₦airaland Forum

gidigbam1:
You have been to Nairobi, have you been to Abuja Nigeria? Until you go to Abuja Nigeria, don'#t even compare them. Kenya has beautiful weather and I'll choose their weather over Naija weather, but Abuja Nigeria beats Nairobi hands down.

What has weather got to do with infrastructure??

Nigeria is still living in the 19th century. What we're generating for a 200m population is what cities of less 1m people are using in developed countries.

How can a man who was presiding over a multibillion dollar institution be said to be poor??

That's true.

But Ogun State is evidence that Nigeria could even have the third largest GDP in the world due to massive industrialization and export and 70% of Nigeria would still be slum. Or how can you explain that Ogun is the most industrialized state in Nigeria, but the capital city is an eyesore due to lack of city planning?? You'll see open gutters, mud/brown-roof houses mixed up with skyscrapers.

If the capital can be that bad imagine what the remaining parts of the state would look like. Nigeria, we need to do better!

PS: I did my youth service in the state.

Hilariously, many criminals in Americans think they'll remain uncaught if they wear a mask to commit crime .

Samantha125:
Maybe I might switch to Quora when I leave nairaland... At least I won't be reminded every minute of how I'm a foreign national and not welcomed there.

Stop this emotional blackmail, because I have a clear memory that many Nigerian Nairalanders vibe very well with you here, without anyone bullying you.

Seun:
Very colourful and interesting. What will it look on the desktop?

Mr. Seun, the truth is that even if you see ten thousand of this design and someone offers to do the design for you free of charge, you know you're okay with the status quo, because you're getting your money outside of Nairaland and don't care if anyone thinks the UI resembles a 1920 website.

WriterNig:
Zelensky and Trump met at the Vatican.

Not really the time and place. And Zelensky refuses to wear a suit. Lack of respect for the Pope in my opinion.
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇻🇦

You're ignorant. Since the war started, Zelenskyy has refused to wear suits or have a clean-shaved face, as a way of showing that he identifies with what the ordinary Ukrainians are going through. Check his photos taken before the war. This is unlike our Naija politicians who will continue to do party and buy private jets, no matter the state of the nation.

The Fulani herdsmen murderers want to exterminate the Hausa people from the NW just the same way they're doing across every other part of the country.

In other words, we're thanking the president for appointing a lily-livered DSS boss who calls us to have tea meetings with him and beg us to stop killing Plateau and Benue people, instead of arresting and prosecuting us for our genocide.

LegendHero:
What do you mean up-value? I am using sattire to play the same doumbooo you played in your post.

Of course i knew you were satirical, but it still didn't make sense. How would you say that naira didn't really lose value, when prices of commodities have skyrocketed by as much as 400%?? Even countries such as UK and Kuwait whose currencies are more valuable than the US dollar, they still need to convert their GDP to dollar, for them to know the true state of their GDP in comparison to other countries' GDP. So why should Nigeria rely on paperweight naira to say its GDP has gone up??


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LegendHero:
You are also very intelligent. Tinubu can just defend the naira and make $1 = N1 so that our GDP will multiply and become $269trillion , then a crate of egg will be free.

Where did you ever see a country "up-value" their currency, aside when market forces prop up the currency against the dollar?? Your original post was without logic, so just accept it.

PressMyButton:
A fantastic decision, Minna Airport is aesthetically pleasing, Gov Bago did an amazing job. Abuja airport needed decongestion a long time ago.
After God, na Tinubu 💪 God bless Nigeria

Do you understand that this is a very serious blasphemous statement??

LegendHero:
*In the real sense
The government policy just shifted and rather than blow the FX to defend the naira, we choose to allow it to find its level with little intervention.
If GDP is gross total of goods and services produced in a country, can you tell me the goods we produce that will suddenly make our GDP triple in value if Tinubu defend naira tomorrow just like his predecessors?

Don't mind them, you're the most intelligent person on Nairaland. Just advice the govt to further devalue naira so that $1 can exchange for ₦15000, a crate of egg cost ₦70k and our GDP will further 'tentriple' in naira.

Adexgentle005:
Schooled me on what ground? Congo can’t manage their resources very well to better the lives of its citizen. Look at what awolowo did with cocoa.

What natural resources is, for example, Singapore "managing well" that its citizens are amongst the richest in the world?? You don't rate a country by the natural resources it possesses but by the amount in the pockets of its citizen and their standard of living.

Adexgentle005:
We are not a rich nation? Are you kidding me right now ? If our resources are managed properly we are super rich

I like how that guy schooled you. We're not a rich country, but a poooooooor country. So you think resource-rich country is the same as rich country?? Congo has more than a trillion dollar of natural resources, but it's a poooor country, whereas Singapore without any is an extremely rich country.

Seun:
Dear Nairalanders,

For years, people have been alleging that Nairaland is a toxic place where people insult each other and exhibit uncontrolled tribal bigotry. So after my last thread, we decided to follow through by extending the mandate of our anti-spam bot to include dealing with toxicity.
Unfortunately, the roll out wasn't smooth: many innocent members were unjustly banned. We apologize profusely for this. We will keep tweaking the bot to make it more accurate. Meanwhile, please reach out to the mods and supermods if you are unjustly banned.
Hit me with your suggestions and complaints.

The suggestions you never implement?? You know bots CAN'T do this thing. Even social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter with more than a billion users have human moderators that work on removing posts. So why should Nairaland not hire humans to do the same, instead of relying on bots that could malfunction very horribly on false positives and false negatives.

EmperorIsaac:
All dead now. There's nothing in this world!

No, you're wrong. Every single one of them is currently in either heaven or Hellfire and it was all they did here on earth that is responsible for their current destination. So life is NOT nothing, as you're trying to infer.

If you're talking about competent governance, we have/have had it in the past and present in the persons of Akpabio, Ambode, Otti, Soludo, Obi, even Tinubu, etc. I wonder why you even had to mention Soludo and Otti who are currently doing great in their respective states.

BabaIbo:
You are igno rant and proud.
I am not making any excuses, I am only telling you the truth about why it happens, it may not be the reason for all the cases but it is one of the major reasons.
Before you start any marriage plan or process or get married in Catholic Church, you must provide evidence that the two families(that of the man and that of the woman) involved agreed/consented to it, i.e you must have done or carried out the traditional marriage.

And people believe that once you have done the traditional marriage, both of them are already married, what is now left for them is to solemnize or bless their union.

Don't be silly, I already gave an instance using protestant churches where it is easy to make plans on that(both traditional and church) and it works out within days, but that is not always the case in Catholic Church where you are expected to go for a marriage class for 3 months or more depending on the diocese, do banns of marriage for 3 weeks, do the local government stuff(for government recognition i.e certificate) for 21 days, not considering days that are in-between.

Many people want to have both their traditional marriage and church wedding on the same day or within the same time(difference of few days) but due to hurdles one needs to cross in getting married in Catholic Church, some will proceed with traditional marriage and then later do their church wedding when they must have meet up with the requirements.

If you can reason properly and be honest with yourself, you will see why many times, the woman would have taken in before the couples eventually gets to marry in the Catholic church.

Or you expect the man who is already married to be playing games outside because he doesn't want his wife to get pregnant before church wedding?

You're still bent on defending the indefensible. Just weeks ago, two neighbours of mine were discussing about a Catholic priest who always instructs intending couples to take in before the wedding, to avoid what he calls "inability to conceive after the wedding". And this is not a lone case, almost every catholic bride sleeps with man throughout the relationship and then tops it by taking in months to the wedding. Whereas in many protestant churches, pregnancy test is conducted days before the wedding and if the bride is found to be positive, the wedding is called off. And if there are also evidence that the couple - to-be are already sleeping with each other, their weddings could be delayed heavily or even outrightly cancelled whilst they serve other punishments. Catholics don't see premarital sex as anything.

BabaIbo:
You need wisdom.

It is called holy solemnization of a marriage, a marriage is already existing, it is the blessing of solemnization that is being done.

The foundational marriage is the traditional marriage, and the church or any other form of marriage exists on traditional marriage.

That alone should tell you that once traditional marriage has been done, a union has been created and going to church for a marriage is to solemnize or bless it.

There are times due to church requirements, maybe with time, maybe with marriage classes etc, one won't be able to hold both traditional and church marriages together even when they really wish to and once traditional marriage has been done by them, a union has been created, use your head to find out/calculate what now lead to seeing some people pregnant during their church wedding.

You are talking as if you won't touch your wife once you have done the needful on her traditionally but due to your church requirements or doctrines or ways, they did not allow you to have the church marriage as at the same time with the traditional marriage.
So you go leave your wife untouched?
Check those protestant churches, it is rare because their church doctrines are flexible or easy to maneuver.

Stop giving excuses for evil. We all know most traditional rites take place days or weeks before the church ceremonies. So, is it the weeks that translate to the brides being heavily pregnant??

Penguin2:
Rev Fr wey mumu😏

To think that Benue people trusted this buffoon to do a better job than Ortom.

But so far, the only difference between him and Ortom has been the fact that he’s paying salaries.

No meaningful developmental projects so far.

And killings have worsened.

A disgrace to Priesthood.

A disgrace to the Holy Mother Church.

Catholic where brides wed with protruding 6, 7, 8-months pregnancy is what you're calling 'holy'??

ObosiUkwalla:
Your type will surely rot in the deepest part of abyss. Always turning the truth down coz of tribal sentiment.

FYI I'm neither Igbo nor Yoruba, so just pack aside and stop your disgusting tribal-laced rhetorics.

ogaemma:
Why are you allergic to the TRUTH?
Whenever your type hears the truth, you will bring in tribal bigotry and regional sentiment.
Take the truth as truth.
I am not an Igbo man.
How many Igbo Pastor's attacked Goodluck Jonathan?
Answer my question with evidence.

So Rev Father Mbaka is not Igbo? He was even the one who regularly attacked GEJ and claimed that God told him that Buhari would win. Just move on already, because this regular fixation on Pastor EA is plain silly.

Penguin2:
Under President Jonathan, Pastor Adeboye personally led a protest whilst holding a placard to protest the incessant killings then. But we can all agree that the killings have only but risen astronomically between then and now but our pastor hasn’t as much as issued a statement not to talk of protesting. What changed?

Must Pastor EA speak on every thing?? And BTW, those photos were taken during Buhari's tenure when people like you were constantly claiming that he doesn't want to protest because one of his church's pastors is the VP.

Bestmanfornow:
That's fact I pointed out

You cannot victimization hues to manipulate people. It's stale. Just grow up already.

Bestmanfornow:
You can only hate the Igbos you can't destroy them fact

Grow up, old man!

I don't understand. He simply met a man in his wife's shop and concluded they were lovers, or he met them kissing??

Must the man's name be included in the headline or thread title?? Because it ended up giving the impression that they wanted to write magistrate judge, whereas it's George the man's surname that is the focus.