₦airaland Forum

Jesus actually shot on goal, hallelujah...

TheSuperb:
Ben White holds the ball for too long. What's wrong with that guy sef

that is his game, always asleep.

sleekybaba:
That's a red

Nope.

allandutch:
Tuchel actually got 250 mil to spend and somehow he ended up with Raheem Sterling, an emergency backup midfielder, f.ucking Koulibaly and Aubameyang?

Chelsea did not buy well last summer. But it is excusable with the ownership issues.

See sleepy Ben White.
Defence will determine this game.

bluefilm:
Gabriel Jesus is good.

He's just having those off days.

The boy will surely bounce back.

Well you can only score when you strike as a striker and right now Haaland is the gold standard and the guy does not take more that 3 touches before he engages.

If you believe your strengths are in handling and controlling the ball then you are unlikely to score many goals. A 10 like Messi who bags tons of goals come once in a lifetime.

And Jesus looks more like a 10 than a 9.

Who will win?
When two teams are evenly matched in play the team with the better defence usually wins so Chelsea has it.

Arsenal really needs a striker. I can now see why Pep let Jesus go. With KDB and Bernardo he didn't need another attacking midfielder because that is exactly what Jesus is. He doesn't strike. Arsenal needs a shot maker in front of goal.

Slymonster:
That 6 lane is a scam bro. More like 4 lane because the last was design for Brt and they are not wide. Mehn if that port ever start. The kind traffic with trucks parking anyhow will be crazy and then touts every junctions will look like child's play. I see the same mistake happening. Those areas will be a mess.

That is not even what I am saying.
It is not as if the container trucks will offload at the toll gate or at Mobil. They are going into Lagos meaning they will cut through VI and/or Ikoyi (if this is permitted). Hmmm....

Traffic is like drainage. You can clean your 'doormut' but if your 'nebor' is dirty all of you will suffer. There are choke points all the way until the trucks will exit the island.

In my opinion trucks should not be permitted back into Lagos. That port should be used to service the rest of the country and the trucks should head in the direction of Epe and onto to Shag. Then Apapa can serve Lagos. My two cents.

Slymonster:
Lol what are you saying. Have you seen that road construction. 6 lane means 3 one side and 3 the other side(dual). . That Road is so small for an area with port and they even made the last lane for brt bus obviously. No good thinking for population in years ahead.They Keep making the same mistake over and over

I stay in Abuja proper as we all know and I tell you the stories I hear about traffic coming in and going out of the city through the airport (yaradua) and the Kubwa expressways which are both ten lanes during rush hour is something else.

And Abuja is a fraction of the congestion of Lagos and practically has insignificant articulated vehicular movement.... due to very strict zoning laws and far less commercial activities... and yet..

Abeg just don't talk about the size of road when proposing to handle traffic in Nigeria. It just doesn't work here.

I have lost my sense of infrastructural geography as concerning that whole place but excuse me sir, mr. Governor, let me ask something.
Where is this road from the port leading to.... back into Lagos... through Lekki.... over that suspension bridge (that cannot carry load) or through Victoria Island?....

When you put a Port on a Peninsula, meaning essentially one way in, one way out then you are asking serious questions.
I cannot for the life of me imagine container trucks passing through Ozumba Mbadiwe or Ikoyi.

I thought this port was meant to take the load north by east headed the Epe highway and out of Lagos, not back into Lagos through 'Ajebutter Land'... or they should have built a dedicated rail line over the Lagoon and back into Lagos or through that weather beaten 4th Mainland bridge proposal.

O'boy the decision to sell all my land in Lekki is prompt.... hmmm.

Krismas:
This is the best time to let the Naira float freely against the Dollar. The corruption starts from the dual systems of official dollar rate vis a vis the parallel market rate.

Well done.
Just one out of the hoards of responders above who is not living in cloud cookoo land.

Float the naira, simple. Let market forces determine what the worth of the naira is and thus what we can afford to buy from abroad. You will see that Nigerians will buy only things pertaining to life and death.

You will see that government will develop sense and start 'contracting out' only what is critically important and not doing projects for the boys or just to float their egos.

You will see that the average Nigerian will be come a self styled crusader for accountability and will look at his jalopy with fulfilment and then refuse to approve new cars for his oppressors.

This is the 60th year that Cuba has been under American sanctions or sorts meaning having practically zero international trade or the ability to buy and sell across borders. They have not died. They may not have the latest Mercedes Benz or private jets but their life expectancy is right up there with the best.

Nigeria is not under sanctions or being punished by any other than her visionless leaders and ignorant populace. Floating the naira and sanctioning ourselves to wanton foreign imports for just a while until we build a proper economy will not kill us.

There was a time IN MY LIFETIME that you could not take a pin into China to sell, you will be arrested at the airport. Many, many years later China having built itself into an ultra productive nation is the biggest market in the world to a lot of goods and services. IN MY LIFETIME.

China is far from being a democracy but it's leaders over the years have been ultra visionary and today it shows.

I can see a lot of theories above trying to find out how a man can save his life by 'smoking but not inhaling'.... aka Bill Clinton. I just laugh.

We know the problem but the addiction to unproductivity will not allow us to save our lives. We seriously need rehab and urgently need to wean ourselves off the dollar by being innovative and productive but we won't because we cannot stomach a radical drop in our standard of living to reflect our work and true worth as a nation.

I will continue to use the tale of the 20 million naira drug dogs as the bedtime story for a nation already asleep.

The situation is clear. As long as we donot or cannot cut down our imports the naira and thus the one out of ten Nigerian economies that represents the vast majority of Nigerian citizens will continue to deteriorate.

It is not rocket science. We can duck, hide, weave but we will still get knocked out eventually.

oyeb15:
Good move by d fg

Which good move.
Do you know what you are saying.
Who creates and sustains the black market. Is it not government.

Is it not government that has been told for the last 50 years to float the naira but they won't because they want to afford the things they cannot, because they need cheap dollars to mismanage and steal.

They build you a country in the middle of a swamp and then you clap for them for fumigation once a while. Or is this the first time or the first regime to pursue currency mongers.

Why not relocate the Nigerian economy out of the swamp of ten economies in one and to sound ground of the reality that what we earn is what we should live with.

If not in the next two week you won't hear of this 'wonderful' exercise until the next mosquito buzzes in your ear.

This is the catch 22 situation a nation in self deceit will continue to face. We simply cannot admit that we continue in vain to proceed in error. We know that without restructuring we can never make progress meaningfully.

We know this black market thing is killing us slowly but surely, but like narcotics the day we try to stop we die horribly, because we are addicted to wrongdoing.

Where else in the world do you have ten, twelve exchange rates essentially meaning ten, twelve economies in one country.

But when we have a nation where rent seekers want the same prosperity as hard, innovative workers, this is the result. Hard work will never question the need for a single rate because it will readily live by its means, cut it's coat according to it's cloth.

But those who want the mindless, sick, immoral government contracts to continue perpetually will not agree. Those who want to fly jets and ride arnoured cars on the backs of hard working Nigerians at home and abroad will never agree. Those who will be quick to buy 20 million naira dogs instead of training theirs will surely kick.

So why won't the axe be angry that it cannot cut down more trees.... why won't the currency mongers react. And what is stopping them from getting a simple computer and joining the plethora of forex traders the world over to see the reality of just how easy or hard it is to make a honest buck from the real currency market.

faceland:
Just eat less and exercise so at least the stomach has six packs.

One of Buhari's achievement is a slimer and healther Nigerians.

Well not me.
If I can find a way of eating less I surely will jump on it. But don't mistaken malnourishment for 'slimmer' which is certainly not healthy.

The body is essentially one huge chemical processing plant requiring all sorts of chemical compounds in the right quantities and combinations to work effectively.

Any one lacking, mistimed or of poor quality will just shorten the lifespan of that engine.

If you do not service your car with the right quantity, quality of consumables and parts and in a timely manner you can imagine how long it will serve you well.

So in a nutshell the jibe is on us. Bad governance reduces the lifespan of citizens in many ways including hunger.

mariahAngel:
Beans is healthier.
It is better to eat beans more often than rice.

The problem with beans is that the places where it can be produced in commercial quantities is highly restricted making it expensive to produce.

jojothaiv:
Garri, Cassava flour, fufu/akpu...

That is what is called a staple. Climate, terrain, know how, etc, naturally favourable in the widest possible regions across the country making it's production universal and it's cost controllable.

Almost every other crop is either not indegenous or heavily localised restricting the volumes that can be produced.

Unfortunately for Nigeria our two best beloved food crops rice and wheat are just not tennable when the chips are down and global food shocks are at work.

lovediehatelive:
Hi, with the growing price of rice, things don't seem to be cheap and eating rice would take much from one's earnings.

The unfortunate flood stories on frontpage and also increase in price of rice is worrisome, but man must survive.

I remember the time I used to buy spaghetti and hardly use rice. But one thing led to the other and the price of spaghetti increased and I was forced to look for alternative, and had to resort to rice because it was cheaper then.

Now same rice is increasing in price, what food would you suggest should be used to replace rice based on cost.

Unfortunately for Nigeria we do not have a wide variety of staples. Rice is not a staple or indigenous to Nigeria so we toil to produce any reasonable quantities.

I guess cassava derivatives is what has economic benefits. It is our bottom line as far as food security is concerned.

U09ce:
Many people of South East extraction hate Nigeria whether passive or active. And they are the first to cry for being marginalized in government positions. If SE continues to be part of Nigeria and its inhabitants don't change this attitude, they will continue to suffer government neglect.
What I said is not borne of out of hate for the industrious Igbos, but it's the reality. You can't continue despising the federal government and othexr regions/tribes and expect them to love you. Igbos are at loggerheads especially with the Yorubas. Their relationship with the Niger Delta isn't so cordial. Same applies with the northerners. This can't be a coincidence. The SE intelligentsia needs to do a deep dive and correct this.

Despite the popularity of Obi in majorly SS ans SE, his chance of winning is not up 30%. Savvy followers of voting trends know this. So what will be the consequence of his loss especially to SE? If Tinubu wins, whom I think has the greatest chance based on extant realities, there's high likelihood of the SE being marginalized because the region didn't contribute to his emergence. That's politics for you. Never put your eggs in one basket. The SEners should learn not to disdain Igbo politicians that are aligned to the ruling party e.g Rochas, Umahi. These people might be their saving grace in the next dispensation.

The earlier the Igbos learn the ropes of politics, the better for them. I'm open to further engagements on this as far as it isn't acrimonious and acerbic

Ethnic supremacists talk. Others should bow down to you to be accepted in your Nigeria. As if it is a supremely successful country for that matter.

And the reasons why it continues to crawl is the deep divisions caused by mentality like this.

Ask why other nations are great and progressive such as the poster child of global identity, the United States, because they embrace all and give every man equal opportunity to succeed.

Here tribalism and ethnicity is our motto and it shows.

Oga, which one is cheap political points. If you are owing them you have opened the door to political activism.

And I have said it repeatedly. Trade unions have the right to politicize their demands for better pay and working conditions. It is done everywhere in the world and that is the point of democracy.

If a certain government will not accede they should negotiate with another party and throw their weight behind it. Government is no one's birthright or property.

Oluwatobiloba07:
Federal government have done well, you work for half month you get half salary. You refuse to work, you won't get paid. He that doesn't work isn't entitled to food.

Everyone condemning federal government, but have we sit down and ask ourselves that, if it's me that have workers and they refuse to come to work, will I pay them??

What happens to the funds budgeted for their salaries from January to December. Where is the money that has not been paid. You can consider whatever it has been used for as more important than the education of your fellow citizens.

And by the way if you pay peanuts to your workers in a shabby and irregular matter it will be sheer folly to expect proper service even if they work. Lecturing is not factory assembly work. It is work of creativity and intellectualism and you need stable psychology to perform.

A poorly paid lecturer will yield poor products. And this strike even if ended with finality today will take many years to recover from. But I guess government in reality doesn't care.

Triangles1:
This ASUU should know this strike is not in favour of Nigeria' they should stop delaying student future, Nigerians youths are very creative they don't rely on government like South African or American.

Then help the lecturers by paying appropriate school fees so that you can be truly independent of government like you say. College degrees are expensive. This is the bottom line. Government can no longer offer next to free education for it's run away population.

slivertongue:
Money for the boys

Contractor's paradise.
Then you look below and the next post is saying, 'go to the farm if you are hungry', by the landlord of the place where billions are not enough for 'maintenance'.... highly provocative.

But... Nigerians are the sorriest people on earth.
Just playthings in the hands of the elite.
So anything goes.

baralatie:
Tambuwal actions at the primary only made him become less desirable for any thing!
He displayed this action as a senator jumping from pdp into APC
Jumped from that to be come governor
Jumped from APC to pdp to retain his seat for an atiku presidency
And now jumped from presidency pdp to only God knows because of an atiku that is now unsure of he will win
Right now Tambuwal is a very unstable person to vouch for just like fani kayode to

The same can be said of Wike too.
His actions in the PDP over the last decade have been very unsettling and he is not finishing well.
I think he has burnt his political bridges going forward and become less and less electable in any Federally elected position.

He should have done what Amaechi is doing and fallen silent when it became clear he was not going to win this battle, so that he has the prospects of winning the war some day later. As long as politics remains a game of numbers he is not doing himself any good by shortening the number of his allies.

Hahahahaha.... nice one Oga.
Show them. They will get sense by force.
But I trust you will not let your security men and the pilot of your jet go to farm when he is supposed to be flying you round the world..... hahahaha....

We love spin.
He is retiring because he is old, simple.
He can no longer cut it.
If your maintenance bills are high because your prized automobile breaks down frequently, you retire it.

BalticGold:
African leaders shame dey shame me. How can a president of a country run to another country for medical care. It's an indictment on self and the govt they lead.
Yet tomorrow they expect respect from Western leaders.

But you can see the vicious cycle in that the universities are barely open to train the next gen medical professionals to treat the next gen Presidents, governors and other civil servants. So we are heavily negatively investing today in exporting our future leaders to treat their ails.

Jflex07:
Sai babarians and tinubu urrchins.. I am not part of the aforementioned.

Wish we had a lot more of your kind and a lot more vocal and forceful.
Not those who want to import 20 million naira dogs to sniff out drugs when we can and should develop those skill-sets here at a fraction of the cost.
It takes force to overcome gravity.
This country will only come good by force, nothing else.
When the people are ready and are tired of suffering.

PS: Pls, don't call people names. Barbarians, urchins are not charitable words that will bring about the 'prodigal son' moment we all seek for those who are not helping Nigeria. It will rather stiffen their resolve in digging deeper into the mire.

Itohanmiwa:
Abeg make una leave my presido alone. With all the resources a his disposal, you expect him not to take care of his health well? So if anyone of you become a president and have any health related issues, will you treat yourself in Naija or good Country with good health? hypocrites should reply honestly. Abeg leave Presido alone make he take care of him health. Na our number 1 citizen be this.

So you see. How can it be a scam.
This is the problem.... or lack of it according to this upstanding citizen of Nigeria.
This is exactly why we are the way we are.

DP.

Jflex07:
Buhari scammed sai barbarians and tinubu urrchins.. No sane person will vote for a dullard like buhari and another dullard like tinubu.. Only his urchins and never do wells.

He did not scam you, you were warned but chose not to consider the facts.
Then after recovering from the 'first scam' he has been on a dozen more such trips and you have endure many more 'scams'....
How that can be.... certainly no longer a scam...