He has been in power for the last 15/20 years.
That's 33-35.

How youth can youth be?

Dimeji Bankole was a freaking 37 as Speaker in the National Assembly.

Ahmed Lawan is 61.

He is been in the assembly since 1999. That was 21 years ago at the age of 40.

Even if President Buhari is 80yrs now, he was head of state in 1983, 37yrs ago, remove that from 80, that means he became the Head of State at the age of 43yrs and has bn instrumental corridor of power ever since.

See what we have.

What did we gain?

We don't need the youths.
We need a change of mindset and attitude, we need a change in the way parents nurture and train their children.

Both young and old.

Else, it's the same story.

Youths have always been in power!
They became old in power!

Yet we are here!"

kingxsamz:

But you'll call these same archeologists liars when they show you 'alleged' bone fossils of Dinosaurs. Who is fooling who?

Very true lol Good point

1. Learn to pay bills on time.
2. Don't borrow money. (Credit cards etc)

ALEX182:


I said, matured responses. This happened this afternoon at work bruh. It is really troubling me and that's why I asked for advice. I don't have time for fake tales. Ok.

Don't mind them. Same thing happened to me in Canada. Lady came to my computer store to ask me to help get print out her emails. No how you'll gander some text from it. She was being scammed. Actually. Had already been scammed. $65,000. She was at this time freaking out a bit cos of lack of communication from the Nija scammers. Instead of them to just ignore her. They apologized and asked for another $7,000 to pay some taxes on the money she was expecting as profit so they could send it. I told her, "please, I couldn't help but notice..." She then motioned me to stop! That she know what she was doing. So I kept my mouth shut. Fast forward a few days, her attire had changed. She'll come into the internet Cafe part of my store looking toosh. And sending more money. When yawa blew. She had apparently borrowed money from relatives etc and now totally backrupt and depressed. I felt bad. But she told me straight up to mind my business... So..

To an ant, the earth is flat. To an eagle that sours, it knows its round. Think like an eagle, not an ant.

But on a more serious note, it's scary some people still believe the earth is flat

Watched it live as well. Very impressive by a private company. Elon Musk just doesn't take no for an answer. The cynical comments above is why Obasanjo Space Center in Abuja is empty lol

If we declare 7 days mourning for all the big men that have died this year to Corona, we no go work this year

If we declare 7 days mourning for all the big men that have died this year to Corona, we no go with this year

So they want to say no cases in KOGI. !?
That governor that's testing with app!

When they take light on the senate floor, with agbada and no AC they will unban it lol

Fix power, demand and supply will regulate itself. You don't need to ban cement importation for instance...

Reading comments on Nairaland is just funny. It's too hard to rule Nigerians. They'll complain whatever you do. Those people doing the smuggling are Nigerians. Don't bother bringing tribes into it! He's not here forever. Next election, run so that you can fix all Nigeria's problems.

The issue is not buhari alone. It's vastly - mainly Nigerians! We too dey break laws! If we all choose to strive to practice being good citizens, the impact on the country will be more that any politician's.

Damn! This really made me laugh. Just shows how difficult it is to govern!

donbachi:
People go dey stage their own kidnapping everyday....na so 4 india,govt paid people to kill a specie of deadly snake...when they saw how they were making.they started rearing the snake at home and when the govt discovered it...dat payment thing ended..na so snake take full india today.

This is gospel truth. I wish there was a way for everyone to have a sincere reflection on the points raised. People yell, Nigeria is bad... a hellhole! But is a country not it's people? Nigeria is filled with Nigerians. So if Nigeria is bad, then... (do the math). EVERYONE IN GOVT IS A NIGERIAN! Again... do the math.

I'm in construction. Whenever we go to a site, the gateman/guard that is smiling and shaking in front of his oga (our client) is the same one that will frustrate everything we try to do on site when the oga is gone. Because he has a little power. Every single time, every single site that has one, without fail! But begin to give him N200, buy him a drink and he's on your side! Is that not receiving bribery at your place of work!?

Now imagine that gateman, that curses the thieves in government everyday for his woes, becomes a community leader, a LG chairman, a commissioner, a house of rep member, senator, governor or president. His subjects are doomed!

They can do more than one project at a time. Sign more than one PPP at a time. Obviously some companies see the potential in Nigerian broadband to invest in it. That doesn't stop investment in roads, agric, electricity etc. If we do one at a time, we'll never grow!

joeluv:
They should finance another ppp project..... This is not our problem now. Our roads are so terrible. Better roads at this point would affect the life of common man better than this

This is an excellent development. Those who know, know. This is the information age. And it's a PPP arrangement. Investors prefer when govt has a stake in what they're doing just for some show off faith. Plus it's usually a requirement for financing. There is a lot more to internet penetration to a society than complaining on Nairaland!

Ol boy, you no go talk like this if the lands dey banana island!

Cti28:
My Dad has so many land, but I don't care about the lands, I don't have time to be dragging land with some one. Any how they like they should do with them. My goal is to make money, buy my land and develop it.

Go and hustle and forget the family house,to avoid story . When you are established you can build as many as you want.

I've experienced what you're going through. It really helps that you guys are civil. FOR NOW! But in the absence of a will, the default in any probate court is a "democracy". One beneficiary, one vote. Thus sell carries the day. Trust me I understand the sentiment to childhood homes, but justice especially fair justice and equity has to be dispassionate.

Very possible on that scale. Thats N4,842,931 for one. And they're probably not including land cost as it might have been allocated.

Rosskii:


That 3.7 is a typo..No way they built 764 housing units for just 3.7 bill.

livebyday:

.dude haven't you been following up the fan feelings ?

Didn't you watch comicon?

This movie is going to be a box office disaster

Saw it opening night. The movie is quite grand and epic! Considering the miss-que of the first two, they did a good enough job trying to correct the issues of the prequels! I really enjoyed it sha.

livebyday:
This movie will tank so hard it will make the Titanic look adrift

I've seen the movie. It's amazing!

Looks like he bmw s1000rr is the bike to beat in the 1000cc category!