₦airaland Forum

LordAdam:
That is your opinion and you are entitled to it.

No continent has no flaw. But Africa's case is not a flaw, it is our way of life. There is no flaw in the living space of a mad man. You cannot compare that with a bachelor who did not wash cutleries and dishes before leaving for work in the morning.

The first case is akin to Africa, the second is akin to other continents.

I think it takes mental strength to see and affirm the truth even when it does not favor you. Again that is my sole opinion and you are welcome to disagree.

What do you mean by flashy? No matter how you flip the coin, Africa still comes last. It has been like that for 6000 years. Hoping it will change now is blind optimism. Do you know why? Because others will not stay static while we overcome them or equal them. T[b]hey are moving exponentially and we are move arithmetically[/b]. We can never measure up.

The only thing that can change who we are is if we adopt a different style of thinking and way of life. But the truth is, how feasible is that? We are who we are. We are Africans. Our uniqueness makes us slaves and cursed. We have never changed. We do not have the capacity to change.

-Lord

Moving arithmetically in a backwards direction

HappyPagan:
Your mind dey Jerusalem, you claim say you be Igbo.

You're most lost than a broken GPS.

Mimee803:
What scares me or should I say concerns me most about d video is d detailed reporting of events...which way Nigeria

I swear , the report was damn too detailed

grandstar:
Urahara

Zuckerburg is Jewish
One of the 2 founders of Google is Jewish.
Bloomberg is Jewish

Jews are disporportionatlely wealthy than most other ethnic group or races.

Nevertheless, the Chinese no dey carry last as well as the South Asians from India.

In America today, the richest group are Indian Americans. Theyve overtaken the Jews

Woow , I didn't know that.

grandstar:
Urahara

Zuckerburg is Jewish
One of the 2 founders of Google is Jewish.
Bloomberg is Jewish

Jews are disporportionatlely wealthy than most other ethnic group or races.

Nevertheless, the Chinese no dey carry last as well as the South Asians from India.

In America today, the richest group are Indian Americans. Theyve overtaken the Jews

Thanks for explaining to them , it was beginning to become tiring.

Even in South Africa , the richest people and the most successful people are Jews . Despite the fact that there are only 80000 in a country of 57 million people.
They were even able to 5 Nobel prize winners .

Even the richest man in South Africa is a Jew .many of South African banks are owned by jews

Making up 0.2 percent of the population and yet 25 percent of South africas wealthiest .

adecz:
Why should they defy the law?

If they are not given the permission to
march into Abuja, why must they confront
armed soldiers to disobey the law?

All the travails & problems the Zakzaky people
face is just out of disobedience to the laws
of the land & constituted authority.

Remember, soldiers are not trained to shoot
to wound or disarm, they are trained to kill.

If you confront armed soldier, no complain say dem
kill you...

Finally, no leader will take such insolence,
even Jubril.

God punish you and your family , BASTARD

LordReed:
They are and hoping in some vague way it buys them some fortune with god.

LoL! How many multinational companies are owned by Jews? How many billionaires are Jewish? How cars do you know were made by Jews? How many household products do you use that are by Jews?

There is nothing disproportionate about their success, you only at a narrow band of statistics and call it disproportionate.

Now ask yourself how many Jews are in the world in proportion to their representation in their respective fields ?

JeromeBlack:
Some of the biggest white collar criminals are Jews- see Bernie Maddoff.

Also, Jews do not dominate in the field of technology. That is left for the Japanese and the USA comes in second. How many Jewish owned companies are in the top 5 tech companies in the world? Samsung is not Jewish (Korean). Sony is Japanese. Toyota is Japanese. LG is korean. None of Apple's founders are Jews.

One has to be very careful when praising Jews. Many of the Jews you see today are not Jews. Race/ethnicity is not a scientific way of differentiating people. A lot of people you see today claiming to be Jews could be just a mix of middle eastern tribes and European descent.

This is rubbish , genetic studies on European Jews have proven with overwhelming evidence that they are related closely to sephradic and mizrahic Jews.


People that praise them are not doing so for doing sake.


Even a mad man knows that Jews have a disproportionate rate of success a s compared to other ethnic groups

PastorAIO:
When European immigrant groups in the United States scored below the national average on mental tests, they scored lowest on the abstract parts of those tests. So did white mountaineer children in the United States tested back in the early 1930s ... Strangely, Herrnstein and Murray refer to "folklore" that "Jews and other immigrant groups were thought to be below average in intelligence." It was neither folklore nor anything as subjective as thoughts. It was based on hard data, as hard as any data in The Bell Curve. These groups repeatedly tested below average on the mental tests of the World War I era, both in the army and in civilian life. For Jews, it is clear that later tests showed radically different results—during an era when there was very little intermarriage to change the genetic makeup of American Jews.[35]
-From Ethnicity and IQ, the American Spectator.-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve#Race_and_intelligence

Once upon a time, only 90 years ago, Jews consistently scored below average in intelligence. Now they score above average. How can IQ therefore be genetic?

Please have you looked into Epigenetics yet?

By the early 1900s , Harvard already began to put Jews on an admission quota because their success rate was too high , so obviously the bolded is obviously false

PastorAIO:
When European immigrant groups in the United States scored below the national average on mental tests, they scored lowest on the abstract parts of those tests. So did white mountaineer children in the United States tested back in the early 1930s ... Strangely, Herrnstein and Murray refer to "folklore" that "Jews and other immigrant groups were thought to be below average in intelligence." It was neither folklore nor anything as subjective as thoughts. It was based on hard data, as hard as any data in The Bell Curve. These groups repeatedly tested below average on the mental tests of the World War I era, both in the army and in civilian life. For Jews, it is clear that later tests showed radically different results—during an era when there was very little intermarriage to change the genetic makeup of American Jews.[35]
-From Ethnicity and IQ, the American Spectator.-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve#Race_and_intelligence

Once upon a time, only 90 years ago, Jews consistently scored below average in intelligence. Now they score above average. How can IQ therefore be genetic?

Please have you looked into Epigenetics yet?

I have looked into Epigenetics test

PastorAIO:
When European immigrant groups in the United States scored below the national average on mental tests, they scored lowest on the abstract parts of those tests. So did white mountaineer children in the United States tested back in the early 1930s ... Strangely, Herrnstein and Murray refer to "folklore" that "Jews and other immigrant groups were thought to be below average in intelligence." It was neither folklore nor anything as subjective as thoughts. It was based on hard data, as hard as any data in The Bell Curve. These groups repeatedly tested below average on the mental tests of the World War I era, both in the army and in civilian life. For Jews, it is clear that later tests showed radically different results—during an era when there was very little intermarriage to change the genetic makeup of American Jews.[35]
-From Ethnicity and IQ, the American Spectator.-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve#Race_and_intelligence

Once upon a time, only 90 years ago, Jews consistently scored below average in intelligence. Now they score above average. How can IQ therefore be genetic?

Please have you looked into Epigenetics yet?

Pls provide hard evidence for the low iq scores of Jews 90 years ago

grandstar:
First of all, do you write good quality articles? If yes then I will provide time

Can the skill of good quality writing be learned

obasiken:
I was part of a team that introduced some foriegn investors to a governor in the south east. They wanted to start a palm plantation and refine the palm oil to meet europe standard before exporting it.

This plantation will employ 2000 people for a start and return about 1.5b per month to the state government. All they needed was land.

The governor asked us how long before ROI (return on investmvent). We told him 6 years cos palm tree takes time to grow. The governor told us he cannot be investing for his successor to come and reap.

obasiken@yahoo.com

Woow

grandstar:
Kuwait, Abu Dhabi etc

Yes , but that countries have a unique advantage.

Tiny population with bastard amount of oil

We don't have that advantage..

grandstar:
They can but the best assets are human capital and good economic policies.

Which countries got rich from natural resources ?

Examples

MiningNG:
The mining sector is a strong propeller for Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP), the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Abubakar Bawa Bwari, has said.

Opening the Second Annual Northern Nigeria Solid Minerals Fair and Workshop in Minna, Niger State, Bwari said ERGP has facilitated removal of impediments to investment with the metals and solid minerals sector receiving priority attention as a catalyst for attracting private sector funds to the economy.

“The sector provided 24 of the 70 projects, including eight five-star projects that require zero public investment,” he disclosed, even as he hinted the projects are expected to facilitate private sector investment worth $3.32bn and create 238,000 jobs.

He listed ERGP’s success as the designation of three minerals – gold, lead-zinc ore and tin as quick win commodities, the issuance of a gold refinery licence to an indigenous company and the ground breaking ceremony for the construction of the gold refinery plant in Mowe last Thursday.

He also noted that challenges hindering commercial exploitation of the minerals are being removed, while a new export policy has been developed to remove hurdles associated with export permits and licencing.

Represented by Umar Hassan, an engineer, the minister highlighted achievements of his ministry, including increased revenue to government coffers, job and wealth creation and the acquisition of gold by the Central Bank of Nigeria to stabilise the nation’s currency.

source; https://www.miningng.com/mineral-sector-can-make-nigeria-great-bawa-bwari/

When will Nigerians , especially northerners , learn that natural resources don't make a country rich ?

HappyPagan:
Like a shepherd, the One leads his people. Like sheep, they follow. He feeds them, clothes them, teaches them to depend on him. The sheep give birth to more sheep, who raise more sheep. The shepherd keeps them for The Master.

The One builds a fence around the sheep, they call it the armor of God. It's a strong wall built on the solid foundation of believe, painted in beautiful colors of humility. The One doesn't own the sheep, he only keeps them for the Master. The Master is coming soon, soon and very soon.

The sheep never question, only follow, what the One says the Master says they should know. But the sheep are not stupid, fear is not stupidity. The constant fear of not honoring God's word, of attracting evil, or death, that is enough to ensure they comply. Sheep, who choose to become goats, are chased away. Ostracized. Left to die until they return to the Master.



If a man reaches a position without logic, every road leads where his heart wishes. The One depends on the sheep not knowing the Master is never coming. He never dwells where evil resides.

May the Lord give extra bonus offer to those who insist on paying tithe. Tithes loosen your finance, that is wisdom.

Shey Jesus don't turn Neo or Luke Skywalker .

Which one come be " the one " ?

HappyPagan:
it's a publishing platform, similar to blog. Users post articles on a wide array of topics....
I created an account there, and will be moving my articles from nairaland there.


this site don dey tire person...

God whyyyyyy

DukeofNZ:
Na ihm be say nnemuka and pocohantas of nairaland get hope. na before people wey dere womb damage for abortion de worry.

Who is this Pocahontas and why do you ppl like insulting her Everytime ?

Jesse01:
so d Arabs kill all d ancient egyptians dat where blacks? cause me I no understand u oo.

The dude is just daft. Egyptians have never been black

izzou:


The funds gotten from oil sold legally has and is still being siphoned by our leaders

So anyone who wants to steal oil and sell illegally has my blessings. Nigeria is just messed up that I don't believe in this country anymore. [b]Even if we divide, I still don't believe in the pieces

Everything about Africa is just poverty upon poverty.

I promise my wife and kids that we will make it out of here. We sure will. [/b]

Daaaaaaiiimmmmmmnn

theoldpretender:
Don't know if they would...plus, Dangote (my opinion) does not have a monopoly on cememt...BUA and Lafarge are still around.

Then what about the ridiculous price for cement despite the fact that it sells outside the country by far far cheaper ?

theoldpretender:
Personally, I doubt...and I think he would be selling PMS higher than N145.

Let's wait and see though.

(When the refinery comes on stream, it would only refine 300000 barrels, then eventually go up to 600000 barrels by 2030)

And what if the fg decides to subsidise his fuel ?

theoldpretender:
Personally, I doubt...and I think he would be selling PMS higher than N145.

Let's wait and see though.

(When the refinery comes on stream, it would only refine 300000 barrels, then eventually go up to 600000 barrels by 2030)

Do you think the govt would give him protection to run things like a monopoly just as he is doing with cement ?

theoldpretender:
Two million barrels.

Yes, the government knows. But building a new refinery costs $9bn, we need three new ones at least...and our reserves would be depletedif we used it.

And we live in a democracy. If you don;t like your government, use your PVC.

If dangotes refineries are completed, do you think it would be able to meet up with nigerias demand ?

And at what price do you think he would sell for ?

ezkimow:
Are u juggling ur ballz, what did Jonathan do? Please

Partial removal

frenzyduchess:
when comparing you should also consider standard of living and electricity supply of other countries too.

Jesus Christ !!!

The laws of demand and supply controlling the international oil price does not give a feckk about standard of living .

theoldpretender:
The problem is...you misunderstand what subsidy removal entails...which is why you 'beleived the lie' of subsidy removal.

Subsidy removal works when

1.Government STOPS setting prices

2.Government allows marketers to set their OWN prices.

3.In theory...that means that if Bubu removes subsidy...NNPC sells fuel at N200, Total sells fuel at N230, Oando at N240, Conoil at 235, Forte at N245.

4.Again in theory...Nigerians buy fuel from the guy with the LOWEST prices..(NNPC has long queues, others have very few cars). Competition sets in, prices go down.

5.We saw this in the GSM industry. Prices initially high (my dad's MTN sim cost him N10000. Needless to say, he has not changed that line at all!).then fell due to competition, fresh investment, new faces, better technology brought in.

But if I may ask , why is it that this service providers can't seem to provide internet and calling services on par with that of countries abroad ?

theoldpretender:
Exactly!

Even now...I doubt Dangote is going to be operating his refinery under 'subsidy conditions' He would be forced to cut jobs to save money.

I swear down .

The summary of the whole matter is that Nigerians can't keep on buying the cheap petrol they love so much

lexy2014:
So address y we are importing in d first place

Refineries which are defunct and which the government can never revitalize and which private investors can never invest in because the oil subsidy sham will require them to operate at a huge loss