₦airaland Forum

Seventy7kings:

some are angry because NBA apologised? People hate El-Rufai this much? Hatred could cause anguish, you people should take it easy.

A lot of people are killed needlessly in the state he governs almost constantly since he assumed office. Think about that like a human being for a minute.

Legalcriminal:
Good from the hospital.
Scarce to hear hospital accepting case like this and saving victim first before any deposit.

It is a goverment hospital funded by taxpayers money. They have no reason whatsoever not to accept accident victims. We neither need prayers to get that fundamental right as citizens.

Told you folks we will become a pariah. Said it many times on this forum.

We were late to close our borders, late to lockdown our cities, late to get any sort of organised effort against the pandemic going and quickly surrendered after just a few weeks of trying with our numbers not remotely near indicating where we are on the famous ferris wheel of cases.

Guess this is the result when you don't have leaders of vision and foresight but slow, reactionary ones.

omenka:
I sincerely hope and pray they make it life imprisonment.

Simple speech was what landed Rwanda in what they found themselves in years ago.

It didn't turn Nigeria to Rwanda from 1999 to 2015 but has been a problem since. What is the common denominator.?

If the window was really compromised the Captain will more than likely know before anyone else as the cabin pressure sensors will trigger an alarm before any exposive decompression most folks fear.

Always fasten your seatbelt for as long as possible on any flight particularly if you are going to take a nap and be unconscious of your surroundings for a bit. Incidents like violent turbulence can come out of nowhere without warning in the tropics at this time (the second half of the rainy season).

The majority residents of these shanties know the inevitable will happen someday. But whenever that day arrives it still comes like a thief in the night leaving sorrow, tears and blood... says the late philosophical sage Fela Kuti.

Good move. But I just wonder what Americans will say about this. I think the branding is a mistake. Will be hounded abroad as an imitation. The American market remains the biggest in the world.

They buy anything with wheels in unsurpassed numbers... elsewhere you are certainly not going to sell sand to the Arabs of the automobile world, China.

Yankee101:
You countered and answered yourself. So it's not impossible. You don't recapture a place a lose it in 2 weeks, someone's not doing their job (it dosen't necessarily mean foot soldiers)

I am only telling you what you want to hear and on a public forum like this it will be inappropriate not be politically correct (aka 'patriotic'). You take what you want from my response but I have given enough hints to paint a realistic picture about what unconventional warfare is all about.

Nations with far longer experience, far superior military forces struggle against radical ideologist driven groups and you think it wil be a walk in the park for Nigeria?...

Of course it is all our prayers for it to end asap but we must face the facts. It is not easy. What I find anusing is how a lot of folks just assume it is not over because the military is imcompetent or are complicit.

Then ask me why after battling crime since independence we still have cases of robbery, kidnappings, etc. The police cannot stop crime but can only contain it. What makes for low or zero crime is not only law enforcement but a combination of socio-economic, educational, cultural balances.

What will end this war is beyond what rhe military alone is equiped to do.

Ayt27:
30 US Navy seal Marines or 40 army green berets will clear Boko up in a month , it's because it has been turned into a money milking machine.

Don't be ridiculous. Listen to this to straighten your head out.

Since 2001, 1.9 million American soldiers have served in Iraq and Afghanistan in 3 million tours of duty. According to the Cong.budg.office this has cost the American taxpayer somewhere about 2.4 trillion, TRILLION (if you didn't hear well) dollars which includes interest.

Which means they are obviously raising bonds (borrowing from the taxpayer) for men, machines, materials and munitions to chase the Taliban up and down the Khyber Pass...

Even Trump the money man who vowed to bring his troops home and end the carnage but as at this morning he still cannot do it. France has been in the lower Sahara battling militants there for the past 3 decades, no victor yet.

Chief. Assynetric warfare is a hard thing, a very hard thing to handle. Let me be realistic here. The best we may get is containment, a very costly war of containment. We better start seriously thinking of other non military options.

Yankee101:
Don't the army know the process of creating a safe zone?

Secure and hold, not secure and abandon

How many places can you hold at once. It is logistically impossible to hold every square kilometre of the northeast. That will cost tens of thousands of men and consume unbelievable resources.

They can only use intel to anticipate the potential strike points so as to move men and ordnance there on time.

Technology such as drone and satellite observations can be employed but you have to know what you are looking for or what you are looking at in real time.

These fellows look like the average Joe. In the day the likely hide weapons close to their targets. Weapons they have moved overnight when air surveillance is non functional.

It is a very hard war to prosecute. The military has its inadequacies but they are doing a very good job. I am sorry Nigerians but this thing doesn't have a military only solution. Fundamentalist driven conflicts is now a global industry. They have access to a lot of resources worldwide.

airminem:
For those who hide behind these evil shall one day stand before the creator.

This is an insurgent group. They are not hiding. They are fighting a war of attrition... a war of endurance. ... hoping their twisted ideology will see them through.

Nbotee:
According to Buhari, they are jus looking for food and provisions

....hmmm I see. But do you raise a flag whenever you visit the supermarket..?

God has blessed this country with so many waterways you can transport all sorts of goods at a fraction of the cost of road or even railways if we had leaders with a fair bit of vision and just a morsel of intelligence but they prefer to build what they cannot afford to operate, airports and air travel.

As we speak the entire waterways in the South from Bakassi, through the Calabar River, Orin, down to Portharcourt, Bonny and on is efdectively shut down by the Nigerian Navy in behalf of goverment.

Whole swathes of industries from boat building to fisheries are comatosed. Thousands of jobs gone. This is indeed a very sorry country.

Good morning Nigeria. Let us see how the port cartels holding Nigeria captive since the late 70's react to this.

Nigerians will never let go until greed turns a loaf of bread into a biological specimen. It is when Apapa turned to an Apocalypse movie set they gave in.

After leading to the deaths of over 700,000 with millions infected and the wholescale destruction of the global economy with millions sunk to poverty, you expect they'd be reflective, respectful and sober for a couple of years at least.

But they only give the middle finger to the rest of the world and totally disappoint those who praise their developmental strides which apparently does not include empathy and humanity.

It is like the country Congo just emerging from another ebola epidemic and the first thing they show the world is a national wildlife barbeque fest.

And here I was blaming Noah for emerging from the Ark and his first order of business was to brew tombo, get drunk and cause the wholescale curse on the black race.... or so they say.

These Chinese folks are just senseless.

Some just cannot handle poverty with any sense of dignity whatsoever. It makes monsters of some.

Shop, shop, shop everywhere. Nigerians love mercantalism. No creativity needed, no hardwork needed, just sit back and wait for cash to roll in. Even great sporting venues are not spared the scourge of the tradesmiths

Light goes out for five minutes every 5 to 6 days on average at my place. It is an undisclosed gated community somewhere in the middle of Abuja. But that is not reflective of the rest of Abuja Central or the FCT as a whole.

I am totally power independent at my business premises in the other parts of the Nigeria.

officialteemi:
crime rate right Now in Cross river will shock you

Still relatively benign.

Nothing about the people they claim to lead. It always about themselves. Themselves alone.

Every drama must have a curtain call. Every empire will decline.
There isn't beauty that wouldn't fade.
There is an end to everything under the sun.

My advice to this 'young' man is rather strange and the antithesis of conventional soccer/sporting thinking. I think he should retire from club football and focus his remaining years on the national team.

He has won everything there is in Europe for club and made a bucket load of cash to live two lifetimes. The one blemish to his career remains national team honours.

When he eventually retires to his home town this is the question that will continue to haunt him for the rest of his life and continue to bother his legacy.

The clock is ticking.

Celepope:
I don’t understand this whole charade by the NASS. I thought someone in the front page will intelligently ask this question but no it is the usual Buhari and politician insults as if that will solve the issue. My question is this: My little knowledge of congressional working tells me that whenever an international loan is to be taken, the Congress is supposed to be furnished with the details and the reasons of taking such a loan which will be deliberated upon and then put into a simple voice vote. How come they missed all the specifics and voted for in favor of its approval and then turn back to still question what they wasted hours in deliberating and even forwarded to a subcommittee for further deliberation before final discussion in the house and approval. Something isn’t right somewhere. It’s either these men and women in NASS hurriedly pass the approval of the loan request made by the Executive without reading the specifics or in their usual fashion they collected money for it to scale through without bothering about the specifics and now some members who didn’t partake in the “lobbied funds” are now asking questions. In a saner clime this can cause the initiation of impeachment proceedings against the President but it seems the latter seems to be the case that’s why NASS hasn’t even called for an emergency section and public inquiry on the issue as serious as this. Btw I have good knowledge of how this things work because I worked with a NASS member for some years. This shouldn’t be an APC or PDP or even Buhari regime thing but something in which the masses should be asking questions but instead it has resulted into the usual General Buhari regime bashing thereby giving these guys an escape route on the matter on ground while we are all overtaken by new events soon.

Why pretend as if you were not in the country when the Senate President brow beat all his colleagues into saying aye when it was clear quite a number disapproved.

Were you not here when the Senate President 'vowed' to approve any paper that came to the Upper House from the Executive tagged 'Economic Development' then asking questions later. Were you not here when he threw shades at his predecessor SP Bukoka Saraki as being the architect of Mr. President's lack of impetus his first term.

Were you not in Nigeria when the APC media onslaught threatened anyone who opposed wanton approvals and ridiculous rubber stamping as an 'economic saboteur'.

What I and other well meaning citizens find absolutely irritating in all these insinuations by folks like you is that we were damned in stating our reservations and are now damned for not doing anything to oppose these treacherous folks in goverment hell bent in ruining this country. It is not fair and we do not deserve to suffer for what we warned about day in day out.

Like it or not, hindsight or not. In just two years Bukola Saraki has proven to be a far, far better Senate President than the absolute failure we have there right now who cannot discern between his duties to Nigeria and the institution he heads and his loyalty to one single individual in the Presidency.

He has forgotten that he is called a President. A very weighty title the failure of which aptly describes the mess we are in. A Senate President who doesn't recognise his status of and the responsibility to the people it connotes is useless to democracy.

What is your business Mr. Dickson, are you in goverment? You have served your term, just go home and stop heating up the polity you are supoosed to be retired from in an.egalitarian society.

simple250:
Election in Nigeria is a total waste of money because INEC cannot conduct free and fair election it must end in court.

Exactly what I say. INEC is becoming irrelevant as an institution. The INEC handed over by Jega though not perfect is now a shadiw of itself in the otesent dispensation.

Its their fault. They were asked, begged, cajoled, forced to reform, to change gears to freshen things up but chose the path of partisanship, of the status quo ante. Now the engine is almost dead.

If I was in the national assembly I will oppose any future budgets for them as just a collosal waste of public funds. Nigerians are far from getting value for their resources appropriated.

I said it in March. That with the rampaging insecurity tearing the north west, north east and north central apart, with farming villages wiped our wholescale by bandits and terrorists it is only a matter of time before Nigeria faces a food crises.

These are the opening rumblings of a coming earthquake. Brace, brace, brace for impact and start a small savings account in foreign exchange.

And his background is from the academia.

Theu are absolutely correct. How can a community hosting a power station with all its attrndant HSE risks/challenges not have adequate compensation in steady electricity. They are not asking for free power, just power.

I just donot understand how things are meant to work in Nigeria but this is just absurd. The most expensive gasoline at the official pumps has always been in the Niger Delta.

If they cannot enjoy agriculture at least energy should not be a concern.

Nezero:
I built mine with about that amount.
3 bedrooms,1 living room, 1 kitchen , 1 toilet/bath, 1 dining room. I used less than 1500 blocks. All plastered and tiled. Electrical wiring done. No fence.



No well or running water yet

It's small though. The whole house is 33 by 22. I used 9 bundles of roofing sheets. I used Louvre windows.


If you really mean it, you can do it.
It could be better but I trusted the wrong person..


Do a lot of homework. I got plenty of info on Nairaland.. like how to calculate no. of blocks. Foundation, window, lintel and roof levels.


https://www.nairaland.com/4491449/how-calculate-number-blocks-cements


God help you

You have not stated when, where and what you built. It certainly cannot be a house.

Remember, the fellow has his parents living in 'a house'. So it is clear there are houses and there are houses.

A house is essentially a structure built to battle and win over the environment and the elements while providing for controlled, comfortable habitation.

2 millon will get you a structure. Whether it can win against rain, wind, heat, pollution, erosion, subduction, etc while letting you sleep with your two eyes closed for the next 50 years is another matter.

I think not.

No. It can't. If it is a house you mean.

NoToPile:


Oh really
That's a new one.

Lool at high quality children

That is a new assignment for you. Start investigating in total objectivity.