₦airaland Forum

JubrinElSudan:
Most Nigerian private companies are like that. If Nigerians were the pioneer employers in the oil industry, it wouldn't be this lucrative

You are 100 % correct

Osazeeee:
Nigeria as a country has always prefer consumption to production. That is why I think we as a country that has raw materials such as crude oil, would prefer to export it overseas then import the finished products back to the country. I am proud to be a Nigerian but what a shame to our government who can not sincerely maintain and invest in building more refineries for a commodity that gives the country more than 90% of her revenve.

It's a shame

we all know that
Subsidy fraud will send NiggerArea to the gutter
But Nigerians want it

Hedonisst:
The problem is that this Buhari government is populated by small minded hawks with a parochial mindset out to only achieve very self-centred short term objectives for themselves. We have never had this kind of gruesome government. And the truth is that if the Supreme Court doesn't do the needful soonest, Nigeria would bleed to death within the next four years.

It's a shame

omohayek:
Just great, another contractual dispute to follow on the heels of the outrageously inflated MTN fine, the byzantine FX rate scheme, the arbitrary impositions of import controls, and the refusal to make even the slightest move in the direction of privatizing or deregulating anything whatsoever. It’s as if the Buhari government feels even the current depressed levels of FDI are still too high for its comfort, and is therefore casting about for new ways to drive it towards the goal of zero! Of course, there will be no shortage of poorly educated, blind partisans who will show up to cheer on this new inanity ...

indeed

Nigeria is populated by complete idiots

tactius:
EXACTLY



Finally, someone has the cojones to tell the truth.

I should point out that the Emir has been saying this for years (along with Okonjo Iweala, he backed GEJ in 2012 over subsidy removal).

The truth is, WE HAVE TO STOP PAYING SUBSIDES for power and electricity. Subsides have been going up because the number of Nigerians buying cars, generators, etc...is going up.

Subsides are also the reason why we cannot build new refienreis and attract investment in the downstream sector...as well as the power sector...because who is going to refine fuel at N165 (NNPC figures) and sell it below N150?? Who is going to come and invest in pwoer sector and be colecting bills at 30% the cost of power production??

Who is going to accept government that forces him or her to sell goods at a loss, and only pays you the difference between the government price and the price you bought the goods at?

And the cabals are being fuelled because quite simply...government polices force them to engage in sharp practices like smuggling fuel across the border to earn a profit...and make claims for products not improted.

Meanhwile, oil our major earner is at $80 and below. We need it at $140 per barrel to be able to run an economy WITHOUT BORROWING.

So, we have no choice. Subsidies must go. YES....we will be paying N300 and above for fuel (which by the way is what they pay in Niger, Cameroon, even Benin...and all these countries are as poor as we are...and Niger is even poorer...and they all produce oil). Yes, electricity bills will shoot up to N30000 and above per month for a one room apartment...but we haven't got any choice.

Our budget cannot sustain us.

So, let's face facts, YES....LET US FIGHT CORRUPTION AS WELL, LET APC STOP BEING PARTIAL....but the truth is SUBSIDY HAS TO GO...unless you got N20 TRILLION extra for Nigeria every year...somewhere.

In 2012....Nigerians foolishly rejected GEJ's good idea of removal of subsidy...partial yes...but better than not removing it. Thanks to that we missed out in investment...and in job creation, refinery building (yes...we could have had more refinereis built than just Dangote) and even sorting out the power problem.

Note...Any one quoting me to insult me, or curse me will be REPORTED TO THE MODS. You are free to disagree with me, but please be polite. Thank you

You have said it all

Ayatullah:
Seems they have dealt with you in Libya

kmao

compton11:
and it is the Jews that are good both of them are criminals and racists,concerning modern slavery, the shi.t is also in north Korea and some Asians countries too

You can say that as well *shrugs*

Acidosis:
You're confusing yourself. The report didn't state that families live on #364 a day. We are talking about individuals, not a family of 5 or 6.

#364 for a family of 6 means the family survives on #2100 per day (#68,000 per month). If you ask me, that report is overly exaggerated. Majority of Nigerians live below $0.5 per day. Nigerians are poor.

exactly

maybachmusic:
Nigerian banks no strong

Small companies for Europe gp buy them

its because of the weak maira that is why
not exactly the fault of the banks
assuming $1= #80-100
the value of our banks will triple
But it is currently 360

Rivers state has indeed gone to the dogs

cococandy:
But you will prostrate when you do your own proposal. Na una Dey make noise pass.

anyhow a man want to propose

Let him propose

it does not have to be in a particular way

Obainoneandonly:
anytime I read and see guys KNEELING down and proposing to his girlfriend,I feel like getting hold of d niggger and strangling him. I see dem as weak men. it should be d oda way round. you are doing dem a very very big favour by proposing marriage to dem,so why kneel down. you are to stand with the ring and ask her if she will marry you then she's to kneel and either accept or reject it.

its not compulsory to kneel tho

just propose as you like

any way na way

id911:
You're lucky you're in SA with your pretty lady. Naija men with raw cash no get joy at all. They can spend anyhow just to bed someone's wife and cause confusion among couples. If your woman is not extremely strong willed, she could fall for them except you're also rich and very good to her or she's a Nigerian who understands some certain things and maybe afraid of what people would say. If na foreign wife u marry carry come naija, na wahala if she too fine. IK too dey flaunt dat beautiful damsel anyhow, how these people no go spend anything to entice her as she be foreigner?

Ik to me is dumb, I can't marry that kind goddess carry come naija come stay except I don get my kids finish or I'm extremely rich. Nigerian rich men are some of the biggest 'spenders' you can find anywhere in the world.

Nigerian men who do that shows that the prevalent mentality in Nigeria is warped and rotten

I Know what some of these rich men in Niggerarea can do.
but it reeks of low self esteem

and not every woman falls for their antics

I'd wager its a 50/50 thing

jaxxy:
Does ik look like a faithful husband who gets sleepless nights over any woman to you? She married him after dating and yet didn’t know his status then had a kid also? Are u kidding me?

If u follow Sonia she’s not shallow or as materialistic as she looks especially going by her posts and write ups. She not like the typical nollywood actresses that jump around with no shame. I cud be wrong bt I’m 80% sure I’m right.

I believe you

Odinaka00:
Ik are you telling me that there are no other home made pretty damsels in Naija? You 're a very handsome guy with a good career, you 've got fame and cash. My South African lady is more prettier than this your wife bro and she s the one begging me for marriage. That your wife nor be African. South American babe wey she be. Then too like money and them sabi cheat

?

truthsayer009:
I wonder what iyke was thinking when he went to wife such beauty goddess!!! --- Same thing I thought oh, how would an Actor on a poor income keep such a lady.

She may eventually not even fade, take a look at Genevieve, some Women are very lucky.

IK Ogbonna cheated & truly It payed the way for her, Now she can Eat her cake & have it. Nigerian Men have this cash honestly & they can spend it, a lot of Men in her Native country cannot spend this much.

she is from Don Pablo Escobar country tho

those guys especially the narcos will match Nigerian money bags dollar for dollar


if she were to be from Honduras or Dominica, I for gree

but Brazil /Colombia?

Forget it!

grandstar:
I suspect the marriage crashed because of his "womanising". This includes very strong gay rumours. He may be bi. Rumours too strong.

got to hear about that too

Venerable612:
The fact that everyone on the front page seems to think the guy is right - shows that something is fundamentally wrong with this generation.

In Yoruba land. There is no such thing as Rights when an Elder is involved; Unless it works injustice. But it doesn’t worth a thing to allow the old man after pleas from people in the flight. Give honour to whole honour is due. If not for old age - but for his reputation. Everything goes round in this world.

I think he is just a proud person.

"no such thing as rights when an elder is involved"

that is a very interesting culture



umu asai

GeorgeTheCoder:
And that is why you lack home training

lmao
a grown man like myself
okay o
"home training" based on your own definition of home training abi?

Anu ofia di ka gi

TruthHurts100:
There should be orderliness.

I was in a bus... We sit four.... I was the third. A woman came last and she's to sit near the door. I came down for her to sit inside while I sit near the opened entrance cos I'm a man and I can hold on tight to whatever.

The woman was happy, I was happy.

Let's change the angle... What if the woman can and asked me to come down for her to sit inside? Two things will happen, it's either I agree or I disagree.

So Mr Soyinka knows his seat no. He should have seated there and he may then ask the owner of the seat if he could swap?

Don't say because you're an elderly man or you have a position then you want to use that to gain an advantage over others. Same way policemen wouldn't want to pay their transport fare. This is the same as jumping a queue.

You have to earn respect of a person, you can't assume it.

Now, the manner at which the young man ordered Mr Soyinka out of his seat might have been rude. There are better ways of tell an elderly to do the right thing. I don't support disrespecting elders. But elders should earn their respect as well.

Pls don't insult me if you don't understand me oooo, I'm feeling cold and my battery is 3%.

good point

NnwachukuOkike:
The young man simply obeyed the rules of the airlines. Who assigned Soyinka to that seat in the place?

If not that Nigeria is zoo, Mr Soyinka ought to had sat in where he was assigned to sit.

What hypothetical Nigerians political sycophants ought to have asked is "WAS MR SOYINKA ASSIGNED TO THE SEAT BY THE AIRLINES?"

LAWLESS NIGERIAN ELDERS.

good question

unmask:
Who else noticed Tonye cole's subtle attempt to paint the guy bad with his description?

Wole Soyinka was wrong and it is a shame what mo abudu wrote. Nothing is coming to the lad.

The right approach would have been to let the young man sit, then request a swap...any other way, the professor would be wrong

I noticed that too

Old men with no sense plenty for Nigeria

What was the point of trying to run the young man down who fought for his right

tescoman90:
Bro I swear you are very right!
This so called elders are blackmailing the youths emotionally with that word.....
"Respect your elders"
This same respect they were having b4 our birth to the extend the youths in Nigeria lost their voice due to the word ,.......
"Respect your elders"
"Don't argue with elders"

this is the precise reason why nigger area is still a cesspit

tillerwzb:
Seat are assigned for specific reasons ; which includes security and easier identification in case of eventualities . The young man was only doing what is right and his right for that matter no matter whose ox is gored . So many so called elite have this sense of entitlement and feel that nigeria owes them .

exactly

HAKYN1:
Sir, you can't be Yoruba! An average Yoruba man hardly use that expression "of what value is Soyinka to the guy" on an elderly person irrespective of the level of provocation. Even when you try, the Yoruba in you will always restrict you. You may understand Yoruba that doesn't make you Yoruba.

so one is no longer Yoruba by ancestry anymore because of his personal convictions?

and you wonder why Africa is a cesspit

Originalsly:
You can'tteach an old dog new tricks. Either Wole Soyinka was not home trained.... or his fame has gone to his head. Then maybe...this is symptom of Alzheimer's. Couldn't he simply ask the guy if he can remain there? But his ego would never allow him to stoop sooooo low to even respond to an illiterate.... doesn't he know who I am?...somebody will tell him...... and sure enough the spineless celebrities rushed in to take side with the bully.

The young man stood up for his right... others try to sit him down. How are we going to move forward? The hostesses too suffer the same syndrome ... they should have told Soyinka to go to his assigned seat. The airline can be sued if the guy did not get his seat.

exactly so

BluntBoy:
I don't care how you feel. All I know is that it would soon be asslicking to prostrate and greet one's parents or to take their bags from them. The excuse then would be that adults ought to have discretion as though discretion is not influenced by norms. As if we can totally separate personal judgment from sociatal norms.

Perhaps, the young man was right, perhaps, he was right. That is not my call. But when some of us think he should have left his seat for the elderly man, we are no asslicking.

Africans have a strong family system which emphasizes respect for elders. We once held this dearly. I don't see how this is asslicking.

did you hear me talk about asslicking?

where did you get that from?

Africans have a strong family system...

which culture does not have a strong family system by default?

what kind of nigger Africans do we have on the continent?

Wole Soyinka was WRONG
simple and short.

If African culture according to those of you touting it here involves excusing elderly ones for wrongdoing, the such culture is repugnant and should be dumped in the bin

I have many many young ones and nephews and nieces
they know what respect is and respect me

but on no account will I say that because I am their "elder" I begin to do "agbaya" things
.that should not be

Give respect to whom it is due
it goes both ways

GeorgeTheCoder:
Don't be stupid. There's no decent way to tell an octogenarian to stand up. What is really wrong with the people of this generation ?

that is your own point of view and you should keep it to yourself

there is NO sentiment when it comes to commercial issues

Assuming the young man let it go, that would have also been fine

but saying that he has no right to is absolute rubbish

if it were to be in an event for example, then I may have been more critical of the young man

but when it comes to commercial matter
nothing

unapologetic77:
I'm Yoruba i will do the same thing of what value is Soyinka to the guy,in no follow dem dey campaign for buhari all because he hate obj Bleep any body wey support this bloodsucking Govt

you have the right to behave same