₦airaland Forum

Volksfuhrer:
What is this inordinate obsession of some Nigerians with the US dollar?

Nigerians love to abuse the undeserved privileges that an irresponsible government have allowed over the years.

Imagine him saying we should start buying dollars now?

As in how now in a responsible country?

Na commodity abi na service?

While the OP is at it, let him analyse why a $250m power project in Abia state eventually became an $800m project that caters to only 9 local government areas in Abia, State.

What manner of inflation did the dollar suffer?

socialmediaman:
China's Yaxi Expressway Cost $3.3 billion USD in 2012. The bridge is considered an engineering marvel and a masterpiece!

Yaxi Expressway is the same length as the Lagos - Calabar Expressway (about 240 kilometers).

If you factor in about 150% inflation between 2012 and 2024 in the construction industry (based on 12% average inflation annually), it will cost $7.5 billion USD in today's money, about N8.5 Trillion naira.

So why is the Lagos Calabar Expressway costing Nigeria N15 Trillion naira?

You live in a different reality where the length of the Lagos - Calabar Coastal Road of over 700km is equivalent to about 240km?

Splendid235:
StOla :

Check the post very well. I post a link to confirm that Ngozi is the first wife. The link also from nairaland. I don't post or make any avowal without proof. I know my onions. Kindly read back.

DMerciful

Pls teach me how to quote a person on nairaland. I am at a loss about it.

Well, the link you posted confirms your claim.

Then she ought to be the First Lady. She is the senior wife and even the mother of the older children.

FreeStuffsNG:
Don't bother your head, this is an authentic British independent school and specifically targeted for those who value and appreciate that kind of education. You may not appreciate it yet but wait till you know the intrinsic value. It's like wondering why Rolls Royce costs more than Toyota after all they are both cars.

That school already has its market for high networth individuals, members of the diplomatic corps and expatriates. Availability of such kind of schools is used by great multinationals to pull talents into their workforce and such talents will be willing to relocate with their families to Lagos and Nigeria to work and live. Such models have been in use in Dubai, Qatar, Saudi Arabia etc, it's like bringing the snow to your doorstep without going to the parts of the world that snows. If you are not in their target market, don't take paracetamol for the headache of those who will conveniently pay it as individuals and organisations that will pay for their employees.

As per the text in bold, you are very right.

Most parents would never have to pay out of pocket for such schools.

Whenever oil industry downturn occurs and people are laid off globally in their respective countries, it is always the children's school that is the first casualty of the new modest lifestyle. That is because na company dey pay, so many parents target the best paying schools to enroll their kids, just because. So when the reality dawns after a layoff, they realise their kids can get a good education at 1/4 of the fees they've been putting on their employer's tab.

But trust that there will always be that Talika alagidi who will want to show off and send their children to this school, even when it is not necessary.

Just for the show off is enough motivation for some Nigerian parents who are not ready to pay the housekeeper more than N40k per month.

vengertime:
Nigerians in the UK can't even afford that if they want their kids in Nigeria while they work over there.

Primary school o

Nigerians in the UK don chop belleful for Peckham and Southwark?

Listen and hear now, the Nigerians who attend the best schools in the UK, have their parents making their big money in Nigeria.

UK was not designed for an African immigrant/economic refugee to come in and make it. Don't let any Nigerian deceive you that they made it in the UK. They are only surviving and their children's children will only survive too.

Nigerians who attended the best schools in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, were children of rich politicians and business men, the military children, and the thieving bank executives. They all made their money in Nigeria and were spending it in the UK. That tradition subsist till today.

Abi na those ones who have had to move out of London to the countryside to reduce their expenses and avoid gang violence, go save up for this elitist school when government school yapa for UK?

You should have even said Nigerians in the US who have made it as professionals and are already accustomed to premium pricing for services and education of their children.

vengertime:
Nigerians in the UK can't even afford that if they want their kids in Nigeria while they work over there.

Primary school o

If Nigerians throng to attend this school, it only lends credence to my pleas to government to stop subsidising services for Nigerians who can obviously afford to pay way more than the government and service providers are charging.

It also shows that if the government is willing to upgrade our universities and charge appropriately instead of annual tuition fees that is less than the monthly pocket money of the student, many Nigerians can afford those fees and our universities would still be well attended.

The sad part is that some parents who would send multiple kids to this school, still want to pay their house keeper N40k and driver N70k, while also bypassing the electricity meter for their Air Conditioner power consumption.

Whoever is the first wife should be the first lady, as long as she is educated and have the capacity for the public lifestyle demands.

I believe both his wives meet the criteria to play such public role.

But the OP only made a claim without any proof to back up the claim of who is the senior wife.

He, however, absolved the electoral umpire of what he described as “simply a technical error.”

Ogbaloi noted that the state chapter of the party actually submitted the name of Alhaji Kadiri as its deputy governorship candidate, but was wrongly substituted at the national headquarters of the party due to “technical glitch”.

LP's Olumide Akpata speaks on alleged clash with students at UNIBEN
According to him, “Our team followed all necessary procedures and submitted Alhaji Kadiri’s name and credentials as the deputy governorship candidate, well within INEC’s stipulated window.

“Unfortunately, a technical glitch occurred at the end of the national headquarters of our party during the submission process, resulting in the incorrect name appearing on the final list.

So na LP state chapter versus LP national executives dey play ping-pong with their own running mate?

Truly sad!

May their young souls rest in peace.

Did OBJ consult with Peter Obi to evaluate if it is a misplaced priority?

OBJ did all he could to hinder Tinubu both in Lagos when both were in power and in Tinubu's subsequent political ambition.

We all know who won and who is the loser.

I shame for Obi's propaganda wey dey tiptoe on one leg.

The fall of the facade.

Raskimonojendor:
That is why he has changed his method to handing out cash instead . Shishi we dey give 🤣

But why is Obi such a lover of poor standards?

Is it a problem to spend good money on quality?

Make Obi go beg Reno to stop disgracing him and pulling down the facade that hide the truth of his emptiness.

Please impress it on them to eschew indiscipline, bribery and corruption.

Ttipsy:
Nonsense
Hypocrites
The same bigotry you pipo befall yourselves in your country

I don’t blame the Chinese man.

There is no bigotry in Nigeria that prevents any tribe from patronising the services or products of the other tribe.

More so, foreigners closing their door on their hosts.

Lizzysamuel:
You go cry blood.

Wailing Wailer

If it will force your propaganda into reality.

You must not get away with cheap propaganda.

You owe us beautiful pictures of well built borehole water supply.

Ofunaofu:
You referred to it as an eyesore.

Well, like I stated earlier, I know your type. Always criticizing others noble gestures but have never in their entire miserable life given someone a cup of water.

You mean like how Obi has been criticising the projects of the federal government because he lost the election and does not even have the capacity for such solid infrastructure?

Ofunaofu:
People like you who criticize Peter Obi's noble gestures like the borehole donations have never given someone a cup of water in their entire life.

Where is the nobility in this eyesore?

Chai!

I shame for you and Peter Obi wey no get any shame.

Sannisege:
As far back as 2014, Tinubu was already installing governors and emirs in the north. In 2024 this mumu just dey build borehole. I’ll start taking Obi serious the day he can influence an election or install an emir in the north. Tinubu no dey play small boy games of building boreholes. Tinubu na builder of men.

You cannot blame Obi for learning the ropes first.

I am just happy that both him and his arrogant supporters are being humbled daily just because of political ambition.

Ofunaofu:
They are also the worst set of homosapiens to have ever emerge on the surface of this planet earth

Have you donated borehole to your community? A borehole that can be captured as a beautiful picture unlike the ugly one from Obi?

Or you no follow join for the propaganda borehole challenge?

You no dey give shi shi?

Raskimonojendor:
Obi can't give what he does not have. Some of his legacies below

That guy is a 1st class charlatan.

David160:
Obi didn't condemn the highway... He only said that there are more pressing needs.

Like electricity and more pressing road infrastructure.. Yet Tinubu supporters have been vomiting since...

Yet when Atiku condemned the same highway and accused Tinubu of being corrupt a few weeks ago they were quiet all through.
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Why is that?

Where you sleeping when Atiku was being criticised?

Nazgul:
I honestly do not support this. So if a child graduates from secondary school at 15 and clears his/her WAEC. What the government is telling us is that if the child's parents cannot afford a private school, the child would stay idle at home for 3 years before giving university education a shot.

That's like delaying the academic advancement of that child. Very bad if you ask me.

And for the records, I finished my secondary education at the age of 15.

Who told you private schools are exempt from the 18yrs benchmark?

Who asked your parents to force you into school before the right time.

Dialpad:
So what happens to the 15 year old that completes secondary school .

Who send them message?

Since you want to break rules at the beginning and jump, you will pause eventually and realise how foolish a decision your parents took.

thesicilian:
If they strictly enforce their law of minimum 6yrs entry into the primary schools and outlaw "double promotions", everything else will fall into place.

Exactly!

Lizzysamuel:
Peter Obi is the nightmare of Agbadorians.

The new opposition that APC has never witnessed before.

If Obi had a skeleton in his cupboard, APC through EFCC would have incarcerated the young man.

Where are the Obidient boreholes?

The ones you said we should expect beautiful pictures of, since you agree that Peter Obi's own is an ugly eye sore.

Na 62years old baba Obi you dey call young man?

No hope for Nigerian youths with your mindset.

Eriokanmi:
Na Papa seun osewa school be dat. Is he from ekiti state? I'm checking...oh, its ogun this time...it's an ogun state name

Na Ijebu name naa.

Most likely one of the Remo.

OK Theresa.

But who did you vote for as President in 2023, which is 10years after lamenting?

Your guess is as good as mine.

Almost fell into his own mess.

A record of poor capacity for infrastructure.

In a bid to cover the shame that Peter Obi received with his customary substandard projects - this time being the borehole donations he was making in the North, some zombies who had group together on their social media platform, came up with a propaganda of turning the media backlash of the shameful situation into a challenge.

They vowed that their propaganda support groups will deliver boreholes across the nation, and promised us beautiful pictures (inadvertently admitting that the one from Peter Obi was not beautiful, but an eye sore)

They even went as far as claiming someone had taken the lead and donated a borehole to his community as a response to those donated by Peter Obi. They showed us an obviously already built borehole by that supporter and tried to tie it to the Obi propanganda bandwagon.

It is almost 2 weeks and those who by propaganda donated a borehole less than 2days after media backlash of Obi's poor standard project, are yet to regale us with the beautiful pictures of boreholes they have donated.

Propaganda employed to deflect from a bad situation, would only compound the woes due to that bad situation.

Obi, who was infamous and berated as a Governor who provided substandard roads and infrastructure that do not last, has reinforced that public assertion as a truth. This man with no standards cannot be expected to give what is beyond his local champion capacity.

In fact, the news around town is that the eye sore borehole project he donated is no longer working.