₦airaland Forum

He has started having sense?

GREATIGBOMAN:
So due to how Naira misbehaving.

I went and withdrew 70% of my savings from the bank and bought $19,000 worth of USDT at N863 per dollar on binance p2p

Guess what.


I just check and they're currently selling usdt there at 722 naira.



My hard earned money just lost like that


I just deleted the app... If they like let them make it drop to N400


Crypto have really delt with me



Last year it was one merchant token that ripped me off $2000
Then Shiba Inu ripped me $1200


Anytime I do anything crypto related I lose money


Will anyone advice me to sell my USDT now at 722 and accept my loss or wait untill December if Naira will lose value further to say N900 to a dollar


Will dollar be scarce in December?


Honest opinions

Wait till December when the CBN ban kicks in. all immediately the price hits your buy in price because the dollar will also be cleaned from the market (or rumours if it), causing the price to fall again.

Ikpaitid:
The IPOB party should be denied the use of all venues in Nigeria. Labour Party belongs to IPOB.

An Akwa ibomite exhuding foolishness

ObiaboAdoka:
Dis war has caused economic hardship in most parts of d world today. We need peace in d world. D war is NO VICTORY NO VANQUISH.

What parts of the world? Or you are resounding APCs excuse for failure.

another1:
It is understandable why the Labour Party will withhold their presidential candidate from attending debates or similar public forums if his counterparts in the All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party do not show up. Appearing at such venues while fellow contestants get to pretend they are busy doing better things can diminish. Why fritter your worth on low-stakes engagements in a society where debates do not necessarily win you an election? Yet, the LP can do better than make Obi’s (dis)appearance a mere reaction to his counterparts. Debate forums are an essential aspect of democratic processes because they are spaces to advance and defend the ideas and ideologies that determine the fate of the nation.

Serious politicians use such platforms to coherently articulate their understanding of issues, advance their plans and projections, and highlight how they intend to deliver on their visions. That is also why you should hardly expect the APC candidate — and even that of the PDP who will take the cue — to refuse to show up. That is not how they know to win elections.

Yes, the APC presidential campaign rambled several excuses justifying the failure of their candidate, Bola Tinubu, to be at Sunday’s town hall meeting organised by AriseTV. He will possibly also avoid future gatherings where he will have to speak extemporaneously to a crowd not pre-selected for his benefit. Truth is, he would be foolish to attend presidential debates. He would be far better off being jeered for running away than risking the thorough self-demystification that will follow his appearance at those forums. There is no benefit for him to subject himself to any town hall meetings, debates, and even media interviews outside the arrangee shows his aides create for him.

First, their party is incumbent, and meeting the public to canvass for votes means he would have to defend their record. Honestly, there is no winning that game if he plays it. Nobody — and I repeat, nobody — thinks Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has done a good job. Even the APC stalwarts are embarrassed about how he has turned out to be the worst leader in the history of modern Nigeria. These days, when even his minions appear on television, you can practically hear the hand-wringing in their voices when they inundate you with a litany of apologies like ‘recession,’ ‘oil price,’ ‘pandemic,’ ‘Russia-Ukraine.’ They started out in 2015 blaming every evil in Nigeria on the “16 years of the PDP” and are still not short of excuses. Tinubu, who also played a decisive role in planting Buhari into power, will have to answer for Buhari’s failures if he faces the public. Nothing about his career as a public officer suggests he understands accountability. The only language he speaks is ‘loyalty,’ not to any higher cause — mind you — but to himself alone.

Second, presidential debates are also a forum to put forward your record as a CV to the public and justify why they should give you a job. Of what can this jeun soke politician boast? Of course, they will mention ‘Lagos’ as his record of success, but even that is a negative. Look, no matter how many tantrums their errand boys throw on this matter, it will not stop me from pointing out how Lagos is a failure. The same political collective has ruled that state for 23 years, yet it ranks very low on every livability index. The crux of cityness is based on the quality of the public infrastructure that makes for good education, healthcare, security, mobility, leisure, hygiene, and shared community facilities. Of how many of these does Lagos boast? Recently, road transport workers in the state went on strike to complain about the extortion they suffer at the hands of the state-sanctioned louts managing their motor parks. The impunity and pure robbery that typifies the experiences of these beleaguered road transport workers are illustrative of the genius farce that runs the state. There is no real substance to all their lauded achievements; much of it is merely extractive. The only thing that works for them is the propaganda architecture that allows the papering over their daily raid of the lives and livelihood of the people.

The third factor is the amount of physical and mental stamina required to withstand a public forum like a debate while absorbing the hostility expected to exude from both the in-person audience and those viewing the broadcast on millions of electronic devices. Presidential debates are a space for gladiators who can endure such and still stand. They typically have some practice in the art of rhetoric, the simultaneous contestation and defence of ideas. The political debate culture was built around people who can think on their feet, not tired men who cannot recall the last time they had a fresh insight. Not enough politicians in Nigeria have been trained for the process. Many of them cut their teeth through one-way dialogues with hired crowds who throng the campaign grounds — not to listen to anything the politicians have to say — but merely wait for the right cue to break into the song of “on your mandate we stand.” The audience knows the process is a farce, and theirs is to supply the background noise.

Outside those spaces, Tinubu is very vulnerable. His handlers will be smart to keep him away from scrutiny. I do not expect him to go to any debate they have not specially curated for him to shine. If Tinubu should attend a presidential debate, I can imagine how flustered he will be if he has to answer the lingering question of how he became a bagman for a drug cartel and the moral implications for the nation. For a man whose gaffes already supply comedians, skit makers, meme-makers, and TikTokers with content, he will be a self-writing joke for a whole week. He has survived his public engagements by depending on a battery of ghostwriters, speech writers, and spin doctors who pretend they can extract sense from the incoherence of a man whose political philosophy is built on the infrastructure of the stomach.

The question for the rest of us is how to proceed from here. Debates are crucial to inscribe the ethos of democracy, but what do you do when the candidates of the so-called major parties are unlikely to attend them? They are wedded to the tactics of winning elections based on the sentiments of religion and ethnicity, and public debates expose them. The PDP vice presidential candidate represented his team on Sunday but asking presidential candidates to debate the vices (pun intended, yes!) of their opponents is demeaning. If the APC/PDP candidates continue to stay away from public forums, it will be unfair to continue to ask the third-party candidates to perform the mental and physical labour while the APC and PDP reap the benefits of not getting scrutinised.

At the same time, I worry when parties like the LP calibrate the public appearances of their candidate on who else shows up or not. The point of having a third party was not to merely replicate the toxicity that characterises the supposedly big two. It was to break the stasis they represent. The goal was to depart from the standard political means — which had become wholly oppressive and entirely non-regenerative — and to begin forming new habits. Obi’s handlers should rethink how they can balance the ethical necessity of subjecting their candidate to public dialogue without risking his overexposure.


https://punchng.com/itll-be-foolish-of-tinubu-to-attend-presidential-debates/

It will be foolish of Nigerians vote a candidate that cannot debate AGAIN!

All These does not affect politicians abi

Even Bashir Ahmad collects more than that

Who.advised them to plead guilty?

Never plead guilty in court.

That's why they sleep on one project. Inflate the costs and drag till the end of the tenure and then disturb us with it

People will pay. Majority will. People crave status, validation and notoriety.

It just makes business sense to charge them.

It has begun

They will give delegates thousands of dollars and give you Agbado bag

Terrorism studies?

Maybe not soldiers, a witness suggested that white operatives joined the raid, and i stick with the witness.

Signed by?

celinajumbo11:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/10/27/atiku-takes-presidential-campaign-to-united-states/

Saraki arranged diplomatic cover for him then....who will arrange this time around?


Well you can lobby the US senators and get away with anything.

Bhh

I saw this breakout yesterday. But it will ultimately come back down but above 20K

We celebrate frauds in the country

Even more.

Our production was about 2 million a day and OPEC quota is about 1.8 milllion bbls a day.

At a point we were outputting only about 1 million bbls a day.

This suggests that give or take close to 200,00 bbls of oil was stolen daily.

90 days to coincide with when you are out of office

At least now, tell the minister to do a thorough job without politics so that the next government can work to ensure this is curtailed next time.

The needed dam should be built before the next flooding in about 10 years, and you people should work hand in hand with Cameroon, there should be early intermittent release, not all at once to prevent something like this, (my opinion).

I have watched this video and it doesn't say anything as what is posted here. Which albedo MOD hurriedly sent this to FP?

The agbado coven WhatsApp group has been mobilized for disinformation.

9jahotblog:
The whole of Nigeria should let these miscreants know that they cannot cause havoc in Lagos and expect sanity other places in an election that involves the whole country. Tinubu ma lule piii Lekan siii niiii. We are fully ready for him this time around.

Why did you steal my post ? I was just here confused and having dejavu feeling.

The whole of Nigeria should let these miscreants know that they cannot cause havoc in Lagos and expect sanity other places in an election that involves the whole country.

Enough is enough.

A very inept government. You should be creating camps in highlands and making it conducive. Now is the time to use the police that like showing force of innocent citizens to go to potential areas and get them to move to the camps.

The Nurtw agberos used to terrorize Lagos, it is a good time to use them to transport people to camps.

Humanitarian minister has already finished the humanitarian money as handouts for tribal affiliates.

If you still vote these people in, na you know wetin you go see by 2024.

These ones never suffer reach

The first person that they wrote this for in his manifesto went on there old and tired and the people they wrote it instead of ending the corrupt subsidy replaced the players with theirs.

If you like vote them in again. Poverty has not hit you enough.

Same rosy manifesto APC released and not a single line item was achieved?

A man that never visited or stretched a hand of fellowship to the region, from nomination to date. Some hungry mofos are collecting money from same region to campaign for him there.

For transport fare, some people will waste their time and sit and listen.


You people have not learnt lesson yet.

Either Agbado votes don buy am as they have with those having diarrhoea of the mouth online, or it is because of his condescending attitude towards Obidients.


I pity those having diarrhoea on here for free

youn:
If both nations has a good air defense system there is no nuclear missile would land so stop saying Russia won’t be able to intercept a USA ICBM
This goes for both nations
For a nuke to land any air defense enabled city or nations then you have to take out the air defense system first

Maybe if you read, I gave my reasons. The "good" air defence system cannot stop HIMARS?

These people....bet me that the cost of recovery will take all the "recovery".