₦airaland Forum

globemoney:
He was governor of Anambra for 8 years and if he doesn't consider Anambra good enough for his investment after 8 years then thats a huge self indictment of his tenure as governor in the state. And this is not even mentioning the monies he used in building these malls were sourced from his stinct as governor. Charity they say begins at home

globemoney:
This is what Peter Obi is using our money to do. Developing malls in other states except Anambra where he stole the money from but his zombies mekaboy and IbrahimDamola will keep telling us how he's the best thing since sliced bread.

sukerefakere:
If it's not ' biggest shopping mall' it will be biggest shursh auditorium..
Symptoms of a 3rd world entity

Shithole.

millhouse:
More of malls (Consume consume consume !!) ..less of factories ( produce produce produce !!) when will Nigeria get its priorities right ? Just when ?

calddon:
Only where to eat money is being opened. What happened to creating more job opportunities through factories and industries? Malls everywhere, after we will say no money, ndi oringo

verygudbadguy:
Even with the intervention, the dollar is still on the rise because of political demands. Yesterday cash closed at 363 while inflow closed at 365.5.

We should be looking at 370 before February 2019.

All in all, the CBN has tried to keep the rate down. We don’t know the true value of dollar until this CBN intervention stops though.

0monnak0da:
You are s cretin
China is a CREDITOR of the USA
Has China succumbed to all the externally imposed Western mantras of
Rule of law
Arbitration in foreign courts and other nonsense western agendas aimed to limit sovereignty
The fundamental is human capital .
Japan and Germany were superpowers before WW2
both were devastated by war and fuelled by a Marshall plan which was Political investment.
Those economies had a different human capital profile.
Without quality people money means nothing and that is why Saudi Arabia and other oil economies have trillions invested outside their country


The idea of Asian economies fuelled by FDI is a myth. Textbooks stuff.
So if we pay this bogus $9 billion investment will flow in?
You are funny.
Our human capital profile is the reason we do not get investment.
The same reason why a devastated Germany is the top economy in Europe today with German companies
Siemens
BMW
Bayer
Mercedes
Volkswagen etc
Those are not products of Foreign investment

Sony
Matsui
Toyota
Nissan
Honda
Mitsubishi

Are not products of Foreign investment

Without your own multinationals your country will be a B league player

India is more open to all that the West has been preaching, why is India less successful than China?


Human capital

Blonchilli:
Bro I've listened to a dozen Hip Hop track from Tupac Shakur to Eminem to Lil Wayne and Big Sean, yes they're Hip Hop and all but even most times their songs tells stories that speaks to my soul bro. Tupac California or shoot em up, Eminem's little soldier, Big Sean's song about being blessed, can't remember the tittle now talked about a lot of things other than money, sex and weed. They talked about life and some of Eminem's song makes me sit down and think what life's about. Don't even mention P Diddy or Jay Z forever young. So don't defend our trashy artists like this joor

deebrain:
People prefer the craze and the dance rather than really good music.

We have many songs that make sense -- Check out Cohbams "one hit", John Ogar's " Uncle Suru", most of Dare's, Modenine, and many conscious music artists songs.... The average youth is not interested in these so these brilliant artists don't get the boom expected.

Even from little kids... They will try to memorize word for word, Olamide's "WO" than even a "Pray for me" by Art Alade. It's a pity.

Till we rediscover our values, Op, this trend will continue.

itstunice:
She married a Russian, her family rejoiced, when Peterpsquare married a Yoruba lady, they call her names.

caprini1:
Finally after my many one man protests ,that Nigerians shouldn't b exploited by the compulsory payment of 500 naira to stamp passports of frequent travellers by Benin immigration officers and 200 naira by their Nigerian counterparts.
STAMPING OF PASSPORTS ARE NOW FREE.

There is a notice placed everywhere at the border instructing travellers not to pay a dime in any currency,I couldn't get a better picture because it was late in the night.

The beninoise officers now beg for money,unlike their previous compulsory collection ,pushing and shoving of Nigerians.

The major beneficiaries are people with virgin passports ,who ends up paying over 5000 naira just to get their passports stamped in both Nigeria (2k) ,Benin (3k)..

Everything is free , absolutely free...I guess this is one fight ,I am happy to say the masses won.

paulsir:
Treasury bill is better than fixed deposit. You can earn 15% on your money every 90/days and roll it 4 times in a year.

atutupoyoyo2211:
I'd like to say something about living in Canada or outside Nigeria. No matter how much you are taxed, if you live within your means, you will survive. I had a great job in Nigeria, i was paid about #400,000 a month, but i still left Nigeria. It took me a while to decide to leave,but eventually i did. it took me 4 years of job searching to land that job in Nigeria. In Nigeria i used to leave the house by 5am just to beat traffic and get to the island on time cos i resumed by 7am. And typically i get home about 6pm. That is already 13 hours of intense stress. Yes, my job position was more prestigious than answering security guard now, but eventually, i will not eat job title.
Working in Canada is not typical like Nigeria, cos here, you cant be Lazy. But, My job is actually one of the sweetest for now. I typically work between 12 and 15 hours a day, sometimes 5 days or 6 days a week. but 90% of that time is spent either watching movies or studying for my degree, because, i work gatehouse security, and i do absolutely nothing the whole day, i mean absolutely nothing, just sitting there. There was a week i made $2222, and i almost felt guilty, cos it felt i just left my house and did nothing and got paid, but then i remembered, i am also robbing myself of 8 hours sleep, i still get about 5 hours sleep for now. But i have peace of mind.
So my point is this, if you want to make the plunge to leave Nigeria, think about it, but once you have made up your mind, dont look back. Nothing good comes easy, but eventually after a few years, your Blue or red or black passport will surely make you smile than the green passport one has now.

kimbraa:
They don't have to cry. This menace started from somewhere and I'm sure that 90% of the girls crying now were in support of it. I hear girls say "Money na money, how them get am no matter" as a matter of fact, a girl told me that yesterday when we were talking about Gboys.

I'll only advice the innocent ones to go commando since their pants are a luxury now.

SarkinYarki:
Africans are getting worse

0monnak0da:
It will make no difference.
No country gets rich from foreign investment.
That is a myth.
Wealth and development must be home grown.

The Chinese are investing more in Africa than the West and are not hung up on all that nonsense you read in textbooks.
Those are the investors we need not hypocrisy from the West most of which are broke with negligible economic growth

nextstep:
But is it not a fact that the Naira has remained stable for 1 year? I'm not a fanboy, but you have to admit this is true. Even when oil was rising in previous administrations, Naira fell in value. How they do it is another question, but it has been stable, unlike any other time - and that helps investor confidence. Seeing that your investments won't just lose value in six months because of depreciating currency.

OkaNaUbe:
Buhari lied about his cows, integrity and financial status.


Who I am siding? No one. Politicians tell these lies to sway public sentiments to them.

maximunimpact:
Last Sunday the independent national electoral commission, INEC declared campaign open for candidates contesting in 2019 general election; as politicians device means of convincing electorates for votes, sometimes lies are been told which in turn generate a lot of false reports. The fact check team at Nigeriadefender.com will be monitoring the words of politicians to separate truth from lies.

Nigeria Defender recently spotted a false claim by the candidate of the people’s Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar when he allegedly said he grew up as an orphan in a bid to relate well with the poor masses.

Did Atiku actually say he grew up as orphan?

Various sources reported that the former vice president said he grew up as an orphan selling firewood, according to Pulse.ng, Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, highlighted his rags-to-riches story as he unveiled his plan to fix Nigeria if elected.

“I started out as an orphan selling firewood on the streets of Jada in Adamawa, but God, through the Nigerian state, invested in me and here I am today”, Atiku said in a 9-minute broadcast that was streamed live on Facebook.

“If Nigeria worked for me, I owe it as my duty to make sure that Nigeria also works for you,” he said.
The report was also published by thecable.ng as well as other top media houses.

Did Atiku really grow up as orphan?


According to Wikipedia, “Atiku Abubakar was born on November 25, 1946 to a Fulani trader and farmer Garba Abubakar, and his second wife, Aisha Kande, in Jada village of Adamawa State. Atiku Abubakar became the only child of his parents when his only sister died at infancy. Atiku’s father and mother divorced before his father died in 1957 and his mother remarried. Eventually, his mother died in 1984 of heart attack”.

This was also mentioned in his 2013 book titled “MY LIFE”, page 30 of the book confirmed his mother died in 1984. Atiku is about 72yrs now, this means that he was already 38yrs old when his mother passed away.

Why does it matter?

Does it really matter if Atiku grew up as orphan? Ordinarily it doesn’t matter, but it matters now because he falsely claimed it to be so. Fake news begins with a single lie and if not nipped in the bud it metamorphoses into widespread misinformation and that is why our fact check team at Nigeriadefender.com is waging a war against fake news.

Source: https://nigeriandefender.com/fact-check-atiku-lied-growing-orphan/

henrixx:
What do we gain from lying Many many many of the people sharing their stories here are liars. Go through their profile. You will find out they arent what they claim to be. I discovered one begging for job. Another one was just an uber driver but claimed to have hundreds of millions etc

Most people on here aren't even clear with how they made their money.

The real milionnaires i know on nairaland arent even here. The real ones dont talk.

Very very nice thread anyway. Kudos to the real millionaires

franchasng:
Black women abuse every woman right the white fought for women.

Only black women abuse feminism and women right.

They abuse it in US, Europe and Australia.....

It is sad...many Nigerian women have ruined the lives of their husbands out of their overdo and overzealous attitude of trying to overdo everything they are allowed to do.

Hardly you see white women calling Police on their husbands....and they are the ones who initiated women right and feminism.

Hardly you see white kids calling Police on their parents, its mostly black kids, so so sad black represent everything evil and bad

NoToPile:
Abusing privileges?
Designed against patriarchy?



If some Nigerian men cant cope in a system thats fair then thats their problem.

deolumike:
This is quite shameful.

Here we blame every little thing on patriarchy but see how women are abusing little privileges they get in a society that is designed against "patriarchy"

For many women, their greatest undoing will be lack of capacity to be accountable to good reasoning.

cecegorz:
I am just having a deep seated laughter here.

Did you see that guy's angry post after he left Nigeria and saw how civilization works? I completely feel the guy.

I also honestly don't think that Nigeria/Africa will get better in the foreseeable future. Sorry for all you patriots with mountain moving faith.
It's so sad.
The biggest gift any Nigerian can give himself/herself is to have a trip outside, not to fellow African countries but to any of the OECD countries and have a feeling of what development/civilization ia all about. It will completely change your perspective about government, leadership, planning and service delivery.
We have been been brought up to normalize utter mediocrity, that's why when you ask leaders questions they see it as affront.
And the biggest joke is that Nigeria was great. Nah bro, Nigeria and greatness should never ever be put in one sentence.

You will even be ashamed of most of our prayer points and testimonies in churches and mosques. Because over 90% of the things we pray for God to do are actually governmnents' responsibilities, but your Pastors will tell you to leave the same govt officials who collect millions in salaries and loot the rest in billions and hold on to God to fix the economy and infrastructure.

We are very faaaaaaaaaar!!!

chukxie:
You and madam are balling like real ballers! Twale! See fresh stew everywhere ! See streets with trees on both sides of the streets/roads. What happened to us in 9ja ooo!

cecegorz:
Guys, something funny happened during our shuttle from CDG to Paris city center.

As we drove through the high way, passed the Stade the France (France '98 Finals stadium) and got to the first traffic stop, our car was swamped at the sides by homeless African immigrants begging for alms, typical of Lagos traffic.
The whole environment was littered with trash, and for us coming in from Frankfurt it was quite shocking. Frankfurt is sparkling clean! Asides the leaves falling off the tree-lined streets, you can't see a drop of nylon or paper on the streets.
So, I called some of my guys that live in Paris to expresse my disappointment as the sight falls short of my expectation. They said we should chill, that we will be wowed when we enter the city...

cecegorz:
Leaving Lagos night - away from all the madness that Ambode's Lagos currently represents.

Surprisingly, the city looks well lit at night, seems Fashola's PHCN is doing better now or are these the 'I better pass my neighbour' generators he promised? Lol

duni04:
I keep reading people saying any sane Nigerian should vote Atiku! Are you people kidding me?? Atiku that just won the pdp primaries by bribing delegates with USD6000 each!! Is that seriously the person we want leading this country? Atiku's Intels had been stealing from Nigerians for years before Hadiza cancelled the fraud. Atiku is a person of interest in the US in the bribery conviction of congressman Jefferson. One of Atikus wives Jennifer, is a person of interest in the US for helping her husband launder up to USD40million in the US.
This same Atiku claims to be a man of means and a billionaire and yet hasn't made any reasonable donation to any worthy cause, not even to the refugees displaced in his home state due to the boko haram insurgency. Atiku has the means to pay thousands of PDP delegates USD6000 just for a party ticket, yet cannot make any reasonable donation to refugees in his home state. Is that not devilish? Nigerians please shine your eyes o! Dont let stupid hatred blind you into bringing a narcissistic thief into your family home as a saviour. Atiku is not capable of saving or helping anybody but himself!

ovadozes:
Nigerian mentality, every successful person is older than his age, go and do the MRI naa.
No be only music age, that you re not sure successful at 26 does not mean there are no millionaire teenagers