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Catapault:
Amazing video by popular Gambian YouTuber Gano Did It, who recently toured Nigeria:

He met a Gambian woman living in Lagos who declared that as an immigrant from Gambia, Nigeria is her America!

And that she has no regrets! And that anything you can find in America and Europe, you can find it in Nigeria.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAGUfH7DnlM&ab_channel=GanoDidIt

You can't drink out of the tap in Nigeria. You also can't travel from one edge to the other with your car intact.

KingKO22:
This is not good at all

This is very good, let Nigerians start afresh in a new place.

duduade:
E don give one expo

Make sure it's attached to an event

No just go embassy dey lie what is not

You get sense too much

mannobi:
Of what benefit is it to their people? Nothing just to ensure the military stay in power.
Of what importance is it to the world economy? Nothing. The three are landlocked and more of deserts
Can the three of them combined withstand Egyptian, Nigerian or Algerian army firepower? No.
They are just greedy misguided, power-hungry military boys.

Why haven't they attacked yet if they can't withstand them? This coup happened months ago and nobody has made a move. You guys are all talk.

God1000:
They are not doing this for the good and benefit of their people but to preserve and protect their military regimes from ECOWAS and other external forces.

How will ECOWAS invading help their people?

Explain.

God1000:
How do we get here with several non-state actors on the rampage.

From Benue to Oyo, Anambra, rivers, Zamfara etc

You should ask the donkeys in the Nigerian army that question. They are busy constituting nuisance online instead of doing their job.

CoronaVirusPro:
Brain drain!

Same happening in IT, and its becoming worrisome.

Don't worry it will soon become worrimore

Buharinomics that foolish followers were hailing is now being dumped.

ABANGWABOI:
Bl00dy civilian ..
You go Explain tire...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Go to any Check point and explain this.. I wan check something..

Go to Benue and explain to bandits, no long talk, show your working.

When you video tape yourself in Kaduna walking alone in the forest you will have earned my respect. Until then you are just a coward son of a monkey.

ABANGWABOI:
Why calling your own M0ther Donkey ??
Are you ok ??

Donkey go and do your job or is insulting on nairaland your only use?

If your father isn't a monkey go to that community unarmed so we can enjoy the "peace" Nigerian army has fought for.

ABANGWABOI:
You are the biggest F00|..
In those proper country like USA..
Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd inder thr camera in full glare of the world


Was he shot ??
Is he not serving a jail sentence..?? Why wasn't he executed??
You disgraced your level of education by tagging the offense of killing a citizen a treasonable offence??
Seems you graduated from a polytechnic of all these mushroom state or private university..
You need a school fees refund ASAP..
Kid.. Google the offense called Treason and edit that rubbish you wrote...

F00.|

In the USA you would be in jail just for typing this rubbish but since Nigeria is a jungle nothing will happen. Your type isn't even fit to be a ditch digger abroad. In America if a soldier slaps a policeman his career is over, only in this jungle where the army brags about killing police.

If it was a civilian or ipob that attacked that policeman they would be tagged terrorist, but the useless army can kill whoever they like without consequences.

It's mumus who couldn't finish school or get decent jobs that usually joined the army so I'm not surprised.

ABANGWABOI:
Yes ..
You can say trash online..
My solace is the fact that you can't say it at any check point 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You just confirmed you are a useless coward who preys on Nigerian civilians. That shows you are no different from a terrorist. Your strength is harrasing beating and raping unarmed civilians at checkpoints. When bandits and terrorists approach the same checkpoint you will wear civilian clothes and hide in the bushes.

You won't take solace in the peaceful existence of Nigeria and you never will because donkeys like you can't do the basics of your job properly.

I hope Nigeria renews it's interest in fighting Niger so you can know what it's like to face a real soldier in battle, your mates in Ukraine are still humble after what they have faced.

See your leaders of tomorrow.

Nbote:
Bandits have been taxing farmers and villagers for years now but we chose to ignore and pretend like it's the new normal

As long as they are not Igbos Lagos-Ibadan media won't make a fuss about it. Fulanis can do whatever they like because the political class is still deceiving themselves on the notion of "block votes" AKA rigging through deceiving illiterates.

Where is that donkey ABANGWABOI, anything to say about this? This is the home I should be grateful to Nigerian soldiers for?

I await your response.

BabaRamota1980:
In terms of resourcefullness, manpower and skills, Nigeria is ahead of Canada, man to man. Canada should be on the bottom list of countries Nigerians should go. Infact, until 15 or 20yrs ago Nigerians would turn down offer to migrate to Canada. So what changed, and now every fool wants to go to Canada? The influence of human traffickers/salesmen and Churches. These two factors have contributed massively to this point that Canada has earned high profile as a destination country.

Nigerians are leaving because Nigeria is not working all these long parables are lies and you know it.

You said it yourself nobody wanted to leave to Canada until recently have you every asked why?

Why is it that when APC comes into power everyone became desperate to leave?

You talk about work not being worth it because you have to pay bills as if in Nigeria you don't pay bills.

From the meagre salary you get in Nigeria after spending half on food you spend the other half on irregular power supply, generators, rent and repairing your tokunbo car from the death trap called roads.

At least I can drive from one Canadian city to the other without worrying about herdsmen kidnapping me.

Nigerians are tired and want to leave this sinking ship by any means.

N3TRAL:
Stay and fix your fvcking country.

You vote they kill you
You protest they kill you
You expose their deeds they kill you
You fight against them they kill you

The country does not want to be fixed.

SeaTrade:
I talk am say na me and mumu dey follow argue.
Seme border generate 3 trillion naira ,then how much NCS as a whole dey generate?The clown can't even read figures

Oh wait I thought the land border wasn't generating anything for Nigeria abi isn't that what you said?

You foolishly don't know that ECOWAS permits free movement of people of member states citizenry ,why should we leave and impede our people's movements?

Bullharry impeded the movement of Nigerians for 3 years while achieving nothing with his foolish border closure. Donkeys like you with slave brains like you can't understand, maybe if you had a passport you could.

I have no business with shithole countries, whatever Togo and the other impoverished one is doing is their business.

Because you can't afford to travel there, you don't even have a passport which explains your daft takes on how trade in Nigeria works.

"Shithole" with 24/7 electricity, no terrorism and currency that holds greater value than the naira. If they are Shitholes Nigeria is actual shit.

So because of backlogs at my ports,I'd direct importers to put destination to cotonou, get there,pay some levies to their government,then enter inside cotonou with container,find big bucket truck ,transload to what should be in 3 containers to one truck ,reach border,under declare what they're carrying and I keep losing revenue and you say you're smart abi?

You can as well keep the border closed if you can't do the basics of border control, after all the last closure was a resounding success wasn't it?

Not to talk of the daredevil ones that will find small shanties in Benin Republic, warehouse their goods and use bikes and scrap card and smuggle all sorts of items to Nigeria unchecked,undeclared and zero duty.
And you say you get sense? which yeye backlog

Why did you think Sanwo was rushing to commission the port at Lekki? Shippers were even dumping Lagos because it took weeks just to get a slot for inspection.
https://punchng.com/swiss-shipper-dumps-lagos-terminal-port-congestion-looms/

You are so empty I don't even think I will reply after this.

What have you done about the finished imported petroleum products??Dangote and waltersmith na person like you.

Government has no business running businesses ,private enterprise should solve this problem.
Na Vanderbilt and Andrew Carnegie them build rail roads in America and Rockefeller built education .

Government made business hell for so many to the point they they japaed or folded up all in just 6 months get that through your worm infested skull.

Drugs cheaper or expensive isn't My concern,sell at 100k I'd still buy or port to a cheaper alternative if it exist for what i need it for

If producing cigarettes bring more revenue,I'd focus on cigarettes and import medicine. Comparative advantage things,you mustn't do everything but of course you won't know as you're dull.

When the doctor sends my bill I'd write a check,irrespective of cost or how much it has inflated.That time is better spent creating more income sources than screaming that medicines or milk now cost more on the shelf by 2naira,
Such unproductive activity for dafties like you.

Every other fool on nairaland is a millionaire online. This cow is sending mountains of messages at 2 in the morning talking like he's a relevant person in society.

SeaTrade:
America can't close Mexico border because trade between both countries is formal and generate revenue for both governments,unlike their Nigerian counterparts where informal trade ,false declarations and smuggling is the order of the day in that scene.
So why shouldn't I close it if it threatens my local industry ?afterall it generates nothing for me.

The Seme border, just one border crossing netted 3 trillion naira for Nigeria. If land trade is negative for Nigeria why don't we leave ECOWAS?

See how empty you sound?
https://tribuneonlineng.com/seme-customs-surpasses-revenue-target-by-55-1/#:~:text=The%20Seme%20Customs%20Commands%20has,the%20end%20of%20October%202023

You are very dull.How is the land border the right channel for importing rice that comes from Asia?
Are you mad?

Since you want to insult no problem. Benin and Togo modernised their roads and ports to make importation easy. Importing through the land border also reduces backlogs of clearing at the Apapa port. You would know that if you had a business or bothered to read, mango seed brain.

You can't get fx from official markets don't mean you can't get fx,go to the parallel markets because we can't be expending so much fx to import rice that is grown locally.So get your own Fx,import and pay my duty at the ports

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Most of our fx is spent on fuel imports even though we are one of the largest oil producers in Africa. There is also a huge backlog at the sea ports because again, we waste time moving oil and oil products.

GRV is crying ,not Nigerians.No be only GSK get inhalers.

One of your APC miscreants was crying over the price of ventolin a few days back. The cow was posing on a private jet during campaign season not knowing wahala would touch him soon.

If BAT leaves Nigeria, its thousands of direct and indirect workers will lose their livelihoods and suffer economically,GSK Nigeria is too small to have such effect and their consumers will simply port to their competitors ,No one will die except GRV.

Yet APC miscreants are crying about the price of ventolin. GRV that was sponsoring medical treatment for Lagosians isn't your problem, if he quits politics and goes back to America it won't make drugs cheaper.

There's a $1.4B PA tobacco market in Nigeria and BAT is its market leader,do the maths.
They don't even need to export to flop GSK's $50m revenue PA.

Producing cigarettes and life saving medication what do you think is more important?

Your explanations are useless,and I'm exposing how empty they are to sound minds.

You are just a daft toy I'm using to pass time, all this shalaye won't help when the doctor sends you your bill.

2tpick:
I have been following ur exchange with seatrade and I must say u made the superior argument and straight to the point. Coming to the border closure, I dont understamd why he will say that borders are just for demarcation and not checking illegality. Why then would he put a fence around his house and ask a gate man to man it. Also ur counter argument of making the right channels illegal was also spot on. Its not a must that every imported rice must land at tincan or a papa wharf. Other countries are taking advantage of informal cross border trade.

I swear he must wants to be difficult for the sake of it. If you heard Buhari speak it's clear the man had no idea what he was doing in the end we gained nothing.

What annoys me so much is how Nigerians are adamant about wasting everyone's time on policies that don't work.

SeaTrade:
Borders were not created to stop illegal activity but to demarcate countries apart.
It doesn't have to stop it to prove effective,rather reduce the activity significantly as no policy or line of action is absolute(you're too dumb to know this).
With all the resources expended at policing the US/Mexico border to combat narcotics, Mexico still has a $30B/year narcotic industry.
Do you now see how naive you are?

So America should close the Mexican border right?
The last time they did it during the pandemic the economy suffered.

Closing the border to drugs makes even more sense than rice RICE o.

Of course the local farmers will be happy because it favours them ,but was it to enrich them or give them any sort of monopoly?No,because no one stopped you from importing rice through right channels.

Which right channels when they closed the bloody border?
You make the right channel illegal them complain about it later.

Nigerians couldn't even get forex to import rice until earlier this year.

5% of a 200m people market is 10m.That is a huge marketshare GSK don't even have because there's something called competition

You think this is about money? People are at risk of dying because all medication has become expensive across the board. If British and American tobacco leaves Nigeria people won't die because of it.

Might shock you to know BAT has more revenue than that useless GSK in Nigeria.

They are useless but Nigerians are crying to Tinubu because they can't afford asthma medicine.

Drop their sales figures for Nigeria, they make most of the money by producing here and selling abroad. Let's see how much it compares with GSK.

Their product are regulated doesn't mean they shouldn't operate here or have brand presence na,there are others operating fulltime like WAT,
Why then does BAT not operate too like them?
So you random nairalander is smarter than all the technocrats at BAT right?

I litteraly just explained the current situation and you're grasping at straws to prove a point that leads nowhere.

haybhi1:
Watch your mouth. Goodnight.

Don't worry I will wake you up in December

haybhi1:
Even though no be Tinubu fault say he bring now-useless Buhari, No wahala, I go remind you by December. Tinubu's unlikely to disappoint me.🤝

SeaTrade:
No you can't.
I said they can buy back their shares from the market so the government mafia can't access them if that's the case.
You just can't walk up to GSK and force them to own shares chief.

Guy you reason like a child.

When Wale Edun has majority stock at GSK what are they going to buy?

Emotional thinking again,borders were closed to combat SMUGGLING of rice,not its importation.
You wanna import rice?Good!Put the destination to apapa or tincan and not put destination to cotonou or Douala and sell to smugglers that later get it to Nigeria with zero duty and levy in most cases.

So you closed the border to stop the already illegal activity the border was created to stop.

Now explain did closing the border stop smuggling of rice? Yes or no?

Monopoly wasn't given to local farmers,get your facts right and put your sentimental reasoning in check.

They literally celebrated the border closure because they said "We can feed the country and export" that was literally the whole reason for the closure to "boost local production" of rice.
https://www.thecable.ng/farmers-borders-should-remain-closed-we-can-produce-enough-rice-to-feed-nigerians/amp

I have no knowledge how business oversight and branding works?The way you clowns on NL assume things on people you don't know is funny honestly.

It's not an assumption from what you have shown in this short exchange you display a unique naivety and lack of understanding of how the Nigerian economic climate works.

Let me give you one example,
You know BAT(British American Tobacco) right?
Where is their operation presence in Nigeria despite having a large factory here?

A complete non-sequitur, only 5% of Nigerians smoke, every Nigerian has been sick, some multiple times a year.

Their products are also highly regulated as a health hazard, tobbaco companies aren't even allowed to advertise in Nigeria.

haybhi1:
Why would you hope that for me? You're toxic and overbearing, you know. I haven't offended you in anyway and you have this kind of hope for me? You're worse than the leaders you criticize, jsyk.

You are the worst kind of snake in human form. The kind that supported a a candidate that everyone knew would fail and are now crying because the failure is starting to manifest in your personal life.

We warned of the real consequences that would happen, we warned you Tinubu's reputation was built on lies and he only cares about enriching himself YET you supported him anyway.

Ruining the lives of millions for the greed of someone who doesn't send your fada is worse than any insult. I only hope you fall sick and feel the full impact of Tinubu's governance as soon as possible.

SeaTrade:
You can't takeover any company's shares by force.

You mean in Nigeria I can't threaten to sanction or seal your business based on flimsy accusations just so I can get shares in it?

Or in Nigeria the border wasn't closed unjustly so rice farmers could have a monopoly?

You can swear that it hasn't happened before?

They can also decide to buy back all shares and take the company private if that was the case,they didn't become GSK by being ignorant.

Yes after selling majority stake in their business to a government run mafia the mafia is just going give it back to them. You are very smart.

So why exist in Nigeria and incure billions worth of operating cost and taxes when I can just get a Nigerian representative who bears all the cost and I just put 2 staff there to monitor his activities?

You think this way because you have no idea how business oversight or brand recognition works.

haybhi1:
Well, I hold a supportive view for this submission of yours. Most of us criticizing him do just because we can see beyond his lips talk. Anyways, I'm tired of this nation. Our complains don't reach anywhere, it seems. Leaders are useless. Followers are bad. No direction. Rot continues. Complain continues. It's a tirade chain.

Aren't you the ones that fought your fellow citizens so APC would remain in power? After all we warned you that the APC is no good but you persisted saying "they are all the same".

I just hope you fall sick soon so you will understand that elections have consequences.

SeaTrade:
This guy will do anything to push a political agenda and its sickening,and if this is all he could come up with then I'd say Lagos made a good choice denying him office as his analysis is too basic for someone hunting for that office.
GSK exited Nigeria and as such ,their former distributors,wholesalers and retailers that are quite sure won't be having supplies from the parent company stocked up a lot before the exit and are hiking prices because of the supply uncertainty the exit caused,pending when the parent company will find an alternate route to market to start resupplying by proxy is what this fool is using to prove inflation?
Many multinationals are finding out they shouldn't have presence in a lot of markets worldwide and are shutting down their offices to cut cost and service their already established supply channels by proxy, its not a Nigerian thing .
Quite a fool if you ask me.
If you want to measure inflation ,you go across brands and calculate an average and not just cherrypicking.
Anyways,I don't expect much from people who haven't built anything in their lives as they always tend to be losers .
Life isn't black and white Mr.

WALE EDUN is the cause of the drug price increase. His attempt to takeover GSK shares by force made them leave the Nigerian business environment.

This happened because his friends in government would back him.

Now rather than whine about the cost of drugs will you support Emzor pharmaceuticals to provide alternatives? Or will you tear the business down because it's run by an Igbo woman.

Choose wisely and choose fast, you can fall sick at any time.

lesbiconverter:
insulting him doesn't change the fact that he's right

Do these ones care, I just hope the price of drugs increases further so less of them pollute the country with their stupidity.

Bliss62:
Should we increase National debt to defend Naira and import everything from drugs to food or are we going to act like human being with resources and knowledge and start local Production



.

When GSK was producing locally WALE EDUN forced them out because he wanted to takeover their shares by any means.

This happened because the his APC friends allowed it to happen.

So now Mr Bliss62 will you support Emzor pharmaceuticals or will you tear their business down because it's owned by an Igbo woman?

lordm:
Peter Obi is one of the largest importers of goods

"Go to school"
"Go to school"

You said no, now look at yourself.

SweetBuns:
They all avoid the older women because the older women are more Informed so they can see their nonsense when they start it from 10 miles away and check them appropriately

Older women are also more jaded, so the silly invaluable things they use to trick a younger girl can't work on them. The boys are incapable of bringing up something that is truly valuable so it frustrates them

Older women are not for boys who don't know what they want. Serious men only.

Na why no man dey interested, dating has turned into exam.