₦airaland Forum

Sirmwill:
If Crude oil was never discovered in Nigeria, we would have been a great nation rn

We would have been forced to grow in Agriculture, Technology and Science.
We would have produced genius inventors and intelligent minds in the world of science and Tech today.

We would have been exporting Technological innovations and Agricultural products today to countries in the world.

Made in Nigeria goods would have been inevitable in all countries.
The Nigeria would have been stronger against the dollar.
All these old heads won't have showed their faces seeking power because they want to control oil which won't have been existent.
They would have been giving speeches to celebrate great Nigerians for their inventions and discoveries(with all the talent Nigerians have 😞)

But

Reverse is the case.

Nigeria problem has nothing to do with crude oil. Nigeria culture whether its Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or Fulani are all intellectual primitive.

DatNiggaDaz:


They will just sit somewhere like they have been doing all these centuries without results & release useless lies & propaganda without providing any evidence to the fact that 70,000 hectares wheat has been planted with an output of over 800,000 hectares metric tonnes of harvest.Mr Minister where is the feasibiliy Study of this project

Simple ways to know that this press release are dished with lies & uncertainty, without an action plan. It involves asking very simple questions ..

..what is the cost of the 70,000 hectares wheat to be planted
...where will the wheat to be planted come from...are they already available to be planted ?...is it a high or low breed grain ?

...In which States will the farmlands hectares be available for this project?.. & what is the security situation in those areas ? Will Additional security be provided in those States, if those chosen states are experiencing insecurity ? No Information was given during the useless press release.

What is the total amount of Loans that was provided by the Afrcan Development Bank for this project ? why is it not stated if you are to be taken serious ( it is not stated because of the usual age long cancer : CORRUPTION. When the amount is not known, it is very easy to loot). How much will be realised from the project ? There are So many questions still to be asked that will show that the statement from the Minister is just what it is.. a press statement

No useful Information was provided..the usual press release of calling low & high numbers & going to do no work while expecting the press release to do the magic of planting & harvestibg over 800, 000 hectares metric tonnes of wheat for the hungry Nigeria masses

The issue is with the corrupt news media that publish this rubbish,

Zimbabwe has invested in the past five years in building irrigation dams, invested in machinery, yet the best they can get from 80,000 hectares is 375,000 of Wheat. Yet this minister wants us to believe they can harvest 800,000 tons from 70,000 hectares. There is no investment from the private sectors, limited investment in irrigation dams and lack of access to private funds.

The reason why there is so much impunity in corruption in Nigeria, is because the news media are corrupt and lazy.

Isokotolopia:
great , food security is paramount

Food and Energy security is paramount and an economic necessity.

Zimbabwe was able to increase it wheat yield and meet food self-sufficiency. I doubt 70,000 is enough. Zimbabwe was able to produce a yield of 375,000 tons from 80,000 hectares of land, using imported machinery from Belarus.

Zimbabwe set for another record wheat yield, bringing back the dream of self-sufficiency
With the war in Ukraine as a wake-up call, the African country has decided to focus more on its own production and less on imports. But bigger harvests will not by themselves solve the problem of food insecurity.

Last year, we were able to grow 150 hectares full of wheat,” says Zinyemba with a satisfied smile on his face. “That’s a very good harvest.”

Although the Zimbabwean winter has just begun, another record wheat harvest is expected this year after farmers in the Southern African country planted wheat crops on 86,000 hectares of land, compared to 80,000 hectares last year. By planting so many wheat crops before the planting deadline of June 15, the nation is hoping to produce 420,000 tons of the cereal - much more than the record yield of 375,000 tons that was achieved last year.

The surplus of last year and the prospect for an even larger surplus this year has allowed Zimbabwe to openly dream of food self-sufficiency again. Additionally, last year’s saved $300 million in wheat imports became part of Zimbabwe’s gross domestic product, rather than disappearing abroad, notes Agriculture Ministry Permanent Secretary John Basera.

“We owe our record harvest to our collaboration with the private sector,” says John Basera, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture. He sees that companies and investors, at the initiative of the government, have invested on a large scale in joint ventures. They not only do this to earn money, says Basera, “but certainly also to guarantee food security in our country”. The joint ventures between the business community and the agricultural sector are now bearing fruit for the first time, says Basera, who refers to the historic wheat surplus.

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-07-05/zimbabwe-set-for-another-record-wheat-yield-bringing-back-the-dream-of-self-sufficiency.html

UnfairLife7:
those millions of unemployed graduates roaming the streets of Nigeria will grab the opportunity to eat whites shit without thinking twice

It's obvious that the Nigerian university system is useless if Nigerian graduates cannot be creative beyond cleaning white man shit.

Afromentalist:
This is why I don't give people unsolicited advice. Look at a near 50 year old nigga with zero valuable skills that want to Jakpa to america.

Now the friend looks like the enemy for being concerned about you.

Sukkot come and see something

Same here, I don't give advice to Nigerians.

milescollins:
I currently live in Accra, Ghana. I’ve lived here for three years and a few months and I have my own house, a car for myself and I feed a lot of folks, those that I know and those that I don’t.
Now let me tell you how I got here; it was a friend who recommended that I come over here. He gave me an opportunity that he didn’t take and that’s called true friendship. Your friend who lives in the States for more than a decade is telling you stories and you still want an advice, that’s pathetic.
A friend will try to help you, give you what you need to get up and not discourage you.
Always make your plans without consulting a friend, na person wey sabi person dey kill am. Take this from me.

Your friend gave you an opportunity that he didn't take, you did not request financial aid from your friend but you friend was in a position to help you.

If your friend was in financial difficulties and he refused to help you would he still be your friend?

slimjohn2k5:
I hv a friend in uk that kept telling me it is hard over to there and withing 4 months he invited mum who is still there with him and relocated his sister with her husband n 2 kids last week.

If you Make up ur mind, do it.

Your friend is prepared to support his immediate family and not you. If he tells you things are good , you will be at his door asking for a handout and a place to live

Willie2015:
Stop discouraging folks...
As far he is willing to put in the hard work..
It is far better than Nigeria.
We cant even feed well in Naija of today...
Fuel is looking to N1000/litre
Exchange rate should reach N1500 by Dec...
To pay school fees is a hard task...
I have 2 relatives above 50 that relocated to UK
last month..Both got simple jobs within 2 weeks of landin
Where there is a will....there is a way...

Cleaning old white people ass is not simple jobs.

Artiiclebeast:
You are calling a closet enemy a friend?

I pity you, bro.

He gets a hard-on from reading about and knowing that he's doing better than you economically and material-wise and all the respect and worship you've been according to him will become a thing of the past.

Most of them hate competition and always revel in the reality of being the ones at the center of all attention.

Even if you are 50 and able to move to the U.S., get serious, work legitimately for the next 5-7 years, and call it a wrap, you will have successfully settled your downlines and created a wonderful retirement plan for yourself with proper planning.

Move, if you can, and with the right plans and connect.

It is good to skill up, but if you ain't got it, you ain't got it and it isn't the beginning and end of life.

There are a ton of zero-skilled jobs where you can make the equivalent of what you currently earn in a month in Nigeria in just a single day..yeah, you heard me right, in a dayyyyy.

Nigerians are their own worst enemy; they seek advice and then attack the messenger.

The OPED of this thread requested advice and financial assistance, and he was given the advice he then went on to identify the success of a 56-year-old who is doing well in Canada with no evidence of that person's skills, experience and profession.

For every Nigerian success story in the West, there are 5 failures. I left Nigeria when I was very young after dropping out of the University of Ibadan to relocate to the UK, as a young with no dependence and responsibility, I could focus on developing my career, learning new skills and getting low-skill labour with the confidence that my career will progress and develop.

It's difficult to succeed in the West when you are middle-aged with responsibilities. You have no idea of your friend's financial status yet you are demanding financial aid from him. In future don't seek advice.

But the issues surrounding japa are quite enormous so I reached out to my friend to seek his advise, suggestions and possibly financial loan which I will pay back. He gave me some important reasons why I shouldn't migrate. He spoke about my age, no technical skill, finances, leaving known for unknown and difficulties faced by new comers in America.

nairalanda1:
We love imports, that's why.

We also have too many natural resources and we think that by selling them and sharing the money we can make enough

Also, the road to being a producer is a hard road. South Korea did it in a generation, but the generation that made the sacrifices suffered a lot as a result. (now they are old, and many of them don't live well).All industrial countries went through a prolonged period of hardship.

Nigerians that are suffering now don't want a leader to tell them that to become like China , Japan, Germany, or South Korea, they only need to work harder and suffer more for another generation.

Sometimes you have to be forced to sacrifice, Tinubu had no choice but to remove oil subsidies because there was limited scope for borrowing due to the large debt and low FX reserve. Nigerians will also be force to produce due to the lack of funds to import another country hard work .

nairalanda1:
LOL...I saw where someone called you an APC supporter for this your comment.

The sad thing about Nigerians is that we love things to be cheap without thinking about how much it costs to make such things. Infact if Nigerians could get away with it, they would buy a brand new 2022 Toyota at N10000 per unit, because.

The thing is, corruption aside, we are not a rich nation. That ouil wey we dey shout about cannot sustain a nation of 20 million, talkless 200 million Nigeria.

Anyway, make una no dey argue with these people.

Nigeria is a very rich country, blessed with young people, arable land and oil and gas, the problem is Nigeria's primitive culture and weak mentally. What is stopping Nigerians from producing? I have sent thousands of pounds to Nigerians to invest in a business but notice that they will waste it on living expense and ask for more.

BoldBrainz:
You cannot drastically reduce imports when you don't have locally produced alternatives to those import products you're cutting off.

Do you want to create chaos in a national dimension? What is even wrong with some of you?

In the 1970s, the Indians and Chinese rode bicycles when the Nigerians were spending their Udogi award on imported Japanese cars; in 1980 the Indians and Chinese learnt to mass produce motorcycles, and today both China and India are two of the top automobile manufacturers in the world.

Nigeria cannot fund imports anymore; the country has been mortgaged to the hilt and has large debt and low dollar exports. Nigerians have two choices start producing or do without.

RepoMan007:
The advise is not entirely bad if not for our deeprooted lack of production. With excess production, export would have earned us dollars to strengthen the naira. With local production of petrol and power, the need to import will be greatly reduced, and therefore the naira will be stronger making goods cheaper. They gave us half advise and left our lazy thinking leaders to figure out the rest but can they?

But Nigeria is unproductive; the country produces nothing and at the same time, liberalised it markets which has opened the country to dumping of foreign goods. Even the USA has strict control over key industries such as AI, semiconductors and Genetic Engr,

Dunlop Tyre which was established in Nigeria in 1961, was forced to relocate to Ghana due to low tariffs for imported tyres now, Nigeria doesn't have a single local tyre factory.

Tinubu World Bank policies will ultimately fail.

The company had suffered from inconsistent government tariff policies, some of which made nonsense of business plans predicated on production, a situation that placed importers of tyres at an advantage over genuine local manufacturers.

Though the company is yet to make its discussions with Edo State public, it has, however, intensified efforts to get technical partners.

In a notice to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Dunlop explained that a state government is setting up an industrial park, with provision for an automobile cluster and tyre manufacturing plant.

It is worthy of note that the company’s stock was last traded in October 2018, and has been labelled by NSE as Delisting In Progress (DIP)
https://guardian.ng/business-services/dunlop-seeks-partners-to-return-to-nigeria/

London Bridge Business School is one of those schools operated by Indians for immigration scamming.

This is not London Business School

Urheadmaster:


For once in my life, am on Atikulooter side. To be inspired by one and only finest Barrister Gani Fawehinmi may his soul rest in peace never misses his way .

Typical stupid Nigerian,

Gani died in 2009. Atiku was aware of Tinubu's fake certificate, but he did nothing about it until Tinubu cheated and won the 2023 election at the expense of Atiku. If you think Atiku at 76 years old has anything to offer

Well done, Nigerian youth; hiking and respecting nature is the beginning of real development.

christejames:
Has the electric engine been incorporated into the transit?


Because the billions of dollars spent is for electric trains, we won't take this diesel engine trains they claim they want to start with




Give us our electric trains🚉 🚉! We should start being accountable for whatever we propose.

Diesel or Electric, what is the difference? As long as it works, who cares? Diesel is more reliable in Nigeria, but if electric will be the main. Power, then, has to be reliable and efficient.

Hedonisco:
The old dirty bastard is compromised and lost.

Your father and all your ancestors are old dirty bastards, compromised and lost.

Stupid idiot with no respect.

Acekidc4:
Why is he in Prison in the First Place🤨🤨

They were arrested over allegations of possession of hard drugs and money laundering.

Good Riddance; he wouldn't be missed.

GOTVee:
Even though I'm a born again Christian, I hope this fake news merchant Hundeyin is arrested by the authorities soon before he is granted asylum. Not only is he a national security threat, He is a first class nuisance and a purveyor of false reports

You are a fake Christian; the release documents highlight gross corruption on behalf of Tinubu. CSU's certificate doesn't align with the certificate he submitted to INEC. Tinubu's claim that he attended GCL is a lie because he attended GCL and the first set of students to graduate was in 1979; GCL never had A-level students.

Nigeria's support for liars and fraudsters is the reason why Nigeria is now a failed state, no god can save Nigerians until they start telling the truth

princeade86:
Nigeria government are bunch of thieves. They trying to dodge Dec deadline. They bringing excuses. Obj was right when he said the thing can't work.

OBJ is wrong. All four refineries can work, they just can't work if Nigerians are in charge of them. Nigerians are too destructive and incompetent. privatise part of the refineries with a non-Nigerian management team and you will see the different.

victooman:
Since l was born, since l got to know my father it has been one complain to the other..
There was never anytime he have money or have the financial strength to Carry out any family responsibility .
After struggling to finish University with no any job l started Pos business were l am managing myself,, the constant demand is killing my business ..
Today my mother called me that my sister is about to be enrolled into secondary school and the total amount for registration is 25k, l called my dad and told him that l will try raising 15k and they should complete the remaining 10k, he started complaining on how he doesn't have money and haven't eaten since yesterday,, in fact l am tired dear Nairalanders,

Why is your mother asking you to fund your sister's education?

If the father is not providing, they should kick him out of the house and between you and your mother fund your sister's education. Irresponsible men should be kicked out of the house.

princeemmma:
very useless people

I have said it severally, truck drivers are the cause of road damage, accident in our Major road

They drive recklessly, i can imagine a truck driver without break

An event happened in my area last week, about 5 people died due to the fact that the reckless driver does not have a good break

I think the government needs to do something with this truck driver, probably they start brain check from most of them

Enforce the increase in the penalties including sizing the truck, large fines and imprisonment. That is why I support the state government sizing vehicle and auctioning off. I have no sympathy for Nigerians who disobey the laws,

Gerrard59:
Using Forbes and Bloomberg, no black billionaire in all of Europe. Adebayo Ogunlesi could have been one, but he is not a dollar billionaire. Meanwhile, there are substantial British-Indians and British-Pakistanis who are dollar billionaires. If a black billionaire is to emerge from Europe, the UK is the most likeliest of places. I don't see France or Italy producing such. I for Impossicant.

BTW, which kind entrepreneurship una wey dey UK dey do sef? E get why I talk say Nigerians are not entrepreneurial. Close to or more than 300K British-Nigerians in the UK, no billionaire. God bless the US sha. If capitalism didn't dey, e didn't dey.

Being a billionaire is not a sign of success in society.

The majority of Black Nigerian Britons are middle class, they own their property (Value £200 -500k) the will have an annual income of £50k and they are educated.

advanceDNA:
I get your sarcasm.....but corruption is the problem Nigerian isn't doing well....not because the rich is paying low or flat tax rate with the poor

The emiratees are oil producers like us....they don't even levy income tax on on its citizens weda rich or poor.......

UAE has a small population. UAE is one of the main financiers of illegal gold mining across Africa.

Olaide1295:
The refineries should be sold off. The government will NEVER know how to run a refinery and it will only fail again in the long run.
Even in the short term, it will only become another subsidy as some people will use it to steal government funds.
Don't bother trying to run it again, just selloff 80% stake to Nigerian investors and hold only 20% minority stake.
Hopefully the govt listens.

I couldn't have said it any better, a balance selloff that will ensure that the government has a minority stake and the remaining held by experienced oil investors.

JOACHINpedro:
How do you deal with work stress esp work you ain't so happy doing?
But the pay is okay for a single person.
I'm on this table and I need input

Go for walks,
Have a sports hobby: running, cycling, team football.

Learn new skills (YouTube has interesting training materials) and get into new professions.

slivertongue:
the Refinaries should be privatised

Who will do the privatisation, the same people that privatise ALCON, AJaokuta and NEPA?

rintileri:




But who do ThubV supporters this thing? you will see black written clearly you will say it is white clowns! Read the writer's findings summary below

5. The Bola A. Tinubu who applied to Southwest College for an associate degree in 1975 claimed to have attended Government College, Lagos, and presented a 1970 GCE A-level result with grades E in Chemistry and Biology and an F in Physics. The problem is that Government College, Lagos, was established in 1974. So, there’s a chronological conundrum there, which signposts forgery. but Mynd44 and yarimo said the certificate has been authenticated by CSU, a forgery authenticated??

3. The Southwest College transcript that Tinubu used to get admitted to Chicago State University belongs to a female. I had questioned the authenticity of the transcript because of the many errors in it, such as the date and social security number. We await what CSU has to say about this.

It’s not clear at the moment if the GCE A-level result is fake or authentic—or if it belongs to the man we know today as President Bola A. Tinubu. My hunch is that it doesn’t belong to him. But this will become clear in the coming days.

Even Kperogi that was still trying to defend the mandate bandit few weeks ago is fed up

I went to Government College Lagos, we had a small set of first O-Level graduates. GCL has never accommodated A/L study

PriNceNova:
... May u never be in a position that u need to beg

I agree and thank God for his grace, but until we take on the elite that have turned Nigerians to beggars nothing will change

They sold slaves for those European bowler hats

Why not leave the name as Ebonyi State Airport? Why do Nigerians always name institutions after dead people?