₦airaland Forum

OkCornel:
It’s deliberately designed by the rapacious sellouts that call themselves the elites of the nation.

Nigeria is designed to be an extractive economy for the benefit of foreign interests and the saboteurs are actively working towards protecting those exploitative foreign interests.

Wake up.

The average Nigerian will protest to keep fuel subsidies but will never protest to support increased electricity availability.

Nigeria probably requires a minimum of 100,000 MW electricity capacity, but the country has less than 15,000 MW capacity. I laugh when Nigeria talk about building cars and manufacturing EV batteries when the country cannot generate 10% of its electricity requirement.

Nigeria is not poor because of corrupt leadership, Nigeria is inadequate because of docile people.

LagosOrigin:
Tinubu media news and rubbish propaganda

Fear ko , Fierce ni

They wouldn't post another Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) failure in arbitration court.

Nigeria’s LNG loses $380m in London court over 19 undelivered cargoes

A London court has ruled that Nigeria LNG Limited, the country’s biggest gas exporter must pay $380 million to global commodity traders Vitol and Glencore over undelivered cargoes.

The ruling, announced on February 25, 2025, stems from a long-standing dispute involving contractual obligations and supply disruptions.

According to the report by Reuters, the London Court of International Arbitration found Nigeria LNG, a joint venture between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), Shell, TotalEnergies, and Eni, in breach of contract for failing to deliver LNG cargoes to Vitol and Glencore.

Tigernut101:
This is what Peter Obi has been saying.
Nigeria must move from consumption to production but the frog eye was asking “if na statistics we go chop”.
Clueless druggie🤓

That is what PO has been doing.

Peter Obi's business has been importing finished goods, including palm oil, into Nigeria. PO admits he is a trader and supported Abacha in clearing the Apapa ports congestion for more imports.

Nigeria imports everything, so the country's electricity grid has collapsed.

A country of 220 million with 15000MW has no future. Nigeria requires a minimum of 100,000 MW

Racoon:
Productivity is not based on IGR, taxations of poor citizens, depleting foreign reserves to boost the naira, chroñic borrowings or debt pillage, the druggies and his garri munch agbadorian miscreants will be convulsing.

Productivity is based on electricity to support economic diversity.
Infrastructure (Road, Rail, Electricity, Water, Healthcare, Security)
Good governance: Free and Fair election, accountable government.

To support productivity, you need to tax all citizens, including the very poor(even if it means a token tax) just to encourage the culture of taxation.

Cut borrowing and printing of Naira. Reduce the importation culture that has turned Nigeria to a country that exports raw materials and imports finished goods and services.

deji17:
Good. These are the people who ruined Jonathan Presidency.

Why did GEJ employ him, Dasuki was a known thief as far back as 2001. GEJ is also a thief and employed thieves. They are all thieves , GEJ, Buhari, Tinubu

Bestmanfornow:
The Anambra governor Prof Charles Soludo is building Standard Drug Distribution Hub in Oba Idemili South local government area of Anambra state, when completed it will eliminate of all manner of fake, sub-standard and adulterated drugs in circulation, it will have office for NAFDAC monitoring team and other agencies

Watch full coverage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxNTB8webzo

Why not build factories that manufacture API. Igbos are continuously importing when they have the capability to produce

Tinubu economic team need to be sacked if they are still defending the Naira. Why did they stupidly remove it in 2023.?

CodeTemplar:
Shitty network that cannot compete. South Africans are not joking around. From PayTV to Telecomm to Distribution Chain to Mining to Education they dwarf the giant of west Africa.

SA has electricity, a democratic system that works, and the rule of law.

EnEnPeecee:
Pls bring in your fighter jets and bombs and help in eliminating these Islamists jihadists terrorists

Dummy, The USAF couldn't flush a toilet in Somalia and Afghanistan

ForumNL:
TINUBU is doing well
Stop the hate

Building universities when the country needs working industries is not a sign that the country is doing well.

eepeepook:
It is not a south south problem. Here, we have alcohol at our disposal. Blame those whose religion abhors liquid pleasure yet ignores poisoning your liver with pharmaceutical grade substances.

Focus on the subject matter and stop playing the ethnic card. You think that the Indians that are poisoning your drug supply are interested in your silly North vs South wars. They see all Africans as stupid people who should be exploited.

The majority of the terrorists are on drugs, killing innocent people across Nigeria and West Africa.

Indian businesses will destroy Nigeria. I will never trust those people. They successfully destroyed the steel industry with the support of corrupt Nigerians and are now destroying the people. For every criminal Nigerian that is involved in the street drug trade in Asia, there is a cargo ship of drugs from India.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji6tjiRjbok

Watch India's Opioid Kings from BBC Eye Investigations on iPlayer or, if you are outside the UK, watch on YouTube, external.

Aveo's new product is even more dangerous than the tramadol it has replaced. According to Dr Lekhansh Shukla, assistant professor at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences in Bengaluru, India, tapentadol "gives the effects of an opioid" including very deep sleep.

"It could be deep enough that people don't breathe, and that leads to drug overdose," he explained. "And along with that, you are giving another agent, carisoprodol, which also gives very deep sleep, relaxation. It sounds like a very dangerous combination."

Carisoprodol has been banned in Europe because it is addictive. It is approved for use in the US but only for short periods of up to three weeks. Withdrawal symptoms include anxiety, insomnia, and hallucinations.

. Exposing an Indian pharma firm fuelling West Africa's opioid crisis


An Indian pharmaceutical company is manufacturing unlicensed, highly addictive opioids and exporting them illegally to West Africa where they are driving a major public health crisis in countries including Ghana, Nigeria, and Cote D'Ivoire, a BBC Eye investigation has revealed.

Aveo Pharmaceuticals, based in Mumbai, makes a range of pills that go under different brand names and are packaged to look like legitimate medicines. But all contain the same harmful mix of ingredients: tapentadol, a powerful opioid, and carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant so addictive it's banned in Europe.

This combination of drugs is not licensed for use anywhere in the world and can cause breathing difficulties and seizures. An overdose can kill. Despite the risks, these opioids are popular as street drugs in many West African countries, because they are so cheap and widely available.

The BBC World Service found packets of them, branded with the Aveo logo, for sale on the streets of Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Ivoirian towns and cities.

Having traced the drugs back to Aveo's factory in India, the BBC sent an undercover operative inside the factory, posing as an African businessman looking to supply opioids to Nigeria. Using a hidden camera, the BBC filmed one of Aveo's directors, Vinod Sharma, showing off the same dangerous products the BBC found for sale across West Africa.

In the secretly recorded footage, the operative tells Sharma that his plan is to sell the pills to teenagers in Nigeria "who all love this product". Sharma doesn't flinch. "OK," he replies, before explaining that if users take two or three pills at once, they can "relax" and agrees they can get "high". Towards the end of the meeting, Sharma says: "This is very harmful for the health," adding "nowadays, this is business."




It is a business that is damaging the health and destroying the potential of millions of young people across West Africa.

In the city of Tamale, in northern Ghana, so many young people are taking illegal opioids that one of the city's chiefs, Alhassan Maham, has created a voluntary task force of about 100 local citizens whose mission is to raid drug dealers and take these pills off the streets.

"The drugs consume the sanity of those who abuse them," says Maham, "like a fire burns when kerosene is poured on it." One addict in Tamale put it even more simply. The drugs, he said, have "wasted our lives".

The BBC team followed the task force as they jumped on to motorbikes and, following a tip off about a drug deal, launched a raid in one of Tamale's poorest neighbourhoods. On the way they passed a young man slumped in a stupor who, according to locals, had taken these drugs.

When the dealer was caught, he was carrying a plastic bag filled with green pills labelled Tafrodol. The packets were stamped with the distinctive logo of Aveo Pharmaceuticals.

It's not just in Tamale that Aveo's pills are causing misery. The BBC found similar products, made by Aveo, have been seized by police elsewhere in Ghana.

We also found evidence that Aveo's pills are for sale on the streets of Nigeria and Cote D'Ivoire, where teenagers dissolve them in an alcoholic energy drink to increase the high.

Publicly-available export data show that Aveo Pharmaceuticals, along with a sister company called Westfin International, is shipping millions of these tablets to Ghana and other West African countries.

Nigeria, with a population of 225 million people, provides the biggest market for these pills. It has been estimated that about four million Nigerians abuse some form of opioid, according to Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics.

The Chairman of Nigeria's Drug and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen Mohammed Buba Marwa, told the BBC, opioids are "devastating our youths, our families, it's in every community in Nigeria".


In 2018, following a BBC Africa Eye investigation into the sale of opioids as street drugs, Nigerian authorities tried to get a grip on a widely abused opioid painkiller called tramadol.

The government banned the sale of tramadol without prescription, imposed strict limits on the maximum dose, and cracked down on imports of illegal pills. At the same time, Indian authorities tightened export regulations on tramadol.

Not long after this crackdown, Aveo Pharmaceuticals began to export a new pill based on tapentadol, an even stronger opioid, mixed with the muscle-relaxant carisoprodol.

West African officials are warning that opioid exporters appear to be using these new combination pills as a substitute for tramadol and to evade the crackdown.

In the Aveo factory there were cartons of the combination drugs stacked on top of each other, almost ceiling-high. On his desk, Vinod Sharma laid out packet after packet of the tapentadol-carisoprodol cocktail pills that the company markets under a range of names including Tafrodol, the most popular, as well as TimaKing and Super Royal-225.

He told the BBC's undercover team that "scientists" working in his factory could combine different drugs to "make a new product".

So we still have loggers in Nigeria. This is why Nigeria is facing desertification and soil erosion.

The destruction of the rainforest and logging creates more damage than bandits.

Yankee101:
So who was lying?

The government and NNPCL

LegendHero:
Source: https://m.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/2/nigerian-man-sentenced-to-10-years-imprisonment-for-drug-trafficking-in-india-2.html

He was caught in 2019 and sentenced in 2025. Nigerians committing crimes don't pay.

Truvelisback:
Italian league and the envy of the success of African players especially Nigerian players are like conjoin twins. Once you outshine their white players, they would do anything they can to pull you down out of envy.

Why would Italian envy Africans

Useless

Fucking Bastard. He has given Nigerians a bad name; I hope they kill him

MrCGPA:
The North will be difficult to Convince and Vote for Tinubu in 2027 no matter how he built stuff there but He must Win the Election. I know he can manipulate his way. If Tinubu could win even when the President was against him then Nothing Can stop his winning when he is in Power. Tinubu is not Jonathan 4+4=8 for Sure.

The North is no longer a monolith region. Buhari's incompetence and support for Fulani militants across the North has put paid to Fulani hegemony in Northern Nigeria. The Middle-Belt, SW and SS will not align with a weakened Northern elite.

adaperry25:
The noise about tech got into my head and I quit my 8-5 job. Though the 8-5 job was becoming stressful and toxic, I couldn't cope and had to leave.

I had saved some funds and learned data analytics. Now here is where the issue lies.

I've applied to more than a thousand jobs and I keep getting rejections.

My hope was to get a remote job but I'm not seeing it coming.

Is tech all about noise or it's just saturated?

While learning , we were told a data analyst earns 30k USD annually. I'm just getting tired and frustrated

The market has slowed down in Europe and the USA. You are also competing with Asians from India and China; hence, the market is saturated. I suggest that you add a product to your data analysis skills, e.g., Dynamic 365 or Snowflake. You can learn both skills on Coursera for free.

Bwilliam:
Nigerians deporting Naijerians. Lol

Yoruba's Nigerians deporting armed and unemployable Nigerians

He needs to invest in ports and railways in the SE/SS

Daddyk87:
Obasanjo/Atiku root source of Nigeria modern problems

Atiku was the Chairman of the National Economic Council and head of the National Council on Privatization, overseeing the sale of hundreds of loss-making and poorly managed public enterprises alongside Nasir El Rufai.

They sold the entire steel industry to the Indians for peanuts and bribes.

Ajens1991:
The state government has no say in this, as it is a Federal government Asset.

Atiku and El Rufai were heads of BPE, sold all the steel industries to the Indians for peanuts

Sirmwill:

The Poor are now becoming a threat with their poverty right?

Please read the article.

The poor traders are an environmental menace. They block drainage and create static traffic

Wahab explained the illegal process in which shop owners/ traders had converted the setback of the drainage channels in the markets to stalls had impeded the free flow of stormwater and could lead to serious disease breakouts of Cholera, Diarrhea, typhoid fever, amongst others, saying if each and everyone make good sanitation practices a daily affair in their shops and environs, it would save the citizenry from continuous visit to the hospitals.

“With these illegal stalls and shops, if proper care is not taken, we can have a major disease outbreak, and these outbreaks can have negative impacts on our health care system, such that we would start undertaking various tests which we can avoid by doing the needful in every corner of our stalls” he said.

He recalled that the State Government had banned styrofoam over a year ago due to its adverse effects on human health and drainage channels. He observed that some traders are still using and littering the market environment with the banned item and urged them to stop.

“I would like to appeal to our traders who still engage in selling styrofoams packs that we don’t want to see styrofoams in our markets; it is obvious that some of you are still storing these styrofoams in your stores; It is high time you collaborate with the government as traders to help protect the environment and all the drainage alignments” he stressed.

CodeTemplar:
One useless project after the other. I wonder how they will break even when what is being flown across borders can be transported at a much cheaper rate with heavy duty trucks.

Do your homework before commenting. Perishable goods are usually exported by air, not by road, rail or sea. The cost of transported is included in the price of the goods.

Penguin2:
Tor

Let me tell you how this will go…

Before the end of tomorrow, you will see another Muslim group from Southwest who will issue a disclaimer and dissociate themselves from this while pledging unalloyed loyalty to the Sultan of Sokoto as the best leader of all Nigerian Muslims ever and as their personal lord and saviour.

No be those people again?

Quote me if this doesn’t happen tomorrow

There can be other paid Muslim groups that will challenge the league, but the message has been sent out. Yoruba Muslims have separated from the Sultan of Sokoto spiritual leadership.

The crises in the North will not spread to the SW.

emkz:
Very well.

All those lawmakers who demanded bribes should be aware of one thing:

If the lid is not blown, you may get away with it. But once the lid is blown open, you are scarred for life. Recall a shining star in Kano who ruined his political career by collecting bribes to cover up a subsidy probe? Remember the senators who collected bribes from a former minister of education to pad his budget?

Always remember that ill-gotten money will finish. You either spend it completely, or you die and leave it behind. But a scarred name is eternal. Whenever your name is mentioned, it would be associated with graft.

As for this Binance guy, I have only one question for him: why didn't he expose these while he was in custody? Has he been healed of his leg pain then?

All of them are corrupt.

As for those asking how he could have exposed them: he had access to his lawyers, visitors and his Binance colleagues. It is not too hard to understand.

He had to get out of the country first.

How do you explain Nadeem escaping under the control of NSA?

Islie:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/02/car-production-dangote-set-to-dominate-nigeria-auto-sector/

With its Kaduna plant capable of assembling 120 vehicles per day x 300 days - 36000.

You build 5 more plants, and the country will take off. In the 1980s, Nigeria was assembling 150,000 vehicles per annum.

anonimi:
Are the civil servants more corrupt & useless than the politicians, or LESS corrupt & useless?

Why are you cluelessly confused about civil servants and public sector workers being paid for jobs done? Don't you pay politicians despite taking bribe and not doing what they are supposed to do for the masses

How will you have sustainable technology that is maintained IF you fail to employ civil servants?

Google is your friend.

Civil servants are government employees who work in a civil services capacity, while public servants include a wider range of governance.

The public sector employees, such as school teachers, healthcare workers, etc., work in the general public interest. Civil servants work in the civil services and government secretariat at state and federal levels and support government policies.

Most recurring expenditure goes to paying civil servants, who account for less than 5% of the national workforce.

As someone who once worked in the Ministry of Agriculture, Federal Secretariat Ikoyi, I can tell you that the civil services is one of Nigeria's most significant waste of resources.

Most Civil services jobs, such as document filing, can be digitally transformed using open-source technology that will reduce the number of workers and increase productivity and efficiency. Cashiers are still being used across Nigeria government office!

slimfit1:
Ogas go and pay workers first don't come and fool us here.

Pay workers for doing what, taking bribes, not coming to work and doing multiple jobs. Nigeria[b] civil servants [/b]are corrupt and useless. Invest in technology and reduce the need for 90% of these useless workers.

The states should redirect their investment into rural development, rural health care and education and look after the public sector workers such as teachers, security agents and health care workers.

mrvitalis:
Cocoa House... That is a symbol of what I call cocoa house sickness...its my economy theory of what is wrong with Nigeria

Cocoa house sickness - when a country or state use huge chunk of money to build feel good or legacy project that is not economically viable just to show off

Especially when their re other economic pressing issues... And most times it's done with borrowed money

Cocoa House was the the first skyscraper in Western Nigeria, its purpose was to demonstrate modernity, just as the the USA space project to the moon demonstrated USA technological advancement over the Soviet Union. I agree that the building must be modernised.