₦airaland Forum

maasoap:
Based on your opinion and understanding, right? You're hater, simple. No open grazing, no land for cattle colony or grazing reserve. May be Fulani herdsmen should move their cattle to the sky then? The governor is not ready for peace.

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Alariiwo:
That's your cup of tea..

Don't ever quote me again.

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Why shouldn't I quote you sir?

Alariiwo:
Buhari should better call his kinsmen to order now.. There are modern ways to rear cattles, not destroying people's crops and farmlands.

If na another country now, he would have done oju aye, showing yeye solidarity.

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The chameleon is an intriguing animal...

Tone deaf.

Is this really the time for this kind of frivolity? And if this birthday had to be 'celebrated', wouldn't a private affair at home (with no photos going to the press) been a more sensible choice?

OP now claims he was heading towards Gwer East and not Eastern Nigeria. So what were the comments about soil testing all about then?

These 'threads' the OP loves to create are a waste of time. They suck in the unwary and the naive and drain them of energy that could be put to good use in the real world.

The most important rule to remember about NL is that identities on these boards cannot be verified and anyone can claim anything online. The anonymity of the web guarantees that it is near impossible to puncture anything except the most bizarre claims. Once this simple truth is understood, it becomes easy to ignore most of the nonsense that is poured out on these boards everyday.

Why do people keep taking the bait? A fellow claims (without proof) to be from a particular ethnicity and he routinely pits his 'claimed' (but unverified) ethnicity against other ethnicities in never-ending online battles. Meanwhile, his real identity and ethnicity remain unknown. Basic propaganda - but staggeringly effective.

Know your enemy...

Nairaland...a psychiatrist's paradise.

A place where people can and do claim to be anything because of the anonymity (they think!) the internet affords them.

It is surprising to watch so many people take the bait time and time again. Anyone can claim a certain ethnicity and stir up a shitstorm online - and yet people fall for it every time. It never fails.

It is only in this place that someone can start a thread with a provocative question, reply himself (under another moniker of course) with fiery rhetoric and then call in the mods to broker peace or administer punishment. Talk about paranoid schizophrenia.

Any old timer on these boards will recognize certain patterns, tactics or trends in the propaganda wars being fought on here daily. So why take the bait? Its all been done before.

Some things never change.

Alariwo2:
Ikpeazu should go and sleep..

Abia is still under Federal authority. I support cattle colonies in the South East.
Since humans flee from the region, let's use the lands to rear cattles. Period!

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Try harder...

The enmity between conscious civilians and people like this woman will and must continue.

Years ago I read reports about how NDA cadets (I think they are called 'first termers?) are encouraged by their handlers to go into Kaduna metropolis and brutalize civilians going about their lawful business. I do not know if these reports are factual - those who live in Kaduna can confirm or deny.

The mentality of these military types is on full display here in this woman's post. And they think military-civilian relations will improve?

No way.

Interesting thread, reading/watching as people tie themselves up in knots trying to defend the indefensible.

But it must happen - all the actors in this tragedy are represented here on this site, each trying to outdo the other in the propaganda stakes.

What is sad is how Ortom, Unongo and now Ogbeh have sold their own out.

A man's worst enemies are in his own house.

Oh...Kogi State...

The executive...

The legislature...

The only thing missing now is some juicy tidbit about the State Judiciary - maybe the state's High Court judges are gamblers and publicans who sell judgements over cocktails every Friday...

What a pity.

honeychild:
@kayodekb I totally agree with your post. We Nigerian Christians are actually quite intolerant of Muslims. Especially in the south where they are a minority.

In a secondary school I know of, a J.S 1 Muslim boy who brings his mat to school to pray was mocked and hounded by children and staff alike. By second term he had stopped. Why should a little boy who chooses to make use of his break time to practice his religious beliefs be made to feel bad?

This rabid hate and disdain for anything different from us is not the way of Christ.

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I assume you are Christian from your post.

It is indeed good and just that you accept the rights of people of other faiths and their right to practice their faith in peace.

But I urge you to, as they say, 'proceed with extreme caution'. Avoid hasty generalizations such as those you made in your post. You can't say that Nigerian Christians (as a whole) are intolerant of muslims.

At least you can have a civil discussion here about the error of the students and the schoolteachers you mentioned in your post. These students and teachers can be taught that things can and should be done differently. Unfortunately there are people in this same country who do their 'teaching' with arson, bullets, machetes, daggers, swords and arrows. In this same country we call ours, religious clerics in 2002 pronounced a death sentence on a fellow Nigerian for blasphemy. Up until now she has yet to return home from exile.

Nigeria is deep. Things are never what they seem. Don't forget that.

First Bank is a poor excuse for a bank.

It has gotten away with so much for far too long.

Its luck will soon run out...

DrayZee:
Dear Lord. Ok let me do this.
"Third World Country" is not a status. It's simply groups of countries which aligned with either Britain and the U.S.(First World), The Soviet Union (Second World) or remained neutral (Third World) after the Cold War. The etymology lies based around that. That is why I asked you to check the meaning repeatedly.

Sha, let's go with your premeditated definition. The truth is that "third world" countries have been exploited by the "first world" in one way or the other. That's a characteristic that most of them bear. For example, India (which may also be classified as second world) sending large amounts of food to Britain, even while they were facing a famine. Or slavery in Nigeria by the British and the Portuguese. Singapore never faced such exploitation. So it was never really "third world".
Besides, this is just a simple occurrence in life. Those who are rich, stay rich by exploiting the poor. That's exactly how the relationship between First and Third world countries are. Till today, we still get majority of our imports from those countries. Proper development does occur like that. And all this is taken aside from the fact that we have our own corruption and tribalism to deal with.

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Fair point.

But the story isn't quite complete. While the origins of the term first world did refer to alignment with post-WWII blocs (or neutrality), that was not the only meaning.

Development economics also used the same term (in the 20th century at least - before it lost currency) to describe a country's economic and social development. In this sense, a country like Switzerland would be grouped as first world. In the other sense you described, it may have been grouped as third world.

OK...

Got the Camry manual but the RAV4 manual isn't close by...

GAZZUZZ:
I need to see the manual

Let me know when and where would be convenient for you to take a look. Or I could scan the front page of the manuals and the page listing recommended oils and send to you via email.

The oil 'question' still remains...

2008 RAV4 (Auto Transmission): Used 20w 50 motor oil (20w 50 oil is one of the oils recommended in the owners manual that came with the car) every 5000km since the vehicle was bought in 2008. No engine problems whatsoever in 9 years except for a leaking valve cover seal, replaced in 2016. After going through what's been said in so many auto forums over the years, I switched to 5w 30 (expensive ) this year. Still no problems so far. No smoking and oil consumption has remained unchanged - no oil needed between services.

Have done two transmission drain & refills in 8 years, with the most recent being 2 months ago. No major transmission issues except a stiffness (which comes and goes) and which we have learned to live with.

2012 Camry A/T): Also used 20w 50 motor oil since the vehicle was bought in 2012. Again no engine problems whatsoever till I switched to 5w 30 this year. And still no problems so far. (And again, 20w 50 is recommended in the owners manual that came with the car). Have never done a transmission drain & refill. No transmission problems so far.

Fuel economy is definitely much better in both vehicles with the 5w 30 motor oil - i guess that offsets part of the high cost of the motor oil. The big question is this: why does Toyota recommend 20w 50 oil if (according to so many people) its no good?

kilode100:
You think
Smh for you!


Newsflash!!... There are people with worse crimes and BTW,there are more from where that came from..


I haven't even told him about the my canine experiences yet, and he is already on the run..


Woof Woof....
Yea right.

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OP - This is the link: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/183720-over-n121-billion-wasted-nigerias-troubled-national-id-card-project-in-fresh-controversy.html



Nigerians deserve the unique hell that they live in.

The latest buzzword in town is 'subsidy removal'. I ask Nigerians - is there any 'subsidy' in the ID card project? So why has it been bogged down in corruption and graft for over 30 years?

Some of us have said repeatedly that Nigerians - as a matter of life and death - need to force accountability from their governments. There is no mystery or magic in how accountable governments like the Norwegian government can competently manage state owned enterprises (such as STATOIL) AND projects like national identity management schemes. It is good old fashioned accountability at work - the people of Norway won't stand for any horse dung and they make sure their governments understand this. Nigerian governments unfortunately, cannot manage state owned enterprises like NNPC. They also cannot manage projects such as the NIMC. They have failed because Nigerians have not demanded that they deliver the goods or face the consequences.

The deception being sold now is that Nigerian governments are congenitally incapable of managing any kind of state owned enterprise and as a result, these state owned enterprises should all be sold or privatized. This is dodging the question. The government will simply transfer its corruption from the NNPCs of this world to the NIMCs of this world - until Nigerians get fed up and demand openness, honesty and true service in all government business - be it in NNPC or NIMC.

I am waiting to see how the 'government has no business in business' crew will spin this NIMC problem. After all there are no 'subsidies' here. So where are the distortions that the price system will fix here?

ROSSIKE:
Stop taking these white kids seriously. They don't even realise how far we have come in development due to their biased media reports which depict ONLY scenes of African poverty. If you actually speak to some of them, they don't know we have things like tv stations, internet, airports, expressways, companies, banks, universities, proper houses, office buildings, restaurants, shopping malls etc. Or that we manufacture vehicles etc. They are VERY VERY ignorant about Africa. That is what informs their negative, racist views. Ignore them.

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9jatatafo:
What has fuel scarcity has to do with email scam? Those foreigners are all silly.

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Of course they are. How dare they say these things?

IcecoldDon:
You keep saying this as though everybody then against subsidy removal were fools or didn't have tangible economic and historical reasons for being against the removal.
Partial removal was accomplished with promise of using it to resuscitate the refineries. Even an attempt of this would have been most welcome....yet nothing, not a single bloody thing was done for 6 years to put them back on stream.
we had high crude prices for over 2 years that could also have been pumped into maintaining the whole system was embezzled.
You heap the blame on the people for wanting to eat their cake and have it without taking into consideration the historical and acute lack of trust and accountability between them and their leaders who expect them to take hits for them without any proof that it would actually be worth it.

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Well said. I agree with some key points you have made.

Nigerians definitely do not want the current arrangement where importers are feeding fat of the system - of course the so-called subsidy on foreign fuel has to go. But the question of local production and refining has NOT been answered and this is where the opportunism of the FG has become so glaring. There are absolutely no guarantees that private local production and refining will take off as claimed by our government people here.

dROC1:
people are missing the key issues here.

1. The marketers are not magicians, they cannot lift fuel free of charge if GEJ refuses to pay them.
2. Is Nigeria so broke that it can't pay marketers as agreed? Recall that part subsidy has already been removed in 2012.
3. If GEJ fixed or built refineries over the past 6 years, there would be no talk of subsidy today.
4. Why are government workers and oil marketers suddenly being owed monies after elections?
5. Are refineries worth the trillions paid to their cronies as subsidy?
6. Removing subsidy only abdicates govt's responsibility and let's the masses bear the cost of subsidy instead of building refineries which they refuse to do for selfish reasons.
7. imagine the economic impact of foreign exchange spent on importing feul when we could produce and refine locally.

In conclusion, GEJ's govt simply refuses to pay marketers as agreed to punish Nigerians or is Nigeria too broke to pay? (I don think so).
Subsidy removal is welcome but only after the government fixes our refineries.

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Good. I agree with some of your points. You need to challenge the 'free marketers' and propaganda merchants on here and keep them honest.

In the world of these people, it makes sense for Nigeria to import expensive, dollar-priced refined petroleum products instead of building refineries here. To this day, our free marketers and propagandists have refused to state exactly how much it costs to produce and refine a litre of petrol, diesel or kero here in Nigeria. Why?

Some of the propaganda merchants tell us the government has no money to build refineries. The question then arises: where does the government find money to pay for the subsidy, year after year? Couldn't that money have been used over the past 10 years to build refineries instead, while at the same time winding down or phasing out this fuel importation racket?

Some of the propaganda merchants tell us that the government should not build new refineries because of corruption and mismanagement. Okay. Then I propose that the government should dissolve or privatize the police, the army, CBN, universities, public research institutes, ministries of works and housing, hospitals etc. After all, these public organisations are also corrupt and poorly managed, right? We should remove all subsidies on university education, health and other public services. That's more efficient, right?

Instead of Nigerians to demand that their governments live up to their responsibilities i.e. cleaning up regulation, prosecuting offenders and stamping out corruption and graft - some of us prefer to focus exclusively on market driven solutions. This will not work in our environment - an environment with poor or weak institutions. We will simply end up with Russian style crony capitalism - and to be honest - we are already there. There is a reason why Russia is sometimes described as "Nigeria with snow".

The so-called 'privatization' of the power sector highlights the point well. After a convoluted, well publicized privatization exercise - the GENCOs and DISCOs today claim they are broke. The CBN had to arrange a multibillion Naira bailout (let's call a spade a spade - that CBN guarantee is a bailout, full stop ) for beneficiaries of a privatization exercise. Isn't that a moral hazard? Isn't that a subsidy of sorts? Welcome to privatization and reform - Nigerian style.

We know what to do. Whether we have the guts to do it is another matter altogether.

Its going to get worse before it gets better.

Even if every petrol station in Lagos and Abj were to get 2 tankers each with a full supply of product, the demand backlog will take at least 3 to 4 days to clear. It looks as if this week is going to be hard - even harder than last week.

People are truly on edge.

jcmaiah:
There is no wrong living like a king when u r one. The guy is just poor and its affecting him badly. No be so he tell him men to respect traffic! you will call that one leadership by example too?

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The part in bold type says it all. You see the elected leader of a representative democracy as a "king".

There's nothing else to add.

To those saying the article is too long - please just read the damn thing. How many minutes will it take you? You will learn something. Read it!

Atiku and co. are the people who make decisions on your behalf - the least you can do is make an effort to know what those decisions are and the mindset of the people behind those decisions. If you don't read how can you understand and assess?

I thought deregulation was the magic wand. Some years ago we were given several lectures about how there would never be diesel scarcity in Nigeria again following the deregulation of the diesel market. Now we know better.

The new excuse being given is that the importation of diesel cannot be separated from the importation of petrol - and since petrol prices are still regulated, petrol shortage (because of regulated prices) has led to diesel shortage. Or something like that.

The excuses keep tumbling upon themselves. Pipeline vandalisation. Smuggling. Regulated prices. The devaluation of the Naira. The appreciation of the Naira. The collapse in world oil prices. What next?

chuna1985:
only a very blatant fool compares boko haram with Niger delta militancy.

D militants fought for the right to their lands n boko haram fought for Getting an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria, they moved house to house n killed people anyhow just like ISIS. they are nothing like militants.

And secondly thousands have not died because of militancy, don't go around talking about things u don't know. jealous fool.

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In the breadth of a post or two you have branded me a blatant, jealous fool (whatever that means).

Debate like an adult and leave out the name calling. I stand by my comments and i expect you to refute them with facts. Not this emotional, hormone driven response.

Northeastern Nigeria has paid a heavy price for decades of indifference by Northern Nigeria to violence by Islamic fundamentalists - an indifference that arose because the violence of those years was targeted at outsiders. It has taken the death of thousands for the locals and ordinary muslims to realise that evil eventually consumes those who stand by and do nothing because someone else is in the firing line. Sure - the primary failure in this boko nonsense is government - but local communities must ask themselves some hard questions when all this is over.

I will repeat my earlier comments about the ND 'struggle': Are things better today? Men, women and children died so that 'militants' could get amnesty indefinitely?

Answer those questions if you can - in a civil manner.

chuna1985:
The ND struggle is actually not same with boko haram so don't even try to compare dem. Boko haram move door to door n kill innocent people, Niger delta militants are fighting for the injustice been dished out on dem by the Nigerian federal government.

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You do have a point...the agitation by ND militants and Boko Haram have different goals. But the methods are the same - sowing terror.

It is fashionable these days to forget that thousands of ordinary Nigerians (who had nothing to do with government or militants) also died as 'collateral damage' in the ND 'struggle'. These causalties are casually dismissed as unimportant or irrelevant. Today, Rivers State and other SS states are firmly in the grip of serving and ex-militants who are running riot in the streets - robbing, maiming and looting. Was this what the 'struggle' was all about?


One thing I will concede though...the abysmal failure of successive federal governments gave rise to the conditions that birthed ND groups. But is the ND better off today?


Anyway - this thread is largely about the attempt by Uwais and his group to legitimize Boko Haram. It is up to Nigerians to react to this.

I have said it once, I have said it a thousand times.

The concepts of accountability and consequences are alien to Nigerians. We continue to delude ourselves into thinking that we can make any kind of progress without taking responsibility for our actions. Unfortunately for us, the world doesn't work that way.

Thousands dead in Nigeria's Northeast after an insurgency that has not even ended - and some so-called elders are already calling for an amnesty.

The seeds for violent agitation by all kinds of groups were sown by the amnesty granted to creek militants by the Yaradua administration. The outcomes are clear to everyone now.

Nigeria is a running joke.

Sweetguy25:
Its a brilliant idea.

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Eshinwaju:
This is one thing people don't know about tinubu.......he is a very brilliant man... ...very creative..... ....political master and as an ex treasurer of Mobil international......well exposed......

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PassingShot:
This is one of the many ways in which Tinubu is different from so many other politicians.

Tinubu is qualified to be a seasoned economist with how he profers solutions to our cash crunch situation.

This submission cannot be faulted by even the celebrated economists of this world.

Tinubu surely knows his onions.

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