₦airaland Forum

ajl:
Yes, okay to check sub-standard products but he did a poor journalism job. You dont present a single low quality product as if all rice are like that. He should have at least compared 2 to 3 different quality rice and also state the price. Then with a statement to indicate more need to be done to ensure only quality rice get to the market. That is good journalism. For example, his tweet can be picked up by foreigners wanting to import Nigeria rice for example .... you never know.. just saying... branding is important... that's what is killing Africa, especially Nigeria. Come to America, there is a lot of bad things happening here but they have branded their country as "heaven" on earth until you get there.

You cannot blame him. Someone sold him that rice...or as rice. It should not be permitted. The Ministry of Agriculture in conjunction with SON or NAFDAC should set stamdards and lay down rules on what can be sold to whom.

Any pioneering program of government anywhere in tje world open to exploitation will always have problems if the regulations are not set in play before such programs are rolled out. That is my criticism of the border closure as a policy to triggering a rice revolution.

Government has to think through the entire process and put in place programs and policies that will ensure the right results are delivered. If not it is just a natter of time before unsavoury Nigerians begin to sell 'edible malware'.

While I am pro Nigeria in products I also welcome criticism from folks like him. The rice he bought should not be sold to the end user/consumer but to a processing mill where it can be enhanced and fortified. A value chain is the only way industry can be created out of agriculture. We must all strive for excellence and view the world as our ultimate competition.

The culture of subsistence agriculture should be gradually wound down by stick and carrot and a new set of industries created which will collate farm produce and turn them into supermarket shelf offerings. Value chains and product processing is ths only way farmers can get stable income and investment into their businesses. Investment that ultimately Nigeria needs to achieve food security.

You can imagine the number of jobs that will be created if that rice he displays is processed and packaged properly and how much value it will accrue to Nigeria.

Ebonygirl1:
For guys, circumcision is deemed important because its benefits far outweigh its risks, so it is therefore celebrated. There's literally no benefit of female genital mutilation. They basically harm her genital organ. So it is frowned upon.

There are no benefits madam. Its all cultural. There is no evidence that there are different health outcomes for the circumcised and the uncircumcised. The practice is largely borne from ancient Abrahamic tenets, period. The folds of the female outer organs are very similar to the males' in both sensitivity and the capacity to hinder the free flow of bodily fluids that most fear could cause health concerns. It is the same thing.

As a matter of fact nature has created these extra folds or skin to prevent foreign materials from getting in because nature does not consider human clothing in the evolutionary scheme of things. So the foreskins are like the eyelids in function.

He absolutely has no right to regulate prices by fiat. Telecommunications is a business in Nigeria and business rates are always determined by negotiation through the NCC which is the primary stskeholder acting on behalf of the general citizenry by interfacing with government.

Negotiation means the NCC too has to come to the table wirh incentives to the telecos to expand, develop, profit and thus reduce prices. That is how business is safely conducted.

[quote author=illitrate post=83786782]It is his problem ooo, she aint Nigerian yet a Nigerian problem was hers.[/quote

Perhaps if we had all these years and are still doing our duty as citizens to hold those in authority accoutable then she will have little to speak about a service that is effective, efficient and value for money.

If you cannot train your child at home then society is bound to do that but in ways you cannot control aka prison... do you get that.

Remember you are a nation seeking foreign investors, tourists, etc, with your President hoping to every available function at great expense. What is said abroad about us is important. And when foreigners look at us they are not just looking for roads, electricity, security, and the rule of law. They also look for a viable, virile citizenry who they can partner with.

The health of citizen advocacy is an important barometer to tell the future prosperity of a nation. Docile, ignorant, cowardly people have scant future.

Sumptylism:
A whole British abi English "media personality" cannot construct proper English/grammar...what a shame!
...a case of ignoring the LOG in one's eyes...and going after the speck in another's....
...she should get a proper English teacher mbok!!

Oga, that is not your problem.

HOW IS YOUR FIRE SERVICE THAT THE GOVERMENT SPENDS BILLIONS ON YOUR BEHALF FOR.

Wake up.

Beverlyjean:
Did she say the truth ...yes or no?? Our Nigerian government will keep on treating us this way cos they know the citizens are under a spell... Instead of Nigerians to support her to shame our government , they are trolling her...

It is our nature, always playing the ostrich, never taking responsibility. To them we are doing fantastic and so are above criticism. The Grenfell report was 1,000 pages long. Let us see what response the Onitsha or Balogun market fire will generate. Let us see if even a cockroach will be held responsible. So far no one has been held to account, no failures admitted, no lessons will be learnt and thus it is bound to recur.

This is the lot of a country full of ostriches instead of human beings. Always placating mediocrity and reinforcing failure. The lady who doesn't have a stake in their country or gives a hoot about their sufferings is their problem.

eTECTIV:
And shameless Nigerians instead of hiding their heads in shame are responding to her... Is our fire service and their response team in any way comparable to ours?

They donot realise that when you respond to the individual your psychology rubber stamps the problem. Then you are weakened in your drive to change your situation.

I will say this and to all the political jobbers on this forum. I fully understand you have to defend government with all the vigour you can muster but when a wrong, a failure, an inadequacy or a mismanagement is criticised and you attack the critique you inadvertently lose more than the critique.

Because spciety absorbs this position and is disarmed of the power to effect change that brings progress and development. Nations are built not by leaders but by citizens just as companies are built not by management but by customers/clients.

If I make and market hotdogs for a living there is no way I can ever prosper if my hotdogs are not constantly vetted in the court of public opinion. It is only a dead business that has no critiques and it is only a dying country that silences its own.

British firefighters failed in Grenfell, Nigerian firefighters failed in Onitsha and Balogun. It is only a retard that attacks those who point this out. Just spare a thought for those who lost a lot, how they feel when you justify, excuse or deflect away from failure.

michaelwilli:
When they lost the first engine, first officer suggested to the captain to get the flight engineer to evaluate the issue. The captain declined that they can resolve it themselves. He asked the first officer to increase the rate of descent which the first officer objected to but still carried out the command. Then they lost the second engine. If they hadn't increased rate of descent, I feel they would still have been able to glide to the airport when the second engine went out

I remember the incident quite well and then I attributed it to pilot error because he flew with one engine for 'quite a while' before the second engine failed. My question then and I say so now is that:

Yes, a twin engined or even four engined aircraft can fly and land safely with one engine operating but, BUT only if the pilot knows exactly what caused the engine to fail ...or lose thrust. And I wil say to pilots. If you donot know what caused the engine to fail then declare an immediate emergency and put the bird down asap.

He had Akure, Ibadan airports to do that bit for some reason decided to continue on to Lagos which proved a bridge too far. Pilots flying in Nigeria should be conversant with ALL airports and airfield along their corridors/airways be they operational or not. It could jùst be a life saver.

If for instance you have a fuel flow (blockage), fuel contamination (popular in the 90's in Nigeria), fuel pump failure (electrical) and one engine goes out as a result, you have no engies because it is just a matter of time before the other(s) die. It will not matter whether the aircraft can fly with one engine or not. The key is: what caused the engine failure.

If I am a pilot I will not hang around to find out or continue stupidly to my destination, company image or not.

sofiscatedmoron:
one engine is enough to fly u from lagos to Miami
the second ,3rd or 4th engine is for back up

Are you nuts. An engine failure is a serious emergency and a request to land asap should be initiated. Modern jet engines are very, very reliable so when one fails it means something serious has occured most likely not in or with the engine itself but with adjoining systems commanding fuel flow or electrical power. If the engine itself fails every bolt and nut will feel the impact.

LabDNA:
Sometimes it's just the emotions of the pilots that actually mastermind the cause of plane crashes. If they follow SOPs, and routine checks without beclouding their sense of judgement, there will be hardly any crash.

What do you mean by this.? What procedure could gave stopped an engine failure.? Without knowing the cause of the failue what checks could have been made to prevent this.

There are hardly any cases of pilot error leading to an engine failure. The problem has never been the failure but the reaction to it which in some cases has worsened the sitiation.

Good job. Detect an anomaly and take immediate action. Some airlines and pilots will continue on, downgrading the risk to their peril.

Ajgal10:
I am an eyewitness and the fire service did their best, only one major angle to attack from, there are no access routes for their trucks to control from the other direction so the focus on one side. I have seen them utilize over 8trips of water or more. The more they tried, the more the fire increased. At this point we need Advanced fire fighting technology.

And experience too. When water is poured on a fire and instead of subsiding it either increases or spreads then it must either be a chemical fire or petroleum/solvent fire.

Certain chemicals will feed fires with either oxygen extracted from the water or engage in violent exothermic reactions to raise the temperature of the fires.

Solvents or petroleum products are lighter than water and will simply float and continue burning if present in quantity. Most solvent fires are not put out but merely left to burn themselves out under controlled conditions which if I am permitted to speculate, I assume this is what happened in Lagos.

That building probably had a stockpile of volatile chemicals or spirits. Water cannot do much more than keep the adjoining buildings cool to prevent a spread.

We should all find way round the consumption of unregulated products. Poverty is also a vicious cycle.

That is why America can never be invaded or militarily defeated. The citizens alone posses somewhere around 393 million small arms, that is more than one gun for each man, woman and child to defend their country and industry manufactures between 8 to 15 billion rounds of ammunition PER YEAR that is two bullets for all the citizens of the rest of the world should they attempt the unthinkable.

I will not even mention the competency to handle a myriad of weaponry, the medical advances to recover from injury and the narcotics to enhance violence. DONOT PLAY WITH THE US.

Why is everyone saying it is not Son' fault. Of course tackles are legitimate parts of most contact sports but when you go into one you are taking a serious risk which can lead to grave unintended consequences.

When you project power or seek an unfair advantage be it road rage or a supposedly mild skirmish on a queue, folks havegone to jail on manslaughter charges for those.

Son is lucky the break was not higher up leading to major arterial rupture or the consequences will have been worse. There is serious risk in tackles and the consequences are dire. Sports is no exception.

If the borders are open in January....

Then what was the whole thing for....

What is the gain....

Just like in 84....

Noise, plenty of noise, yet more noise.... then.... nothing.

Government is run based on programs, not policies alone. Programs that fit into a plan. A plan that is the product of a vision. A vision you sell to people who will naturally tap into it to make it work.

Leadership is not hard of you ultimately know how.

DameB:
True. I hope the naira doesn't get devalued further with this constant borrowing

Doesn't mean much. Inflation will always be with us. My first salary was N212.56k. My dad built his first house, a 6 bed detached dupkex for about N500,000 in the 80's. Today it is probably worth some N250 million. This is not inflation and devaluation alone and certainly not due to any 'wonderful' economic development in Nigeria over that time. Our cities have just grown, period.

pacespot:
We already know when the bubble will burst, just wait for the crude oil prices to crash. Nigeria's real estate properties are overvalued, we have no viable economic policy that will attract foreign investors. The economy that is robust is the one that is entering into the stage of industrialization, but Nigerian is far from that.

No. Oil prices have fluctuated since oil became a staple in the 70's. It hasn't affected the long term trajectory of house prices. As a matter of fact house prices is apparently the only investment index that has realistically kept pace with inflation. And this is in an economy that has felt like one in perpetual recession.

Basically it cannot 'ultimately' depreciate amd I say ultimately with a long term perspevtive in mind because of three fundamentals prevalent in Nigeria,

One is the run away population growth that has defied even the harshest economic onslaught.
Two is the urbanisation of populated areas which is growing faster that perhaps anywhere other than the gulf countries.
Three is the dire projections for development in Nigeria going forward meaning that education and technology are unlikely going to play their part in slowing down our population or optimising the production and use of spaces.

Ultimately the only spaces where real estate wil suffer in the mefium to long term are coastal communities where climate change will depress value and increase costs dramatically and locations such as Abuja central where property does not reflect the true state of the economy at any point in time. But this will ultimately be overtaken by strong fundamentals in the ultra long term.

In Nigeria the only factors that can ultimately degrade the value of real estate I believe are so called 'act of god'. Even locations subject to conflict will ultimately recover.

This is a mundane distraction. There are far more important issues citizens should care about, discuss and project. Citizens of other nations are doing far better than this...

That is what a rubber stamp parliament will give you. Official, approved, legal and certified misconduct, maladministration and graft.

There is no one to speak out against such anymore.

Going by antecedents I am with Akpabio on this one. The NDDC has been in a mess for decades and the Minister at least has a track record of getting things done. He should place his moves on the table so he can work out a legal way through. Negotiation is the key. He should remember he is no more an 'Executive' governor.

Kelvin30286063:
It's a good development. It happens in advance countries so why should we be different. If a police officer stops you either on the road or the walkway (in US and Co) the first thing they ask is 'can I see your ID please?' They expect that you must carry an ID which will serve as your first way to defend yourself against mistaken identity and the only way to confirm that you're actually who you said you are.

The immigration service has been doing this for the last decade on the highways between border states. What is wrong woth expanding and deepening this program since they have a head start in expertise. Why is the military usurping the duties of multiple law enforcement agencies.

They have taken over the duties of the police which has a strong anti-terrorism unit, taken over the the responsibilities of INEC which shoukd have a security unit and now taking over the responsibilities of the Immigration Service.

What next, pursue rice smugglers or put out petrol tanker fires. It is fast becoming a scandalous joke the way the military is losing its professionalism which will definitely affect their performance in their primary theatres.

I know these days it is all about money and this exercise will no doubt lead to budget requests at the highest levels and roadside bribery at the lower levels but I just cannot see anything but reputation damage for the military. Their is always a price to pay for institutional maladministration which is damage.

What is my business. I have said enough about the military and the illegality and danger of doing police work. Now they have chosen todo the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on behalf of the Immigration Service.... yet another illegality.

The stage is firmly set for more civilian/military confrontation and inevitable 'accidental' deaths.... then the military will be scurring around to band aid their battered image coming shortly after their election period debacle.

Well, they have rolled the dice and gambled with their reputation... it is over to the citizens to play... said enough.

Perhaps INEC should conduct an election on who should repay..... let us see whether this government will record the fifteen or so million votes from its fans.....

....don't be aghast....that is what happens in developed societies. It is the people who decide how much debt the government takes on their behalf. At the end debt is a personal thing. It has a direct impact on quality of life more than any other economic index.

Borrowing is simply condensing resources at a premium. That is spending all at once what you will have spent gradually over a longer period....and more.

With the way Nigeria is going is there any semblance that we are in a rush to develop.....is there any indication whatsoever that any sector is making 'leaps and bounds'.... so why squeeze 8 trillion into 4 years....why

DP.

Hmmm....The never ending battle between liberties.
Everyone wants to be free to live in his own paradise.... but where lies the responsibility that should come to create a balance.

The 'authorities' want a 'moral' society but lack the morals when going about it in a classic, 'do what I say' regime and expect the rest of society to obey the laws they cannot obey themselves....

While the citizens cannot come to terms or accept the responsibility for their moral choices and the vices unguarded activities engender.... crying out about crime but stoking it with decadence....

At some point both parties have to come round a table and negotiate for a set of values they can mutually accept.
I have repeatedly said it. The bane of this country is a patent lack of mutually accepted values across board.

No two Nigerians anywhere in this country can agree on how this country should be set up and work and this lack of direction has held us back for generations and left us utterly backward and derelict despite our world reknowned 'strength in diversity' mantra and globally acknowledged 'outward religious piety'... sad...

MERCHANDISER:
i stopped taking football serious since var intro

Yeah, VAR is a scam and referees these days particularly in the EPL are relectant ro overturn the bad onfield decisions of their 'colleagues' so as not to make them look incompetent.

As long as the VAR is manned by the 'old boys network' it will remain subjective and sometimes inconclusive.

VAR has not eliminated controvery. It has only shifted it off-field. That is from the earthly to the heavenly, supposedly all knowing, god-like realm.

Awaziem playing DM for Leganes and they are rocking to two quickfire goals st the Santiago. Very poor team.... over to Juve v Genoa. Many classy teams on show today.

Abeg when is Mustafi going to be declared surplus to requirements.

The most respected monarch on the face of the earth and a true icon.