₦airaland Forum

Fragility6:
D issue is who is ready to do d overhauling of d security system. Whoever enters into power is more interested in entertaining visitors or travelling around d world.Diz country was not planned well atall.D politicians ar just capitalizing on a poor system

The politicians are not the major problem, we the followers are - and let me hasten to add that I say that advisedly.

Some Nigerians are protesting the killing of Floyd in the use in solidarity with Black Americans. Curiously we don't protest against cases like that in Nigeria.

Politicians all over the world are wired similarly, but the followers in developed climes will not allow their leaders to ride roughshod over them while we genuflect before our rulers without calling them out through protests.

With this nonsensical way Malami and the FG is handling the case, we ought all to be on the streets.

Gracealone:
Probably that's when people would listen more.

Anyone that believes he has a future should steer clear of rape.

It is as simple as you stated.

rationalhuman:
Absolutely, We as a race are cursed, Most unproductive, Most ignorant people on this planet.

yet you see on another thread, There are people arguing why in Dangote ,All the Sr. Engineers, Technical experts, Developers are from India.
We dont have a Quad Redundant HOT Redundant DCS ACS Engineer in entire continent (Except maybe SA), and we are challenging Dangote.

We dont have a single company able to design HP Boiler (All are importing from China, India, Korea) yet we are asking why like Indians , Nigerians are not making a Mega Petrochemical Complex for Dangote.

Can you imagine such height of ignorance and dumbness? sometimes i just dont reply but read helplessly, in which direction we are going.

You are so spot on! I don't believe that we are cursed though. I believe, rather, that we have very poor work ethics. Have you walked into a Nigerian office (bank, hospital) and the person that is supposed to attend to you is busy on the phone attending to unofficial matters for several minutes! At the end of the day, we now complain about the economy. The question we should be asking ourselves daily as individuals is "How much have I contributed to Nigeria's GDP today?"

baysan:
I hear people say our population has rised reason behind our suffering..what would we say about countries with higher population likes of china, india and USA, where there economy thrives far better than ours ....

The problem is not in the absolute population; the problem is in the percentage of the unproductive population.

Sad as it may seem, the truth is that the only profitable thing some people would have done by the end of today is commenting on Nairaland! And that doesn't add a dime to our GDP.

So many people are waiting to consume the cake baked by few people!

Exc2000:
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how can you prove that a guy had sex without your consent, when you visited his house and used your leg to walk into his bedroom without him forcing you with a weapon or druging you, you even agreed to having a relationship with him

You have many acquaintances and friends who you trust but that does not mean that they can't harm you.

We have read severally about people that were beheaded by acquaintances or friends - and in some cases, family members - for ritual killings and what not.

Would you blame the beheaded people for going to visit their so called friends and relatives who ended up killing them?

Only people with low self esteem would go about raping ladies. As a young man, back then, if a lady said no to my advances that was the end of it. How do men even get it up when you can see that the lady doesn't want it as much as you do?

There is no difference between rapists and armed robbers; they both forcefully take what they have not been given!

gaskiyamagana:
But we must be realistic. If the man Obaseki is truly yet to sworn in 14 APC state legislative members duly elected by Edo people in their respective LGs, he will do the worst if given any chance to run again.

The part of your post that I emphasized is a very low point of Obaseki's government. That action has denied some constituencies legislative representation for 4 years!

The second mistake he made was conniving with others to remove his party national chairman and failing to achieve that objective. From that point forward, it means that reconciliation was foreclosed.

Racoon:
This is a more reason why Nigeria & Africa should take it stand & develop the continent so that these western imperialist and their collaborators will not continue to hold its to ransome with aids, grants or monetary inducements with strings attached.

In 2015, Adesina was not the candidate of the U.S as the helmsman of AfDB and it would appear as if they haven't changed their position.

BreconHills:
Can they target his investments and retirement fund?

Targeting his investments and retirement fund is not beyond them. They can bring trumped up charges against it him that would make spend his fortunes on a protracted litigation.

jchioma:


My blood just dey boil after watching that clip.

These guys must be possessed or something. That was pure murder by a wicked and sick soul.

Thanks John for calling it out.
Justice must be served.

That was pure murder! We blacks need to show love to one another and become more focused towards unity.

I laugh when some people who just got their visa to the u.k or the u.s snigger at and speak derogatorily about their countries of birth.

No matter what you achieve out there, there will always be some consideration, either veiled or unveiled, for the fact that "you aren't one of them".

I have experienced it first hand.

BreconHills:
Africans don't think, they follow their prejudice and coat it with platitudes. People who have not worked in high wire positions take these allegations at face value. A cursory look at the characters Trump has pardoned will free them of the idea that this US administration lives in a moral universe.

Omitted from the long list of offences is China and the rebalancing of the Afdb currency portfolio.

Unfortunately there are those in Nigeria who will hate on the man because he was a PDP minister, others will hate on him because they want to zero his chances of returning to elected office and yet others because they hate his tribe. But anyone who gets a bank bond issuance oversubscribed during covid and who retains a triple A rating is a good ceo.

Brilliant submission!

U.S. criticism of the bank’s internal processes follows comments by World Bank President David Malpass in February that multilateral lenders including the AfDB tend to provide loans too quickly, and, in the process, add to African nations’ debt problems.

I find the highlighted part of this post offensive.

Bretton Woods institutions like IMF, World Bank have been killing African countries with loans with onerous terms but they didn't consider it as 'adding to African nations' debt' but AfDB that is giving loans to African countries at lower interest rates is being accused!

If Africans wouldn't chart their course, Africa would continue to be milked by these people.

Racoon:
This is totally unethical if proven to be true.This needs to be thoroughly revisited & Mr.Ezenwa punished accordingly if found guilty.

The truth is that AFDB under the sharp leadership of Adesina has taken a lot of lending businesses away from American and French interests and the guy has demonstrated a sense of independence that is alien to these neocolonialists who would rather have their lackey head AfDB.

Sadly, I read on here yesterday how Adesina was thrown under the bus by some Nigerian tribal irredentists who accused him of hriring his Yoruba brothers in breach of extant recruitment processes and controls. However, this article has rubbished all those claims. The 2 major people mentioned as having enjoyed undue advantage from the troubled AfDB President do not share tribal affiliations with him but they are Nigerians and if they were qualified why wouldn't he allow their employment to go through.

Nigerians should be careful the way we play the tribal cards because at the end of the day only Nigerians can help Nigeria and Nigerians! Help will not come from outside.

The moral of this debacle can be captured in this rhetorical question, "Why does Africa Development Bank need non-africans as shareholders?"

Think Africa, Africa think.

eleko1:
obey the clarion call not pusi call.Some girls useless themselves in campus,camp.No wonder.,some are worthless now(without hubby @ 40/the lucky ones marry dem papa age mate)

Why the fixation on girls that showed indiscretions in the camp. You have no words for the guys that behaved uselessly in the campus and camp!

Well, just so you know some of those guys too are worthless now (without any sense of direction, no job, no business @ 40.

The consequences of untamed sexual and non sexual vices among youths are neither gender biased nor gender selective!

The lesson is that if we must condemn some vices among the youths, let us condemn the vices across gender.

Babatunde40:
See how that useless SS guy handcuffed pilot. Tomorrow they will meet and he would be looking for favour from him.

I don't even understand why that pilot was handcuffed in the first instance. Not that he committed a criminal offence and he wasn't a flight risk and there was no probability that he could harm anyone at that scene.

Now that he has been handcuffed like a common criminal, his offsprings and their friends would always have access to these pictures. How does Wike intend to ameliorate the incalculable damage done to the man's image?

Lexusgs430:
Blame IBB......

I remember buying a ticket to the UK for only N9824.00...



Yes, Nine thousand eight hundred and twenty four naira only...........

I believe that things had become progressively bad from independence to the time IBB took over.

However, Babangida was the one who hastened the economic downfall of this country with his Structural Adjustment Program, mindless devaluation of the Naira at the behest of the Bretton Woods institutions such IMF.

From Babangida's regime, corruption became endemic and institutionalized and we lost it as a nation.

galaxy2020:
You see una life? Una think say una the do Jonathan.. Buhari should deal with it, he's the commander in chief.

Please, let us stop injecting GEJ's name into every discussion that has to do with Buhari.

Buhari has failed and he is still failing. Jonathan failed.

Nobody should be sympathetic towards GEJ's and Buhari's leaderships. They both rode on the back of popular support in 2011 and 2015 respectively. However, they both frittered away the Goodwill they enjoyed before being elected with their actions and inactions.

It is sad!

Reference:
Sins of decades past still hauting us. When will Nigeria make a clean break and change course for the better. You can imagine a member of Jimmy Carter's administration still hanging around the Oval Office.

That is what it is. A Minister in the 80's is COS in 2020. Just wierd. When this man was in the UN, Margaret Thatcher was the British PM to put it into context. I was busy assemblying a formidable collection of comic books and stamping kalkitos round the house....my goodness.

It is sad that very old men are making decisions for the youths but the few young people who have found their ways to power in Nigeria have not inspired confidence. From Salisu Buhari to Dimeji Bankole to Yahaya Bello to Dino Melaye.

The youths of this country have learnt a great deal of wrong things that have to be unlearned to make good leaders. How that can happen is what I am still trying to figure out.

Atiku:
In other countries, you do not open fire unless suspect is armed and shoots first.

This statement is not totally correct, many black people have been killed by security forces in the U.S even though they weren't armed.

RIP to the young fellow. The mopol that pulled the trigger should be made to face the firing squad and all our security operatives should be compelled to watch it live so that they would understand the consequences of their actions clearly.

instinct57vm:
PS: The hubby’s mother is a separated single mother.

PS: My friend and her hubby both contributed to pay the rent

PS: The hubby’s father is not in support of all the happenings and all efforts to reach his son proved abortive since the misunderstanding. He wouldn’t answer his dad’s calls.

What are your opinions about this issue? Thank you.

There is really not much one can say here apart from the fact that your friend's mother-in-law and brother-in-law are sick in the head.

The solution for now is for the lady to relocate to her father's house while waiting for the current rent to expire. Let her wait and see if the foolish hubby will come to ask her to contribute towards the next rent since they jointly paid the last rent.

lukui:
I just learned that the northern leaders are even more wicked and heartless than most others in the country.

In streets where they all live together both rich and poor, they will be passing by poor people left right and centre besides them, but won't do anything. They don't care, if you like die, if you like live. Around December last year when kano was 0 degrees Celsius, many of them were sleeping outside on the cement floor bare without blankets or duvet. Even those of us inside the house wore like three to five clothes, these almajiris were still outside. Nothing concerns there leaders about them. They will just ride in their jeeps and move pass them.
A child not taught will sell the house well built. Even if their parents can't cater for them. Will the society too be wicked towards them? The level of wickedness exhibited by northern leaders is very very raw, and flawless. Bunch of wicked people

Your post in emphasis refers.

Please do not promote people to give birth to children they can't cater for.

Parents should learn to give birth to the number of children they can cater for.

If everyone in the society chooses to be irresponsible like those who send their kids to beg on the street joyfully and without any remorse, how will the society have funds to cater for the children uncatered for?

Racoon:
Another political gimmick.Seperate almajirism from Islam? So why did you lots fought Emir Sanusi? Well, let's see how it all pans out because that means the foot soldiers doing most of the dirty works will be gone. Remember Garba Adamu from Kano said "The Almajiris Cultural Heritage is the Pride of the North"

To be fair, El Rufai was not one of those who fought Sanusi.

I believe that El Rufai has what it takes to provide a rallying point for his fellow northern governors to end the almajiri culture. It is archaic and it promotes irresponsible parenting.

Imagine a responsible, tax paying parent, giving birth to 2 children because that is the number he can afford to cater for comfortably, then some rascals go to birth 10 kids even when they don't pay taxes and barely contribute anything to the GDP. Responsible people cannot be funding the reckless lifestyles of irresponsible people!

PigTormentor:
I'm not surprised for one sec. When even people with money wants to rush a flight were seats are already assigned, what else is going to surprise me.

So true. What saddens me is that such people wouldn't display such animalistic behaviors at foreign airports but once they are in Nnamdi Azikiwe or Muritala Airport you see them throwing decorum away.

Someone that stayed on the queue in Houston George Bush intercontinental airport in the U.S or Heathrow in U.k would start misbehaving at any Nigerian airport.

Is the madness in the air we inhale?

PigTormentor:
It has everything to do with all that you listed.
In a society where people are disciplined and sincere, it's easier to distribute food. People will line up, collect their share and go home. Nigerians have zero patience and greedy. They will collect and collect and collect. They will therefore deny others the opportunity to collect anything. You will have to bring in Police into a situation where in most society, police and force is not needed.
You don't seem to understand the impact of human behavior and thinking on his society, it creates the kind of society that you have.
Hungry and homeless people will line for assistance and food in the US. They will collect what they are given, will not collect more than what they are supposed to get and will show appreciation. Nigeria is the danm complete opposite.

My friend, a Nigerian in diaspora, owns a hotel in Lagos. He ordered his hotel management to do some give aways during the lockdown. The give aways was supposed to run for 4 weeks but when he saw the video of the first week he had to discontinue it. People were trying to pull down his gate, some were attempting to scale over the fence.

It is pathethic the way we conduct ourselves in this country, and I mean both followers and leaders!

Eulalia:
Even though I don't quite agree with some of his statements, there's an atom of truth in what he's saying. At least we all saw pics of how people abused this privilege of the lockdown ease on Monday and Tuesday. All he's saying is for our own good cos if anything happens, the lower and middle classes will suffer it the most. Please let's take a cue from what is happening in kano and other northern States and get our acts right.

Nuf said.

I like your submission, you are on point.

The masses of the country act irresponsibly sometimes blaming the government for their attitude.

Sadly, the Nigerian government since independence, has shown very little empathy for the masses. The more reason why the masses ought to exercise extra care in living healthily because if this situation becomes worse as a result of our nonchalance, Nigerians would have themselves to blame.

Let everyone stay safe and help others to stay safe.

Gracealone:
The woman was screaming in the video that the policeman slapped her first.
Nobody mentions that again

I heard her saying that the policeman slapped her first while she was eating. That said, the woman's action is unjustifiable, especially when there is a video evidence of her assault on the police officer while she doesn't even have any shred of evidence that she was ever slapped. I could even hear her kinsmen imploring her to desist from further assault to no avail.

I trust the Nigerian police to make a scapegoat of her, my heart goes out to her children.

Though the woman's conduct stands condemned, the several bad eggs in the NPF who go about assaulting innocent citizens should desist.

Virginnn:
They should stop this rubbish cash transfer.
Nigeria has no data base of the people who needed that conditional cash transfer. Even the 20k they claimed to have disbursed am still wondering when the data was gathered. Or was it done spiritually?
What is taking place now is massive stealing. They should just stop this open stealing.

You have just echoed my thoughts.

When and where, did Nigeria compile the so called national social register?

What is the basis of this conditional cash transfer?

If there is any basis at all, why is the basis not made public so that the potential beneficiaries can actually know ahead that they are qualified and they can blow the whistle if the transfer doesn't get to them because of some thieving politician or civil servant.

Without the general public knowing the rules guiding this conditional transfer, it would be subject to the fluid interpretation of the handlers.

BestOsai:
You think building a business is easy?? Think again!

Building a business is not easy as all good things do not come easy but it is worth it.

Sometimes, the small trader you look down on is better than those of us in corporate suit.

And if there is any sector that is worth investing in, I will pick the food industry; with a bit of diligence, you can't ever go wrong.

This lockdown has further reinforced my opinions about the agricultural/ food business.

You don't have to be a farmer but you can position yourself along any point of the value chain and you will be good.

Adlac:
Donations are allowable Expenses therefore it has no effect on tax burden. i.e that N1B is excepted from tax.

Sorry, I earlier sent a piece that was meant for someone else to you but that has now been edited.

You are very correct, donations are allowable expenses and they are consequently excepted from tax computation.

fulaniHERDSman:
I disagree with you. Those children deserve fair treatment too. Why decide and seal their fate like some mini god.

But nobody is sealing their fates like some mini God. They are only being sent to their states of origin in order to reunite them with their parents and other kith and kins. And that really, is what any responsible person should wish for; that these children will be under the care of their parents until such a time that they can fend for themselves through more noble means other than begging for survival.

Asour:
Hello sir.
Being tax deductible doesn't make it not to be a PR act.

Every good thing you do that you bring to public light Voluntarily is PR .

PR is not bad. Always. But it is PR.

I agree that it is PR to the extent of bringing it to the public; I only wanted to bring to the fore that those donations are not free as they came at a price!

kikero:
1.First, quota system won't apply in this kind of issue.

2.The problem with Nigeria is funding for research of this kind is not available due to limited funding for education and health, and due to the private sector not being large enough to fund such projects.(And a big part of the reason why is because Nigerians are not ready to pay for good education and health care, or to run the type of economy that would fund good education and healthcare)

3.If you notice, he is doing his research not under the auspices of the US government, but under the auspices of a private drug company, and a private university, thus quota system won't apply. Some funding comes from the government though

Very brilliant submission!

Nigerians would rather use their money to vote for BBN and the private companies would rather sponsor shows like BBN because that is what the Nigerian viewing community wants.

Asour:
The N1bn is "just a Month's Budget" right ?

Well a Month is a big deal in business. Even for big ones.
How many months have we had the lockdown ?

In fact, in less than 2 weeks into the lockdown, Large Companies were already Complaining of hugely affected by it. So explaining away 1bn as "just a Month expense" doesn't cut it.

Your take on the donations as a PR move is brilliant though. I too have been searching for a reason to explain it. This seems apt.

The donation is not PR.
As a matter of fact, donations made towards covid-19 by corporate bodies and individuals are tax deductible, meaning that when it comes to paying their corporate taxes these donors can (and trust me, they will) deduct the donations made from the tax payable. Hence, most of these donations are actually prepaid taxes in the real sense of it and not "donations".

Simply put, if I advance you #200 and later it is proven that I'm owing you #1000, I will only give you #800. Therefore my #200 is not a gift but a prepayment.