₦airaland Forum

shogsman:
I think you should just stick to technology, I've noticed your comments on football related matters,you can't relate at all.

He is right. The only thing that attracts me to that dour, predictable league now is our boy Sam Chuks and his exploits at the Yellow Submarine. Even a goat can tell Barcelona will win it again. What is there to watch. It was the rivalry between the two greats that made Laliga palatable all these years. Without them Laliga has nothing to talk about, no drama, no intrigue, lifeless managers and colourless players. Laliga today is as sterile as the Bundesliga. How many times have I fallen asleep watching it.

....hmmm I think this is just a psychological rope to tie the Argentine to the club and the league for life. Without a doubt viewing figures on a global scale will have dropped since the Portugese left Laliga and he is probably just getting the numbers from the accountants and the unnerving memos from advertising agents and must present a stiff upper lip.

The day Messi hangs his boots the Spanish league will reel like a punch drunk boxer. Winter is coming to sunny Spain.... soon.

Ibime:
9.96 will win medal at the Olympics. The days of needing 9.80-9.90 to medal are over. Apart from Bolt, most of those guys were juiced

I doubt the time. AFCOM's always throw up false results. If memory serves me right there was once a purported world record sometime in the 80's but it wasn't ratified by the IAAF due to dodgy timing equipment.

Nigerian athletes too have often posted best times at these meets to qualify only to run ridiculously disappointing slow times at world competitions coming back empty handed.

I will not hold my breath at all.

Road rats.... annoying pests...

seanswitch:
That's why their sunset begins so early. Football age is at your disadvantage. If you don't start early, just find another thing to do.

Hmmm.... even our own Wilfred Ndidi is married at age 22. Who does that.

As we shun industrialization we get poorer and poorer and the gap between us and what other progressive nations make will continue to widen. So we can sit our lazy asses down and do nothing but whine that we cannot afford what we should make. Very soon the world willrun out of cou tries that can make stuff we need and we will be left at the bottom of the ladder or at the base of the table eating the leftovers of the world.

We are not even ashamed to admit we prefer to buy used stuff. We gleefully defend it at the expense of our prosperity. I am not saying it is a crime to buy used but it is a shame to make it a way of life, of thinking, of hope and of the future just as begging is not crime until it becomes a way of life.

Boy we have no leadership. No one to inspire and inject national pride into a people and wake them from the slumber of hopelessness. All we have are leaders of deceit who paint rosy pictures in the daytime and join us to rest under the bridge in the wee hours of the night when no one is watching. Hapless nation.

If I were to be president in this situation today I will be on speed dial with every major industrialist in Nigeria and I will want to know their thinking and positive moves even before they imagine them.

I will repeat this again.

In the 70's virtually all the cars used in Nigeria were European with a few American models. This was a time Peugeot, Leyland and Mercedes Benz were assembling vehicles in Nigeria. The Japanese launched their cars in the 70's and were ignored by the public on account of build quality. It was only when the economy began to falter that 'cheap' Japanese cars became attractive.

Fast forward a decade later and those cheap cars became expensive due to the rising profile, in came the Koreans with Daewoo and Kia but the same problem, quality.

Fast forward a decade later it was the turn of the Chinese since the Korean vehicles too became exclusive. Today it is Indian vehicles that are the base bargains, even Chinese cars are getting out of hand.

Remember, that Nigeria began vehicle assembly before Japanese cars took root in the late 70's. Fast forward to today. All other cou tries have long moved forward. We are still debating the economics of having on automobile industry.

Please if there is still something called a curse, what can describe it better. If you as a citizen questions the attempt by anyone to right this madness saying who can afford vehicles should hide his head in shame if you know how muchhas been spent importing automobiles into Nigeria since the 70's and how much will have been gained for industry, for jobs and for the prosperity of the Nigerian over this time.

Our shame will soon be complete when we begin to import automobiles from factories in Ghana and Togo while we play with our destinies.... lazy, reprobate citizens...

tiwiex:
Gbam. I think he was being wicked to think government would increase duty on imported Tokunbohs for his benefit. Nigerian businesses have an overbloated impression based on our population. Statistically, very few earn anything meaningful. Na Dangote and Otedola dey hold most of our money and they have cars already.

So, because Nigerians cannot afford anything we should not make anything. How can one think so poorly...

My goodness. Just sit back and think through what you write. In the world I come from it is when YOU CANNOT AFFORD THINGS YOU MAKE THEM FOR YOURSELF.

This mentality is killing this country. Everything here is expedient, short term and lazy and where it appears in leadership this is the result. Wide spread poverty and crime.

DrObiHogan:
you could have taken your company to SA. you allow hausa-fulani man with IQ as low as a grain of sand to ruin your fortune. people here are so poor they cant afford brand new tires for their salvaged cars and you want to sell them ur brand new. Poor calculation on your part. It's like opening a buffet in the midst of poor, dirty, uneducated, stupid millions if people.

Oga that is not how it works. Industrialization is the only, I repeat only way for a nation to prosper. There is just no other way. What happens is that government leverages on industrial capacity to trigger a revolution. If you want cheaper cars the only way is to start making them and then drive down the cost via scale, technology and independence. As you incentify allied industries to supply parts and components you create other industries and the quantum of jobs trigger prosperity.

It is hard at the beginning but that is where government steps in with incentives to protect industry until they are strong enough to sustain themselves. What government should have as an overiding policy is to drive down the cost of goods and servicces and raise the purchasing power of its citizens. To try and bridge the prosperity gap. How else do you do this if you do not have a deliberate industrial policy.

Dangote's refinery will soon be completed and after that the petrochemical plant. Doesn't it make sense if this man's assembly plant and that of Innoson and others be immediate and automatic consumers and customers of his petrochemical products. Will this not drive down the cost components of the imported alternatives.

Why is government so unaware or blind to the fact that massive opprtunities exist to tie in for instance Dangote to the overall industrialization of Nigeria. All it takes is to incentify another industrialists to invest in vehicle component manufacturing. To take Dangote's petrochemical products for instance and turn them into dash boards and other car parts and components at a fraction of the cost of imported alternatives and creating thousands of jobs in the process.

Poverty like prosperity is systemic. When all parts are in place it takes only a spark of genius to turn the country around. Industrialization is like a net or spiders web. A nation's capacity to sustain productivity is only as strong as its weakest industrial link. It is a crime for government to sit by and watch its industrial interests go moribund.

They prefer trader moni. 10,000 naira to buy and sell cheap chinese knock-offs. The hordes of economics professors in Nigeria cannot tell them the only way to prosperity is to make stuff and make them in industrial numbers. Government simply bereft of ideas.

pyro62:
We cannot fight the police. The law favours them more than us. The only people that can try to control them are the legislative if we must do it the right way.
Unless you want to become a sowore, or Asari dokubo

I see. So who appoints or elects the legislators.... isn't it you and I who should be making solid, specific demands for good governance of them. No, we just collect stipends and vote hot air into power.

Whenever Nigerians are ready to understand what democracy means and how citizens of other nations use it as a tool to better their lives, then we will start to make progress.

The search for an Asari or a Sowore is a clear indicator of the ineptitude or ignorance of the citizenry who equates the voice of a single person to the collective power of an enlightened ballot. Even the Sowore was derided by the same citizens he was suppoed to fight for. How many spoke out against his detention thoughtless of act against their oppressors. They were either supporting the government or playing with the semantics of 'revolution'.

Now that this lady has been brutalised by agents of this government I hope she will be converted to the side of knowledge on citizen rights and fight the system that perpetuates crimes like these. For me I can safely say this:

If you sat in comfort and criticised the Sowore act, please you have no right than to suppport what the policeman has done because you are just as guilty of perpetiating the system that causes the trickle down effect of an aggressive, insensitive, overbearing government feeding on the plight of the people. You simply cannot be on both sides.

DP.

Racoon:
https://tribuneonlineng.com/227805/?amp_markup=1

Just like Ahmed Lawan was boasting that the Senate under him will not be a rubberstamp, the CJN is not only a tool but also fool cum stooge glorifying his stupidity.

Imagine the first administration of justice this man carry out as the no-1 arbiter is to dismiss a sensitive case as the fraudulent Osun rerun election on basis of technically over merit?

Sometimes it is better not to be over agitated about such thungs because ultimately if the people, the citizens cannot react to these things, the sufferings resulting from misgovernace is not isolated to any one person but evenly distributed. But on other times when you look at failed states like Guatemala, like Venezuela and others that have come that way due to the destruction of institutions and the silence of the people then you realise that such failings can indeed touch everyone and put everyone's life and liberty in jeopardy. Nigeria is currently facing a threat of the personalisation of institutions the effects of which will be negatively felt for decades after this government is done and gone.

An Icon is gone. His legacy will endure the earth.

Logobenz3:
The bolded is not true!!
What happened was COMATRANS had 4 vessels but was plaqued with incompetence since the owner decided to fire all the expatriates running it and started training his tribesmen to run that vessel.
Their first disaster happened in Gabon where all crew left their ship unattended to and improperly berthed to go and flex in town as big ballers wey dem be
It floated away to a restricted water and when the navy of that country radioed them,there was no response.
It was shot down!first loss.
Second loss was their shining star Brenda Colette that caught fire right in a jetty due to flammable cargo.
I can't blame them for that.
Third loss was due to overload,the vessel did not even move an inch from the wharf and began sinking immediately right there infront of everyone.
Here now,the owner bankrupt(I know him personally) decided to borrow small money to rehabilitate the oldest of his fleet(Austrheim) to help him raise money for a better vessel which has now sank.
I think it is improper crew that wrecked this company because when the Senegalese crew were still there(captain Kahn to be precise),they never had a single incident for more than 13 years.
Really sad men.

My question is simple. People knew all this and still put their lives and limbs in harms way....for goodness sake even if there is no government in Nigeria, or in Cross-River state.... where is the common sense amongst those people.... or they were just playing Russian roulette with their lives?

I think the people of Bayelsa should look beyond the PDP in exercising their rights and flexing their franchise if they are to develop. This one-stroke engine of a polity cannot drive the state up the hill of sustainable progress.

Waakanda:
In fact, this video gives a clear impression that our security officers have been wired to believe that everyone doing well especially those with cars are yahoo boys. We need a total overhauling in our security system in this nation.

My simple reply to this and similar thought is simple: The theory of the 'cry wolf' is real. If there is an abundance of termites there will an abundance of lizards. If Nigerians, the Nigerian youth want these things to end they will have to give something in return and cut down the widespread criminality. I am sure if crime falls police recruitment will fall and the cream will rise to the top in the police. You simply cannot ignore the elephant in the room.

I am a harsh critic of government and authorities. But with criticism comes responsibility . That is only logical. A better society is only possible when all hands are on deck.

I lose hundreds of thousands every year to transfer failures. Just pathetic. Our solutions in Nigeria are cerebral but few are willing to apply mental resources to make things better. All our thinking is reserved for criminal activity.

Hamachi:
One of the worst damages that is being done to the Nigerian image abroad is not the fraudulent acts perpetrated by some of its citizens per se, it is the mindless battle between cyber warriors, disgruntled citizens and political e-rats, trying to outdo one another, in their support of their favored candidates and political paymasters.

We are definitely not the most corrupt people in the world, but we are probably one of the most materially flashy, socially noisy and verbally toxic online. We are also one of the most negative minded citizens of any country, in the entire universe.

What we fail to realize is that, the internet is a global data collection and indoctrination system. The narratives we input into it will always comes back to either elevate our status globally, or bite us in the ass.

There are so many Nigerians doing great things in medicine, tech, sports, law, business, governance and many more fields, all over the world, but there are not enough platforms to promote these much needed positive narratives.

We will keep suffering indignity and shameful treatments at international airports and borders all over the world, until we understand that there is no country on earth that doesn't have its share of crimes and criminals, in various proportions.

They just don't let it define them and they don't openly show incredible disdain for their country on the internet while bemoaning that same disdain others show them for the same reason.

We will be alright las las!

I totally disagree. I cannot see how throwing a stinking drum of misdemeanours under the bus will not cause a catatrophic eruption of stench when the bus runs over it. I cannot see how covering dirty laundry will not double the malaise when the sun's ultraviolet rays kill bacteria. I cannot see how covering a festering wound will not cause the total loss of limb or life.

I cannot see how criticism will do anything but call attention to the problems within this country afterall no matter how bad a situation there are still many, infact evenly split that see nothing wrong in the sad situation. I cannot for the life of me seek to coverup the terrible financial crimes comitted by Nigerians abroad when a lot of folks see it as slave trade reparations....

I'm sorry, this country is a mess. But I have no intention of leaving it for a ready made society where the indigenous population has made so much sacrifices to establish. I will stay here and do my bit to right society. I will continue to fight, to speak and act in accordance with a clear and good conscience.

And a clear conscience knows no shame. Nigeria right now is a mess and her citizens are almost at the bottom of humanity's ladder of existence. That is a fact.

Use the word 'Sewage Disposal Truck' please. There are certain words that are much too crude even for a largely uncivilised society such as ours.

This is one direct penalty for weak institutions Nigerians may identify with and in such quantum all Nigerians will feel it. You just wonder sometimes how government is run in this country to such an extent that a single individual's incapacitation can bring a country to her knees.

But when rent seeking is the order of the day, briefcase contractors hold sway and to ensure their skeletons are kept well hidden, institutions are deliberately weakened, the bar is lifted, standards dropped and procedures bypassed.

This is the result. Today, the Chief of Staff himself is an institution of government business and docile, ignorant citkzens are cheering. Tomorrow another earth shaking bill they know nothing off will come to blank out what is left of the flickering candle of their humanity.

Since Nigeria has gained nothing from this inquest. No scrutiny of the electoral process thus no corrections to be administered and thus ahead of 2023 no improvements will occur. I don't think the result of this drama will have any positive impact on Nigeria. It has been a collosal waste of time and resources like so many misadventures of our stumbling institutions. That is why over time we continue to depreciate and degenerate as a nation, a peoples that cannnot seem to learn from its tragedies.

J111333:
Even here in the States, stereotyping has begun.
I'm so mad at those idiots arrested for scam and to think that I've seen some of them at Nigerian events in Los Angeles making noise up and down drives me crazy.
If those criminals know how their actions may affect some of us that serve this country in critical areas eeh.
I've vowed to dissociate myself from Nigerians for now in LA, no more Naija events and no more attending any of their useless meetings. Even their eateries, e better mek the eba and egwusi hungry me die.
I'm American now so let me live like one.

And I hope you leave this forum as well and focus on 'Dollarland'. No one sent you folks there and whatever the effects of your misdemeanours you will have to handle and clean up.

This is not good. Very unreasonable and totally inappropriate. If the mosque failed government laws then there should be dialogue not confrontation. The state and the religious authorities should meet at the highest levels to work out a solution that doesn't compromise either side.

There are a lot of muslims located there and they have a right to worship. The government should serve their purpose not standing against that. It is totally wrong.

APCHaram:
Not true.

Bulk of executed military personnel have been from the NCO cadre over their involvement in a coup.

An NCO in the Nigerian Army is by far the worst job ever!

You disobey an officer going for a coup and when he succeeds he comes for your neck, if you do and the coup flops, they arraign you with the officer and have you executed.

That is because military law is often disregarded. These things are clearly stated in military law and all soldiers both enlisted and officers are schooled in such laws during recruitment and training. What must happen now that the government insists on putting soldiers on the streets and in conflict with the civil law enforcement system is that soldiers, units amd commands must regularly get updated in military law particularly those that interface with civil authorities and the civilian populace in general.

Riversides2003:
If they are culpable dismissing them will not be enough they should be killed the same way they wasted the life of those policemen making their children become fatherless and their wives widows and potential area meat from randy men.

Dismissal means they are cleared to be prosecuted in civil courts. Their dismissal is not the end but the beginning of their ordeal.

WarriAproko:
For over weeks now I never use eye see light. Burning fuel everyday

In years past the rainy season used to offer the best supply of electricity due to reduced consumption from infrastructure damage, clement weather and maximum hydropower. This is the first year in a very long while that power has been worse mid year. You just donot understand why everything has to deteriorate so badly under this administraton.

I told them that by the end of this administration only superficial improvements will have been made. There is no sector in Nigeria where any fundamental change for the better has occured since 2015. No new ideas, nothing. Just sitting idly, twiddling their thumbs while the tank of humanity runs dry.

That.... is a hellish load of lead.

23....hmmm.... violence doesn't appear to deter desperation. It only heightens the expectation of success. Surely there must be snother way to curb this menace. Our rampaging population is becoming an albatross, putting us on the wrong side of the world map.

When you can accept that scruffy native doctor to be your economic emancipator, why won't you believe this.