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In 2020? This country is a total joke. When you appoint Minister of Aviation, they are to Identify ways of improving service delivery and facilities upgrade within such ministries. But no, it is how to pad budget and rigmarole with Senators on what project they can inflate to cash out.

The absurdity of appointees in Nigeria is further downplayed by the sort of human we have as President. The President is not in control of any aspect of the country. Nigeria is on auto-pilot. You can imagine Adesina claiming responsibility the other day for not including the Lekki Massacre in the President’s address.

This is 2020 for damn sake, why should “dusty” weather prevent a plane from landing successfully. Pilots in saner climes can afford to shut their eyes now when approaching the airport due to the advancement of technology beyond the archaic manual calibrations of landing coordinates still deployed in Nigeria.

Naija, which way? Only violent rejection of these ruling class may send the right signals to these old and corrupt elites that the youths are tired of this maladministration!

This is preposterous

No way!

Irritants!

thewatcher2020:
Same process. Condemn the abuse. Move on.

He’s got a white gf or wife or Fiancée so I presume he should deal with whatever self hate he’s battling first for jumping ship to the other “good” side.

I really don’t waste my sympathy for peeps like that. Got rich, make some money or fame and become too good for our black women? Nah. Deal with it! Let them from the other side protect you.

On issues similar to this, I always check out who you breeding or laying with and if it ain’t amongst one of your own kind, I couldn’t give a f.ucck less.

Yeah, deuces to the bullshit.

Most people don't understand how this sh.iit works. The black man is constantly under constant ridicule in the west through the media and everyday white people. Even the Indians, the Asians, the Arabs all hate the black man. The first thing majority of black folks wanna do once their bread align is to breed with people who'd give them offsprings who look nothing like them. Ask Serena, Ask Reggie Bush etc.

You've said it all, the only reason is self hate is the core reason for most Black Athletes. "LOVE IS LOVE" always championed by the perpetually weaker race. Most Blacks are nothing but naive babies!

JastSiryin:
Your statement reeks of inferiority complex. When has dating a white woman become a status symbol?

for peep sake everyone one is entitled to his/her choice. What has color even got to do with it anyways? At the end of the day aren't they just women?

They're still essentially similar in nature to black women, still got their own drama and so on. Pls stop falling our hand abeg. Our black queens are still highly coveted by all men.

I think you sir, are the inferior one here. Let me school you on what that poster implied. Your refusal to breed with your own kind as a black person (man or woman) indicates a higher level of insecurity/inferiority about yourself. Racism can never go away till blacks adopt the style of the whites in the battle for race survival. You don't tell someone to slow his roll just so you can catch up simply because "we are all humans".

It is a welcome development to me whenever some bold whites come out to clear the doubt of naive folks like you who screams "LOVE IS LOVE" non.sen.se just to hide from the daily struggles of black folks around the world. Lol, the poster above is known to me, he is a thoroughbred aristocrat by every standard. I see that some of you think you can just name call people shamelessly and mislead unlearned folks from your tainted perspectives.

"Coveted by all men" Lol. Black men need to assume position of power and when they do, they need to increasingly show the future generations the need to grow black and stay black (marriage, institution etc). There is no need to navigate the murky water of insults with you. Proceed with your ignorance of "LOVE IS LOVE" because you simply do not understand the power dynamics of the world.

ukaface:
then it's mutual....

Exactly, its mutual!

Racism persists because black folks are afraid to treat white folks how white folks treat black folks!

White people done said worse things and are still saying worst till date. The problem is that Blacks like the Gypsy are afraid to give back to white folks what they steady dish to black folks everyday in every manner through personal and social interactions / media propaganda and all that!

That said, I dont care if they call black people monkey anymore. I have had my decent fair share of all white/pale skin ladies from ALL continents of the world and I can tell you this: IF YOU CAN SLEEP WITH A WHITE PERSON, THEN YOU CAN SLEEP WITH PIGS! Their skin, Jizzz! I am not afraid of being termed a racist or whatever. Go to their forums or even neutral forums like TMZ and see how they bash blacks for no damn reason!

So miss me with that bulls.hitt of "what if a white person..." Middle finger to whatever they may say or have said! I and presumably people like Ukaface can never and shall never give a single f.uck on whatever opinion of us they got and we advise them not to GAF 'bout ours too!

My 2cents and a dime please. I come in peace!

thewatcher2020:
We don’t need more refineries!!!

Is there anything wrong if we join others in pioneering alternative sources of energy? The world is moving far ahead of obsolete developments such as refineries and other archaic bullshits. The government of Nigeria should brace up for the challenges of the 21st century and let’s focus on how we can survive beyond oil and it’s bye-products.

Yes, some may say “oh we haven’t gotten it right with the basics, we want to jump to the extremes”. I say No! We can pioneer these technologies if the government is ready to fund some serious research and deploy its resources towards breaking boundaries and attaining new goals every successive year.

Japan, Germany believed in their national strength and mights and created the enabling atmosphere where failure wasn’t discouraged but leveraged upon to succeed unfailingly in a futuristic world that keeps them miles ahead of the rest at every point in time.

If the Saudis wanted to build a refinery here some 9 years ago, I’d applaud such development. This is 2019 almost 2020 for goodness sake, are you guys aware of the vision 2020 set out for this country as far back as 1995-96? This is a negative growth! We can and must do better than this!

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Excellent take!

This was my exact position when Dangote started his refinery project too. Nigerians always looking for quick-fix out of their misery. Refineries, to make the investors richer definitely. The purchasing power of the plebs stays static and you have people with antagonistic response to your post. Its insane that many Nigerians are actually too poor to think. Poverty is worse than cancer TBH.

Thanks for your intelligent and succinctly delivered mini-lecture.

iammo:
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Without any apologies, i honestly think you are very ffoolish. Its an FDI, foriegn Direct Investment, how would that stop research into renewable energy? Can you research alternative energy when the National grid lacks gas to power its power plants? More refinery means more gas to fire our turbine. But then you dull Dunce think governance is like a Science Fiction Movies.

If not sheer stupidity, a looser like you wants to give your poverty riddled opinion to Saudi or Damgote,?

And for your information This isnt Goverment spending but Private Spending, Dull foolss







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Poverty is definitely having you on a chokehold at the moment boy. I believe if you have lived in top continents of the world, have a beer or two while on a first name basis with someone like James Packer in Barangaroo while discussing more futuristic-investment initiatives, you wouldn't type to me with those leprosy-infested fingers of yours.

Now back to the part of your submission where you sound less ret.arded, An FDI or private investment -no matter its connotations can be channeled to a more purposeful course if the policy makers of the country are actually in tune with what is obtainable in the international sphere. These investments like you FOOLISHLY presented, are profit making ventures for the Saudi government and Dangote without meaningful impact on the typical Nigerian like you. I bet you are some local idiiot in some ramshackle housing precinct typing shit to me living in one of the most expensive postcode in the world -not as a tenant but as a Landlord.

PS- Your country Nigeria is a joke. Your former minister of petroleum with "cancer" just sold an apartment here and cashed out while you guys foolishly talk about people "hating" the country. The ministry of petroleum in Nigeria just like every other ministry filled with bunch of rag tag idiiots with ministers always there to serve personal purpose thereby allowing imbeciles like you to talk shit off the junks you read from your local news and media without an international outlook. Boy, you are forever foolish!

iammo:


When i read comments of jobless Dunce, giving unwanted economic advise on fosil fuel to investors in oil and gas and refineries i just laugh, dont let your hatred towards Nigeria make you Foolish.

Dangote and Saudi Goverment Conducted Comprehesive Feasibility Studies before venturing their "Own" money into Nigerian Economy, You can do whatever you like with your own money, a good percentage of our earnings comes from fossil fuel, Refining it is going to make value to our export.

Little fact about values of refineries;

*Only few people in the world can afford Electric cars, due to expensive Battery Cells, Electricity isnt cheaply available to power such cars. Hence the market for Refined PMS. Power generation comes from Gas refined from fossil fuels

*Refinery produces almost most chemicals needed by other industries, including Nitrogen for fertilizers, Cosmetics, Paints etc.

*100% of Cormercial Airplanes still run on jet1 fuel gotten from "Refined" crude. As battery cell powering and replacing jet engine isnt feasible for large carriers

*100% of world cargo ships runs on diesle gotten from same fossil fuel that Refineries produces.

*European coutries cant leave without gas heaters during winter, gas is a product of Refined fossil Fuel.

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Sir, with all due disrespect, I think you are more of a jobless dunce than those talking about fossil fuels.

Hatred for Nigeria? Please hide your stupidity you moronic dingbat. Those guys are probably asking the government not to focus entirely on same old energy source and generation. It is possible for Nigeria to lead a groundbreaking research to reduce global dependency on those bye-products you mentioned above.

You e-diots just rush to the internet to castigate others without thinking twice of the foolishness you are about to spew from your rustic windows computer just to make an attempt at being smart. Please, please, upgrade your comprehension skills and challenge arguments with more superior arguments and don't act like some unpaid nuisance on the internet! Two cents yeah? Stupii.d!

omoowhe:
Thank you so much bross, you just made my day

You're welcome chief!

realmindz:
Gradually, Africans will be emancipated. But not in this generation plagued with mentally incapacitated people who pray for problems to be solved. And when you tell them, they go emotional and sentimental believing they are fighting their invincible battle

Gradually yeah. The crop of youths out there now are worse off than the generations prior. While talking to some youths in here after work on Friday at the office that they'd end up in hell if they don't go to church, they laughed at me -although I was unknowingly clowning them.

One actually told me that, what if the Chinese colonized my country, I'd be a buddhist yeah? I couldnt respond to that although its a fact.

Africa is long gone. We need real youths to bring back the lost glory of this great continent. It must surely come at a cost -we shouldn't care whose ox is gored at this moment. We shall need to expunge amongst us, the clogs in the wheel of our progress to greatness even if it meant they are families!

ranting:
Carnal men don't understand things of the spirit.

You sound more carnal. I reside in a country where no one within the age of 16-59 attend any church, and it's a nation founded by Christians. One of the most successful nations in the world. Australia. Nigerians are fighting everyday tooth and nail to get a visa to visit this country.

The only people you see in the church? Very old men and women in their 70's trying to make it to "heaven" if at all it exists.

Now where are the youths? They are busy socializing with their wives and kids having a more quality family time after a fruitful week. Church going on sundays for most Nigerians is now a ritual and nothing more. It no longer serve whatever purpose it was intended for. How do you explain the extents people go just to "dress up" to go worship?

Now, this youth is talking about Halleluyah challenge, the earlier you guys channeled your energy towards better challenges that can enhance your conditions in that hell-hole country, the better for you.

Look at your pastors building the largest church auditoriums in the world? Whatever happened to building the largest chemistry laboratory in the world? oh, the black man can't think!

You sir, are a mentally incapacitated sluggard for terming my submissions carnal.

This is insane!

Can the Nigerian youth just quit with this religious bullshittz? The youths should challenge themselves towards more innovative feats annually and create better opportunities for growth and advancements.

The youths should seek avenues to come together to continuously challenge the leadership situation in the country and educate themselves by sharing knowledge on how to improve their current devastating conditions.

The 2019 election is around the corner, I don't see sane youths in saner nations discussing how to stay awake throughout midnights to pray ceaselessly for some heavenly breakthrough without putting the required homework.

We are just a bunch of religious i.diots as Nigerians -Christianity and Islam should take the back seat and let us challenge ourselves on intellectual lines to see how we can chart a better course for the future of our sh.ithole nations -Africa, Nigeria precisely!

If Nigerian youths and professionals of christian extracts gather together nationwide every Sunday to discuss more meaningful issues on nation building and Muslim youths do the same on Fridays consistently for 5-10 years, trust me, results must be seen.

You guys go to Saudi Arabia, y'all get discriminated against because you're blacks. Same blacks go to Israel as pilgrims and watch discrimination against blacks in those countries as "black jews" (Ethiopians). Africans are mad! Why spend your money and your time to continue to uphold the tradition of your oppressors at the detriment of your own physical, mental and emotional emancipation?

Lol

This is absolutely true.

Lol. Just seeing this now. Care to hear this short story?

Physical stress is NOTHING when compared to mental stress. I quit a very good paying job today because waking up every morning became a nightmare. It's nothing to worry about in this life. You have just one, why drain yourself of your mental worth chasing that which never satisfies your existence?

I woke up to my alarm and felt "bad" for waking up because I was headed to an office where I'd get hounded from 9-5 and go back home tired to sleep again and wake up to the same alarm. My mental life was grossly deteriorating and I couldn't take it anymore, I covered my whole body under my duvet and typed my resignation mail but hesitated to hit the "send" button for 2 seconds and I went "F.Uc.CK IT" I hit it and turned to catch a better sleep which never came actually because my entire mind and soul wandered into the uncertainty presented by my new future.

I'm awake now very happy knowing that I wouldn't be waking up tomorrow morning angry and sad like the case for the past 11 months. What does this hold for me? I'd LIVE for the next three months to get my life back. It wasn't handed to me by any man in the first place so that's my solace -GETTING MY LIFE BACK. Yeah I'd need to move out of this expensive high-rise apartment to look for another granny flat in the suburbs. Yeah something's gotta give. I envisaged a whole lot of lifestyle adjustment but like I see it now, it's a phase and it must SURELY pass.

NEVER neglect your mental health for any reason(s) whatsoever. With physical stress, the pain could be eased with a couple of high milligrams of painkillers here and there. With mental stress, the scars are unseen and they never heal, you can only reduce your exposure to the toxicity that inflames it by walking away from conditions/situations/occasions that triggers such disorder.

The most powerful tool you have as human is to WALK AWAY. This option is highly underestimated in our daily lives. USE IT WHEN YOU CAN, IT IS A SUPERPOWER!

einsteino:
The bolded is the problem with our system. The Dean just openly admitted that there is a system that rations excellence regardless of how many people work hard and merit it. I remember there was a time when Electronics Engineering dept in UNN produced over 10 first class and the faculty sat down to slash their CGPA down to 4.49 cos of this same mentality of having more than a few first class is abnormal. A system that rations success is lethal.

EXACTLY!

The Nigerian educational system as championed by the proponents of "my school doesn't give first class anyhow" is nothing but a serious existential threat to the future of unborn scholars.

The National Universities Commission in Nigeria should step up its acts. What on earth are they regulating when clerical blunders like this becomes a regular occurrence without appropriate sanctions on such institutions?

There is need for Universities to ensure that the results and certficates of graduating students are treated with optimal diligence before issuance. This is a national disgrace.

Universities in Nigeria are just structures of mediocre compositions headed by foreign trained professors who have repeatedly failed to infuse their western-acquired knowledge into resuscitating our citadels of learning!

LMAO, strong man

"I didn't know the Judge was inside the car" LMFAO, if the judge wasn't inside the car nko? LMAO

Lol

FabioPeter:
No matter how well you justify graduates taking menial jobs abroad, the fact is they are disappointingly doing a jobs that is way below their potential.
Why invest heavily in a masters degree then take a job that requires just a pair of hands and no brain?

It's exhausting trying to kick this point into the thick skulls of these people! Please stop at B.Sc if "hustle" is all you ever want to do. Please don't come here with the rhetoric of "Oooh, it's just for the time being" People do this shit till their 40's their most productive years!

FabioPeter:
Congrats on completion of your building? However, you are capable of functioning at a higher level, at least that's what your degree suggests. By the way, who lives in your building?

The fact that nobody is on the same reasoning level like you on the comments thus far is the reason why I think there is something fundamentally wrong with Nigerians. "You built a house in Nigeria". What sort of baseless and illogical perspective these people got,gosh! "However, you are capable of functioning at a higher level, at least that's what your degree suggests." That is all, you've said it all!!!

vhickky:
lolzz....... You are very funny...... Why would I sleep in the embassy, just because I want to travel out to slave in another man's Country? ....... To me wealth is not all about money, but happiness, comfortability and being around the people that loves me and I love..... I will never travel out to do silly jobs....... I will only travel out for sight seeing and vacation, I will stay here in Nigeria and make it.......... I believe I have all it takes to survive, make it and be happy here in Nigeria....

"Sight-seeing and vacation" -Now that's life! You are absolutely correct! I just hate it, as in hate hate hate it when people think that money is all there is to life! It seems you've lived abroad before from the comment :people that loves me" -NOTHING ON EARTH BEATS THIS FEELING! I see these so-called "money-making" menial job workers everyday talking about shifts upon shifts even after obtaining Education from their host countries. Isn't it crazy you'd go to school to spend some thousands of dollars and refuse to work with your certificate where your mental skills could be utilized for the benefit of mankind? #Smh.

ayodele234:
Shut up there liar! 95% of Nigerians in America never see 6million naira cash in their life, and that includes those who have stayed there for 25 years. talk true, na check and tax yahoo yahoo you take make that money. 62% of Americans (first and white citizens)don't even have 1000dollars in emergency savings yet you come here to talk rubbish. Even Registered Nurse that most Nigerians go into are not rich, it will take them 15yrs to even come up with a down payment for a decent home. You must think everybody in NL are fools

Lol. Nigerians hate facts. I don't know of the 95% figure tho but it's very true to state that most of the Nigerians abroad (75%) are into these menial jobs for the sake of monetary benefits to "build" house, buy cars, send money back home because that's all there is to life! Nigerians are the most deluded people in the world, how on earth do they justify a Masters holder cleaning toilets because "Oyinbos" are doing it too? Its sad!

If truth be told here, yes, it is good to do that which you can -to survive, but if that's the basis of your existence that is "to be able to pay your bills", I think there is urgent need for such persons to re-evaluate the ramifications for their existence!

This is the problem with the black race. You have got to be "something" for you to be seen as human but the typical Jeff or Steve out there is simply not bothered about any life goals beyond what he ordinarily would aspire for YET never disrespected by the society.

It is ok to be black and not aspire for any phenomenal success or outstanding feat, yes but the western world influenced the entire world to spill hatred against the dark skin wherever they are sighted. Such a shame.

We all can't be Rappers, Models, Basketballers, Athletes, Hip Hop Impresarios and all sorts of extraordinary aspirations which we ordinarily wouldn't care for. The white race conquered the psyche of the entire world already and there is little or nothing we can do about it. His story should not and can't be a template to inspire a black child who has opted for the simple life just like any average white child can. I love the simple life irrespective of what some of my folks perceive as achievement on my part... I sometimes ask myself the simple question "Are you really cut out for all these"?

Someday, I'd help the black child realize that it's ok to be human and not wanting much beyond the ordinary. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A MODEL TO BE COMFORTABLE IN YOUR OWN SKIN! Peace!

LMFAO. The reason for the strike is obvious!!! They can no longer keep the "change" as usual. They'd frustrate you because of N30 change and you're bound to leave the money once you can't find someone to pair with! I was told by some girl back in Lagos that her friend makes at least N2,000 daily from the vexed customers leaving change behind.

Now lets do the maths--> #70 -> #100 ( Passenger with N100, "Oga no N10 change, take this N20" Passenger loses N10)
#120 -> #200, (Passenger with N150 "Oga add N10 join am make I give you N40 or take this N20" Passenger loses N10)

#195 -> #300 (Here, all passengers must lose N5 change) LMAO.

NIA is not a REGULATORY BODY. It is an association of Architects. Association of individuals with common interest to seek the well-being and mutual knowledge dissemination/sharing of its MEMBERS through organizing of conferences, symposiums and lecture series etc. -the keyword here is Members.

On the other hand ARCON is the REGULATORY body for the profession saddled with the responsibility of regulating the practice of the profession and granting of licences to graduates of architectural schools to practice the profession of architecture as ARCHITECTS. Hence an Architect certified as an Architect by ARCON is at liberty to ignore membership of NIA or join the association if he/she so wishes.

AreaFada2:
Hahahahaha! Bolded shows that you are very young.

During the first Gulf War combining Operations Desert Storm & Desert Shield, from 2nd August 1990 to 28 February 1991, IBB made about $12.4 Billion dollars from crude oil, because Arab countries had problem supplying oil. The price surged. That money has never been accounted for. And that was within a few months. AND IBB spent 8 years in office. Are you saying he used all that money to do Third Mainland Bridge, that was already budget for separately? Do you know what $12 billion dollars could have achieved for Nigeria?

Just in case you do not know, the worthlessness of the Naira began during IBB's time. The crazy inflation you see now began with IBB's Naira devaluation. Pensioners who worked and saved money over decades saw the money suddenly of little value. IBB is one person if given a chance I will NOT think twice before stoning him.

Now for OBJ, there was $20 billion budgeted for roads/infrastructure, what happened to it? Just one example o. And similar sum for electricity. Remember he was there for 8 years too.

Abacha's money is still partly stuck abroad (US, Switzerland, etc) and several in foreign courts on forfeiture/repatriation hearing, othershave been repatriated in batches of over $400 million dollars, billions already returned. And a separate $1 billion return deal with Abacha's family.

And in your mind these monies were not silly looting? Haba!

Just because bigoted SW media turned on Jonathan & born-to-rule North (who know not what to do with power in over 40 years of having it, not even almajiri schools) vilified him does not make propaganda true.

People should just shut their mouths and let us focus on going our separate ways. The marriage is dead.

LMAO. Please read my post very well. I said "those ones didn't just loot the nation silly, they ran the nation aground forever" . That is, the looting of IBB, Abacha and the rest was on an extreme scale beyond human comprehension.

AreaFada2:
And IBB, OBJ and Abacha "developed" Nigeria Silly, right?

For once a true owner of the oil money looted from it.

And it serious pains parasites a lot. In the 50 years of Nigeria before Diezani, leaders and oil ministers from the North & SW had ample opportunity to take Nigeria to a highly developed economy. They did not.

Nigeria wrecked long ago.

So stop the cry baby double standard.

The corpse is what we have now. People should be ready to create new countries out of it: Arewa, Biafra, Oodua, ND, Middle Belt or other configurations.

There is no cry baby double standard here. I only responded to the immediate connection to the subject post. However, every other persons you mentioned didn't just loot the nation silly, those greedy b.astards plunged that country into an irredeemable unfortunate state!

I support 100%, the solution proposed by you with respect to defragmentation of the existing cesspit called Nigeria where a Danjuma is a billionaire without any visible means of livelihood except for the oil present in the backyard of the Niger Deltans who are suffering despite accounting for everything that makes Nigeria to be considered a country outside this country!

Diezani wrecked Nigeria silly!

"You emerged the best graduating student despite having the second highest cumulative grade point average of your set. What qualified you for the honour?

There were other criteria taken into consideration, such as leadership skills, spirituality and community service. I was a leader in church and although there were no specific projects in these areas, my service in church and citizenship grade were considered."

If this isn't madness, please don't call those patients at psychiatric hospital "mad people". Both Babcock, the recipient, the spiritual metric are all crazy people! Why not award her separately for her spirituality?

This is the peak of absurdity, someone worked hard to attain a first position, simply because he or she wasn't spiritual enough, they are denied their victory? You people make religion a very unpleasant thing to hear! What a ridiculous response!