₦airaland Forum

baby124:
Swear that you can comfortably declare your birth was natural. Even your parents will not tell you. So be careful who you mock. You may be mocking yourself

Rossikki:
Dude, nothing you posted there contradicts what I wrote.

Babzilla:
And where did I say he should give up his seat?
If he said a simple no does it make him any less human, less special, less black?
was all that drama necessary?

uniklinkum:
These is just standard bullshit, where will China go?? China goods dominate even European market. The blue collar jobs in the rust belt where lost due to advance in manufacturing operations. Plus trump nominee on labor Andrew puzder is an anti labor unionists, he was quoted as saying he favor robot in operational matter, cos they don't ask for unnecessary breaks and pay increments. How does that even correlate with the mantra of job creation.

Plus trump can't fight internationalization of trade, the Germans are ready for him in the auto industry after he threw the shades at Mercedes. If you listen to the discuss at the world economy forum at Davos Switzerland, you would know that it gonna be a long drawn battle from the speech from xi jinping Chinese pm, sigmar Gabriel German economy minister and Steve mnuchin trumps nominee for economy and trade.

American industries and America are the greatest beneficiaries of international trade, with the way they muscle off local production worldwide. The problem of the rust belt wasn't caused by people taking away America jobs, but according to cheng ma it's caused by throwing away trillions of dollar prosecuting useless wars.

Don't tell me trump won't start a war, going by the rhetoric against Iran and the imbalance he's trying to create in the middle east. With an undiplomatic statement on Israel Palestine issues plus the rhetoric of islamophobia in the face of American thirst for middle east oil. He already blame Obama why he didn't just take all the oil in Iraq. We gonna wait how he's gonna barge into sovereign nations and start annexing there resources.

uniklinkum:
The loser should just brace up for trade wars from all countries across the world, world leaders should as a matter of urgency remove the dollar as the world legal tender. While other nations are strategizing in making the brute fail, he is busy on Twitter running foreign policies and trade deals on his page. At the long run the Chinese will be the winner, analyst on BBC said the Chinese supply 85% of the components used in silicon valley firms, while Chinese only depends on the Americans for Boeings in the case of a trade war the Chinese can easily switch to French Airbus but still maintain high tariff or stop exporting cpu components to the USA. And the Germans are also ready to fight dirty on the automobile front, With trump statement on why there are more German cars in New York than American cars in Berlin.

midol:
We yoruba muslims can't taunt them but karma will visit our land in oshogbo with hunger and starvation. We are the only southerners with IDP camps in oshogbo. Allah is not happy with us. We must repent.

LordAdam7:
That's your argument.

An argument that is fueled by many others who think this project would end differently than it did before, despite the project being run by a government that is just as bad, if not worse, than earlier administrations in project handling.

The point is that since we don't have a government that can ensure judicious use of this money on this project, then how are we sure they've made enough research to conclude that revamping the industry is the best use of that money now?

Governments all over the world often initiate and complete some primarily solely for political and populism reasons. Not really because it's the best economic decision. But these governments get a pass because they don't bloat said projects shockingly or downright fail at executing or running these projects like our government is famous for.

It's why the argument is a non-issue.

Does Nigeria need loads of steel at this point in our history? YES.

Should we have a few steel plants despite the international glut? YES. Not all projects should require shipping steel from China. We can use the local content law to support a medium-sized steel industry that employs people, pay taxes, and fuel industrialization. It keeps money within the country.

Should we spend billions of Naira on an inefficient moribund 40-yr old steel plant with WW2-era technology, that has never worked, and from glaring indications will never work as intended, by a frustratingly wasteful government, while in a recession? HELL NO.

So, I don't see the argument here. The government shouldn't be revamping Ajaokuta Steel at this time. Plain and simple.

If we are talking about have a nascent steel industry, then there are several more ways to do that effectively, without/than throwing money into a hole.

-Lord

Nalikedis:
My brother Quite unfortunate. Imagine people requesting government to invest into better roads, rails, infracstructure etc yet they are advocating against steel. They failed to realize that 80% of whatever investment government put into rail would be shipped to Ukraine or china or wherever the buikding steel came from. They ignorantly look at steel as a business comodity instead of industrial revolution comodity. I dont think they are playing politics with their position, it is a simple reflection of what is being thought in most bussiness schools all around. The same ideas that is turning US into an import nation with $19 trillion debt from $5 trillion less than 10 years ago. A country that is loosing high profile jobs in drift but churning out millions of restaurants jobs. They fail to explain why US debt profile is growing despite boom in profit of comoanies like Apple, facebook, google and the rest of tech jobs. They fail to realise that California despite hosting all these tech companies is the most indebted state in US. They want Nigeria to start creating our own google and facebook because fixation with steel is stucking in the 1930s... They forgot that 1930s was when companies like ford, general motors, Boeing, Mercedes etc experience their boom. They forgot that 1930s was when cities like Detroit and the likes were built. They forgot that our society and infracstructures are still stucked in the 1700s... Bad roads and poor electricity. We cant even feed ourselves. Companies like facebook are social medias... I dont think we deserve fun or socializing when we are suppose to be building our nation out of 1700s. Anybody with a logical mind should know the fate of companies like Apple, Facebook, google etc if they were indigenous Nigeria company...we cant even launch satelites, infact the ones they helped us with had gone missing...we have Nairaland sha... We like deceiving ourselves...we are comparing ourselves with country where departments in tiny universities have launches multiple satelites. I want to admonish Mr AIs and bio tech... That we cant jump from 1700s to 2000s just like that... We have to follow same route as others before us china india brazil singapore name it... Industrial and agric revolution first before tech revolution...

omohayek:
Unfortunately, the answer is no. Ajaokuta was already an obsolete Soviet relic back in 1982, and steel production technology has moved on since then. Even efficient European and American steel producers are unable to compete with the Chinese, who have a serious domestic overcapacity problem, which they are trying to solve by dumping abroad.

Steel is a low-margin commodity business, and the Nigerian obsession with it just betrays ignorance and an obsession with prestige projects over economic realities. The truth is that the only people who have benefited from Ajaokuta over the last 40 years are politicians looking for an easy way to steal public funds.

baby124:
Lol, immediately he came on the thread saying nonsense I knew there was something wrong with him. With his mad rants here, you can tell he has many issues. No use arguing with such people. They already have enough issues they are dealing with. Arguing with a little boy that perms and highlights his hair. Hahahaha. Abeg I have passed that stage. Coming to his level will be an insult. I have engaged one such person before on NL only to later find out they were depressed and hated their lives. So since then I just ignore. Can't go and be the cause of someone's suicide.

baby124:
You are arguing with a little kid. Please just ignore jare. He doesn't know what he's talking about. You can tell someone is jobless when they have time to comment on every sentence.

DarkRebel101:
This was why I called you a simplêton. Efusetan Aniwura was an outlier, an aberration --- not the norm.

So because we've had one or two female presidents in the post-post modern era, that translates to it being a normality? Having a forkful of outstanding women who wielded immense power in the pre-colonial Yoruba kingdom doesn't mean all women exerted that sort of influence.

And yes, the positions they held were by and large ceremonial. The real decision makers were the Oyomesi, the Aare Ona Kakanfo, and the cult of Ogboni in collaboration with the Alaafin.

You can keep rethreading the fabric of history to appeal to the egos of the women here. The true custodians of the Yoruba culture and tradition would tell you the roles played by the women of ancient Yoruba kingdom, which is: subservient and inconsequential.



LOL. Samuel Johnson was the one who wrote about Orompoto. Samuel Johnson was an English man who probably knew jack about the history of the Yorubas.
You would base your assertion on the findings of a foreigner which are more likely than not to be inaccurate?

Besides, it's been contended on several occasions that Orompoto was really a MAN, and is only mistakenly believed to be a woman due to the femininity of the name.

DarkRebel101:
You are a simpletôn. Did Efusetan Aniwara reign as a queen?



No woman ever reigned as the Alaafin of Oyo.

Here's the list of all the Alaafins: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_the_Yoruba_state_of_Oyo

Now, point out a woman in that list.

DarkRebel101:
Women never reigned as queens in ancient Yoruba/Hausa kingdom, nor did they hold any serious position. Even the few positions they held were by and large ceremonial as they exerted no real power.

Iyalode was a chieftaincy title conferred upon the most distinguished woman in the town, either due to her wealth or her husband's fame/wealth/influence.

Iyalode means queen of women.

Iyaloja is also a chieftaincy title that means head of traders.

cptshiver:
duh, that's the point. I live in the UK and i don't meet a lot of single Nigerian girls. I am single and looking to mingle, why does that have to be so hard?

ScotsReferendum:
The megabytes I spend every month studying and reading global news documentaries and information, can buy you lot of things for your girlfriend

Forget NL, some of us read far and wide in order to help our society progress.


As for your useless socialist ideas of big government for all, continue with it after all if your people are unable to develop like US a Europe and Japan, it won't affect my people

As for me, I have shown my people the way to catch up with US Europe and Japan when they are serious.


One day my people will apply some of our ideas and avoid those ones we warned them to avoid

ScotsReferendum:
keep holding unto government freebies

No wonder your states are in shambles

ScotsReferendum:
Yes it is stupid to you because you have being indoctrinated from childhood by your parents, teachers , etc that government should take care of you.

Ever ask yourself why all communists and socialist states failed


Government duty is to empower you to provide yourself and your fellow citizens with security , welfare and justice

When you do this, the government celebrates and reward you financially when you extend it towards your fellow citizens
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Eg. Instead of giving free education, health services etc which cost government money thereby forcing them to introduce a high taxation which breeds corruption as more public criminals seek to become govt officials in order to loot those taxes, the government should challenge the rich and upper middle class to

1) build quality and affordable schools and hospitals for poor citizens

2) create well paid productive jobs and good business loans for the poor students parents to tap into in order to be able to afford these services for their kids as they get out of poverty.

3) Celebrate and Reward those who achieved the two points above in order to motivate others to do more for their fellow citizens


Eg instead of providing public lawyers which cost money for government forcing them to introduce high taxation which breeds corruption, the government should

1) Celebrate and Reward financially lawyers that fight for the poor who can't afford justice fees


When government encourage and reward the stronger ones through fame and wealth for taking care of the weaker ones amongst them, government spends less.

As government spends less, tax rates are kept low and corruption is kept minimal because there is less money in government which makes government unattractive to public criminals.


I hope you catch the vision now


Joe4lv, Asuustrike2009 and IconTNA thanks for your replies but this is the gospel truth why Switzerland is the most successful society in the world.

adedayoa2:
Nobody's complaining, what I think is, Victor is suppose to be doing the unveiling and not the other way round. My take tho

VomeSchakleton:
Again stupidity they say is limitless.


The europeans when they got here, did they dwell here over thousands of years? no! when they came here they had already acquired knowledge and stability. Something that was hindered for africans by the factors i mentioned. Did you even read how i told you weather affects productivity? Seems when people can read understanding is a whole different thing.



Again you seem like a very ignorant person. Theres a reason why "tropical diseases" send chills down the spine of most europeans. Theres a reason why they kept dying when they first came to africa.


After the second world war strong institutions had already been built by these people, so any damage can be overcome.I also listed some social factors that hinder growth like murdering a sitting prime minister because he wasnt of your ethnic stock. If you want to believe you were made an im.becile by every means go ahead, but don't claim to have proof to back that up because you have none.

Please learn to read critically and comprehensively.

Today many africans that benefit from their institutions are doing great things.

donnypool:
This video has proven without reasonable doubt that Nigeria has so many useless youths.
Firstly read about the American History to know the true owner of the US. They are the native Americans, but I know only few in this forum knows about this group. Native Americans are not "white". Read what the "whites" did to them.

Secondly
Majority of you here are only say "yes blacks have problems", but only one guy here provided a solution. The rest are just say same thing in different sentences "blacks have a problem" with no solution.

Thirdly
People said Asia is perfect, go to Canada and see how asians and Indians are coming in large numbers to stay, more than Africans. If their country is perfect why seek citizenship elsewhere?

Fourthly
Who apart from UK, FRANCE, USA, CANADA, RUSSIA, GERMANY, ITALY, that looted countries dry and develop their region, tell me one country in Europe that is developed?

LASTLY
Most nigeria youths are very useless.

onward4life:
[color=#550000][/color]well I don't really blame attackers of the black race. Look @nigeria na. Tribalism even online.

Buhari is a black man but the moment he became prisident North case bcame a priority.

In Nigeria people leave here and work here in Abuja. And sti send Nepa bill for their houses in overseas. And yu expect the western world to lick ur bulk bottom.

No that's only done here in Africa.

Glory to Africans

duni04:
If this is your contribution to the topic at hand or you're just another "provost praiser" angry at seeing someone question your demigod provost, please visit other threads and leave this one.
I'm very concerned and angry that a brilliant young woman has been robbed in broad day light. What is more annoying is that the robbers are here pretending to be her saviours and brandishing all kinds of twisted logic to justify their robbery.
Mr provost, please publish the entire list of 100 level Medicine and surgery students that have been registered for the new session with the breakdown of their UTME and O level grades.