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bemeruca:
The ruling monarch can be stripped, abolished or replaced. King seized being king and his family becomes ordinary citizens. The you will go from he is a prince to he was a prince. Whether he was born a prince will not matter anymore.

Who has the power to do that? In the UK, the parliament can make a constitutional change, a public referendum can change that too. So this your he was born a prince therefore he is a prince forever is highly too simplistic.

We are not talking of a hypothetical case. In a hypothetical scenario, anything can happen. A nuclear bomb can be dropped and wipe out England or UK tomorrow. We are discussing reality on the ground right now.

bemeruca:
Her testimony was irrelevant to the case. They are just trying to make trump look bad. The defence brought this and the partisan judge still brought her in. Her testimony or cross examination was a disaster to the prosecution but we are in New York.

At the end of the day trump will appeal. This is just to keep him from campaigning.

Trying to make Trump look bad?
Trump does not look bad, he prides himself in being bad. He "grabs em by the pusay", he is liable for raping Eugene Carrol, he is being accused of by 2 dozen women of rape/sexual molestation , he bleeped a IndecentStar raw just a few weeks after his wife gave birth, he had a one year affair with Karen Mcdougal, a playboy model, less than one year after getting married to Melania.

sonofsteven:
I no even understand

Why you go just enter naija to come dey visit soldiers and shake hands,take pictures and go

Because he is the organizer of the Invictus Games, a kind of Olympics for injured soldiers around the world. The games have become very popular in the 10 years since Prince Harry has been organising the games. He is considering hosting the next edition in Nigeria.

bemeruca:
What's the point of a prince that cannot represent his kingdom? He does not have any official capacity. That's the important thing here.

Which is why Nigeria is wasting its time with a fake prince. He is a prince, but a prince of nothing. Not a prince of England, Sussex or the United States.

He is first an foremost a prince by virtue of being a son of the ruling monarch of England. Secondly, he is the Duke of Sussex a title conferred upon him by Queen Elizabeth II. He had not be stripped of that title.
I was just reading on Quora that even the King does not have the powers to strip him off that title.

So even if he choose not to be a working royal, he is still treated as a Prince and the Duke of Sussex anywhere he travels to in the world.

bemeruca:
This is a simple Google search

Same thing I was saying, Titles can be stripped, but with or without a title, the son of the king/queen is a prince.

bemeruca:
He was born a prince, so he can be a king? He wasn't born a king right? Don't you think prince is a title and titles can be stripped? This is why I am asking for your common sense.

Yes, technically he can still be king. He is fifth in line to the throne. If anything should happen to king Charles, Prince William and his three children, he becomes automatically next in line unless of course he chooses to abdicate the throne then his sone Prince Archie becomes next in line.

Yes his title of Prince of Sussex can be stripped, but his title of Prince cannot be stripped. He was called Prince Harry the day he was born even before he was given prince of Sussex by Queen Elizabeth.

Ubanz:
There are certain comments you don't need to respond. There's lot of mental health problems in the land.
If not for poor mental health, how can anyone be exited on his ancestors slave master's visit.

As Prince Harry said, we all have our own mental health issues, it's just that some choose to display it here and on social media.

It's not about poor mental health, it's more about colonial mentality. We have been completely subsumed by our colonial master in terms of culture, language, religion and way of life. So you can blame us for admiring them.

bemeruca:
Yes, just as he became a prince n can be a king, he can be a normal citizen as titles can be stripped. Do you not have common sense?

Display some maturity and quit spewing insults on mundane issues.
He did not become a prince, he was born a prince. He had been called a prince since the day he was born. He could be conferred with any other title the king chooses, but that cannot strip him of his princeship.

DonroxyII:
That's why he left the Brits Royal .. He Couldn't handled the Politics Therein

Our Politicians dey try same as most leaders .. You have to make Decisions that can even be against Your own Tolerance for Wickedness & Decisions That would compromise Your Humanities

But You still have to be There & Hold Yourself together or Fvcked Up Then Get yourself Killed While Your Heritage Might Never Accessed Powers Again Due to Immaturities & Holiest Than You Attitudes....

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It's gonna be Owkay, but No be By Rush !

He never left the British royals, he is a British royal by birth and not by appointment. He only stepped back from royal duties. He can decide to start royal duties in future. He is still a British royal as his father is the king.

ceejay80s:
Fhe is no longer a prince so why these eye service headlines.....

What do you meanby "he is no longer a prince"? Can a real Prince be "de-princed".

Christlike01:
Chinedu,you should be concerned about what's going on in Ebonyi! What's it with you guys from that tiny enclave and Lagos actually ? This senseless obsession with Lagos often makes all of you Igbo look so stupid!

Says someone that left his village in Ogun state or Ekiti and started claiming Lagos.
For your info, I am not Igbo. I am from delta state bit closely related to Yoruba.

You guys from Ekiti villages are so obsessed with igbo.

Lanrelagboi:
See pictures of the fake news

Lanrelagboi:
Actual pictures of Eric Moore Junior High School, Surulere

From the pictures you posted, the job looks scanty and substandard. Why not show details pictures of the classrooms including furniture. From the pictures posted, it seems the whole school is a block consisting of 2 or 3 classroom blocks. Is this all the Lagos State Government can show for its N20 billion monthly IGR?

ElevationD:
LP finally is obviously the opposition party, with Obi as the opposition leader.

That's how democracy is supposed to work, you have the government and you have the opposition party that scrutinises and criticises government policies. Without an opposition party, its no longer democracy.
Wike's PDP has become a faction of APC, so only Peter Obi's Labour Party can provide any meaningful opposition.

I have been searching online for this so called CYBERCRIMES (PROHIBITION, PREVENTION, ETC) ACT that permits Ribabu to order CBN and the banks to start collecting cybersecurity levy. I was only able to find the 2015 act, but the circular from CBN made reference to the CYBERCRIMES (PROHIBITION, PREVENTION, ETC) ACT, 2024. I was not aware that a new cybercrime act was passed by the national assembly and assented by the president this year. When was the act passed?

Here is the link to the 2015 act - https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.nfiu.gov.ng/images/Downloads/downloads/cybercrime.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi589_-4f2FAxVIQ0EAHU-WDgwQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3YfiHSl8fhfMM1iMjwPwn9
In it I found nothing in reference to a cybersecurity levy, not to talk of it being paid to the office of the national security adviser.

I am pleading with Tinubu's media people here to furnish us with the updated act so we can confirm things for ourselves. Nigeria is still a democracy and not a dictatorship, everything action of government must be backed by law.

WantsandMore:
Just because government creates policy doesn't mean they can always assume alpha and omega and drown every policies down our throat. Democracy allows for feedback mechanism. The government and the citizens aren't both static.

This is what you get when the people have been beaten to submission. The people have become so week and docile that the governments both federal and state can get away with anything. The government don't even need laws to govern anymore, they can just be spewing directives like decrees. The tolerance level of the Nigerian is truly infinitely elastic.

Why is Tinubu taxing only digital transactions, he should go the whole hog and tax all transactions- both digital and physical, or is Ribabu telling us physical movement of cash is more secure than digital ones? Physical cash too needs to be secure to avoid theft from bank officials and armed robbers.
We should be paying physical security levy also to the banks to enable them secure the movement of cash between the banks and between the banks and CBN.

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ijebosb:
I mean who amongst us hasn't been thinking of their daughter while banging a prostitute raw? He's just an everyday regular guy.. lol (that was sarcasm)

It's wild. Trump is lucky that this wasn't televised.
And he was signing the hush money checks from the White House.
This is the Christian Rights standard bearer.

With republican values.

budaatum:
I must wonder if Mechan has the balls. He so doesn't want to have to be made to jail dump but he's not being given much choice.

That's exactly what Trump wants. He is trying to push the judge to jail him, so he can continue his narrative of persecution and claim political prisoner. He will also claim street credibility among blacks and further claim to be comparable to Martin Luther King.

RenaissanceGuy:
When will Nigeria organize a Nigeria-North America Business Summit?? Africa should arise from these ashes of chasing after foreign investment and learn to build our country ourselves.

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.

bemeruca:
Biden was leading in the polls. Trump was constantly talking about the silent majority, the left in Fear of Trump winning wanted to burn down the United States. Prominent democrats like Hillary wants war if Trump wins by saying Biden should not even concede. The fact that you people see things only one way is sad.

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.

sanpipita:
It's a common strategy to boost enthusiasm of their voters and make them think they have the numbers, American media are also in complicit they do this always maybe to help create buzz, i remember how they predicted doom for democrats in mid terms, democrats should just ensure they hold the line and go out and vote.h

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.

bemeruca:
You are lying. 2015 Hillary was ahead in the polls and she lost, 2020 Biden was ahead in the polls and he won. Why do you lies so much?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exkF-wIs8U8

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.

Obrigardo:
There's this porn addict cum hard drug user who always quotes me when criminal trump gets a bump in these "artificial" polls.

I really don't know why deranged maga cultists think polls will be their savior, when these same polls have never saved them since 2018 till date, amirite basilico loco?

Polls flunctuate like gas prices every now and then, what matters is massive voting which the republiqans are trying every bit to stifle.

This is the same MAGA strategy they employed in 2015 2020. The use dubious and bias polls to overwhelmingly put Trump ahead in the polls, and at the same time plant doubts on the sanity, health and ability of Biden for the office of the president. By election day, they would say Trump is so popular and Biden so unpopular that the only way Trump can lose is by Biden cheating. Of course MAGA would swallow this hook, line and sinker. If Biden does win, Trump would then scream rigging and election irregularities, and urge his MAGA cult movement to violence in order to take back the country.
They are just laying the ground work for another attempted coup.

gidgiddy:
So with all you have written, it is now crystal clear that Ironsi did not abolish the 4 Region's Nigeria had, nor deny them resource control. It is now left for you people to go and find out at what point resource control disappeared after the 4 Region's also disappeared

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 -

Subject to the provisions of this Decree, Nigeria shall on 24th May 1966 (in this decree referred to as ‘the appointed day’) cease to be a Federation and shall accordingly as from that day be a Republic, by the name of the Republic of Nigeria, consisting of the whole of the territory which immediately before that day was comprised in the Federation.

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.

KayyDee:
My brother, I really applaud your kinda indepth analysis of how the road can help boost development, economic activities, tourism, etc along the SW corridor.

It shows you are sound.

However, the bone of contention was never about whether the coastal road will be beneficial or not.

Even Obi himself first acknowledged that it's a good idea. But one whose time is not now.

But the issues here are:

1) TIMING.

You know as they say, timing is everything.

Because a car is definitely good for any family, does not mean you must buy a car, and possibly neglect training of your children in good schools, which is much more important in order of scale of preference.

Or borrow beyond your means just to own that car.

Also, because marriage is good, does not mean that a 19 year old boy will now rush into it.

This will make the big struggle and struggle to keep meeting his new responsibilities which increase every year as children are born, and as the grow.

Whereas, he could have sent his younger years ideally preparing for a better future, before taking on marriage.


There's always best time for anything.

Either for financial reasons, or maturity reasons or preparedness.

2) COST.
The cost is obviously too much.
In your heart of hearts, you know this.

It's because our politicians know that Nigerians are too dull, that's why you dare tell us that a 10-lane 47 KM road will cost around 1.1 trillion naira.

3) COMPLETION TIME

The FG has said that this 47km will take them 3 years to complete.

This means that, that small "phase one" will be completed around the twilight of BATs administration in 2027, all things being equal.

Now, assuming they keep to that timing, it means that the administration will most likely not construct beyond ONDO state side, even if they get a second term in office.

Now, when they leave office, say in 2031 (assuming without conceding), then this road would have been just less than 100km done.

Therefore, at least 600km, representing roughly 86% will still remain.

Then (in all honesty) tell me how they will have achieved their aim of this connecting Calabar, or even truly opening up that corridor.

It would just be a kinda "South West" coastal road at best....
connecting just some Ondo and Ogun people to Lagos.

Then the Niger-Delta people who some are already claiming that Obi and his people do not want them to benefit from this project, will ultimately not benefit, at least in any near or medium term.

Again, the total cost of this road is put at around16 trillion Naira.

At that cost, even if Nigeria budgets "ONE trillion naira" annually on that road (which you and I know is not gonna happen), it will take at least 16 years to complete that road.

But in reality, mark my words, the way Nigeria works, plus based on our current wealth level and budgeting patterns, it will take minimum of 20 years to do that road (that's minimum, bcus it could easily go near 30 years)

Again, tell me whether Nigeria currently has the patience to wait 20+ to begin to enjoy the benefits of such humongous investments)

Don't forget, the money for the road is being borrowed, I believe.

So, would you say it will be good to borrow 16 trillion, and spend upwards of 20 years on this road, when we need the money in electricity generation and transmission projects, which will in turn immediately improve our fortunes?

Or, in Agriculture, and even further investments In our oil and gas fields, and pipelines?


4) OPPORTUNITY COSTS

A road that will not immediately contribute much to Nigeria's financial well being at least till in the next 3 years, should it then all to create massive job losses and business losses?

That's why the landmark story is important.

Yes, his main buildings were not touched, but that business thrives chiefly bcus of the beach front. Now, that's gone.

It's also part of an ecosystem involving several other businesses, who most had their own structures pulled down.

Even if you truly compensate them well. They may not successfully create another big businesses in the short term to help replace the thousands of job being lost right now.

For me, I don't think it's because landmark owner is an Igbo man though.

But I believe there's a bigger plan. I won't want to dabble into it now.

FINALLY,
I thing that BAT and his close people know this truth.

It's their minions who don't know the game being played.

It will seem that BAT wants to do the Lagos part unfailingly.

This is because it has enormous benefit to lagos' new industrial zone, Ibeju Lekki.

It will make it easier to access, the new sea port, proposed new airport, Dangote refinery, a whole lot of new real estate developments along that Ibeju axis.

So, for BAT, it's most likely a deft political and economic win to his personal interest, and to some extent that if Lagos state

Lagos government has at some point planned to do the road by themselves, but I think the cost has been putting them off.

Now, it's an opportunity to use federal might to do the road.

Please, save these words, and refer to them in the future.

Also, there's the talk of being a biz partner to the owner of that company handling the project.

I won't say more on that here right now.

Ordinarily, if we use the money budgeted for this road to quickly mfix/complete many of the abandoned road projects in Nigeria, I tell you this, it will impact much more on our economy in the next 2 to 3 years than the coastal road.

Remember, we can even easily do more than 120km during BAT tenure, wmeven if he had 8 years to rule.

In top of that, investments don't immediately rush in, it comes little by little.

So, any big talk of this bringing in any significant investments (in near future), is just talk by politicians to sway public views and acceptance to their own side.

So, this project is more of politics of interests rather than the 'beautiful' reasons they are telling you.

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.

DeLaRue:
Why can’t the government simply ban cryptocurrencies in Nigeria.

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?

Make it illegal and a strict liability offence for banks and other financial institutions.

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.

Any bank found hosting any customer account dealing in crypto currency is liable to prosecution leading to a big fine upon conviction. As a strict liability offence, it would be irrelevant whether or not the bank was aware an account was being used for crypto.

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?

The crypto thing is mostly delusional hot air.

$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.

To the poster who says he receives crypto for services he renders. Fair enough, but you are unfortunately in the minority. Most crypto activities are about trading and moving stolen public funds out of the country. These are the people being targeted by the CBN.

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?

The government has a legitimate right to protect the interest of the country whether or not some agree.

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.

MRMRMR:
And u don't think that investing in roads, airports, seaports, rails, power etc is the same as investing in production?
Or do u want the govt to share the money to the poor and fellow politicians because we are in an economic mess.

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.

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.

nairalanda1:
It's because we don't want to pay market price for electricity

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?

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

TOPMAN4LIFE:
It's not southerners that are against the road but precisely Igbo people because the road doesn't pass through their land.
They are always against good development since it's not Obi or that labour party government of Abia State that is doing it.
They like to condemn leaders from other tribes and try to praise and promote their own.
Peter Obi that didn't even have a landmark project to show in Anambra for 8 years is the one they are making noise about

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.

Sheuns:
He said, “We talked about our economy, that it needs foreign investments. These roads are going to be constructed with concrete pavements, and it’s CPC+F, which means that there is foreign investment that will come in, and this foreign investment will strengthen and stabilize the naira.“

People that can explain this statement better should enlighten us. I tried to google what CPC+F means and it’s engineering related.

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?