₦airaland Forum

Kaetoh:
stupidity kill and bury you there in osogbo . I aired my opinion so stay very far from it.

Illiteracy is when you refuse to go to school to learn to read, write and comprehend.

madness is when you have an opinion without a base in reality.

Kaetoh:
The normal apc way of doing things. Headless men heading the country. Hold Buhari responsible for this mess.. Back to daura 2019 is our slogan.

Hold Buhari responsible for what exactly? Was it Buhari that sold PHCN to the discos and gencos? This video is over 3 year old when Buhari was not even in power. So what concern Buhari with a disco buying generator over 3 years ago?

The stupidity of you guys is making Buhari attractive even when he is messing up.

dprpikin:
Bro, this issue of deforestation and desertification has been raging for decades ago, yet people still use wood on a daily basis. Some people living in the rural areas may not afford the luxury of cooking gas or kerosene stove, hence they'll continue to make use of the available alternative in firewood. Moreover, these people may not even have the knowledge of these concepts of deforestation and desertification. So, they can't care less.

Cooking gas should not be a luxury, it should be the cheapest source of energy as Nigeria has vast reserves of gas couple with the fact that we still flare most of the gas from oil wells. In the UK gas is the cheapest source of energy, gas is even used to heat water which is used to heat homes.

At some point in history all societies used fire wood as primary source of energy, but given the current population growth on the planet, that is not sustainable.
I was into the furniture business so I know that you cannot get good quality wood in the market anymore. I remember those days when you buy Benin or sapele mahogany you will see the beauty and lovely grains. Now, most wood you get are immature wood, because they are not allowed to mature before they are cut down.
Government need to do something about teak. Indians and Lebanese guys have virtually stripped our forest of teak with the volume of export they carry out.

dprpikin:
Innovation is not only bringing to being what has not, but also altering what has been in existence to yield a new desired positive results.

Due to the increasing cost of petroleum products, people will continue to use wood for cooking in the foreseeable future. In fact, as this saves heat, it will even reduce deforestation, because lesser quantity of firewood will be needed to cook a given volume of food.

Fa fa fa, foul. There is not enough wood for the foreseeable future. We are consuming far more wood than is being replaced. The effects of increasing scarcity of wood is being felt in the paper market, as paper products are increasing astronomically due to shortage of wood for paper.

The most devastating effect of deforestation is desertification as the Sahara desert is encroaching further south at an alarming rate.

ozoebuka1:
Nothing is totally useless my brother... But, when you weigh the good and the bad, you can then draw your conclusion. The only good thing you said about the cooker is "that it minimizes" heat loss. If this thing was invented in 90s, then it's a perfect invention but in 2018? It's outright rubbish... I'm not hating though

The contraption does not minimize heat loss, it increases it. See the surface area heated up by the firewood that is exposed to the air. In fact anyone standing close to this stove would feel the heat.

All other stoves try to make sure that the distance between the flame and the cooking pot is very very small to minimise heat loss.

Furthermore the contraption is too bulky. Imagine the amount of firewood you will need to put at the bottom to get enough flame at the top.

BestDude:
lol... U suppose code Na. Yes, is moi.

Long time? How is the change era affecting you? Hope you are doing good.

Are you still in the domain business?

thedragon:
I think Nigerian government powers should be decentralized with local governers making the best decisions for their own region since they know that region best. The government model should be based on American model.

Yorkshire brother it is not about British model, American model or even Chinese model, it about VALUE model. An average Nigerian is greedy, vain, lazy (and not just the youths, the adults including the political class are lazier) and unprincipled. We had tried the British model, it failed. We tried the American model, it has failed, which model shall we try next?
If you give local governors much power, then the governors will further misuse it. They already misuse the limited power at their disposal. We would just have the problem of misuse of power as presently experienced at the hands of the FG times 36. Then when you also give more powers to local government, you will need to times the problem by 774.

The problems caused by decentralisation was made the first Republic break down and plunged us into a 30 months civil war. If the region's are very powerful, what stops them seceding from the central government?

BestDude:
boss boss. How have you been. It's your boy oo. The domain.

Have been hustling. It's not easy surviving in Nigeria, but aluta continua. Are you 2sexy cause I am not familiar with this moniker.

ozoebuka1:
I'm igbo but this is bullshit... Stains the pot, releases carbon monoxide to the environment, deplets ozone layer and causes deforestation... Economically, medically and aesthetically this cooker is bad!

It is worse than bullshit. If this is placed in an enclosed environment like a kitchen, the whole room will be an oven because the bulky metal would just be dissipating heat, as most of the heat will be dissipated than concentrated for cooking.

The amount of wood used for cooking will be much higher than a regular coal pot or fire wood stove.

Fire wood is more expensive that gas, so unless the user plans to enter the forest and cut firewood themselves, it is not economical to run.

SalamRushdie:
Unlike you I know why exactly the country is in this state and I will tell you for free....Nigeria is in this state because in 1983 a self serving indisciplined military officer named Buhari led Putchist to needlessly over throw a legitimately elected democratic govt and started implement bizarre policies that would forever change Nigeria and Nigerians negatively

You must have some personal grudge to grind with Buhari. Maybe he killed a family member or a lover.
Buhari did not lead my putch, the couple was lead by IBB, Idiagbon, Abacha and Bako. He was invited to lead the government by those who executed the coup.

Here is the opening paragraph of the acceptance speech of Buhari.

In pursuance of the primary objective of saving our great nation from total collapse, I, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari of the Nigerian army have, after due consultation amongst the services of the armed forces, been formally invested with the authority of the Head of the Federal Military Government and the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is with humility and a deep sense of responsibility that I accept this challenge and call to national duty.
https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.naija.ng/amp/348472-buharis-speech-after-1983-coup.html

You can clearly see from his acceptance speech that we was invited to lead the government.

Now how come your anger is directed principally at Buhari instead of the other top officers who planned and executed the coup.

Tell me which bizarre policies Buhari implemented in just over 18months as head of state that could not be unimplemented in over 35 years. Even countries that is devastated by war are known to recover after 20 years.

OfficialAPCNig:
Don't drag me into your madness again.

Do they know more than the Father of Economics Adam Smith?

Are they more sensible than Maynard Keynes?

MAN are protesting for their selfish interest. They don't want competitions.

You people are so myopic. Shallow economists.

I supported the government rejection of the EPA, but not this. AU just created a trading bloc that should have been led by Nigeria but Dullards in high places missed that opportunity.

The AU common market is capable of over 765 Trillion worth of annual trade.

It has the top 10 performing African countries in Consumer Class growth.

I guess you don't even know what that means.

Shallow Economist.

According to you president Donald Trump must be the most myopic person in the world, because he pulled out of the trans - pacific partnership and is willing to pull out of NAFDA and even WTO.
So what will Nigeria trade with the rest of Africa? Africa does not buy Nigeria's oil and over 98% of our foreign trade is crude oil.

CSTR1005:
I believe buhari is the worst leader in the world, but a free trade agreement is not a good deal for us.

We don't have power, or infrastructure as a selling point.

Our greatest strength is our market size, and we can't allow Chinese companies in Ethiopia, and European firms in North Africa to flood our country with cheap goods.

Nigeria should do the gritty hard work of development on its own.

It is just a shame the president is not smart enough.

Buhari is the worst president in the world but he was able to ride us out of the global recession. Many countries are still struggling to get out of recession.

Jonathan was the best president in the world but he was unable do the gritty hard work of development by giving us power and infrastructure as selling point.

Entering a free trade agreement with the rest of Africa will be highly detrimental to our economy as we have nothing to trade with the rest of Africa. Nigeria will just be a dumping ground for foreign countries using other African countries as a base. Besides, Nigeria already has a free trade agreement with ECOWAS. It is this free trade agreement with ECOWAS that is making Morocco desperate to join ECOWAS.

Paentera:
Manslaughter possibly.

So the owners of any vehicle that people died as a result of accident should be charged with manslaughter. So should this also be applied to other vehicles as well, for example okada, commercial buses and even airplanes?

Siga:
...a truck that is not road worthy...haba...its the owner's duty to ensure the truck is in good condition...

And how do you know the truck did not have a certificate of road worthiness from the federal road safety corps? There are thousands of jalopy cars and trucks on lagos roads with certificate of road worthiness.
Besides you can only charge the vehicles owner for failing to get certificate of road worthiness if indeed he failed to obtain one, and not for manslaughter because he was not the one driving the truck.

Daviddson:
Africans always displaying inferiority complex. Why should there be a traffic congestion and lock down and curfew because a French president is visiting? Would they do the same if it was a Ghanaian president? Would France do same for our president if he visited them? Would they even do it for an American president? No; because the developed countries have a culture not to worship their leaders.

Former president Obama visited London several years ago and while he was there, the city of London said his driver broke a traffic rule and would have to pay $1 million fine. When are we going to start copying these good qualities?

Lies. No police in the world can arrest a car being used to convey the sitting president of another country, because it will have diplomatic plate number.

Then there is no where in the world traffic violation fine is $1million.

I hope you are not IPOB youth, because you are sounding like one. Do you know the implications if anything should happen to macron while in Nigeria? It is still IPOB youth that will accuse Buhari of incompetence if macron is assassinated or harmed.

wagazala:
So SARS are kidnappers now? And kidnappers give you bank accounts to transfer funds into? Traceable accounts?

May I ask, have you given SARS 1m Naira before? Perhaps when they kidnapped you?

So what do you call it when some people stop you at gun point, shepherds you into their bus and demands you pay a certain amount in cash or into their account otherwise you will either be locked up ( on thumped up charges) or be killed (also on thumped up charges)

How do you know the account is traceable? Besides, kidnappers have been receiving ransom money with "traceable " accounts and they had never been caught through those account.

cruchenutii:
Yea very true bro, something is up that their not saying.
Even If I'm a Drug Lord with Billions of Naira. I wouldn't still give a SARS official my penny. Its not about the money really, they have nothing on me, so why give them 920k ?

Then obviously you have never encountered SARS operatives on an extortion mission. Just pray you never do.

wagazala:
Pay 920k? Innocent people don't pay 920k. The story no complete.

Then all the people that paid Evans millions of dollars ransom money must be guilty.

You will know you are not innocent when you are kidnapped and threatened by SARS and asked to pay ransom.

“You have written to the federal government through me that the increase in excise duty on alcohol and beverages will create job losses.

Can someone explain the logic of the above statement to me. It seems what I was taught in ecn101 is wrong. I was taught an increase in export tariffs will lead to increase in the price of imported good, thereby making local products cheaper and subsequently boost local production and job increases. Here we are hearing the exact opposite.

Should a ban or increase in duties of imported alcoholic drinks not lead to an increase in local production? Should the job losses not be affecting the countries where these alcoholic beverages are produced instead of our own? Are they telling us that Nigerians cannot produce alcoholic beverages like beer, wine, whisky, kain-kain, sapele water, etc?

FortifiedCity:
Nawa oo

God has always kept and protected me and my family. We are supernaturally excused from sudden and calculated disasters. Glory be to his name forever Amen!!

If he's good to you and your family too, identify by punching the like button

You mean to tell us that you know God better than all those that died. Have you not heard of pastors or even G.O 's dieing in horrible accidents.

Just commensurate with the families of those that lost their lives instead of using this painful episode to massage your ego.

Bhol28:
Good that you know but we need action,order them to stop issuing those crazy bills with immediate effect and if they don't comply,sanction them.

Ordering them is not the problem, enforcing the real koko. How many times have government or NERC given orders and the disco simply ignore the order. Do you know that the discos was given order not to disconnect any customer without due process, but still the disco official carry ladder up and down at the middle of every month disconnecting people without notice.

The government must be willing to enforce their orders or laws before the discos will sit up.

FluidQueen:
One Question:

Should People bear responsibility for internet fraud as a result of being on the internet?

Should you bear responsibility for Armed robbery for having so much Assets that are liable to be stolen?


Rapist rape babies. Women on Hijabs. That shoukd tell you the problem is never with the victims. But men. The Real criminals.

Why criminalize only men? Are you going to tell me that you have never heard of women raping men or children?

9gerian:
I commend this house committee on a good job so far. This shows we do have some intelligent minds in authority.

NERC?! They are complicit and a big joke.

How much is the fine of N134.1m compared to billions in fraudulent bills passed on customers for little to no supply of electricity.

Do the math.

If a disco receives a monthly electricity power of 1 billion, and rejects the rest citing mundane reasons of lack of capacity, but goes ahead to use half of that for black market supplies paid for by some industrial areas for an undocumented premium, which the industrial areas are too happy to pay to cut their diesel expense so that they at least make some profit.

The remaining half is rationed amongst the regular domestic customers say at an average of 2-3 hours cumulative supply per day interchangeably (15 mins here, 5 mins there, 45 mins here etc). Then this same customers get billed for using from 500 to 5,000% of their maximum consumption of uninterrupted power supply.

The resultant effect is that such a disco is able to issue a bill worth 5 billion Naira for the 1 billion Naira supply it received. Yeah! People will complain and approach the discos for rectification but they have a system in place to wear out the complainants and force them to pay something. Last last, they would have generated at least 2.5 billion in actual received cash revenue, and still have the helpless customers owing them for later payments. Cool

So if you are this sharp businessman and the system allows you to do this to its people, will you issue prepaid meters?! Your guess is as good as mine.

If I tell you my story with Ikeja Disco, then you would understand how far I had to research before I was able to understand their racket. Big fraud!!!

I really appreciate your analysis and I suspects that is why the Discos are vehemently opposed to pre paid meters and are ready to die for estimated billing system, but the question is IS IT LEGAL?

Is it legal to bill transformers and then spreading the cost among everybody connected to that transformer? This is the explanation I get from Ikeja Distribution for justifying the estimated billing. It is like MTN billing a particular mast and spreading the cost on everyone making calls from that mast.

I suggest electricity consumers should come together and challenge the legality of estimated billing. Since the executive and legislative are complicit in the scam called estimated billing, we should try and get reprieve from the judiciary.

It seems discos are in business solely because of estimated billing.

Henkor:
Maybe you live in some imaginary utopia where evil and it's proclivities have been eradicated. But I live in a world were there are people who can't control their urges, whether it's the urge to steal, kill, or rape. And these people are always going to remain. There is nothing anyone can do about it. Evil and good are natural qualities that are endemic to human existence. So your goal - everyone's goal - should be to prevent themselves from being open to high risk situations and reduce the possibility of being perceived as a prey by predatory humans.

Why do you take precautions to lock your doors at night? Why don't you leave your doors and windows open at night and sleep comfortably without any fears since "we are all humans and we can control our urges" and since according to you "the dysfunctional ones of our society can't control the things you do?"

Maybe you live in a world described by Thomas Hobbes. Even animals do control their urges.

Locks and doors do not stop a thief or theives from invading your home to steal, it only slows down a determined thief, so you can take evasive or reactive action. Have you not heard of gang of theives invading a whole street and breaking down every door on the street? It is fear of being caught and punished that is the greatest deterrent to robbery.

The blame for breaking and stealing inside a home lies squarely with the theif and not the owner because he did not lock his door.

So what will you attribute the almost zero rape before the coming of the white man and their fashion, when women especially young girls go around topless.

Furthermore, there are still so many African societies where young girls less than 16 walk around topless, you hardly hear of rape in such societies.

When is Ikeja Distribution Company's license due for renewal? I am ready to lead a protest against the renewal of their license, they are worst than armed robbers. The vehemently refuse to deploy pre-paid meters only to be extorting and blackmailing customers without providing power. In fact the old NEPA is far better than them.

Proudgorgeousga:
bla bla bla wife is human too and not perfect. she gets sick, she gets tired, she goes to work, she does chores and she takes care of herself too and your judgmental ass. This can happen to anybody. kids drown, drink kerosene, eat paracetamol shìt happens

The greatest problem lots of Nigerians have is inability to take responsibility for their failures. It annoys me when people makes all kinds of excuses and justifications for obvious failures.

We are talking about a 1 year kid for God's sake. Most igbo women still breastfeed their children beyond 1 year. It is the height of carelessness or should I say negligence to leave a 1 year old child so long that it will walk and fall into a swimming pool and the mother ( or the father if he was around) did not notice.

Now raising kids is not a tea party. It is a very challenging exercise and I think lots of people (especially the ones making excuses for negligence)do not deserve to raise kids.
I do not claim to be perfect but I(and my wife) have not slept a wink from last night because of my 4 year old girl. My daughter was vomiting all night because of the expired cheese ball my mother in law bought the children. Before my wife could check the expiry date, she had already consumed half the cheese ball. Luckily the other two children had not eaten it yet, so we threw the rest in the dust bin. As I was saying, she vomited all night, so we had to stay awake to monitor her. First thing this morning I prepared ORT and called a doctor friend. He suggested that we should watch her and take her to the hospital if it gets worse. Luckily she stopped vomiting and stooling. I did not leave for my office until 10. Up till now I have not slept.

As I have said I have raised three children, and only my very first child fell off the bed when he was 6 months because we left him unattended.

Seahawk:
You sound so fvcking annoying

Will she ever poop? Or shower? Or even cook?

So she should carry the child when she’s cooking (even at the risk of burning the child)
Or hold the child whenever she’s pooping so that he will inhale or all the smell and she can even wipe her bottom because she’s holding the child.
She will shower with him also? Do you think with your brain at all?

Before a mom asks someone to watch her child, she must have gone to do something she couldn’t do while holding him. You sound so high and mighty like you have a clue the amount of energy it takes to be a mom. Have a toddler follow you around for one day and if you’re still sane at the end of the day I’ll reward you. How much more everyday 24/7.

People like you get on my laaaast nerve!!!

That you’re alive today and your kids (if you truly have any) are alive is not because your mom and your wife were perfect moms. You just survived despite the risks that came your way. Anything can happen to anyone.

I will not stoop to your level and start trading insults with you. When you are matured enough to start having kids, then you can come to social media and start spewing insults.

I have 3 kids and I understand what raising children and a family entails.

MarieSucre:
Instead of having maids and nanny both parents have to be on board 100%. Who better to keep an eye out for a child than a father or mother. Thank God Dbanj's career is not one where he has to go to office in the morning and come back in the evening. So he can make time to watch the child 24/7 along with the mum.

So you think because dbanj does not go to the office everyday, he is not busy working everyday? OK, if you expect dbanj to bring in the bread and also look after the children, what will the wife be doing? I suspect dbanj pays for cook, house cleaner and gardener, so what should be the responsibility of the wife/mother in the family?

edicied:
When the Child was drowning what was the other Children doing? Non of them thought to run to quickly alert the mother?

It is not the responsibility of children to look after other children, it is the responsibility of the parents to look after children, especially the very young ones.

MarieSucre:
It takes 2 to parent.

Yes it takes 2 to parent, BUT, each parent is saddled with different responsibilities. A father's main responsibility is to provide physical, material and emotional protection to the family, while a mother is meant to provide care and organization to the family. That is why children less than 5 is almost always put in custody of the mother in situations of separation. There is no way you can put the care of a 1 year old child in the custody of the Father.

I have children and I would not take kindly to my wife leaving my 1 year old child unattended even for 5 minutes.

Toyade888:
so the mother should glue the child to herself

If a mother cannot glue her 1 year old child to herself, then she has no business giving birth to a child.