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Politics / Re: Alex Otti’s Ph-Aba Road Vs Lagos-calabar Coastal Road by wirinet(m): 5:38am On Apr 22 |
longetivity:If concrete roads can only last 30 years, how come roman roads and bridges have lasted over 2000 years? What did they use in building their roads? 2 Likes
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Politics / Re: IMF: Why We Asked Nigeria To Remove Fuel Subsidy by wirinet(m): 9:38pm On Apr 21 |
DeepSight: Don't mind them. Most likely they are government workers or government apologies whose duty is to defend government policies at all cost. We have been removing petrol subsidy since IBB, and it seems the more we remove subsidy, the more money used for subsidy grows. During Obasanjo who removed subsidy twice, the amount spent was less than a N100 billion. During Jonathan with all the subsidy thievery and corruption, the amount on subsidy was about N3 trillion. Now under Tinubu who completely removed subsidy on the first day in office, the amount spent on subsidy so far is 7 trillion, and he had not even spent a full year in office. What this tell us is that as long as we import petrol, the money spent on subsidy would keep on growing. I want you to listen to this presentation by PLO Lumumba, he eloquently elaborates on the miseducation of Africans and the challenges we face from colonisation and neo-colonisation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwufamTpQXc?si=H_HU-UAIXpySdgfh 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: IMF: Why We Asked Nigeria To Remove Fuel Subsidy by wirinet(m): 6:03pm On Apr 21 |
Tianamen1:That's because raising taxes would affect the rich far more than the poor. How many of the elites pay taxes commensurate to their wealth? In Nigeria the government favours the elites to the detriment of the poor. We practice elitocrasy - government of the elites by the elites for the elites. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Politics / Re: IMF: Why We Asked Nigeria To Remove Fuel Subsidy by wirinet(m): 5:20pm On Apr 21 |
Lavor234:Not just Scandinavian countries, education is free in Russia, most countries of the Middle east, most of Europe, China, Japan and even Canada up till secondary school level. Below are countries offering free or very cheap education to their citizens- https://www.onlinecollegeplan.com/what-countries-offer-free-college/ |
Politics / Re: IMF: Why We Asked Nigeria To Remove Fuel Subsidy by wirinet(m): 3:55pm On Apr 21 |
DeepSight:My brother you can't blame them, it due to decades of deliberate miseducation and indoctrination by IMF and World Bank. How subsidies is the source of corruption is part of their economic theories taught to Africans but not taught to Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, the Middle east and other western nations. In most of those countries education is highly subsidised. Even in Russia education is almost free up till university level. Food also is highly subsidised with heavy subsidies to farmers. The worst is CAPITAL. In all these countries, capital to entrepreneurs are highly subsidised. Imagine interest rates of 1 to 5%, and you get a moratorium of up to 3 years before you start repayment. IMF and world Bank would never cite bogus white elephant projects as the cause of our problem, they would never cite our 70% recurrent expenditure to 30% capital, which is usually misappropriated anyway. They would never theorise that billions and billions of dollars that is simply stolen/transferred out of our coffers and deposited in their banks is source of our underdevelopment. All they shout is subsidy, subsidy and subsidy. They know that plunging the mass of the population into abject poverty is the surest means of causing instability. They know that a poor, hungry man is a tool for causing chaos. They understand that poverty along with religion leads to insurgency, militancy and conflicts. They had the experience during the revolutions in Europe and America where the poor caused so much instability. If you know how much the US spent during the great depression and even during Covid19, to subsidise the masses, you will understand they have sinister motives when they preach anti-subsidy doctrine to us. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US To Withdraw From Niger As Security Pact Fails In Strategic Victory For Russia by wirinet(m): 12:59pm On Apr 21 |
CSTRR:But China also closed itself to the west for centuries. When China opened up, it only restricted western trade and influence to a few port cities. China was at no time completely subjugated and overwhelmed by Western culture and influence. The West had shown and still shows pure disdain and disregard for West Africa. Meanwhile we worship and adore them. We swallow all the insults and disdain with pride as long as they give us aid and Visa. Please watch this interview by Harold Smith on why they handed power to the north through fraudulent elections and census. They prevent competent and patriotic leaders capable of developing the country from rising to power and promote mediocre and corrupt unpatriotic leaders, who bring their countries into ruin. This was the same situation all over west Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gSbMescYwc?si=1nd1g5TCnsz8x8df The seeds of that fraudulent election and census remains with us till today, and are factors that will never allow Nigeria rise above its current mediocre state. I decided to post the full interview to reveal the plans of the British for Nigeria at independence. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: IMF: Why We Asked Nigeria To Remove Fuel Subsidy by wirinet(m): 10:01am On Apr 21 |
ON the other hand, over 50 years of subsidy are why we are not self sufficent in fuel and in power supply. False! Repeating the same lie over and over again can never make it true. The reason we are not self sufficient in fuel and power supply is CORRUPTION and STEALING by those saddled with managing our resources. It has nothing and I Repeat nothing to do with subsidy. Obasanjo spentb $16 billion and was only able to add just over 1000MW into the grid. In the last 10 years, Nigeria spent N25 billion to repair our refineries without producing a litre of petrol, this is despite billions of dollars stolen in the fuel subsidy scam, and you guys are shouting subsidy is the problem. 1 Like
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Foreign Affairs / Re: US To Withdraw From Niger As Security Pact Fails In Strategic Victory For Russia by wirinet(m): 9:04am On Apr 21 |
SuccessfulRichi:We are in a better position to get better deals as we are now like a lady with two or even three potential suitors. We place our demand before each of them and go along with the best. The problem is that we have very selfish and unpatriotic leaders. They are still behaving like local chiefs in pre-slavery Africa that sold their own people for mandane material things like mirrors, hats and umbrellas. Our present leaders make stupid deals for stupid personal gains, and then relocate to countries of these colonialists after betraying their people. 1 Like 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US To Withdraw From Niger As Security Pact Fails In Strategic Victory For Russia by wirinet(m): 8:31am On Apr 21 |
Botragelad:Why get so emotional and personal? Does your loyalty lie more with the US than Nigeria? AGOA is just like curing cerebral malaria with paracetamol. How can we export to the US or anywhere when we are an import dependent nation? How can we export when we are not able to first meet local demand? We are still falling for the same economic trap the colonialists set up for us. We produce natural resources and goods for them cheaply, and then import food and essentials from them expensively. Awo, Zik and Balewa fell for this same trap. They were exporting groundnut, cocoa and coal to Europe while importing rice, chocolate and groundnut oil from them. Where is the industrial capacity, power, infrastructure and capital to start exporting to the US under AGOA? This same AGOA will impose stringent packaging and quality conditions that are very very difficult to meet. Now tell me exactly how many people do you know that is benefiting from AGOA? Are you one of them? Sudan ke? Which of the Sudans, south or the main Sudan? Sudan is your classical example of countries benefiting from the west? I hope you are being satirical. So you mean African nations would be dumb investments if the US commit resources there like they did Europe and Israel? You also mean we were of no use or importance during the Cold War? If Africa was so useless, why are they now crying that Africa is considering looking east for their salvation? This is the reason I like Trump to an extent, he doesn't bullshit that he likes Africa and want to help, while in reality hate Africa and Africans. He said his mind when he openly said he would prefer immigrants from Scandinavia than shithole countries (Africa).
Which continent benefited the US more in the past, Africa,Middle East or Europe? The wealth and prosperity enjoyed by the US, and Europe today was built on the resources and manpower of Africa. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US To Withdraw From Niger As Security Pact Fails In Strategic Victory For Russia by wirinet(m): 7:16am On Apr 21 |
Nolevel666: You forgot to add Chruches, Mosques and Shrines. 3 Likes |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US To Withdraw From Niger As Security Pact Fails In Strategic Victory For Russia by wirinet(m): 6:38am On Apr 21 |
happney65:With all the decades of American presence, what have we actually gained? Is it their absolute disdain for Nigeria and anything Nigerian? Is it their outrageous visa policy that scam Nigerians out of billions of dollars yearly? How many actual investments have the US done in Nigeria? 8 Likes 2 Shares |
Foreign Affairs / Re: US To Withdraw From Niger As Security Pact Fails In Strategic Victory For Russia by wirinet(m): 6:33am On Apr 21 |
Botragelad:Yes countries engage in alliances that serve their strategic objectives, but does it have to be a parasitic relationship? Sucking the life blood out of these poor African countries while giving little or nothing in return. That has been the nature of the relationship between African countries and Europe/US from the very beginning. Why didn't the US employ the same doctrine of "strategic objectives" when dealing with European countries and Israel? The US spent billions in rebuilding Europe after the devastating war started by European themselves. They created military alliance and spent trillions defending Europe from themselves. They do the same with Israel, spending billions of dollars protecting Israel and helping their economy. But when it comes to Africans countries they remember the doctrine of strategic objectives. 31 Likes 5 Shares |
Politics / Re: IMF: Why We Asked Nigeria To Remove Fuel Subsidy by wirinet(m): 12:39pm On Apr 20 |
malali: This is the new slavery or slave trade. You promote policies that impoverish the people and thus lead to instability, then you encourage the valuable manpower and the rich elites along with their capital to emigrate and develop the economies of the west. Finally due to instability you exploit the natural resources of these countries without paying the appropriate costs or ethics, thereby destroying the environment. No one pays the poor more subsidies than the west, from food subsidies, to agricultural subsidies, to housing subsidies. 4 Likes |
Business / Re: US Dollar to Nigerian Naira Speculators Are Getting Hurt by wirinet(m): 7:48pm On Apr 13 |
Enugurangers:Most Nigerians have no idea of currency trading. They buy and sell based on emotions and not on Technical or fundamental analysis. I bought naira at about N1600 to the dollar and quickly before it fell beyond N1500. |
Business / Re: US Dollar to Nigerian Naira Speculators Are Getting Hurt by wirinet(m): 7:43pm On Apr 13 |
helinues:There is nothing wrong with currency trading/speculation. It part of normal business like any other business. The problem is that our economy and thus the Naira is not that sophisticated, and so is not traded both physically abroad or digitally in the currency market. I trade Euro against the dollar, Pounds against the dollar and the dollar against the Japanese Yen on the currency market. I uses to trade USDT against the naira when it was available on the binance spot market. |
Celebrities / Re: Who Advised You To Plead Guilty – Aisha Yesufu Queries Bobrisky by wirinet(m): 9:11am On Apr 13 |
Mynd44:I strongly disagree with you. Bobrisky had very poor legal representation. Even if he were to plead guilty, he should not have done so under one week. He should have first taken a no guilty plea, then apply for bail. That would have reduced the urgency and pressure on Bobrisky and his defense. They would now have time to prepare for a proper defense. The case itself is neither here nor there. The main charge of mutilation of the naira is not tenable, unless the EFCC have videos of Bobrisky tearing or burning the naira. Then the issue of Money Laundering under Section 6(1)(a), and Section 19(1) (f) of the Money Laundering (Prevention And Prohibition Act is Untenable, why?, because the act was mainly target at financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses. They were to report transactions over $10000 or suspicious transactions to the EFCC, under the KYC regime. Accounts that violate the act was to be put on hold until given clearance by EFCC. I know many people that had to clear their transactions with the banks or EFCC before their accounts were released. How come Bobrisky was guilty of violating the money laundering act, but Ecobank was exonerated? It's obvious there was a conspiracy by the EFCC, the judge and probably his lawyers as well, to punish and jail Bobrisky because of his lifestyle, which is abhorrent to most Nigerians. 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: Nasir El-Rufai Was A Guest Speaker To A Harvard Business Class Yesterday Evening by wirinet(m): 5:22pm On Apr 11 |
DeepSight: Can you please state the myriads of sociological questions why 2 or more black Africans can't coperate to achieve a common goal? Cany you also explain why the problem of village people or family issue is present only among the blacks particularly southern Nigerians. Once one blackman escapes poverty and join the elite, he would not truly help his family, his clansmen or those closest to him achieve any measurable success outside giving handouts. If just one indian, Chinese or Jews migrate into a place, before you know it, he will bring his whole extended family into his small apartment. They would share everything from cars, food, clothes, etc., and before you know it, they would gradually buy up the whole area. In the case of Nigerian, they would be sabotaging each other. How do you explain that psychologically and sociologically? |
Politics / Re: Nasir El-Rufai Was A Guest Speaker To A Harvard Business Class Yesterday Evening by wirinet(m): 2:18pm On Apr 11 |
CaveAdullam:I dey gbadun your yarns. I agree with you that climate and disease played a huge role in our underdevelopment. The energy employed just for daily day to day survival leave little for thinking, creativity and acquisition of knowledge. Agriculture was hard in forest areas. Weather was unpredictable and some years have excess rainfall, while in some there was drought. But... These conditions no longer exists. There are now mechanised farming, improved seeds and crops and irrigation. It's an embarrassment we cannot feed ourself and have to rely on food imports from Asia and Europe. About our ancestral organisation and structure, that was destroyed by the colonialists. It had been replaced by those imposes from Europe and to some extend Arabia. I don't believe on an individual level our IQ is the least among the human races known. The problem is the societal or organisational IQ. Blacks cannot cooperate to achieve a common goal. We cannot build gigantic structures that requires a high level of cooperation by thousands of individuals, ie the Pyramids, the Titanic, the empire state building, etc. We can only excel on individual levels. |
Politics / Re: Nasir El-Rufai Was A Guest Speaker To A Harvard Business Class Yesterday Evening by wirinet(m): 1:59pm On Apr 11 |
DeepSight: Yes, Europe was stagnant for 1000 years, but it was not retrogressing. This was mainly due to religious and political conflicts that were rife at that period. There was the Muslim invasion of Europe started from the 7th century AD, which led to the crusades that lasted until the 13th century. Then there was the mongol invasion of Europe in the 13th century, followed by the Ottoman Empire. It was after relative peace and stability starting from the end of the 14th century that Europe started experiencing progress and development. Now what's are excuse for remaining stagnant for such a long time until the Europeans came to enslave us. Now after enslavement and colonialism, we seem to the retrogressing as a race and unable to build prosperous and stable societies. The most annoying to me are Haiti, Guyana and Jamaica. Countries that were handed over to blacks to develop in the middle of the Americas, and we made a mess of them. |
Politics / Re: Nasir El-Rufai Was A Guest Speaker To A Harvard Business Class Yesterday Evening by wirinet(m): 9:05am On Apr 11 |
Gerrard59: My brother, I am impressed by your insights. It simply because you are well educated and well travelled. Most black Africans are oblivious of the world around them, ignorant and living a shade off our closest relative, the Gorilla. We are satisfied with just mundane animalistic instincts and sensations like sex, food, drinks and rituals, while the rest of the world are moving ahead with science and technology and building a stable, prosperous and peaceful society. At the rate of our degradation, I don't see the black race surviving the next century. Our culture, land and even physical attributes would have been eroded and assimilated by the whites by then. Today the best of us are migrating to assimilate in Europe and the Americas, while the worst of us are left behind to complete the destruction of the society. Only a brutal awaking, might wake us up of our stupor. |
Politics / Re: Nasir El-Rufai Was A Guest Speaker To A Harvard Business Class Yesterday Evening by wirinet(m): 8:15am On Apr 10 |
israelmao:Exactly! We worship paper qualifications and titles. No wonder people go to great lengths just to acquire degrees and titles without any visible benefits to anyone. These people would not be qualified to manage a district in china. |
Politics / Re: Nasir El-Rufai Was A Guest Speaker To A Harvard Business Class Yesterday Evening by wirinet(m): 8:11am On Apr 10 |
Richtaiwo:So what has the first class product contributed first to his family, then to his community, to his state, to the country and to humanity as a whole? Given he was given various opportunities both in private and government roles. What did El Rufai contribute to Nigerian privatisation process director General of BPE. What did Mallam El Rufai contribute to Abuja as Minister of FCT outside demolishing peoples properties and seizing lands and re-allocating to friends and families? What did El Rufai contribute to Kaduna State as governor for 7 years? What contributions has he made to the private sector? Please give me one thing his first class has contributed. 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: UAE Suspends Diplomatic Ties With Israel Over Killing Of Aid Workers by wirinet(m): 6:53am On Apr 05 |
Emyogalanya:To you it is better to only stand with innocent Israelis than innocent Palestinians. Innocent Palestinians do not deserve justice. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: UAE Suspends Diplomatic Ties With Israel Over Killing Of Aid Workers by wirinet(m): 6:49am On Apr 05 |
TNORWAY:False, the Torah preach as much hate if not more than the Quran. |
Foreign Affairs / Re: UAE Suspends Diplomatic Ties With Israel Over Killing Of Aid Workers by wirinet(m): 1:38am On Apr 05 |
Righteousness2: I don't know which one is more blood thirsty and Genocidal, the God of Israel or the God of Ismael? An religion that worships El is Evil. But the God of Rome (Jesus) is supposed to be benign and passifist, but many Nigerians prefers violence and choose to worships the God of Israel in the guise of worshiping the God of Rome. 1 Like |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 4:03am On Apr 02 |
feedthenation: Most likely a pump and dump scheme/scam. Trump most likely kept a substantial number of the shares and dumped immediately after launch, when the hype is loudest and MAGA are buying at ridiculous prices. This happens a lot in the Memecoin market. This is why I stopped trading memecoin. No matter how legitimate a Memecoin project looks with all the hype and beautiful websites, 99% of them are scam. You always end up getting rugged. In a matter of days Trump Media & Technology Group would become a penny stock. Trump would have cashed out by then. 1 Like 1 Share |
Foreign Affairs / Re: American Politics Thread - 2024 Elections — Biden’s Presidency! by wirinet(m): 8:40am On Apr 01 |
Obrigardo: Arguing with MAGA is an exercise in futility. They attempt to wear you out with lies, conspiracy theories and dishonesty. They are like the hyda headed monster You kill on lie or conspiracy theory, they create 5 more, expecting you to engage all with them. Before you even finish, they create even more. All the while the lies and conspiracy theories keeps getting crazier. It's really exhausting. I praise those with the time and energy to keep up with them. This one made a stupendous claim that Trump popularity remains the same as 2020 tctrills:This is despite almost all his former cabinet members not supporting him, Nikki Haley and her supporters (which are about 20% of GOP) not supporting him yet, Moderate Republicans (non MAGA republicans) are leaving the party, and the Lincoln Project getting ready for the campaigns. Meanwhile, there is no major division within the democrats, Unions are endorsing Biden and Biden is breaking fundraising records. MAGA now wants to disregard all and accept only pools. In the past, whenever the pools favour democrats, they become critical of pools. Now it that pools favours Trump, it has become a prophesy. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Nigeria To Commence Local Vehicle Manufacturing Within 10 Years - Doris Uzoka by wirinet(m): 7:23am On Apr 01 |
Themaths:The data is quoting Brand New Cars and not Tokunbo or Nigerian used cars. How many Nigerians buy tear rubber cars? Most new cars are bought by government officials and big corporations, while the ordinary citizens go for used cars. |
Business / Re: Tigran Gambaryan Wife, Yuki Seeks US Intervention On Husband Detained In Nigeria by wirinet(m): 10:09am On Mar 31 |
ozo13: Now let me also ask you corresponding question similar to those I highlighted: Is Nairaland registered in Nigeria? Is Facebook registered in Nigeria Is TicTok registered in Nigeria? Is Alibaba and Aliexpress registered in Nigeria? There are thousands if not millions of website thar offer one service or the other to Nigerians and collect payments from Nigerians, how many of them are registered in Nigeria? Binance was not the only website offering P2P service to Nigerians in the crypto space. There are others like OKX and Kucoin that still allow naira to be traded on their platform till this very second. Why is Ribabu not issuing warrant of arrest for all their executives? So you see the issue is not with binance itself but with our laws. Instead of you to attack your legislative for doing nothing but approving budgets, allowances and constituency projects, instead of passing laws to regulate and tax internet companies doing business in with Nigerians, you are attacking Binance just taking advantage of Nigeria's lax laws. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: The CHURCH Is The Reason Why Nigeria Isn't Working by wirinet(m): 7:51am On Mar 31 |
JagabanB:Help me out by naming those Nigerians that are renowned in various field of science and technology, and the schools they attended. I am not even arguing that some Nigerians leant to read and write, and pass exams in Nigeria. What I am still contending is that they become elite scientist/inventors after attending elite schools abroad, where the facilities for physical learning of science is available. |
Politics / Re: The CHURCH Is The Reason Why Nigeria Isn't Working by wirinet(m): 7:42am On Mar 31 |
jazzman7711:My brother they are incapable of grasping this truth, a mental prison is the worst kind of prison, as you are not even aware you are imprisoned. It like living in the Matrix, oblivious of the real world. Ever wondered why the first thing the colonialist did was translate the Bible into all the local languages, but refused to translate Physics, Mathematics and the sciences. They taught us Shakespeare but refused to teach us Newton, Faraday, Fleming, etc. They taught us their own version of our history. They build mega churches,but refused to build Libraries, Laboratories, Observatories, Museums (in fact the destroyed our own Museums. |
Politics / Re: Nigeria To Commence Local Vehicle Manufacturing Within 10 Years - Doris Uzoka by wirinet(m): 8:40pm On Mar 30 |
Chicagograduate:No mind dem? On top diesel of N1400? I neva take eye see NEPA light for 3 days now. 2 Likes |
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