₦airaland Forum

He knows he's not coming back so he's borrowing money for final looting.

Everybody is shouting oppressor, so wetin B Lord do good?

Oya nah tomorrow if person comit crime against you, leave mk dem no call you oppressor.

Even with rigging Balabllu no go see 3 million total votes.

Soon kwara will turn IDP camp, imagine people wey dey stand on mandate living inside the bush with their kings

It's better to move narcotics than to be raping small girls and cutting people head all the time.

At least if you are caught with narcotics, you alone will bear the consequences but with rape and head cutting, you are involving other people.

Sophisticators abeg mk una help us

alanto:
Can you name one thing you buy in the market that the price hasn't leveled up with that of Dangote Cement since forever? Coastal Biscuits is now 50 and 100 we used to buy it for 5 naira. How much do you buy pure water? Dollar determines everything. But it's okay for you to act like you don't know just don't purposely mislead people into thinking you are about Nigeria when you are only marketing a gbajue.

Dollar determines everything, so why did it not determine the minimum wage because going by your logic #18000 minimum wage under Jonathan was worth $120 .

If you convert it now, it should be #170,000 why did Yekini leave it at #70,000 abi na only for inflation we dey consider Dollar.

jamafa:
Thanks to fat allocation from FG

Stop saying rubbish FG does not give allocation, allocation is shared between FG State and Local government.

If your papa leaves a will for you and your elder brother, giving your elder brother 60% of his money and giving you 40% of the money. If your elder brother with the power of attorney gives you 40% that belongs to you, will you be thanking him for giving you your entitlement?

Try dey reason with your sense everything is not sycophancy, that's why the government feels they are doing you a favour by performing their duties.

Lanretoye:
Before the come and refurbish Alex otti for us and say imaginary workingsthey built commendable hospitals,FG didn’t enable it but if na terrorist and bandits attack in the same state,people like you will be shouting FG.drink hypocrisy,eat hypocrisy,vomit hypocrisy.
If not for allocation from the FG,some of your states can pay salaries alone from IGR before now?,how much do you remit to the FG and how much are you getting as allocation.wether na hatred or frustration na him make I some of us no wan use sense atall again

Are you daft or something, I said what I said no be FG dey give allocation, if revenue increases, allocation Will automatically increase because the percentages are already there.

Issue of security is both the job of the federal and state government because na them dey share the money. Stop trying to paint the FG white they are rotten carcasses.

If you are not comfortable with resource allocation anymore then let everyone control their resources we know who will suffer.

jamafa:
Are they not spending the monthly allocation from FG??

Abi is the Enugu IGR that dey are using to execute all these projects

So FG is gifting them the money out of benevolence?

Nothing wey una no go use as achievement for this failed government.

Allocation is an entitlement not a gift and it's not federal government that gives Allocation. It already has a sharing formula and the federal government takes it's 40% while states and local government takes the remaining one.

Don't attribute it to federal government because they can't spend the money generated alone.

nairalanda1:
LOL...send who to jail.

Discos have tried the courts to punish defaulters. Everytime it ends with defaulters using cutlass and guns to chase disco workers away.

And there was the time when soldiers invaded Eko disco office. Reason being that the disco cut them off for not paying

(And most nigerians applaud such defaulters)

See the problem?

They should overhaul their infrastructure and make everything automated, so that all these things would be a thing of the past, have you seen MTN fighting with their customers over bill payments. If you have the money, you make your call and browse, of you don't have. You dey your dey. That's how it should be.

You can't be giving a 19th century service and be expecting 21st century pay.
Even me here can think of more than 5 ways through which the issue of bypass can be curtailed, talk more of when they employ experts.

They should make sure everyone gets a metre and use power any how they wish problem solved.
But they won't because they know what they are doing.

nairalanda1:
Actually, the telcos funded their projects partly from income from consumers. That was why back in the day many people were complaining about the costs of using a phone being high, yet service was poor.

It was because the telcos were allowed to charge a cost reflective tarrif from the word go, that at the end they were able to attract investment and money to pay for their businesses to expand and keep expanding.

Discos and gencos never ever had that benefit, plus power theft has been happening even before the discos and gencos took over, which is why they are in the mess they are now

Price controls don't work for any economy.

That's false, they invested money in infrastructure first, before selling to customers otherwise how did they have the network to distribute their services.
You can just say they increased coverage with the profit they made from the initial sales. Nigerians still bought it even though it was costly but it was a better alternative to Nitel.

I know if it were in those days, you would have made 3xcuses for Nitel but there were better ways they could've rendered their services which MTN and Co have showed us. Today the sim card they sold for #60,000, they give it out for free and it still doesn't effect their profit.

Just accept the fact that what you are saying won't work until Power Discos redo their infrastructure for better services, even the issue of bypass will be mitigated with better infrastructure.

Even Telcos faced the same issues with the issue of free browsing hacks, but today it's been mitigated drastically with good technology.

nairalanda1:
Well, if you ran a business where government forced you to sell below your production and other costs...people would say your service is bad , you know.

This is not about government forcing anyone, they are not ready for business. When telcos came to Nigeria they didn't rely on the infrastructure built by Nitel. They built network infrastructure from the scratch and didn't wait for the customers or government to fund them.

Now here the gencos and discos are still using dilapidated infrastructure left by NEPA which collapses a thousand times per year by the way and you are advocating for higher tariff. Be reasonable please.

Rivers people should make sure this man doesn't return to that government house and also make sure the next person coming there has no connection with Wike.

These two people has made the state stagnant that after three years, the governor has nothing to show for it

nairalanda1:
That's what I tell people.

Nigerians, rich and poor, and even the government, are not paying their electricity bills, and the result is a sector hamstrung by liquidity challenges. The subsidy and price controls make matters worse.

That means that discos cannot raise enough money to pay gencos. DIscos have to even reject power from the gencos because they know that people not paying means that no money to pay the gencos.

But most people na to deny, deny, deny. Some even misunderstand what privatization means. Yes, it means people invest, but it also means that customers have to pay the kind of cost reflective tarrifs that would make the investment make sense. Not this one where only 20% of people pay cost reflective tarrifs (and there is no way that revenue from the 20% who do pay can subsidsze the rest...).

A business must make a profit to survive. If you call someone tinubu supporter for saying that, that means you are saying that tinubu government get common sense, which as we know na oxymoron. And anyway, tinubu is keeping the price controls on the sector that are contributing to the problem.

You always talk like Nigeria is a working country, you can't apply the idea of bloated cost and payment which the western world is using in Nigeria.
Western world has bloated wages and bloated cost of living which will even out in cost and expenditure.

You can't come to Nigeria which has poor Income and be looking for bloated payments, you are just going to go bankrupt ask DSTV what happened to them.

So calm down with all these your increase tax and increase tariffs you are shouting, different systems work in different ways and Nigeria needs to do what will work for them.

nairalanda1:
Okay, enjoy what you paid for then.

Exactly they are providing shitty services with dilapidated infrastructure and that's exactly what people are paying for.

Any day they are ready for business, they should rehabilitate their infrastructure and improve power supply that, way they can charge good money for their services and anybody that can't pay would find alternative.

F117nighthawk:
Your increase in FAC allocation is in náírà, and what iṣ the naira to dollar exchange rate now,

What I can use 100k to buy in 2023 can I use same 100k to buy same is 2026?

Naira to dollars rate in 2023 was ₦500 to a $1

Now it's ₦1500 to $1,
So what is the value of your increase if FAC allocation in naira?

You give a state 300 billion in 2023 and now u increased it to 900 billion and foreign exchange rate has increased by 300% in 2026, and u expect the increase in FAC to perform any magic

Una mumu no get part two in Nigeria
Una kuku dey sabi think in opposite direction in Nigeria

I've been shouting the same thing since, the increment in allocation was more of a necessity rather than luxury, Tinubu didn't do the governors any favour by increasing the allocation, that's what was needed to be done.

I just don't know why his propagandists are throwing that to our faces as an achievement.

CAF shouldn't try anything funny, na because of their corruption all these things happen.

mrvitalis:
Google is free... Ages of human evolution

You are not saying anything that I don't know, what I'm saying is the rate of development/evolution of recent is much faster than it was in the old times which is not adding up.

mrvitalis:
The questions you are asking were taught in secondary school

Not to me o, I'd like to get the answer from you since you were taught......

RealityKings1:
Someone was able to tamper with existence. They created a new order, Introduced different kinds of control apart from war. They are intelligent.

Looking around and seeing how desolate and unliveable other planets are, it's obvious there must have been some sort of destruction.

Seems only computers have been able to live through time since they are rocks which operate on light and different kinds of charges

I agree there was probably a reset at some point because this couldn't have been all we could achieve in more than 6000 years .

According to scientists, the earth is 4.5 billion years old, but according to the biblical records, the earth is 6000 years old, humans have also existed on earth for 300,000 years According to scientists.

Which ever way you look at it, the earth is too old to be at this level of civilization. Majority of the modern technology we used today were invented within the last 500 years with the biggest inventions coming within the past 150 years.

We also just ventured to leave this earth for the first time 60 years ago. If we could achieve this much in 150 years, why couldn't we do much in the first 1000 years? Cars and aeroplanes could have at least been invented 4000 years ago.

Bearing in mind that modern humans have walked the earth for at least 6000 years, what have we been doing for 5500 years? Are we really evolving or was there a reset at some point?

Psoul:
Oga you are shifting post. Our argument has always be in you saying that HIV patients live normal life.

It was in your last comment that you sneaked in long life in the argument.

See the marked lines. You can see how many times I mentioned long life. That showed that "normal life" is the center of the talk.
Prove me wrong by quoting one of more of my previous comments.

Stick to that and tell me what is Noel in living with HIV.
If you do much believe that with HIV, you'll still live normal life, why do you dread it?
If you by any chance noticed that a girl you're dating has it but you've not gotten it, will you still date her.

I don't know if you are intentionally being adamant but I replied you because of what you replied the first person.

Incase you have forgotten again that was your reply first reply

You've seen them live long...abi?
How old are you?
How old is the patient you know?
How long has the patient bn with the sickness?

That person you think is living a normal life is living in fear.
He/she will be scared to fall into anything that will take him/her to hospital especially when blood relate issue is involved.

There's nothing normal about HIV patients

So I don't know why you are intentionally ignoring that your first statement and focusing on normalcy.

We are obviously arguing about two things, longevity and normalcy and I never told you whether it can be normal or not.

At least we can establish longevity accurately unlike normalcy which can differ from person to person, what's normal to you you might not be normal to another person so leave that normalcy thing abeg.
Sit down and learn there are many serodiscordant couples out there living their life and they are not complaining so die that matter.

Psoul:
Oga, don't shift ground. Our argument has bn on you saying that people living with HIV can live normal life.
I told you that their morning normal in living with HIV.

Check all my responses, I'll always emphasize on morning normal in living with HIV.

The I was never arguing about how long they live. It was you that brought in that at last mentioning who you know that has lived with it for 20yrs. That was when I asked if that was long life.

Psoul:
You're the ignorant one here.
You said you've seen them for 20yrs.
So, 20yrs is the long life your talking about?
So if a patient of 20yrs gets the virus and live with it for another 20yrs and die, that's long life.

Oga, what is normal life when someone has to be drug dependent all the days of his life?
What is normal life when you'll have to live in fear of tomorrow?
Oga, in an much as we will try to minimize the stigmatization or discrimination, the truth must be told. There's no normal life living as HIV/AIDS person.

It's this kind of downplaying that will make some ppl think that there's no danger there, "after all if I get it, I'll be taking my drugs and live a normal life."

There's no normal life there.

I guess you have forgotten when you typed that, but I'm glad you've been able to understand that people with HIV can live long.

As for normal, if taking drugs makes someone abnormal then, abnormal people are more in number than normal people. Because it will shock you the amount of people depending on drugs to survive.

Psoul:
Oga preach all you could, I'll maintain that there's no normal life living with any sickness that you'll support your existence with medications.
I mean that kind of medications that when you stop taking, your existence will be in trouble.

Once you have medical issue that made medical doctors to give you lists of what to eat and not to eat, place you on daily, weekly or monthly medical drugs and tells how to engage in your social activities (most times, against your wish), you can't call that normal life.

You are now changing mouth, from HIV to any disease.

Well I'm not preaching to you l, I'm just correcting the erroneous statement you made that people with HIV cannot live long.
That's false and should be corrected.

Psoul:
You're the ignorant one here.
You said you've seen them for 20yrs.
So, 20yrs is the long life your talking about?
So if a patient of 20yrs gets the virus and live with it for another 20yrs and die, that's long life.

Oga, what is normal life when someone has to be drug dependent all the days of his life?
What is normal life when you'll have to live in fear of tomorrow?
Oga, in an much as we will try to minimize the stigmatization or discrimination, the truth must be told. There's no normal life living as HIV/AIDS person.

It's this kind of downplaying that will make some ppl think that there's no danger there, "after all if I get it, I'll be taking my drugs and live a normal life."

There's no normal life there.

Still displaying ignorance, the person in question is still alive and can live for another 30 years all things being equal, AIDS can't kill the person anymore as long as the person is on HAART.

If a thirty year old person lives with HIV for 50 years, is that not old age, life expectancy in Nigeria is not even up to 60.

Magic Johnson has been living with it for 33 years too.

Cure your ignorance HIV even takes up to 10 years to manifest without medication.

There are diseases that can kill you faster than HIV and people are using medication for them too for the rest of their life deal with it.

We are not saying you should go and get Infected because there's is medication for it but shit happens and if it does, there's remedy.

Bottom line is, HIV can't kill anymore with the medication on ground unless the individual doesn't know.

Talking about normal life, only can define what's normal to you because right now, there is an injection that can be given to patients every 3 months and that's it, no pill or anything.

So how is the patient not living a normal life.?

Psoul:
You've seen them live long...abi?
How old are you?
How old is the patient you know?
How long has the patient bn with the sickness?

That person you think is living a normal life is living in fear.
He/she will be scared to fall into anything that will take him/her to hospital especially when blood relate issue is involved.

There's nothing normal about HIV patients

Lol you are truly ignorant, I work in a health facility and I have seen people on medication for more than 20 years.

If you can make further research, you'll find out that HIV 2 which is more prevalent in West Africa can go without symptoms for more than 20 years without medications and I'm not kidding.

In fact many people can be living with HIV 2 right now and they may never find out till they die.

elipheleh:
Good clarifying about the God masterplanning part. Settled.

For other parts, its true people can die from fire accident, diabetes, malaria etc.

Did you know avoiding HIV is one way less to die. If I can minimize ways I can possibly die, by all mean I will do it.

That is the point I am making.

Imagine if I can avoid just cancer, HIV & other STDs, diabetes, High & Low BP, malaria, typhoid, drinking and cultism. Do you know I have drastically increased my chances of long life?

And all these diseases I mentioned above have a lifestyle that can avoid them

I just want to let you know that you have no control over the manner and time you'll die unless you plan to commit suicide.

Let me shock you, majority of people that have HIV didn't even know how they got it, some got it as an infant, some got it through blood transfusion in those days and are still managing it till now, so how could they have known to avoid it.

Some men that swing both ways got it and gave to their wives unknowingly how could they have avoided it. You can never be too careful but if it happens, then you just have to manage it.

Like I said before fate happens, you just have to do your best and hope it's enough, you can't even do enough for cancer.

OVB123:
I heard from someone that he performed woefully in office but my question is this; why are the politicians in the state supporting him for second term?

Politicians are only after their own interest.
They align with who will help their pocket

ADC is a good opposition but they should do the best thing and give Obi ticket, he's the only one Agbadorians is afraid of.

Lol trust politicians at your own risk. Uzodimma is not straight forward

He doesn't have a serious opponent so he'll win. But good governance is far from him.