₦airaland Forum

NoSentiment:
Lol, even from the peasants an average southerner makes the egregious mistakes that every light skinned northerner is fulani and every dark skinned northerner is Hausa. As a core northerner myself, I can tell you that this is far from the truth.

The truth is except for states like Adamawa, Taraba, and Gombe where the domesticated Fulanis have a substantial presence, all other northern states especially Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Sokoto, Kebbi etc have a huge (over 80%) of what can very aptly be referred to Hausa/Fulanis. These population majority of whom have Hausa as their lingua franca might have one or two grand parents or great grant parents who were Fulanis but can neither speak fulfulde (the fulani language ) nor necessarily are light skinned.

It is annoying when a southern guy classifies a northern man or woman as Hausa or Fulani purely based on skin complexion.

Do the xtians keep the 10 commandments?
We are taking about values today's xtians are known and stand for?

You desecrates the 1st commandment by saying Jesus is God and son of God when he clearly told u that "This is life eternal that they may know the (God) as the only true God and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.

Xtians are the most horrible people to have as neighbors. You care only about your selves and not ur neighbors.

All the commandments are observed only by Muslims. So stfu.

Muslims all over the world are know for their pure monotheism, honesty, sincerity, fidelity, generosity, good neighborliness, etc. These are values we are known and stand for!

What values or norms are u xtians known and stand for? Nothing

Simplyleo:
Oya, shildren of 8, anger, frustration and perdition can go into religious mood by fasting and going for night vigil.

Abiama may just decide to answer your prayers against Buhari this time. Abi na jubrin sef?

Very funny pipu.

NoSentiment:
Still the question remains what values, norms, and morals are xtians known and stand for today?

NoSentiment:
Lol, go and learn the science of hadith so u wont be embarrassing urself.

The question u ran away from to come up with ur fabrication is what values, norms and morals do xtians have or stand for. Just tell me one value xtians are known for.

NoSentiment:
Because belief in xtianity and lack thereof makes no difference. Xtians have no identifiable norms, values and morals. Xtian stands for nothing and therefore fall for anything.

Farki:
That's because most atheists on this forum are former Christians who have witnessed the excesses from believers first hand.

Because most Western countries have a separation of church and state Christians can't kill atheists anymore.

If we allow theocratic individuals to gain power, I'm very sure many of the peaceful Christians will go back to the days of burning heretics.

BrainSanitizer:
If no be Mercy Johnson, who else go be!!
If dem dey do second choice, na Funke Akindele aka Jenifa.
I dey trip for that babe die!
Na Nairaland question I dey answer.
Before their husbands go come use me do experiment oo.

Humanoid01:
Single, but there are a number of celebrities I have a crush on. They're all way older than me lol.

Betty Gilpin (shares a birthday with me)
Scarlett Johansson
Melissa McCarthy
Charlize Theron
Nicki Minaj

Well, if wishes were horses...

Kobojunkiee:
Jesus Christ send you go decorate tree for Him?

Beckysexy:
Who is he ? BTW, he's cute.



Yh I think so.

Muslims now have Ramadan Tree in imitation of the Christmas Tree used by Christians to celebrate Christmas


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Forget whatever you are being told officially — Nigerians are unable to seamlessly get passports because the contractors have not been able to source for forex from official sources and have had to resort to parallel market, TheCable can report.

Iris Smart Technologies Limited (ISTL), the wholly-owned Nigerian company that produces the passport, has been sourcing forex from the highly prohibitive parallel market to fund the production of passport booklets since the turn of the year.

This has led to the reduction in the booklets available to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), sources have told TheCable.

ISTL, also known as Iris, won the passport production contract in 2003 in a competitive bid, defeating the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC or The MINT), a subsidiary of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Iris has been solely financing the production of the passports since 2003 and has been remitting the revenue to the federation account, an official of the ministry of interior told TheCable.

The company has also overseen the transition from machine-readable to electronic passports (e-passport) over the years.

However, some presidency officials have been insisting that The MINT has the capacity to produce the booklets in Nigeria and “conserve forex”.

TheCable understands that apart from the many legal and technical complexities involved in terminating the contract with ISTL, The MINT does not have the capacity to produce the booklets in Nigeria and would need to print abroad as well.

Also, The MINT was planning to enter into a partnership with another Nigerian company floated by politicians, according to insiders at The MINT.

As a result of the political undertone, ISTL is unable to access forex at the CBN rate, leading to a severe shortfall in production.

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An official of the NIS told TheCable: “Contrary to what some people want the public to believe, Nigeria does not produce any of the booklet components, so they all have to be purchased from abroad. Therefore, the production of e-passport booklets locally in Nigeria does not conserve forex.

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“All countries utilise forex to purchase e-passport components from different producers all over the world. Nigeria cannot be different. Over 90 countries buy their chips from a company in the Netherlands, over 160 countries buy their polycarbonate, passport covers, from producers in Germany, Saudi Arabia and USA, etc.

“Our case is worse as we do not produce even the lowest grade of paper – newsprint, much less the highest grade of security paper. The MINT still spends millions of dollars importing prepared security papers for the printing of our currency. No matter who produces the e-passport booklets, there will be need for forex, as over 90 per cent of the components of the booklet have to be imported. Thus, The MINT producing the booklets will not conserve forex.”

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The official dismissed suggestions that Nigeria needs to print at home for security reasons.

“That is not true. Every country determines the security code for its passports. It’s like buying a safe from the market and saying your security is compromised. You determine by yourself what the security code for the safe should be,” he said.

AS OF LAST WEEK, ‘PRODUCTION OF BOOKLETS YET TO START’

Since mid-March, the NIS has been under growing pressure after all its centres including the headquarters in Abuja ran out of passport booklets.

On March 31, Muhammad Babandede, NIS comptroller-general, announced to the excitement of many: “I am glad to inform you that booklets are now available and are being distributed to all our passport issuing centres.”

But contrary to his claim, some staff of the NIS at the various centres told TheCable that booklets are not available yet, with some even admitting that the production has not started, much less the document being supplied.

Last week, at the SERVICOM and data processing departments at the NIS headquarters in Abuja, officials struggled to explain to awaiting applicants that they have to wait for much longer before they could get their passport booklets.

A female official whose nametag read Adejimi-Adu admitted that production of booklets was yet to start, saying: “They have just started skeletal production. Tomorrow, probably, production will start hopefully. So, we are just waiting. They are taking them in batches. So, no matter what, two weeks may not be possible (to collect).”

It was the same tale at the passport office in Gwagwalada, also in Abuja, where Victor Ofili, an immigration official, told TheCable that even if booklets arrive now, “we have many people waiting.”

“We can capture you now but there are no booklets. As you can see, people are waiting,” he said, pointing to stranded applicants present at their office. “Anybody that will tell you that you will get your passport in one week… it is not possible.”

THE RESULTANT FRUSTRATION, PAIN — AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

Across the passport issuing centres visited, TheCable met frustrated individuals who lamented the frustration and pain they have been going through to get their passport booklets.

As a result, some of them have missed life-saving opportunities, including for studies and work-related purposes.

At the NIS headquarters, a young boy who gave his name as Andrew complained that he has been “visiting and calling” the NIS office and its officials respectively, but “they keep saying is (his passport) not ready.”

“I just got an opportunity for a fully-funded engineering internship in the US but I have to get all my documents ready and my scheduled date for travel is fast approaching. I was told they will call me when the booklet is ready but for how long will I continue to wait,” he said.

The situation has forced many to dump the cheaper passports — the 32-page five-year booklet issued at N25,000 and the 64-page five-year booklet that costs N35,000 — for the 64-page 10-year booklet obtained for N70,000, which TheCable gathered is still in stock.

SCARCITY? NOT A PROBLEM FOR THE RICH WHO CAN PAY EXTRA N30K

As the scarcity continued to bite harder on citizens, the federal government unveiled a “premium passport processing centre” in Abuja where Nigerians can get their passports within a maximum of 72 hours, with Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior, saying that passports sought there will henceforth be “available in a maximum (of) 72 hours of a successful application.”

However, what the minister failed to point out is that such privilege is only an exclusive privilege for the rich. During several visits to the premium centre, TheCable observed how the passport is processed at ease for people willing to pay an extra N30,000 for the “premium” service.

Applicants are required to pay the standard fee for the desired passport at a nearby registration point before they proceed into the premises for the remaining payment.

“The amount for premium is N30,000 and, if you can still do yours today, it doesn’t take up to 24 hours,” one of those involved in the payment process said.

CAN THERE BE AN IMMIGRATION SERVICE WITH NO BOOKLET SCARCITY CRISIS?

The scarcity of passport booklets has been a recurring challenge for the NIS for many years.

The situation has been so bad that in 2019, Babandede suggested that the corruption in the service was mainly because of booklets not being available sometimes.

In search of solutions, NIS said in April 2017 that it was exploring the local production of passport booklets as part of plans to ease the lingering scarcity of the document.

Sunday James, spokesman of the service, had told NAN that Abdulrahman Dambazau, then-minister of interior, gave the directive to also cut the cost of production.

Although he did not announce a timeframe, it is beginning to look like mere wishful thinking as nothing has been done four years down the line.

TheCable has contacted James for comment but has not yet had a response.

Ikea81:
forget talent. iheanacho too na smellos. so they can be together!!!

post=101510761:
Na dat private jet go kill all of dem one by one.

Wicked people everywhere.

The masses come first.

This is what we want on our darling nation.

Each and every politicians that have stolen from the coffers of our national treasury (till 1960 till now) will all end up terribly and miserably in life, no matter the political party they are in.
So shall it be.

We Rise!

The remnants of China’s largest rocket have plummeted back to Earth, plunging into the Indian ocean near the Maldives, according to Chinese state media, ending days of speculation over where the debris would hit.

Most of the debris burned up in the atmosphere, it reported, citing the Chinese Manned Space Engineering office.

Parts of the 30-metre core of the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere at 10.24am Beijing time (2.24am GMT) and landed at a location with the coordinates of longitude 72.47 degrees east and latitude 2.65 degrees north, state media cited the office as saying.

Nasa was critical of China’s lack of transparency over the rocket’s re-entry, saying spacefaring nations had a duty to minimise the risks to people and property on Earth.

“It is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris,” said Nasa administrator Bill Nelson, a former senator and astronaut who was picked for the role in March.

“It is critical that China and all spacefaring nations and commercial entities act responsibly and transparently in space to ensure the safety, stability, security, and long-term sustainability of outer space activities.”

The US Space command confirmed the re-entry into the atmosphere of the rocket over the Arabian peninsula, but said it was unknown if the debris had hit land or water. “The exact location of the impact and the span of debris, both of which are unknown at this time, will not be released by US Space Command,” it said in a statement.

Space watchers around the world have been anticipating the arrival of the Long March 5B space rocket since it started to lose altitude last week amid concerns it was out of control. It is one of the largest pieces of space debris to return to Earth and prompted the White House to call for “responsible space behaviours”. China’s failure to issue strong safety reassurances in the run-up to the re-entry fuelled anxiety.

During the rocket’s flight, Harvard-based astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told Reuters that the potential debris zone could have been as far north as New York, Madrid or Beijing, and as far south as southern Chile and Wellington, New Zealand.

“It makes the Chinese rocket designers look lazy that they didn’t address this,” said McDowell, a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The Global Times, a Chinese tabloid published by the official People’s Daily, dismissed as “western hype” concerns that the rocket was “out of control” and could cause damage.

“It is common practice across the world for upper stages of rockets to burn up while reentering the atmosphere,” said Wang Wenbin, a spokesman at the Chinese foreign ministry, at a regular media briefing on Friday.

“To my knowledge, the upper stage of this rocket has been deactivated, which means that most of its parts will burn up upon re-entry, making the likelihood of damage to aviation or ground facilities and activities extremely low,” Wang said at the time.

The Long March 5B – comprising one core stage and four boosters – lifted off from China’s Hainan island on 29 April with the unmanned Tianhe module, which contains what will become living quarters on a permanent Chinese space station. The rocket is set to be followed by 10 more missions to complete the station.

The empty core stage has been losing altitude since last week, and experts estimated its dry mass to be around 18 to 22 tonnes.

Long March 5 rockets have been integral to China’s near-term space ambitions – from the delivery of modules and crew of its planned space station to launches of exploratory probes to the moon and even Mars. The Long March launched last week was the second deployment of the 5B variant since its maiden flight in May last year.

In May 2020, pieces from the first Long March 5B fell on Ivory Coast, damaging several buildings. No injuries were reported.

Debris from Chinese rocket launches is not uncommon within China. In late April, authorities in the city of Shiyan, Hubei Province, issued a notice to people in the surrounding county to prepare for evacuation as parts were expected to land in the area.

“The Long March 5B re-entry is unusual because during launch, the first stage of the rocket reached orbital velocity instead of falling down range as is common practice,” the Aerospace Corporation said in a blog post.

The core stage of the first Long March 5B that returned to Earth last year weighed nearly 20 tonnes, surpassed by debris from the Columbia space shuttle in 2003, the Soviet Union’s Salyut 7 space station in 1991, and Nasa’s Skylab in 1979.

Legalcriminal:
A lot of morons already praying it should fall in one president villa. Mad people everywhere

Romanoff:
Oprah Winfrey got rich from a divorce?

[b]Lord have mercy, this goat is even more stupid than I first suspected! Is this fool trying to say that the cost of living in Angola is higher than in Nigeria and Ghana? Cost of living in a city is computed by using the relative strength or weakness (as the case may be) of a nation's currency against the dollar. Therefore if a country has a week currency, then an expatriate in that country would be at an advantage because he won't need to have a lot of dollars on him to live comfortably.

It's like how Nigerians who get online jobs are able to live comfortably on income of $50 dollars a day because the low exchange rate of the naira (nearly 500 naira to 1 dollar) means that $50 dollars a day equals to 20,000 naira a day or N 600,000 a month. By Nigerian standards that is a fairly comfortable standard of living.

But if the naira was strong currency and the exchange rate was something like Six Naira to a Dollar, most expatriates would find the cost of living in Nigeria difficult.

In fact, to show how clueless and lost you are, Luanda, the Capital of Angola is not even amongst the top 27 cities with the highest cost of living in Africa, whereas both Lagos and Accra comfortably made the list.
Go and bury your head in shame and stop embarassing your family name like this.


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AwkaFinest:
This your display of ignorance is epic. So Angolan Kwanza that's lower than both the Naira and Cedi equates to cost of living being higher in both Nigeria and Ghana than Angola
Your ignorance is irredeemable.

iammo:



A tiny minute fraction of what she's about to get...

Since Bill Gates doesn't know how to flex money like a real baller, his ex would show him how to paint the town red in style

Bill Gates is worth $130 billion USD, about ₦50 trillion Naira.... Bill Gates can afford to spend ₦50 million daily for the next 989300 days or 2710 years without going broke

Meanwhile Bill Gates is still busy wearing some cheap cloths and buying $10 burgers and chips at a cheap fast food joint, while his ex is living the life Lavida Loca



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Dcube212:
Hnnm

Earlier this week, Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced their divorce. On that same day, Melinda Gates became a billionaire.

Cascade Investment, Bill Gate’s investment vehicle, transferred nearly $2.4 billion in securities to Melinda Gates on Monday. The next day his net worth dropped slightly, from $130.4 billion to $128.1 billion, according to Forbes.

However, Bill Gates maintained his status as the fourth richest person in the world. He falls behind Jeff Bezos ($177 billion), Elon Musk ($157 billion) and Bernard Arnault and family ($150 billion).

Melinda Gates received 2.94 million shares of AutoNation and 14.1 million shares of Canadian National Railway Co., according to Forbes. AutoNation is worth $309 million and Canadian National Railway Co. is worth an estimated $1.5 billion.

Melinda Gates also received 25.8 million shares of Mexico-based Coca-Cola Femsa — worth $120 million — and 155.4 million shares of Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa SA — worth $386 million.

Up until 2000, Bill was Microsoft’s CEO, and he later moved out of a daily role with the company in 2008. Until 2014, he served as chairman of the board and announced just last year he was stepping down to focus on philanthropy.

In 2000, the couple founded The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a nonprofit organization that has spent more than $53 billion since its formation to target poverty and inequity worldwide, according to the foundation's website.

Melinda Gates, who was a product manager at Microsoft, met Bill Gates at a business dinner in New York City. They were married in Hawaii in 1994.

The couple’s divorce filings show they asked a judge in Washington state to divide their assets based on the terms of a separation contract, usually issued when spouses are living apart but have not yet divorced, according to Forbes.

The terms of the contract weren’t disclosed.

[b]Please stay in school so you don't end up like your idol in Aso Rock who can't understand the basic principles of economics. EVERYTHING you typed there is pure HOGWASH and rubbish.

The original post was comparing the cost of living in Ghana with the cost of living in Nigeria. And I was explaining that the higher cost of living in Ghana is because Ghana's economy is stronger than Nigeria's. The simple clue which anyone with half a brain would have picked up on, but which you failed to see is that when a country has a strong currency, it is usually as a result of having a healthy trade balance, which means that the country exports more than it imports and the manufacturing capacity of its industrial sector is at least above 70%.

The Ghanaian Cedi has been stronger than the Naira for several decades. Someone who earns a salary of 10,000 Cedis in Ghana enjoys a higher standard of life that someone who earns 100,000 naira in Nigeria because the exchange rate of the Naira to the Cedi is 66 Naira for One Cedi.[/b]

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So that is the most basic and the most important factor for measurement of a country's economic indices. All the other factors you mentioned are dependent on the nation having a robust grounding in the fundamentals of market economics.

Like I said, there's hope for you if you don't drop out and if you manage to grow a few more brain cells.

AwkaFinest:
[s]Still running around spreading ignorance. I've given 2 examples according to the mumu you displayed yet you no wan learn.


Let me give you a little education. Here are the main factors that influence cost of living in an area/country in no particular order;

1. Housing. High prices for housing automatically increase cost of living. Note that buying a house is more expensive in Ghana than Nigeria.
2. Low unemployment rate. The lower the unemployment rate the higher the cost of living because most people can afford it and many earn pretty well.
3. Taxes. The higher the taxes, the higher the cost of goods & services. Example here is Norway.
4. Government policies. Eg high import duties, high cost of setting up/registering a business etc.
5. Cost of transportation and utility
6. Natural factors.
7. Inflation. When too much money chase too few goods. A country that depends so much on imported items will likely have a higher cost of living.[/s]