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What does it have to do with Trump? Spirit has been struggling for a while and even Biden considered bailing them out and declined. Trump also considered it and other airlines considered buying them out.

The US aviation industry is fine and booming, see the results of the likes of American and United lol

United Airlines (UAL) reported a strong first quarter 2026, with revenue increasing 10.6% to $14.61 billion, driven by robust travel demand. Net income surged 80% to $699 million, or $2.14 per share, significantly exceeding the previous year's performance. Despite higher fuel costs, the company saw strong premium and business travel revenue, marking its highest-revenue first quarter ever.Financial Highlights (Q1 2026)Total Operating Revenue: $14.61 billion, a 10.6% increase year-over-year.

American Airlines reported $12.6 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2025. This performance was driven by continued strength in international unit revenue and growth in premium and loyalty revenue, despite facing economic uncertainties impacting domestic leisure demand.

I think you have bigger issues with Air Peace and the fact you can't even grow a national airline 😂. Spirit had less than 3% is the market share.

Omoawoke:
Donald Epstein Trump

Well done sir!

They are not hypocritical except when it comes to turning a blind eye to stolen money and assets that are stashed in their banking system 😂

brain54:
Switzerland is one of the countries that has stuck to it's principle of neutrality over time...


They are not hypocritical about it and nor are they two faced or do the opposite behind the scenes. Like some countries like US and France that can say one thing and do the opposite behind the scenes.


Where they will frustrate you though is through their financial institutions and returning stolen loots by especially African leaders like the abacha loot.


Overall though seems to be a balanced country in keeping the peace and avoiding wars.

Also the headquarters of the red Cross!

Looking youthful 😂. The king who is older than him literally had to hold his hand to keep his head when they were soaking over gravel.

Go look at the video of Tinubu walking up to number 10 looking so frail and shaky like he was about to fall. Youthful ko.

Aydot99:
No be only looking youthfull na looking sweet 16.

That will not help without solving the underlying issues. Getting married will work for a short while I til thee honeymoon period is over then he will start cheating with prostitutes.

verminnel:
Get a partner and get married ,that should help.

It's about Dangote.

While I am happy Farouk was called out for his corruption the questions is why him and why now?

Dangote has had access to the corridors of power for ages and you can't tell me Farouk is the first and only corrupt officials he knows of so is he going to be consistently calling out corrupt officials or only when it serves his propose to remove whatever roadblock he is facing at that time?

FreeStuffsNG:
It is not about Dangote please.

It is by his alleged betrayal of public trust.

A career civil servant that can afford to spend $5 million on his 4 children schooling in Switzerland has already made his case bad enough.

Hahaha go on lol

And you also forget that the Nigerian economy will be significantly affected, hats cutting ff your nose to spite your face

HacheNoire:
That does not send a message to the US.

Just shutdown Chevron, Exxon, Haliburton and Baker Hughes and you will see them begging for pardon.

Trust me some script writers have already started working on the movie script

FarahAideed:
They need to do a movie in it sha ..it was refreshing

Including Saudi Arabia is not like for like, the Saudi King is not necessarily a pubic servant given he is a monarch and it's more a royal allowance than a salary. Makes no sense comparing it to elected presidents from other countries.

LordIsaac:
Still. $9.6B per annum for a public servant is nothing short of dictatorship cum grand corruption.

Hahahahaha abeg stop this bullshit the US stole from us argument.

We need to fix our country instead of your victimhood approach.

We leave our country to continue to rot while we priorize foreign schools at the expense of our local schools, and foreign football teams at the expense of our local leagues, and foreign hospitals and foreign this and that and when they tighten things we scream that they stole from us 😂 even our president had to travel abroad for testament, imagine how ridiculous that is and your problem is UK and US stole from us 😂

Jennyclay:
UK and US should eat their country

They are becoming so annoying these days, they suddenly forgot they also stole from us .

They should go to hell please!!

I will join if you promise me citizenship to the Kingdom of Kubala, make me finance minister and provide me 7 wives, at least 4 must be virgins

eepeepook:
Fight for the right of our people. The kingdom of Kubala is facing unrest. The white man wants to evict an African noble for claiming a piece of Scottish soil — the same act their ancestors pulled on indigenous people the world over.

Save the land so we can tour the kingdom in future. For those with japa on their minds, see a good opportunity for where to start.

The Kingdom of Kubala; my 2026 travel destination.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpS4mPJwf8?si=zM-N8ky3Mw5Wn1UF

That has always been the advice but the at he has pulled extreme YouTube views to make his point is bullshit. There are people on YouTube who will tell you whatever you want to hear.

ibechris:
Some people are actually fools.

The writer said,do not sell ur property to come to America because of the current economic situation.

He is on ground and could tell first hand the real situation in that country.

Like it or not he has made his points clear.

Na so stubborn flies dey act...they will never learn.

It’s obvious that you’ve gone down the rabbit hole of watching people with extreme views on YouTube

Yes there’s some slowdown especially as the economy resets but the US economy is still better than the likes of Canada, UK, France, Germany who are going through serious debt crisis and economic slowdown coupled with falling productivity, unsustainable welfare spending, having to cope with higher cost of energy as they wean of Russian oil and gas, dealing with the impact of Chinese competition eg Mercedes BMW all reporting losses and falling sales due to Chinese EV cars entering Europe, and the Us tariffs which haven’t even properly kicked in plus continued spending to support Ukraine.

France is flint through another failed government because they can’t agree how to cut unsustainable spending but you didn’t create post about that

So when are you moving back to Nigeria the land where jobs are flowing like honey

Infotubia9ja:
Yes I agree because you lack understanding and as such you dont process information.

I will leave you with your ideology because you too like america film Americans citizens by birth not even nutralization are crying out loud and if you like go look it up or keep claiming dumb your choice.

Oh and please dont forget to read the comments as well maybe you will have an eye opener.
Infact go on tiktok and type in AMERICAN ECONOMY TODAY. you go understand where real life people come out to cry on camera also just fyi, people are now unaliving theirself here in america because they cant continue to live the cant live anymore due to hardship
As dumb as you think this post might sound, dont sell your property you worked hard for to relocate to America you go regret.

He means the US is the largest oil producer but they don't have the largest reserves.

Nigeria is about 16th in terms of barrels produced per year.

hoygift:
Why then is Trump always saying we have the largest oil in the world by far, nobody comes close.

Even if his wealth is private you can't be that wealthy without people having an idea where your wealth is from especially in a country known for people making money through scams, crimes and jazz. But we also have the culture of celebrating people with money irrespective of how they made their money and you proved it by inspiring he throw congratulations first 😂

Nigeria the country where pastors will turn a blind eye as long as you give contributions to the church.

There are.emaby billionaires running private enterprises in the US and whilst you may not know how much their companies make etc because it's private you will have an idea of their money is from real estate or xx or you company or business not just someone spring up suddenly with billions and no one can point to anything they re involved in except that they are a DJ and bartender 😂

Celestialsword:
You have to throw congratulations at him first because success doesn't come cheap,he should be celebrated.

The funny thing is the average American will never even be aware of this policy by the Nigerian government because they don’t have any plans to visit Nigeria but the average Nigerian is definitely aware when the US government changes their visa policy for Nigerians because the Nigerian dream is to japa. Good luck.

Softmirror:
Exactly what the Nations being bullied by Donald Trump's administration have been doing. They reciprocate in ways that shows courage and strength. Canada would have become an extension of America, another American state if not for the reciprocate actions taken by the Canadian government.

Does Nigeria need America? Nigeria can do without them. Infact, I urge people to check and write out the list of made in America products in your possession.

Tit-for-Tat no backing down.

I know this is an old post but you're missing an important point, Meta etc. are publicly traded companies so they have a legal and regulatory required to publish their results etc. and this also applies in Nigeria where companies listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange are required to publish their results.

Nairaland is a private company so is under no such obligation. There are many privately held companies in the US as well who don't share their financial results but there are ways to estimate e.g. Elon Musk's companies SpaceX and xAI which are both private companies have estimated values of about $400bn and $200bn based on recent fundraisings i.e. where Musk sells shares to private investors to raise funds. These estimates are very rough as the shares not listed on a stock exchange but it gives you an idea of the value of the companies.

https://www.aol.com/musk-spacex-worth-400-billion-142435636.html

It's not clear if Nairaland has any investors aside Seun but he is a lot more secretive. I do think Seun and Nairaland could have accomplished a lot more than he has and made more of an impact on the Nigerian economy and Technology scene but he seems to be happy to make his money and stay out of the scene. Sometimes companies like Nairaland have a role to play in driving economic development and progress for nations rather than just make my millions and keep quiet.

Look at companies like Nvidia where 78% of its employees are millionaires, visionary leaders know that they have limited knowledge and are willing to pay for talent which will grow the company and take it to different levels but Nairaland seems to be all about Seun. You can see it in the lack of innovation, what has changed on Nairaland in the past 5 years, the website is the same looking old, no new features, no new products, nothing. The classic own 100% of a small pond of 10% of a massive pond.

Curious346:
Mark Zuckerberg no dey like show himself . But we know the worth of meta group and etc.. maybe Nigerian Companies should be more open about their earnings .. its healthy

It looks like she is mixing it up with the rule that says a foreign man married to a Nigerian woman is not eligible to naturalize as a Nigerian citizen but a foreign woman married to a Nigerian man is eligible.

Goke7:
She's even lying about the citizenship issue for her children. If she doesn't want Nigerian citizenship for her children, she should say so rather than lying.

I mean it only dropped from 22.97% to 22.22% so the average person will unfortunately not see any impact on their day to day lives, and that’s shanking we trust the numbers anyway.

This means prices still increased 22:22% a month, that’s massive and unsustainable, no one is getting a pay increase of 22% a year not to talk of monthly.

pejuakinab:
I don't understand the yardstick for this ascertion when the populace are still wallowing in poverty , inflation keeps growing wings on a daily basis, nobody should come and scam us with irrelevant theories

Poland never sent Ukraine 18k troops jeez at least try with your lying 😂 😆 😂

And the American fighters you reference in the screenshot are volunteers not US soldiers and it's estimated about 50.

How much is Putin paying you?

WritterNg:
Ukraine is fighting alone i guess

Laos + North Korea is equal to 40 NATO & EU nations sending tens of thousands of troops and $450 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine.. i guess 🤔

Poland alone sent Ukraine 18,000 troops. Meanwhile North Korea sent less than 8k troops but guess who's on the news 24/7?

There are shelters and other options for the homeless already but they have to be willing to use it.

I live in Chicago and there’s this guy who has taken over one of the benches at the end of grant park and never wants the go to a shelter except when it’s very cold. When the weather gets really cold in Chicago you have city officials literally driving around to force them out of the cold until the weather improves.

Unfortunately the homeless issue in the US is very different from the homeless issue in Nigeria. Majority in the US are due to drugs or mental health issues and states like California spend billions every hear yet it doesn’t solve the problem because unless they are willing to make changes in this lives any government spending is just managing the problem not solving it.

ucheheart:
Yet there are homeless people in this state. Why not convert this buildings as home for the homeless. They go out every day to work and come back here for shelter at night, instead of sleeping by the road side.

Oh I forget, all that matters to govt are the rich and political class. They don't give a damn about the poor.

I saw the B2 bomber fly by over a Chicago Bears game in Chicago a few years ago and it was majestic to watch.

Btw nairaland seems to have been I filtrated by lots of Russian and Iranian sympathizers or are they bots? 😂

Hahahaha Saraki stop, what a dumb post. 😂 😆

saraki2019:
So the West wants us to stand in awe—again. They parade the B-2 Spirit like a ghost from a Cold War museum, calling it “the world’s most advanced bomber,” whispering about stealth like it’s magic dust, and reminding us it costs a mind-melting $2 billion per plane.
But let’s step back from the polished propaganda.
Because if the B-2 is America’s ultimate weapon, then the empire has already lost.

☠️ An Expensive Relic, Not a Threat
Let’s call it what it is: the B-2 is a flying antique. A Cold War toy, conceived in the 1980s, debuted in the 1990s, and now aging under 24/7 maintenance just to stay airborne.
Meanwhile, Iran is designing war in 2025.
They’ve built a missile ecosystem that laughs at stealth—from the Fattah-1 hypersonics that break Mach 15, to drone swarms that override radars, to ballistic networks embedded in mountain ranges and underground cities.
A slow, expensive bomber trying to sneak into this web of firepower?
It’s like a knight on a horse riding into a cyber battlefield.

🛰️ Stealth? Against What Radar?
Stealth? Please.
Iran isn't relying on 1980s Soviet radar systems. It’s running multi-sensor defense nets—using infrared, seismic, acoustic, and passive detection tech developed locally and through asymmetric partnerships. The kind that doesn't care if your plane has a radar signature or not—because it listens to your heat, your noise, and your movement.
And let’s not forget: stealth doesn’t make you invisible—it makes you slightly harder to detect. Once the B-2 releases a payload, it becomes visible, traceable, and vulnerable.
And Iran’s missiles?
They don’t miss.

💥 $2 Billion Burnt in 10 Seconds?
Think about it.
You spend $2 billion to send one plane over Iran’s skies—just for it to get spotted, tracked, and fried by a $2 million missile from a mobile launcher 400 miles away?
It’s not war. It’s bad accounting.
America knows this. That’s why the B-2 has only been used against defenseless nations: Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq—countries without a modern air defense system.
But Iran is not Iraq.
This time, the “invincible” bomber will meet precision-guided retribution.

🧠 Why They Won’t Sell It? Because It Doesn’t Work.
They say the U.S. won’t sell the B-2 because it's “too advanced.”
Here’s the conspiracy theory:
They won’t sell it because they know it’s a giant embarrassment once exposed to a real fight.
Imagine Japan or the UK buying the B-2, flying it near China, Russia, or Iran—only to have it shot down on Day One. The illusion collapses. The lie dies.
That’s why it must stay American-only. So they can keep the myth alive, untested.
Like a porcelain god never allowed to touch the ground.

🚨 America’s Obsession with Symbols
The B-2 isn’t a weapon. It’s a symbol.
A symbol of American arrogance. A bloated monument to military-industrial corruption. A dinosaur that costs more to maintain than it does to deploy.
Meanwhile, Iran has built an entire deterrence infrastructure with less than the cost of a single B-2 squadron.
Precision, not prestige, wins modern wars.
And while Washington waves blueprints and price tags, Tehran arms itself with logic and impact.

🧨 Iran’s Response: “Send It, We Dare You.”
Let them send the B-2. Let it fly over the Gulf.
Iran won’t just intercept it. They’ll televise it.
And when that shiny, black-winged beast crashes into dust, the world will finally understand:
America’s empire runs not on power—but on illusions.

🎭 Final Thought: The Theatre of Superiority
The B-2 is not proof of U.S. superiority.
It is proof of U.S. desperation—a need to cling to outdated symbols to maintain a fading narrative. And in the real world, where war isn’t CGI and missiles don’t blink, illusions don’t survive.
So let them protect it, polish it, parade it.
Iran is watching. Iran is ready.
And when the bomber comes, so will the funeral of the myth.

It's not that easy to move and it would have been detected by intelligence organizations, you do know that Mossad and CIA are monitoring things right? You make it sound like they can just pack the Uranium in the backpack and move.

The same Mossad that has been able to track their military leaders and kill them as they replace each other or sometimes taking them out as they try to flee will not notice movement of enriched Uranium? Mossad has agents on the ground in Iran nlr just monitoring from Israel.

And even if they moved it the damage to the facilities will set them back a long time. It will take ages to rebuild the facilities needed to continue.

malali:
You really think they left the enriched Uranium there, for Trump to come bomb it ?

For those that dont understand how nuclear weapons are made, the main ingredient is the 400kg of enriched Uranium believed to be owned by Iran.

Once Iran was able to hide this 400kg of enriched Uranium.....You can Bomb the whole Iran. It doesn't stop there ability to make Nuclear Bombs.

My bet is USA striked nothing, the Iranians didnt survive 2500 years by being stupid.

If the USA really destroyed the enriched uranium, there should be detectable and measurable radioactive leaks in the air in those places....Guess what none reported so far !!!!

None of those countries will do shit to help Iran. Iran overplayed their hand and see where they are today. Their terrorist allies Hezbollah, Hamas etc are all shadows and have said they will not get involved.

The most Russia will get involved is to offer asylum to the Ayatollah like they did to Assad.

God1000:
Well Russia, China & North Korea are calmly monitoring & would also start striking when USA starts with her foolishness

Egypt is a sane country that works

UncleBabafemi:
No noise and no inflation of the budget. A sane country that works, unlike what we have here.

Trump didn’t make Congress sign (pass, the president signs after both the house and senate pass the bill) the bill at midnight, he set a target for the House and it was up to the speaker of the house to get it done. There was concern they will miss the deadline and the speaker ramped up efforts and pushed the house to get it done after Trump visited the house to speak to a few people who were holding up the bill.

There really is no difference to the average person if the bill was passed at 12 noon or 12 midnight, neither time will change what is in the bill and the average American will not read the hundreds and hundreds of pages contained in the bill if was passed at 12 noon instead of midnight.

The target date for the senate is by 4th of July.

Secondly the bill is not cutting subsidies for Space X or Tesla. The bill is removing the incentives from the Biden admin to give tax credits up to $7k if you buy an EV car so this will affect all EV manufacturers not just Tesla. It’s is not a subsidy but yeah it benefits Tesla and other EV makers because of the $7k incentive.

Flamemignon1:
The bill is cutting off government subsidies for Tesla and SpaceX and Tesla stocks is plummeting and it's down 15% because investors are scared that they will no longer get government support. Also, the way Trump made congress sign the bill was funny, it was signed in the middle of the night by Congress thereby making it seem as if Trump betrayed Elon

Musk is intelligent but he is also on the spectrum and very impulsive. Go look at his tweet history and you will see all sorts of things and attacks over the years.

Eriokanmi:
Musk looks before leaping. He's a super intelligent man. He must have had enough information before spewing all that. He must have also consulted his lawyers. Musk isn't a Nigerian

I always expected them to fall out. The richest man in the world and the most powerful man as president will always result in a power tussle.

Musk seems to be very intense to me, the way he practically moved into Mar a Lago after Trump won was OTT and it was obvious that there would be friction between Musk trying to maintain access to the Oval Office and the other White House staff, cabinet etc., and also Trump trying to say I appreciate you funded my campaign but I'm my own man. They both have big egos.

He’s obviously an intelligent guy but definitely is on the spectrum or something with his awkward behaviour and obsession. He tweeted over 70 times today while attacking Trump, comes across as he is losing it and lends credibility to the rumors flying around that he has been addicted to drugs: https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk-drugs-claims-trump-congress-democrats-investigate

He needs to focus on his business and support from afar not try to run government departments parallel to running 3 other companies.

Vivek gave a hint during an interview when he stepped away from DOGE, I could see from the way he spoke that he saw that he would end up falling out with Musk if he tried to run DOGE with him.

If the Epstein files included Trump I’m sure the democrats and Biden will have released it to damage him already. But I also think there are some powerful people in those files so who knows. Heck there’s a picture of Musk with Epstein’s madam love-vendor Ghislane. It’s common knowledge that while Trump was friends with Epstein he distanced himself a long time ago hence why there are no recent photos of him with Epstein.

Musk should focus on rebuilding the Tesla brand.

Curious345:
What really went wrong between these 2

Given India’s population is more than 5 times that of Nigeria there are actually more Nigerians relocating to the Uk than Indians when you adjust for each countries population.

Mabuggi88:
Na waoo, Indians no de tire?

This was Trump’s second trip, the first an impromptu trip to the Popes burial meanwhile Uncle Bola has travelled how many times since he became president

Compare the investments he has secured for the US on this trip to all of Tinubu’s travel.

aspabay:
Trump is travelling the world but it’s not a problem because he is white.

Kemi's proposals were worse and she thinks Starmer's proposals do not go far enough. She was the first to start taking about 10 years for ILR.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qw2055qdjo

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/05/kemi-badenoch-slams-new-uk-immigration-proposal-calls-for-stricter-policies/

Slytiger:
Lobatan.

If Kemi Badenoch in the opposition conservative party had said same, Nigerians would have come for her.