₦airaland Forum

kenmaro:
Gbam! True talk! Importation of consumer goods is not d cause of Nigeria's financial problems, rather bad leadership, importation of refined petroleum products that can be refined at any of our homes, exportation of our money by our leaders, unstable power/electricity, & etc. No individual country can be self sufficient even d Americans import a lot of their consumer goods from China & Asia but they don't import refined petroleum products & they generate a stable power supply to boost their SMEs & give good relaxation comfort to the human brain & body after a stressful day at work thus enabling d brain to think & plan properly for next coming days unlike the Nigerian brain that doesn't rest even after working stressfully during d day, it will have to come back to a very uncomfortable rest at home thinking how to generate its power and water at home then rise up as early as 4am to prepare for d next day work again so as avoid d poor metro transit system.

989900:
Buying foreign goods (the needed ones), is of less damage to the Naira than importing refined petroleum products -- factor-in importing alternative power sources, especially generators! Those are your real, and of course avoidable demands for Forex (if power is stable even if it is for 12-16 hours/day, and our refineries working).

How many shoes or bags does an average Nigerian buy a day, is it those $20-$30 (average) footwear you buy once in 3-6 months vs your average consumption of 4-7 litres ($5-$8 ) of imported refined fuel (PMS, AGO, DPK) per day?!

Fix power (can't be over emphasized).

Fix the refineries!!

Let the CBN Checkmate currency racketeering, and 'excess liquidity'!

The other stuffs mentioned are good (producing our own food), but are secondary maladies.

Oh, did I mention malfeasance? The GEJs, Diezanis, Dasukis, Abachas, Usenis, Abdusalamis, Tafa Baloguns, IBBs, OBJs, and cronies . . . we are talking probably anything between $150B-$200b in loot! So answer me; how many Brionis, Givenchys, Armanis, Pradas and e.t.c. have you bought, that collapsed the Naira?

waterhouse071:
Android gave everyone opportunity to use smartphones

TCD:
he should have stayed on and watch what happened to gbagbo of ivory coast by the International community happen to him. he never see something.

MolarT:
person wey fail exam no need go court to contest the teacher's decision to give him F9 naaa. GEJ saved lives but also failed as a leader. I hope Buhari will not tow similar line because we trusted GEJ when he had no shoes and we now trust Buhari now that he belongs to everyone and belong to no one.

saxywale:
They are actually right. Nationals of developed countries don't pretend or fake things like Nigerians do. They tell it as it is.

OgbeifunErom:

Sorry I totally disagree with you!

They have used the best word to describe the worst President Nigeria has ever had.

He is nothing but a Buffoon and an inglorious fool.

What else can they call a man that presided over the greatest heist ever seen in Africa? A man that opened the floodgates of Nigeria's public finance infrastructure to all his friends all because he wanted to win a second term.

Actually, the Economist is quite liberal. For them to have qualified the retar.d called Jonathan as a buffoon, they must have access to information that supports that qualification.

I will be very happy for them to judge Buhari in same manner if he fails.

Rikidony:
DURING THE 2011 ELECTIONS I SAW JONATHAN AS A GOD SAINT A MAN SENT TO DELIVER NIGERIA FROM ITS DWINDLINGNESS.

I SUPPORTED HIM TO FULLNESS.

BUT THIS REVELATIONS HAVE SHOWN THAT GEJ WAS NOT JUST CLUELESS BUT A TOTAL ROGUE AND WAS RUNNING A CLANDESTINE OF CORRUPT AND TOTAL HEARTLESS BEIGNS WHO'S MAIN INTEREST WAS TO LOOT GOVT COFERS TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE POPULACE.


GEJ MAY YOU ROT IN JAIL.

ShakurM:
Pls how I fit get to Benue from Surulere https://www.reactiongifs.com/r/runf.gif

tiger28:
That UK response was a classic Triple round house kick.

kekakuz:
I don't have most of these apps and the ones I have, I off the background data.
Manage myself.
How many platform can u use at a time.
I only browse with opera classic save my data no need to run unnecessary scripts

vedaxcool:
We have come a long way. Corruption keeps holding us back.

PassingShot:
It's unfortunate that we just have to look back given the present situation of our economy. The situation has been brought about by GEJ's failure to save during windfall from oil sale of average of $100 a barrel. He instead reduced foreign account fromm $44bn in 2011 to $29bn in 2015. The question is, what did he do with the $15bn difference and the excess dollars earned in that period?

Can any supporter of GEJ sincerely answer that what he 'achieved' commensurates with what we earned?

The hardship of today is a result of poor decisions of years past.

I don't envy PMB and his team at all. They inherited a hemorrhaging economy at a time oil price is crashing on daily basis.

jomoh:
Will you shut up already with your unwanted dirge.


Tell us which court order did Buhari and DSS flout by rearresting an offender for a crime?

Which part of Nigerian constitution states that once you're granted bail, you cannot be rearrested for another offence?

If you cannot provide the section of the constitution which is the ultimate rule of law in Nigeria, forever hold your peace or invite on yourself the full wrath of Almighty God and the curses of all the affected victims of the offenders' wickedness and callousness.

chillykelly86:
Copied:-

In Zimbabwe, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $20.00 each. The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $20.00, and as supply started to diminish, the villagers reduced their effort.
He further announced that he would now buy at $30.00. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms.
The offer increased to $40.00 each and the supply of monkeys became so little that it took so much effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $100.00! However, since he had to go to Jo'burg on some business, his assistant would now buy on his behalf. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers, "Look at all these monkeys in this big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $80, and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $100.00 each." The villagers came together with all their savings and bought all the monkeys.
Then they never saw the man or his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!

You have just been given a free lecture on how the stock market works!!!

9jatriot:
When the protection seeker does a good analysis and you want to applaud but restrained by the fact that he may one day turn logic on its head when he does a flip flop and you will be back to licking you wounds.

If you really stand for justice, so be it.

Intendy:
This are some of the hard decision we need to take and no previous govt did that but now have a courageous and bold man who is ready to bell the cat.
Truth is I wonder if a government sat in power for 5 years plus with price of crude averaging $80 and nothing meaningful achieved,what will be the outcome now if they were in power?
but I'm not ready for politics now,I need to monitor the market.

Mzgracie:
Like seriously, I can't believe what my eyes are seeing..
Never knew something like still exist in Naija

absoluteSuccess:
Such a great park,
A jewel to behold.
Beautiful nature.

Btruth:
There's a different between strong government and a weak one. I will not expect Buhari to audit/investigate the administrations years away from his. I think it's only right for him to audit the immediate one before him. Others would have done the same if they were not corrupt. If you remember, he did the same when he came to power with the Shagari's administration. So, asking him why he is not probing Babangida, Abacha, Abdusalam, Obasanjo, Yardua's administration is not something proper. Let him start from the immediate pass government, and let the next government be preparing to probe him too when he leaves office.

yommys01:
Let me ask you, who was the idiiot in government not long ago who had the chance to investigate the aforementioned crimes but never did?

You lots need to think before you type nonsense on Nairaland.

yommys01:
You have absolutely no dignity. Imagine if your family was killed in the Boko Haram nonsense?

I am happy Nigerians now know who the true sponsors of Boko Haram were/are.

omenka:
Nothing irritated me more than his kneeling and genuflectiing in front of every supposed man of "God" who cared to grant him their podium. If he isn't doing so, he's praying in front of some stupid wall in Israel.

It irked me so much because it showed how hypocritical or GOs can be and what a divisive leader our president can be.

I imagined what those gullible christians who hailed his usage of the Alter of God as his campaign ground would have said had Buhari inundated the internet with similar images of him praying in the mosque.

modath:
& a deceptive, pretentious, & divisive tribalist.

Twas during his campaigns that our differences became heightened, monster! Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde!

DonLo:
If Bakare is to face his call that means we all don't also have right to comment on sociopolitical issues affecting us. You should delete your comments and stop airing your opinions, you should also be facing your call(work or purpose). #yinmu

Come to think of it, the CBN governor has an autonomy and he's technically not responsible to the president even though he appointed him. Will you belief Emefele if he says he didn't know that a large chunk of these money are being misappropriated. Did he document any report cum petition on this? Tell be when the CBN becomes a retail bank disbursing money to politicians. #yeyedeysmell

Bakare should be commended for saying what others wouldn't have said. Let the search light be beamed on the yam keeper. #TeamArrestTheYamkeeper

Nigeria can never be good if we don't stand up for the truth.

TonyeBarcanista:
You are WRONG Sir! In deregulation, government has completely washed its hand. The N86.5 per litre is the open market estimate(not approved pump rate). Marketers can sell higher or lower but market forces will come to play here.

It's like telecom sector. The coming of Globacom forced MTN and Econet(now Airtel) to drop the cost of acquiring a Sim card, call rate, as well as forced them to introduced Per second billing. Now, sim is as cheap at N50 to N150 with free N50 to N100 airtime on activation depending on the network.

Etisalat came and pioneered free MB on N200 recharge. It forced others to adopt free MB. In fact, SMS that used to be N10 per page is now N2 (MTN-2-MTN).

In essence, the market will regulate the price. Also note that with NNPC importing the larger share it means it will be difficult for independent marketers to hold Nigerians to ransome.

AlfaSeltzer:
The domination part is just the natural progression
Show me the domain where Igbos are present without dominating.

omenka:
Baba, standing for the truth, back to back, from 1983 to 2016, every decision he makes is a HIT. Integrity ti take over!

timunstopable:
No one cared to ask where this ad was posted.

This could be photoshop for all i care

This shows nairalanders dont ask questions

I ve not seen the advert anywhere

This is most likely a meme talking abt the olamide incident

musKeeto:
GEJ got 12 million votes. There are at least 12 million Nigerians who wanted GEJ to remain PRESIDENT. He would have won the election, and lost the country.
These crooks would still be weclome visitors at Aso Rock, increase in BH attacks would have been blamed on APC, economic failure would have also been labelled as sabotage.

Buhari isn't the best. But I think in the interest of the nation, we made a right choice.