₦airaland Forum

lexy2014:
Is it d marketers that supply us fuel that supplies other countries?

I honestly don't know

lamideee:
so they should kuku kill us because of that abi?

Ask yourself , if you were a petrol marketer , what would you do ?

Would you sell petrol at a by far lower price than you bought it ?

CityNGR:
We have no business importing fuel!!

You keep on saying that we have no business importing fuel , but you have failed to address why we are even imprting in the first place.

CityNGR:
Don't be silly. We have no business importing fuel!! Which yeye marketers?

Why do you think we are still importing fuel ?

9japrof:
So what about the earning power, do we earn as much as other countries.

I think we pay more for fuel than other OPEC countries

Earning power has nothing to do with how much we should be paying as the marketers have to stay in business

lamideee:
So there was no subsidy removal and we are paying that much for fuel

U know we don't pay as much as other countries for fuel right ?

omohayek:
This is nonsense from start to finish, only serving to demonstrate that you don't have the first clue about how science works. Instead of wasting more of my time on your drivel, let me point you to a worthwhile source for you to begin educating yourself, so you don't spill such meaningless verbal diarrhea in the future.

The dude is probably running mad .

omohayek:
Britain didn't "kill" anything, the oil boom did. Look up Dutch Disease: the influx of huge sums of petrodollars after 1970 made domestic agriculture uncompetitive with imports, which destroyed the commercial basis for groundnut farming in the north (as well as the textile industries in the region). Unfortunately, Nigerians were too busy scrambling for their share of the windfall profits from oil to know or care about how the domestic economy was being hollowed out by the "strong" Naira people love so much - until the oil boom ended and reality slapped them hard in the face.

Wow , this was really insightful.

Meanwhile sensible countries like Netherlands just used the oil boom to their advantage to create a sovereign wealth Fund

omohayek:
Thanks for the compliment! There are large numbers of intelligent, highly-educated Nigerians who would do a much better job than any of the buffoons and kleptomaniacs who have been at the top, but between Nigeria's money-driven political campaigns and the extremely tribalistic and religiously sectarian attitudes of ordinary Nigerians themselves, such candidates simply don't stand a chance. Jut look at the reception given on Nairaland to all the 2019 candidates who aren't Buhari or Atiku.

Nigeria has no effective campaign-finance laws to limit the expenditures of individuals, nor are the parties required to be transparent about either their sources or the scale of their spending, which gives a major advantage to corrupt "godfathers" with easy access to nearly-limitless funds, while reducing the influence of grassroots party members to zero - indeed, most such "members" are little more than hungry acolytes looking to be favored with jobs or contracts they aren't qualified for. On the other hand, few Nigerians give a damn about political manifestos or ideologies, to the extent they even understand such concepts, and all that matters to them is whether a candidate is "our kinsman", "our daughter", "from our sect", etc., consequently they will never give their support to candidates who don't meet such ethnoreligious criteria, no matter how qualified they may be. How then are better leaders supposed to rise to the top, in a country with 250+ ethnic groups which is nearly evenly divided between Christianity and Islam?

Infact the matter sef Don Taya me.

All the Nigerians have talked with say that they can't vote for anybody from small unpopular parties.

So credible people like oby ezekwelisi will never be given a chance. And another bad thing is that Nigerians don't vote for people that dont share money and small rice to them.


Give your honest opinion , can this country ever become developed like Japan and Singapore , or at least Poland ?

omohayek:
No. It would be better if our private companies bought steel on the international market from the cheapest producers, while we used the little money we have to fix more important things, like our electrical grid and our transport infrastructure. Would you think it better to raise your own cattle and grow your own vegetables, instead of getting a good job that would allow you to buy those things? It's exactly the same reasoning at work here.

Why can't people as intelligent as you rule us ?

hinograce:
nothing coincidental in science

Lool , that's right , i just wanted to dumb it down.and funny enough with all the grammar i typed , the dude didn't understand squat

Gmajor:
LOL. So when you leave Africa, you cease being a Negro?

Answer this question .

Are Europeans and Asians negroes ?

omohayek:
This is 100% correct: the only reason for the continued existence of the fiction called "Nigeria" has always been the dependence of the less productive, less educated northern part of the country on subsidies from the south. Nothing else has ever held this sham of a nation together.

It shall never be well with Lord lugard

EricBloodAxe:
Dude stop confusing urslf. The arabs in the middle east suffer hot temperatures and harsher climate yet their skin melanin never got darker. This island tribe are negroes just like the negroes located at the Caribbean islands.

These people left Africa around 60000 years ago, they are not negroes

EricBloodAxe:
Dude stop confusing urslf. The arabs in the middle east suffer hot temperatures and harsher climate yet their skin melanin never got darker. This island tribe are negroes just like the negroes located at the Caribbean islands.

By hot sun , i meant uv radiation

EricBloodAxe:
Europeans seriously? With all that melanin?

In summary , very hot sun leads to black skin

EricBloodAxe:
Europeans seriously? With all that melanin?

That's why classifying people by the color of their skin doesn't make sense. Race is largely a social construct .

The picture below is how Europeans looked 8000 years ago

dometome:
so China, The US, France, the UK and Belgium that make a ton of money are fools, or that they sell at a loss, Nigerian youths = stupidity. Dumb people that import even tooth picks.

This countries you are talking about are not on the same level with Nigeria. Do you know how much they spend on military research ? Do you know the level of expertise they possess ? Do you know how they are able to find such research ? You think making weapons is like making buns and puff puff.

In the financial aspect , france alone has a gdp surpassing that of Africa combined !!!

California has a gdp higher than that of west Africa .

We can't spend on Military research the same way they do.


And meanwhile , this things take a lot of time and a high level of expertise.

Last year China made headlines for producing what ?

For being able to produce an ordinary ball point pen after 5 years , they had to pump millions of dollars in researching how to make a ball point pen ?

Ordinary ball point pen , not to talk of advanced military weaponry .

dometome:
it doesn't make any business sense. I never knew Nigerians can be thus stupid. So those people that sell the weapons do so at a loss, oh boy see sense na.

Do you know the amount of money that goes into researching how to invent or at least reverse engineering those weapons ?

Buying is actually way way cheaper

EricBloodAxe:
So this tribe is filled with negroes. Thought they were red indians or the sort.

Funny enough they are not negroes.they are more genitically closer to even Europeans than to Africans.

They just appear black as a result of coincidence

henryobinna:
who's not immune to? The tribe or tourists?

The tribe.

Explorers:
The world is a mysterious place with so many vibrantand varying cultures.

However, in this day and age, when everything is controlled by technology, it is easy to contact anyone from anywhere in the world.

With over 7 billion people on this earth, there are still some tribes that do not support nor understand our modern living ways, and their secluded lives remain untouched.

Despite all of this, one human trait remains the same, and it is the need to explore and unravel the unknown.

So it only makes sense that humans sometimes do all they can to contact the most isolated tribes in the world, just to see how different they are from us.

Even after everybody knows that contacting that tribe will lead to their extinction due to diseases they are not immune to.

FreshBoss007:
haha you are joking sha?
manufacture ko

Why ?


After all , it is said that necessity is the mother of all inventions.

Instead of the Nigerian govt being overly reliant on the west for these weapons , why can't those weapons be manufactured here ?

I'm very curious.

Cc omohayek

Ologogoro:
The Northern elites are just wicked. I will not fault Buhari's government for this but I'll blame these Northerners who will give birth to many children without proper care, they'll put them in Arabic schools without sending them foods and the Arabic teachers will send these children out to fend for food on their own.
Most of them are poor yet they keep marry small girls and keep producing children thy can never take proper care of.

Northerners are one of the biggest P we have in Nigeria if not the biggest.

And quite unfortunately the northern masses are not even bothered

blackprowler:
Interestingly, it is possible to substantially improve the power situation in one year in this country. Indeed I spent the period of this fool's election and the inauguration trying to make this point to his people so they could pass on to him. The very process by which it would happen would make people like me solar entrepreneurs successful, it would create massive job openings for thousands and it is different from this model which has pipeline vandalisation and few centres of massive power generation as its Achilles heel. Nigerians and black people have a problem. We're not capable of managing modern life. We are suited for our pre-colonial savage existence. Nigeria happens to be one of the best examples of black backwardness - all spheres of human progress

I have been noticing the bolded and I have found it very true. This problem is not only blacks , even austarlian Aborigines and melanesians seem to have these problems

FarahAideed:
There is a particular character here called gavelslam that believes all 180 million Nigerians have between 23 to 25 hours power

Blakjewelry:
most times the idea of juju and similar belief is just a mental lazy way of explaining things, something I call the theory of everything.

now if for instance you know a guy who maybe made his money from an unknown source, instead of the government and other relevant authorities should be looking for his source of income, they will just jump into conclusion. now if he is giving type as in he likes giving cash gifts, they will say that is what he was told to do by his occultic group, that he wants to collect your destiny lol. if he is the stingy type, same explanation goes but this time if he gives out money he will be doom.

also African have this belief of sleep paralysis as act of witchcraft attack, they said magun I don't know if the spelling is correct is an act of spell casting but you will be surprise that it also happened to white who don't believe in such and it has a medical name for it vaginismus

I once had sleep paralysis , it was weird . I just decided to sleep off and close my eyes and sleep.

The next day , it was like nothing ever happened.

A friend of mine had sleep paralysis and he said it was demons.

HappyPagan:
Read them o.. I dey talk nonsense sometimes.

Na lie jare

Your comments always make sense

onoja12:
i think you don't seem to know much about Nigeria economy and probably you haven't travel either,first of all Nigeria is the 23th richest country in the world and Nigeria has a purchasing power of almost 700billion dollars,i don't know who told you Nigeria makes 70 billion a year that is a lie,please try to educate yourself more about Nigeria.Nigeria is a rich country by all standard the problem is the distribution of wealth as for what the 178million population does,well if you have a market of 178million you would understand the importance

Ignorance and foolishness

Sweetguy25:
Have you seen what other countries (with smaller populations) budget for certain purposes? Try and do some research.

One of the problems we are facing is that majority of Nigerians are very ignorant