₦airaland Forum

SalamRushdie:
You sound like foreign reserve is an achievement ...I will rather we dwell on the 13 million jobs lost so far and how Buharis govt has the largest unemployment deficit in Africa today ... A country lacking in Human Development index , security and infrastructure like Nigeria currently is has no business boasting about Foreign reserve just like a father who can't provide shelter food and clothes for his children has no business boasting about having savings ... Let wake up from such mediocrity please because Buhari must go

It's15 million NEW jobs in Agriculture. All the 13 million so called unemployed have moved into Agric value chain jobs and light manufacturing

Moghalu is not qualified for President yet. Scholarly attainments are not a qualification for Presidents. The man is not going to win anything for now.

Everybody missed the lesson in this story due to shallowness and lack of depth of thinking .
The TOMATO venture has not failed. The factory was wrongly sized for the available produce and ran out of raw mateial.
A factory can be mothballed and start up again but to leave a business because of a small mistake like this is strange
Dangote goes in big in everything. This is a big mistake. He should have started medium scale and grown his own supply chain organically through out grower farmers

IPOB poll. Buhari is even doing very well for such an IPOBian poll. Keep deceiving yoursrlves

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Keep an eye on nigeria
Fantastic Array of News About Nigeria's Economy

■ Oil prices over $77/pb
■ CBNs Investors & Exporters window is doing monthly inflows of over $5 billion
■ CBN sales in the FX market down by 69% in April from $1.3b to $420m
■ Reserves rise to $47.8bn providing over 13 months of import cover
■ 91 days TB down to 10%

■ International air load to/fro Nigeria increases by over 90%
■ Retail consumer traffic increase in malls. Vacancy rates reducing
■ Corporate earnings back with a bang
■ Inflation still on a downward trajectory
■ N1.17trn tax revenue collected in Q1-2018 as against N778m in Q1-2017

■ Bank lending rates are coming down. Now offering loans at between 16% - 17% for fixed tenors
■ Impact of the Yuan swap will kick in by June
■ NCS confirmed a 558.4% increase in Farm produce export
■ Various rail projects nearing completion will increase aggregate GDP.
■ The Largest rice mill in SSA (Sub-Saharian-Africa) with 32 metric tons per hr production capacity (130million Kg of processed rice per year) located in Imota Lagos will be ready in Jan 2019. Mill will employ over 200k people.

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Me: There are good news about Nigeria that give citizens hope, and there are bad news that bring gloom to all. Choose the one you like to spread, i have chosen to spread the good news about my country, i have chosen to bring you news of hope all the time.

Nigeria shall be great in my lifetime

I was at a meeting in Ogun State with a collection of farmers. It was almost unanimous, their support for Buhari. They even mentioned the middle belt killings as an "abanwon" (small stain on his record) that he should try to stop soon so one could not conclude that they were unaware of contemporary happenings.

If your poll is correct then Buhari has won already. His supporters are 35% urban and 65% semi rural. Even his 35% urban support is far more than any of the others. What will seal a Buhari victory is PDP. I am sure they are going to bring tainted candidates with the result that APGA and SDP will do better than them in State Reps, National Reps and Senate races

seguno2:
Don’t make Buhari’s lies that youths are lazy and uneducated to be true na.
Did you see any construction going on?
The message in the pictures is that Jonathan did all that and Buhari has done nothing since he withdrew from the contract immediately after he was sworn in in 2015!
Please don’t forget to share this insight with others. It is free

LOL. To believe this is permissible but to think you can make people believe this that's optimistic. Young liars

chukzyfcbb:
Hahaha,
The same election trick Jonathan pulled over our eyes is what Buhari is doing.

And worst is, some yoots will still fall for this and vote apc based of false promises.

Ol boy. There will be weeping in 2020. Buhari would be in the first year of a second term and PDP supporters will look at promises kept and be full of regrets over the verdict of history on the Jonathan regime.

Let me tell you the truth. No emotional attachment can defend you from truth. When Jonathan was promising second Niger Bridge, he did not know that the corruption and leakages of revenue his weaknesses were causing in governance wont allow him to finance this project. I think hetried his best but a weak man is a weak man and we must admit foolish young supporters are foolish young supporters.

The lessons to be learnt are many. Tribalism and sentiments weaken your base. You have to fight inside your party for the best material and also ideology and ideals are better than tribal cleavages.

To the idxxts asking for projects " started and completed " by Buhari please steel yourselves. Your disillusionment is nigh. There are plenty ongoing.

Cekpo34:
Are those the only names you could remember? Etete was a pencil in the hand of someone you must mention...kindly complete the list

This is not the Nigerian government trying these guys.

Whyem15:
Combv to think of it, Iran is not stupid enough to fire mere rockets at Israel when they have sophisticated ballistic missiles and not stupid enough not to deploy counter measures knowing Israel will surely retaliate, news coming out right now says Iran denies firing rockets at Israeli soldiers. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2018/05/iran-israeli-claims-fabricated-baseless-180511063809142.html

Iran is actually denying that their forces were attacked in Syria. This is a reluctance to admit failures. They are only saying that Israel committed aggression against Syria.
The original Israeli statement was clear and specific. They hit all Iranian bases in Syria and destroyed all.

This notion of missiles intercepts by Pantisir system belongs to the era of non smart, inertial guidance only missiles , the missiles that we saw in action evaded all intercepts and they had video cameras showing their homing towards objectives till destruction of targets were achieved.

What a fearful and cowardly bunch of commentators. Moghalu is right. Career politicians caused Nigeria's problems. The only party in Nigeria was PDP . PDP RUINED Nigeria. Why this simple fact is so hard for weak livered, fearful cowardly young Nigerians are afraid to admit?. Is it a curse to admit mistakes of the past and move on?.

Ofodirinwa:
Did you know that the Nigerian army has to steal food and water from villagers in Bornu?

Can you name a Nigerian political leader that can produce the satelite picture you produced?

Did you know that the Naira is printed in Germany?

You don't know a lot about a lot about your country.

giles14:
I don't doubt the Russian system only that dey don't want to be drawn into the secondary war.

but I thought the Iranians said they have a system more capable than the Russian S300 sam.just wondering why their are not yet deployed.

1. Will S-400 stop F-35s firing cruise missiles? Maybe not.
2. There is a time lag between receiving S-400 missile system and commissioning / operationalize them. Won't Israel most likely take them out before they are installed. They have the intelligence capabilities. They even have people in Russia who will deliver the relevant info the next day they are shipped
3. Dense UAV actions combined with commandos.

lionel4power:
the way some of you guys come here and boldly make grand claims makes me wonder if some of you even understand the dynamics and variables involved in today's battlefield.

for every singular action taken.... a wide range of factors is considered.

Yeah. Netanyahu visits Moscow every month pressing Jewish indigeneship buttons on both sides so Israel Russia conflict is remote ..but it will not be a fair fight. They won't allow advanced missiles in Syria or Lebanon. They can't help it if it's deployed in Iran.
I am not in support of Donald Trump btw . I think the man is an idxxt, oversimplistic and insecure amateur politician trying to whip up his base. Europe will render the US irrelevant and powerless in influence within the next few years.

Some SE Nigerian indigene runs a POP survey amongst his network on Twitter and deceives himself this is Nigeria.

dvkot:
"I don't support fraud but efcc is just being crazy and stupid by chasing these boys. How many corrupt politicians have they arrested and persecuted? The surge in the number of yahoo boys in the country is as a result of bad governance where a PhD holder can't even get a job of 50 k a month. People are loosing their jobs daily and many graduates are being produced daily. What do you expect?"

The funny thing is that this kind of thing is done even in the most advanced countries of the world. Most people won't tell you the truth and when they start on there stupid human rights bullshit, the truth disappears. So we should allow Yahho Yahoo because the economy is bad.

Another big lie is the bad economy. 5he bad economy was caused by PDP and worsened by the bombing of oil facilities. FACT. YZPou have to be courageous and face blunt truth. ALL not some countries in the world have passed through hard economic times. Some of us have lived and worked on three continents. People are telling lies to you in this country.
We need a culture of discipline, hard work and innovation to continue in this post recession period. I am notboreaching boring stuff to you I am telling you blunt truth.
Everybody should use his brains if he is really a graduate, start very very small, innovate and develop self employment opportunities. Chinese youths arw slready coming and making it in droves. It will be a mistake if Nigerian youths become like lazy black South Africans blaming their misfortune on foreigners when they have opportunities under their moses

Good idea.

I am a Southerner but I am not voting anybody but Buhari. Even if Osinbajo (from my tribe) whom I like very much contests against Buhari, Buhari still gets my vote. We need him for the next 4 years to finish a few things even if that is just to draw the curtains on ex military Generals / Godfathers influence in politics. No matter what man thinks or feels , the will of God only gets done

lionel4power:
the missile hit the pantsir S1

Israel will destroy or render useless any S-300 or S-400 systems delivered to Syria. They don't have to use just one airstrike.

Nigeria is a LOW IQ country and I am beginning to worry.. Why is youth a criteria or qualification for office?. Why is gender a criteria for office.

OBY Ezekwesili would spend hours organizing, fighting and addressing rallies. She is not a youth. You vote a youthful Senator on the other hand and all he does is show off fine car collection, write a book on corruption and invite all corrupt people to the launch and resist arrest after gun running and plotting the killings of political opponents. Which is better?
Why is age even coming into the considerations?.

What is this guys ideology, is it free market minimum government or regulation, taxes and social welfare.
What are his programs?. What has he done before as work, career or business? . What are his ideas?

Most intelligent humans will look for Integrity, ideology and programs of a candidate to vote rather rather than age or gender.
The people who were going to vote for Bernie Sanders in the US were all young people, Bernie Sanders would have been President. The people who voted for Putin for fourth term, all young people
It is Nigerian inferior breeds who think age is a criteria for being President. Inferior breeds vote inferior leadership.

Not Pogba's day today

ollah2:
It's not just brainwashing but hatred and bigotry. Nairaland Christians are the worst set of Christians on earth. They hate anything related to Muslim. I spit on their bigoted and hatred souls

They are not Christians . There is a wrong typification of all non Muslims as Christians in Nigeria. A lot of these guys are just parochial, closed minded , unexposed youths posting stuff.

In the parts of the North, some communities went full blown fetish and started eating Fulani herdsmen after killing them during clashes. Is that Christianity? . The conflict then escalated and some people are still calling it Christian - Muslim conflict. It is not

How educated is this OP? These two cards are exactly one vote. The info on the cards is exactly the same . Accreditation should return only one vote and there is the system capability of voiding votes if all else fails.

The annoying thing is referring to her as Fulani. Why the distinction. She is a Nigerian who has probably committed a crime

Buhari will WIN next elections. He is not under any pressure to reveal illness. That is western culture. If any PDP politician goes on campaign and says the President should reveal his illness, watch the faces of the audience. It is offensive to 80% of Nigerians Muslim and Christians to talk about illness, health, death or human life sensitive matters in a cavalier manner.

It is not election defining not to reveal illness. Buhari makes it is own rules and it works for him. He did not participate in election debates and heavens did not fall.

Of course it was illegal. This was infringing on the rights of the constituents . The Saraki Senate is irredeemably corrupt. All corrupt ex Governors, ex ministers and multi term Senators are hiding there. They are pushing the corrupt Saraki up to weaken government. Nigerians will HIT them hard soon..

pcjuvy:
APC governors are failures except Ambode.

If you ask what el-Rufai has done in Kaduna for 3yrs, they will start stammering. Except the killings in Southern Kaduna, no achievement whatsoever

But if you ask the people defending Wike for instance to list projects: you will get 100

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All APC governors are the best in Nigeria. They are way above the opposition in service delivery, infrastructure and poverty alleviation. El Rufai is solving decade old education problems in his state

hotwax:
Iran the bully. You can bully Israel, Bully Obama. Now try that bullying with Trump. You will smell your own burnt skin. LOL. ANd Russia can't do anything about it, just like they could not do anything against USA when they invaded Iraq ..when they attacked Afganistan..when they bomb Syria chemical war.

Russia doesnt want confrontation with the USA.

They can bully Trump how ever they want. They will continue with their nuclear program. It is the right of every country if some dountries have it. The Saudis would have to buy their own atomic bombs and we hear they have already. European companies will break the sanctions and if they get punished in the US, it will break the Atlantic alliance. Thete will be punitive measures against US global companies like Boeing, Lokkheed Martin, General Electric, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google. I don't see a prosperous US future with the measures Trump is taking. They are shocking but they will have consequences. This is the beginning of the end of the US influence in global affairs.

In order of preference.

Some of them are not even interested but Buhari is the chooser of the 2023 Igbo Presidential candidate. It is ironic but it will happen

Onyema ( Minister of Foreign Affairs) if he runs.
Ogbonnaya Onu if he runs.
Umahi if he runs.
Amechi if he runs
Rochas if he runs
Emefiele (shocking but possible)

This is the order I know Buhari will in his scale of preference.
It is not going to be a political choice but a Buhari personality choice.

There are ten times more Lawyers in the Nigerian Police than the Senate. The greatest mistake with this Senate is taking on the Police. Please get a pencil and paper and list the permanent elements of statehood in a democracy. The police is foundational. There will always be a Nigeria Police but I might join hands with other people to vote out my Senator next elections.

Y0ruba:
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Papi, welcome bag to PDP or welcome to SDP.

He is going to SDP.

SDP = PDP - Niger Delta & SE. He will LOSE by a landslide