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Politics › Re: Anambra Awards ₦386M Contracts To Firm That Was 6 Days Old At Bid Closure by Reference(m): 10:10am On Aug 27, 2025

You want to buy laboratory equipment and you give out a contract for the supply thereby losing a percentage of the funds budgeted for that.

Why not just contact the manufacturers and buy from them directly like normal people do.

You would think austerity will do at least one critical thing for this country, that is reform the way government business is done. But no. The are still all about contracting and consultancies, dodgy transactions that mask graft and corruption.

Yet those establishments that give out those so called contracts are overloaded with staff doing little, people who should be in the market themselves to buy these items directly from the source at the best possible prices to save government and us the people a lot.

Austerity is about efficiency in resource management.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Fulham Vs Manchester United (1 - 1) On 24th August 2025 by Reference(m): 8:18pm On Aug 24, 2025

kennyz247:
The only thing that will shine in Old Trafford this season is Bryan Mbeumo's head...

Hahahahaha....this is a low blow even UFC will not allow....haba.

But United is playing a lot better than last season. It is not easy to reform a team managed by so many coaches these past years, Amorim will get right. Maybe not contenders this season but United will do well.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Fulham Vs Manchester United (1 - 1) On 24th August 2025 by Reference(m): 6:45pm On Aug 24, 2025

Livelystone01:
The infield and VAR refs are drunkards. I had to change the channel when they allowed the goal to stand.

They awarded a penalty for Man United because they said the ball was coming to that direction only to allow their goal when the scorer pushed Bassey.

EPL refs and their poor officiating have resumed.

Exactly, consistency is the matter and that is what is being discussed in the post match studios. If you have given one you have to give the other or you don't give both.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Fulham Vs Manchester United (1 - 1) On 24th August 2025 by Reference(m): 6:39pm On Aug 24, 2025

Carl99:
Braa. You sure we watching same game?
Abi na radio you dey stream? 😂

Even the blind can see that was a pen man.

I know reading is a problem these days but try reading my post again, diligently.

Having said that what I mentioned is exactly what happened, again. The push by Leny Yoro before the goal will be a foul anywhere else on the pitch and people will continue to discuss these matters as long as refereeing decisions are inconsistent.

Good one by Iwobi today. Played a great game and a deserved man of the match.

For United there is great improvement over laat season and they will become competitive sooner than later.

So who is the better buy between Sesko and Gyokeres huh

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Fulham Vs Manchester United (1 - 1) On 24th August 2025 by Reference(m): 5:32pm On Aug 24, 2025

Azazyel:
That was a clear foul. Are you sure you watched the game? You don't do martial arts on the pitch especially in your 18yard box. No United fan would ever say that wasn't a foul. As for Bruno missing, he has been off today. I don't know how the coach didn't notice and still put him in the game. His passes too have been quite poor. That guy's mind and soul are no longer with United. They just pressured him to sign another contract. United are also shaky when defending setpieces. I feel Fulham might score through a setpiece

The foul was neither here nor there. He was bumped first by Mount who continued in dragging him down by the shirt. Moreover Luke Shaw was all over another player doing some x-rated stuff.

Penalty, yes but as the halftime commentary says, consistency....no

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Fulham Vs Manchester United (1 - 1) On 24th August 2025 by Reference(m): 5:27pm On Aug 24, 2025

The jury is still out on Bruno Fernandes as a great player. Not because of this penalty miss but the fact that great players are rock solid mentalists.

Food › Re: Bill Gates-backed Company Creates Butter Made From Carbon Without Animals Or Oil by Reference(m): 2:33pm On Aug 24, 2025

CodeTemplarr:
Very soon they may start printing meat and egg from fertilizer and sawdust.
This is overdoing of i-Sabi. Gates should tread carefully ooo.

The earth still has vast swathes of arable lands for agriculture.
There is the more natural option of hydroponic, greenhouse and more tech inclined practices.
Also mechanisation of available spaces.

This is simply not true. Without technology there is simply no way to feeding the Earth's population in a hundred years from now.

The options will either be to starve or willingly forgo some staples such as beef which is one of the most inefficient and wasteful to produce.

Nigerians of all people can see the need for science, technology and management in agriculture with the ceaseless clashes between herders and farmers.

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Politics › Re: National Single Window Comes To Life After Failed Attempts by Reference(m): 11:30am On Aug 24, 2025

Pakute:
https://guardian.ng/opinion/columnists/national-single-window-comes-to-life-after-failed-attempts/

This is a great initiative if it works as described. The cost of doing business remains highly expensive. And this impacts on the ability of government to grow jobs and traction real productivity.

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Education › Re: ASUU Threatens Fresh Strike, Says FG’s Loan Scheme ‘Poison Chalice’ by Reference(m): 8:41am On Aug 24, 2025

Hmmm....when your employer exchanges your salaries for IOU's....then you realise you are going to slave there till death.

In those days the norm was employers owing workers for a month's long tasking. These days and from henceforth it is workers that will owe their employers for the privilege of being enslaved on their sites, fields, workshops and offices.

Strange times indeed.

The government that had exclusive rights to the evil of the debt trap is now franchising to the citizens one institution after another. It is in effect mortgaging it's responsibility to building a prosperous and equitable society by the instruments of good governance.

This government's model: If you are poor, just borrow.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Leeds United (5 - 0) On 23rd August 2025 by Reference(m): 1:07am On Aug 24, 2025

humberjade:
Let's wait and see then. While I hope it is nothing serious, it doesn't look good with the player's reaction. He sure did his hamstring, and this normally takes 3 or more weeks for a footballer to compete again, depending on the severity.

That kid, Dowman is hot on Saka's heels. Any slip ups and Arteta will not hesitate to play him more often. It is becoming clear that Saka has overplayed and battered his body these past three seasons. The frequency of injuries for a person that young shows the club has not managed his game time well.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Leeds United (5 - 0) On 23rd August 2025 by Reference(m): 6:41pm On Aug 23, 2025

Odegaard off Gyokeres scores.
How? No short, short, passes, no slow build up, no compression of the defence but clean through pass from the middle behind the defence.

That is what strikers need, that is how Scandanavian strikers score. Eze must bench Odegaard. That is what he provides. A bonafide 10.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Leeds United (5 - 0) On 23rd August 2025 by Reference(m): 5:58pm On Aug 23, 2025

heracles1:
that gyokeres guy is very slow oooo i dont trust him

Arsenal's attack, their forward play is too slow and predictable, too easy to defend against.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Vs Leeds United (5 - 0) On 23rd August 2025 by Reference(m): 5:51pm On Aug 23, 2025

Arsenal should not wait to get Eze on the pitch and Odegaard on the bench. This Norwegian boy is a forward play killer and with him no Arsenal striker will score more than 5 goals this season.

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Politics › Re: From $4.99b To $43.17b: How Did OBJ Achieve This? by Reference(m): 2:51pm On Aug 23, 2025

Goke7:
That Nigeria has not seen a better tomorrow is not true, the military slowed us down as most of the development we see today would have happened in the 80s if we had no military rule. Telecoms would have been in earlier which would have hasten our drive towards science and technology aided by the private sector. The military made Nigerians to depend too much on govt for most things and destroyed our sense of dignity, self reliance and self worth.

Let's talk about the things that matter not telecoms and availability of internet. Governments around the world are not elected for that and their KPI's are not assessed on those things.

Standards of living as regards jobs, inflation, interest rates that either raise podrty levels or reduce them.

Security as it relates to life expectancy. That is anything from crime rates to education, health, the environment and other factors relating to social security.

These two are basic and should be the main reasons why people vote governments into office or vote them out.

What I am saying is that these factors have not been bettered by any subsequent regine since independence.

Politics › Re: From $4.99b To $43.17b: How Did OBJ Achieve This? by Reference(m): 12:55pm On Aug 23, 2025

Goke7:
Obj is now the new messiah 😂

Nigerians get problem sha always feeling nostalgic of the yesterday’s failures

Certainly, because since independence Nigeria has not seen a better tomorrow. A country in constant decline as far as all the indices of life and qualitative living. Just check them out, poverty, security & crime, healthcare, education, justice, etc. Practically nothing is better today than it was ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago....

Today an inflation rate of 30 percent is seen as normal. Today you sell your car for more than it was bought after significant depreciation. Are these things not weird in a sane society.

Politics › Re: From $4.99b To $43.17b: How Did OBJ Achieve This? by Reference(m): 12:46pm On Aug 23, 2025

He had a far smaller government than we have now and it was not overun by sly contractors and crooked consultants peddling all sorts of white elephant projects and phoney programs aimed at ravishing the treasury.

A lot more people worked for a relatively honest living because the man at the helm had other tools of power other than peddling privilege.

Crime › Re: When A Driver Kills His Employer By Deji Yesufu by Reference(m): 9:26am On Aug 23, 2025

Nothing else to say.

But what is government's priority now. Pay rises for political office holders. And as one peon said and I quote, 'It is necessary so that when (they) visit their constituents they will have enough to meet the growing needs there'

This is the summary of the Nigerian feudal state. A people so broken they cannot raise their heads to imagine a better country that works for all.

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Education › Re: Pay Our Liabilities Before Offering Loans – ASUP Tells FG by Reference(m): 7:48am On Aug 23, 2025

duduade:
Offer of loan ... When other things have not been settled
These our people at the top are really clueless

So you think. This government knows what they are doing. It is re 'culturing' this country.
Haven't you heard of debt trap.
Once these workers unions take the bait and fall in the trap they will quickly lose their ability to advocate.

Because debts will be issues of the law and once their members begin to face the law on account of their inability to repay their ranks will be decimated.

A lender is always the servant of the giver. The debt society we are building will become an instrument of control and coercion by the government in the long term as soon as all sectors are captured.

People should insist on a well run economy that serves to the well being of all citizens instead of this survivalist system being forced down our throats.

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Travel › Re: US To Review 55 Million Visas To Check If Holders Broke Rules by Reference(m): 7:36pm On Aug 22, 2025

franchasng:
Something tells me that Donald Trump will be the American President that will usher in the eventual collapse of the great American superpower status in the world, it's sad

Truly election have consequences.

This man forgot the things that made America the Uncle Sam and the Big Daddy it is.

This Orange colored man forgot the things that made America the greatest nation on earth. A nation that was built on immigrants.

Can Donald Trump and his fellow Orange colored fellas do the whole jobs in America that made American economy flourished for decades now?

You are pursuing migrants working at American farms for peanuts because they know their status, most of them live in the farms working their asses off to feed the American population and produce raw materials for hundreds of American firms. This man forgot all these, but keep chasing wind.

I am sure Elon Musk realized he made a huge mistake supporting this man to power, reason he quickly backtracked as a very smart and wise man he is

The US has not stopped immigration. It is trying to stop illegal immigration, that is anything from overstays to people smuggling across the southern border in particular.

No reasonable country accepts that and Nigeria of all nations racked by cross border banditry and terrorism should be the last people on earth to support open borders or a malfunctioning immigration system.

Look at the number of foreigners recently captured in the country involved in cyber crimes and thus further soiling the reputation of Nigeria.

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Travel › Re: US To Review 55 Million Visas To Check If Holders Broke Rules by Reference(m): 7:25pm On Aug 22, 2025

The US government has every right to protect their country and it's citizens. Just recently their Nigerian counterparts have released arrested and detained Chinese law breakers back into the society they are obviously exploiting.

We are not ready to build a proper, working country that can prosper and retain it's best citizens.

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Politics › Re: Katsina Mosque Attack: Search Continues As Over 50 Bodies Recovered by Reference(m): 4:04pm On Aug 22, 2025

I no more speak about security matters. Said enough. When Nigerians are tired of dying like bugs they know what to do.

Politics › Re: ₦142 Billion For Bus Terminals: Another Evidence Of Misplaced Priority - Obi by Reference(m): 3:27pm On Aug 22, 2025

Maxymilliano:
https://x.com/PeterObi/status/1958865948024201284?t=8R3lAvuWtcu5dRjVEqJUvQ&s=19[/quote]Can't disagree more.
This is really regrettable. Bus terminals? haba. This is for local governments.

Nigeria has enough road and road related infrastructure. We don't lack that. What the Federal government should focus it's infrastructure on is linkages between states. And what better and more strategic linkages is there beyond rail lines.

It should be the Federal government's strategic plan to link all state capitals by rail lines for their lower cost, higher capacity than roads for commercial cargoes.

Railways are economic force multipliers to lower cost of goods and will make our businesses and industries competitive.

But bus terminals?. When I see these things what comes to mind is a government at the mercy of contractors that come up with all sorts of funny proposals just to make a quick buck off a government that is not focused, not sincere and like Obi is insinuating, not strategic.

Only if he could roll out his plans, his visions for this country.

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Sports › Re: Victor Boniface Arrives In Milan For Medicals Ahead Of AC Milan Move by Reference(m): 3:12pm On Aug 22, 2025

Don't know about this one.
The turnover of players especially strikers at Milan is a source of concern for any player coming in from a foreign league. He has to hit the ground literally running, jumping and shooting for a bag load of goals this season.

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Food › Re: What Is The Cost Of A Crate Of Egg In Your Area by Reference(m): 2:19pm On Aug 22, 2025

No one is talking about inflation here which is the real problem. That crate of eggs in the US which costs N25,500 equivalent will cost about N86,000 in 20 years going by an inflation rate of 5 percent on average.

In Nigeria at the going inflation rate of 20 percent that crate which costs N6,000 today will cost N96,000 in 20 years time if inflation remains as hot as it is.

To maintain the present standard of living in affording those eggs the minimum wage will need to be somewhere about N1.1 million naira by then.

Now sit back and imagine in the context of Nigeria today which of these 3 scenarios is possible and which is not.

People should realise that inflation is the real silent killer because earnings in employment, business, enterprise, etc are not infinitely elastic and can never match this crazy rateof inflation. The only thing that can come close is productivity and even then who can sustainably add 20 percent more hours to his work schedule year on year for example

Government MUST being down inflation if it hopes to lay a glove on rising poverty and the resultant escalating crime rate.

Politics › Re: Remuneration Packages: RMAFC Begins Public Officers’ Pay Review by Reference(m): 10:49am On Aug 22, 2025

They are winning elections despite questionable governance. Of course there lies the confidence to reward themselves.

Continue collecting stipends to renew their mandates. We will all learn by experience how democracy works.

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Politics › Re: Immigration: Five Chinese Men Released After Lobbying By Ex-Immigration Chief by Reference(m): 9:11am On Aug 22, 2025

Obviously merit was not the basis of appointing the past Head of Immigration so expecting meritorious service is just an illusion.

And certainly merit is not the basis of the present Head of Immigration so releasing criminals and law breakers will be part of his terms of service.

Ethnicity and crass sentiment in and out of government will continue to corrode society until the people wake up to it with a sand blaster.

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL: Arsenal, Crystal Palace reach agreement for Eberechi Eze by Reference(m): 11:22pm On Aug 20, 2025*

Zony94:
Eze will not be suitable for Arsenal because of their pattern Eze cld have been better in spurs

He is more direct than the ever dancing Odegaard who in my opinion he should replace.

With Odegaard in that team Gyokeres will not score more than 5 goals this season. Eze is a bonafide 10 and will work perfectly with a 9 just as he has done successfully with Mateta at Palace.

Even Arteta has admitted they have to change the way they play and discard the false 9 technic which has not yielded trophies the past 5 years.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: EPL: Arsenal, Crystal Palace reach agreement for Eberechi Eze by Reference(m): 11:00pm On Aug 20, 2025

kayttah:
Nice one. Man em. Saka eze madueke will bang lot of goals this season

In a near fantasy world those three could have been the Super Eagles attack.

Had my doubts on the transfer after Skysports this evening but Josh Kroenke:s tweets seems to confirm it.

Medicals for Friday. Well it is a good signing of a guy who has be one a big game player.

The competition for dead balls with Rice will be fierce.

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Sports › Re: Ex-Juventus Coach Demands Hefty Suspension For Ademola Lookman by Reference(m): 12:34pm On Aug 20, 2025

Totally agree with Moggi. If contracts are not respected by any one party the whole system collapses and everyone loses.

Politics › Re: Abuja Court Freezes Four Bank Accounts Linked To Mele Kyari Over Alleged Fraud by Reference(m): 6:18am On Aug 20, 2025

A country where every public servant is a criminal just cannot develop.
A system that cannot contain greed and prevent theft by its operators s not fit for purpose.
When will Nigerians be fed up with a country in terminal decline, eaten to a carcass by the vultures they put in high offices.
What can restructure this country or bring a life changing revolution to it's doorsteps.

One thing for sure. In another few months or a couple of years the present head of that organisation will be the next one investigated for corruption. Why in the world can't we as a people hold them to account WHILE IN OFFICE.

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Crime › Re: Kano Hisbah Arrests 27 Men & 35 Women For "Enjoying" Themselves During Rainy Wea by Reference(m): 6:04am On Aug 20, 2025

Betanaija42moro:
This is complete rubbish, they kept on saying they arrested them for enjoying themselves.

Is it now a crime for someone to enjoy his/herself. Allow people to breath, the world has moved beyond this.

Please, government should find a way to regulate the activities of this Hisba or whatever they call themselves

True federalism will have states with laws not universally acceptable and in a democracy this is okay. If the majority wants and votes for their state to be governed as a theocracy so be it.

If you can't bear it relocate. There are certain Americans that cannot move out of mid America the so called bible belt or move to the coastal states of debauchery.

Different strokes for different folks I guess.

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