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DissTroy:


Are they wholly so? Well, let's see...

It's the agbalumo/udara (because it's really not African star apple or of the apple family so let's call it by native names) season.
Itsrm bought 4 for #500 in Port Harcourt days ago. Pricey.
Meanwhile baskets of the fruit aree rotting in farms and bags in interior Benue and border communities of Cross River. #100 would get you more than you can consume even in a day.

To get to Port Harcourt, you go:
Benue (and the many communities) > Cross River (very large and strenuous terrain) > Akwa Ibom > Port Harcourt.

Let's really break it down:

-Fuel price hike: FG's fault (1)

- Benue bad internal roads: SG's fault (1)

- Benue insecurity: FG (2) and SG (2)

- Cross River - Benue Road is bad: FG (3)

- Cross River bad roads: SG(3)
- Cross River insecurity: SG(4) and FG (4)

- Cross River - Akwa Ibom road is bad: FG(5)

Already these factors have multiplied the selling price of the fruits even in the trailer due to costs and risks.

- Akwa Ibom roads are good so point against SG here.

- Security not Iceland level but no challenge.

- Akwa Ibom - Port Harcourt road: FG (5.5)

Port Harcourt roads are good so no point against SG here.

Extortions by police along the roads so FG(6.5)

FINAL SCORE ON BLAMES: FG 6.5 vs SG 4

It gets to Fruit Market, D-Line, Port Harcourt. Or Oil Mill Market if it's a Wednesday. Then gets retailed to the woman on the street.

And that's how the brother on this thread ends up buying just 4 for #500 for what is less than #30 at the source.

That's how price inflation of perishables happens.


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You still think state governments have no role to play in the inflation we are experiencing? The facts have been laid bare.

Of course, they have.

I'm not absolving them of the blame. I'm simply saying we are not wrong if we put more energy on FG compare to SGs. We can beam the light on them too. All I'm saying is that, for people to call on FG most of the time has to do with policies that affect their immediate needs/living.

I gat you Sha.

Incognito9:


I know who get this mail 😆

Say God.....

Is there any way we can ship this Fulani man and his Senegalese counterpart go Saudi?


Ah don taya for both of them.

GloriousGbola:


i am not defending her. i am just stating it as it is.

Ok.

DissTroy:


So, in other words, the federal government is more democratic than most state governments given its allowance of relatively more freedom of speech and press freedom? This in itself weakens the almost onerous focus it gets.

"Let's keep attacking this snake which doesn't fight back swallowing our eggs, but, please ignore the other snakes even as they swallow our eggs; if you fight them, they'd come after us. "

The real question is, with have state governments get, what have they done with it?

The economy is factored by many things and indices. Yam,, potatoes, garri, and pepper are very cheap in the interiors of Benue and Cross River States. Transporting those food items involves a lot of risks which come with financial and security costs.
The roads to and from these interiors are bad and very insecure. Remind me, again: Who's in-charge of fixing intra-state roads and ensuring intra-state security primarily? Misters Governors, no?

And that's how cheap food end up in Port Harcourt, Ikeja, Uyo, Akwa, and the likes very costly. That's how incompetent state governors play a very significant role in wrecking the economy. Remember? Inflation has mostly been more complained about due to food item price hikes, which are in turn partly due to these factors.
The above is just one instance.

My point has and still is sharing blames and holding both the central and state governments to the same accountability demands. Excusing one while almost solely heaving the blames on the other would only continue to hurt us.

I'm not disputing your position. I quite agree with most of your takes but the policies that has immediate impact on the common man are the economy, security, good road network and stable power supply. All these fall on the FG's table. Fix these and all other things will fall in line. When you addresses these with holistic approach, the failure of any SG will be so glaring that nobody will have reasons to be on FG's throat.

You don't expect a common civil servant to have problem with the SG when his salary is being paid regularly but having to buy bread on 28 May 2023 for #250 and wake up the next day to have the same bread for #500. He knows whose policies effect such.

SGs are corrupt and lazy, I quite agree. Nothing wrong if will have higher focus on FG compare to SG.

GloriousGbola:


Let me call tolu Martins of FCMB.

Someone obviously has it in for this woman and wants her out. I expect a steady drip drip drip of increasingly outrageous, dubious and indefensible expenses and actions over the next week.

She will either have to resign or be pushed out

She sets her herself up and has herself to blame for whatever happens. "Someone" was not there when she puts public funds for personal account.

That emotional blackmail no go work. We no gree for anybody.

BlueRayDick:


And this woman go dey among people wey dey call out Diezani for corruption under Jonathan. Smh

We have a long a way to go!!! She dy even dy justify am. Putting public funds in a private account definitely has an interior motive.

BlueRayDick:
Amoto94, reccy Shey Kogi don get airport ni ?

See Betta Edu and her band of thieves collecting 300k and 200k respectively for flight ticket from Abuja to non-existent Kogi airport. 🤦‍♂️

We are patiently watching the decison Tinubu will take in respect of this beautiful yam eater

Ahbi nah small airstrip wey we dy manage she dy talk about?

That woman nah correct thief. Ahbeg make she go show us the airport oo. Ah go like patronize am.

she dy healthy as she dy chop our yam now ooo. Let Efcc or court issue come up, you dy hear story of health complicated radarada .....

nah thunder go fire her if I hear pim....

DissTroy:




Nigerian Governors are hypocritical thieves, in varying degrees. Like Buhari, Tinubu hasn't failed to pay FAAC so far.

Why should we be scrutinising Tinubu's 7 months in office but not holding the (newly-elected) Governors to the same standards? What have Fubara, Umo Eno, Sheriff, and other Niger-Delta Governors done in these 7 months too given the relatively large amounts they collect?

Those from this geopolitical area are coincidentally the most visible critics of Tinubu on this thread but I have never seen them hold their respective state governors to the same standard. It's the same for most of the citizenry - mostly depicting governors as powerless.
Can we start dissecting state government expenditures like we do to the FG too?

I do that but would increase the frequency. Let's do more. Our Governors are accusatory thieves.

I quite agree with your stance but why I think most Nigerians usually hold FG accountable mostly is the issues that have to do with national importance. The security and economy and inflations . While I think the various SGs performance is the sum of all these at the national level, it is of importance to note that the policies that shape these are handled mostly by FG.

You don't expect SG to fix the economy or the insecurities when it clearly falls on FG. And these are issues that affect livelihood of a common man on the street on a daily basis.

Another thing is fear of prosecution. The media are so fixate on FG with little on some state especially the Northern part of the FG.
Take my state for instance (note: I'm from Gabon,Estuaire precisely), People are afraid of the state govt. He has his gangs or non state actors who are ready to send you to your maker if you want to run yah mouth.

We've had many people that were killed and thrown into Rivers. If I didn't say it, you won't know of it. That's how bad it is.....

So, you see when some people are fixate on FG, they are either making use of their wisdom or they have nothing to lose again or both!

We also have an angle of religious interpretation of not calling your leader out too Most especially in public forgetting we are not operating Sharia in Nigeria.

That's why you see few Northerners on social media voicing out. Very few because most people believe what's happening is already predestined by God so your protest, calling out or any action will not change anything.
Thank God they are seeing the results on their States now.

Until people come together and demand accountability with one voice ( which I doubt) be rest assured, they will continue using various lines to exploit us.

WhoDeyHause:
To go school good oo.See intellectual and scientific battle but wait mr disstroy don't be angry but I just want to know if you want to do pre-intimacy with your babe or any random waist that enters your trap is this how you normally use big grammar to scatter their brains or you switch to ibibio or broken if you are carrying them go where dem no know, how you even toast them self? Me that used to carry Oxford dictionary to read some of your comments before I dey on things on things and I know I'm not the only one that does that here.
I'm just imagining you going to buy suya and saying more mighty words than Hello Grilled beef vendor. Compliments of the newest annual compilation of a dozen months to your amiable self. I would like to eagerly purchase 20 score and a thousand naira worth of your consistent but gingerly prepared grilled beef over your coal powered flames. Oh night time vendor of core northern extraction kindly do well to add your well garnished and granulated condiments consisting of fine ginger, sharp garlic, fiery pepper and the likes with largely sliced doses of allium cepa. You know I have to swiftly erase my ever insatiable pangs of hunger which deflate my energy conserved to undertake various and rigorous amounts of workload reserved for me on the magnanimous cyberspace. Do attend to that with the perfect precision possible, obrigado. Omo the aboki go just run mad.

Boss popizaino. God bless you abundantly.

Hausa:
Breakout? No. He got injured.
It's funny how u picked Florian like u didnt understand the point of "WE HAVE NO INFLUENCE IN MIDFIELD."

Wetin concern me with Odegaard?
He's not good enough for us. ANd that's the point!

Please, can you just send him to us. all of us @ Chelsea will gladly appreciate you....

In as much I agree that he needs improvement
and up his game - which every player must - saying odegaard is not good for you guys is a careless and way below expectations from an Arsenal fan.

One thing I noticed about Arsenal play this season is that, they are too blunt, stagnant, no high press, no quick transition and no hunger like last season.

I watched few Arsenal games last season, I was impressed with their team work, high pressed and hunger to win. The trio of saka, martinelli and Saka were very active and dominated their opponents. I watched them and I instantly rooted for them for EPL. When one compares that performance to this very one, you guys will be deceiving yourself if you think it's an improvement.

What went wrong? Definitely,not the players but the system and the structure!!!!

engrelvis:
Thanks. l prefer everything remain here. when u finish school let me know. Put yr email here. My people will reach u. Take care n God bless.

Thanks boss. My email is: hammedreccy4@gmail.com.

I'm actually looking for I.T placement. I will be very glad if you have my I.T letter. Thanks for your time boss. I really appreciate!!!

engrelvis:
Ok. how u dey?

Very good bro. I'm a civil engineering student from FUTminna.
Entering my 4th year in school.

I'm looking forward of having a mentor like you. I need the experience and the practical forms it entails.


Please permit me to have you on WhatsApp or any form you deem fit.....

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Alerts everywhere from obainojazz and raumdeuter.

God bless you guys abundantly.

Happy Birthday Nihilistjr and Odunharry!


Happy New year to all of us here.

More prosperities and wins.

engrelvis.

Boss, evening and happy New year.

I got you from United thread. I saw that you are a civil engineer. That's quite exciting to me.

popizaino:


Seen.

Please boss, help delete sir. I appreciate so much.

popizaino:


How far?

Hope it’s not too late to do something. I was banned all this while and that's why it took this long to reply. I hope 10k isn't too small? Send me your azza when i get to Nigeria 🇳🇬 on Wednesday let me credit you.

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Nigeria Elite-Youth Forum ( NIEF) honoured Dr. Bello Abdul-Lateef with an Award of Excellence on 'Human Capacity Building'. Dr Abdul-Lateef who is the Director Directorate of Road Traffic Services was given the award at his countryhome on the 27th of December 2023 during the ongoing Babamba—Abdullahi Free Medical Outreach.

Comrade Ohiani Hamzat Omeiza who is the founder of the NGO eulogized him for his selfless service to Humanity. He stressed that his meritorious roles in providing succour to the plight of the society has really attracted this honour.

"My personal experiences with you said it all, and I know there are other thousands of people out there that had same" he added.

In another development, He was presented a certificate of Appointment as the Grand Patron of the NGO. Comrade Hassan who presented the appointment letter on behalf of the group expresses optimism that the choice of Dr. Abdul-Lateef is a right step - and the beginning of a new dawn for the group, stressing that he is a man of honour.

In his remark, he appreciated the group for the honour bestowed on him. He emphasized on the need for people alike to help others grow, saying that human capital development is key to a sustainable and prosperous society.

"You will always win when you believe you are a winner. Defeat fear in your life, and you will go a long way", he conclusively advised.


He pledged to continue playing his quota to the advancement of Ebiraland and humanity in general. He accepted the role of Grand Patron of the NGO and promised to always be of great help to the group going forward.

Other associates and close allies of him who attended the program also showered encomiums and laudations on him for his immense service to Ebiraland and humanity.

Philip4564:
I don't know why but I don't like the guy he's not technically good at all he just believe in physical football.

It becomes worst when this idiot plays right back. Ah feel like purging. How did we deteriorate to this level?

When you look at those who decide the fate of this club. Those in affairs of Chelsea these days, you will want to cry. How fast did we deteriorate to the extend of having two idiots who don't know what to do with ball, leading our striking department?

Then you have an inept coach, then Sterling as our best an attacking option. How? When?

Anybody wey no wan serious for e life, make e just pack go Saudi if not, nah 400years of injuries awaits am.

Ballzproblem2:
🚨🗣 Axel Disasi on Christopher Nkunku returning with a goal:

"Everyone knows the quality of Christo. He came back from a long injury, and I’m happy for him and the team he scored."

"He will help us for sure because he has a lot of quality."

#CFC



(@ChelseaFC)


you can tell they're tired of Michael Jackson

Who asked this disaster to talk? Person go dy talk, this one too go think say he has something to say.

donjazzet:
Merry Christmas to you all.

If Broja and Jackson refuse to leave me and my Chelsea alone, 100 years injuries for them.

I'm too young to suffer this humiliation.

Happy Xmas my Christian brethrens.


Many more in good health and wealth.


Prosperous years ahead!!!!


#believe#

Goal ball