₦airaland Forum

Echoban:
So in ur conclusion all Governor's and deputy Governor seeking re-election should first of all resign from being an incubent before participating in primary election?? Just like saying Gov. Oyetola should resign before participating in the past primary..

So who would now be the Governor wen he resigned??

U now see why the law avoided Elected officer.

I also don't see the justification of demanding a political appointed to resign before contesting for primaries within his political party. You might as well ask all civil servant to resign before they also can contest primaries, as they all work under the executive. Why only target political appointees of the executive? If you say the election proper, I will agree but primaries is unfair. The political space should be widened instead of narrowing it. This law seem targeted at a few individuals to eliminate them from the primaries.

BIGDADDY000:
Hmm, POLITICS! although that's a how it suppose to be,

they should go and resign indeed if they want to hold a public offices.

But i trust that AUTOCRATIC MAN he will overrule their judgement as usual.

tHEY ARE HIS BOYS

If political appointed officers are to resign before seeking elections, why not the elected officers also. The senators, House members, governors and president should also resign so as not to have undue advantage. After all what is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander.

All these can be solved by direct primaries.

omohayek:
This line of argument makes absolutely no sense. The USA has nearly as many nuclear warheads as Russia, while both the UK and France have over 200 each. In addition, the strategic triads of the 3 western countries are more secure than Russia's, as they have ultra-stealthy nuclear submarines that can launch their warheads from anywhere in the oceans. By launching a nuclear warhead against a NATO country, Putin would be just as surely signing the death warrant of himself and nearly every other Russian besides (as well as the deaths of billions across the world from nuclear winter). This is a reality both sides have understood perfectly well since the 1950s, which is why such threats by Putin carry next to no credibility in any policymaker's mind, even if they make for the sorts of hysterical headlines journalists know will drive traffic.

You're free to hate Zelensky as much as you like (though I don't understand why you harbor so much more hatred for him than for the man who launched an unecessary war that has already driven 2 million from their homes and slaughtered thousands), but the man is only doing his constitutional duty by appealing for help from any quarter he can to save his country. That's why he is so widely admired around the world, even by those who tell him they can't deliver what he's asking - because they understand what drives him to make such appeals. You might as well be ridiculing a mother wailing and begging bystanders to help them save her child who has been abducted by armed robbers - people with empathy can understand why the appeal is made even as they know it would be unreasonable to respond to it.

You are assuming Putin is rational or sane. The more he loses his grip on power the more irrational he will become. Have you not heard the adage "never argue with a mad man because people might not know the difference between you two".

Why I blame Zelensky is because he refused to talk to putin and then he was pursuing NATO membership too desperately. He even imput NATO membership into the constitution. He should be aware that this would really antagonise Putin. He doesn't understand international politics. Because of the sensitivity of Russia many countries in NATO would never allow Ukraine to join NATO. I never saw Germany voting to allow Ukraine into NATO and also putin had sworn that over his dead body would he allow Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO. Zelensky would have declared neutrality and putin would not have had an excuse to directly invade Ukraine.

IamGreen1:
You're minding him, rushing to social media to cry. I don't blame him but Ukrainians that make a clown their president instead of them to have advised him to face his comedy movies seriously.

His type of comedy is the dirty type. See Vladimir Zelensky playing piano with his dick in front of a live audience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oua0Puihrkc

ZELENSKY: “Regarding NATO, I lost interest in this issue after we realized that NATO is not ready to accept Ukraine. The alliance is afraid of contradictory things and confrontation with the Russian Federation”

This Ukrainian Alibaba dey smoke loud. He wants NATO to confront Russia, a country with more than 6000 nuclear warheads, half pointed at Europe, the other half pointed at America, because of his ambition to remain in power.

A nuclear tipped missile will strike London in less than 15 minutes. The rest of Europe's NATO countries would even take less time.

McEphiks:
Na me and you deh share the tradition? Things have been modernised and people know this is keeping keeping away from marrying their daughters daughters they just sit in a small gathering, buy drink and bride bride Which is 120 naira. I've been in such meetings several times with my dad.

That's why I said I don't know where she hails from but as for my side, people Don get sense

You still don't get it. It's not about the amount but about the principle. Paying and accepting bride price means a marriage has taken place. That has been the meaning of bride price by all cultures from time immemorial. That bride price is legally recognised in our laws.
Are you paying the bride price for yourself or her irresponsible father?

Drsnives:
Na my fear be that, since shes still young b4 them go say make i lash her join

My broder, dem wan scam you like dem scam Joseph. When him wan marry Rachel, dem trick am marry Leah, because for dem culture younger sister no dey marry before older sister. After dem trick you marry mama with the same excuse that daughter no dey marry before pikin, dem go then give you condition to marry daughter.

Ryan03:
exactly. It is her father that is suppose to go and pay his wife's bride price so that he can collect his daughters own else, his daughters bride price will be paid to her mother's family. He is trying to make the boy provide the funds for his own wife's bride price. See shameless father

Thank you. And some people are trying to justify this shameless request.

deavicky:
see how ur mouth they sharp. If it is out of place they won't be asking for it.

It is out of place in a sane world to blackmail a prospective groom to pay bride price (marry) the mother of the bride, because the mother's lover (bride's father) was not responsible enough to marry the mother.

But then some cultures still belong to the Paleolithic age.

deavicky:
there will be no party it would just be the family people I bet u it won't cost up to 150k.

It's not about the money but the principle. Paying even N1 is morally wrong. So what happens if the mother wants to marry another man? They will have to return my bride price?

We must learn to start taking responsibility for our own decisions and actions. It's not the guy that asked the mother to have a child for a dead beat.

Bloggz74:
Yes the bride price has to be paid before that of her daughter commences.
That's the tradition.

However it's not you that has that responsibility but your father inlaw except you want to help out.

Watin consign the guy with the bride price of his father in law, except he wants to help shine her congo also?

Very stupid tradition.

delpee:
I don't see why her father's responsibility should be transferred to her husband for whatever reason. Someone from her father's family should pay.

Anyway, cultures differ.

Some cultures see anyone that want to marry their daughter as a host the whole family will parasite on.

Thats the most stupid thing I ever heard. A daughter's fiancee must carry out the responsibility of another irresponsible man who just hit and run.

Drsnives:
Then any of her family members should do the needful and not disturb me, haba.
Let's assume i should pay, what's next after that? I go come dea lash her too ni?

Gbam. If you are to pay bride , then you as groom must do what bride and groom do.

IrepChrist:
It will shock you to know...... Rape can result murder...... Stds, STIs and Hiv are silient killers and all are linked to sex. And unwanted pregnancy and abortion truncates a glorious future.
The thief cometh not yet but to kill, steal and to destroy.

The topic we are discussing is Premarital Sex and not rape, unless you define rape as premarital sex.

False premise that unwanted pregnancy and abortion truncates a glorious future. It's an unwanted child that is more likely to truncates a glorious future. Besides, there are millions of women who had unplanned babies when very young and went on to live very successful lives.

Also note an abortion when done early and by professionals is far safer than carrying a baby to term, especially in a country like Nigeria with an abysmally high maternal mortality rate.

NwaAmaikpe:




Do not shortchange yourself with this premarital sex nonsense.

Conji kills.
Have sex responsibly or just masturbate.

Excessive semen retention can make your scrotal sac so heavy and once the spring suspending the sac snaps because it's hydraulic release has not been serviced by frequent ejaculation....all hell will be let loose, sperm will flow into your artery and mix with oxygenated blood and get circulated round your body.

Sometimes the sperm gets to your lungs and even your ears, nostrils, your brain or it becomes the pus in the acne, boils and pimples on your skin.

Well, this is what my mom told me, that's why till this day, I always lick my catarrh just to taste it and be sure that it is not sperm coming out of my nostrils.

Dem no know say conji sef na weapon way devil take dey kill people. Conji dey increase risk of prostrate cancer in men. Conji dey make women psychologically unstable. Women wey men no dey toast dey wicked well well
Regular and healthy sex has lots of benefits for both body and mind.

IrepChrist:
It's one of the greatest weapon of the devil against the youths.

Murder is not the greatest weapon of the devil, corruption is not the greatest weapon of the devil, war is not the greatest weapon of the devil, na harmless sex between two consenting adults where no one is hurt that is the greatest weapon of the devil.

Religious fundamentalists are insane.

helinues:
You religious people too like sex matter discussion...

I swear na only sex and women dey their mind. They seem to project their sexual frustrations on others, especially women.

Soulspeace:
That is just too evil.

But the same thing was approved by God in the bible

Numbers 31:17-18
17. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
18. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

franchasng:
Russia should come in with their land troops na and stop bombarding Ukraine from miles away.



Russian military aren't as formidable as you all think, what's saving them is the air raids and missile bombardments from afar. Ukrainian soldiers want them to come in let them fight it out man to man, that's why Ukrainian President have been begging EU to put a no fly zone over Ukraine so Russian troops can come in and conquer Ukraine with their armored tanks and land troops.




With what Russia have displayed in Ukraine, it will take Russia 50 years to defeat Israel if they leave both to battle it out cos Russia rely mostly on projectile missiles from afar and on air raids and Israel have strong air defense system that will neutralize those their missile strikes and air raids. And when it comes to land troops, Israel, Britain, Georgia, Ukraine, France, US, etc are the beasts.



Russian land troops lack coordination and needed high military morale.



Their advantage over Ukraine is the air raids and missile strikes from afar which Ukraine doesn't have

The goal of Putin is not to destroy Ukraine but to overthrow its government, so he is trying to avoid civilians casualties and destruction of physical structures as much as possible.

He could flatten kyiv or Mariupol within days.

franchasng:
The issue is, Western leaders of today have become more capitalistic and materialistic than before. They are scared of war, they don't want to sacrifice some of their soldiers to bring total peace in their region, they want to rely on just economic sanctions, and since Ukraine isn't an EU country, they feel more less concerned. It hurts

And who told you that sacrificing some of their soldiers would bring total peace to Europe? Getting involved with the war will only expand it and move us closer to WW3. Which will wreck the economy of all countries apart from the unknown consequences of a nuclear war.

helinues:
Russia on Saturday declared a partial ceasefire from 7 am GMT to open humanitarian corridors to let residents evacuate from the cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha.

Volodymyr Zelensky said Nato would be responsible for the deaths of Ukrainians due to its refusal to help Kyiv protect its skies from Russian warplanes.

“All the people who die from this day forward will also die because of you, because of your weakness, because of your lack of unity,” he said in a nighttime address.

Nato turned down Mr Zelensky’s request for a no-fly zone to avoid being drawn into conflict with Russia but the Ukrainian president said the alliance “has given the green light” to an escalated Russian aerial campaign.

Vladimir Putin suffered a setback in his war on Ukraine when three Russian commanders were killed after moving towards the front line in what was thought to have been an attempt to restore momentum to the flagging invasion, Western sources say.

Russia continued to intensively bombard cities including Kharkiv, Odesa and Mariupol. Thousands have been killed or wounded and over a million refugees have fled Ukraine so far.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-ukraine-news-putin-war-b2028568.html

Pure blackmail.
Na NATO tell zelensky make him dey make mouth instead of opening up a communication channel with putin? You think any NATO member would risk the lives of their soldiers to fight for Ukraine. He must be utterly deluded.
NATO should just be weary that zelensky doesn't unnecessarily drag them into the war by ordering an attack on Lithuania or Poland and blaming it on Putin.
Putin knows his limits.

simplesearch:
Well, the truth is that every second wife is a thief, an intruder, a trespasser and an adulterer. There is no space for second wife in the new testament; it's one man to one wife till death do you part. Infact both the one who marry another as second wife and the one who accept the offer are guilty before God.

Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Matthew 19:6
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Whoever you're therefore as a second wife stealing the heart that belong to another and putting asunder what God has joined together shall not be guiltless. So as a second wife you must repent of living in disobedience to God's command, restitute your ways and leave the man's house for the rightful owner. If the man chooses to continue in his immoral ways let it not be on your account.

1 Timothy 5:22
...................neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

This command cut across every tradition and religion.

In The old Testament nko? Did numerous men of God not have two or more wives?

I don't want to hear "that's the old Testament" because tithes and Shiloh is in the old Testament too, but you guys will not let us rest with tithes.

Abeg leave her to live her life the way that makes her happy. Pray that someday you too can find happiness.

posty56:
lol , Ukraine using every means to drag NATO into this war, but they ain't buying it , if this doesn't teach zelensky lesson I I don't know what would , he has two options.

1) agree neutrality and let this slide
or

2) stop whining like a bitch ,and step up your guerrila warfare

Zelensky wants to drag NATO and EU into the war with Russia by force or fire.

DeepSight:
The problem I have with what you have been saying is that you have been trying to dismiss the sort of inflation we have experienced from the onset of this administration as nothing out of the ordinary. That, with respect is simply not the case: the change since 2015 has been nothing short of extraordinary. And there are definite policies of this administration which account for it.

My bother I try yo see the forest for the trees. That's the approach I take to all issues. Just like the Ukraine conflict (where I have made enemies both offline and online), I try to look at the bigger picture. Just like in forex trading you have to do a historical (top down) analysis to understand the present.

I have explained time and time again that Nigeria is driving on auto pilot. The economy and every other thing follows the direction of the global wind. Ironically the only leaders that thought of a developmental agenda were Abacha with his vision 2020 and Obasanjo with his economic team. Even though the recommendations were never implemented, at least the plan was put on paper. This is the reason I get annoyed when people start campaigning and fighting for Tinubu, Atiku, et al. What is their developmental agenda for the country, what time frame and how?


Buhari is bad, I agree. Jonathan was also terrible. Ironically, personally my fortune was not changed by one regime or the other. I survive by looking for solutions instead of just complaining and being negative.
I get annoyed when all people do is complain, scream on media (both social and otherwise) and blame everyone and everybody, without proffering solutions. What we should be discussing is what we can do to improve the situation. How are we preparing for the worst case scenario to save ourselves and our families. We can scream as loud as we can and insult each other till thy kingdom come, Buhari and his family will be safe and in luxury. Tinubu, Atiku, Okorocha are all secure.

Thinktwicemybro:
I understand. But we have not had it this bad. I mean, no plans to even look inward and manufacture. No regard for education hence our graduates are not productive.

Gbam. Q.E.D.
Visionless leaders from top to bottom

Thinktwicemybro:
You have some valid points but I disagree with you on the perannum inflation rate.
I bought bag of cement for 2,500 in 2012, 2014 and 2015. But in 2020 alone I bought it for 3000 to 4700. That's failure of government.
Truth is they promised heaven and Earth but have not done anything to improve the lives of citizens.

Inflation is a universal phenomen in an economy with increasing population but stagnated or reducing production.
Let's take nigeria for example. Our population rate is 2.5%. That means for an estimate of 200 million our population increases by 5 million every year (and I am not even compounding yet). In 5 years it would have increased by over 30 million.
Meanwhile the revenue to cater for these increasing population remains stagnant at best. So what do you think would happen to inflation?

A bag of cement at N2,500 under 12% inflation rate would be N4,400 after 5 years. Remember inflation rate is compounded.

DeepSight:
They could have done a better job on it: the attitude seems to have been that it's best to allow the naira to fall. It's not best because the implications and complex consequences are too substantial.

How could they have done it better given our dwindling crude revenue due to fluctuating prices and falling production levels?

To float or not to float (the naira). That is the question.

What suggestions do you proffer?

DeepSight:
I dont know what the NBS and other statisticians may have in their books but the street knows as well as I do that there has been a marked and significant change in cost of living - a dramatic and beastly change in fact - since 2015 - same thing also goes for the exchange rate which has a knock-on effect on every other thing when you live in an import dependent economy and yes, the President is responsible for that because managing the economy is part of his job description: the naira could have been better defended.

Believe me the governments had been defending the naira in wrong way for decades and it will eventually come crashing down.

How does the Nigeria governments (and when I say governments I mean all previous governments from IBB) defend the naira. They defend the naira by CBN pumping more dollars into the market. Where do CBN get the dollars? From sales of crude oil. So what do you expect would happen if and when oil prices crash, we are unable to sell our oil or our reserves run out. (I shudder to think how we will survive if oil runs out or a WW3 break out and international shipping is suspended).

Thinktwicemybro:
Oga bread is #500 pure water is #250, be suffering and smiling there don't wake up.

It saddens me to always seem to defend the present government. To me buhari is even more useless than Jonathan. At least with Jonathan we had a president who we can talk to, insult and most times he responds. In Buhari we have an absentee or visiting presidents. He shows once in a blue moon and never address or talk to Nigerians directly. Its always the presidency that talks to Nigerians. I don't even think he still resume to his official office in aso rock to actually do some work.
Having said that, it's disingenuous to suggest that Buhari is responsible for Nigeria's inflation rate. Nigeria,s inflation rate had hovered between 9% to 12% per annum for decades. And unless we start producing more goods for the same quantity of money in circulation, inflation will continue to accelerate. We need to simply reduced our over dependence on oil and our insane taste for imported goods and services.

Bread will continue to rise because we don't grow wheat or produce flour. So the price of bread (which is expected to double within the next few weeks) will be determined by naira exchange rate and international price of wheat.

As per water. That is in the domain of the state governments. You don't expect the FG to supply you water. As long as state governments abdicate their responsibility to provide pipe water and the cost of imported material and machinery for making pure water continue to increase, a bag of pure water will reach N500.

tiegahpor:
M*ORUN!

How do you inherit stuff that's GENERATIONAL, according to you??

When I left the University,I swear,the best...infact,when I was done with my masters in the UK,I can swear you were in primary school, FOOOOL...

See WRETCHED cretin talking..

Peasant arse wipe!

You are a terrible advertisement for British education. You studied up to masters level and you still described Nigerian economy as robust at anytime within the last 40 years. This shows you have no idea of Economics 101.

I also studied up to masters level from a top Nigerian University and debating with you makes me proud of my Nigerian education.

Further more, people with British education are supposed to be better mannered and courteous. You sound like you got your British education in Ajegule. Maybe you obtained an online degree.

raumdeuter:
You remember when Tariq Aziz Iraqi foreign minister under Saddam dey claim say US forces were falling and eating grass while Baghdad was hours from falling

The same way Ukrainian army said that they have killed 6000 Russian soldiers in just 4 days of fighting.

ityP:
Lmao. You people sef. We get robust economy but a federal government employee no fit buy one bag of rice from him salary Robust economy kee you there

Please go back to school to learn what a robust economy means.