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vr0xen:Why he masses love to entertain themselves with idle talk will never cease to amaze me. I know someone like you who has said all sorts - from how Dangote is just a front for Babangida, how Dangote was secretly mining gold in Kogi and that was why Yahaya Bello had a case with the EFCC and I just wonder... why do you do this to yourself? |
cyberguy72:Who told you that touching the ball or impeding the view of the goalkeeper are the only ways to interfere with play? You obviously don't have a clue what the rule actually says. |
femi4:This is not human error. That individual handling the VAR needs to investigated because I've learned he comes from Manchester so clearly he likely supports one of the teams. |
franchasng:Kai this man and ignorance. Do you know what it takes to invade another country thousands of miles away? You need to move troops and supplies in large numbers and with constant air support. You need all the countries whose territory you will pass through whether on land or on sea, to be your allies or at least supportive of your mission. Nigeria adopts a largely defensive military doctrine and we do not invest in projective force for this reason. We can invade any country in West or Central Africa but that's it. |
RandDigital:You can call it whatever you want, pal. |
RandDigital:You need to spend some time studying logic. What you are attempting and woefully failing to do is rely on the fallacy of observational bias. And that fails itself because it is premised on a lie. Natasha was not particularly targeted because she was female. She was targeted because she opposed an extremely powerful individual from the ruling party. And she was equally opposed and supported because like every politician she has supporters from her party and opponents from opposite parties. But even assuming indeed that there was some amorphous "you" who did or said something to Natasha, would a single example prove your point? Are there no men of whom the same or worse have been said or done? Rubbish. |
RandDigital:Is patriarchy defined by representation or by equal opportunity? You may wish to revise your logic. We're a merit based society where women refuse to run for office. There's absolutely no man standing somewhere and refusing to let women be elected. Our chief justice is female, president of the Court of Appeal is female, president of the Nigeria Bar Association is female, etc etc. Nigerians have absolutely no problems with female leadership. Finally, I fail to see the relevance of the comparison with South Africa. |
RandDigital:a. I don't subscribe to patriarchy. I subscribe to a free, merit-based society. One in which equal memebrs don't depend on others to rescue them while demanding equal privileges. b. There's no patriarchy. Women have equal rights to do whatever and still turn around to act helpless, thus making the case that patriarchy should be returned. Do you agree with the return of patriarchy since women are apparently so helpless? c. I don't benefit from patriarchy because there's no patriarchy. d. My precise point was that women should not need rescuing. Yours apparently appears to simultaneously be that women are oppressed by the same patriarchy they need to save them. You are walking backwards and forwards at the same time because your position is benefits-based rather than principles-based. |
RandDigital:Always someone else's responsibility to save this gender. We are tired. |
WhizdomXX:You're like the third person to respond with this nonsense so I wonder, can you people read at all or is it that your blind passion for Obi also strips you of these basic functions? To put it simply, where exactly have I said Obi was compelled to inform the governor? |
Amumaigwe:The point is the governor did not lie! You should actually direct your questions to those who blamed the governor for failing to secure Mr Obi's life and movement. |
Mrexcell: ![]() Is there a place where I've said it is required? What is the relationship between what I said and this garbage you just vomited? |
Dogalmighty17:Did the governor say Obi did not inform the security agencies or that he did not inform the governor? Why is it so easy for Obidients to lie, thinking sane members of society won't notice? Is a letter to the commissioner of police equivalent to a letter to the governor? Well of course their leader himself tells lies easily so no surprise! |
AMINDA:Make up your mind. It is either APC and INEC wrote results as you've suggested or the result was organic. If it was A, your rantings here have no place. If it is B, then your prior rantings about rigging were nonsense. Overall, you cannot be taken seriously because your thoughts are as bereft of weight as a dry leaf tossed about in the harmattan winds. |
No difference between stale big brother nonsense and stale AI articles. And the reason for BBN's demise is simply that it was popular with millennials, and most of them are family people with children to raise now and less time for nonsense. |
Thewrath:You are a funny guy o. So you know how to search the constitution? Oya show me where it says the governor is the chief security officer of a state as you said in your previous post. ![]() |
MasterTeeUSA:Every business endeavour has its own risks. When the landlord lets his property out, he takes the risk of incurring certain expenses, which include structural repairs, particularly where one is dealing with a compound with multiple tenants. What if it is one particular tenant who is fond of destroying the gate? Will it make sense to burden other more careful tenants? Aside from common sense, in any case, this is what the law considers an implied covenant. I.e, it is implied that the landlord should maintain the fundamental structure of the property unless the parties agree otherwise. |
oroje1:It is subject to agreement but if there is no agreement or the agreement does not touch on this question, then the structural repairs like the gate are the landlord's responsibility to repair. Now, your best bet is to go and find a lawyer. |
Sonnobax15:It's obvious that the lady was likely underaged and desired to go back home which Gumi, despite his evil tendencies, probably facilitated. |
Nwaikpe:I was wondering what nonsense you were going on about till you said the bolded. Quite apt. I once had an experience with a friend who was trying to convince me to put some money in. I patiently tried to explain to her that the only way to make money in these things is by eating off those who will eventually lose. Her response was that that's why I should "invest" early enough. So I quite agree with you. A good chunk of these people are actually just wicked. |
FreeStuffsNG:98% Probability this argument is about their business. |
The word is unkempt please. |
Uber as a whole is switching its business model to driverless cars and it's exiting markets globally, where this is not feasible. That's all there is to it. |
ARISHEM:Playing in friendlies will not stop him from qualifying for another National team. He is still eligible to switch. |
Super happy for Femi but I have my reservations over the fact that he went to Brighton as the implication is that he will now be in direct competition with Zadok Yohanna who plays the same position. |
owagbeba:They don't need to run after the small boys at all. They need to: A. Strengthen partnerships with the EFCC and Police B. Understand the operating environment so as to understand the threat better C. Make it known that they are determined to punish those they can catch, to serve as a deterrent. That's a much more logical synthesis of their mission here. |
This guy knows how to appeal to the uneducated. 1. You say the FBI is in Nigeria because the president works for them. Okay...explain why they need to be physically present here just because he supposedly works for them. What exactly are they working towards that requires their physical presence here? 2. Yahoo boys are not just gift card scammers, these are increasingly malevolent actors who target young people with sextortion crimes, leading to several deaths. No serious country will leave it's young people vulnerable to a growing industry of scammers targeting them and putting them at risk of death. 3. The scale of individual fraud becomes a much more significant issue when done as part of a part of industrial fraud. Nigeria has a fraud industry that compounds the effects of numerous small scale fraudsters into a massive threat. In all, Hundeyin has made absolutely no point whatsoever. |
anonimi:You don't seem to have a firm grasp of the figures. The graph below shows quite clearly that there was an unprecedented oil boom from 2011 - 2014, during which oil prices were at their highest in history and did not drop for a single year within this period. So what good management are you talking about when we were plunged into debt within this period?? I wouldn't want to go back and forth in the context of ignorance so please take some time to review the facts carefully. https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-chart
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CodeTemplar:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/4/6/nigeria-becomes-africas-largest-economy |
CodeTemplar:Rebasing is a relatively normal thing to do after some period of years. Note that GEJ also rebased the GDP which was what led to Nigeria finally overtaking South Africa as Africa's largest economy for some time. So you can criticize Tinubu on his own merit but it becomes hypocritical to criticize Tinubu against the standard set by previous presidents who did the very same things you're criticizing Tinubu for. On the merits, one of the things Tinubu has standing to his credit in terms of GDP is improvement of foreign indirect investments. There's been a significant inflow that has contributed significantly to GDP. Of course, we want to see actual domestic production being the major contributor to GDP growth, but is 4 years enough for a radical transformation given the realities of the operating context? The fact is that the first policy introduced by this government was the removal of fuel subsidies which brings initial hardship. But is the question simply one of whether the policy brought or impeded GDP growth or is it one of whether it was the right structural change for the long term health of the said economy? Again, recall that there was run away inflation at the onset of the tenure. One of the moves put in place to arrest same was the hiking of the interest rates by the CBN, which drew in foreign portfolio investment but undoubtedly would have slowed direct investment simultaneously. So the question then becomes, did this government fail to stimulate GDP growth or did this government do a tremendous job of arresting the economic damage? There is real context to these issues. |
anonimi:If you read what you quoted, I believe the answer is already facing you squarely. Obasanjo secured the Paris Club refund which meant that for the first time in decades, all our revenue was unencumbered. This meant that we had a massive flow of money to spend. Why would we have borrowed then? The real question is why did GEJ borrow? He is the only one out of all four who inherited a government without debts. So what sequence of events led him to plunge us back into debt during a global oil boom?? And none of this should be read as saying Tinubu is justified in keeping up with borrowing. No, but the formulation of your question is ridiculous to the extent that it pretends the PDP stewarded this nations resources faithfully. |
Dogalmighty17:The numbers don't lie indeed but you are yet to understand the story they are telling you. The critical fact is that there is a pattern to the numbers which shows that average GDP growth per presidential term dropped consistently and took a sharp decline under Jonathan and only began to pick up under Tinubu. That tells you something fundamental changed. And what was it? Obasanjo cleared Nigeria's foreign debt through the historic Paris club refund. By the midpoint of GEJ's tenure, Nigeria was back in debt again. The windfall from the OBJ years, which Ngozi Okonjo Iweala advised the Federal and State governments to save, was squandered and we went right back to borrowing. I saw one person up there say we were paying subsidy throughout these years but such people do not realize there is no free lunch anywhere. We were paying from money we did not have. That was why Jonathan's move to remove subsidies in 2011 was the right move but he lacked the strength of character to do the right thing even if he would be seen as the bad guy by the masses. That Jonathan's worst set the stage for Buhari's worst. The difference is simply that Jonathan took over from Obasanjo who had left him abundance. Thus, while he depleted the reserves and plunged us right back into debt, the nominal growth figure stands to his nominal credit, obscuring just how bad a president he was. |



