₦airaland Forum

Millions of dollars up in the air. The insurance men will be sipping black coffee this morning.

NwaNimo1:
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Hahahahaha.... chai Nairaland..... where una dey get these hilarious images from hahahaha. True, true na APC be dis.. hahahaha...

Advantage to teams like Bayern that have been playing for a while now and have built up great chemistry. To me they are in pole position to lift the big ears.

Folks I think it is time to take refuge in the Lord Jesus Christ. It won't cost you a thing. There is nothing in this world worthwhile.

Just sitting and watching amazed at the failed citizens around fighting tooth and nail for and against folks who neither know them nor have impacted their lives in any meaningful, positive way, ever. Instead of discussing and debating what really matters to them, how to better their own lives. What a waste. People should be taxed for stupidity. It is costing this country dearly.

Ausrichie:
Not actually. The Bible has a lot of killings in the Old Testament.

The Old Testament is not Christianity in practice. It is the equivalent of modern day Judaism from where Christianity is rooted. Essentially to be referenced not actionable. Jesus Christ came to enable the objectives of the Old Testament in a manner that is possible for the non Jews. There is no Christian today that can engage with God on the basis of the Old Testament alone. We only use it to know what we were saved from.

Brandstudio01:
You can imagine the outcome if the Black Lives matters protest happened in Nigeria

I will always say this. A democracy only works well when the government FEARS the people. Any other thing short of that is a monarchy. We are yet to develop a functional democracy and so campaigns, polls and ballots in Nigeria are all but useless.

Before democracy is practiced or practicable in any nation there MUST FIRST be some degree of TRUE REVOLUTION. Because revolutions simply do not happen IN democracies as the opportunity to affect society is inherent in its workings through the dynamics of power held in a flux.

The citizens have to be properly in charge BEFORE democracy can be birthed. Democracy is not handed to the citizens by authoritarianism like some inheritance. It is fought for everywhere in the world. Democracy is the PRIZE of the fight. A trophy is given AFTER a successful fight and not BEFORE or DURING the fight.

yesloaded:
We need to rewrite Nigeria Constitution and abort accepting affidavit as certificate

You must be a Professor before you can contest as a president of this country, you must have minimum of PhD before you can contest for the post of governor in gbis country and must be in reasonable field not related to religion of any sort.

Cross River state has both Governor and Deputy as Professors. Not Hollywood actors, real scholars, yet the state has not moved from gear one to two in six years.

Nothing can work well in this structure we operate except the feudalism we inherited from our colonial masters deliberately willed to us to ensure independence was just nomenclature.

That Oshiomhole wants to be the Viceroy or Governor General of Edo State only attests to the fact that feudalism is real. Next thing like what is happening in Lagos is to bind the peons calling themselves citizens in chains and fetters of brass and send them to plantations to cultivate sugar.

Just watch out for taxation when Adams is eventually crowned the defacto governor of Edo State.... I just laugh.... Nigeria eh.

And I hope half that number of teachers will be dedicated to handling reproductive health issues, birth control and sustainable population growth in an adult education set up primarily amongst the rural folks and urban educationally disadvantaged.

This runaway cost of administering and advancing society is just unsustainable. If we spend every penny we have on recurrent expenditure to cater for this recklessly huge population we will remain in a poverty octagon forever running round desperately trying to avoid certain knockout.

Can't cope with the pace at his age. The Prem is a lot harder than when he left no thanks to a string of top European gaffers.

United is hemorrhaging money on this chap. They better find a way to make it work. A trip to Juventus to get the original copy of his operating system might do the trick. Appears his agent sold United a bootleg copy with a phoney key.

Oh for heavens sake he has several drivers, has a yacht and an executive jet. What is the talk here. He had personal drivers as far back as the early 80's when my mum bought flour and sugar from his shops in Kano. He is not ostentatious but neither is he a skinflint. In Nigeria ypu need drivers for more than one reason and he does have them.

Even roadside economists will tell you that the first antidote to financial ruin is fiscal discipline. That is made to measure, ultra efficient expenditure and radical investments. If you continue spending in 2020 the same way you spent in 2013 when the oil price was 5, 6, 7 times the price now then you need your head examined.

If you are spending twice, thrice what you spent in 2013 in this quagmire then you are certified insane. Nigeria's expenditure profile in almost all non productive sectors of government is up from 2015. Who is responsible for this carelessness, indiscipline and corruption please.

Flier:
I don’t know where you guys want Buhari to get money without borrowing and I am sure Atiku would have done the same
Almost every nation on earth is in debt at the moment
America have been printing money non stop for 4 months now and still not enough
Close to 9 trillion dollars printed already and they are still contemplating printing more
Gej and okonjo started borrowing when oil was $65 per barrel and you are telling Buhari not to borrow when oil was 19$ barrel,the worse is there was no one to buy it
Buhari is clueless but when it comes to our economic situation,he has no choice than to borrow otherwise you all will starve to death

No words for folks like you. I am just so sorry to stand besides such fellow citizens who have an equal franchise in this country. Nothing in all you see happening has not presented your principal with the opportunity of cutting the notorious cost of governance. Is there a greater opportunity to take such a decision when the opposition is all but dead, labour and civil society cowered, the Judiciary and Leguslature in your pocket, the military bogged down with rampant insurgency and banditry.

Tell me, is there a civilian President who has enjoyed such totalitarianism since independence.... none. This President has absolute power so he has absolute responsibility. History wil not vindicate his failings. Nigeria of today is crafted in exactly his image. Everything we hear, see and feel is exactly the way he wants it to be.

You simply cannot escape that fact. The America you quote has productivity leagues ahead of ours. They lead the world in several key industries. They are the largest market in the world for almost all goods produced on earth. And the dollar is the reserve currency of the world so the productivity of all countries using the dollar will always keep the dollar in tight bounds. It is just mediocre thinking to try to equate their position with ours.

The damning fact is that 99% of our income goes to debt service. America is no where near that. If you cannot isolate the failings in your own country I am just sorry. The man is in his 80's with less than a decade to go. How much of this debt can be paid in his lifetime. Who will pay the rest.

That is the personalisation of government we frequently talk about. It is always about someone's interest. Everything from the destruction of institutions to the failure to lockdown the borders in time against the pandemic... everything has someone's thumbprint. And the cheques will continue to be cashed at the expense of Nigerians.

Sad to see.... just sad.

At least he has the decency to admit that. How many others can.... though he knows even this cannot spur an indolent, derelict citizenry.

Once again a proof that the black man is incapable of organising himself around values and incapable of building things, of establishing legacies, of charting the future and presenting his offspring with the tools of advancement. Everything a black man does ends with him. If he finds resistance in his ways he cannot correct them, repair them and transfer his ideals to them. They must either be discarded or destroyed.

What is the principle by which Governor Obaseki operates with that has made him depart to the PDP. Nothing but personal, selfish and zero sum ambition. He cannot identify that there is a problem in the APC and will deploy his principles to ensure those ills are corrected even if it means losing his privileges. That sort of 'sacrifice' is alien to the black man. He cannot fight for principles, he cannot fight for institutions, he cannot build them in the imagery of what is best. He cannot leave a legacy to the up and coming politicians.

Folks, these are no leaders in the true sense, just political jobbers, turncoats and mercenaries whom string along a history of backwardness, disorganisation, corruption and poverty for any nation that has them in numbers for a considerable period in its history. Even Ambode who remained in the APC has done nothing to fight fhe scourge of godfatherism aka feudalism since he left office which will have done a whole lot for the liberty of the citizenry to chart their own future.

I'm afraid this is the last we will also hear of Governor Obaseki, his political epitaph reading.... 'He came, fought and fled, leaving a political space worse for wear'.... the sad tale of the black man.

Exactly the way Nigeria runs. Crass ignorance and criminal negligence.

vibbb:
Airplanes are not so different from submarines. Both involve structures that have to withstand a stark difference in pressure and temperature outside and in.
So how can a woman breaks aircraft window just like that from the inside?

You started well, appear to know your mechanics then you disprove that with the last line.

Yes both crafts are pressure vessels but the stark difference is the direction of forces.

In a sub the weight of water imposes 'crushing' loads from the outside inwards because the density of the air inside the vessel is relatively miniscule being at atmospheric pressure. Therefore subs are very vulnerable to additional external impulsive loads say from explosives detonated in the water.

In an aircraft the reverse is the case. At altitude the air has little weight so imposes miniscule loads on the airframe from the outside. However in order to maintain a reasonable atmosphere for humans to aspirate naturally the vessel has to be pumped full of air and maintained at a relatively high pressure.

Just like the tyre of a vehicle the air wants to escape fast. It doesn't take much to help it escape. So believe me it is very easy to break out of a pressurized aircraft. Why it doesn't happen often is that the laminate glass in windows is extremely tough composite and for additional safety it comes in two layers, sometimes three like in high flying Concorde.

She broke through the polycarbonate inner layer and was perhaps moments away from killing everyone. It is that possible.

If true, that is indeed exciting. Time to shake the old oak tree to eject the squirrels.

engrjacuzzi:
So sad. The mother of the dead child must be very devastated. What's is the essence of police report even when it was obvious that the baby died in the hospital premises

In the civilised world EVERY death is investigated. Every death has to be explained in detail and until that is done a death certificate will not be issued. And you know what that means. We should try our best to become civilised no matter the structure of our DNA which insists otherwise.

Dwanye:
Because they're slaves meant to render their services for free without pay to go home with to take care of their family.
The things you guys are vomiting here marvels me alot.
You're saying they're essential workers but are they treated as on?
You're here health budget is been sliced, you didn't cough
You're here billions is sent in fumigation, you didn't talk
You're here they're using billions to renovate house of assembly
You're here doctors are dying because of lack of PPE, you didn't talk
The health sector is crumbling
Hospital is understaffed and under equipped
Health workers are paid peanut yet their services are essential and an illiterate fool is earning millions and stealing billions and no one is talking.
Na when person stand up to demand for what he rightfully deserves you guys would vomit all the nonsense you have in your mouth.
Are you even humans
Now they're embarking on a strike to make known their plight every idiot without any idea of the struggles they go through would come out here to vomit nonsense.


#DoctorsAreHumans

Don't mind them. Nonsensical citizens. Expecting to reap gold from dross. Where are they when the citizens of the countries they admire turn it upside down to establish justice and equity, good governance, human rights and dignity. They will hide and attack the outspoken to defend their pet oppressors and feudal overlords.

If they can't speak out for the health and wellbeing of health workers they should go treat Covid 19 patients themselves. I have close friends and loved ones at all levels of the health industry and they have spent a fortune protecting themselves from infection out of their pockets, some working crazy shifts since Covid 19 shut down primary health centres and most private hospitals.

Meanwhile government's Covid 19 resources begins and ends with the PTF, barely anything reaches the ground.

A few days ago we were speaking about a former state governor who cut down to pieces the cost of running government to the extent that the state earns hard currency revenues from investment and it was on record that the state remained solvent through the 2014 to 2018 financial crises necessitating bailouts for other states.

They continued with their obligations towards their workers by prudence and deft financial management showing it is possible for Nigeria to get out of poverty and serial financial woes. These are the choices ordinary Nigerians should make at the polls but they cannot live above sentiment so they suffer.

Sorry to ruffle any feathers but will such an ex-governor bein Aso Rock and agree for renovations worth tens of billions and alleged purchase of a building for TCN worth 14 billion when your health workers are daily facing sure pathogenic death with only hankerchiefs tied round their faces.

We are not ready to divorce suffering in this country. The wedding band of sentiment will guarantee that.

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We miss you sooo much![/quote]With all the juicy topics on the front page ranging from a Mexican standoff in Aso Rock starring 'Tunde' the badass, to the NEF v Femi Adesina fisticuffs and not forgetting the 14 billion naira Transmission Company of Nigeria power failure once again starring 'Tunde', this is where you choose to hide.

Well, that is life for you. When you choose extreme antisocial positions constantly in defending the impossible it is bound to hide you in obscure places from time to time.

You better start living objectively and experience the liberty of self expression always.

olaric:
Despite cornering all the juicy positions in the military and defence ministry, you guys couldn't provide enough security for your people.

Strongmen do nothing in a democracy. It is strong institutions that makes for good governance.... and in Nigeria strong institutions will remain an illusion until the country is restuctured.

I said in in 2014 and 2015 on this very forum that Nigeria in its present structure is unworkable, ungovernable and will mess up the reputation of anyone attempting to rein her in.

But this is very wrong. He is supposed to be serving the interests of his people. If his people value his services they will insist he remains in contention. I do not see the sense in taking what is an internal matter to the rest of the country. All politics should be domiciled locally.

LifegoesOn1:
Many people are passing through hell

Then Jesus Christ in needed in that life. The only one who has gone to hell and back.

Nigeria. A contractor's paradise. If the bridge was built by direct labour involving the communities it serves under the supervision of goverment this will not happen.

But when you have a structure with goverment as umpire and player this is the result. Until the development model is natural, that is, from the ground up and not the top down model we practice, we will never get it right.

What else is there to say. A state earning money outside allocation from financial investments alone. Super impose that on the nation at large that is in a destructive debt spiral and see what Nigeria missed in 2019.

When are we going to cast sentiment aside and start living not merely existing or surviving.
When are we going to cast sentiment aside and start rewarding success rather than reinforce failure.

These past two months have been the worst with the Covid 19 lockdown. It is now taking my trucks 14 to 18 days to reach the south from Lagos. Cost is not even a consideration anymore. Just to keep things moving. The coming inflation when the dust of Covid 19 is settled will be horrendous.

The personalisation of government like I always say, in full view. It simply cannot be hidden for long. Just fighting one another for the spoils of a feudal state, the story reading like another medevial tale of treachery from William Shakespeare.

What is 'Tunde's' business with a long retired but dying Maikanti Baru that cannot be construed as anything but the retrieval of secrets and treasure maps and the complex burial of skeleton cupboards to impress even the indefatigable Indiana Jones.

Everything wrong with the Nigeria State on full blown audition in this melodrama called the Buhari led APC government that is sunk to yet another low.