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Politics / Re: Shettima Aborts US Trip, Blames Faulty Aircraft by wirinet(m): 7:50am |
RenaissanceGuy:The US is late to the party. It was Xi Jinping's idea to periodically organize China - Africa summit, where China can do business with Africa as a whole. Putin followed suit by to get a slice of the action by organising a Russia -Africa summit. Biden is coming in late in the day, after all the spoils must have been shared. I wonder what the US can now offer Africa outside Democracy, aids and LGBTQ. 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 8:07pm On May 06 |
bemeruca:The polls were all over the place depending on when and where it was conducted, and who conducted the polls. That is the same situation now. Then you guys were so sure that Trump would win because of large turn out at rallies and Biden choosing to do more of online campaigns. You guys even labelled Biden as hiding in his basement. Some of you guys boasted here that Biden can never win Trump. You touted the very same propaganda you have started pushing again - Burisma, hair sniffing, child molestation, dementia, old age, border invasion, and lots of other rubbish. At the end Trump will lose, you guys will scream rigged elections once again. The difference is that if you guys attempt to stop the certification of results using violence instead of legal means, many more MAGA lives will lost. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 6:51pm On May 06 |
sanpipita:Trump's strategy goes beyond boosting enthusiasm, he and right wing media are prepping their base not to accept any result unless Trump won. This same strategy is used to undermine the credibility of all US institutions - all government agencies, particularly the security agencies, the media. Even the judiciary, any judgement against Trump is corrupt, but judgements in his favour is fair. Any polls that shows Biden ahead is faulty or manipulated, but those that shows him ahead in indicative of his popularity and assurance of winning the elections. 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 5:54pm On May 06 |
bemeruca:My error, I meant to say 2020. I was very busy and somehow distracted while writing that post that I made an error. You should have noticed that I was referring to Biden throughout and never mentioned Hillary Clinton. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 1:23pm On May 06 |
Obrigardo: This is the same MAGA strategy they employed in They are just laying the ground work for another attempted coup. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: Aguyi Johnson Ironsi - The Unification Decree: No. 34 Of 1966 by wirinet(m): 2:22pm On May 05 |
gidgiddy: You have been desperately trying to convince others that it was your arch enemy Gowon that abolish regionalism in Nigeria and not your hero Ironsi. You have not even been able to convince yourself talk much less of others. Read the opening paragraph of General Ironsi's decree 34 (very slowly so that the brains will have enough time to decipher its meaning). Decree 34 of 1966 opening paragraph -
The main difference between a Federation and a simple republic is in the autonomy of the constituent parts. A republic is a country belonging to the people, whereas a federation is a form of government where by regional divisions are not branches of the central government. Thus, a federal republic has power divisions and regional governments fall under the power domain of the national government. I honestly don't understand how someone will be arguing about something that's written in black and white with no ambiguity. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Construction Of Coastal Routes Can Strengthen Naira - David Umahi by wirinet(m): 9:31am On May 05 |
KayyDee: QED. You have said everything that needs to be said. The road is for the Benefit of Lagos State, first and then the south west. It will never and I say never get to the Niger Deltas. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Reply to Opay Threat On Cryptocurrency by wirinet(m): 9:15am On May 05 |
DeLaRue:How do you think a ban on Crypto can work? Is there a legal framework that can prevent ordinary Nigerians from buying/selling, trading and receiving payments in crypto? You will require a law passed by the national assembly for that. Afterall, we are supposed to be in a democracy and not an autocracy. A government cannot just wake up one morning and ban this and ban that. I wait a bill to that effect, I will be among the people that will campaign against such bill. Once again, under what laws will such prosecutions take place, that is even if banks are aware of transactions involving cryptos? There is no way banks can separate transactions involving cryptos from any other millions of transactions that take place daily. In this digital age, transactions are digitally carried out for most things, from paying for pizza to paying fuel, how do you intend the banks isolate crypto transactions? $20 Billion worth of Bitcoin are traded daily. that's just bitcoin. There are dozens of other cryptocurrencies. USDT trading volume is over $75 billion daily. These are a lot for delusional hot air. How do you know that, what data do you have that shows crypto ryp payments for services (and goods) are in the minority and moving stolen money out of the country are in the majority? Are you now insinuating that the hundreds of billions stolen out of Nigeria by politicians was done through cryptos? No one is arguing with that, but how has the government been protecting the interest of Nigerians? It seems the government is only interested in protecting the interests of the rich and powerful and abandon the interest of the masses, particularly the youth. This government is anti-youth, with the way they are harassing young men and women up and down with the flimsiest excuse. In Nigeria any youthful exuberance can land you in jail or at worst get you killed, eg wearing tattoo, funky hairstyles, uncommon clothes, etc. Imagine a cross dresser was sent to 6 months imprisonment without the option of a fine for spraying naira. |
Travel / Re: Some Epic Coastal Highways From Around The World by wirinet(m): 7:50am On May 05 |
MRMRMR: We have enough roads in Nigeria, the problem is the state of our roads. If the Ibadan - Ilorin road is fixed, Lagos to Ilorin would be about 3 hours, Lagos to Abuja would be about 9 hours. I remember in the 80s when the road was still motorable, I drove from Lagos to Ilorin in 3 hours. Most roads in the east are not motorable, the East - West road is horrible. Ditto for sea ports. Nigeria has enough sea ports, the problem is the same with roads, they have been left in a state of disrepair. Upgrade of all the ports will have a massive boost on the economy nationwide. What the government needs to invest heavily on is Rails and power, and also education. Rails is what can make the transportation of goods and peoples safer, cheaper and faster. Before the US started their industrialization drive, they embarked of the Rail road project that connected the whole of the US. Power of course is what is needed to drive development. Then the other most critical factor to development is manpower which is education. Most countries in the top tier in the world's today have invested massively in education. They give free of very cheap quality education to their citizens, Most time up to secondary school level, sometimes even to university level. Here we are investing very little in education and mass producing illiterates that can add very little to the development of the country. |
Politics / Re: Niger Delta; A Slave Name We Must Get Rid Of In Order To Be Truly Free by wirinet(m): 8:14pm On May 04 |
So much ignorance in on post. There are two types of Niger Delta - Geographical and political Niger delta. In elementary Geography, a delta is an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea. Niger Delta simply means the delta of the river Niger, just like the Nile delta is the delta that form from the river nile. The geographical Niger delta is just 3 states - some part of Delta, the whole of Bayelsa and some part of Rivers. The political delta is a bit fluid and changes according to different administrations. It often includes oil producing states. Why some igbos are so obsessed with the term Niger Delta is beyond me. 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: FG Warns Saboteurs As Power Generation Rises To 4,800MW by wirinet(m): 7:55am On May 03 |
nairalanda1: Another false narrative. It's because of lack of adequate planning and corruption. How much is the market price of an electricity produced from gas (LPG/CNG) by a country touted with one of the largest gas reserves in the world, but choose to flare most of it? What is the market price for electricity for a country with so many rivers including the Dongo River on the mambilla plateau that can single handedly generate 3000MW of electricity? 5 Likes |
Politics / Re: FG Warns Saboteurs As Power Generation Rises To 4,800MW by wirinet(m): 7:47am On May 03 |
The Federal Government says Nigeria’s electricity generation has risen to 4,800 megawatts up from around 3500 in March. The problem is not generation, its transmission. Afterall, they say Nigeria has an installed/generation capacity of 12,000MW. The problem is our over centralised transmission lines can never handle more than 5,000MW before you start hearing system collapse. It's a shame that in the 21st century, a single fault on our transmission line would plunge the whole nation into total darkness for days. So unless we decentralised our transmission lines, we would never meet our power requirements 5 Likes |
Politics / Re: Construction Of Coastal Routes Can Strengthen Naira - David Umahi by wirinet(m): 7:35am On May 03 |
TOPMAN4LIFE:False. You are no different from IPOB - Ethnic jingoist. I am from the Niger delta and the proposed Coastal road is to pass through my village. I and many other Niger Deltans would prefer the completion of the East West road, we have suffered untold hardship on that road for decades. This is a project thar can be completed within the lifetime of this administration. How long do you think it would take to complete a 800km mega coastal highway that is to pass through beaches, swamps, mangroves and numerous rivers. Ordinary adding 2 lanes to the 70km lekki Epe expressway has taken close to two decades, and is still not finished. The 800km Lagos Calabar coastal road would take at least a century. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Construction Of Coastal Routes Can Strengthen Naira - David Umahi by wirinet(m): 7:23am On May 03 |
Sheuns: Abeg, also add this statement for enlightenment. I honestly don't understand what he is talking about here. “I’m very happy that the President has directed me to begin the design of one of the spurs linking to this coastal route, and that is the Sokoto-Badagry, which was conceived by the President Shagari administration. How can the coastal road that starts from Epe be one of the spurs linking the proposed Sokoto - Badagry expressway, which is expected to start in Badagry? A road conceived in the 70s even before the thought of a coastal road. You sure say Umehi no dey smoke loud? 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Some Epic Coastal Highways From Around The World by wirinet(m): 6:10am On May 02 |
lolu2019: And you think kidnapping would not happen on the proposed Coastal road. In fact kidnapping would be easier on the Coastal road, as the there is the added option of escape by the sea. Kidnapping is due to poor security architecture and not because design of road. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Some Epic Coastal Highways From Around The World by wirinet(m): 5:50am On May 02 |
Johnthesuccess:Is that PPP model working on the Lagos-Epe Expressway? This was road built by Jakande and expanded by Tinubu. It took them more than 15 to complete the project (that is adding one extra lane on each side), but they started tolling after completing just about 20km. Even though it is touted as a PPP project, government money will be heavily involved. The government will pay billions as compensation to people affected by the project, the government land the road will be built on will be given free (this is also worth billions if not trillions), then government will acquire shares (the cost of which is usually hidden) in the whole project. These so called PPP projects are never transparent. |
Travel / Re: Some Epic Coastal Highways From Around The World by wirinet(m): 5:11am On May 02 |
COMPAQ:Oga, you are attempting the impossible - use reason and logic to make sense to APC supporters. What they can understand are emotional and sentimental rants like Obi, Labour Party, PDP, Muslim/Christian, Igbo, Yoruba, and other primordial sentiments. Karl Marx should also have added politics to religion as an opium of the masses. Why start another Coastal Highway when the East-West Road is still uncompleted after more than 20 years and billions of naira. |
Business / Re: Biggest Mess Created In 2023 Was Naira Devaluation From N460 To N1,400-Dangote by wirinet(m): 4:47am On May 02 |
masseratti:What has worked since the floating of the naira? How can a sane country float its currency when it is import dependent? We import everything from medicine to fuels to even food. When the naira was truly floated, what happened? Naira almost got to N2000, before government panicked and started arresting Bureau de change operators and Binance. The CBN then started pumping dollars into the market. What will happens when CBN stops pumping dollars into the market? |
Travel / Re: Some Epic Coastal Highways From Around The World by wirinet(m): 4:27am On May 02 |
Comparing apples to oranges. Most of the coastal roads you showed in your pictures have natural barriers protecting the roads from the ocean, some of the so called coastal roads are bridges across rivers or lagoons. I did not see any road exposed directly to the ocean. Nigerian coasts are directly facing the ocean with sand as the only separating barrier. Most times the coast is only a few inches above sea level. 2 Likes 1 Share
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Politics / Re: Laila Johnson-Salami Rattles David Umahi. "I Need An Interpreter!" by wirinet(m): 5:55pm On May 01 |
Barteze: Her question is very necessary and appropriate. Where is environmental impact assessment of such a huge project that will have significant impact on the coastline? The road will affect animals that needs beaches and coastlines for their survival like mating, laying of eggs or shelter. The whole of the Nigerian coastlines are suffering erosion from the ocean because of rising sea levels and extreme weather. Large sections of the beach would be taken over by the ocean within 50 - 100 years. I lived on Victoria Island for 20 years. I the 70s you would walk up to a kilometer before you see the ocean. By the year 2000, the ocean had eaten up a whole section of the road. The Atlantic city project was to protect the V/I shoreline. 2 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 3:41pm On May 01 |
Trump is threatening violence again if he looses the November 2024 elections. When he was asked whether he expects political violence after the elections, he responded that it depends on the fairness of the elections. Now, who determines the fairness of an election? I think the American political and justice system has bent over too much to accommodate the excesses of Trump. He is too embolden that he feels he is untouchable. The whole of the US political and justice system seems afraid of him, that he can practically get away with murder. The US will have to confront the Trump menace headlong once and for all, and damn the threats and intimidation of his MAGA cult movement. 1 Like
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Politics / Re: Michael Chibuzo Replies Obi's Criticism Of The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway by wirinet(m): 6:49pm On Apr 30 |
Coastal road in this climate change/global warming age when sea levels are expected to rise? How will the government prevent erosion that is eating the Atlantic coast from dragging the road into the ocean? Are they going to extend Atlantic City all the way from lagos to calabar?
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Politics / Re: Peter Obi Vehemently Condemns Lagos-Calabar Highway As A Misplaced Priority by wirinet(m): 5:49pm On Apr 30 |
Nightwolf1: My broda, me I know understand the environmental, economic and logical sense of building a mega highway all along the Nigerian coast in these global warming or is it climate change era. It just does not make an iota of sense to me. Roads that will be washed into the ocean within 50 years, might even be sooner. You think the people that built the Lagos-Ibadan expressway were stupid to build the expressway far inland. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 5:06pm On Apr 30 |
bemeruca:Other DNC media will not report stories they cannot verify. Hannity show on foxnews aired over 80 segments in 2023 alone alleging that Mykola zlochevsky, the Ukrainian oligarch who controlled Burisma paid a $5 million bribe to joe Biden through Hunter Biden. Maria Batiromo pushed these same allegations against Hunter Biden more than 200 times in 2023 Now Foxnews will be given opportunity under oath to prove these allegations. Why get do personal with Hunter Biden? He is not running for any office. whether he is convicted of a crime or not should have bearing whatsoever on your life. Yes he can sue for defamation, only a competent court of law can determine if he was defamed or not. 1 Like 2 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 7:30am On Apr 30 |
Things are about to rev up for MAGA cult and it's megaphone - Foxnews, Hunter Biden is preparing to sue Foxnews for defamation. MAGA is about to go into overdrive with their propaganda and conspiracy theories, and not forgetting fake outrage. They will now be given opportunity to present all their evidence in court or pay another set of millions in damages.
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Business / Re: US Seeks 3 Years Prison Term For Binance Founder, Changpeng Zhao by wirinet(m): 4:17pm On Apr 25 |
kingolu1:You will also not see US government kidnapping a suspect and lock them up indefinitely while investigating the crime. Binance is not the only crypto exchange on the internet. There are at least 5 other major ones and uncountable minor ones. Kucoin, OKX, Bybit, MERC, etc are operating without any problem. The even still have NGN on their platforms. 1 Like |
Business / Re: US Seeks 3 Years Prison Term For Binance Founder, Changpeng Zhao by wirinet(m): 4:02pm On Apr 25 |
DeepSight:Crypto is not the problem. Crypto like any other tool can be employed for both positive and negative use. It's just a system of decentralized exchange. The problem governments around the world is having with Crypto is how to regulate and monitor it, and collect taxes on transactions made through it. Trading crypto is like trading other instruments like commodities, forex, stocks, futures, options, etc., the difference is that cryptos are more volatile and unpredictable, and is more prone to manipulation. If you can master it, you can indeed make a lot of money in a short period of time. you can also loose a lot in very short period of time. 1 Like |
Family / Re: The Husband Is The Head Of The Family? by wirinet(m): 8:52am On Apr 24 |
UjuJoan2:False. In any social structure or organisation, there must be a leader. This applies to all animals, except solitary animals. Marriage is the most basic human social structure, and for it to be successful, there must be a defined leader/head. Now, that leader does not mean dictatorship, and it might even not necessarily be the man. In some cases the woman takes on the responsibility of leading the family. Societies without a leader are often don't achieve any form of greatness and are often subservient to those with strong and defined leaders. |
Business / Re: Abuja Chinese Supermarket Shuts Doors by wirinet(m): 4:56pm On Apr 22 |
Sapasenator:Where have you travelled that you find no discrimination? Have you travelled to the US? You lived with the whites in the US and you see no discrimination? You have travelled to the UK and you see no discrimination? In fact UK has very strong anti-discrimination laws. A cousin sued her employer for discrimination in the UK and was awarded a heft sum as damages, as she was able to prove it in court. Have you been to the middle East and find no discrimination. Israel nko? The black Jews in Israel are always crying of discrimination. 6 Likes |
Business / Re: Abuja Chinese Supermarket Shuts Doors by wirinet(m): 4:45pm On Apr 22 |
Sapasenator:If you have travelled abroad, you will know that discrimination is not unique to Nigeria. There is serious discrimination in the US, UK and even China. The Tibetians, the Uyghurs and the Zhuang people are always crying of marginalisation and discrimination by the majority Han tribe. 4 Likes |
Business / Re: Abuja Chinese Supermarket Shuts Doors by wirinet(m): 4:40pm On Apr 22 |
Lifestone:It's amazing that this generation of igbos are so hateful. Their fathers were more reasonable. The hatred exhibited by todays igbo youth had never been witnessed in Nigeria, even during and immediately after the civil war. My father inlaw actually fought in the civil war and was very close to ojukwu. You will never find him spewing so much hatred for Nigeria or Yorubas or even hausa-fulanis. 3 Likes |
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