₦airaland Forum

johnmartus:
You need brain reset. Greed and selfish is killing you..

How am I being selfish?

Since when did DSTV become a national asset, that the government will start debating on how they price their services?

Doesn’t that sound ridiculous

But I guess you want awoof! In fact, for your sake, government should fix the prices of food in the market too. Something like, “As from tomorrow, one bag of rice will cost only N1,000”, I’m sure that’ll make you happy

24enjay:
You're a slowpoke

Please tell me what governments business is with the way a private company chooses to price its services?

Have you ever run a business before?

If you have, did the government tell you how much to sell your goods or services?

Why is government interfering this much with how a private company runs its business?

Especially when they are doing nothing illegal.

I guess some of you want to be communists.

If you don’t like DSTV, set up a competing company that has alternative pricing models.

Don’t force a private company like some Dictator

and the fact that most of you agree with this is very disheartening.

So if you start a business and set prices for adults and children, you mean government can just come in and tell you not to price adults and children separately?

Or what of clubs were girls get in free and guys pay? So federal government will come and interfere with that too?

Abeg, you guys should put your thinking hats on and pressure government into giving you the basics of life which they have hidden from you, not stupid DSTV


I mean what gives you the right to change DSTVs pricing model?

You all sound very delusional

I’m sorry, but I can’t agree with you lot here.

How can government start setting pricing models for a private company?

Did anyone force you to watch DSTV?

You guys are acting like DSTV is the same as roads, healthcare, electricity and all.

Please Nigerians, try to have some sense, it’s getting embarrassing

michlins:
So in the mind of an average Nigerian, this country is rich but the fact is that this country is very poor. How much do we generate as income. What's our budget like. How much do we make from tax. We produce barely 2ml barrels of crude oil daily and that's our biggest source of income. Meanwhile there are countries who pump five times our output daily and that's not even their major earning source.

Nigeria is very poor. Hear it if you want. We might have huge resources but we're yet to maximize their potential

We are very poor yet our government earns the highest salary in the world. Even higher than reps in the MIGHTY U.S of A

We are very poor, yet the presidency from GEJ to Buhari will budget billions for feeding. Can’t they feed themselves with their salary?

We are very poor, yet every two years, we buy vehicles for our government and not budget vehicles, we buy HUGE suvs for them costing 10s of millions of naira

We are very poor, yet governors that work for just 4 to 8 years are given pensions for the rest of their lives, which include expensive vehicles and expensive houses

We are very poor, yet the principal officers in each state ride in extreme luxury, with vehicles such as the Range Rover, Mercedes S class and the likes

We are very poor yet the president maintains more jets than some of the richest countries in the world

We are very poor, yet the likes of Tinubu can charter bullion van(s), plural, to his house

We are very poor, yet, Delta governor James Ibori was indicted for stealing millions of dollars

We are very poor, yet Ganduje can still fill his mobile bank with 5 million dollars

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On the other thread, people are saying that teachers evacuated kids in the school cause they noticed a leak.

So which is it? Leak or factory?

omoharry:
Nigerians and their perpetual foolishness for always bringing in thieves and rogues and radicals into power.We are still battling with how to cope with this current hardship caused by this clueless govt you stupid guys voted into power.,You guys are now thinking about another thief that will pocket the whole of Nigeria just the way he is already doing in Lagos state.Are you guys stupid or what ??do you guys ever sit down to think at all, about ur future and that of your children? .I believe we are coursed to always endorse stupid and selfish people to rule then, we will later come around to start lamenting of how bad our leaders are.
Stupid people that is what anyone supporting this combo are ??Tinubu the thief and Sanusi the refine radical my foot .

Oh my goodness, you’ve said it all.

I’ve been looking for mentally stable individuals like yourself on this site.

It’s like they just love to punish themselves, I don’t get it at all. Don’t make no sense whatsoever

ednut1:
even canals and swamps people will build

That is why there is a thing called Law and Order to prevent people in a society from doing any wrong thing they want.

But since Nigeria lacks an iota of Order, the citizens can even take a shhhit right in the middle of the expressway and the police will just drive by



Seriously Nigerians, when will you start taking pride in electing good leaders?

Election is not a joke or I’ll show Igbo, or I’ll show Yoruba, bla bla bla, it’s a serious something. The person you choose gets a whole 4 years of your life.

Can’t you take it seriously?

Gosh

philip0906:
It's not about the government. Nigerians have made up their minds not to make the country work.

Even if the government approves funds and purchases these tools, it is Nigerians like you and I that will install, monitor and make these tools work...sadly, like I stated, we have made up our minds not to make the country work so it will still be the same issue

Men it’s a combination.

Cause a good, no, great leader, will even monitor those that are monitoring. He would push for stiff penalties, like life imprisonment, for officials who ought to protect national assists found destroying same assets.

But Nigerians won’t allow us have such a good leader.

See how when they interviewed Nigerians on the street during last election, 99.9% of them were still campaigning for Atiku and Buhari, even when other new, vibrant and intelligent candidates were also running.

It’s a sad situation really, bad citizens electing bad leaders. What is the hope for the few good men and women? What is the hope of a good man/woman getting to any form of leadership in this country? So that he/she can influence a large group of followers to also be good.

May God have mercy on the souls of the departed, you, me and all of mankind who seek his mercy.

Typical illiterate Nigerians arguing over what tribe rules, while they forget their problems

Jaqenhghar:
Unfortunately these monkeys are not the learning types. History should have taught them. Our ancestors can be forgiven for they knew not bit whats the excuse for a man living in the 21st century.

The same 21st century that Nigeria still has no electricity

JaceBlaze:
While Europeans don't even bother with watching African leagues.It boggles the mind that a country that prides itself as the football powerhouse has not yet established the most successful league in Africa.

Exactly the point the OP is trying to make.

Nigeria can’t seem to establish anything successful

I will never pay anyone a dime while building my house, God forbid.

What are we turning our country into

LordAzubuike:
Even if you bring soldiers, remember that the soldiers can't be there forever. . Once they leave , you go regret yourself. The menace of those illiterates is just horrible.

Be street wise and show no fear. You'll still have to settle them but the money go less once you show small madness too.

Show no fear but still pay them

God forbid

Sigh, Nigeria has really wasted DECADES worth of oil earnings.

Just imagine how much we have earned, how much has been stolen, how much more we would have earned without subsidies...

Nothing to show for it

but a normal employee has to get to work with his own car, fueled and repaired with money from his own salary.

40 million car here, 20 million car there, in a so called poor country.

Then that rossikk guy will come and be lecturing us how Nigeria is poor, how whites are bad, how bla bla bla... mtcheew

That money can put interlocking stones on 50% of inner streets in a certain city like Victoria Island, Lekki, Festac, Sattelitte Town, Surulere.

I have seen boys doing interlocking stone roads on inner streets in few weeks and they last, not to talk of companies that lay the stones perfectly in an even shorter duration. Give those guys billions and they will get you 10s of kilometers worth of smooth inner roads leading to peoples houses and businesses.

But nooooooooo

They have to use the money to relax inside one behemoth of a vehicle.

Wait first, is it not even auto section that people are selling corolla for 1-3 million Naira?

Shouldn’t a “poor” country be buying “poor” cars?

We need to protest in every state of this country. Like million man protests.

I know people are scared, but if you look over your right shoulder and see 10 thousand supporters scared like you and you look to your left and see the same, you won’t be scared anymore.

flexyrule:
Lowlifers be beefing successful people... I remember back then, how they'd be calling her names. The Ikejis keep progressing above e-hate.
Congrats girl. Live your life.

as in ehn!

I remember too and I couldn't understand how a pretty lady could be getting sooo much hate from these people.

men, hate is really a terrible thing sha

wow, just wow!

tsephanyah:
There's but this what you get in democracy.. we are hopping for communism

I don't believe the problem has to do with the system of governance as I have been to countries with different kinds of government systems, yet, Law and Order in everything is still held supreme in those countries.

I think it has to do with the way we think in Nigeria. It seems we are content with lawlessness and decay that it doesn't even bother some people again.

I once told someone that if I became the governor of Lagos, one of the first things I'd do would be to cover all open gutters in Lagos, with sidewalks and what not. His response was "is that one a problem?".

So you can see that he already sees open gutters filled with feces, trash, urine, algae and teeming with bacteria, as a normal everyday occurrence of life, when that should not be the case. If such a guy were to be the governor tomorrow, he wouldn't care if gutters remain open forever, not minding that when he travels to other countries, he would need a GPS to find ONE SINGLE OPEN GUTTER.

Just sad this morning, but God is in control. Nigeria is just...

chatinent:
There is but only for the bourgeois. The class system is a bitch.

Not even for them bro, the lawlessness affects all classes in Nigeria.

Just that they can be even more lawless and get away with it.

I was driving recently and got super frustrated by how rowdy most of the Lagos drivers were.

Tailgating, driving in multiple lanes, driving on the sidewalks, driving in the bush...

In all of this, not one single erring driver was pulled over, NOT ONE!!!

I just started thinking to myself, of how and why I was born into such a lawless land. In no other country I have visited in my WHOLE LIFE, will drivers just be allowed to do whatever they want, without a single police officer pulling anyone over in their squad car.

I mean it doesn't make any sense at all. It's like we are all in agreement that we are animals in Nigeria and should live as they do in the wild with no governing bodies.

You will see police and lasma just standing at junctions, when they could be patrolling in the their vehicles giving fines to erring drivers and pedestrians. There actually is a whole lot of money to be made by the police and government in general by fining erring drivers even if the fines are just N5,000.

I'm just so sad and frustrated. I don't know who to mail this to, or where to start, but Nigeria needs a whole lot of change, my goodness.



May God save us in Nigeria
May God give us a leader that will see all these things as important.
May God give us followers that will not elect leaders they know are bad simply to spite other tribes.
May God grant the means to our people to get educated, so that we can move beyond this animalistic thinking into the intellectual realm.

If you want to see wickedness, enter Lagos traffic.

Those wicked people driving won’t let you change lanes without a fight, they can’t even pause for 2 seconds to let a car enter in front of them, nooooooo!

They have to aggressively rev their engines, just to push ahead by 2 feet.

When you meet a driver that is calm and allows you to enter their front, just know you’ve met an angel in a sea infested with dark and aggressive beings.

What would it cost you to give way to your neighbor?

I guess it cost these wicked people EVERYTHING!!

gidgiddy:
Guys like you make me laugh. Asking the same questions your Grandfather asked while the answers are right in front of you.

You even answered your own questions. Just because a crazy British man called Frederick Lugard brought us all together in 1914 dies not make us one people with one destiny.

Nigeria was just a British colonial experiment to see if we could grow into a progressive nation. We have had over 100 years to see that experiment fail badly.

We have no national ideology, no common value system and no unity of purpose. Yet some people wonder why Nigeria is not moving foward from such chaos? I laugh in Greek

People think that all you have to do is claim the country that Lugard created, claim the name "Nigeria" his wife came up with, then shout 'one Nigeria!' all over the place and you will suddenly get a country where things work and the people are one with each other

What a laugh. Nigeria is unworkable, we should be thinking about how to dissolve this failed British colonial experiment rather than complain about its failure

Wow, potent write up

TooMuchStuff:

Cos Nigeria is a lost case. Hopeless entity !

So the money that flows ceaselessly for rigging and thuggery that are almost legally allowed across the country is enough satisfaction than governance.

In fact.... To Hell with good governance....!
If only your man wins it's OK.

It almost seems like a lost case, but all it takes is a few good men in the right position to turn things around.

My prayer, my wish, my deepest desire, is that we Nigerians seek out the best of the best as leaders from now on.

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Proverbs 29:2

donbachi:
It is not how old one is politically...it is there meaningful contributions,policy and decision making.how it affects the people and nation building....the bush family,Putin of Russia,benjamin Netanyahu,the Clintons,Obama,late Cain,late Shimon Perez of Israel and all I could not mention,have all been in politics long ago...but the little impacts they made speaks volumes....but,ours only make short term policies that will enrich them and their cronies...so self-centered and greed driven....no nation rules it self,someone must be in charge.... finally,Wetin we go do na..bush wey lion no dey,monkey go form king.

True, age isn’t as big a factor as pedigree, but we Nigerians won’t allow those that mean well for us to take the lead.

We are deep sufferers of Stockholm syndrome and need a psychological reset it seems, so we can make decisions that are good for us, devoid of spite, tribe and so on.

The main topics of discussion here is always about Elections.

Throwing up names of past leaders that ought to be retired to the history books, to come back again due to selfish tribal interests.

Why don’t we ever put Nigeria first?

Did you read the expose on Nigeria by the U.S embassy? Did you see how we were portrayed to the world? As a chaotic society we’re nothing seems to work.

Why aren’t we focused on policy that will uplift our society and on people that will drive those policy changes?

Why are we only focused on spiting Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa people by making choices we know are wrong, but that makes us feel we are getting the upper hand over another tribe, even to the detriment of ourselves and our children.

Now the talk is about Atiku, Tinubu and Jonathan for 2023.

Nigerians, haven’t we had enough?

In our lifetime, we can see a great Nigeria, believe me and believe that God can and will do it, if we do it for ourselves.

Think Nigerians, think. Exercise your brains, seek knowledge, apply that knowledge. Open your minds to wisdom and your hearts to love.

I will take photos of the massive potholes and bad sections during daytime and post here soon.

Can’t believe they make all cars pay close to 300 Naira to pass this road.

I have added pictures of what it’s like driving on Lekki-Epe Expressway at night.

See how dark everywhere is.

Street lights don’t work on most stretches of the road, like 80% of the road.

I truly believe that the toll collection for one day can fix all the street lights and even power them with solar panels.