₦airaland Forum

Angelfrost:
Aguero and Suarez are exceptions to that... Others:

Thierry Henry
Didier Drogba
Etc...

And Haaland will join that group of great strikers not some heavenly god that will knock teams silly and bust records mercilessly that some are projecting, including experienced Premiership punters surprisingly. The hype was too much.

When I said a couple of weeks ago that the Haaland software will be hacked I was abused. No be Premiership again. Hundreds of great strikers over decades. After all said and done they remain earthbound.

Now back to the scintillating Napoli and the latest instalment of dishing pain in Serie A.

Premiership is just awesome. Damn!!!!

NOETHNICITY:
I still got for 170 yesterday in Lagos
We are the major causes of most of our problems, not the government

Hahahaha...naso. No more Jonathan fault.... hahaha...

slivertongue:
Well I have insisted FG allows the market to determine the price while the scam subsidy is scraped and channeled into productive sectors

Yes, more productive sectors indeed aka more contracts for the boys. Then they will be able to afford their 20 million naira crack sniffing dogs. Big money, small money, a waster is a waster. Nigeria did not become poor because of subsidy my friend. Ask Gowon. Spending?

akwesenana:
This man still dey blow match?

Pierre Luigi Colina... the boss of bosses is officially retired from the field for a long while to the board room. My best ref of all time. Has handed over the baton to the present fav of mine, the equally excellent Daniele Orsato. Italy produces some excellent referees.

RMK should do not such thing. He is the better candidate. What is wrong with this country. Why must it always be a choice between bad and worse and the worse always winning. Nigerians and management. This structure is just unworkable.

CoronaVirusRelo:
Good planning!

I believe Soludo so much! Dude is just constrained by finance!

Follow the money....except if it is all lost. But if the state's purse is lean because of the airport built by his predecessor (which I suspect is the case) then he should start there to make it generate income even if it was not his vision.

In the mean while he run these projects on a need basis and using direct labour to save costs and bridge the deficit. Let the unemployed youth take up the labour challenge for a token and material stockists and equipment lessors can be sold bonds and coupons to provide the resources.

When the gap between destination and starting point is far too wide a Marshal Plan is required just like America did in the 30's to prepare for the World wars to come.

Emyogalanya:
Can someone explain the term " Nigerian church" to me, as used in this post

Hmmm..... me def wonder. Profiling. They too will have come up on radar. The government will be watching them carefully from now.

Kobonaire234:
I wish it was not true that most Nigerians are opposed to subsidy removal...maybe we could have had the thing removed since.

But like I said...open a thread on this site, and argue for subsidy removal. Them go pepper you well well.

Subsides are, like Kolawole Simon said in this day...our entitlement. It is also the only thing that the corrupt rich and the suffering poor agree is in their 'interest', when really it isn't.

Oga. A thread on this site IS NOT THE REALITY OF NIGERIA. Government is doing worse things than that presently and nothing,. absolutely nothing is happening. Nigerians are not fools. They know what good and bad government is. They know they are limited by the sentiments they play.

Fuel subsidy and the devalued naira, which is worse.? The naira has fallen by almost 400 percent since this government came in, what has happened, nothing. People out there are still prepared to vote the government back.

The government in next year's budget intends to continue fuelling inflation by funding legacy projects of no macro economic benefits whatsoever, who has said no. Is there anything they desperately wanted to do they have not done to damage this country....

I know this government in and out and know their body language when they want to do a thing. They have not made any attempt whatsoever to remove subsidies. Sound bites by the Minister of Finance and Minister of State Petroleum is all we have heard for 7 years.

The GEJ government did far more than that in trying to stop the rot. Let us see what the next government will do.

Kobonaire234:
Because most Nigerians are opposed to subsidy removal. That is why no Nigerian leader, not even Abacha , has completely removed fuel subsides. All they do is partial removal from time to time...and that is because cold reality forces their hands.

It is a cold fact of life.

Yes, Buhari too opposed subsidy removal...I am not going to deny that, and I am not his supporter, nor was I gej supporter...but the fact is, most Nigerians are opposed to subsidy removal...because cheap fuel prices benefit the poor...as much as free subsidy money benefits the elite....at the long term expense of our economy.

Even the smuggling...a lot of small timers are into it. Not just the big tankers.

The idea that Buhari somehow misled millions of Nigerians into opposing GEJ subsidy removal is not possible. I was a subsidy supporter till 2011, when my eyes were opened. And yes it was by PDP government subsidy removal messages. Yes, I was tired of PDP, but not tired enough to actually listen.

But what most Nigerians saw was fuel was N65 now it is N140. Even if Buhari had kept quiet, they would have still marched.

At the end, no matter how much you try to explain on this site....Nigerians love subsidy. Buhari joined the bandwagon in 2012...even though he is also a hardcore supporter...as his actions in 2015 showed. It took the cold arm of economic reality to even force him to remove subsides partially in 2015, and again in 2018 and so on.

Even now, most people here want the subsidy to continue.

(Try arguing for fuel subsidy removal for a day on this site. You will be angry and frustrated for nothing at the end of the day).

It is simply not true that most Nigerians are opposed to fuel subsidy removal. It is like saying most Nigerians are opposed to inflation or rising prices. Do they have a choice in any of these. Do they decide the factors that lead to these.

There is a conspiracy amongst those who personally benefit from the system to create fear and thus misinform the citizens (who have no say whatsoever in the way government operates) about the need to end it.

If subsidy is removed today it is still the same government this time through trade unions that will oppose it. And these people remain less than 5 percent of the population and by extension less than 5 percent of the consumers of petrol. The 95 percent who have not opposed the reckless spendings of government from wanton loans, to build billion naira offices and buy million naira dogs will still not be able to oppose fuel price increases. That is the simple truth.

But someone somewhere in the corridors is holding back the removals and hiding behind the imaginary threat. I'm sorry but I simply don't buy that.

There are people out there that have been buying PMS for 300, 400 almost all year. Abuja residents have been buying PMS for 200, 250 for weeks on end and scarcity has been more or less constant since February. Has the government fallen?

Kobonaire234:
There was fuel smuggling under GEJ as well as such sharp practices like collecting subsidy for fuel not imported....

GEJ did try to stop all that by removing subsidy completely (it was sold as partial...but it was far more thorough). Nigerians, including many of you his supporters , said no.

The man wanted to remove subsidy, period. The principal opposition to that was political and championed by the present ruling party and it's promoters. So don't try and twist history. We were all here.

What do you mean by 'many of you his supporters'. We always love to play the sentimental card and it does no good.

Now that this government has seen the light why has it not summoned the courage to remove it. Isn't is clear that they are trapped by their own propaganda and cannot sacrifice whatever is left of their tattered popularity for proper order.

8.3 trillion on public service to do what. Make our lives more miserable.
We spend waste everything we have on Constitutionally approved leeches.

Samogloby:
What Wike and his bodyguards fail to realize is that,as long as you keep fighting Atiku,it will be viewed as fight between South and North. You are invariably selling Atiku candidature in the North. Vote Atiku/Okowa for president!

And damaging his chances of ever contesting for national office in the future. I think he is playing a zero sum game. That if he does not get what he wants here and now he quits the scene altogether. Wike is basically unelectable.

ayubaski:
Greedy person, May God not answer your prayers for naira to depreciate against the dollar, it will rather appreciate against the dollar.. Amen

And what is the basis of such prayers when the government by its actions are pressurizing the naira.

Should be praying for the roots not the branches of the matter and certainly not the fruits of their actions.

I say it is black friday in government corridors for their pet contractors. To see how much loot they can cash out before May 29 and you are saying pray.

capetownboyz:
So op you expect naira to keep depreciating because you loosing some money over the decision you took solely out of your best interest , now you expect the government who is looking for the interest of all Nigerians ,strengthening the only hope we have as country which is naira , so in your ambiguous mind you want naira to crash Abi over millions of concerned citizens because of you and your likes who don’t trust your government or hope for the best ..man take your losses and stop beating around the bush ..naira will be strong ..

Government is looking out for the interests of contractors. There is a mad rush to award all manner of contracts these last few weeks that inflation is bound to surge.

So if it concerns the youth it is all about music, dance and merry. Is this not stereotyping the youth as an unserious bunch.

Life2020:
Hi, first I want to thank you all for your advise the last time i was here.

The last time I brought up my problems here, I vented out about how my husband is being a total pain in the ass.

The problem is one, he's cheating on me with several girls and still want to have sex with me but i refused stating that until he does a full STD test we are not having sex, simply put i need to Know that he is STD free before we have sex again.

Two, he's never at home, sometimes for two weeks he stays in hostels with girls, partying and spending his money, at first i tried to understand him because we did marry young, i felt that maybe he misses having his Independence, so at first i said nothing until it got worse. I now feel like a single mom, i do everything, the children don't even know anything about their dad, they see him as a stranger now, he's always cool towards them and i don't like it, have told him several times that i want the children to bound with him, i need them to have a good relationship with their father and have even advised him to take them out, maybe to a theme park or anything really but he has refused stating that he's busy.

Thirdly he body shames me, telling me that i look like a clown, I'm fit, it's not like I'm dirty or anything i take care of myself, i know he's lying because i have admirers, like a lot of them, ever since i started making money and could afford to employ workers, i have done everything to make myself look good, i go to the gym, do facials and i make sure I look beautiful, honestly I don't know what's wrong with him.

I have come to the conclusion that he is only saying it to be mean to me, maybe as a means of control, honestly i think he thinks if he makes me feel less than i am, to make me think i have no where else to go.

Thirdly when we first got married, we both agreed that he will go to the university first then later, i will also attend, after finishing his university education he couldn't find a job so i gave him two of my lands to start a business, he because successful in the business and his now lavishing the money. I have a farming business, it's very successful, with it i have many lands and i built the home me and my husband live in, ever since he started making money i advised him to build his own house but he has refused, instead he bought a fancy car, i want to build an estate so that i can have another source for revenue but for one reason or other, my husband is advising me against it.

Now back to me wanting to attend the university, i want to study accounting so that i can take my business to a new level but my husband has refused saying that he wants more babies, we already have twins (two lovely girls). i told him later, after I finish my university degree and our girls are a little bit older, we will have more kids

Now back to the present day, have decided I'm kicking my husband out. Recently, I noticed he was always at home, I was happy but surprised, I thought he had changed. I decided we need to spend time together as a family, I was even planning on us going on a vacation, give my children a life I wasn't opportune to live, I talked to him about it, we made plans, he agreed to go for a full STD test. I was happy
little did I know that my so called husband has fathered another child outside our marriage, he told me this himself, saying all sorts of nonsense on how I should advise the girl to abort it so that we can be one big happy family, I just looked at him, I haven't said anything to him in days. But I have decided that I'm kicking him out. I want to do this in a way that it doesn't affect my children, I really want them to build a relationship with their dad but as for me I clocked out of this marriage a long time ago.

I was advised by my a friend to make a video while I kick him out but I'm not going to do, he's till the father of my child, and I don't want my children to grow up and find those videos
honestly I just need emotional support while I go through this divorce.

Godless homes, Godless lives.... just pain afer pain after pain...

You can have everything else, but that which matters most, peace....

Only industrialisation can break poverty. Are we not fed up with a resource based economy in which we have no control whatsoever on trade, prices , etc.

I was still a child when I began to think that if crude oil prices are controlled by buyers abroad why has heaven not allowed us control the price of automobiles that consume the stuff.

They tell us how much our cocoa and rubber is worth and then tell us how much we buy their chocolate and tyres. Is that not enough reason to start making things.

Leave all these nonsensical mineral things abeg. It only brings wars, environmental problems, wanton corruption and structural laziness amongst the populace. It erodes creativity and resourcefulness.

South Africa, Congo, Chile are some of the richest mineral based states in the world but where poverty is highly domiciled. Japan on the other hand practically has nothing under the ground except earthquakes yet....

gly:
Why comparing pumping station with corporate headquarters. It shows the level of rigidity of our mind to prove a point that does not worth it! This analogy is trash going by Water Sanitation and Hygiene frame work.

But that 'pumping station' is an eyesore. Looks like something out of a 60's movie and shows how we have scant regards for public health and safety. For heaven's sake it is supposed to relay potable water.

The governor can auction one of his old armoured SUV's to sort out the place.... values...

maasoap:
Ghana government really fvcked up watching helplessly when those trade unions victimising foreign Africans doing business in Ghana. Telling individuals to register their businesses with huge amount of money greater than their capitals, forcing them to close shops and telling them leave Ghana. What did they expect would happen to their economy in the long run?

Like Nigeria did in the 70's under Murtala and OBJ's indigenisation policy in support of the anti apartheid quest. A whole chunk of industry was lost. Today we are running around looking for foreign investors.

Nigeria has never had visionary leadership or been governed by truly knowledgeable people.

RIP man. Sure all the solutions had been explored....?

Crumbian:
Shey you dey wyne me ni?

For engineering matter, Germany no be Japan mate.

Chief. Engineering is a huge field. You have to be specific. No nation is dominant over the entire spectrum for many reasons. So the argument is highly subjective until details are available.

Just like the popular related argument of who makes the best cars (automobiles). The next question will then be what the definition or criteria for 'best' is.

goodheart01:
Germany has always been the home of heavy engineering.

No sir. Heavy engineering has left Germany since the 70's. Almost all the metals are dominated by the Chinese including rare earth ores, can you imagine.

While engineering works and products are dominated by Koreans and Japanese shops. Even European countries and their biggest firms have set up shop there. Ship building, drilling rigs, and all the real big stuff are made in Asia now.

Kelvin30286063:
Who made Germany home of heavy engineering over Japan?
Just kidding. German engineering remains the best

Electronics (consumer products) and heavy engineering are worlds apart. Only South Korea manages both exceptionally well and only one company I know straddles both empires, Samsung. Before then it was Hitachi before falling on hard times.

Kingpele:
Hahaha Hahaha saner clime indeed, why waste your vote on a dead person and the man is even very old 85years of old ..now I know the politicians that are motivating this two ancestors in APC and PDP..

Learn to read please.
It will save a lot of eggs.

But is that not the reason why we the people are paying 18 billion as claimed every day as subsidy.
This whole thing remains mysterious.
Why is he complaining. Is subsidy being paid or not.
If subsidy is paid why does the price increase.
Is subsidy not supposed to keep the prices artificially low....

Almost certain he was never a student.
Just used that to operate undetected.

Sorry but the infection at best will be bacterial.... not viral.
Even crime requires a basic degree of education.

Ezyp:
You are right. Our leaders has to do something but honestly, those organizations don't use the money for anything in Africa. In Europe, there are so many of these organizations soliciting their citizens to donate while they display this poor Africa kids. I engaged with one of them and from my findings they are doing it for their own gain.

Does Africa need these intervention funds or not. That is the question. If it does not then the 'fraud' will not exist.

I am listening to the morning news right now and a certain minister is proudly declaring how the FIRS is to build an 18 billion naira office in Lagos to save 4 billion naira in rent and will go ahead to procure a 250 house estate for staff who presently live in their offices and lodge in hotels.

That is the problem. A government completely detached from the governed. It has billions to spend on itself, not the people. Whereas those they borrow from govern their nations equitably.

That is where all the anger and bile should be directed because for as long as poverty is manufactured in the third world in industrial quantities there will be trade in misery.

Then tell your folks and your leaders to stop asking for free money only to buy SUV's to visit them in their discrepit villages.

You are completely out of touch and held in a guilty trap that you are unable to identify with the less privileged amongst you thus the lash out.

Anonymoususher:
Russia vs NATO so you think Russia is fighting alone abi?

China quietly supports Russia through the back door,

Syrian, Chenchen, North Korea and Belarus soldiers are on ground fighting alongside Russian troops.

Iran have been supplying several weapons to Russia and one famous example is the kamikaze drones used in wrecking havoc on civilian settlements.

So just as Ukraine is not fighting alone, Russia too isn't fighting alone

Exactly. It is already World war 3 but most folks do not realize that.