₦airaland Forum

grandstar:
The most homogenous country in Africa is most likely Somalia and I'm sure none here wants to do to win a Visa lottery to go live there.

In England, there were minorities like the Cornish but the English language swept their off. The same with the Manx language of the Isle of Man. The last known speaker of the Manx language died in 1977.

Swaziland and Lesotho have a main language each yet are both very poor.

The Maghreb, the Arab speaking North Africa has a dominant language yet they aren't prosperous

The primary reason for African poverty primarily lies in the lack of true democracy for decades which enabled sit tight leaders to stay on in power despite poor achievements. A good example is Cameroon.

Another reason is the refusal or the half hearted attempt by leaders to promulgate or worse implement policies formulated by technocrats that would transform their economies.

The list is endless.

Note that even when you have a country either less divided by tribes or having only a single tribe, new problems spring up.

Imagine Igboland secedes and becomes a country. Anambra Igbos will try and dominate and this will lead to squabbles among the others. New divisions will arise. The Onitsha people don't consider themselves igbos and may prefer to join their kith of kin in Delta State fearing subjugation in an Igbo country.

Heck , look at the Latin American countries, though they have one ethnic group, their economic conditions are uneviable.

grandstar:
The huge underdevelopment in the North is largely down to religion. Their disdain for Western education (In Sokoto state only 10% are literate) is the chief reason for Nigeria being the poverty capitalof the world.

The lack of educations leads to what The Economist magazine calls the "entrenchment of the underclass"

If you like, don't send your children to school, you'll see where they'll get to in life.

El-Rufai's anger's probably fuelled not only by the size of the problem but perhaps also the frustration at watching Muslim parents refusing to grab with both hands the huge incentives he has provided to entice them into giving their wards a good education.

He'll say to himself that's at least he's trying his best and yet not accomplished as much as he's invested but most other northern governors are unperturbed about the problem and instead focus on signature projects that win them votes such as a new shiny airport to fly chronically malnourished children to Orlando, Florida to see Mickey Mouse in Disneyland

Alas , under this kind of situation , Nigeria as a whole simply can't prosper.

Ibrahimmrfish:
this is a very bad decision,there is nothing preventing France or any other European countries to build a factory in other countries and flood our market with their products.This is the final nail at our already soon to be dead manufacturing sector.

You forget that it is this same process of foreigners setting up factories in another country that got china to where they are today

grandstar:
The answer is simple: poverty or severe poverty. A foreign wife is perceived as a ticket to prosperity by them.

When China was still poor, many were eager to marry Westerners but with a per capita income now about thrice Nigeria, they've lost a lot of that interest.

Poverty is the primary issue

The urge to travel abroad for a better life falls drastically when per capita income touches $8,000. Nigeria is barely $2,500 so the country still has a long way to go

This explains why citizens of south Africa , Botswana and Namibia aren't as desperate as west Africans to travel to obodoyibo.

Oy gevalt , she's hot.

haryomikun:
Your first paragraph made sense. The second,,,, not as much.

Import controls help economic growth in particular (economic development). It helps with balance of payment deficit, something Nigeria and other West African countries are really suffering from.

Import controls don't serve to make citizens mean produce stuff in their own backyards. That's an exaggeration. The more there are firms available for exports in Nigeria, the more unemployment drops. GDP also increases, balance of payment shifts towards equilibrium, terms of trade possibly improve and so on.

If every country used import controls , who then would we export to ?

haryomikun:
Your first paragraph made sense. The second,,,, not as much.

Import controls help economic growth in particular (economic development). It helps with balance of payment deficit, something Nigeria and other West African countries are really suffering from.

Import controls don't serve to make citizens mean produce stuff in their own backyards. That's an exaggeration. The more there are firms available for exports in Nigeria, the more unemployment drops. GDP also increases, balance of payment shifts towards equilibrium, terms of trade possibly improve and so on.

See this nigga , since when did Nigeria start suffering b.o.p deficit , we export more than we import bra.

grandstar:
My anger with poster wasn't about the display of wealth but his derogatory reference to the black man.
As though blacks are the only ones who do such things.

You're right. The craze of displaying wealth in a feature of the nouveau riche.

He probably didn't bother to remember the lifestyles of rich ass gulf Arabs.

tonyimadu:
From the US to Europe and the rest of the world, governments protect their farmers. Protecting the farmers over importers ensures that the nation's food security is maintained.
It's sensible to grow your nations agriculture than improving that of another country.
The ministries involved should work more intelligently in protecting the farmers and boosting growth

For bleeps sake , things don't work like that , they tried that with the rice and we all know how things turned out.

Nigeria and anti- trade be like 5 and 6.

We hate trade so much and yet we still joined ecowas, I don't understand .

grandstar:
The problem isn't really the salaries they are getting but rather, their bloated size, their disgracefully level of productivity and high levels of corruption, cronyism and nepotism. The civil service should not be used for reducing the employment rate in the country and the states.

It has been said that the size of the civil service of ekiti today is more than what obafemi awolowo used to run the entire south south and south west combined !!!!

grandstar:
Does one need to be a rocket scientist to know most states are bankrupt or in bad financial state?

With the collapse in oil prices which was the states primary source of revenue and their refusal to slash recurrent expensive such as that of civil service by downsizing, it should be obvious to all that the states are in deep financial mess!

In the US, when politicians campaign promising lower taxes and an increase in government spending and still balance their budget's, the electorate ask how as It doesn't add up

Here in Nigeria, even well educated Nigerians are guilty of such dismal thinking, blaming the deep financial mess on corruption rather on what it really is- the crash in oil prices and poor Internal Revenue collection. Added to this are the senseless revenue loss through the multiple exchange rates and continued fuel subsidies

Poor is an understatement .

Our tax to gdp ratio is second to the last in the world. The last is war torn Afghanistan

grandstar:
Does one need to be a rocket scientist to know most states are bankrupt or in bad financial state?

With the collapse in oil prices which was the states primary source of revenue and their refusal to slash recurrent expensive such as that of civil service by downsizing, it should be obvious to all that the states are in deep financial mess!

In the US, when politicians campaign promising lower taxes and an increase in government spending and still balance their budget's, the electorate ask how as It doesn't add up

Here in Nigeria, even well educated Nigerians are guilty of such dismal thinking, blaming the deep financial mess on corruption rather on what it really is- the crash in oil prices and poor Internal Revenue collection. Added to this are the senseless revenue loss through the multiple exchange rates and continued fuel subsidies

Seriously , since independene till now , we have still been on this slashing civil servant salaries ish.

Why don't we ever learn ?

grandstar:
This government is one of the most financially wasteful in the country's history and worse, it is sanctioned by the Presidency.

I thought they said they have devalued the naira.

grandstar:
Does the purchase of treasury bills count as portfolio investment? Then the increase means very little.

The fdi fah is very small.

grandstar:
Biggest time. She should know better!

Maybe she just wanted to say her son schooled overseas. She wants to "keep up with the Jones's"

grandstar:
If she was, I'm sure she would have sent him to a more prestigious country. Turkish Cyprus no be am at all.

I heard Turkish Cyprus is bleeped up big time.

Sydney17:
After almighty God, the whites are next! so humane and so reasonable! it's very rare to see a black boss this nice! and that's the fact! the whites build the world, while we blacks destroy it! If you think I am spitting nonsense, tell me ONE black Nation better than Nigeria! Not even Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, etc despite being in America continent

Can you just shut up ?

grandstar:
Is it Greek or Turkish Cyprus? I hope she realises there's massive difference between the two.

I guess that's what they can afford. But abroad no be by force now

Isn't she very rich ?

Halo22:
My question on this is, whether the currency will take over our local naira? If yes, then it's a welcome development cos our naira is as useless as the letter G in gmelina.

Lool, shit don't work that way.

Liberia uses u.s dollars but that doesn't affect their standard of living.

omohayek:
While Buhari's incompetence hasn't helped, let's not pretend that the blame here is entirely his, or even the entire political class alone. Who is it that consistently votes in governors who steal and squander whatever little is left over from paying salaries to bloated public sectors, other than the masses themselves? Who celebrates incompetents who build white elephant office complexes in places where no private firms have expressed any interest in relocating to? When people obsess over government workers salaries, to the exclusion of basics like decent roads, clean water and primary healthcare facilities, is it any wonder that life expectancy in Nigeria remains abysmally low? How can 80% of a state's budget be going exclusively to the payment of salaries for "workers", most of whom do no real work? Yet anyone who dares to tamper with this ridiculous state of affairs is lambasted by the very same voters who suffer the consequences of wasting so much money on such irrelevancies, even though the same sums could dramatically improve the quality of life for millions if used judiciously.

At heart, Nigeria's problem is twofold: a poorly educated electorate still rooted in "tribal" clientelism, and an almost complete disconnect between revenue raising and distribution, which saps the public's incentive to closely oversee how public funds are used. Until the "federal allocation" system is abolished, and quality mass education is introduced nationwide, Nigeria will continue to be a useless, ailing "giant" whose only "strength" is popping out huge numbers of children whose parents can't afford to take proper care of them.

omohayek:
Indeed, and Nigerians are the most highly educated group in the USA, with their incomes rising correspondingly rapidly as they integrate. I really don't understand this awful tendency some people have to put down "the black man" as if every black person on earth were the same. Worse yet is how these same people are quick to dismiss any evidence contrary to their assertions of black inferiority, even when the evidence is of the very same kind as what they latch on to criticise "the black man"; when Asian immigrants to America do well it's taken as evidence of their superior "IQ" or "morality" or whatever, but when Nigerians do even better, it's somehow irrelevant!

Heck , a Nigerian family is the smartest family in Britain.

omohayek:
This is rank ignorance of the worst kind: those white people you give so much credit to are the very ones responsible for black South Africans lagging so far behind educationally, thanks to the Bantu Education policy introduced by Verwoerd in 1953.

This tendency to credit everything good in Africa to white people is reaching ridiculous proportions: many of the continent's problems were deliberately caused by them, from fostering "tribal" tensions in the name of "divide and rule", to discouraging African electoral participation in favor of "indirect rule" through "chiefs", to drawing borders with absolutely no consideration for pre-existing ethnic and political realities.

The afrikaneers bleeped black south Africans up big time , the damage can still be felt till today.

DavidEsq:
See pant like onions bag . Material for 5 boxers and one little agbada

Jesus Christ

eki2000:
I think Tecno and Infinix will lose the Nigerian market in a year time, when a lot of people finally become aware of the recent Samsung A series and the pricings. I am personally going for A50 instead of Infinix Zero 6. imagine 25mp front and back plus 4000mah, God punish the devil!

It's almost as if Samsung made the a series to chase tecno and infinix out of market.

HappyPagan:
Grown men. Professors with degree. Men of timber and calibre. Men, whom the earth trembles when they move. They all believe it.

TheAk:
by any chance did you draw inspiration for your screen name from urahara kitsuke?

Yes o

donbachi:
wetin u go dey hear na "etteh mbok nom monkey style oo,broda sunumbok iyammi".

Sportwin:
Taking my phone to calcareous was the worst possible thing I could have done

First
I was charged 13400 for the screen
Then when I went to pickup next day
Was told I needed to change ba3 again
#2900

I paid
D screen was not tightly fit so I returned again
The screen started touching itself I returned again

My fingerprint no longer takes pics
I returned again
Tomao I will be returning again cos the speaker doesn't work anymore

All these worked B4 I gave it to them to fix o

And they said my warranty is broken cos the screen broke

A phone that's less than a month old

Which kind of rubbish is that ?

IamAb:
same here.. I no dhe update anything.. I went to change the phone battery, the phone engineer told me its 6500 ...

Changing phone battery for a phone not up to a year is saddening

Hurrikane3000:
Tare da kai, da iyale nka,
Asara Kawai.

No need to stood down to his level na.

jom4real007:
*Sniper* is not an easy killer, *it's an organ eating ,liquid monster*

*Sniper is a DDVP 2,2*

Ok...sniper is a Dichlorovinyl Dimethyl phosphate compound, produced by *ndi Swiss Nigeria Chemical Compound*

When you blindly drink *sniper* that you want to kill yourself, this is what will happen to you....

1. Your eyeballs will swim in its own water as forced tears escapes from its reservoir

2. You will have serious discharges from your nose...oh, it's late, you will have no control over these happenings now.

3. A banging migraine will set in. You will hold unto your head and scream like it wants to explode..

4. Your chest will tighten, forcing close , making sure that your body have lost control over it.

5. You will be on the floor by now, screaming through all your senses, as saliva pours out from your mouth like a slow, mini river.

6. You will mess yourself up with vomiting, and you will long to vomit your intestines too, to be relieved, cos you are now in so much regrets for taking the sniper, but ah,ah,ah...sniper must finish it's job.

7. The rest of the crises comes in turns as you shit all over yourself ...sweating ,muscle fasciculation, your blood pressure will go down low, convulsions, then, your life will be squeezed out of you through the shutting down of your lungs and kidney....cardiac arrest will aid your departure.

The last thing that will die in you, is your brain that will take in every information before shutting down. It will allow you watch yourself, give up the pained ghost.

That's why they will meet you when you are dead, with your eyes open, drooling, a lot of poo in your underwear, your body twisted in a strange position as you tried to fight off the pain and crises, and they will observe the signs of struggle in the room you took the sniper...cos you will climb the walls, tear the sheets, rip some of your hair off, just to quail the killing pain.. some run off from their houses,screaming for people to help them, that they drank sniper, that's how they ended up in the hospital.

If you are lucky, your system could be flushed when it has not shut down everything, but you will never remain the same, if you are unlucky, you will die on your way to the hospital, or in the hospital...but in your dead eyes, the last memorial record in it, before your terrorized brain, shuts down, is "regrets".

*You can see, it's not an easy death*

Should in case you are among those, waiting on queue to snipe yourself out..the dead cannot come back to tell you their experiences with sniper...that 100ml ,200/300 naira *otapiapia*, is a *terminator*.. *a gradually, ruthless, wicked terminator*

You are deceived when they make you believe that sniper is the easier way out, no, it will slowly devour you from the inside, as it shuts down your organs one by one in a tearing order.

It's only a bullet to your head, measured well, not to miss the brain, that can be the fast killer you anticipated, not sniper.

If you are depressed, drink more of cold juices, while you think your way out. *Suicide is not a joke*.

Sniper will make you *see your ear without mirror,* will force you to beg for your life back, but it will scream back at you from your system, to let it do its job.

*It will give you a slow, dragged, struggled, regrettable death..*

Why don't you use that strength of fighting a painful death, and fight your way out to live?

You don't wanna mess with that insecticide called sniper. Trust me..no think am, no take am.

Is this really true ?