₦airaland Forum

Saintp:
We do not have market that is as large as China but we do have a significant market. With our size, we can be a manufacturing hub for Africa. How many countries are more populated than Nigeria? Bros, we have the market.

How many people can afford a brand new SUV in NIGERIA? How many banks offer affordable financing schemes for vehicle purchase ?

I could have sworn your initial comment was about local consumption. Setting up as a manufacturing and export hub for west Africa is another thing entirely.

Saintp:
Only if Nigeria had infrastructures, we would have been attracting things like this because we have the market. Too bad.

We don't have the market, sorry.

greenermodels:
(6) Less windows and glass: Glass looks good but it’s costly. Carefully place your windows to eliminate waste.aim for standard sized windows and eliminate any fancy glass.

Careful with this recommendation. One of the biggest sins in building design I see in Naija is the tendency to make houses with small or few windows for ventilation.
Living in a tropical environment, the more paths for cross-ventilation, the better.


Houses looking like prisons in Nigeria (or concrete pillboxes) because people want to save money.

kogbaski99:
Personally I can't wait to have that phonePad 3

Oshey, paid Tecno marketer. Your post history is filled with your endless - and transparent - shilling for Tecno products.

Do the right thing and pay @Seun for an ad banner for Tecno.

unclezuma:
My bad on the 1$=1Naira statement just tell your handlers to return it back to the status quo.

You should first start by returning the money used to educate you to your parents. There's absolutely no way the exchange rate could have stayed at N200 to a dollar with the dramatic fall in oil price. Assemble a team of the best economists in the world and you'll still never have been able to maintain that exchange rate.

Sometimes you people should put partisan politics aside and analyze issues with logic. You're probably a graduate, shouldn't it be a thing of pride for you to think these things through?

tmanis:
Oops! I struck a nerve there, and behold, he came at me with insults... Thank God I know the mentality of the person I'm dealing with, now I don't have to drag myself down.... I'll pass on this one

He was wrong to insult you, but it does seem like you have nothing to add to this discussion.

I for one would be interested to see just how exactly you refute my point instead of the unhelpful (and in my case, wrong) 'fallacy' response.

Zetra:
What 2undexy said is true, Samsung 6edge after like 3months of using it, hanged, I had to allow the battery to drain before it could reset.
I sold the Phone after 6months of usage sold it, battery retain mentioned is poor even when on flight mode but I miss it's camera, super sharp/clear

You can usually reset most smartphones these days with some key press combination. You should have done a google search for help.

The trend these days is for phones to be waterproof. A non-removable battery helps with that.

eleojo23:
Removable is better because it is easier to 'reset' the phone when it is misbehaving by just removing the battery and putting it back.
But for non-removable battery phones, the only way to do that is to press almost all the buttons on the phone simultaneously in order to bring the phone back to it's senses and this can make you loose some files.

I am speaking based on my own experience.

2undexy:
Non removable battery phones are very prone to hanging....and toba lo hang lasan ....probably gone wait for the phone to strip off to the last bar

I had to check to be sure we were still in 2017. This type of problem went away years ago...unless you're buying some of the very cheap chinese clones.

datola:
Your enemies have failed.

You mean her mechanics have failed.

You superstitious people sef.

echofun:
It means its not pirated.

No. I doubt that's what you meant.

Doesn't help your case that there's currently no way to pirate and play PS4 discs.

Can you please tell me the essence of specifying that a video game disc was used 'in the UK'?

Codes151:
html u copied... what's the prove u didn't edit it with a notepad or sth!? Who else saw it in this house

The car was register even with the suffix""apostle""

I saw it myself. Verified that gist.

Many others did, too.

Oyindebrah:
This image of the next TECNO PhonePad somehow made its way online before its official release and the design is nothing short of stunning. When zoomed closely we observed the body had tiny lines in the form of a wiredrawing making the phablet look even more unique.

That is called a 'brushed metal finish' and is not unique. Please don't use the phrase 'form of wiredrawing' again.

Oyindebrah:
If speculations are right, this is a massive statement from TECNO with the 13MP back camera and Fingerprint sensor, not forgotten the much more improved RAM size as well.

Having a fingerprint sensor and 13MP camera cannot be called a 'massive statement' by any stretch of the imagination. This is 2017 and these specs are quite generic these days, even in Shenzhen devices.

Omooba77:
I have been thinking seriously about the happening between a prophet and a lady.
Yesterday as I was driving, the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife flashed through my mind; the lady lied against Joseph and he was sent to prison for an offense he didnot commit.
More than thirty five years ago, a girl lied against me and my parents beat the hell out of me for an offense I did not commit.
So if it is the lady lying or prophet; both of them know, but Ultimately God knows.
Lets us not be hasty to pass judgment. I am not defending anyone, just as Spirit revealed to me. Nothing hidden will not be uncovered.
Have a bleesed Sunday.

I struggle to find the point of your post, to be honest.

OP
No surprise that 99% of your justifications are picked from the Old Testament.

There is a new covenant that we live by as Christians. And there is no recorded evidence that the Christians after the death of Jesus paid any mandated tithe. None of the apostles recommend it. Despite the rich trove of letters written by Paul (that plays a big role in the shape Christianity is in today) not a single one of them talks about a 10% tithe.

Do you know what JESUS and the apostles spent most of their time talking about? Love and Charity. Giving to the poor and the needs. Parable after parable from Jesus centers on Charity. All the New Testament books talk about love and Charity. Yet your Pastors reject this and misquote Malachi to fill their coffers.

Any Pastor that spends more time talking about Tithe than Charity is not Being a true Christian. The Bible is clear on this.

Learn!

Being merely a 'popular' actor in Nollywood isn't that awesome when you're male. And the jury's out on his 'popularity' since I've never heard of him before his sycophantic defence of disgraced actresses and Men of God who aren't aware of his existence.

Still quite a way off Freeze's level when it comes to these verbal attacks.

bedspread:
We really love presence in dis country....
I just got this write up and it's really a pity..


WHO WILL HEAR, AND NOT CRY?

The entire corps members serving in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara state are bleeding out purple blood. Our hearts are thumping out: strong rhythms of pain. Our dignity has been trampled and mangled with reckless impunity. God!

Today a corps member, Michael, serving his fatherland through sweat and bile; rough roads, hunger, merciless weather; and the shame of 19800 in the face of a smothering economy. Michael---serving in Nasara Standard Academy perceived as the shining light in a tottering secondary education system in Kaura Namoda--- was today brutalised, manhandled and reduced to nothingness by a brainless team comprising of the richest man in Kaura Namoda and his equally wanton boys. What was his crime?

Michael had punished his student who happens to be this man's ward. A simple kneel down. Michael who had nurtured these block heads with patience and love. Michael, who had taught with empty stomach till letters on the chalkboard danced like rampant music notes before his eyes. For all of us like Michael, who have stretched the capacities of our strengths and sensibilities to serve a stifling system. For all the ' under the sun and in the rain', what have we gotten as reward?

This notorious man, clenching his cash ridden fists, recruits the help of the police and in that shameless trotting of Zombies, storms Nasara Academy to crucify Michael like a criminal. He was punched like a sack of millet and stripped of humanity. He was beaten, beaten, and again beaten like he stole karats of gold in a jungle market. O God! My fingers are itching, and it's like they will drip blood. Michael was driven to the Police Station where the real torture awaited him.

They removed what was left of his pride as a Man serving his country. Then, they flogged and flogged him, and when their energy sapped out, the Evil of a man threw wads of naira notes about, and refueled their animalism. Michael was a heap of sorrow and a container of hot painful tears. As some of Michael's colleagues arrived and tried to raise their voices against the escalating reign of heartlessness; the Police men, some apparently drunk, threatened with pointed rifles, slapping and pushing them....

Hear me if you are a corps member in Kaura Namoda! We have been abused to our bones. We are now just remnants of pride sliced into irredeemable pieces. Our hearts have been pierced by hot pellets of searing pain. Our heads are now buried in shame. The little essence of our ghostly existence has been thoroughly erased. We are now empty, just plain empty.

Who will hear this and not cry? How can we move about when our sinews are depleted? Who will walk the long and dusty paths to schools to teach? Who will serve the masters under a sun that burns through skin and fluid? Who will hear this and not cry?

Nothing has been done. The engineer of this massive evil is an untouchable. A stinkingly rich sacred goat. He has played ping pong with our dignity and thinks he will get away with it because he is rich. Because our society is rotten and deceased of sense. Because our policeman are a bunch of kitted area boys. Because 'money' has shredded the spines of our moral make-up.

Michael is lying in a police cell, writhing in raw pain---- a soul beaten beyond repair. He has been physically wounded but more serious is the mental injury. But he is not alone. We are all wounded like Michael and our soul is burning from strife. Who will hear this and not cry? We therefore call on:

The state Government;
The State Coordinator NYSC;
The Emir of Kaura Namoda;
The Commissioner of Police;

Every Khaki and Jungle boot in Zamfara state and Nigeria as a whole. Let us roar and be heard. Tell the next person to tell another. Let our tales of woe reach the peak where justice crouches. The brutalisation of Michael in a land where he is vulnerable and hapless will not go without notice. Justice must be done. Corps members must be protected. Our dignity must be restored. The pride of khaki and Jungle boots must be reinvented.

Today, Michael was battered for all of us. Shall we hear and look away...who will hear this AND NOT CRY?

#IstandWithAcorper..!!!

This has been publicly refuted, with hard facts.

When will you people learn common sense that not all forwarded messages on Whatsapp are legitimate?

A simple Google search would have set you straight. Laziness is the bane of our youth in Nigeria.

owobokiri:
Sorry, i have to do it again:

If the vice president was/is anything different from the pack, i expected him to calmly observe his so called birthday and move on.. This country is in a dire state now; violent uprising here and there, hunger, recession, accidents, roaring suicides and all that.... In the midst of all that, folks willl turn the TV at nine for evening news and what will they see? Not a presidential move or policy statement to alleviate their sufferings., No! What they will see is a vice president , deputizing for a thoroughly rudderless and incapacitated president busy cutting fat cakes, dancing skelewu ontop of their pains! Reminds you of one tacky Gowon celebrating his marriage while the country lost millions in a war! Priorities.., priorities ma people... Osibande can do better. I heard he is a pastor, so what with all that presidential noise? People are dying and their president is Awol while the vice is busy partying like P-Diddy? What comes over them in that Abuja sef?

I won't mince words. You and the 15 other clowns who 'liked' this bitter write-up are mad people.

To hit 60 is a big milestone, and as a citizen and a free man, he has every right to celebrate.

People are always dying and suffering in Nigeria. Going by your imbecilic logic, there must be no celebration ever in Nigeria.

Shove your envy into your nether regions. Thanks.

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Idydarling:
deviating from the Tiv story to another story about the killing and ur relationship with the daily times man is ludicrous, doesn't show any continuation in this ur story at all.. mtchwww

Why don't you blame the person who copied and pasted the story, including the extra?

This razz Benin club sha.

These people are crass enough not to know that the more they do these stunts (washing hands with champagne, 'baptising' with expensive spirits and now this), the more they cheapen the place.

But they never learn.

Rubbish

This racist clown has sensationalized this process. Many people - including myself - have no issues booking and paying online. If the airline website is having issues, third parties like Wakanow are there to ease the process.

Coal is abundant in Enugu. What is stopping the South East states from coming together to form a jointly owned coal-to-power venture to generate stable electricity for the region?

tziz:
Still available?

Sold

youngdude1:
listen to yourself, so all those "Big Men Traders" that sales goods and collect cash in the market can't have 5Million Naira cash? Seems you haven't being into business practically. those ones we assume/know from textbooks are not real

Then it's time to move to the modern age. Pay via bank transfers or POS.

If they cannot, then let them bear the brunt.

Nigerians sha.

You will see an unarmed soldier beating your fellow citizen and crowd will gather and be looking and begging. Instead of jumping in to give that miscreant the beating of his life!

SillyeRabbit:
Are they saying if I want to deposit 5Million naira into my bank account, the bank will deduct 150,000 naira? For What?

I cannot think of any scenario where someone will need to carry and deposit 5 million naira in cash for an individual account.

LordAdam16:
In recent days, I've heard lots of predictions about the USD/NGN exchange rate.

Some overzealous believers say it's going down to N200/$1. Some more conservative estimates put it at N350/$1. Others just say less than N400/$1.

The fact is that the rate will hover between N450 and N500 in the short term, pending any drastic action like what happened last week.

The CBN has made it ultimately clear that they would regularly intervene in the market to protect the Naira. Last week's reaction was one of such interventions and highly expected. The government wouldn't let the difference between the parallel and official rate to be more than N200/$1. That is a monetary disaster.

But here's the other fact. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING the government can do now to harmonize the exchange rates without severe rattling of the economy.

Nigeria is already selling 2.1m barrels of oil a day (almost close to 2.2m barrels high in 2013). The oil price will not cross the $50-$60 band anytime soon. It means Nigeria is making the most money it can make from our single largest foreign earner (which is why our reserves have been rising) at the moment.

The CBN has been plunging money into the market since the managed float started to the tune of several hundreds of millions of dollars weekly (last week it was over $400m, this week it's already over $100m). There is a limit to which they can go.

And that is why the 41 prohibited list still exists, and Nigerian bank cards (aside GTB and Access) cannot do USD transactions.

Last week, the CBN liberalized accessing Forex for students, travelers, and those in need of medical attention. It is a very welcome policy. These groups of FX buyers have been unfairly targeted by the CBN since Buhari stepped on the brakes. But according to even the most generous estimates, these people only account for 20% of the Forex demand. Meaning the black market still caters to a majority of the Forex demand.

Even travelers at the Airports would not get dollars, unless they apply weeks in advance via their banks. This is because no bank in this recession will open FX outlets in airports, despite the instruction from CBN to do so. The major reason is that it's a short term measure that also hurts their bottom line.

For the parallel market rate to fall permanently, the CBN has to liberalize the FX market completely. The prohibited import list has to be redacted and no one should be barred from buying dollars at the official rate (whether he/she is a student or a blogger buying web hosting on NameCheap with a Naira card).

While the naira will become more valuable at the parallel market (from 450+ to 400 or less), it will lose value at the official market (from <315 to between 350 and 400) in the medium term. But the basic idea is that the difference between the official and parallel market rates will be less than 50 naira. And probably go back to 2012 levels of less than 10 naira. Basically, the divergence will no longer be business-worthy for speculators.

Unfortunately, the FG and CBN do not want to do this currently for obvious reasons. For example, we do not even have a fiscal economic plan at the moment. Osinbajo, the minister of budget and planning, and Adeosun have been assembling it for more than 12 months now, and they're yet to unwrap it. Also, our FDI levels are not that encouraging. We are also in a biting recession and it appears the economy is finally recovering (so there's good reason to hold back). Then there's the issue of price of fuel which will inevitably rise to N200+ (no one wants the blow back this would lead to).

Speculators are business men who make their living off plummeting currencies. They are like undertakers who make their living off dead people. If no body dies, the undertaker goes out of business. If an economy strengthens and the currency follows suit, speculators move on to another currency).

Saying speculators are unpatriotic and enemies of Nigeria is VERY SILLY. If the government didn't create the environment for them to thrive, they wouldn't thrive. Leave a bread for days and fungi would grow on it. You can't say the fungi are unpatriotic. Their only patriotism is to their survival.

I expect the parallel market rate to climb albeit slowly in the coming weeks to 470. N500/$1 seems like a stretch now and I expect the CBN to make another intervention if the rate crosses that resistance point again.

Until the Naira is fully floated, the speculators are going no where and the illusion of a N400 or less exchange rate in the parallel market will remain a pipe dream.

-Lord

The problem with this line of thinking is that you guys never seem to think it all the way through

Even if we assume that at worst, the official rate will fall to near N400, have you considered the attendant effect on the price of fuel in NIGERIA, a commodity that drives the price of a LOT of things.

Transport costs will go up. Food prices up. Cost of running businesses will go up. Power generation costs will increase. And that's just a few things.

In essence, none of you pontificating will stand up and defend this government when the shit hits the fan and the common man has to deal with N200 per liter fuel.

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yomi007k:
Freedom of expression is different from defamation of character, slander or libel u know?

In what sane country will police abduct you and force you to sign a statement over 'character defamation'?

Is it the job of the police to determine cases of slander, defamation or libel? Or has the Nigerian police now started moonlighting as arbiters of justice?

Look at the woman talking as if she's saying something sensible.


You use policemen to unlawfully arrest and detain someone for what should be a civil issue. Why not go to the courts to file a defamation lawsuit against the lady?

Instead you abduct her, take her to the station and force her to sign an undertaking.

Smh.