₦airaland Forum

Orikinla:
The Lagos State Government explained the need and provided alternative routes for those who do not want to use the Lekki Toll Gate.

Those protesting are just noisemakers.

They spend more than that making unnecessary calls and sending useless text messages on their mobile phones.

Clearly your reputation as an intellectual is undeserved.

maasoap:
I'm of the opinion that the man achieved his goal before his demise and really brought respect for his country. It's not a new thing to see many zombie Nigerians who can't think freely but always regurgitating whatever America vomit. Can America, Israel and EU put together use their military might to threaten North Korea today? The answer is simple NO. Hunger and poverty in North Korea? We that are not nuclear armed, are we better than them socio-economically? At least, their leader made sure he won them the respect of the powerful nations before he died. RIP.

The first duty of a leader is to ensure his people are adequately taken care of, not to curry or demand the respect of other nations.

Onyocha:


and who are those people he killed?

is Nairaland the official mouthpiece of american foreign policy and propaganda in nigeria?

did the north korean leader killed more people than George Bush?

would we see a celebratory front page headline when George Bush dies?

the north korean leader did not attack any country during his time unlike Bush.he led his country with iron fists to the displeasure of the west and their schemes of exploitation.but you just cant say he killed people.and even if he did,as a president you do not tolerate people who try to distabilize your rule and scatter the peace in your country.is there any president under whose reign people are not killed?

Were you under a rock when his North Korean troops torpedoed a South Korean vessel, killing tens of soldiers? Were you in a coma during the infrequent border clashes between north and South Korea, invariably sparked by North Korea?

Was it 'American propaganda' when the North Korea 'test-fired' a ballistic missile across japanese territory?

Is it 'American propaganda' that cellphones are forbidden to most North Korean people? Was the food aid North Korea forced many countries to give them just 'American propaganda'?

The man was an evil man whose death makes the world a better place. Feel free to express similar sentiments when Bush dies. No matter if you insist that Bush and Obama are evil, it does not change the fact that this fellow is dead

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sartorius:
The road cost was 50billion

What was the officially quoted amount for the cosmetic repairs on the existing road built by Jakande?

GAR3TH:
[color=#006600]Weather you like it or not someone has to pay for it. We all complain there is no roads, no waters, no schools but at the same time no one wants to pay for them. Thats why Lagos and other cities are doing these ppp projects around the states because your taxes alone can not carry out these projects. Like I said before it cost the same to build a road in nigeria as it does abroad, it cost the same to build a hospital in nigeria as it does abroad, it should  cost the same to run a school in nigeria as it does abroad. The average citizen in the UK pays about 20-25% of their salary towards taxes while the average Nigerian will be lucky to even pay tax. Like I said before, either way if you want it and want to maintain it, you got to pay for it some how, either through taxes or fees [tolls]

This does not make sense, sorry.
One of the major 'achievements' being touted by the Fashola/Tinubu administration was the massive increase/improvement of the IGR and tax money by aggressive Government driven schemes. So it stands to reason that the bulk of the people living in Lekki pay their taxes.

By all means, let LCC put toll gates on the stretch of new road they laid down to recoup their expenses. What people are rightly incensed about is the imposition of tolls on the existing Jakande-built road which was merely rehabilitated. Abeg tell me which level of rehabilitation will lead to an agreement to collect monetary payment from that road for the next 25 years?

There are no universities in Lekki, 24 hrs power supply is not the norm there, most roads are bereft of pipe borne water and insecurity is an everyday fact of life. Is Fashola saying that the taxes these people pay cannot cover the few billion naira that was expended to repair the existing road?

The mistake many of you semi-literate people make is that you think the bill is only about same-sex marriage.

You can ban same-sex marriage all you like, the US Govt does not support or recognize it, neither does the UK or 99% of other countries in the world.

What Soyinka dislikes (and what Obama, cameron et al are condemning) is the criminalization of the same-sex act in itself to the tune of 14 years in prison. What two consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedroom is nobody's business.

The Bible and the Quran also strongly condemns pre-marital sex. I don't see any of you hypocrites calling for imprisonment for fornication.

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Ola one:
Who let this lunatic out?! Who?!

It is compulsory you pay taxes, Mr it's-my-right. Keep your idiotic utterances to yourself. W-a-n-ker!

I can't say i blame you, kid. Perhaps those of us who respond to an obvious troll like yourself should shoulder the blame for encouraging your juvenile, brainless and childish drivel.

Please run along to mummy and daddy for some more pocket money. The people who fork out 18 - 25% of their salaries know that the State Govt owes them good roads in return. Repairing the existing road should rightly come out of the tax money these fellows pay.

Ola one:
So you want everything on a platter? Just get a f . . . life!

You may find it hard to believe, but many Nigerians pay hefty taxes to the state Government. If you're performing your duty of paying taxes without any complaints, why should the state Government regard fulfilling their own end of the bargain as 'giving people on a platter'?

I know small boys like you who subsist on pocket money from your mummy or daddy will not understand. Hopefully, when you grow up you will understand the strong feelings this move is evoking in these Lekki indigenes.

Beaf:
You are right that you are not an Iweala and do not understand economics, the bolded portions have given you out and made destroyed the rest of your argument.
Firstly, getting the refineries working at 100% will not stop fuel importation; in fact the refineries are all working at a high percentage of their installed capacities right now, except for Kaduna (a mistake that should never have been built). GEJ has also ordered that they all must be in full working order within 2 years, so your argument is simplistic, mute and of no use.

The elephant in the room is smuggling, and it is the one your argument has neatly left out. The fuel importers, knowing that they are guaranteed to be paid by the FG; import fuel, get it recorded at our ports, then move it all to our neighbouring countries where they get paid at close at market price. Most of these importers have fuel stations and refineries in those neighbouring countries. After nearly all of the fuel has been distributed in neighbouring countries and the importers paid there, the Nigerian govt is presented with the bill. It is an exponential swindle that see's Nigeria effectively subsidising the energy needs of Benin Republic, Niger, Cameroon, Burkina Faso etc. Basically, we are subsidising W. Africa.

Why should Nigeria feed other countries when the money can be used on Nigerians? It must end.

Also, in the past, the amount of fraud was hidden by the fact that there was always fuel scarcity, but GEJ's drive to end that disgraceful phenomenon has seen the importers awash with even more fuel to juggle the life of the common man and defraud the nation with.

To fix that loop, govt will have to fix the following in one swoop without bloodshed; port authorities, NNPC, customs, police, large swathes of elite. we already have boko haram and intense fires of ethnic bigotry. The only option is to toss the the entire fuel import ecosystem into the trash can and sanitise it without govt payments; then we can split the task of taking on those groups one by one.

The scandal must end today, there is no sane reason to call for govt to wait, while the whole country has been sold into the slavery of a few hundred with the poison fruit of N65.00 per litre. The man on the street has enough pride and self-worth to stand for that.

So in summary, what you're saying is that Goodluck Ebele jonathan is too weak to secure our borders? Or he is too weak to curtail or severely reduce smuggling across our borders?

Gotcha.

SNCOQ3:
those of you calling man-loving-men animals should remember that even animals don't do same-sex.

You ignorant ape! H'omosexuality in nature has been observed in over 1500 animal species

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

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bisiaet:
Mr. are you one of them? better go now and seek assylum outside Nigeria orelse it may be too late. By the way what a hell is the matter with America blablabla in relation to this matter? Do they think everybody enjoy or like them? Or who a hell do they think they are?

They polluted tHe entire world just because of their uncontrolled freedom of madness. It was these their systematic imprealism that led Bin Laden on war front with them and gave birth to terrorism today because all what US want is to impose on every living human their own ways, their own law, their silliness, their stupidity, their demonic empire actS and so on.

This is very simple No Same Sex in Nigeria if found guilty is a jail term and as it is now I think jail term is not enough I would suggest death penalty may be that would make them get the message that Nigeria is not an annex or an extension or a colony of America or any European cuntry. The truth is I hate all these Boloks called Homoanimals with passion and if they refuse to yield to what the law is telling them and try to fight on we have get in place a serious confrontational method by the time two or three joysticks among them are hacked down then they will know is not a joke.

I have no sympathy for them, I dont care who a hell they are, I have no heart for them and no compassion for them they are stinky disgusting regretable creation of God. I D I O T S!!!!!!

See how you typed multiple paragraphs to whine about this issue. Meanwhile you're staring down the reality of paying N140 per litre of fuel next year!

H'omosexuals never took a penny from my pocket. The planned removal of fuel subsidy will! Why can't you Nigerians focus on the important things in life?

No matter you stance on this issue, there are far more important things to be talking about. At the end of the day, there is little difference between you lot and the empty brained chiefs of long ago who were hoodwinked into handing over their kinsmen as 'slaves' in exchange for glass beads. You people are easily distracted from the important issues at hand!

In the face of the looming fuel subsidy removal, Nigerians should be calling up their senators to urge them to oppose this insane move. Only a moronic and imbecilic oaf will be happy that his Senator will spend all his time babbling about the anti same-sex marriage bill when we face far more critical issues now.

Dudes, these are just phones o! Argue with facts and logic, not with insults.

Remember that at the end of the day it's all supposed to be friendly banter


Bottom line is, these are both excellent phones. If i did not have to carry around an accursed Blackberry (for BBM) i'd be rocking a Galaxy S2 + iPhone 4 combo

You see the moronic folks we have in power now?

We've had the worst ever NECO and WAEC results this year. We have reports of a shocking decline in our tertiary education institutions. Our secondary schools are retrogressing badly.
Yet Education is not given any special attention in this year's budget!

Nchara:
How would you fight Boko Haram, kidnappers, armed robbers and ritualists? With your teeth? The defense budget seems okay given the acute insecurity in the land

So you admit GEJ was lying when he claimed that Boko Haram is fast becoming a non-issue?

The illiteracy and foolishness on display by Nigerian authorities is sickening to behold.

The United States government does NOT recognize gay marriage. They are not asking Nigeria or Nigerians to legalize gay marriage. They are only against criminalizing h'omosexuality.
Why then does EVERY government spokesman who responds come out to speak only about gay marriage? Why do they insist on proclaiming that the US is hell bent on institutionalizing gay marriage in Nigeria which is not even legalized in most areas of the US?

The real problem with Africa is these old, sit-tight leaders that refuse to leave power. The same old men that Zuma rubs shoulders with and shares champagne with at their AU meetings.

zuma is as worthless as they come.

musKeeto:
Can you pls stop displaying your ignorance? I won't fall for this trick question. The speed of the S2 determines how fast it runs applications across the board. This includes browsing applications, music applications, wifi cracking and sniffing applications, camera, syncing, multitasking, in essence the speed and response of the UI and apps. You think companies design a phone with so much speed just for some particular apps? lmao

Apple has better optimised and designed apps because they've got a lovely Gpu on the inside. If the iPhone 4S had 1gb of ram and same processor speed as the S2, this would be a no contest. And Apple had over 6 months to do that.

Btw, i got banned. tried other usernames and also got banned, smh

Well, isn't that sad for you that iOS on the 4S runs as smooth (or smoother) than stock Gingerbread on the S2? Apps open almost instantly with no hint of slowdown.
Funny you're talking about the S2's speed and it's applications in the camera app. Despite having a lower clock speed in the iPhone 4S, it fires off photos much quicker than the Galaxy S2. See the image below

https://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/10/iphone5apple2011liveblogkeynote1456.jpg

So if the whole essence is to speed up the UI and stock apps, of what benefit is it to Apple to cram in a 1.2Ghz CPU like the Galaxy S2 when it's 1GHz CPU (underclocked to 800Mhz) in conjunction with iOS 5 delivers better performance than that of its rival? What does it matter if the 4S had 1GB of RAM when it outperforms the S2 with 512MB RAM?

It's funny you often speak so dismissively when it comes to the GPU. For many years, PC users benchmarked the power of their machines using Crysis (a game). The most demanding tests of brawn in most modern day smartphones is in rendering complex 3D worlds in demanding games. Here the SGX 543 MP in the iPhone 4S absolutely destroys the GPU in the S2's Exynos. Hell, even the new tegra 3 GPU struggles against the SGX 543MP.

In summary, Android needs a fast, dual core processor not to be laggy. iOS is a much better optimized bit of software and it shows. The single core iPhone 4 runs smoother than many Dual core Tegra 2 Android devices at stock conditions. When you consider that the majority of Android owners will not root, will not install custom roms and will not overclock using SETCPU et al, a large proportion of Android owners clutching dual core devices will suffer through real world performances that are not as good as that on the ageing single core iPhone 4, not to talk of the 4S

I'm willing to bet that the cost of these 'projects' has been inflated 1000%!

Litmus:
Here's an idea of my own no less alien that the ones most of you have been putting forward.

Foreign  powers want Nigeria to go to war.

Apart from Al Qaeda, I cannot think of any foreign power that will be interested in another Nigerian civil war.

Certainly not the Western powers; they rely on a stable Nigeria for continued supply of oil, largely free from the middle east volatility. They also rely on Nigeria to help police West Africa via ECOMOG and they rely on a strong Nigeria to curb Islamic expansionism.

Certainly not the Chinese. They're pretty much getting a good deal out of Nigeria as it is, no reason why a fragmented and volatile Nigeria would be of any immediate benefit to them.

The Russians? Nada!


nobody wants Nigeria to turn into another Somalia. Except Boko Haram and Al Qaeda.

Let's be clear on one thing. The US is not demanding (or even asking) that Nigeria legalizes same-sex marriage. not all states in the US even allow same-sex marriages.
For the avoidance of any doubt, the US Government does not recognize same sex marriage! Only 6 states recognize same sex marriage in the US.

What the US Govt is against is the criminalization of h'omosexuality. Jailing someone for 14 years just because of their se'xual orientation is utterly wrong.