₦airaland Forum

Macphenson:
Nonsense and ingredients. A country outsourcing the protection of its territorial waters to an individual is the first sign of failed state.

So Tantita is well equiped and more trained than the Nigerian Navy?

One day Boko haram will help us protect our northern borders in this country.

Even the US uses military contractors in some of its covert operations.

You discipline first, before you offer counselling.

The statement is more like they are trying to appease the bully.

That song took us back to 1979. My best song on that album was Rock With You.

Creamypie:
am 42 years old sir. I 1989/90 she went for beauty contest in Russia. She did very well. I think last 3 or so

She was MBGN in 1988.

Jostoman:
Russia will soon come here to show their Okrika supersonic bomber

Have you ever heard of the Sukhoi-75 Checkmate stealth bomber? (Russia)

or

the Xi'an H-20 Chinese-made stealth bomber?

Russia and China are already there.

The message is for Iran.

The same Israel that supplies your DSS with its TAR-21 assault rifle variants.

Same Israel that supplied the Uzi rifle that Abacha held personally to rally troops to put down the April 22 1990 coup attempt when IBB ran away from Dodan Barracks.

Same Israel that Egypt had to beg for a peace agreement in 1978 so the entire Sinai Peninsula can be returned to them.

Same "poor" Israel that has held the Golan Heights since 1967. Make Syria try go collect am naa.

Iraq that was smaller than Iran battered Iran in the 8-year war of 1980 - 1988 wey Saddam Hussein use nerve gas and finished Iranian soldiers in several battlefronts, to the point Iran was forced to accept the UN-brokered ceasefire to end that war. Is that a country to face Israel that defeated the armed forces of 3 nations in 6 days in 1967, and grounded the entire Egyptian airforce in the 1st day if that conflict?

In case you don't know, US is about to supply Israel with an additional $1bn worth of military hardware. Fani-Kayode is known for all talk and no action. His PDP government could not even deal with Boko Haram. Nonsense!

Urheadmaster:
Must there be motive anytime a politician died of helicopter crash

In any kind of politics where religion or ethnicity is involved, nothing is off the table.

Mohamed Zia Ul-Haq of Pakistan overthrew Zulfika Ali Bhutto in the 70s, had the man killed, and ruled with an iron fist. Then tormented his daughter Benazir from pillar to post.

Ul-Haq died in a plane crash in 1988 or thereabout. Evidence indicates the plane was sabotaged. Till today, nobody knows who did it.

Fast forward several years. Benazir Bhutto herself was killed in a bomb blast. Her husband is president of Pakistan today.

Musical chairs is the name of the game in politics, fueled by ethnic and religious sentiments. Ethnic sentiments are usually stronger because politics is a grassroots game. Your village people or those who you speak the same language are the readily available support base.

Watch this video of President Ruto describing the late general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kmHmREZ2eg

Biodun556:
What is the reserve doing there?

Let's spend it

If this report is true, where did the CBN sees the 7 billion dollars to use to pay foreign airlines and others when Nigeria foreign reserve was 32 billion dollars

I am sure if we have a peek into your own accounts, you have zero savings.

Do you know what is the meaning of "reserve"?

DaddyYankee:
Israel is a very useless and overhyped country!!

They are only good at killing civilians.


Iran is not Palestine.

Be careful Israel!


Going after Iran, Israel might be calling for her end!

Wishful thinking. Go ask what happened in the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 - 1988. Saddam Hussein dealt with them and showed them shege promax.

sarrki:
Michael olayemi cardoso the cbn governor Cardoso may sell his next dollars to the BDC at N800.



Let’s discuss this !!!
Please real time updates till when dollars fall bellow 200 per dollar

Which reserves will you use to achieve this?

Racoon:
Aunty Nkem just like the late Frank Olize Newsline show were weekend delights. I think there were times the late Uncle Jimi Solanke( of blessed memory) also handled the Tales by Moonlight show. Say hi if this show also spiced up your childhood. Mods let the indomie generation learn something.

Jimi Solanke handled Storyland. 1989.

Righteousness2:
There was nothing wrong in what God's Servant Pst Paul Eneche did in trying to question the Testimony of our Sister as it didnt sound right.

Probably due to stage freight or something of that nature, our sister made some Error in testifying what God did for her.

To GOD be the Glory , Every doubt has been Cleared.
Sister sorry for the inconveniences. It is one of the things done to Ensure every doubts are cleared.


98% of those complaning and making noise are people who do not even care about GOD.
They just want to make noise and find a way to insult the Church.

Please stop condoning what is wrong. The pastor is not above mistakes. He realized this and apologized.

You don't embarrass people publicly in that manner. Anyone can say anything, but leaders have to watch their words because what they say has consequences.

nairalanda1:
That's not quite true. Most African countries have the same issues. Even in the West, once upon a time in the 1970's USA, fuel cost less than 1 dollar per gallon...today it is between 1-7 dollars per gallon!

Nigeria and many other African countries are resource dependent, which means that when the prices of our resources are high, times are good.The 1973-82 was a period of markedly elevated oil prices. It was a time when government was heavily subsidising food and many other things apart from petrol and power. Then prices crashed, government tried to keep up subsides, but by 1985, they had to face reality.

Infact the 1980's was mostly hard after 1982.

And even then, most people were poor and suffering.

Watch the below documentary from 1984, made before Buhari took power.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEsqiqOoRLg

GIves you a good idea of the conditions then. People were not in good state.

That documentary was made when Buhari was in power with Idiagbon. The documentary angered the regime heavily. By April of that year, Decrees No. 2 and No, 4 were in place, allowing for indefinite detention of anyone deemed as a subversive factor to the government (Decree 2) and also punishment for anyone who wrote anything the government found offensive (Decree 4).

Ask journalists of that era. They saw hell.

jazzman7711:
Yawn….

Minimum wage then was 80 naira a month.

So that list doesn’t prove anything.

Children posting rubbish.

Back then those prices were expensive for the common man.

Even in the 1980s, my pocket money for a whole semester at university was 500 naira, and it was more than enough for everything including catching cruise, shacking beer everyday etc..

My father's monthly pay as at then was N650. By 1982, he was earning N800. We lived like kings then. Everything turned on its head in 1986, same year SP Okongwu and Kalu Idika Kalu introduced the Second-tier Foreign Exchange Market (SFEM), and it was just downhill from there.

Jennyclay:
May God bless the Ghanaian man.

Ghanaian men are more trustworthy than our criminal minded Nigerian men.

What goes through the mind of Nigerian men is to kill, rape and steal your money and property.

Nonsense men!!

Honestly, Nigerian men irritates me like hell

Try buying land or looking for a house to rent in Ghana, then come back here.

The whole thing looks staged.

You know what acid is?

Originalsly:
Government can not get involved ... or Air Peace will see hell abroad. The most they can do is give a much better in-flight service to offset the price difference. Try to be like Emirates... serve a much better and local inflight meals etc. Consult with the FG to have a hastle free check in and check out experience with Immigration .... have a better Customer Service desk and I'm sure they wouldn't have to worry about the price war ... their flights will all be filled.

Maybe you don't know how the $3,500 bond imposed by the UK government on Nigerian inbound travellers under Captain Demuren's tenure as Head of NCAA was shelved. Demuren showed them shege. Government can and should get involved when the need arises.

LegendHero:
The government needs to find a way to step in to help.

Either we also flood the market with multiple Nigeria airlines flying that route so they too can gang up, or government find a way to support Airpeace one way or the other.

I’m sure when these foreign airline success and Airpeace run out of capacity to deliver, they will increase the price back and we go back to square one.

You think an airline can just wake up and start flying to another country without the latter's approval? You don't know how aviation works.

Tit for tat.

This is a clear case of "you talk anyhow, you see anyhow."

Jimoh Ibrahim used this strategy to hedge his Naira loan exposures, only repaying them off when the Pound had significantly gained against the Naira.

iichidodo:
[color=#1986BC]CBN has kick-started a down ward trend in the fx market, something no other entity has managed to do in any third world country, there's every possibility that IMF and other foreign financial bodies are watching Nigeria with keen interest. If CBN listens and allows the money grabbing and exploitative cabal that is the BDCs to teach them their work, then all the good work of the past 1 month will fall to pieces.....And we go back to beg France to use CFAs [/color]

CBN is simply paying subsidy on the Naira-Dollar rate. Until the core fundamentals change (stop fuel imports, cut down on dollar demand for school fees, medicals, etc), it won't last.

They will keep approving more.

A retired Israeli Lt Gen once said that countries condemning Israel openly secretly send their diplomats and military attaches to Israel seeking advice on how to deal with their own domestic insurgencies.

If you know, you know.

descarado:
Prepaid metres do not stop you from paying very high tariff. It means as others can use 5k for example in a month, you will spend more than 10k. Add it to the fact that you have constant electricity, you will end up spending up to 15k in a month.
I have a house in a band A residential area and as at that time, depending on your house( cos they bill you according to your kind of house), I spend quite a lot on units.
And anytime the officials come to check your meter and it does not resonate with your type of house eg, you are spending less, they will know automatically you are by-passing and will send their expert to trace your connections.
It is quite common.

The consumption of units is dependent on your appliances. So if a Band A person that travels a lot for business uses less electricity, does it mean he bypassed his meter?

FreeStuffsNG:
Great intervention. Since they are now mandated to repay their customers back in units, in my opinion, the fine is too much.

NERC can report the officials to EFCC and recommend them to be sacked or suspended from work for 6months without pay. It's when both the individuals and their company are punished that there can be sufficient deterrent.

Individuals committed that infraction so they should be held liable as well. They are not ghosts.

May God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

The fine is absolutely in order. This rape of Nigerians from DISCOs must end!

I support the total crushing of Hamas.

But it is very clear that the Israeli soldiers on ground are now just killing everyone and everything in sight in total disregard of all known rules of engagement.

At this point, a ceasefire and total reappraisal of the conduct of this war against Hamas is an absolute must. These collateral killings cannot continue.

As a rule, never eat an animal that you did not kill and shed off its blood. You don't know if it died of an arbovirus.

RandomFellow:
I'm very sad this morning. I bought 10k worth of electricity units, and got only 41 units. I bought 5k worth last week Friday, and got 68units!!! I told a friend, and she decided to do 1k. Well... She got 4.1😭😭😭. We didn't even know we are on the BAND A! We barely get 12-15 hours of power daily. Some days, we don't even get 10 Hours! Ahhhh!!! AEDC, I don't want to be in Band A anymore 😭😭😭, take me to Band F! BAND Y seems like a good idea right now.

5k worth finishes with in a week or so in my house. I'm just an average random fellow on the street, trying to make ends meet.

I have to admit, being a good citizen doesn't pay anymore ooo... Ahhh... AEDC... 41 units for 10k? Are you trying to send me back to the village? Do you know how many jobs I have to do to raise that 10k? Is there something we should do that we are not doing? Tell us ooo, AEDC tell us what to do; because I'm not ready to start paying an upward of 70k for power in a month. I'm sorry, but you know what I'm planning right? No vex

The new review allows you to report to NERC on the customer self-reporting portal asking for reclassification if you are not getting up to 20 hours a day of power.

Act 2 Scene 1

I would like to see what the US Embassy would say about their travel history.

LeopardX:
But electricity is cheap, dirt cheap actually, in China. How do they do it??

China's total installed electric generation capacity is 2.92 TW, spread across renewables (40%), coal and nuclear energy.

That's 2,920,000 megawatts!

This is a country that was poorer than Nigeria and most of the world in 1976 when Mao Tsetung died and Deng Xiaoping took over.

socialmediaman:
The Tinubu government has just increased electricity cost for band A customers to N225 per KPH.

For context, customers in the US pay about the same cost per KPH (or cheaper) depending on the state you live in.

Energy analysts are explaining that Nigerians are willing to pay more if they have access to electricity.

Based on data from NerdWallet, the average monthly electricity cost in the US is about $137 which is about N178,000.

Are you willing to pay N178,000 monthly for electricity for a 24-hour supply?

What is the minimum wage in the US viz a viz the electricity cost?
What is Nigeria's minimum wage versus the Band A tariff? Or are we saying the poor should live in darkness in a country where the gas that services these power stations comes from the soil under their feet?

enemyofprogress:
how about the curse of olosho? Are they not expenses than Lagos? Oloshos are shipper in Lagos than Portharcourt

Cut off this lifestyle totally. I beg of you.