₦airaland Forum

Wow, this is massive. Rest in the bosom of the Lord, though great servant of the Most High.

At some point Chelsea will get a proper run on goal and command this tie. Once again Arsenal's mental fragility is playing out.

Arsenal playing gingerly as if with fear, at home and one goal ahead for that matter...no lessons learned from the United match.

Nigeria has some of the best weather on earth.
One, our weather is relatively moderate, rain is not excessive, dry season is not prolonged.
Two, our weather is reasonably predictable. We know almost to a month when the rains start and end, when the harmattan comes and goes.

We don't have the heat of Arabia, or the rains of south America or the blizzards of north Europe or the tornadoes of middle America.

Weather should be the last thing power companies complain about. The dry season lasts a minimum of four months in the wettest part of this country yet they do NOTHING to address these issues before hand.

Such a lazy, indolent set of people that will never do preventive maintenance, even if their lives depended on it.

The way I see it.

Either you have significant capital (in the millions of dollars plus) or/and you have the technology (superior computing power (particularly in the new world of AI).

The world of Forex in these parts I will liken to the California Gold Rush of the 19th century where those who really made any money were those selling and leasing mining stuff.

Just in time for various political party conventions particularly those operating confessionals.

nairalanda1:
Just curious guys, if your man won the election in 2023, or if you were in charge, what would you have done differently

I don't support tinubu, not my kind of politican, plus alpha beta, corruption, and also the fact that he ain't taking us off oil.

Also,my kind of president would have outlined a plan for us to get off oil in three to four years, and promote industries at all levels.

First and most important.
He has to be a leader that listens to the electorate, not to a few so called trusted lieutenants.

Secondly and equally importantly my kind of president will reduce the size of administering this country by a broad and deep commercialization of government services, that is anything from rail to oil and gas, passports to infrastructure. Everything will be up in the market and owned by the public to deal corruption a serious blow.

Massive commercialization of the key economic sectors of agriculture, extraction, industry, construction and engineering, etc under a structured system that will absorb most enterprises in Nigeria but open them up to most Nigerians to own via shareholding. This will create super enterprises with the scale to be resilient and the broad ownership to earn the average Nigerian a ready, decent income and create in him the mindset of investing.

Willy2025:
What a lame defence from the corrupt former Attorney General! He hasn't told the court how he manage to accumulate stupendous wealth to build hotels, University, schools, fuel mega stations, hospitals, mosques and estates with his income as a minister of justice for 8 years. Who were the people giving him gifts and on what occasions? This must be clearly stated. What type of business was he doing that earned him 10b while holding office as AG? This guy is in a hot soup. Too much corruption.

Hot soup is when he is sentenced to something like fifty years in jail and stays there for at least thirty. Anything else remains a failed state.

Revelations is not justice.
Justice is when you deny the perpetuator the liberty of enjoying the proceeds of his crime and that means a long enough sentence to make life meaningless to him. That is the real deterrent.

Stephen0mozzy:
Every news from these politicians is like rage bait. Because mehn... Howwwwww!!!!

The worst part, after a few months, the case will die, nothing will happen to him... And he'll go home to a "hero's welcome" from hungry paid welcome party.

As African China sang, "Poor man wey thief moneyz dem go show e face for crime fighter. But rich man wey thief money, dem no dey see e face for crime fighter"

And someone will come out to gaslight you and me that we do not pay enough taxes, and that is the reason Nigeria is not developed.

Trust Lagos. Coastal road has ceased to be a 'tourist' mouse trap. It has been reduced to downtown doggery, an annex of the terrible Lekki-Ajah highway.

So as Jeremiah Useni once famously said. You spend an hour and a half flying from Abuja to Lagos and then the next three hours from the airport to your destination.

At this rate on completion you will coast the coastal highway from Calabar or whatever and then have to ride a bike or bike a ride the remaining way to your favourite tourist tavern due to congestion....funny.

J2ff:
Looks like Julian alvarez is going elsewhere

Yep, back to the Prem....where the real action is...

Pootle:
why not real madrid or barca

Both are highly unstable at the moment.
You hardly see players leave Atletico broken and busted. Most retain a reasonable market value.

Whatever.
This is what I keep on saying.
You elect people that you have a handle on.
Above all the qualities political leadership presents,.if it does not have respect for the wishes of the people and cannot work with them to realise mutual aspirations, then governance becomes a drag.

As important as this market matter is, where did the governor promise, pledge or present a proposal to do what he intends while campaigning.

This goes to show there is little synergy between leadership and the led and I always ask this question to my fellow citizens, why do you go out to vote. What is the purpose.

Because post election disappoinment is always round the corner after the fact.

I don't understand what these people mean.
First you talk about failed investment pledges then you descend to the products and their unwholesomeness. Doesn't sound objective.

adioolayi:
Life is always beautiful on the other side.

Only if all these beautiful observations and ideas were implemented at the State level...Anambra would have been the go to template for the rest of this country by now.

It is what it is

Opposition politics is the hallmark of democracy.
It is like a mirror to reflect your appearance.
It won't do your make-up in the morning or clean it up at night. All it does is show you how you are when you choose. It is up to you to act on what you see (in this case, hear)...or not.

And if there is anyone that understands this it is the present leadership of this country having been on the outside looking in for a better part of twenty years and reflecting the image of many governments before his.

I don't understand how this is not understood during his time, his own turn in the limelight and before the mirror.

Has to be anyone of them who has ears to the ground and is ready to work with the citizens to better this country.

Who we should not be voting for is a school master kind of person who decides what we need to develop this country.

When we quote the famous, 'Ask not' saying of the late JF Kennedy we oft fail to contextualize citizenship power and ownership with citizen responsibility.

I remain a firm believer that the only role government plays in the lives of people is as an 'organiser', some will say 'coordinator' of society, no more.

So the best leader amongst them has to be the best servant amongst them. A person comfortable with the entire strata of society and willing to confine himself to coordinating the nations affairs, no more.

This is a good one if it will create jobs and invigorate allied businesses. 1.5 billion is not much but a step in th right direction.

Now can the government work with them to ensure they are pleased with their returns by a well run overall economy.

Omoawoke:
Oya, black Africans, come and worship your white masters as usual.

Tell us why they are always better than Africans

The law works there.
Such a highly connected and politically exposed person will never see the inside of a prison in this part of the world.

I challenge you to name one high profile person presently in jail for wrong doing in Nigeria.

One. Highly connected, politically exposed....waiting....

cr7lomo:
They won it cos of kalash not oshimen...why oshimen no win am in his first 2seasons ...cudnt even score pass 10 goals ...there's a reason kalash won serie A best player and Napolis best player after winning the scudetto ...na for there oshinmen start to de vex...e comot , dem still win am without am...now kalash don go Napoli don de struggle again

I am sure you are referring to Kvara....?

I won't be passing judgement because the facts remain unclear.

Yes, FMC Jabi and many public hospitals and medical centers represent the shoddy state of the country. But we don't know the condition in which she arrived their A&E.

And the problem with accidents and medical emergencies in Nigeria surrounds two basic things.

One. The lack of knowledge of proper first aid.
Two. The lack of ambulance services.

I was speaking to a medical professional sometime ago about this matter. That it is shocking that the government cannot institute ambulance services in major cities of this country in any meaningful way, shape or form.

Most of the answers to the question of efficient healthcare starts with the speed of response and the knowledge of where to get treatment. The management of ambulance services involve knowing where specific medical services are available and giving the victim the best possible chance of survival by administering first line care at the scene and in transit.

In this case if an ambulance system was available they will have a working knowledge of snake bite treatment and how to handle such cases on site, in transit and most of all, through their network they will know precisely which medical facility to take her to.

We have heard of many, many stories of people wandering around town, from hospital to hospital either looking for capacity or expertise to handle emergency cases, unfortunately many not making it due to this delay.

That is the function of an ambulance service. For a city as important and prestigious as Abuja this should be one of the priorities of the government as basic public services.

If I can from the comfort of my home today order food, groceries and what not, why is it rocket science for me to be able to 'order' life saving care.

naptu2:
Governor Soludo's closure of Onitsha Main Market

1) Every sensible person knows that Nnamdi Kanu began the practice of declaring sit at home protests. He usually threatened to declare sit-at-home protests on elections days (though he often made U-turns when politicians approached him). There were also sit-at-home protests to mark specific dates that were significant during the Civil War.

2) Every sensible person also knows that Kanu and his faction of Ipob abandoned the sit-at-home protests after he was detained. They were seeking a political solution to his detention and staging sit-at-home protests would make things difficult for him.

3) Every sensible person knows that Simon Ekpa and his autopiloters hijacked the protest. Armed autopiloters usually staged violent raids on Sundays in order to frighten people and prevent them from coming out on Mondays. I created a lot of threads about these raids and Ekpa often boasted about it.

4) Everybody knows that Ekpa held unending fund raising campaigns in order to raise money to finance the attacks.

5) Everybody also knows that the violence drastically reduced after Ekpa was arrested.

6) The violence reduced for 3 main reasons (A) Ekpa was in jail and so could no longer finance the terrorists. (B) The new leadership of the Autopiloters decided to focus on hiring lobyists to help them get American politicians on their side. It would look bad if they were meeting with American politicians and also financing terrorists.

7) The people on those threads cannot say anything meaningful and their little attempt to make sense is turned into nonsense by the next thing that I will write.

8 ) Nigerians governments, both at the federal and state levels, have done a lot to end the violence in the East. Governor Soludo did not just wake up and close Onitsha Main Market as his first step in solving the problem. Quite a lot of things have been done to solve the issue.

9) The Nigerian Federal Government put a lot of pressure on Finland to solve the problem of Simon Ekpa and he was eventually tried and jailed. Troops were also deployed to deal with the terrorists in the forests.

10) Governor Soludo met with Nnamdi Kanu in the DSS cell in Abuja in order to get him to end the protest. Kanu told the governor that he had nothing to do with the protest. Days afterwards, when his lawyers visited him, Nnamdi Kanu gave them instructions that they should make a press statement that he had disowned the sit-at-home protest and that he was against vilolence.

11) Governor Soludo also met with traders, unions, the clergy, politicians, etc in order to end the violence and sit-at-home protest. They even held a Holy Mass to signify the end of the sit-at-home protest.

12) Governor Soludo has donated a lot of equipment to the police, military and other security agencies in order to help them tackle the problem. The last round of donations was just a few days ago.

13) In fact, the Anambra State Government went as far as creating its own security outfit called Udo Ga-achi

14) These measures have worked. Previously I made threads about Autopilot attacks almost every week. Nowadays we rarely hear about attacks. People now use Mondays to hold weddings and other parties. As the governor said, he passed other markets on his way to Onitsha and they were open.

15) The fact is that there are Ipob and Autopilot sympathisers that do not want the sit-at-home protest to end. I have told you about all the measures that government has taken to end the violence and protest, these people have launched massive propaganda against all of them.

16) They said that Autopilot attacks were being done by Fulani herdsmen and all sorts of people, they said that Simon Ekpa was sponsored by Bola Tinubu, they said that Nigerian Army was massacring innocent people, they said that Simon Ekpa had not been arrested, they claimed that Udo Ga-achi was killing innocent people, there is nothing that they did not say.

17) Now the story is that Soludo has not done anything to provide security, that he is wicked, that he didn't consult anyone, etc. The simple truth is that they do not want the sit-at-home to end.

It gives them something to complain about.

As I said, many of them are Ipob and Autopilot supporters and they'll never want it to end.

Meanwhile the government constructed that market so that economic activities will take place. It generates revenue from the economic activities that take place there. It is a market, anyone that does not want to use it to trade and raise revenue for the government should be removed and replaced with someone that's ready to trade.

Said a lot of things (above) about this issue but it all sounds more like a monologue rather than a dialogue that some are asking about.

Yes meetings are called to 'stop', to 'end', this and that. Where are the demands of the protest(ers) addressed. What are their demands in the first place. How many have been considered as legitimate thoughtless of being debated, discussed or (in another world), met.

Isn't it time for the government to start listening, listening that forms part of a dialogue and understanding, that is a vital key to finding solutions.

The whole essence of the agitation from day one is political, top to bottom, how a people feel they are treated within a group they are forced to belong.

I can't understand what is so difficult in dialoguing along these lines for a meeting of minds and the search for even the smallest of solutions, concessions.

PS: It is just like the islamist question ravaging parts of the world from Asia through the middle east and into Africa in recent decades.

It is all war, war and war, kill them all. But no one is pausing to ask about the causatives and the fuel feeding the fire. Few have cared to note that these groups arise out of the lacuna of failed governments, broken institutions and the air of complete hopelessness in those climes, be it in Afghanistan where tribal warlords ruled for generations or in Syria where extreme autocracy ruined the country or in Sahelian Africa where various failed, self serving governments ruled for decades leaving the people in abject despodency.

So it is only wise for society to trace the roots of social instability and address the issue from there rather than waste time and treasure pruning the thorns.

Angelfrost:
Italy is not a good place for most black footballers...!

I pray he makes his mark in Madrid... That Simeone's team is redundantly too defensive for my liking.

I wonder how he can thrive there.

They are not defensive.
They play total football.
Their strikers are always in contention for the Pichichi and the club has produced some of the legendary strikers of our time.

Very, very, very demanding club and a gaffer who expects all or nothing. Many have gone there and not succeeded. Wish him the best.

If he can measure up there is no better club in Europe that sustains the value of players.

I see Arsenal fans sheathing their swords and supporting Spurs.

A few folks here are dropping names of infamous criminals. The list says mobsters, which is not the same thing.

A mobster is the head of an organisation. Can be as small as a family or as large as a corporation.

The reason why these folks became larger than life was that as leaders very few got into the day to day, hands on, raw criminality their organisations operated coupled with the tight controls to heir wielded making insider information very difficult to obtain.

Hmmm....good one.
But there are other stuff you can use instead of cornstarch to get a proper audio alarm....a very loud alarm...

benardtotti:
Eric Chelle get him for the super eagles ASAP!!!

Naso. Before Chukwueze shows him his hard cover ledger where all the NFF gbese is listed....

I disagree.
Consumption is CRITICAL to economic development.

I remember when China started it's massive economic expansion, the fears then was very low domestic consumption (as a result of many factors) and the Chinese Communist Party had to deliberately policy it's way to opening up the domestic market because that is what guaranteed sustainable economic expansion. Today the Chinese are the top ten consumers of most articles in the global marketplace.

In a nutshell if you are not consuming your production will stall down the line as soon as inventories overwhelm the supply chain.

Moreover in the very economically advanced countries consumption, spending, as a metric is a barometer of economic health and a predictor of future economic growth.

If states in the Eastern part of this country are saying they produce lots of stuff but do not consume much, there is something fundamentally wrong with that. It simply means such production is not creating wealth.

I can understand the argument that what is called 'west' is essentially Lagos and to some extent Ogun, both of which are highly cosmopolitan, urbane states and contain residents of all tribes and tongues living, intermingling and conducting business far removed from the sectarian pictures those who love tribalism love to paint.

But one cannot divorce consumption from productivity. If you produce you create wealth and wealth finds expression in what and how much you spend.

Can anyone describe iwhat is happening at the Bridge. The commentators keep on mentioning midweek exertions.. Can't understand that.

BItt:
The car no get insurance?
What's the scare?

Even if you have not insurance.
Your next premium will go through the roof.
Insurance is not cost free.

Truthsave:
Gyok scores

All sins forgiven...?

Doyou2019:
He was bought to score goals. Scoring goals is what strikers do.

He has got one....