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mbok:
What is this werey saying?
In 2012, under fuel subsidy, Benue State received about N6 billion per month from FAAC. That figure was approximately $40 million dollars, using $1/N150 rate.

Today in 2025, after subsidy removal, Benue State receives about N9 billion per month from FAAC. That figure is approximately $5 million dollars, using $1/N1800.

In real value, the FAAC given to states decreased by $35 million dollars despite fuel subsidy removal.

the idiots and criminals always conveniently forget that. They'd rather rejoice that allocations increased by x1.5 or x2, but forget that the value of the money decreased by x10

Atasko:
That's my thought process as well. She sees nothing wrong with a woman hitting a man but frowns at the retaliation. I see it as double standard. She's literally keeping malice with me over this our conversation lol

you have done/said nothing wrong. Don't apologize for your stand, which is 💯 correct.

Just so you know, my wife also asked me this silly question while we were dating...I'm talking like 2015...my response was the same. I have never raised my hand to a woman, and I have also never had a woman put her hands on me that way. I simply told her clearly that no matter how angry she ever gets, she had better perish the thought of ever doing that and all will be well.

Men, set boundaries and enforce boundaries. Don't give in to any silly reconditioning or manipulation. Entrench a strict no physical violence policy. If she wan vex waka, let her hit the door on her way out.

Just what you'd expect a dirty, ugly neanderthal would do. How is this any different from what a wild chimpanzee would do?

guobe:
This Trump era are not the best of eras for Nigerians living in the United state of America as there are crackdown on immigrants currently taking place.

Even people with papers and documents are not having rest of mind currently as they can be thrown into Guatonobay with flimsy excuses.

Massive protest is ongoing for the fourth day in Los Angeles now with demonstrators not happy with the immigrants crackdown.

California and Los Angeles are like safe haven for Immigrants but it seems Trump wants to dislodge the immigrants in those cities.

I think Trump should be flexible and give those immigrants a pathway so that they can be US citizens.

too much copy copy

It's Guantanamo Bay

Also, wherever you are right now, make your home a sanctuary home. Open the door wide open for strangers to use. Start from there. Lol

DeepSight:
Nigerians probably deserve bad leaders. Because the amount of people defending this scam project is astonishing.

probably ke..

Nigerians definitely deserve their horrendous leaders.

DAramis:
Bro, there are illegal immigrants that has contributed immensely to work or the growth of the Country where Trump lives.

They don't have criminal case registered against them or what? So in essence , it is to deport them that you think is the best option?

You don't throw away the child with the bath water bro/sis

I will only take you seriously when you have taken just one stranger in for a month.

Or when your home's doors are flung wide open becoming essentially a 'sanctuary home'.

If you can't do that or see no sense in doing that, then don't ask America and the American people to do that.

DAramis:
What you don't know is that as president of the United States of America, he has veto power over some certain things....one of them being this deportation of illegal immigrants.

California is the biggest sanctuary state for illegal immigrants. If that State falls, every other sanctuary state is gone because no single protest would happen there.

They will quietly tow the line and ramp up illegal immigrants themselves. My prayers are with people who made this journey less than a year ago before this Unfortunate Orange leader is elected to lead America.

yes he is evil cos he wants illegal immigrants out. Got it!

But you gangan won't fling your door open and keep it open to even house fellow Nigerians much less other nationalities to come and go as they please. Can you even house a stranger for one month?

Laughable!

29/05/2025

Two years since this calamitous regime took over.

Any tangible improvements in living standards, NO!

Any tangible improvements in economics conditions, NO!

Any tangible improvements in anything at all, NO!

Are sane people surprised at the aforementioned is the case, NO!

Will there be any tangible improvements/wins come 2027, NO!

Will he ask for 4 more years to do/complete what he couldn't do/complete in the already wasted years of 2023-2027, YES!

Will he win, likely YES!

Will he have anything to show for it even in a second tenure, Just one!...he would have fully achieved his aim of being the godfather of Nigeria just as he still maintains his chokehold as the godfather of Lagos since 1999.

To your tents, O Nigeria/Nigerians

The END.

Na wa

Normally, after death na judgement

This one die, him dead body come die again.

Wahalur

The 'before pic' looks edited.

I don't recall 2face EVER being that bulky

Mistersolar:
its not the running drivers son, just passing by boy

it is the driver's son...plus there were two other children in the back seat, but the boy was the one that got hit. Watch the video, and other videos on the matter, including one where the stupid man was narrating what happened

inoki247:
The Father Failed the Boy..

This is Nigeria where rule of Law isn't applicable and you know Police in this terrain are trigger happy...

The Police have 80 percent to be blamed but the father enabled it by 20 percent if he has patience and abstain from breaking the traffic rules this is avoidable...


So the Father failed the boy cause is supposed to be a good example to his son not driving like Danfo Driver on a busy road.


In the line of taking one way you know someone can also be killed through his actions so all this his supposed to teach his son and you said he didn't fail his son..

As a Father if you've your family in the Car is this how you will be putting there life at risk and also endangering other road users...


Police have an 80 percent blame while the father too is supposed to be blamed... So leave all doz Plate number talk this is Nigeria...

💯

That man has failed as a father, and he will give account to God. We are not even saying you should be law-abiding, but a reasonable man knowing the country you are in, and knowing you had your children in the car, and armed police on ground, should have stopped that wild chase immediately.

I can't believe he kept driving like a mad man cos he was trying to escape. Your children are in the car!!!! Yes he would be in a lot of trouble, but his son would not have been killed, had he just done the reasonable thing which was stop the madness.

He gambled with the life of his child. He and the useless popo killed that boy..and he will still get arrested...he should get arrested.

How will a father risk the lives of three children like that? If na him alone, I no go even mind say he wan show say he gets skushies for head, but with kids in the back seat? Nah!

He didn't care about the safety of his children and gambled with all their lives. He is not fit to be called a father

Jamesclooney:
Dude, you’re hilarious and savage at the same time 😂

abi na🙃😁

Zahra29:
You don't get it. They only went to Teeside because Teeside needed them. If Oxford Uni or UCL had needed them, they would easily have gone there too. It's the need that matters. 😂

you got it.

So many of my friends could have gotten admitted into OAU for Medicine and Surgery, afterall in the recent past with 220 Jamb score you fit study MBBS..they only studied botany cos it was what they wanted, and could have gotten admission for Medicine just as easily🤣🙃

This is not news

We already said that the much touted PH refinery isn't producing petrol, but gullible fools said otherwise.

bomsilaga:
Did you guys read where he said they did 2/4 of the requirements?

The guy did great by all standards.

I have no problem with him trying to humble the other braggart, but the whole 'I will pack up and leave is just disingenuous'.

Even if they had done all 4/4 and the Briton won, Ifedayo certainly ain't going nowhere
Why mouthing off then?

jedisco:
Again, you are cherrypicking and coming to undue conclusions. You are taking a relative rise in recent migrants to the UK and using that to drive a narrative. That's not how to handle data.

First, looking at modern migration, it has always tilted towards certain groups at different points in time. It's not down to some genetic quality hiding somewhere. What you're doing is taking a small subset from a short period and using it to make vast extrapolations. What happened to the period between 2012 and 2020? How many Nigerian students saw any future in the UK? Compare that to the number of PRs canada handed out despite the fact we have little historical affiliation to them. Getting into Canada would have been easier for me 6 years ago. Geeting a Canadian PR was also several levels easier than the UK ILR - migration is manytimes individualised.


Secondly you're making the error of correlating the relative increase in number of arrivals over the last few years to some undue benevolence. That's false equivalence. The reason you saw more people arrive was down to need and the political error around Brexit. That is why the populace and the political class increasingly see those arrivals as a generational error in need of fixing. Who is to say that if the time to ILR is made 10yrs today for them, some other government would not double it to 20? And you'd still come preach benevolence- afterall, they wouldn't have got in elsewhere.

Two issues here is that first, the Canadian system has over decades let in more people and secondly, the relatively rise in the number of immigrants into the UK recently is not due to British benevolence.

long long thing

The answers should be like
Based on the refusal/acceptance rates, No, the UK was not easier to enter or Yes, the UK was easier to enter.

You could also go a step further to say the US or Australia or Canada were easier to enter with 50% rejection rate. Na opinion wey you dey entitled to, but at least state your answer clearly. I stated mine clearly, you just typed up another long story without a particular position.

In fact, at least with that same warped logic, we can say Oxford University and Harvard are also easy to enter. Those that went to Teeside only chose to go for Teeside, not that they couldn't have gone to Harvard/Oxford/Yale

Zahra29:
Definitely, equal rights and all that.

That's why I enlist my household in daily prayers for peace in our land 😂

lol. Zahra no wan fight...issorite

jedisco:

but wait o Jedi, you still no answer the quesshion o. Jedi oya dahun ibeere mi, answer the question. A portion of your response was def an answer quite alright, but indulge me with an answer that is explicit and clear. Based on those stats, which of those three destinations logically and reasonably is/was/can be deemed to be easiest one to enter/get/achieve?

I'm not letting you go just yet😁

Because na literally wetin we talk wey bruise fragile egos be that


I take God beg you, no make e long💯🙏🏼👏🏼

In 2019 refusal was around 35%, in 2022 refusal rate was around 60%, 2023 - 38%, 2024 (when everywhere began casting) above 50%. Meaning between 2019 to 2024 at least, the same time period, some people were having 100% success rate and others were having from 40-60% success rate... across various nationalities.

But no ooo, awa professors here say it wasn't easier🤣

jedisco:
Again, I think the issue here is the mentality.

Canada did not 'try' to let in anyone. They did no one undue favours. Thaey needed the skills that were not served by their previous system and updated their system to get those skills. Need vs want again
Some countries such as Ireland, Canada, U.S Aus/OZ after years of lack and its attendant effects have become much more receptive of foreign trained medical professionals in certain fields. Again, they are not doing those coming an undue favour. They need those skills and both sides tend to benfit.. Even with the proposed changes, why is the UK still looking to exemp certain folks?

Every immigration system has it features. The UK has commoditised its immigration system hence it might seem more accesible to certain groups but same also can be said of others. People would find what suits them.

agreed...but wait o, you still no answer the quesshion o. Jedi oya dahun ibeere mi, answer the question. The bolded is an answer of sorts, but indulge me with an answer that is explicit and clear. Which of those three destinations would you now say is/was/can be deemed to be easiest one to enter/get/achieve?

See, I have no problem agreeing with simple common-sense statements/conclusions.

It is just funny esp here how we see things that are as clear as day and still somehow muddy and overcomplicate it. Like there is a prize to be won by just going around in wanton needless circles...very very funny phenomenon, every time it plays out.

Ego tins....Lori nkan ti o ni itumo.

Zahra29:
The only way this would happen is if the UK government announced that we were now at war with Russia and all fit Commonwealth and British men of fighting age were required to sign up to the Army.

Even if they didn't have to enlist, there would still be a mass exodus, people claiming that this is not their home country 🤣

lol. Before nko!🤣🤣. Home kwantry sef, I no fit kee myself for am, na host kwantry I go come fight for...

But why only men, shebi feminism is a thing in the UK. You sef suppose dey drafted....lol

KillahPriest:
Has he fulfilled his promise to deport himself within twenty four hours ?

no mind the loud mouth. Challenge the smelly braggart, no problem, but why include a condition you know damn well and good you won't follow through on?

Great Wole Soyinka sef no follow through on him threat, na Ifedayo go come follow through 🤣

jedisco:
I'm not talking about integration, I'm talking about entry. You do seem to have a point but feeding strongly off the common but false narrative that migrants here should thank their stars the UK let them in as no other developed country would. Little wonder folks are left scratching their head when these migrants head on.

First, it needs to be said that humans move as groups. The reason why you have lots of Asians in say Hounslow is not because the council made it easy for them.

Asides spousal visas, virtually every arrival in the UK is here on the back of their own merit. In Canada, a number went in off relatives already resident as North America favours family migration. Infact, folks could sponsor their parents and grandparents.
Over the past decade numbers show it has been significantly easier to get into Canada than the UK. Nigerians may have favoured the UK but that does not change the fact.

Thirdly, migration to the west is based on need. There is limited blanket 'ease or difficulty'.
More carers came in during covid because the UK needed more not because it was 'easy'. They had a skill the host nation needed. Same with students- they had the money the host nation needed after the shenanigans of Brexit.

Lastly, when comparing migration between nations, you need to look at the whole picture, not cherrypicking the best of one and comparing it to the worst of the other.

since we all want to be dancing around simple truths and complicating synonyms, let's do a basic logic and reasoning test shall we. I won't even dipe into deep data, surface level shi is enough. From the screenshots below which country is/was/can be deemed to be easiest to enter as a student?? Abeg, oya pick ya answer with your full chest.

Ps: Note that the ones with the higher rejection rates had even more stringent requirements o, that is, there is also the element of meeting the requirements first, some of which are highly competitive and stringent...and then despite that there were still refusals.

Oya answer the simple question above.

Something go round, una go say na geoid. I just tire 😂


Na just student visa acceptance/refusal rates be that o...not even fierce competition like express entry. If no be canny wey try small by introducing category based draws (which both home-based and foreign-based are benefitting from), and the recent caregiver scheme for example, I for like see just how many of our very super competitive mid 30's to 40+ year olds wey enter to study in youkay for fit enter canny on express entry, since according to una many of them go fit hit 500 and above CRS points, as una don learn
French for that youkay wey you dey so, and have become 10years younger 🤣🤣🤣

I said what I said.. anybody wey simple truths pain, na hin problem be that o.

Even the 90/98% rate sef, I no agree. In real life and based on the subjects of this discussion which is Nigerians, the same Nigerians on this nairaland and the same who are friends and family that have gone on this journey, na 100%. I have not seen or read of 1 person no matter how sharp or dunce, that was intent to go to the UK to study, that didn't get the visa, within that 4-5years

Chilipepper:
Medical Doctor Sparks Debate with a Theory about Men

says who? Lol

Obakoolex:
You're wrong.
Jesus was never poor.
He had a treasurer who was even stealing from the purse without them knowing.

Do you have a treasurer sir

yea.. it's nowadays called a bank

jedisco:
You have it wrong here. Also, easy with the exaggeration, you know these numbers are publicly available.

All factors considered, the UK is several magnitudes more difficult to settle in than Canada.

The issue here is thst people keep comparing apples and oranges. First, migration to the west is based on need not want. So if a nation needs a particular skill and opens their borders for that, you can't then use just that make general claims on their overall migration policy. I will not get into a migration pathway that needs carpenters...

When I considered leaving Nigeria- of the 3 countries I gave thought to (Canada, U.K and Saudi), UK was the most tedious to get into. I shared here how a lady contacted me and offered to partly foot the bill plus POF if I agreed to join body with her (for purposes of migration). I know many colleagues who went the Canada route and this was even before covid.


Its good you mentioned Canada which has a population of 40million as against UKs 67
Forget anecdotes, lets review numbers.

-About 7% of Canada's population are temporary residents. What's it in the UK?

-Look at UKs ILR numbers then compare that to canada which has been consistently more than double that of the UK. Last year they issued 485k. The UK wants to upend its system at the propect of issuing a few more.
-Even with students- until recently, college students in Canada were allowed to bring dependents. Till now, masters students are still allowed.
-This is not even counting citizenship by birth or the ability to sponsor parents or grandparents (recently paused)

Let me ask, where do all the entrants going to Canada come from? Abi they have 2 heads?

There are large areas you get into in Canada and see the number of people with little command of English and it becomes obvious the UK wouldn't have let them in.
Fact is people move in groups and with many things, theres a positive feedback loop- the more people go, the more others are likely to join. This largely accounts for the number of Indians in Canada- it's not the number of heads

Jedi, all this one no necesstri.

Again, no need to add all these jara. I'm not talking about ease of integration. I said and I repeat, IT WAS SUPER DUPER EASIER TO ENTER THE UK COMPARED TO OTHER WESTERN NATIONS DURING THE PERIOD IN REVIEW AND MAJORITY OF THOSE WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE DID SO ON THE BASIS OF THIS AND ALSO AS THEY WOULDN'T HAVE STOOD MUCH OF A CHANCE ELSEWHERE DURING THE PERIOD IN REVIEW.

I'm not talking about you or outliers...I'm talking about the overwhelming majority of cases...


Note: I intentionally chose to use overwhelming and majority together for prime emphasis

emmyclassic:
The UK Tory Government under Boris Johnson opened the floodgates for immigrants to come in easily because they needed the people this was just after Covid and BREXIT. It never used to be that easy. Boris brought in 2 years post study visa and all that bringing dependant thingy to make it even more attractive for foreign students. They loosing the immigration rules when they need people and tighten it when they are done. The US were dishing out Visas in the early 2000s to the Obama era. I knew a lot of people who came to US on visit visas that are not Citizens there now. People will always abuse it once them open road!

I know. We're talking about a comparison of 2019-2024 UK immigration ease vs same period and even till now for other western countries. Enough people with admission, money paid and good IELTS scores still were denied Canadian/US student visa o...na publicly available info. Where you read say during Boriswave any UK student visa was denied? I haven't read one single case of that here on nairaland, neither do I know anybody personally who was denied....just one. But peeps don't want to agree that it was way way easier for some unfathomable reason. No be today I don dey see cognitive dissonance on display here, so not really shocked/surprised

Na express entry prior to the category based draws with crs scores of 500 and above dem qualify for, I hear una. Person wey get two masters with band 8.5 and tcf sef still dey hope say e go make cut-off, na that one Una dey say dey same as person wey get CAS, arrange POF and enter UK all within 3months or less. Lol.. laughable

Goke7:
The abuse was not the original bone of contention here but the notion that Nigerians were never qualified for certain categories of visas was the bone of contention. It was as if the abuse was the major reason Nigerians could get uk visas easily compared to other countries and that’s the simple never truth.

fixed

OgbeniOptional:
You look down on your fellow citizens simply because you are probably in a better place regarding your career or life goals, and this attitude is unfortunately common among Nigerians. Before Canada imposed new restrictions on community colleges, individuals with third-class degrees were still able to find opportunities there. Having a third-class degree doesn’t necessarily mean you lack knowledge in your field of study, it is possible to supplement your qualifications with relevant work experience.

I can assure you that many Nigerians can successfully take and pass the IELTS, TOEFL, or CELPIP exams. It’s already challenging enough to face judgment as Nigerians from outsiders; belittling ourselves only makes the situation worse. Are you aware that many on care visas or PSWs have left the UK for the US, Canada, or Australia? Do you know how many are considering leaving?

Regarding Australia, its distant location and expensive tuition fees might deter many people from Africa from considering it a viable option.

When it comes to the USA, obtaining a visa often feels like a game of chance. I’ve seen individuals receive a US visa and wondered how they managed to do so.

I’m not suggesting that there haven’t been instances of abuse in the system, but I am certain that this issue isn’t limited to Nigerians; they are simply more vocal about it. The UK is not “far easier” to navigate; it is just more straightforward. You can do everything right with other countries and still be denied a visa, which is not the case for the UK.

again, much ado about nothing.

This is not me looking down on anyone, or talking about the abuse. No twist simple sturvs.

This is me saying emphatically that the UK was EVIDENTLY the easiest place to emigrate to in the west, compared to the other countries and a huge chunk of those who emigrated would not have stood half a chance with other 'desirable' countries, hence the decision to go with the far easier UK. Virtually had a 100% success rate, just get CAS from any school, and arrange POF and you and your family don enter. Argue all you want, it doesn't change this truth/fact. Again how many even wrote or needed to pass just one hurdle of getting good IELTS grades to get in. There were absolutely no barriers, none! Get CAS and pack your family enter simple. That wasn't the case with other countries.