₦airaland Forum

dominique:
You see that 2 years rent part, that's just one of the many lies he told in his sob story. Rent is paid monthly in Canada and average rent for a very modest apartment in Canada is $1000cad. The way their rent structure is, you can pay your rent for a few months upfront but a whole 2 years? I don't think any agency will accept that from anybody.

If he can be lying about 2 years rent, I wonder what else hesying about

It is likely he gave her the money for the rent with the Nigeria situation in mind, not paid to an agency. If he paid directly to an agency he will know where the property is and the information you refer to will be made clear to him... ain't it.?

bikefab:
Imagine working in a pig sty for 20k a month in this Tinubu economy. Even the biblical prodigal son didn't suffer this sort of misfortune.

Then join hands to fight for a better economy, a fairer economy to all.

BigYash:
SOga let person hear word. You started your life with 10k then no mean someone should start with 20k now. Your ten k then is 100k now. If he said 100k pay.. no body go complain. Even some graduate will jump on it.. Just stfu please

But that is the summary of what the government is telling us. Talk that is acceptable to its supporters. That reforms must come with crippling, inhumane suffering. That we should adjust to the new reality.

The owner is simply subscribing to the progressive mantra. That things will get better.

Or is there anyone in Nigeria who feels his salary is enough?...

What is the difference.

There are hundreds of business ventures up and down the country like this. They just cannot cope with the cost of living crises and something has to give.

If he cannot find someone to employ he will simply shut down and join the long list of failed enterprises.

Too bad.

lamentor78:
Eedris will regret that statement in the coming years.

Same way he released a useless track During Obasanjo era

What will he regret.
He probably cannot sleep at night because of the incessant calls by folks looking for one help or the other.

How can he regret how Nigerians are being dehumanized and stripped of dignity because of economic stresses. Families torn apart...

This government will come to pass and nothing will be remembered of it by the citizens for any good if they cannot turn their sorry legacy around.

You guys don't think far.
All they will have left is the riches they will have accumulated, nothing more. Just wait and see.

floss:
I only pity people residing in rivers state, I heard everything is bad currently there

Except if you own a hovercraft....

Probably be made a Minister or Ambassador or Head a citrus processing factory aka juicy appointment. Afterall he appears to be an expert at turning lemons to lemonade....sigh.

Nice one.

Wish you had a Commissioner for Trade and Industry who will lead a trade delegation, first round this country with these goods and their producers, then around the west coast, and then around Africa and finally overseas.

Then you will discover it is a lot easier to attract t foreign investment IF YOU HAVE PROOF that you have the ENVIRONMENT for enterprise. Not those going round about empty handed with paper filled briefcases looking for partnerships.

Dangote is a living example of this. He has enormous traction because he is KNOWN as a proven performer. He has evidence of capacity. That is why resources naturally gravitate towards his enterprise.

This is what we constantly say. Governments priority should be towards industrialization. The seeding and establishment of industries up and down the value chain.

That is what subsidy removal money should have been spent on as a priority. Massive industrialization to create jobs that will lift living standards. Lifted living standards to enable the common man afford high energy costs.

Integrate existing enterprises.
Dangote went to Kenya to expand enterprise. A wise government will have leveraged on this to promote 'Made in Nigeria'. Otti on the delegation to promote goods out of his state's enterprises.

Dangote will gladly oblige the Aba producers if the carrot of patronizing his petrochemical products exclusively is dangled before him instead of current imported ones.

That is industrial integration in a nutshell. But it takes a visionary, wise and prudent government quarterbacking to see these opportunities and act on them.

Once again.
I don't support the reintroduction of subsidies for the simple reason that institutions of management, law and justice remain weak and corrupt themselves.

Having said that, the subsidies Mr. Atiku proposes, production subsidies (cheaper crude to refineries) rather than consumption subsidies (cash for fuel deliveries) is a lot less cumbersome because it involves very few players, factually one, just Dangote.

But a commend Mr. Atiku's stand which at the worst should sour the debate about how our economy is managed and I am glad people are now taking interest in their personal economies and livelihoods more seriously by debating the subsidy issue.

Everywhere in the world governments are under pressure to explain the high energy costs to their citizens and attendant inflationary effects except our government which appears at ease with the attendant sufferings of the people.

Deeper questions are being asked where and on what the savings accrued from not subsidizing energy is going with financial deficits in every sector of the economy necessitating massive borrowing.

As responsible citizens we should encourage this debate to open up this government to scrutiny since it remains ambivalent to the citizenry and ultra secretive in its finances.

Luckybelt:
When the footprints of the colonial masters were still fresh after their exit. Glory deposits

What I was about to say.
The colonial era DNA was still very much tonking.

To make them really successful it will have been better if government plants them into enterprises. Then there will be an assurance that they will profit and multiply to serve their community and return to government.

Identify their skill-sets or train them in specific skills you as a government can invest in along the lines of productivity and perhaps import substitution.

Keep them together as a cooperative so you will know those that are serious about earning a living by doing and making stuff.

And task them, set targets with the more investments as the stick and carrot respectively.

SixSeven:
Rinse and repeat



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tQYTDqaZp0

Oh, very good.
You even have a compendium of 'fat cat' offerings and the mighty works they deliver.

Validated:
Please where did she work to buy a property in VI?
Government need to auction such to the public by sime ballots

The same place the present first lady got the billions she is throwing around in the name of charity. And all other first ladies before her.

It is called political patronage by fat cats.

I don't know what these countries charge for their visas, but it certainly cannot cover the cost of containing these criminals running amok.

MarkNsukkaBread:
Just in case you don't know his parents will likely get billed for this service, firefighters and ambulance services ain't free in the United States contrary to what most people think

No they won't get billed.
Rescue services are generally free.
However you are correct about medical services.

In rare cases where a person makes a habit of putting himself in harm's way he will likely get a citation.

motayoayinde:
True this.
But America also has a horrible tipping culture.
Institutionalised begging/bribery if you ask me.

The tipping culture is universal but specific to 'commercial' services, not statutory services.

Mr. Umahi, hope you got the memo.

'... because of the condition of the road...'
That is the situation for a lot of commuters this year 2026 particularly across the spine of the country. Highways have never been in this appalling shape.

Commutes are now taking 50, 100, 200 percent longer than normal and this is the practical result,
Increasing exposture to danger.

.... And they didn't ask the parents to 'settle them' or buy 'pure water'....

People should just vote according to their experiences under this leadership and everyone will be alright.

Let no one gaslight you or deceive you. No one citizen feeds another or pays the bills of a stranger, so everyone has a personal survival decison to make at the polls.

If poverty was the only way to greatness they will be poor too. They wil lead by example. But they cannot stomach the sacrifices they ask you and I to make and they are counting on the fact that you are either ignorant of this or complicit.

Cost of living is rising in the US and it is already reflecting in early polling in the US midterms.

Those are the people we copy our democracy from. When the rubber hits the road they push ideology (equivalent to our tribal and religious sentiment here) to one side for a season and vote for their wallets.

Be wise. You have only one life to live. Make it count.

PDJT:
- Is this not the home state of "Shetima", una Vice President? Is he above questioning what he and his boss are doing to secure his people? Or to give account of how he governed the state when he was the state governor? Oh sorry, his name is not Peter Obi.

Don't go there.
These killers want their own state, a caliphate within Nigeria, yet politicians from there are not roped into it making them 'unfit' for public office.

You cannot build a house for less than seven figures these days, eight to be reasonable. Is that not more than adequate to venture into something more dignifying....just asking?

QuinQQ:
And all non-military rule are nice. Hitler was not military rule. Neither was Stalin, nor Putin, nor Xi. Some of the worst murderous dictators were not military

Excellent point.

Some of the worst periods in recorded human history involving governments were conducted under what we call civilian rule in which seemingly elected leaders became autocratic and ended up donning military fatigues to commit some of the most horrendous crimes against humanity.

You forgot to add Pol Pot. Studied in France where he was indoctrinated into Communism. Returned home, took over by serial subterfuge and ran his country like a slave camp. Ended up killing 2 million of his citizens, about one quarter of the entire population. He was never in the military.

So, while military rulers have a storied history of citizen repression, civilian leaders, some, so called democratically elected absolutely take the cake for history's worst monsters.

The bottom line is simply, citizen ambivalence. The absolute lack of vigilance, the hero worship of so called 'servants'. The people grow them to become demi-gods and soon transform to tyrants because absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Now sit back and reason where Nigeria presently is on the scale.

HacheNoire:
God bless you!

They killed education in the Southwest so people won’t critically reason again!

Imagine what a an acclaimed UNILAG graduate embarked on despite the woes of the state.

Why I have always been of the opinion that a degree does not prove you have brains and intellectually sound

An illiterate can do wonders when he is able to prioritize necessity from rubbish

Naso.

And your Oga's trillion naira coastal road is what, when other highways are collapsing. Is it not the same thing.

Are they not both misusing public funds, prioritizing white elephants at the expense of immediate needs that affect millions of lives and livelihoods.

Question for both of them, Federal and State governments.

Did the people who own the money ask for these things as priorities,?

Afrobasic:
Is this really what Ibadan needs?

Like what is wrong with our leaders for godsake?

Another International Airport when Lagos own is close by? Meanwhile the roads are in terrible condition and the state infrastructure has barely changed since the 1980s.

Who cursed us in Africa abeg

Your inability to own your government causes this. You call them public servants yet you have no ability to make them serve you. What is that called?.

pigmania:
That's petty, them for pull up in their electric cars if them get class na. Why form in a public bus?

Because everywhere in the world it is the mean and the downtrodden that fill the emptiness of their minds with emotions. So the solution is to step up in society, into the rarified air (no pun intended) of prosperity and all this will vanish. Let these incidents be your kickstart.

Jakumo:
My goodness, this woman is really sexy and fit, despite being 35 years old. Aged 15, I would have been delighted and eternally grateful if a woman with these good looks decided to share carnal knowledge with me.

Too bad she tried to get a minor to mount her, because there would have been no shortage of men over 18 who would gladly do the honors.

Because you think it is all about the sex.
Well, it is not.
It is also about control, power and hate.
Sometimes it is even more sinister bordering on the occult.
There is nothing about abuse in a million years remotely worth desiring.

peleson1:
Fortunately for India, there government built good hospitals so no need flying him out to other countries like Nigeria
Ask Abusalami Abubaka your ex head of state .

If you can somehow un-see what you have seen, that is one imagery I vote to.

To have one's country's former number one citizen used in a commercial advertising medical services abroad is the depth of national humiliation if there is anything out there worse.

In the first place there is something unethical about advertising in the medical profession.

Secondly his person, a decorated general and then a former Head of State....I just don't know what to say.

Hopefully someone will come out someday and say it was AI and someone apologies...

Naso....chief servant indeed....
See how he is excusing the poor man's death.
So pathetic.

My observation.

The poorer and decrepit a country is, the more determined it's leaders are not to feel among.

Once a person touches leadership his mind fights to look and feel different from the crowd he emerged from.

A few years ago we all celebrated a certain 'okada' man rising from obscurity to become a legislator. Today, zilch is being heard of him. I am cocksure if you remind him of his roots he will take offence.

That is a person who you should hear and feel everyday fighting for the rights and privileges of the downtrodden from where he emerged.

But the disease of feudalism is hyper infectious.

Josywhyte:
This abduction of corps members is really getting out of hand. The government should just total the money for the one year service and pay these graduates who are due to serve instead of sending them to different states all in the name of serving fatherland

So it is just the money you want...
You don't want the service, the work, the sacrifice or even the solutions....that is not nice.

It is money without proper work those marauders in the bush are after too.

Don't think that way. Let us join hands to find real solutions.

You must have enormous cajones to travel cross country at night. If one is that casual about his security, please consider your loved ones.

Wish him swift release.

It is highly regrettable that after almost a decade of recurring kidnapping both the state and the nation has not found a solution to this menace.

Technological solutions to craft personal protection and even locational devices should be flooding the market by now.

Jayhome24:
This epistle is unecessary. I repeat again and again if the complaint is not a thief how can you in all lawyers in Nigeria be involving this boy in a deal of over $2million land acquiring? Haba!!!

Thief carry thief collect. Thanks.

Of course the complainant is obviously shady. The briber and receiver are all aware of the right and proper channels to get their business done.

Won't you ask yourself why can't they follow the right channels and the implications?

If a person is collecting such a huge amount (by Nigeria's standards) won't the corrupt taker wish to know where the money comes from in this day and age of global conflict and cross border criminality?

KillahPriest:
I'm glad you called it cash gratification though what's baffling is that you think anyone who has the capacity to make a 2.1 million dollars cash payment will not have evidence of such payment. I never take you people seriously sha, your anti corruption stance has always been tainted with political bigotry. You should be demanding that the truth be established and justice prevails instead, you're indirectly saying o ti lo but like I said earlier, I never take you people seriously when it comes to anti corruption stance

The problem with people like that is that they cannot see beyond the immediate. They don't think far. They don't sit down for a moment and reason where all the money comes from.

It is only 'black' money that is treated this way. It cannot be products of legitimate enterprise. You just do not trade legitimate money for illegitimate purposes. Legitimate money will always go through the right process.

And if it is illegitimate it can only be from crimes against an individual, individuals or from society as a whole which is most likely.

And the corrosive nature of this is why the security agencies fighting one form of violent crime or the other always speak about 'sponsors', they want to trace the finances, the fuel and cut it off as the only way to extinguish the fire of violence. Nations impose sanctions. Trade, finance restrictions internationally to prevent or end wars.

How money ebbs and flows in society is important to the safety, security and wellbeing of all citizenry. So when we don't care, we pay dearly all the same.

Just as a point of note. What if that 2.1 million dollars came from Al-Queda or ISIS or some Mexican cartel and the government official has already collected it....then he is blackmailed....what do you think the consequences will be...