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By mouth! How are you going to re-establish the Zoological Republic of Animal Kingdom, Zoogeria, as the Giant of Africa, Mr. Presidiot?

Farid24224:
As long as you get what am saying, I don't care...

No, I do NOT get what you were saying because it made no sense!

Farid24224:
Don't thought... Find out!!

Before you spew thrash!! [/b]

Before I dignify your idiocy, you have to be able to string your words together to make a coherent sentence!

I thought that was permitted by Sharia Law. After all, everything else is!

LIES and PROPAGANDA everywhere!

The fleecing of Nigeria continues!

Mindless and hopeless Igbo politicians acting like FOOLS as always!

And this article below details how and why the Nigerian quota system billionaire, Aliko Dangote, became Africa's richest man!

*DANGOTE, THE SICK, ADOPTED CHILD OF THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT!* (Unknown Author)

Earlier this week, news broke that Aliko Dangote was moving 60% of his family investment to the US.
Two days after, we saw him in Tanzania promising to increase his investment in the country because he wants to support the new president, whose business decisions have been investment friendly.

I am happy for him. He has sense.
But as a businessman, I am not sure Dangote is a model.
Don't take my word for it.

Let the data speak:
In October 2016, Dansa, Dangote's fruit juice company packed up because it wasn't making a profit.
It closed shop, owing its workers 6 months' salary.
He also started a $13 million tomato processing plant in March 2016 and closed shop in August 2017, saying it was because of "importation of tomato paste, shortfall in the supply of fresh tomatoes and power failure."

It is funny that they didn't consider these three factors before commencing.
So they started a tomato farm that will supply fresh tomatoes, then do some kind of backward integration.

After spending $ 3 million to set up a greenhouse, the farm died.
It has been starting and stopping since then.
No money, no tomatoes, no factory.

In November 2017, it was the turn of Dangote noodles to go under.
In his words, they wanted to "focus on pasta and flour."
He sold the noodles factory to his biggest rival, Dufil, makers of Indomie. It was like Coca-Cola buying a Pepsi plant. A business abomination.

Have you ever wondered what happened to Mowa Water, Dangote's bottled water?
Well, it went down with Dansa, or soon after.

Then his Dangote Flour was acquired by Olam in 2019.
He left the noodles business to concentrate on flour. But even the "commitment to flour" wasn't enough to stop Dangote Flour from baking and burning.

At the start of the Ramadan fast, Dangote Sugar wrote a petition against BUA Sugar, asking the FG to place trade sanctions on BUA for *"undermining the National Sugar Master Plan."*
In English, he wanted the FG to tilt the competition in his favor again by grounding BUA.
BUA claimed that he was being blackmailed because he refused to hike sugar prices at Ramadan as Dangote did.

Here is my point: wherever and whenever there is competition, Dangote would either crop out or try to change the business rules in his favor using his government connections.

He couldn't sell *Table water* because he was competing with *pure water sellers;*

He couldn't sell *noodles* because of *Indomie* :

He couldn't sell *Flour* because of *Honeywell, Golden penny etc;*

He couldn't sell *Tomato* paste because of *Derika and other pepper sellers* in the market.

He couldn't sell *Fruit* juice because of *Chivita, 5-Alive etc.*

*Dangote would only do well where Government policy is in his favor and competitors are given a bad hand by Government Regulators.*

I read a Reuters report some years ago (and it's still online) which revealed that at the height of the naira-dollar crisis of 2016, Dangote bought at LEAST USD $161million in hard currency direct from the CBN between March and May 2016. This amount was 90% of all the USD sold by CBN within that period.
All other manufacturers - 2,000 of them - got the balance of 10%.

He bought the USD at the official rate of N197/199 while other businesses purchased from the black market at N320.

Reuters reported that Dangote made over US$100 million from this Forex deal.

Dangote has always been the favorite side chic of every government since the return to democracy.
In 2003, he was alleged to have part-funded Obasanjo's re-election campaign when Atiku was doing anyhow.
Then he befriended Yar'adua, Goodluck, and Buhari.

On the day Goodluck, his former daddy was licking his wounds from the electoral defeat of 2015, Dangote was alleged to be clinking glasses and performing a lap dance for Buhari, his new daddy.

*But why would such a "successful businessman" be thinking of moving 60% of his family investment to the US,* and even adding to his capital investment in Tanzania which is already about $ 770 million?
The answer is in Buhari.

In 2015 when this administration took over, Dangote's net worth was US$17.7 billion.
Right now, it IS US $11.1 billion.
It means that in 6 years of Buhari, he has lost about 40% of his net worth.

Project two years forward:
what would his net worth be in 2023? My projection is that he might be worth AROUND US $8 billion, or less, depending on what happens to his refinery, and what happens in the security milieu.

*With all the favors:*.
>Tax exemptions,
> Special status,
> Forex allocations,
> special limestone mining licenses, etc,
Aliko's money is still melting like cotton candy on a hot summer afternoon.

*He has now activated his Plan B.*
Can you blame him?
Sometime last year a short video was leaked by his side chic and we had the rare privileged of seeing a billionaire butt.
Now we know that even Dangote himself is a side chic, an unfaithful one at that, moving from patron to patron: Obasanjo, then Yar'adua, then GEJ, now Buhari.

On another level, his daddy is Nigeria. Now he has two new daddies: the US, where his funds will be protected from melting, and Tanzania where Madam President will help him recover the 40% that he lost in the hands of the Nigerian economy.
[6/7, 14:06] Sheikh Juma: Those who are in doubt that NNPC funded Dangote Refinery 100% should go and ask Ex-Minister of State Petroleum Dr. Ibe Kachikwu who and who got the $ 25 billion contract that he raised alarm on after he returned from vacation. They immediately removed the office of the GMD from his control and later he was forced to resign as the Minister of State for Petroleum.

If you want to know who funded the Dangote Refinery, go to the Ministry of Finance and call for Dangote’s file and tell me even if you give a goat in suit the same concession, the same waiver, or the same opportunity given to Dangote, tell me if that Goat won’t be the richest being in Africa.

If you want to know how the Dangote Refinery was funded, go to Warri Refinery and Kaduna Refinery, and find out who was given an exclusive right to lift Low Pour Fuel Oil (LPFO) for a long time. NNPC claimed it was for Dangote Cement Factories. In fact, at a time that of Kaduna Refinery was so exclusive to Dangote that no other marketer was loaded. Every other marketer was referred to Port Harcourt Refinery.

If you want to know the sponsors of Dangote Refinery, Go to Kogi State and inquire how many trucks of Coal Dangote move out of Kogi State every day, a minimum of 200 trucks daily without even paying royalty to the State or Federal Government. Are we not aware that Coal can be an alternative to Petroleum and that through coal liquefaction or coal pyrolysis, you can derive various Petroleum products such as Diesel, Gasoline (petrol), LPG, and other Petroleum products?

If you want to know how Dangote Refinery was funded, go and find out how he petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan as soon as President Yardua died against his competitors in the Cement business like Ibeto, Madewell Cement, Bua Cement, and others that represented Licensees from the six geopolitical zones. His petition caused the withdrawal of two Licenses from the 6 companies; the Bagged cement and the Bulk cement import licenses leaving them with only the Backward Integration Licence only after he had used the same Federal Government to acquire cement factories even while he was still importing and others were not allowed.

As a matter of fact, the other Licensees lost their fortune as some were still offloading cement at their various jetties when Nigerian customs pounced on them never to bring the Cement into the Country but to ship it back to their countries of origin. This was when the competitors had succeeded to bring down the cost of cement to less than N800 per 50kg bag and Dangote couldn’t compete and wanted to monopolize the cement business at all cost.

If you want to know how the Dangote Refinery was funded, go see how he petitioned the Federal Government against the few manufacturers of cement over the importation of Clinker which is a major Raw material for cement production the moment he built his Clinker factory at Obajana Kogi State and the Federal Government jacked up the import duty on clinker from 10% to 50% causing those that were managing to compete with him to shut down their cement factories.

If you want to know how Dangote Refinery was financed, go and ask Federal Government how much Dangote realized when they shut the land borders against every other importer and exporter during Covid 19 lockdown but allowed only Dangote to use the Land borders.

Finally, you want to know how Dangote Refinery is funded. Go and ask the Governor of Kogi State why he had to fall out with Dangote, that for 10 years of Dangote operation globally, Dangote made over 7 trillion Naira out of which over 5 Trillion Naira alone was from his establishments in Kogi State.

Do you still want to know how Dangote Refinery was funded? Nigerians funded Dangote Refinery without knowing it.

And that's how ALIKO DANGOTE, became the quota system billionaire he is today! And any one of you can become a billionaire too if given the same damn opportunity that he has to be a monopoly!

CondenseMilk:
Where do you think asari got the name mujahideen from?

And you think Asari is a reasonable person?

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerians In Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa

What the 4uck is the Office of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission? What's the essence of the Foreign Affairs Office or Nigerian Foreign Missions (Embassies) abroad? Is she an Ambassador now?

WesternPanzer:
Air Peace with immediate effect should move in too and evacuate all Igbo and Eastern nationals in that war zone if any.

Priority should be on the citizens of the old Eastern region especially;

Anambra
Imo
Enugu
Abia
Ebonyi
Delta
Rivers
Akwa Ibom and
Calabar in no particular order. Special Priority on them too.

When the citizens of these regions are moved out, then you may consider others.

Any Biafran that's studying or living in Sudan needs to be left to fend for himself or herself! Why should any reasonable person go there to live or study if you're NOT there studying to be a better terrorist?

I am waiting to see the pictures of the 3 bandits reportedly killed by the soldiers or am I missing something here?

Corn247:
I hope that is not eze Ajao Empire in pieces
Always doing things illegally.

Do you mean Nigerians doing things illegally?

Growth is painful! Change is painful!! But NOTHING is as painful and devastating as staying stuck in a country you do NOT belong!!!

Of course, the Nigerian Military is in cahoots with the Fulani terrorists. They facilitate their movement and even provide them with logistical support when need be. Otherwise, how could these marauding Fulani terrorists kidnap citizens a stone's throw away from a military checkpoint? If you doubt that, listen to TY Danjuma.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDZOKvFtIRk

People interested in their stomach infrastructure are just looking out for their own personal interests!

I am sure MOST of you that support and believe in your One Nigeria would see NOTHING wrong with the illegal incarceration of a young Biafran woman. She did NOT bother anybody and did NOT commit any crime. Her only crime was daring to express herself in her choice of clothing to celebrate her birthday. For this simple act alone she was arrested by the terrorist Fulani Government of Nigeria and had been in jail for over two years. This is someone's child, sister, niece, cousin, and aunt. Now tell me, tomorrow if any of her relatives decide to exert revenge by any means that they deem fit for the grave injustice meted to her? What would be the reaction of those of you who defend evil and injustice? I am certain that as always, you would be on this same platform acting a fool, talking arrant nonsense and defending the indefensible. You relish blaming the victim. To all of you, I say, "Whatever evil that you support MUST surely be visited upon you."

Matrix137:
Dear Nairalanders, so I was born in Nigeria and have lived all my life in this country till this moment ( I'm 22 now). However, my aunt based in United States has offered to bring me to the country. Processing my documents already.

However I'm scared I may put me or her family in trouble when I get there cos America is a civilized country and I'm used to the crude ways and behaviors here which is already part of me and will likely replicate them in America which will surely put me in trouble with the law.

Behaviors like urination on the streets, throwing garbage on the road and many uncivilized behaviors too numerous to mention. So please how do I Behave myself over there. Thanks for reading.

This piece looks and sounds very suspicious in my own humble opinion!

kpakpakpa:
Humble greetings fam!

I will like to know if its possible to remove my auditory nerve or anything that can make me to stop hearing completely. I suffered a strange kind of hearing loss that comes with another condition called tinnitus

It happened since 2015 when i was admitted in a teaching hospital(doctors told me that my problem was typhoid) and treated for months. When i was about to discharged, i noticed that one of my ears was not functional which i complained immediately to the docs there told me that my condition was critical and was consequently administered hard drugs which is clearly the cause of my partial deafness and was given an appointment in 2weeks time to follow up about the new ailment. I came back home using only one ear.

After about 5days at home, i enter okada to the use an atm in town, upon reaching the bank, i joined the atm line to made my withdrawal, it was there that an old friend started talking to me that i discovered that both my ears were not functional.

I will add this link here so that you can click on it and go in and read to see what are some of the steps that you can take to help your condition. Good luck especially when you're in Nigeria.

https://www.ucsfhealth.org/conditions/tinnitus/treatment

Presidential aide Femi Adesina says his principal is unaware of promises the All Progressives Congress (APC) support groups made to Nigerians in the lead-up to President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2015 victory.

LIES! LIES!! and LIES!!! These folks, Femi Adesina, Liar Mohamed, and Garbage Shehu, that act on behalf of the so-called presidency after the demise of B0K0HARI, are all liars from the pit of HELL! If B0K0HARI was unaware of the promises made by the party, the Aqueda Peoples Congress (APC) support group in 2015, who then was in charge? All these implausible tales that they tell Nigerians make me wonder sometimes whether they take Nigerians for fools. But on second thought, they are right because Nigerians have shown themselves time and again to be M0R0NS and gullible!

For all Biafrans who still conduct their business outside of Biafra land and believe in the STUPID One Nigeria, this is exactly what your future in your ONE NIGERIA looks like...very bleak! For those of you who are into automobile importation, the plan is to make it nearly impossible for your business to survive. I hope this recalcitrant move by the Lagos State government would serve as an eye-opener and a lesson to all of you to teach you that Nigeria is NOT for you and that BIAFRA is your only hope for survival. A word is enough for the wise. He who has ears, let him hear!

The Fulani Government of Nigeria (FGN) has absolutely NO case against MNK and yet, the court is allowing itself to be used as a vehicle to pervert justice. The lackadaisical and nonchalant attitude of the FGN reminds me of a saying when I was in Law School, which is, "If you have the facts on your side, you argue the facts; if you do NOT have the facts on your side, you argue the law. But if you have neither on your side, you pound your shoe on the table." This is exactly what the terrorist Fulani Government of Nigeria is doing. They do NOT have both the facts and the law on their side, hence they resorted to a lawless behavior. And it's very sad the highest court in the land that's supposed to be the common man's last hope is allowing itself to be used to thwart justice.

Fineman2:
My name is John. I am 35 years old. I lost my first wife in 2020, so I remarried in 2021 so that my daughter can grow up with a motherly love.

However, my new wife has made it a point of duty to always maltreat my daughter.

Each time, I want to interfere, she tells me to stay out of it. I know I should stand up for my daughter but I am in love with this woman because she came into my life when I needed someone the most.

I reached out to the family of my late wife last month to allow my daughter to stay with them while I send money for her upkeep, but they refused. They said my daughter cannot grow up without a mother and still grow up without the presence of a father in her life.

I have had several conversations with my wife and I have begged her to accommodate my daughter since she is yet to conceive but she told me to get rid of her from the house.

She practically complains about everything my daughter does. I am unhappy about this but at the moment, I am caught in between the woman I love and my beloved daughter.

Please what should I do?

I reached out to the family of my late wife last month to allow my daughter to stay with them while I send money for her upkeep, but they refused. They said my daughter cannot grow up without a mother and still grow up without the presence of a father in her life.

The first question I have for you is: "How old is your daughter?" Be it as it may, you must NOT allow your new wife to mistreat your child, or any child at that. In your piece, you professed your love for this woman but the question you need to answer is whether the love is reciprocal. Does she love you as much as you love her? If she loves you, she must love your child to the extent that she would not maltreat her. So, my advice to you is to let the woman know that your child comes first regardless and that you would be willing to let her go if she's NOT ready to accept your child like she supposedly accepted you. ...remember your child is your blood. This story is akin to the Cinderella story. Do NOT let this woman or any other woman mistreat your child because her mother is no more. You're the only person that she has and it is both your MORAL and LEGAL obligation to care for and protect that child. I hope you do NOT take any decision that you would regret later in life because of the love of a woman who apparently does NOT give a damn about you. A word is enough for the wise!

Why are these students complaining? Are they NOT the same people like the M0R0NIC cabals on this platform that would be here talking nonsense and defending the indefensible? They would defend a government that has made their pitiful lives very miserable simply because they are gullible, very ignorant, and have empty brains. They claim they love Nigeria, so they need to love all that Nigeria has to offer albeit bad or good. The evil that you support would eventually be visited upon you when you least expect it. Fools everywhere!

WOW! And some people are still foolish enough to want to remain part of a woefully failed country! No be juju be dat?

An officer, one soldier and 15 others have been killed by suspected armed Fulani herdsmen in a renewed attack on communities in Edikwu 2 Council Ward of Apa Local Government Area of Benue State.

It was gathered that communities under siege by the marauders include Odogbo and Opaha, the home of the lawmaker representing Apa State Constituency in the state House of Assembly, Mr Abu Umoro, and the state Commissioner of Finance, Mr David Olofu.

Las-Las all of the fools that want to remain slaves in Nigeria would be served their own breakfast. I am loving it! I would be back on this platform if it's still here and NOT taken down to laugh at and mock all of you. GOD is good!

Who could have guessed? Hopeless country and hopeless FOOLS masquerading as a civilized country and humans!

Nigeria is happening to a lot of people. This is just a preview of what is to come. The same garri that you're buying at 1700 Naira now, before the end of this week, you'd be paying 2000 Naira or more. There's definitely no end in sight, things are going to get worse than they are now. Your country, Nigeria, defies the law of nature that states: what goes up would eventually come down. Welcome to a failed country!

theredaddy:
Even tho i understand LAW as its own term, i don't need to be a lawyer to know what "and" means in whatever term context its being used; and is and in any profession or school of thought. these is english here

For every law you find in the constitution there are conditions that warranted it and they are enacted with motives ... so when interpreting the law you have to read into the intentions of the draftsman to get a clear reading of the law.
IF FCT was a state among the 36states, and the draftsman still went further to single out FCT then it becomes valid that FCT is a MUST.
i ask you a simple question you pretended not to see it, FCT is not among 36states but you want electoral institution to [i]recognise & count [/i]it as tho its part of the states ... in your own english re-draft that section

You're still rambling and putting logic on its head with your warped reasoning. Below is exactly what the relevant section of your Constitution Section 134, says:

(2) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where there being more than two candidates for the election-

(a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election; and

(b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election of each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

Do you see the "and" between Section 2 (a) & 2 (b)? Why do you think it's there? If you can honestly answer that, then you have already answered whether a candidate needs to get 25% of VOTES cast in both the 24 States and also in the[b] Federal Capital Territory.[/b] In case you do NOT understand, the word "AND" is a conjunctive term used to connect two statements that are to be taken jointly. Now, let's follow your argument so that you can see how asinine and illogical you sound. Going on your warped logic, that means the "and" between sections 2(a) and 2(b) above should be ignored and treated as one or the other, therefore, you're in essence saying that a candidate can be declared a winner by fulfilling just one of the requirements. And that's either getting: (a) the highest number of votes cast in an election; OR (b) 25% of votes cast in 24 states and the Federal capital territory BUT not both as indicated by Section 134 of the Constitution. So, the "and" means that both requirements 2(a) and 2(b) MUST be satisfied not just one in order for a winner to be declared! Got it?

I hope you spend your time reading, comprehending, and digesting the latter part of my comment to truly make sense of what the relevant section of your Constitution says about the requirements before a candidate is declared a winner. Let me remind you, if it was not the intent of the FRAMERS that FCT be included as part of the requirement as some of you were making counterarguments using Section 299, they would NOT have added FCT at the end. They would have left it at "all the states in the federation." I am a Constitutional Attorney and I spend my time reading and interpreting Statutes and the Constitution albeit NOT Nigerian Laws and Constitution.