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PoliticsRe: Omoyele Sowore Arrested In Abuja by Rossintii: 3:54am On Jan 01, 2021
This Sowore of a guy is just constituting a nuisance to society.
RomanceRe: Inside Nigeria's Sex Trade by Rossintii: 3:48am On Jan 01, 2021
mrsage:
The oldest profession in the world.
Abi o.

Bros. Forget all this ''I'm doing ashi work because of this and that.''

Ashis work as ashis because they love having sex, plus they get paid for it. That's a dream profession. Getting paid to do what you LOVE doing.

Even in America there are ashawos. Many from rich homes with no financial problems. Many work as strippers in clubs. By 'many' I mean MILLIONS of them.

So these our Naija ashis need to cut the excuses.
RomanceRe: Inside Nigeria's Sex Trade by Rossintii: 3:28am On Jan 01, 2021
I don't just know why I had to laugh when I got to this point:

In Ile-Ife, sex workers offer short-time service for N500. However, you can beat the price down if you are going more than a round, such as to N1200 for three rounds.
Christianity EtcRe: Very Soon Nobody Would Be Able To Buy Or Sell Anything Without The Chips by Rossintii: 2:20am On Jan 01, 2021
vibre:
Go and open a thread where you can discuss your own religion nah? Did anyone prevent you from opening a thread on the religion you believe or if you are an atheist? You guys always come to obviously christian threads to ask if they know there are other religions, do you go to other religions to ask them if they know that there is Christianity? Why don't you just go to another thread if you don't like Christianity and allow christians discuss their religion in peace?
Don't be silly. He was raised in a christian environment, so those will be the first people he will ask about their religion. Those around him.

The wider point he's trying to make is that you christians need to ease up on the whole ''our way or the hell-way'' worldview, which essentially reduces other belief systems to invalid status.

THAT is wrong. There can NEVER be only one way to God.

I mean, are you REALLY saying that if the British had not invaded your lands to loot your resources via colonisation, and introduced THEIR RELIGION in the process, you would all be going to hell?

That is essentially what you christians believe, and it really is the depths of self enslavement to the European.
Christianity EtcRe: Very Soon Nobody Would Be Able To Buy Or Sell Anything Without The Chips by Rossintii: 2:08am On Jan 01, 2021
Angeloihe:
I hate hearing stuffs about rapture, end of the world blah blah blah.
These are always coming from people who are not interested in spreading the gospel of love but sharing fear, suspicion and hate.

Just only vaccine you guys are complaining.
why don't u remove all the about 10+ vaccines u had taken as a babyhuh

You prefer miracles to science yet Luke the evangelist was a DOCTOR.

Stop this hypocritical Christianity and u have have a better life.
This 'covid vaccine' is a DNA - altering 'vaccine', the first of its kind ever released to the public.

Plus the vaccine manufacturers have obtained indemnity against prosecution for all damages caused to humans from their 'very safe vaccines'.

You have to Google it, because they won't tell you all this on CNN or AIT.
PoliticsRe: What Kept You From Achieving Your Goals In 2020? by Rossintii: 1:40am On Jan 01, 2021
''Fulani herdsmen - even though I never met one in my life''.....---- IPOB fanatic
PoliticsRe: Heavy Gunfire As Eastern Security Network Burn Down Fulani Criminal Camps -video by Rossintii: 12:28am On Jan 01, 2021
NwaAro:
Are you talking about the same Nigerian army that can't defeat ordinary Fulani bandits armed with rusty guns in the dusty plains of Kastina?, the same Nigerian army that only displays its bravado and courage against unarmed civilians? or the same army that ISWAP terrorists are using to do target practice in sambisa? abi e get another brand new Naija army you dey talk about wey we never see finish?

The Igbo youths of this generation are not the same as our fathers who weren't prepared yet gave you bastards a bloody nose, you can't defeat a small Kanuri tribe of Boko haram insurgents, e come be a ethnic group of more than 40 million you wan defeat? who and who will even fight this war against the Igbos much less support your useless army? cause if you're counting on Britain and Russia to come save your lazy asses again as they did in 1967-70...then you're in for a bigger shock than you bargained for.

Go and defeat ordinary bandits ravaging the North first, before you test your credibility against the Igbos, fuvking clown.
My friend will you shut up abeg.

I don't know how old you are, but this was the exact same noise Ojukwu and his henchmen made prior to the Biafran tragedy.

''No power in black Africa can defeat Biafra'',

''The Nigerian army is weak, ineffective, and will be decimated'', etc etc.

Una don start again?

Before you know it, una go begin cry 'genocide'.

Better don't let the BH issue deceive you. Those are terrorists, and you cannot find them with a conventional army. Ask the US who've been battling the Taliban for 30 years!!

If conventional war starts, that day you will know the Nigerian army is powerful, and that big mouth of yours will shush.
PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii: 9:14pm On Dec 31, 2020
Okoroawusa:
Wailing is a professional. So you don't know? They get paid for it. See how this thread is struggling to get to 3rd line but if na negative news? Your guess is as good as mine
Yeah...I noticed. wink
Car TalkINNOSON - ''We're Ready To Manufacture Electric Cars'' by Rossintii(op): 8:49am On Dec 31, 2020
Nigeria at 60: We Are Ready for Electric Cars, Says Innoson

By Chuks Collins, Awka

01 October 2020

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/63/cb/39/63cb3921b599f6819ecb2f7ff24ff3aa.jpg

Just as the Presidency unveils auto-gas as an option for fuel in the country, Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Limited (IVM), has said the country is all ready for the world of electric car manufacturing.

Chief Executive Officer of the indigenous vehicle manufacturing company, Dr. Innocent Chukwuma, said IVM had planned ahead for the new era of innovation in automobiles and would drive the programme to success.

Chukwuma, who also marks his 60th birthday today, reminisced on the journey thus far, with optimism that indigenous production has a lot of prospects with national support.

He said the auto industry today is making progress, despite the peculiar circumstances in the country.

“The nation is doing its best to spearhead the direction of the industry in Africa. With the support of our citizens, in the next few years, Nigeria would be described as the hub of the auto industry in Africa.''

“We are very ready and prepared. Presently, we have not started to manufacture vehicle engines, what we are doing is the manufacture of the body of vehicles. So, if electric cars become the ultimate, we will then begin to buy batteries, instead of the engines we presently use. It’s that simple. That’s why I said we are prepared for the coming trend,” he said.

Chukwuma added that the local patronage was doing well, though could do better.

“It’s understandable that it will be progressively gradual. The corporate citizens, governments at all levels, and individuals are trying their best to patronise us. We are very confident that in the near future, we will have substantial patronage from them. It’s indeed improving steadily.

“Electricity is one of our challenges. Though, it is witnessing a commendable improvement. Actually, when we started there were a lot of challenges but today the government has done a lot to support the industry. We started when there was no electricity at all. But there is a lot of improvement today.”


Background

Born on October 1, 1960, to the family of Mr. and Mrs. Chukwuma Muojekwu, as the sixth and last child of the family, his arrival coincided with Independence Day. Hence it was a double celebration for the entire family.

He didn’t waste time to make a foray into the corporate world even as an assistant to one of his elder brothers – Gabriel Chukwuma (popularly known as Gabros) in his patent medicine retail shop, while he awaited the result of his Joint Admission and Matriculation Examination. He had applied to read Mechanical Engineering. Unfortunately, he could not make the required cut-off point.

It didn’t take long before his brother, Gabros discovers his young brother’s deep talent in the business. Consequently, he sent him to Chief Pius Chukwuma, the elder brother to Dr. Cosmas Maduka (Coscharis) to learn motor/motorcycle spare parts trade.

As a take-off fund to start his own business when he concluded his apprenticeship training under Maduka in 1981, he got N4000 from Gabros. Within a short space of time, young Innocent turned the N4000 into a conglomerate of international repute.

Dr. Chukwuma, like a mustard seed, has blossomed in multidimensional sectors. He is endowed with a razor-sharp intellect and business acumen that has literally turned everything he touched into gold.

Today, he has become an entrepreneurial juggernaut, a child of destiny that has shattered all barriers and surpassed all expectations to succeed.

He became the first private Nigerian to locally assemble and subsequently manufacture the Innoson brands of Motorcycles and Motor vehicles in Nigeria. He shoved, braved, and persisted the rough and tough times and terrain of the nation’s business and economic environment to become one of the most accomplished Nigerians in the manufacturing industry today.

Among the brand range of Innoson Motors are sedans, SUVs, pick-up trucks, big and smaller commuter buses, rugged SUVs, and many more for everyone’s needs.

Dr Innocent Chukwuma by dint of hard work and perseverance moved steadily and sure-footedly from petty trading of buying and selling spare parts to importation, then now into manufacturing, distributing, and exporting various products including motor vehicles. He has become a giant in the manufacturing sector in Nigeria today.

Goodwill

To most of his friends, associates, and longstanding customers, Dr. Chukwuma’s birthday is a celebration of 60 years of industry and thinking outside the box.

He has seen it all – hardship, rough business terrain, challenges, and tough times. But because he persevered, his life and testimony have now become a cheering lesson to many.

In the words of his in-laws and close associate, Chief (Sir) Louis Carter Onwugbenu, Dr. Chukwuma “is a child of destiny that before he was even born, God had already marked him for what he is today. Such that, no efforts by detractors and enemies to frustrate his lofty dreams of taking the Nigerian manufacturing industry to a higher pedestal will succeed.”

Onwugbenu also urged governments at all levels to patronise IVM, considering that he has employed over 5,000 Nigerians.

Taking a cue from the British government where no government official is allowed to use any other vehicle brand except those manufactured in Britain, Onwugbenu appealed to the Federal Government to consider making Innoson brand of vehicles the official brand of government.

“This would in no small way bolster all that the Nnewi-based vehicle firm is doing. It would not only encourage foreign governments to buy more of it, create more room for employment, more credit, more taxes, and so on.”

https://guardian.ng/business-services/nigeria-at-60-we-are-ready-for-electric-cars-says-innoson/
PoliticsRe: #BuhariTrain In Pictures by Rossintii: 8:36am On Dec 31, 2020
Marine54:
I am a Akwa Ibomit , we are apparently bringing a lot to the table.
Yeah....not much in terms of leadership though...
PoliticsRe: #BuhariTrain In Pictures by Rossintii: 8:33am On Dec 31, 2020
Marine54:
Typical Aboki's that always claimed the ownership of everything in this country, even though don't bring anything to the table..
You and Jonathan that brought something to the table, what did you do with your power?

Don't be jealous of Buhari. If you work, you will be acclaimed.
PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii: 8:27am On Dec 31, 2020
Okoroawusa:
Are you asking?

Of course he is!!!
LOL.

Surprisingly (or should I say, unsurprisingly), few of his detractors have mustered the courage to enter this thread.

I wonder what they're scared of.
PoliticsRe: Igbo's Are Travellers Why Is There No #buhari_train In South East ? by Rossintii: 8:18am On Dec 31, 2020
US $2.3bn approved for construction of coastal railway project in Nigeria

Modified date: Jun 3, 2019

The government of Nigeria has approved Ministry of Transportation’s request of US $2.3bn loan for the construction of Lagos-Calabar coastal railway project expected to cut across most states in the South East and South.

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi who announced the reports said that a sum of US $1.8bn would come as a loan from Chinese banks, with the government providing a counterpart fund of US $500m.

China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) was awarded the Lagos-Calabar coastal railway line construction contract. Amaechi revealed that first segment of the rail line will start from Port Harcourt to Warri to join the central line that goes to Abuja. The segment is projected to be ready within 2 years.

According to CCECC, the line is to be built to “Chinese standards”, however it will not run at Chinese speeds: trains will be limited to 120 km/h. The line will be built by China Railway Construction Corporation, a subsidiary of CCECC. It has been working on planning for the route since 2010.

Adequate transport infrastructure

Upon completion, the proposed coastal railway line in Nigeria will link all sea ports. The project will help to create up to 200,000 local jobs during the construction and around 30,000 permanent posts once the line is operational.

The project is also expected to create business hubs meant for commercial activities. The railway projects have helped solve is the insecurity along interstate roads in the country, particularly on the Abuja-Kaduna road.

As seen in developed economies, adequate transport infrastructure is a catalyst for economic growth and development. Thus, the planned coastal railway, along with several other ongoing railway projects, is a major development based on the potential contributions towards achieving economic development in Nigeria.

https://constructionreviewonline.com/news/nigeria/us-2-3bn-approved-for-construction-of-coastal-railway-project-in-nigeria/
PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii: 8:11am On Dec 31, 2020
Nwaelohim:
Hate is a dangerous thing, especially when you are not educated... Have you ever pay a visit to any of the airport PMB worked on since 2015 till date? Every country has their peculiar challenge but with people like you existing in NIGERIA? Our challenge is worse.

Tell your state governor to renovate all the infrastructure in your state. Let state from there.
Some state governors are trying, but some others, you'll just be looking at them and thinking ''Does this one even know why he was elected?''
PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii: 7:10am On Dec 31, 2020
OKorowanta:
Evil question undecided
How so bro?
PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii:
nairaman66:
Over a billion dollars sunk in a bridge!! How much did Dubai used in building those smart cities? Corruption has drown Nigerian in the river Niger!
The bridge is only half the cost. Plus they are adding provision for a railway line on it. The East-West Coastal Rail line being built will be crossing that bridge.

There are ancillary facilities being built to complement the bridge, including roads.
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2nd Niger Bridge to cost N414bn

''The Federal Government at the weekend, put the cost of building the 2nd Niger Bridge at N414 billion, saying the project would be completed in 2022.

Speaking at a town hall meeting with stakeholders of the project at the bridge site in Asaba, the Minister of Works and Housing Mr Babatunde Fashola, explained that while the cost of the bridge is estimated at N206 billion, the 2A and 2B roads will cost about N208 billion.

He added that the Buhari administration is making the commitment even though the price of oil is now about $40 per barrel. He said that ... the bridge would be completed on schedule.

Commenting on the economic benefits of the project to Nigerians, the Minister said that to build the bridge, the contractors will be buying 644, 000 tonnes of aggregates.

They require four million cubic metres of sand, 68,000 tonnes of cement, 19 million litres of diesel all of which will be bought from people around the area who deal in such businesses. He further said that the contractor employed over 1,400 workers from the host communities.''

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/2nd-niger-bridge-to-cost-n414bn/
PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii: 6:52am On Dec 31, 2020
etrouble:
Your head no correct. Is GEJ cursed with project abandonment. For 16 years Obasanjo, Yar’Adua and Goatluck Jonaddaft could not construct 1 kilometer of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Even the 2nd Niger Bridge that Politicians have been using to defraud Igbos of their votes, GEJ could not build 5%.

The East-West road nko? After billions of Naira allocated by PDP for 16 years, the road is still less than 40% done.

Ajaokuta-Itakpe-Warri railway that was abandoned since IBB’s regime nko? Goatluck started and completed it? Well, Buhari named the Warri Terminal after Goatluck Jonaddaft in order to shame the drunk ineffectual buffoon.
lol...make una cool down as una dey yab, abeg...although you have a point. smiley wink
PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii: 6:04am On Dec 31, 2020
stonemasonn:
To be honest oh, I blame GEJ for this one. He couldn't continue with the momentum of the previous government before him despite enjoying an oil windfall. It was so bad that he had almost nothing to campaign with, everything he started was uncompleted.
They were too busy chopping.
PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii: 4:45am On Dec 31, 2020
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PoliticsRe: Is Buhari Nigeria's Greatest 'Infrastructure President'? by Rossintii: 4:14am On Dec 31, 2020
amuwo1980:
Do you think we are dimwits or something? That’s how much unpatriotic you are that a section of the country is being duped and completely frozen out and u are here playing games with a refurbished airport and yet to be completed bridge that is to be tolled, the country Nigeria is going no where with ppl like u
''Refurbished airport''? There was no real ''airport'' there till this project was built.

And the ''yet to be completed bridge'' does not make it any less of a massive project for being ''yet to be completed'', with over a billion dollars sunk in it so far, you spiteful, insolent ingrate.

With your narcissistic attitude, you deserve nothing. I even applaud Buhari for being magnanimous.
SportsRe: Outrage As 'white Lives Matter' Plane Flies Over Man City Vs Burnley Match by Rossintii: 4:03am On Dec 31, 2020
dasparrow:
You want Black Americans and their ancestors who have been living in America for 400 years to come back to Africa? And do what there?

Have you told the whites in South Africa to go back to Europe where their ancestors came from?

This kind of mindset many of you have about black people worldwide is the reason why many other black people from other countries or parts of the world are not fond of Nigerians.

Your self hate and low self esteem stinks to high heavens. Such a shame. It also explains why Nigeria is in the messy state it is in. It is a country filled with self hating, inferiority complex stricken coons who can't make anything constructive out of their lives.
Honestly bro...it's embarrassing to even read the stuff they post here.

Their self-esteem is in the gutter.

When you read the comments, you can understand why Nigeria is the number 1 importer of skin bleaching creams on earth.

They're the very definition of a lost people.

They need MAJOR, COMPREHENSIVE RE-ORIENTATION.
PoliticsRe: Is Kanu Pulling A Fraud With ESN by Rossintii:
Rugaria:
You are still making the same mistake.. You seem more pained that the east seems ready to play the role of the "western lackey" in Nigeria, yet you haven't repudiated your total support forf the western creation called Nigeria.
Simply because Nigeria, by virtue of its size and economy - Africa's largest - has a far greater chance of eventually overcoming that western hegemony than a 'Biafra' or any other balkanized political entity could. If Nigeria as it stands cannot override western shenanigans, I guarantee you that a Biafra would find it 100 times more difficult to do so.

Can Guinea or even Ivory Coast resist any order given them by France today?

Never. Or their leadership would be toppled the following day.

Today, Britain can make noise, and Nigeria can do shakara, and even tell them to shut up. We nationalized their assets like BP in the 70s. Even grounded their planes here when they grounded Nigerian planes in London.

Do you think a 'Biafra' can do that? They will just send in commando troops the next day to take out the leadership.

In this world, size matters.


Ojukwu refused vehemently to agree to western terms in order to get their support for the war! Where did that leave the Igbos? That's the only reason the igbos lost 5 million people and today have to contend with taunts and marginalisation from characters like Buhari and co.. if it worked for the north, it will work for the east.
HAS IT worked for the north? NO. The north is a mess. Boko Haram, Bandits, Herdsmen, Kidnappers, Poverty.

That is what happens to your land when you sign a deal with the devil.

It never 'works' for you to be a slave to the west. It always works AGAINST you.


We can't be here parading around as some vintage pan africanists while our so-called fellow Africans are busy reaching all sorts of dirty deals with neo-colonialists to loot the resources in our lands.. it's practical politics.
You fight them by prising power away from the north, however slowly, by hook or by crook, NOT by breaking up the country, an act that weakens you. 'Biafra' will simply become another Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, or Liberia.

Go and check the poverty rates of those countries. All worse than Nigeria.

Again, you guys should stop this propaganda about the north being dirt poor. The north has better roads, they have universities they don't use, they command the army, the police, the customs, the air Force, better power supply.., they have more local governments, more states, more senators, more representatives, more allocations. They dominate the NNPC, the PPMC the FIRS etc. These have helped them in creating jobs for their teaming youth while Southern youths are "hustling" in italy and Malaysia! All these benefits came because they wilfully sold Nigerias independence to the western imperialists to win a war few years after independence! It's a strategy that worked, we want to copy them..
Stop imagining what does not exist just to win an argument. The income per capita, mortality rates, poverty rates etc of Nigeria, are low PRIMARILY BECAUSE of the north.

The whole 'poverty capital of the world' stuff you people love to bandy about is primarily due to northern poverty rates.

Not to mention the violence and terrorism. Sorry, being a slave to the west will always make you the loser. The only beneficiaries will be your leaders (so long as they keep you, the people, poor).
PoliticsRe: Is Kanu Pulling A Fraud With ESN by Rossintii: 1:59am On Dec 19, 2020
Rugaria:
You're very right! There's no way the western intelligence agencies won't be following him up and down considering the fact that Nigeria is their cash cow and if they allow him to free the oil rich part of Nigeria from the rest of the country, the west may not be in total control of Nigerias destiny as is the case today! My problem with your post though is how you skillfully avoided mentioning the fact that Nigeria is already a "western play ground", because of the way the rest of the country handed over Nigeria to the west to win the war in the 60s just few years after a hard fought independence...

Your man, Buhari is always rushing to London after every elections to take fresh commands,... Western oil companies are still collecting half of every money received for every barrel of oil since the end of the war! Western oil companies get the most juicy and the most lucrative oil wells and gas fields post 1970! Why all these? Because they sponsored the genocide against the east and all the army officers that participated in that killing expedition, including Buhari knows that without those endless tonnes of British ammunition, they stood no chance!

So if you support a Nigeria that has been already pocketed by the west through proxy wars, why are you up in arms against Kanu for trying to replicate what your heroes in Nigeria did just to free his people?
Kanu trying to ''replicate' northern subservience to the west will lead to a cataclysmic destruction of society and millions of deaths, as the north vies to maintain that relationship with western powers.

So it basically becomes a war between two parties, north and south, over who will be the west's slave population.

How can you support such a debased encounter?

The west do NOT want your development. That is why despite the north controlling stuff for so long, the gains from that control have not permeated to the people of the north.

It will be the EXACT SAME THING if the south or southeast became the west's slave population. Your leaders will be allowed to enjoy the prosperity of power, but if they make the mistake of lifting the population, meaning less funds for oyinbo, the west will fund and orchestrate your destruction.

Until you people stop parleying with the west in your political dealings, and stop seeing them as 'partners' and 'friends', you will continue to be their bitches.

The sad thing is that it's not even particularly difficult to decipher how the west operates - their slimy double dealings and rank hypocrisy.

Just that they've brainwashed you all so much with their christianity and propaganda, that you simply refuse to open your eyes and develop the courage to look them square in the face and say 'Get lost'.
PoliticsRe: Is Kanu Pulling A Fraud With ESN by Rossintii: 1:39am On Dec 19, 2020
Dedetwo:
It is unfortunate you called forum contributor a dunce. Must Africans fight war in order to go their separate ways? In fact, your stance on this discuss is very dunce-like. Africans should not blame the “West” for their shortfalls but must try to avoid their ever presence idiocy.
Use your head. Follow what was said and my response. Not gonna bother explaining. If you cannot read what was written, and my cogent response to it, then you are as dumb as the other people posting ignorant rubbish here.

Mr ''don't blame the west''. Houseboy for oyinbo.

If the west are funding chaos in your country, you must keep quiet and not ''blame them''.

Let them continue funding mayhem and death to their heart's content. Onukwu.

But if Fulani or Hausa does the same - even the merest suspicion that they were involved - you stand up at once and shout and scream. You're so sharp and alert to detect what they're up to.

Only heaven knows the Juju those whites did on you people to turn you into silent donkeys in the face of their shenanigans.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Was Technologically Advanced Before European Colonialism - Evidence by Rossintii: 12:39am On Dec 19, 2020
okrikaboi:
Noblesh email me at sokarisokari2@gmail.com
Pardon?
PoliticsRe: Is Kanu Pulling A Fraud With ESN by Rossintii: 11:34pm On Dec 18, 2020
Princesaha:
. How much is Otapiapia that you can't buy to end your miserable life instead of crying more than the bereaved.
You don't know who I am or where I am from, so shut your illiterate, bush, village lips, you spear-chucking, ignorant, low IQ pea brain from goodness knows what hole in the ground.

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