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Thanks.

It rained here in the FCT yesterday.

Which is really surprising. I hope that it does not rain and then stop like that next month

If you want to go abroad

1.Make sure you have a Bachelor degree at least.

2.if no Bachelor or Masters, make sure you have a valid admission to a valid school there. Not to a school like Croydon Institute of Fashion Technology.

3.Make sure you have some cash in DE akant. Because no cash, no veesa .

4..if you don't have any of that stuff, you are setting yourself to be exploited. Like anti blessing up.there.

5.Be prepared to learn the language of wherever you are going to please. Once you speak the lingo, exploitation chances zero

logon599:
I spoke yesterday on the naivety of Florentino Perez in trying to replace his all time top goal scorer with Mariano and a 16 year old untested boy and people kept saying the move was for rebuilding purpose, and I ask, what sort of rubbish rebuilding is that? The pace at which football is moving now, any slight drop and it'll take you years to get back to the level you were before and that's if you're lucky.
Reputation means zero in football now if you're not doing absolutely everything to remain on top, other hungry clubs will devour you and take your position without delay. Look at Arsenal for example, after 2004 they started letting vital members of their title winning team leave and replacing them with cheaper alternatives and academy graduates. They said they were rebuilding for the future and because of a new stadium. These were the players who had helped them dominate English football for the past 8 years thereabout. Where's Arsenal now in the scheme of things in English football? Struggling to finish 4th every season. Howfar with the rebuilding project? I'm sure any Arsenal fan will tell you he would've preferred things remain as they were. Perez should be careful, people are avoiding his once glittering club now like a sinking ship. He continues on this path and Madrid will no longer be a club to reckon with in Europe and Spain. See also: AC Milan

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You are very right, but, part of Real's issues is ageing players as well.

Well, the problem is long standing grievances.

I have lived up North. There have been several times when in the ethnic and religious riots that affect the north, many Southerners have been killed and injured. This leaves a lot of bad air and at the end of the day, a knife crime committed up North is a sign of how evil the whole North is.

At the same time, there are millions of law abiding Northerners who don't do knife crime.

I see how some Northerners too castigate the South as a immoral violent and baby mama area too.

One sees the same thing in America. Whites use black crime as a means to castigate all black people as violent and low IQ. Blacks use white crime, especially if the victim is black, as a sign that all Whites are racist and evil.

Anyway, bigotry is evil. I have seen evil Northerners, but I have also seen plenty good northerners. Same for Southerners. And the truth is we still have a lot of small minded bigots in this country who need urgent treatment.

It is silly to accuse all. Northerners of being violent due to one knife crime, and at the same time refuse to say all. Southerners are violent as a result of knife crime.

But one thing I know, I feel a lot safer walking the streets of a Northern city than I do a southern city. In the Night

LiveByNight:
Please build a wall between south and northern Nigeria

Down thread, an Ibo girl was stabbed by two Ibo boys.

So a wall won't guarantee you safety.

Argue for stronger and better law enforcement and juvenile enforcement. Not for bigotry related things

israelmao:
They made a lot of noise that Baba should remove subsidy after its claimed removal subsidy is still being paid secretly in what they call under-recovery.Where is the so-called integrity?

Because if Bubu completely removed subsidies, fuel would be selling at 200 and above.

And the kind of riots that happened under GEJ in 2012 would be small compared to what would happen in that situation.

Nigerians don't want subsidies removal. Despite the long term benefits

What Buhari did was temporary. At the time he raised prices, fuel was selling at 87 naira. Import cost was 132 naira. We were not earning enough revenue from oil. So, Bubu raised prices to 145, ending subsidy till landing costs went up to 150 and above, forcing the reintroduction of subsidy as under recovery

ruggedtimi:
Thats how truck drivers survive..goto ph depot and see the biz going down and next time you will never look down on a truck driver especially the owner

Yeah because under subsidy, marketers cannot make enough profit to adequately pay truck drivers

Hence the cheating

Basically these abuses happen because under subsidy, government prevents people in the downstream sector from making a profit.

As a result, cheating happens at every level of the system.

Subsidy must go, so that everyone can make a legit profit, and prices go down via competition

Koolmexxi:
Who cheats Nigeria more is d govt who claims to have removed subsidy but still paying heavily to dis same marketers

The government has never removed subsidy so long as they set the price.

True subsidy removal is when government stops setting prices of fuel.completely

Konquest:
Is Lagos not an oil-producing state... location: Aje oil field
off the coast off Badagry? [Pun intended]

Source: https://punchng.com/oil-production-lagos-expects-first-13-derivation-fund-december/


This should not be happening in Africa's fifth largest [soon to be the third largest
in Africa] economy! With all that traffic gridlock in Lasgidy.

Read the article

The problem is due to a dispute between the bus company and their fuel supplier

princegeo:
And if you and opportunist may your instincts led you

Well, may your wives each have 15 male children and your concubines have ten male children each.

Iseeeeeee!

Nigerians!

Someone is up to some monkey business using Atiku name.

Atiku and his group should tell Nigerians loud and clear that they did not authorize anyone to raise cash in their name.

Am sure it is a Nigerian behind the fake go fund me account.

princegeo:
It's night here already but sharaaaap
Stop talking rubbish and God bless you if u do so

Do have a god blessed night. May your God's bless you, and if you are an atheist, fortune guide thee.

lexy2014:
I think u have missed d point completely. There's absolutely nothing to defend. If this govt has increased price of fuel& paying subsidy, then y was it protesting against it when GEJ did d same thing?

Again if fuel was 87 during GEJ that means Nigeria paid more per litre. But at 147, Nigeria should b paying less per litre for subsidy. D question is, is this govt actually paying less subsidy on each litre of fuel?

I'm not defending Buhari.

The money he mentioned that GEJ paid does not include the debt that he left for Buhari, a debt which he was trying to avoid by raising fuel prices to 140 naira in 2012.

Nigerians forced GEJ to reduce to 97 then to N87. But because the cost of importing fuel jumped from 99 naira in 2012 to 121 in 2014, while oil dropped it became unsustainable.

By the time Buhari came around, landing cost was 132.We were selling fuel at N87. Oil was a5 30 per barrel. Buhari saw sense and remov3d subsidy by raising prices to 145. Subsidyy was gone till landing cost rose again to N150 and above... which is when Buhari brought subsidy again under the guise of under recovery.

At the same time, the naira value is falling due to falling dollar revenues from falling oil prices, which is why fuel is higher, so to speak.

And why cost of subsidy has gone up under Bubu, because the value of naira has gone down, meaning we need more naira than what we needed in 2013 for subsidy. Then there is an increase in vehicles, generators, etc...meaning we need more fuel, meaning more subsidy.

Ultimately my point is subsidy has to go. And it should have gone since 2012.

Not everything is PDP and APC. Both parties support subsidies . So do most Nigerians. It's hurting our economy

princegeo:
Sharaaaaaaaaap

Do have a fruitful and profitable day

StaffofOrayan:
The solution is not always an increment of tariff
Just like the solution to Nigeria's poor education is not increasing Tuition.
We have to admit we are a 3rd world country, fresh out of slavery and declare a state of emergency on infrastructure.

And where will we get the money to build and maintain good infrastructure if not raised tarrifs and taxes.

Covenant has top notch facilities compared to your government universities because fees are sky high.

The oil we rely on needs to be at 140 dollars per barrel before we can have a balanced budget

Patdedon:
Please go and do a proper research before you come here to say what you have no idea about.

I stand by my comment.

Pascopele:
When fuel subsidy cost N600billion at 87naira per litre,it was corruption. Now, it's N2.95trillion at 145naira per litre there's no corruption. No protest, no outrage. Truth is, the Buhari effect on Nigerians is no longer ordinary, it is now spiritual!!!


Jonathan:
Petrol - #87 per Ltr.
Subsidy - #600 Billion
Nigerians - GEJ is a thief. GEJ MUST go!

Buhari:
Petrol - #145 per Ltr.
Subsidy - #2.95 Trillion
Nigerians - Buhari has integrity.
He's a honest man. He's fighting corruption.

Our Mumu is on "Microwave Mode" . e dey hot

1.What was the level of fuel consumption between 2011 and now. If fuel consumption was static, I would have given you some kudos..

2.Part of the trillions Bubu paid included left over debts from the previous administration.

3.The reason why we had the debts was because subsidy is unsustainable.

4.In 2012,GEJ, seeing the comming increases in subsidy spending, tried to remove subsidy by increasing prices to 140. Nigerians unwisely said no, and thus we ended up with the trillions under Bubu.

5.Bubu is still paying subsidy because if he followed GEJ and removed it completely, fuel will retail for 250 and above. Long term, investment increases and the price comes down via competition which is what GEJ was envisioning, but short term, it would hit Nigerians in their pocket, leading to APC being kicked out of power. (some people voted out PDP for raising prices from 65 to 97 naira.

Basically the report says that if efcc, code if conduct, ICPC ET Al work together, or coordinate together... the fight against corruption will go on better

Before 9/11, in the USA, the FBI, CIA, etc were each off doing their thing, and that is how they missed catching the Sept 11 bombers. Lessons learned led to the establishment of the US Department of Homeland Security to coordinate all the activities of these agencies.

Time we established a similar organization for the Corruption fight. EFCc, ICPC, Ccbb should be under a Ministry of Anti Corruption Activities or just under the Ministry of Internal Affairs

obstead200:
are u ok?
Meaningful water bills Kee you Dia!!
Water dat is either polluted or has such a low pressure it can't even run in Ur kitchen sink, u want to charge meaningful water bill Abi?
Just like PHCN is charging meaningful (estimated bills) power bills for darkness Abi.

Meaningful bill kill you dia

Basically, water companies need to make a profit so that they can afford much more modern equipment AND afford maintenance costs that would mean no more polluted water or poor water supply.

That is why GSM is working in Nigeria because GSM companies are allowed to charge prices that allow them to make a profit.

Let's be realistic. It is painful, and God knows that high prices affect my pocket, as yours, but all the polluted water is what we get for paying low prices, plus corruption.

Thank you

Because our government run water supply companies are not allowed to charge meaningful water bills, meaning they are grossly underfunded, and cannot invest in new equipment.

Ovamboland:
What is Social security in USA, and benefits for unemployment in UK , Canada, France?

Why must it be a bad thing when only Africans are benefiting? And suddenly becomes a wonderful thing when the same is done by a white country? Why are are African immigrants collecting this benefits in Western countries and even refuse to come back home to zero benefits?

Most African countries are resource dependent, which means that their economies float and sink with rises and falls in the commodities prices, which means they have to take loans when pricea fall, which makes them not have the capacity to sustain social welfare economies long term.

Most Western countries have diversified and highly industrial and innovation driven economies, and as such can afford social welfare programs TO an extent.... even they are going into debt sustaining such progammes.Like the US social security program which is heavily in debt, and the UKs NHS.

frosbel2:
Buhari left wing ?? - I go die ooo

Bubu is left wing when it comes to power, the downstream oil sector and education.

All those sectors are heavily subsidized. Yes, petrol inclusive.

If Buhari was a capitalist, he would have completely removed all subsidies meaning that power bills would be as high as 30000 for a single room apartment on meter, fuel would be costing as high as 300 naira per liter, and universities fees would be as high as 2million naira. And sold NNPC.

Even Trader moni and NPower are typical socialist ideas. Provide cash for the poor.

And by the way, doing all the above would have generated investment and jobs, but would have been resisted by most Nigerians as people unfriendly .Invest looted funds instead of doing tradermoni? Not people oriented

Nigerian governments have typically practiced a mixed economy. It keeps both the capitalist elite and the socialist poor happy

winningwinner:
So this is how small your sense of reasoning is? Was the PHCN totally sold out or is it its distribution department that was sold? Who controls power generation in Nigeria?
It seems you're out of tune with nature!

Distribution and generation were sold to the Discos and Gencos. Transmission remains in the hands of government (largely for national security purposes).

The reason why things have not imporved is that Discos are selling power below it's production cost thanks to a clause in the law.governing the power privatization. Subsequently they cannot buy all the power the Gencos produce.

Gencos too have to buy gas from gas companies in dollars and not naira... Making things worse.

Ezemarcel:
APC states and issues

PDP states and issues....

Nigeria is not going to be Venezuela

1.Goverment here does not subsidze everything.

2.Our savings are at 40bn USD. Venezuela is down to its last 10bn.

3.We don't print money to solve economic issues.

4.We actually still manufacture stuff we consume here. Things like toilet roll, soap, some processed food, etc. Venezuela imports everything.

5.We. actually removed fuel subsidies when it was sustainable. Venezuela until recently subsidized fuel as low as 45 naira. At the expense of its forex.

6.Venezuela took over all its private companies. Nigeria? No way. We even sold off government shares in most private companies over the last 3 decades.

7.Nigeria has a more diversified economy than Venezuela.

Where Nigeria can become like Venezuela

1.Subsidies are still in place. This is costing us jobs in the oil sector as well as investment.

2.Power is worse than in Venezuela due to lack of deregulation. Discos are charging for power at a price lower than the cost of production. You see why we don't have light.

3.Corruption is still a problem, despite Buhari being there.

4.Bloated civil service, bloated National Assembly

5.Our education system is severely underfunded. Made worse by the fact that fees are too low to make up funding gaps.

6.Insecurity.Just as bad as Venezuela

Dee60:
So, should Emefiele serve another 5 years in CBN?

Has any CBN Governor of modern times been given 10 years in that office?

Who has said that he was sacked?

The man himself knew his term was expiring and would rarely in these times have another 5 years!

Some comments sha!

I think he should get another 5 years.

Chief Joseph Sanusi , Soludo predecessor got two terms.

He has done very well, and we need him for his fiscal sense.

Anyway, the new person better keep saving money. I don't care what else they do, so long as they save!

He has done well.

I was one of those who did not like him initially, but seeing how he saved billions at a time when we had low oil prices, I'm impressed now.

I hope the new guy or girl continues the good work.Especially savings

bionixs:
can you prove yours?

Don't excuse lies.

Thank you and good evening.

princeade86:
but is rumor mongering that made u believe atiku is corrupt and saraki with any court prove them.

Look, let us stop telling lies.

APC or PDP, lying is not good.

Atiku and Saraki are innocent until proven guilty

netpro:
His death was tragic.

But this means all the looted billions is lost. Chai his people will now be enjoying our money with boldness.

No, it just means that the instrument he used to loot the fund, his company, forfeits the funds to government

Generalnomercy:
When the same government killed him, why won't they close the case?

Don't make comments you cannot prove.

Seriously, let's stop all this rumor mongering in this country