₦airaland Forum

Hawkler:
You are totally out of it, Chinese don't have considerable moderations for health do you think is all about manufacturing gadgets within nanoseconds you have to consider the end users safety first which China don't care about. What do you expect from people who can eat any crawling reptiles. Let me tell you about the Covid, does it sound good to produce a distuctive virus for supremacy? and again if American should produce likewise nobody LL survive it, take a look at computer virus called 'Raila Odinga' is bad news in Africa, so it not about just manufacturing.

dermmy:
U.S. won't do nothing if China invades Taiwan the only thing it can do is send Taiwan equipments. Ask yourself this question is U.S. willing to engage a Peer-Nuclear power over a small Island that it does not have sovereign right over? The mutual defence treaty between U.S and Taiwan Sino-American Mutual Defence Treaty was terminated by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and the offshoot of the defence pact Taiwan Relations Act has no mutual defence clause.

But Japan is what i don't know cause Japan's southern Ryukyu Islands chain are closer to Taiwan than the Japanese mainland and much of Japan's export and import passes through the strait. Japan believes a Taiwan controlled by China would affect the free flow of commodities that pass through the Taiwan strait so Japan has a keen interest in the future of the country and has signaled it has an obligation to help the country should China invade.

Simeonjoe1:
aircraft carrier operation is no mere feat a lesson the US has learn in sweat and blood. Even Russia cannot sustain their carrier force. Until China is able carry out sustain operational sorties from aircraft carriers in foreign theater thousands of miles away from home, they still remain in the shadows of US,UK, France and probably Russia. But what's the essence of training without a platform?

ponziponzi:
You are right, China is playing catch-up. American is far ahead but for how long? These things are very difficult things to do and what is scary to the world (especially the West) is that China is doing it so fast.

Just look at the unprecedented progress they have made in the last 40 years.

Few examples;
Infrastructure: In the 90's China has virtually no high-speed rail, today they have the most comprehensive high-speed network in the world. Two-third of all high-speed rail is in China. Also, 30 years ago, China had no motorways, today they have more motorways than any country in the world and they are still building at an incredible rate.

Economy: China has been doubling their GDP every 8 years and has lifted about 800 million people out of poverty (that's like the combined population of the US and EU). They are still growing faster than the US could even dream of.

Others: See their space program— Building a new space station and landing rovers on Mars. These are things people don't believe that China could ever do, 20-30 years ago.

They are also increasing their military capability at an incredible rate. It's scary.

Lordmustikash:
Based on the assumption that the USA is stagnant and not progressing?
China 30 years ago was still developed, (albeit parts of it were developed) china is vast and till today still has rural communities and settlement that are still a shit show.

chiefobdk:
Stagnant as how.. They hold patent for almost all new technologies..


USA is ahead of all its rivals in everything military technology

ForestHill:
Don't compare China to America, US are miles ahead; what this Chinese are archiving now is actually what USA have archived in the 60's. US ain't match with any country.

Loyalty100:
Let's hope the tyrants in government won't make him the next IGP. Buhari likes corrupt people so I won't be surprised

Who else noticed no stoopid comments from BMC crew littering front pages since yesterday? What a relief not to see that annoying post throughout yesterday. Hope it stays that way sha

FutureIsFemale:
Women comit crime but have limits to what they do. Women have conscience.

ChiefSosa:
God is busy, he has other sensible things to do with his time.

Antoeni:
You Pentecostal pastors are the biggest fraudulent and dubious authority
Swindling your followers in God’s names
Building schools that only the children of corrupt rich Nigerian can afford
Flying and acquiring private jet with the funds donated by poor followers

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), says her life was threatened for saving Nigeria huge sums of money from oil subsidy scam while serving as the country’s finance minister.

Okonjo-Iweala served as finance minister under the administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan.

Speaking during an interview organised by Atlantic Council, a United States think-tank on international affairs, on Tuesday, the WTO DG said her life was threatened for doing her job.

Okonjo-Iweala said during Obasanjo’s administration, she worked to ensure renegotiation of Nigeria’s debt in the international community.

She said Nigeria was indebted by $30 billion to the Paris Club with a debt service of $2 billion a year, of which the country could only pay $1 billion.

The former minister said the country’s debt was later systematised with the help of good reforms.

During the period, Paris Club reached an agreement to grant relief of about $18 billion (60 percent) on the $30 billion owed, which lowered Nigeria’s external debt from $35.94 billion in 2004 to $20.48 billion in 2005.

During Jonathan’s administration, Okonjo-Iweala said her effort was directed at tackling corruption and improving the financial system with the use of technology.

“And just by having an integrated financial management system, we were able to cut down on the phenomenon of ghost workers, you know where people used to put additional people on the payroll in the ministries, ghost pensioners, because ghost workers will graduate to ghost pensioners, and so we got rid of that and saved $1.1 billion for the government,” she said.

“So that is, we were fighting other types of corruption. We had an oil subsidy system in [b]which we used to pay marketers.

“Oil marketers who brought in refined oil, you know, we paid them the difference between the market price, and the subsidised price that the government was mandated for selling oil to people.

“And so, that was when I came the second time. This was a big problem. When I left government the first time in 2006, these subsidies were about $2 billion, when I came back, the first thing we noticed was that it had grown to $11 billion.[/b]

“So, I asked President Jonathan that we could audit the oil accounts which he fully supported. When we audited, $8.5 billion of the accounts, we found $2.5 billion of fraudulent claims and with his backing, we refused to pay that to the marketers and that led to a series of problems, which I won’t bore you with, including threats to my life.

“My mother being kidnapped for five days was one of the worst periods of my life and it was a very tough period.

“But, that being said, I think the privilege of serving my country as finance minister for several years, to being able to work on some reforms is one of the best things I’ve ever done.”

FalseProphet1:
I see South Africa breaking into two different countries. The white dominated section and the black dominated section, I see the black section killing each other before 2023, I see the survivors struggling to come to Nigeria for menial jobs, I see northern Nigeria accepting them after the collation of southern governors rejected them.

This I have seen.

BigDick70inch:
There.......seems to be no much difference btw igbos and Fulani after all........

Fulanis.........will move from there own insecurity torn north only to start telling u how uall lands belong to them in yo area.........

While......

Igbos........will migrate from their erosion flooded potopoto regions...........only to start chest beating N forming victims in yo region........

Thermodynamics:
All the South knows how to do is to fight the Igbos, Igbo man when nor do them anything. The south don't even know who their enemy is.

3% for host communities and 30% to find oil in the North, after we go de shout warri nor de carry last, Warri nor de carry last, we don carry last for Nigeria tire.