₦airaland Forum

CSTRR:
Though to be fair, Asian investors are terrible in staff welfare and general decency.

They are mostly poverty striken anyway, so they can't give what they don't have in their countries.

The best investments are still from Western Europe and America.

Western Europe and America would not invest in a corrupt ridden country like Nigeria anymore, they are even trying to dinivest the their remaining assets. Siemens and Haliburton has taught them a lesson.

Only Chinese, Lebanese and Indians are ready to give bribes and compromise. All these are input into production costs and salaries.

Simran94:
Even at that…
Have you ever asked yourself why this same Indians and other Asian citizens come into Nigeria to invest? Obviously because Nigeria has natural resources that the FG keep misusing, they come to make use of it while employing Nigerians and still maltreating them in their own land, they know that foreigners are being treated way better than the citizens itself and that would be of great gain for them in so many ways, one of it being keep employing Nigerian workers, push them to work and maltreat them because their Government doesn’t care. I went to immigration at Ikoyi to do my passport, we were so many on the queue at around 8am, when it was around 8:30am, some Chinese guys came to join the crowd and that was how one of the immigration men went to them and asked them what they wanted to do, then he took them inside. People just started shouting. So them coming isn’t even beneficial to citizens of this country.
This is why CCECC and other companies they have in Nigeria treat their Nigerian workers as slaves, pay little salary to their workers, maltreat them right here in this same Nigeria because FG doesn’t care as long as they pay their taxes. So why won’t they come?
Were you not on twitter the other day when one Chinese restaurant was called out for maltreating their Nigerian workers? It was after that call out they did an investigation and found out it was true, the restaurant was closed for good.
They obviously cannot close CCECC because that is actually the leading construction company in Nigeria, so the mistreatment continues.

Can this happen in any other sane country and the company won’t be sued?
Can’t you see what Chad and Niger people that are already citizens in Nigeria are doing? These are the same people that have turned into Boko Haram and bandits inflicting the owners of the land and yet you want more of them to keep coming.

If you think foreigners coming to Nigeria to invest are doing it for your sake, then sorry for you because they would walk all over you to get what they want and nothing would be done about it.

In one line you say "them coming isn’t even beneficial to citizens of this country" and the very next line you say they pay little salary to their workers. Are you saying the little salary they pay (and taxes) is not beneficial to the country?

The problem is both your government and fellow Nigerians. When Nigerians in these Chinese companies decides to fight for higher salaries, it's their Nigerians senior management staff and the government that always sabotage their efforts. I have seen it here in Ikorodu where it's fellow Nigerian senior management staff that advice Chinese company owners not to increase salary of junior workers.

Simran94:
Lol, like the people who come into Nigeria and walk all over Nigerians to have their gains?
Or the same people who get kidnapped every day and sometimes killed by Boko haram and bandits?
Or were you not here when the Chinese and other countries wrote a memorandum to their citizens in Nigeria when the insecurity was getting worse and their people were getting killed, that they should prepare themselves to leave the country?
Or was it not during the same Covid-19 period that countries started taking their citizens out of Nigeria because they knew Nigeria could not take care of its own citizens talk less other citizens during the pandemic?

And who do you blame for foreigners coming come into Nigeria and walking all over Nigerians? Do Nigerians including the government treat fellow Nigerians any better?

CSTRR:
There is no benefit to you, understandably, but that citizenship is gold to Indians, Chinese, Lebanese businesses in the country.

If your husband ever wants to invest in Nigeria, it would be gold to him too.

Have you ever worked in an Asian company in Nigeria?
When Immigration visits, that is when you will see commotion with Asians running up and down to hide.

Many can't even leave the complex for fear of being picked up.

Come to Ikorodu here. When immigration visits these Chinese companies in Ikorodu, you will see commotion. Chinese workers running up and down to hide any where - locker rooms, toilets and even freezers.

Alusiizizi:
I guess this development will be considered good news to men from Benin republic, Malawi, Togo and other desperately poor countries and since we know that Nigerian women mostly gravitate to financially capable men(which is not a bad thing, as long as the relationship is not a parasitic one) only acts of pure love would render this otherwise useless amendment valuable to anyone on this planet.

While the US, Britain, Canada and Australia poach the best of our minds for their national development, we too could poach Benin republic, Malawi and Togo for the best of their own minds too, that is if we are really interested in physical development and not forever depending on rent economy.

CSTRR:
You have a point too.

The potential for abuse is high.

Why are you guys so negative? You always look for the loop holes in every policy instead of the benefits. Other countries use their women to lure high level manpower and skills and investments into their country, while we druve then away. If you are a very special person countries looking for development would want to do all they can to bring you and keep in their country. We only the other hand drive away both local and foreign skilled manpower.

anochuko01:
We prefer it that way!
Not until criminals from Chad, Niger, China, Lebanon etc move in here and marry an almajiri just for them to become citizens and turn the nation upside down

Criminals from Chad, Niger, China and Lebanon are already here and turning the nation upside down without the need for citizenship. They enter the country and operate without any hindrance by bribing immigration officers.

ensamy:
Wrong move, many Onyinbo that come to do business here in Nigeria will misuse it . Fly into Nigeria like today and the next day pick a girl around ikoyi registry , get married and jet out of Nigeria. Next time come and set up construction, mining, logistics etc companies with low or no tax as a Nigerian citizen.

Isn't this a good thing? Is this not a good way to obtain the foreign direct investments we are clamouring for? Will this not create hundreds or even millions of employment for our teeming youths? Who knows, maybe we will get an Elon musk to come and invest in Nigeria.

Babalegba:
Lol, I'm an egba man from Abeokuta. There is no need to balkanize the country, restructuring is the way to go instead of pursuing all this violent agitations that leads to a dead end. Anyway i lived in Britain for more than twenty years and on getting back to Nigeria,I found Nigerians extremely dishonest, perfidious, selfish, superstitious, lacking self control,arrogant empty and scurrilous,in fact they lack nation building qualities. As far as I'm concerned a Nigerian graduate is equivalent to a Briton with a G.C.S.E certificate. That has been my experience

Abeg helep me ask them, before the British amalgamated the igbo clans, were they a nation or a region? Why not ask to bulkanize to pre colonial times. The same people forcing Ikwerre and Anioma to join them are advocating for everyone to go their own way. Is that not a paradox?

Dismemberment in these times would be a tragedy. It would make the smaller and weaker states easy pickings for the major powers (including Iran and Saudi Arabia) as is happening in Ukraine right now. It would set us back 200 years.
What we should be advocating for is a restructuring to make the region's more economically autonomous.

NimrodEndOfDays:
And later boast about how glorious Lagos is. If not for the loop sided nature of Nigeria why would one state be the only one with a sea port when states in the Niger Delta are close to the sea? The reason why the North especially was amalgamated with the south was just to slow the progress of the south. Simple. Because I don't understand why a region would have held on to power the most but are the most useless.

Lagos was created before the creation of Nigeria. Lagos was given special status by the colonialists and was even removed and governed separately from western Nigeria. Lagos ports was and still is, the easiest port to access directly from the sea. You don't need to navigate any inland river to access Lagos ports. You need to dredge and constantly maintain the dredging to make the inland ports navigatable.
Yes I believe the government should develop the other ports of the Niger Delta and indeed our Olu made that demand when he visited Buhari last week, but the problem with our governments is that they are all lazy. They are not ready to spend the effort and money to make the other ports navigatable.

NimrodEndOfDays:
first of all, Adamawa State is more diverse than both the UK and India combined. The SS,SE,SW can never ever make progress with the 1999 constitution that was created by the NORTH to continue to hold everyone down and take us backwards. Before the coup, these regions made tremendous progress. So I don't know how you see or view your own things. Imagine having to build and airport and then giving it to the FG how stupid is that? You cannot build and manage a port, you cannot create your own electricity, you cannot even manage your resources. Some of you people who support this dead contraption are unbelievable. And I have this feeling you are from the North or SW. But North is what my guts is telling me. Any time I discuss with a friend from the North this is how they speak. Can't you people think of being alone and having your own country?

Quit that "can't you people think of being alone" nonsense. The only people that can't think of being alone is you people. You people just can't stay alone in your villages, you must live among other people in order to survive. How many Yorubas, Itsekiris, Ijaws, Binis do you find in Sokoto, Daura, Adamawa, or even Enugu, Abia or Ebonyi? Yes the Fulanis are all over Nigeria selling cows and riding Okada, but they are no where near the number of igbos all over every hamlet in Nigeria. So who do you think would lose should the country break up and everyone is asked to return to his village?

Just because you guys are terrible political strategists and lost politically, you want to cut the baby in half, not minding that the baby and even you might not survive the dismemberment. Take a cue from what is happening in Ukraine right now and what happened to all former Soviet Republic countries that split from Russia.

The problem with Nigeria is the same problem in each of our individual families - Greed, selfishness and inability to compromise. Until we learn to be selfless and patriotic, we can never have peace and development even if we divide the country into our individual clans.

kollinzgee:
Roughly 90% of Japan's land is unhabitable occupied by rugged volcanic mountains,the largest habitable stretch of land in Japan is the Kanto plains which is about 16000sqkm in landmass about 60 percent of Japan's population lives here , infact the entire Japanese industrustry is establish in the plain.

The southeast alone is about 30,000 square kilometers with lesser population and almost all of it are habitable,with little mountains and no natural disasters we must take igbo Nation to the next level for the next generation.

Udo.

IPOB Bureau of Statistics.

zendi:
And which Jankara Market Law tells you that legal adults can successfully claim to have been inspired by somebody to commit crime?
If you're running for office then you become liable for any law breaking by some of your supporters any day you hold a campaign rally, when you were not part of the planning or actioning of such act?
If you're caught robbing a bank you tell the judge that it was your wife's taunting for cash that made you do it? Or that Chief Okoye said in a speech that the money in the bank was national cake, so you were there to take your slice?

Law breakers are responsible for their law breaking and nobody was "inspired" by anybody to disrupt anything.

Imagine. And US went after Osama Bin Laden and subsequently the Taliban, even though Osama bin Laden was no where near the US on September 11 2001

mike404:
EVEN THE TRADITIONAL WORSHIPPERS ARE AGAINST SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE, SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL ME WHY A SINGLE FEMALE STUDENT SHOULD BE SEXUALLY ACTIVE WHEN WE ARE NOT IN THE WESTERN WORLD

BIBLE, QURAN AND AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION (ATR) FORBIDS SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE

What of people like me that forbids marrying non tested. My philosophy (belief) is sex before marriage? Is Nigeria not a free country again? Are we in a sharia/canon Republic where individual rights are not recognized?

mike404:
WHAT IS SHE DOING WITH CONTRACEPTIVE IF I MAY ASK

And how is that your business?

zendi:
Woketopia is the only dystopia in which a harmless sitting president, with neither military backing nor even a feather as weapon, is accused of making coup against an electoral candidate.

Election contesting/disputing is not insurrection or coupmaking.

Inspiring your supporters to disrupt a constitutional election process of ratifying elections already ratified at district level, state level (both by executive and legislative) and national level is not contesting/disputing an election, it's an insurrection/coup. Contesting/disputing is done at the courts and not with jungle justice. Else we all close the courts and resort to jungle justice.

Ladyhippolyta88:
Pence does not deserve any credit, he came 13 months late after finding it difficult to stand up to the former guy, it took Dan Quayle to remind Pence that the VP had no such power to overturn an election. Pence is no saint if it were within his powers he would have done it.
I don't know why he took him this long to slightly rebuke his old boss who sent a mob to hang him.

I am wondering what if the insurrectionist had their way and hung Mike Pence as they were chanting on January 6th would Donald Trump still be a free man today holding rallies, would the republiQan party still be sucking up to the former guy and worshipping him while rebuking Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney,would they have the guts to call it a "legitimate political discourse" in a nutshell would they have had shame to rebuke Trump, Gaetz, Taylor Greene, Boebarts,the Cawthorn's and other crazy radicals in their party? I want to know because the current republiQan party is a disgrace

The insurrection planners were aware that Pence could not be hanged. With the number of secret service officers guarding Pence, there would have been a blood bath before pence was harmed. They just wanted to disrupt the proceedings.

sanpipita:
No no don't do this, this is exact narrative they are spreading to rebrand Pence, he has no powers to overturn elections if he decided to move mad it wouldn't stand, he will infact end up etching his name in infamy for life, Trump probably thought Pence was stupid enough to act like he wanted.

He was not asked to overturn the elections. He was only required to acknowledge the fake alternate electors and refer the matter back to the states, with the excuse that the states presented 2 sets of electors. All Trump wanted was for Pence not to ratify the elections on January 6th. If pence did not ratify the election that day, then the US would have been in a constitutional crisis. Trump just wanted to create chaos to prevent Biden from being ratified.

gambojimeta:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7r9JNOWiI

I don't think people are giving enough credit to Pence for saving US democracy.
Trump and his fellow coup plotters were banking on Pence to refuse to certify the elections, and the mob taking over the Capitol building causing chaos and probably killing a few lawmakers particularly Pelosi. Then in the ensuing Chaos, Biden could not be sworn on January 20th. And with Pelosi out of the way Trump continuation as president would have been a fait accompli.

AntonVince:
Did he sponsor Sanwoolu or the CSO in school?
Appointing cronies into positions and and using them to fleece hapless tax-payers of their hard-earned money is what all Godfathers do.
The Sarakis and Iboris of this world have also produced governors, ministers, senators, etc, all pandering to them as they loot public coffers.
There's nothing glorious about it, ogbeni. It's evil.

Abi o. I get annoyed when Tinubu supporters claim Tinubu is a builder of leaders or is it men. Abeg how many men or leader has Tinubu build? How many people has Tinubu impacted knowledge or philosophy? In fact what is Tinubu's philosophy - whether moral, political, economic or social?

Using wealth, influence and thuggery to install acolytes into political offices is not building men. If so Iboris then would be considered a men builder as much as Tinubu, the only difference was Ibori was unlucky Yaradua died at the height of his political power, and Jonathan went after him. You cannot get any political office in Delta State without the support of Ibori.

DeepSight:
Bear in mind though, that the military of today is not the same highly political military of those days.

You think the junior and Middle rank officers of the military today are happy with the current state of affairs in the country?
Believe the Military of today are as pissed of at the politicians today as they were in 1966 and 1983.

saintrow1:
Keep crying oooo, you will have more to write up when he becomes the president, oloshi

He can never become president and he knows it. The military will reject him like they rejected MKO Abiola if he rigged himself into power (MKO won fair and square though). Tinubu is too power hungry and greedy.

trutharena:
Caption this!

That security man at the back Tayo Ayinde who was the CSO to Tinubu when he was governor.

That same man is now the current Chief Of Staff to Sanwoolu.

Give it Asiwaju, he keep turning men into leaders!

Is Tinubu a monitoring spirit? Can't Governor SanwoOlu appoint his own chief of staff?

So who will Tayo Ayinde be receiving instructions from - Tinubu or Sanwoolu?

GreatAxeMan:
Jesus has an uncreated existence that is not of this earth, so that rule does not apply to Him!

Jesus DID NOT begin to exist 2000 years ago in Bethlehem. He merely went from the heavenly realm to an earthly, physical life as a human being in order to fulfill the scripture which prophesied about his advent.

So you mean Jesus did not know what he was talking about when he made that emphatic statement.

GreatAxeMan:
Bros I'm getting disappointed with you. This is not rocket science!

Why is the Messiah referred to as Mighty God and Eternal Father even in your own New World Translation of Isaiah 9: 6?

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Why did Jesus himself say in Matthew 23:9
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven"?

ifiokjohn:
Lol. One of the reason I don't believe in Muhammad is because he believes Christ is nothing but a prophet when everything in the Bible points to the contrary on way Christ is more than a prophet. He can say Christ is not GOD I'll believe but to say he is a prophet only is clear dillusion.
From many of the Bible verses that talks about Christ it is shown this man beginning has been from before time eternity. And you want me to believe a person like that is only but an ordinary prophet. I laugh

It's an issue of seeing what you want to see. The Christians see Jesus Christ in every verse of the Bible. The Jews does not even acknowledged Jesus in any verse of the Bible,while the Muslims see Jesus as a prophet in the Bible.

raumdeuter:
I don't agree. As long as its consensual and you are not directly reporting to the other person. There is no need to resign.
Just disclose so that you wont be in a position to appraise the other person and cause a conflict of interest
I see no reason why a person in Sales cannot have a consensual relation with someone in Engineering
People spend a significant part of their lives at work and thats where they make connections

To me it's wrong having a sexual relationship with a staff in the same office. If it's the same company but different offices, it's still acceptable. But in the same office space or even building is unethical. Sexual relationships brings along with it lots of emotional baggage and complications. There is no way it will not affect performance and the way other staff relate to the two lovers.

Reasons employers demand disclosure is so that one partner can be moved into another department or office to avoid distractions.

light099:
A large part of the world already looking upon events same time, for example football, through internet and other means.

Large part is a relative term.
Close to 1 billion of the world is without electricity from not to talk of phone or TV.


Even if everyone has phone and TV, still half of the world would be asleep at any particular time. Then it's virtually impossible for everyone to tune into the same event or program given difference in language, interests and time.
The whole most watched live event in history was princess Diana's burial watched by 2 billion people world wide. At that time, that's still less than 30% of the world population.

Ddokie:
Nice.

The Bible (about 2k years old) predicted that a day will come when the whole world can look upon a spot at the same time.

And for three and a half days, all peoples, tribes, languages, and nations will stare at their bodies (Rev 11:9).

Science is powerful, God is supreme.

The whole world can never look upon the at the same time.
Because the world is a sphere.

Ekealterego:
Blame Yoruba movies. From time immemorial, the English Nollywood movies never for once glorified the ritualist nor have they ever ever portrayed them in a negative light. NEVER! Rather they glorify the pastor or church and the ritualist ends up in a bad way with devastating consequences.
Where are you people getting all these your jargons from.
Hollywood humanize witches, vampires etc, which should even be give a worse outcome.

It is the Yoruba movies that glorify juju and ritual killing. People should start dealing with things specifically and stop blaming the wrong people.

Again, these ritual killings have been a part of you people for a long time.

Hollywood doesn't glamorise witches and vampires. They don't present them as means of obtaining riches. Most of the time they are used in the setting of an ancient or fantasy world, which you cannot relate with in today's world. It is usually a reminder of when Europe or America was in the dark ages where superstition ruled people's minds.

Nollywood presents witches as being still relevant and beneficial in today's world.

holuwajobar:
well I support your points.... But I feel ritual has always been happening even before Nollywood..... Nollywood is just trying to curb the situation by always having a bad ending for any ritualist in the movie....

But still, I agree with you

Bad endings dont discourage people as long as the glamour and enjoyments are shown to be attainable. Showing the horrors of aids victims don't discourage pornography watchers from having unprotected sex.

omoalaafin:
It is wrong for them to do that. You dare not try that with my kid. Some kids may already be vaccinated and would not need their vaccination. My 2 year daughter for instance has her a photocopy of her vaccination card in her schoolu. Schools need to be careful so these people don't put them in trouble. They should not bow to any intimidation. Parents must always be informed.

So you see, this is more a failure of governance rather than put the blame on the school or health workers. The vaccinations should be better managed by the federal or state government.