₦airaland Forum

Kobicove:
What then is the benefit of the Helicopter Underwater(HUW) training drill that they go through if not a single person survived?

HUET, BOSIET, STWC are being done as formalities nowadays because of lack of infrastructural upgrades.

RIP to the dead.

Mtcheeew

Redpeeldtf:
I just got an unconditional offer from University of Dundee. I am going for Msc Data Science and Engineering. How is dundee in terms of student jobs?

Hope you’re having a swell time here in the east-coast of Scotland?

They secure international loan in USD, then scoop up the dollars by massively minting the tissue paper called naira.

The USD can be traced to bureau de change aboki’s.
This is the game played by your elite.

Another set of incompetent stooges are queuing up to take over from present stooges.

Ofunaofu:
How can a military chief make this kind of silly and unprofessional statement? Who recommended this fellow to Tinubu? 

In fact, how did we get here? 

This is a huge joke. 

Yes, there's a resource gap, but in this age and technological advancement, even if you have over 100 million military men, without the latest military technology and requisite training, the entire country will still not be secured.

Besides, out of the little over 100,000 active soldiers of the Nigerian Army, has the military chief told Nigerians how many of his men are stationed at the homes and offices of expatriates, politicians, oil bunkers, Nigeria's money bags, and big men?


We are merely battling with internal security challenges, and our military chief is making this kind of unprofessional statement: What if there's an external aggression?

In this 21st century that advanced technology and classified information/intelligence can win you a war with less human casualties, this stooge is talking about military headcount.

Tufiakwa!

My worry is not even the incompetence of those is key leadership positions, rather on the sheer shameless exhibition of sheer stupidity in making public statements like this.

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When government sets the price (price controls) and pays for the shortfall, it’s called subsidizing the supply chain.

PBAT have not even recouped the money used to secure power, not to mention seeking profit which is the goal of every businessman

Afterwards, he will bury roots in the federal purse to continue the loot, same way Lagos was pocketed.

Horse-shit palliative policies.
All these giveaway are not sustainable even if the real farmers get 100% of the funds, which I am certain they won’t.

Tackle insecurity
Abolish food commodity boards

Who do Nigeria?

Houseofglam7:
That man is clearly going through a lot!

I strongly disagree.
That man is rather living with a lot.

INTEGRITYA1:
Most of the problems around the world are man-made.

Why is it that, human being can't be living in peace and harmony.

It’s because when man solves a problem, he also creates another simultaneously.

I thought drug smugglers had become more creative by moving shipments using aquatic animals.

Justice for marine habitats.

GreyWolf01:
Who needs a house when you have a yacht?

Plus, for HNI's , owning houses (across the world) that they hardly live, costs more than just leasing a mansion/ luxury apartment or a 5 start hotel suite.

Nigeria has 0 to low level property taxes (land use charge), so it makes sense to stay.

A lot of added costs & obligations come with owning a property abroad.

Look it up.

Dangote’s statement is highly political and misleading. Just as you pointed out, real estate in Europe and Latin America attracts hidden concurrent fees.

It’s more economical for him to rent or use hotels for business trips and holidays than outright purchase.

Finals
Portugal vs England

sleek214:
I disagree with you. Op is not making fun of her. Op is trying to pass a message. People doing this kind of legit hustle here in Nigeria are looked down on but they go abroad to do worse job especially in the UK where most of them go to wipe old people's bumbum and change pampers for them. People abroad keep praying for our Naira to go bad so when they changed the little dollar they have, it will look big. I'm sure even the op self is doing Ogwaja work in her place of work.

Please which one is ogwaja work again.

AllenSpencer:
Madrid desperate to destabilize the fantastic team they already have.

Mbappe has no spot to fill in that team

He does on the contrary.
The 34 years old Spanish - Joselu is the placeholder for Mbappe.

Expect a formidable trio-forward from RM next season. Although it doesn’t translate to winning trophies but as a madridsta, I remain optimistic it’ll.

Hala Madrid!

Poverty, desperation and ignorance is a wicked combo no one should associate with.

MaziOmenuko
Flow1759

Gerrard59:
While we are both capitalists, privatising health care and education does not sit right with me. That is something I have wanted to converse with you - your penchant for privatising health care and education. Nigerians don't even have the money to pay for these services at public hospitals. Would they be able to pay when it is privatised? The same holds true for education. Unlike the US, where there are equally good public universities, most countries' top universities are publicly owned. So, why advocate for privatisation?

Let's look at Brazil, where education is free till the university level. There ought to be subsidies in certain sectors, of which education and health care are paramount.

IbeOkehie:
I know I've said it before - I have no solutions for healthcare and primary education. Healthcare in particular is an unavoidable risk and completely independent of voluntary demand. So they're not fit for the free market.

It's clear however that Black Africans, in this case Nigerians, can't organize a socialist healthcare system and the evidence is ALL of Nigeria's history since 1960. We just don't have what it takes and even the UK and Canada are having problems with their socialist healthcare system. So we have to try ANOTHER option, which is completely profit driven, capitalist and free market. What other option do we have? I'd like to read your take.

Good Luck to Nigerians

Not everyone will have same economic purchasing power to procure healthcare services be it free market or otherwise.
The priority should be quality which free market has the potential to deliver.

I reckon other players will tap in with solutions to cater for the economically disadvantaged populace via healthcare schemes and credit system.

The major focus is the needed reforms to guide the industry modus operandi.

emmaodet:
Tbh, I am in-between.
I can't totally criticize those leaving nor call those staying back stupid.
Moving has it's merits and demerits just like staying back.
It is just for someone to weigh his options and know the pros and cons of their actions and ready to face it but generally, the advantage of going to western countries is -
1. Foreign certificate gives you better job with higher earnings.
2. Strong passport that won't make you to be wasting money on visas or delays or visa denial.
3. Their economy is so developed that you can virtually work in any sector and live a good life and can easily get a good job without connections or letters from kings/senator/governor/local government chairman just to get a decent job.

Those 2 points above are good points of moving.
In my career, using a Nigerian certificate has really cost me a lot and slowed down my progress and I know and see my colleagues with foreign certificates getting promoted faster than me and even earning better pay at the same level.

tensazangetsu20:
Lol this used to be true those days but men it doesn't fly anymore. There are Nigerians who didn't even go to school who are working in big companies I know people in tech who didn't have any degree and are working at places like Google and Facebook and these are Nigerians o. The world now is mostly about the skills and value you have to offer and not necessarily the school you went. Yes, going to a top school helps but how many Nigerians migrating are going to top schools.

Strong passport is good but strong passport without money is useless lol. My target for a strong passport is strictly based on economic activities and not necessarily travelling. There are people with these passports who can't travel cause they are broke. Sapa is a worldwide phenomenon.

Economy is developed yes but no one is going to hand over anything to you. Believe me, you have to show and prove competence. There are people abroad in good countries who can't still get jobs but these time around you can't blame anyone like tunubu or phcn

I.T space constitutes a part of the global employment index by sector and not its entirety. This means that there are many other industries (think blue-collar gigs) where physical certifications is still a commanding factor.

One of those is the maritime industry where some STCW courses abroad has more chances of getting you onboard and also influence promotion chances (depending on experience level) compared to Nigerian certs.

The Same reason why men want a younger obedient and chaste woman.

correctguy101:
Bless you for this brother...

No necessarily young. But experienced, driven and a determined visionary with a thirst to see the nation he represents flourish...

And who says whatever we're practicing over here is democracy?

SMH

There’s a tendency of high commitment levels to any given project/assigment if the person/team stands to see the project come to life.

By young (which is relatively subjective) I mean a leadership team less than 50years with vision and mental tact.

If we streamline this the Nigeria for instance, you will agree with me that the decadence will take decades of reengineering to get the country back on track.

I read on the newspaper long ago about a foreign firm that wanted to partner with Imo state government by investing billions of dollars into Adapalm for development and management of the palm plantation.
The projection was that the partnership alone has the potential to expand job creation from 800 to over 2,000 employees.

I think it was during Gov. Rochas’s 2nd tenure. They were turned down because the business proposal ROI was going to take longer and the present administration will be likely out of office by then.
Today, the plantation is laying in ruins.

https://dailytrust.com/hope-for-adapalm-imos-wasting-asset/

correctguy101:
So true...

Its just as if they hold some secret against African leaders to make these so-called leaders become so obedient and subservient.

If not...
How can we at our level in this pyramid be seeing these things and they couldn't?
And even if it's brought to their attention, they'll always ignore such talk and doggedly continue on the chosen path of the ones they look up to?

E no add up...

The little I know about Qaddafi shows he was different, only he was forced into a confrontation he would never survive...

If it was the world before now, its understandable, but the leash is so loose in today's world (as I see it)

African leaders too lazy abeg. None wants to put in the required work, only want to maintain the status quo, after all them and those with them would live lavishly either way. No thoughts of glory at all..

Awón oni yéyé

I reckon with your submission. Mental laxity and lack of visionary leadership contributed hugely to the present state of the African society and political ecosystem.

The West understood early enough how the world works; it’s similar to the animal kingdom where the strong rules and the feeble follow. They took advantage and played this to their strengths. Made geographical advancement and strategically established colonies.
Then after setting the pace for development in their region, they came up with codes of conduct, principles and trading agreements via UN, UNICEF, ICC, . . . to secure their loot.

In the grand scheme of things the most powerful almost and always rule. Lately, there’s been a paradigm shift of power from military strength to trade wars and control of vital natural resources and infrastructure.

My concern is that the African leadership has no balls to upstage and take their destiny into their hands. They have no zeal to correct the mistakes of centuries past when they sold their countrymen for mirrors, gunpowder and tobacco. It’s a shame!

Back to the present. Africa needs young visionary leadership but sadly, democracy makes it difficult.

Handing over your leash to another master ain’t freedom.
The real flex is being in total control of your affairs without external interference. Sadly, no African government have had a taste of what sovereignty entails.

obinna58:
It’s a cycle
Hard times creates strong men
Strong men creates good times
Good times creates weak men
Weak men refreshes it all over again by creating hard times

Just like earth orbits the sun 365days, 6hours and 9minutes.

Another socialist, organized, rent-seeking and embezzlement scheme signed by Judisharey, sealed by rubber-stamp Legislooters, and executed by the executhieves.

We know how it always ends up just like the school feeding program, N-Power and the likes.

toujurs:
Guy don't bring sentiments because you are an igbo guy. Most igbo men feel inferior of themselves when it comes to love and care.

Especially why, most igbo girls are too greedy, even the broke igbo girls, feels entitled to marrying a rich man. Igbo women, have the highest "single" rating in Nigeria, unlike anyother tribe in Nigeria.

Why? They are all waiting for an odogwu.

This is unlike Yoruba men, a yoruba man takesgood care of him care before he even thinks of his wife, but definitely his children. Depending on how he earns.

But an igbo man, can be wearing one trouser for 2 years, just to ensure that his wife, wear a better clothe. And most other women would say they would like to marry an igbo man, and these igbo men would be smiling unknown to them it's because of their mumu, when it comes to love matters.

Guy this thing am saying are facts, check the statistics of most successful igbo men, they lived their whole lives, in principles just to secure the billions his wive, and children are flexing. While he dies at latest 63 or 65.

Can you please point me to articles or journals that validates your claims?

Gerrard59:
I was not the one who mentioned or referenced the bold. As for your last wordings, my bad for stating as a fact. It is an observation, not a fact. So no statistics.

No hard feelings sir.
Apologies for coming off as rude too.
Just that I think making such comments based on observations alone is not proper.

Have a great weekend!

Jokerman:
- Did petrol price reduce?

- Did security in farmland reduce?

- Did tax and tariff collectors reduce thier price from the market people and farmers?

- Did electricity price reduce?

- Are workers not going to request for increase in Salary?

You’re the only person that highlighted the core issues bedeviling the cost differentials.

All hope is not yet lost as we still have right thinking people here.

Gerrard59:
I did not state anything categorically. I only reference a friend who was born and bred in the East. Why should I lie? If you have any counter opinion or fact, please state it. But attacking one's personality or post without well constructed criticism or fact is foolhardy.

So, in your opinion, wwwtortoise, why are Igbo women at the centre of feminism and lesbianism in Nigeria?

Chimamandan Adichie as the face of feminism in contemporary and of Igbo descent gives a false projection of Igbo women as being the Centre of feminism.

I could easily counter that by saying that Funmilayo Ransom Kuti is the pioneer of feminism in Nigeria.

As with all noble ideologies, core values are being watered down with passage of time. Cultism, Feminism, religion. . . just name it.

Can you point me to statistics that underline your assertion that Igbo women are at the center of feminism in Nigeria?

toujurs:
That's the problem, and this cowardice is among igbo men.

They would look so unkempt so they can, provide for their babe who could leave them. So much myopic men. With inferiority complex.

Depends on the demographic population of the Igbo men you mean.

Most uneducated/businessmen/artisans in every population have this dating trait. It’s easy to see that what they lack in finesse, they tend to makeup with show of love using money.

Your generalization is flawed please.

Gerrard59:
Some say na because Igbo laws and traditions are patriarchal, but which culture in Nigeria isn't? I discussed this with a friend who was born and bred in the East. In his opinion, Igbos like to adopt anything in vogue. The culture encourages it, and with Christianity being a liberal religion, it becomes easier. The problem with this adoption is that people also adopt nonsense without considering their environment and long-term effects.

Anyway, good luck to men who marry modern Igbo women.

You lot are quick to make umbrella statements without reflecting on intrinsic specifics.

My heart goes out to your followers who swallow your output hook, line and sinker.