₦airaland Forum

NGpatriot:
Before quoting and requoting misguided, mangled and misinterpreted EFCC act by some olodo social media illiterate on twitter, first read and understand the act, what it empowered the EFCC to do.

as regard the bolded, I dare you to engage SEGA and call him olodo, perhaps we will know who the olodo is because I just don't understand your obsession with calling people olodo and illiterate. You must have been a first class student while in school

1. Bola Tinubu is a private citizen, not a public office holder.

the act cited by the person behind the EFCC handle clearly said, the section 7 (1) (b) of the act gives them the power to investigate properties of "ANY Person," and it didn't specify whether public office holders or private citizens so tell us if you know better than the person behind the handle.

2. Bola Tinubu is a major business owner in Nigeria, even according to many of you, he's the owner of many businesses from Radio to TV, Newspaper, construction, major shares in INTELS and so on, so, is hiring a bullion van to transport his valuables living beyond his means?

your point here is completely valid but incoherent with regards to the EFCC act that was cited because the last time I checked, being a business mogul doesn't deter anyone from engaging in corrupt practices so tell me another story pls.

3. is Bola Tinubu's House in Ikoyi that was given to him as part of his state pension entitlement living beyond his means?

you are the first person to mention HOUSE in this conversation so you have the answer to your question.

4. Is hiring or not hiring bullion vans by people who can afford it a criminal offense or trigger for investigation or does it mean you are living beyond your means?

seems you are Tinubu's spokes person to have vividly known that he rented the van cos he didn't come out to clear the air while the allegation was going round and if we're to go by interpreting silence as admittance, then you know the rest.

5. You people need to stop acting like little children and spoon-fed illiterates by listening to other ignorant people on social media just because you hate the man in question.

oh no, don't bring up this hate issue again, we're just being rational here. He's not worth my hatred and I don't stand to gain anything from hating him. SEGA was just trying to admonish EFCC to avoid double standards I no know why your preeek just stand because he mentioned Tinubu.

8. It's really mind-boggling how you people credit him with many major businesses, but you act brand new and alarmed that he acts like a rich businessman. Are you people just confused or it's just contradictions and hypocrisy.

it is also mind boggling to see you defending a typical Nigerian politician better than Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane both does for Real Madrid.
Seems more like your love for Tinubu has killed your patriotism.

Afamed:
I don't respond to silly question

NGpatriot:
Is
renting Bullion van a criminal offence in Nigeria? Or you saw what was inside the van?

Too many illiterates in Nigeria.

Afamed:
Those who have not paid their Wadata less than 100 staff members salary for months could not have promised to pay Kogi workers with over 5,000 on pay roll

Afamed:
Your argument is baseless. The fact that I reffered to former governor showed I know who I was referring too. Or has Engineer Wada a one time govt.
The fact remains Wada left kogi with 6 months unpaid salary in 2015.
Don't be clever by half here

evansjeff:
See this nìtwįt, you're a mørön if you still beleive PDP can rescue you from your dëlusîon. Someone with sense will not be putting all his hopes in a political party, PDP for that matter

Afamed:
Keep quiet and stop making your ignorance fashionable here.

Afamed:
And has that exhonerated the fact that Wada left office in 2015 with numerous unpaid salary? Your hypocrite is number 1 on the list

Afamed:
Keep quiet , and don't be clever by half

Afamed:
But Engineer Wada, the former governor that left office under PDP in 2015 was owing 6 months salary in kogi before he left now

9jaRealist:
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Abegi, let’s get one thing clear that many comments on this matter seemingly fail to fully grasp...
THE ONLY THING THAT’S HAPPENED IS THAT SOME LAND BORDERS HAVE BEEN CLOSED. THERE ARE NO NEW IMPORT BANS!

What this means is that you can still import tomatoes, rice and everything you want to...
But instead of small traders importing these, it will now be the MONOPOLY of rent-seekers who can afford to ship these items!

Meanwhile, let’s address the underlying structural issues that this cosmetic border closing does absolutely NOTHING to resolve, and why NIGERIA has some of the world’s HIGHEST costs of production and why we still rely on imports for even some of the products that we produce in relative abundance. Let’s start, for example, with tomatoes (since it’s what has kick-started this discourse). Nigeria is actually Africa’s leading producer (and among the world’s leading producers) of tomatoes, but we lose at least 40% of our harvests (some estimates put our losses as high as 60+%) before it gets to market on account of a lack of storage and preservation infrastructure and terrible roads and poor logistics. Closing the border does NOTHING to resolve this. It merely results in POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY having to pay HIGHER prices since without the Benin Republic imports, there’ll now be FEWER tomatoes in the market.

Now, let’s look at rice. It may surprise some to learn that Nigeria is actually Africa’s leading producer of rice, having overtaken Egypt in 2017 or thereabouts, but we are still short of meeting local market demand from entirely domestic production (either because our population keeps growing or our taste keeps changing, not surprisingly in tandem with increased urbanization). Accordingly, without importation, we merely replicate the situation with tomatoes - that is, POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY having to pay HIGHER prices because without supplementing local production with imports, we are left with FEWER rice in the same local market. Meanwhile, we have to HONESTLY ask ourselves how rice produced on the other side of the world (often with relatively more expensive labor) and then shipped halfway across the globe still manages to cost SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER than locally-produced rice (stone and all).

REALITY (and as my moniker indicates, I’m a hard-nosed realist) is closing land borders does absolutely NOTHING to redress why we have some of the world’s HIGHEST costs of production, not only in respect of rice but with many other products. Our farmers still rely on mostly poor seedlings and poor farming methods, and thus we have probably the LOWEST yield per hectare in most of the developing world. In addition, we are lacking in irrigation infrastructure, and thus not only are we still compelled to rely on the somewhat unpredictable fortunes of “the rains” but are also stuck with seasonal farming instead of year-round farming (which is why we are Africa’s largest producer of maize, and among the world’s leading producers but PARADOXICALLY also one of the world’s leading importers of maize - because for more than half of the calendar year, we neither plant nor harvest corn). Of course, already discussed the issue of poor/non-available storage facilities as well as poor roads and other transportation/logistic infrastructure, that constrains getting products to the market TIMELY AND COST-EFFECTIVELY.

Accordingly, if this government was really serious about sound economic policy and development, it would help farmers with improved seedlings for better yields, with irrigation infrastructure to drive year-round farming, proper storage facilities including cold storage for perishables (such as these tomatoes), much better road transportation and logistics infrastructure, necessary market and pricing intelligence/information, in addition of course to better agricultural financing and insurance, among others. Even if some misguided policy makers in Abuja erroneously believe that the border closure is an optimal means to encourage local production (not sure why, but the cluelessness and incompetence in Abuja can never be overestimated), there would still be a LAG TIME for local producers to cultivate, harvest and mill (in the case of rice) their products before even getting to market, so why a SUDDEN closure which simply results in FEWER products in the market.

Sadly, Nigeria has become like the proverbial farmer whose farm is on fire and instead of fighting the fire, he busies himself with chasing bush rats fleeing said fire. Thus, instead of addressing structural issues that impede local production and productivity, we merely place an additional layer of effective ‘taxation’ (an Incompetence Tax, if you will) on POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY by DECREASING the quantity (perhaps even quality) of goods available to them and thus invariably condemn them to HIGHER PRICES for fewer goods (and choices). So, let’s be clear about this - the closure of the land borders is an ill-advised resort to cheap cosmetic POPULISM (in derogation of sound economic policy) that bedazzles the gullible but which does absolutely NOTHING to address/redress our structural issues! After, Mr. Buhari drives even more Nigerians quicker into POVERTY, we’ll still be at Square One!
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Ucheosefoh:
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WowSweetGuy:
when u use cotton bud on ur ear who enjoys d feeling more....d cotton bud stick or d ear?

MikeBetty:
As If U Don Change Oil For Your Okada. If Logo Is The Reason Why You Didnt Buy Innoson, Sorry You Can Not Afford It.

Codepain:
you really tried. i learnt from this your post

imam07:
My guy, he is making a lot of sense but d truth is always bitter. I am from south west. When our people are there, they messed up. They only provided for their family alone. I don't blame d Nort because they always help themselves. That is y they are in power. When my people were there, wht benefit did we gain fro them. Saraki was the senate president, he did below zero. It was his wife that was selling job slot to people. Nonsense

Reader530:
Another serving corper

lukui:
life is turn by turn, you keep saying that power belongs to the north

wasn't EKWEREMADU deputy Senate president from your zone?

what did he do when he was there?
wasn't DAVID MARK senate president for more than a decade?

what did. they do when they were all there

now you are blaming AHMED LAWAN , this thread that we typing on is a test of life, USE IT WELL!!!!

#truthisbitter!!!

PureFace1:
You are the dimwit here

Someone was trying to mock your tribe and you find it funny

Omo ale ni e

You are a pure bastard and stop calling yourself Yoruba please

eagleonearth:
bro I actually laughed out loud @young tortoise

ichuka:
Why, in God’s plan of redemption, must Christ be both God and man at the same time?


Suppose there are three persons: missjo,respect80 and ,1stoprudeness.1stoprudeness has sinned, and missjo asks respect80 to die for 1stoprudeness.This would show that missjo has love toward 1stoprudeness and that 1stoprudeness has answered the requirements of the law. however, this is rather unjust to respect80. I sinned, and God caused Christ to die for me. Although this shows God’s love and although I meet the requirements of the law, this is rather unjust to Christ. Only when Christ is both God and man is this just.

First, we need to know what forgiveness is. Forgiveness means that the one who forgives takes the loss upon himself. It means that the forgiver is suffering the loss of the forgiven one. The loss is on the side of the one who forgives. For instance, if someone owes you N100 and you forgive him, we can say that you bore the loss since you suffered the loss of N100.

In God’s plan of redemption, Christ should not be a third party. If Christ is a third party, then God is unrighteous toward Him because He has no sin and does not deserve to die. The Bible tells us that man has sinned and that God is the One whom man has sinned against. The relationship here is a two-party relationship between God and man. Asking a third party to die in a substitutionary way may, perhaps, satisfy God’s righteousness, and it may meet the law’s demand on man, but this is rather unrighteous for the third party. It is righteous only because Christ is both God and man.
In order for Christ to not be a third party, He must be God since He Himself is the One being offended. The work of propitiation for sins is righteous only because Christ is God. Conversely, since the work of propitiation for sins is righteous, Christ must be God because only the one who is offended can forgive the one who offends. Who can say forgiveness is unrighteous? Christ is God; He is the offended One and, therefore, He can forgive men.

Romans 7:10 says, “And the commandment, which was unto life, this very commandment was found to me to be unto death.” Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death.” These verses show us that a person has to fully keep the law in order to live; otherwise he must die. In order for the Lord to make us live, He had to suffer the penalty of sin; He had to die. However, 1 Timothy 6:16 says that God alone has immortality. Therefore, Christ must also be a man in order to die for us. He had to take a body upon Himself so that He could die for us. He is God; this makes His salvation of men righteous. He is a man; this makes His salvation of men possible.

kizzyfb4:
Finally e fit be me wey give you that haircut.

kalu61:
you will make a good comic writer

kay29000:
Dude you made me laugh out loud.

budaatum:
Is God subject to human rules and behaviour?