₦airaland Forum

JamParkMe:
Traveling overases with just a tourist visa is like voluntarily hopping into a slave ship during the times of slavery. If you were a young and single guy, I can understand the risk vs reward but as a married guy with children, I don't think it's very wise.

You will basically have to start afresh, working menial jobs for less than minimum wage because anyone hiring an illegal immigrant will exploit them as they have no legs to stand on and are desperate for work. Your best hope of eventually getting papers would be to do a fake marriage with a citizen but that comes with very high costs, abuse from the citizen and risk of the immigration services denying such marriage after all the money and years spent.

How about your wife and kids? How is your wife supposed to get intimacy when you are gone for years? Don't you realize, intimacy like food and shelter is a basic human need? You will likely be cheating on your wife but woe betide your wife if she sleeps around. How about your kids, who will be the father figure they need at such tender age? Most of these cultists and armed robbers you see today had no responsible fathers in their lives.

I will say you should sit down and think outside the box for ways to improve your business or for new business ideas. Don't let the pressure of japa syndrome make you make a move you will ultimately regret. I too have felt the urge to abandon it all and relocate overseas, but the risk vs reward doesn't make any sense and there are no guarantees in life.

This is basically all I have to say. Who will father your kids and husband your wife while you are away struggling to find your feet? You will miss the most important part of your kids life.

Japaing with a tourist visa is the worst decision you can make. After 6 months, you would be like a fugitive running from police and immigration. You might need to get married (either fake or real) to guarantee your continuous stay. And if you take the marriage route, you might have to spend more than 5 years before you can leave the country.


You are lucky, at least you have a business. Use the money and double your hassle to improve your business. It's not easy, as nothing is easy in today's world, but with determination you will succeed.

tesppidd:
Am I the one to ask that question?

Am I NLC or do I appear like a Bayelsan or a Kogite.?

God knows that if Bayelsa and Kogi governments are owing salaries and such strikes are to happen today today in those states I would support 1 million percent.

God knows.

Nigerians seem to lose their humanity on the alter of politics, religion or tribalism. Workers have not been paid for 6 months, I mean humans with children and families. NLC led by the national president held a protest to force the government to pay or at least dialogue. He was brutalised and almost killed. Today he has been flown abroad for life threatening treatment. Instead of sane humans to condemn the inhumanity of insensitivity of the governor, some heartless people are justifying the actions of the government and condemning the victim instead.

chidiokay:
These is not about justification,[b] Rather should be a Lesson [/b]that there is no Authority outside jurisdiction. Ajaero should have known the confines of his authority.
No governor in Nig. owes the NLC president recognition or dialogue

what is going on is macho contest, two elephant fighting and already the grasses are suffering. NLC is just being insensitive as govt they castigate

You have still not answered my question? Should the thugs that assaulted a whole NLC be prosecuted or commended by the government? Since as you said Ajaero did not know the confines of his authority, should the remedy be brutalisation or outright killing by government supporters?

What do you mean by "No governor in Nig. owes the NLC president recognition or dialogue"? Do any governor owe the Nigerian president recognition or dialogue then, since the state is supposedly an independent entity?

chidiokay:
Need i remind you that AJaero is President of NLC as the titles implies he is bound to oversee national matters broadly
AJaero Lost is protection/privileges the moment he cross is jurisdiction, Ajaero has no business leading a state rally.
Incase you don't know NLC in every state has a chairperson who is the appropriate authority to represent the interest of workers of that state. he alone the governor is compel to recognise
The thugs were fully aware Ajaero acted outside his jurisdiction that was the motivation, ask yourselves why was the NLC chairperson of Imo not brutalized.
Ajaero pass his boundary that is why they singled him out

In other words his brutalisation and almost lynching was justified.

plaindealer:
So, until arrests are made, Nigeria must grind to a stop, our economy must be destroyed, jobs must be lost and Nigerians must suffer?

The way you people think sef.

No wonder the SE is a sad mess.

Who told you I am from the SE? You guys tribalize everything.

What do you mean by "economy must be destroyed, jobs must be lost and Nigerians must suffer"? So it a labour strike that will nuke the Nigerian economy?

Strikes are an effective weapon in any democracy
in the world to force employers and governments to the negotiating table. Strikes happen in UK, France and indeed Europe like pure water, and the economies have not been nuked. Strikes have even happened in Nigeria too many times to remember, the economy has not been nuked.
Petrol at N600 has not nuked the economy
Dollar at N1200 has not nuked the economy
An external debt profile of over $14 billion has not nuked the economy.

It's strike by Labour that would completely destroyed the Nigerian economy.

chidiokay:
There is no correlation between what happen to Ajaero and democracy, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time.
IF Ajaero was assaulted carrying out is assigned statutory duty then that its an insult to Nigerians which in turn is a threat to democracy" BUT NO
Ajaero was assaulted outside NLC presd. jurisdiction, he was carrying out his own interest and the truth remains Ajaero had no business being there in the 1st place.

Ajaero is not bigger than the people, Nigerians suffer numerous assault under Buhari, Ajaero did not deem it fit to lock than Nigeria. Is office is to serve the people not personal use

That Ajaero/NLC have fail to see all clampdown and sanctions in IMO will only affect the people and not Uzodinma or the commissioner shows height of insensitivity

With all the rubbish you wrote, you agreed that the NLC president was assaulted, where he was carrying out his own interest or official NLC interests. You should be aware that assault is a crime under our laws. So who has been arrested and charged for the assault? Are you suggesting the assailants should be left to go free because they were acting in support of the state and federal government?
There is no other democracy where a whole labour president is assaulted and brutalised with no arrests and the government will survive.

IamAtikulate:
Tinubu is highly over-rated.

Even, fools know that temporary measures like injecting dollar into the market to clear backlog will cause dollar to fall in the short-term, encouraging people to buy the dip for hoarding. How our Yoruba people failed to understand this surprises me.

People with lots of money trading the naira are making a killing. Imagine buying the dip at N950 and selling at N1150 just a week layer, or waiting a few weeks when December rush starts and selling above N1200 - N1300.

It seems these guys sucks at national leadership.

Nigeria has lost national leadership since after the first republic. Now we have even lost regional leadership.

For a starter, the FG should allow Nigerians to make USD payments with their Naira cards and ban physical dollar bank withdrawals. This will help unify the exchange rate.

Disaster.
As long as nigeria and Nigerians are not earning dollars, but demand dollars to import goods and services from overseas, naira will jump ballistically to N2000.

MindOnMatters00:
I have said all this in previous posts and threads so I understand you.

Naira appreciating is just a speculation which majority of Nigerians don't want to believe.

All currency value, in fact the whole of modern day economics is based on speculation. Its speculation that makes people buy shares, commodities, crypto, gold and certainly currencies. Demand and supply curves is ruled by speculation.

The question we should be asking is why is the general concensus (speculation) of the naira always on the upwards trend? The answer lies in the demand and supply curve.

MindOnMatters00:
Not just allow it but increase the limits, still they wouldn't do it cos they are scared of their own likes.

The naira will go nowhere unless the BDC's are controlled instead of them controlling the price market.

All these suggestions are chasing shadows while leaving the substance. The real issue is demand for dollars to import most of our consumables instead of local production and exports.
The government has discouraged exports through various bottlenecks, corruption, lack of infrastructure and basically lack of interest in improving Nigeria's productive base. To exprot anything nowadays is a herculean task. The cost and bottle necks are outrageous.

The Naira will continue to fall until something gives. Either poverty will unite us and then lead to a major revolution or a major conflict will break the country into pieces.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
It is the same Government and banks that are carrying the scarce Forex to the BDCs thereby allowing same BDCs to control the narratives.

If na yo nko? Would you rather sell at official rate of 700 instead of black market rate of N1150? Shebi, the government is promoting free market, thereby allowing the naira find its market value?

gasparpisciotta:
Only but a few are smiling.

PBAT promised a credit driven economy. He should encourage Banks to give credit out of their humongous profits

Credit for what exactly? Credit for local manufacturing and agriculture or Credit for consuming imported products? How will the Credit be paid back, if not used for production and investments?

Heyzee5:
Pls is it still worthwhile to convert to LPG since LPG is now selling for #1,200/kg?

It is not, at N1200/kg of LPG you will be filling up a 12.5kg cylinder with N15,000.
I switched when it was N650/kg. Then it was worth it.

I have since switched to solar to run my business.

There have been total blackout for the past 2 days, my solar set up came to my rescue.
It is expected to break even in 18 months when compared to running on gas/petrol at current rate.

Maize247:
EFFC was very wrong to have forcefully entered students hostel to arrest students at random in the name of looking for yahoo Boys. There is no where in Nigeria expecially the student environment where you won't see 10 potential yahoo boys among 50 students picked at random. EFCC under this new boss should be careful

Exactly. You break into student's hostel without any arrest warrant, arrest 69 students at random, seize their phones and laptops forcefully, and then only able to arraign 11 for romance scam aka catfish. That's impinging on the fundamental rights of citizens to privacy.

abobote:
So EFCC is basically for yahoo students now.

After that fraudulent election, they couldn't see any politician to arrest, instead they are going after poor students

Imagine what EFCC has been reduced to!


claiming that you are an American Female in love with your victims in the United States of America with intent to gain advantage for yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22 (2) (b) (i) and punishable under Section 22 (2) (b) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention etc.) Act, 2015.”

fraudulently impersonated by representing yourself to be a white man by name Alex Stephens from United States of America to one Megan Johnson, through your Google Chat and your email address (alexsteps678@gmail.com) with intent to gain advantage for yourself


Even Nev Schulman hosting the MTV programme Catfish does far better job with far less resources.

EFCC should be scrapped. They have not been able to investigate, arrest and prosecute actual economic or financial crimes for decades.

benuejosh:
was there no interim injunction? Why must he disobey court orders?

If a person disobeys a court order, the right thing to do in a democracy is to go to the same court and obtain an arrest warrant, arrest the person and then bring him before the same court for punishment. The police has no legal right to assault him.

DeepSight:
Surely you exaggerate sir.

Believe me sir, I am not exaggerating. There is no human rights abuse thar was carries out under military dictatorship has not been done in this our so called democracy.
Is it political assassination that remained unresolved?
Is it locking up political prisoners indefinitely, sometimes more than a decade, without trial?
Is it threatening and closing down media houses?
Is it disobedience of court orders?
Is it brutally cracking down on peaceful protests?
This government even surpassed military regime by brutalising a whole president of NLC? Even Abacha never arrested NLC president, the worst he did was arresting Frank Kokori, former General Secretary of The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG.

benuejosh:
Oga, even when the NLC state chapter said they don't have a problem with the state? So what took him to protest? He was playing politics using the union.

That's not enough reason for the government to brutalise him. He has personal right to protest, and if he is protesting using the union, the state chapter can dissociate themself in an official letter.
There is no excuse for the government to resort to violence in a democracy.

benuejosh:
have you read the police report/statement? Ones it is against the government you haters of Nigeria will blindly follow. What was he protesting for? Cause threat to public peace.

In a democracy, protesting is a right. You can protest anything that you feel concerns you. Under a military government, I led a protest in my school because the school served us yam and stew instead of our regular Bread, egg and tea. The school had to be closed in order to buy, prepare and serve us the bread, egg and tea.

It seems tribalism and parochial sentiments has blinded Nigerians from the true meaning of democracy.

Thundafireseun:

Let’s stop pretending ,there is no democracy in Nigeria

No Nigerian has any right whatsoever in his/her own father’s land

And some people will will continue to sing the mantra "worst civilian government is better than the best military government. Even under military government people protested against government policies, and they were never killed or brutalised. Adams Oshiomhole made his name protesting and striking against a military government, he was never brutalised or maimed.

This government will turn out to be the most intolerant and brutal government in Nigeria's history. It does not condone any opposition. Opposition is either bribed, threatened or brutalised.

Usmanovic95:
We are been helplessly drag back to stone age.
I guess we should also learn to make fire using stones?

Imagine, someone talking about trekking rather than use Okada and people buying bicycle when others are talking about self driving electric vehicles, Charcoal being used by middle class family to cook when others are talking about thorium fueled power stations.

Someone even saying earlier that conducting and transmitting elections is too difficult to achieve with the current state of our technology.
Abeg who cursed the blackman form embracing technology? We prefer to go back to the stone age.

whatisthetruth:
Bro, it's sad men.

The guy said trial phase in 2023, but Elon Musk them are already thinking Mars

Some Nigerians are so demonic in their hate for progress of the nation, while tagging those that actually want progress as enemies.

Ordinary data sending we have been doing since nokia 3310 days, and now in 2023 with foldable phones and such, no one even thinks of data sending at all as we all use i-message, whatsapp, twitter, email, instagram...


But that wicked cave man Nigerian says we are doing trial for sending ordinary image data and yet it still failed.


OMO, these people are satanic, I cannot see any other reason for such hate for progress

My brother it is more than sad. It is humiliating. Abeg tell me what's difficult in collating, processing and transmitting data in real-time, in 2023? A country of over 200 million cannot achieve this simple (I will say mundane) task? No wonder we cannot generate and transmit more than 5000Mw of electricity, we cannot build an maintain a petroleum refinery, we cannot build ships and aircrafts. Meanwhile, UAE of less than 10 million has sent a space vehicle to explore Mars.

We are lucky the world has left behind inter racial wars. If a war should break out among the races, we blacks will be wiped out within weeks. We are both helpless and hopeless. We depend on others for our survival.

Hsurdluxury:
government should also take note of the scam going on.in this market

those guys will scam you and still wants to beat you ontop your money

sell fake tv or radio and refuse to refund your money

gov. sanwoolu take note of the scammers aspect

Alabarago is different from Alaba international. Alabarago is the market for livestock and foodstuffs, while Alaba International is the market for electronics.

remiopash:
But they said "only Ibo dominated markets are being shut down"

Alabarago should have been the first market to be closed before any other market in Lagos State. It is the most filthy and smelly market in Lagos if not Nigeria. It has always been an environmental disaster with cowshit and smelly gutter lying next to foodstuffs.
That Ladipo, Alaba and trade fair could be closed before Alabarago is the mystery of the century. It was after questions by reasonable Lagosians that the government eventually shut down Alabarago market. Even after this so called clean up, it will still be far dirtier than alaba international before the shut down.

I will not say lagos state government is particularly targeting igbos, I believe all these market closures were motivated by revenue drive. And igbo dominated markets are the richest.
It seems Sanwo Olu wants to use this second term to cash out.
Imagine charging each market between 40 to 70 million before they can be reopened.

Gucciswaz:
it will surely backfire cos no sane Nigerian go come out go vote come 2027 elections

It seems that is the plan of the political elites, especially those in power. They want to discourage people from voting by destroying confidence in the electoral system, so that they could easily manipulate and rig the system. Imagine a president getting into office with less than 3% of the population, less than 7% of registered voters.

PHAYOL81:
Remember it was the maiden session and stuff like that was still in its TRIAL phase would always come with their challenges. IT would be wrong if having detected glitches, they still go ahead to use it.
Infact, in the almighty USA the complaints THRUMP took to court had to do with the ONLINE voting malpractises （eventhough the court later detected nothing of such happened）which resulted n a riot that horribly affected the CAPITOL and this is a system that many considered top notch
What do you think will happen to us if such was permitted for use despite: RERUN, and with our financial status, we can't afford that for now. I trust you will be part of the complainants too if such happen.

TRIAL phase in 2023? that's a huge disgrace to the so called most populous black nation. When others developing nations are sending vehicles to the moon and Mars, we cannot use computer to conduct elections. We have been talking about electronic voting since 2011 and up till now we are still in trial phase.

In the mighty USA election results are transmitted in real time. Its only when there are complaints or the election is very close that manual recounts are employed. Paper records are kept as backups in case of any issues and not relied on as the main method of transmission of results.

In Nigeria we deliberately sabotage everything in order to cheat.

Racoon:
Is that what the electoral act said and INEC told the whole world?

Forget what the electoral act said. Even if the electoral act specified the use of IREV, the supreme Court will ask petitioners to prove that the non use of IREV substantially affected the outcome of the results. They would add IREV is not mentioned in the constitution and that electoral act cannot supercede the constitution.