₦airaland Forum

Injustice served in court of justice by unjust humans with legal backing.

Question now is: How do they right this wrong?

“Watch the body tilt when you hit the head”

This is what you get when the approved bodies saddled with the responsibility to sanitize consumer goods have been heavily compromised.

That’s why the elites shop abroad because deep down they know they can’t get good quality from the systematic loopholes they created for selfish gains.

Things like this have no formula.
Generally depends on individual preferences - earning power, lifestyle etc

CBN is weak and are only looking for a fall guy to smear their shit on.

Even to strategically exercise monetary policy is rocket science to them. Tufiakwa!

Avoid religion and embrace spirituality

Quantity without quality

Empty manifestos always begat - We will, we shall.

Zero accountability yet nobody will take the ‘hit’ for the incompetence and failure to deliver.

Yet the docile masses turn a blind eye.
Shame to Nigeria as an institution.

IbeOkehie:
Why do you think Wole Soyinka won the Nobel instead of Chinua Achebe? By the way it has NOTHING to do with tribal politics of Nigeria or Biafra or such. You would be shocked.

Why do you think Barrack Obama won the Peace Prize? Nothing to do with race or US politics directly.

I can't write everything online. I don't acquire strong opinions lightly. The Nobel Prize process is now a big fraud.

Sorry.

Nwanne,

Please can you shoot me a mail with answers to the highlighted questions as I’m curious to know.
It’s always a pleasure to read your input and insights.

Daalu!

Anaskie:
I pray these capitalists don't destroy Open AI, by monetising it.

Chat GPT is the best thing to have happened to the world, post COVID era. They should leave it free for us to enjoy.

It has already been monetized at inception.
Every new venture requires solid consumer-base to thrive at the post embryonic stage.

It’s a long existing market entry strategy.
ChatGPT 4.0v churns out premium contents void of plagiarism, AI detection systems and is only available for paid subscribers.

Nothing is free in America and the world at large.

Too cheap considering the high cost of building materials.

Your excellency I suggest you review the renovation budget upwards in the region of say 30billion. This way, Davido will recognize your frugality and who knows he may dedicate a song to you and this will earn you international recognition and fame.

Believe it or not we’re all just entertainment for the higher beings.

An experiment on a large scale with a touch of diversity in the shape of race, religion, language, location and ego.

The good news is that we have freedom to choose our path.

The bad news is that nobody leaves a virgin; life bleeps us all.

Allow people do what they desire. No manual in this rat race.

Migration have been happening since time immemorial. In the Bible there came a time when Israelites had mass exodus from Israel to Egypt in search of greener pastures.

Nigerians are not even top list of most immigrants to Europe.

I left early this year and every morning I wake up over here, I give thanks to God for availing me this opportunity and experience.

IbeOkehie:
Dear Sir, your comment is meaningless and conveys nothing, running in circles just to confuse issues. Read the report, if you doubt it go and find and read GTB earnings report, I'm sure it's on their website because it's a legally mandated and audited public document that ANYONE is entitled to read.

GTB made a huge profit by converting naira to dollars & pound sterling and holding the forex and then converting back to naira as opportunity presented itself. Nothing else. It's basic arbitrage. That's how banks and big wigs like Peter Obi, Aliko Dangote and Adenuga have been making mad money in Nigeria for a looooong time, most people just don't know it.

CBN recently tried to curtail the practice by restricting the use of dollars as collateral to borrow naira. It's a futile effort. As long as the Federal Government of Nigeria continues to rig the forex market, this carry trade will never die.

You were simply WRONG, sorry about that.

Good Luck to you.

You’re spot on with this.
As far back in 2016 Lamido Sanusi made this revelation on currency arbitrage but Nigerians hate to read. He decried the state of forex dual window operation highlighting the economic havoc that accompanied it.
He stated it that some bigwigs make a fortune daily that even the likes of Aliko Dangote will be jealous just by exploiting the forex dual market window.

https://www.ft.com/content/c0c0876c-cd8a-11e5-831d-09f7778e7377

Unfortunately the leaders of tomorrow were busy glued to their 40inch television watching BB9ja and sharing the reel all over social media.

I started converting my salary when I was in Nigeria to USD upon understanding these concepts and it really helped me to preserve its value and also make gains. I had to split my portfolio between USD and cryptocurrency then kept just enough naira to sustain my basic expenses for the month until another inflow.

Nigeria is on economic comatose.

pansophist:
Wow, I didn't know there was a verse in Ecclesiastes that explained it so clearly.

Also, a lot of modern philosophical works can be traced to the bible. There was a time (a few years ago) when I was linking modern philosophical and scientific works to passages in the bible, and I linked at least a hundred.

And I lost the file.

I will try to do it again and post it here. The Bible is deeply philosophical and scientific, and if one removes their bias (e.g. being non-religious), they could see lots of material wisdom in its teachings. Lemme list some that I can remember.

1. What redpillers called the 80/20 rule is known scientifically as the Pareto principle, and biblically as the Mattew principle (Matthew 25;29).

2. The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung always talks about the shadow, and that every person should recognize, accept, and integrate their dark sides to become whole. So biblically as you wrote, it would be Ecclesiastes 7:16-17.

I will be updating this page as I remember them, or probably just create a new topic.

As you rightly said there’s more to the Bible than meets the eyes. I see it as a coded book with snippets of life nuggets.

Please do well to create a thread for this (when time permits) so we can run minds and share ideas.

Cheers !

pansophist:
I was trying to be polite, hence I didn't want to respond directly to the post, because there is no way I wont yab the OP

But fork it, this is what I think.

I wrote earlier that the cards a woman will ever play are dependent on the game a man is playing. As a man, especially as a traditional provider man, he is in the driver's seat, and he is weak, hence his wife treats him like that.

Your desire shall be contrary to husband, but he shall rule over you. Genesis 3.16

By nature, authority will always be tested. Children will test you, employees will test the boss, and the wife will test her husband.

Women do not respect men because they want to, or because they should. They only respect a man only if he is deserving of respect.

And to be deserving of respect, you must integrate both light and darkness into your being. For example, God is a combination of good and evil. If you do good, you go to heaven. If you do bad, you go to hell.

Believe it or not, many religious folks are religious not because they want to, but because they are scared of hell. Being a good husband involves the ability to call his wife to order. Every man must integrate evil, and light as a prerequisite.

Some of the most wonderful guys I know as a friend, who also are good husbands to their wives, and wonderful fathers to their kids are really REALLY dangerous men.

If you are in their good book, you will love them. You can trust them, they will stand by you, and you will feel good that you have a true friend. But if you are in their bad book, kindness will never be the thing you know them with.

When a person has only light in him and no darkness, then you are a harmless man, like a chicken, and you will be eaten. No one respects men who can't be the opposite of good.

If one has only light in them, then they are insecure. Like a simp. They will not want confrontation, because they can't fight. They will be puppets and a bitcch for someone who can fight. And of course, the person that can fight will sacrifice them in one of his many battles.

If one has only darkness in them, then it is psychopathy/narcissism. Pray you don't meet this kind of people. They are pure evil in human skin. They will smile with you, and stab you in the next minute. They are cold-blooded.

I know people like this, that has only darkness in them. I can see and smell it from far away, but that takes special wisdom and foresight.

But to have both light and darkness in you is to be fully grounded, or to have integrated your shadow in the Jungian terms. Only people whose strength comes from the inside can be good.

When you depend on yourself and your ability, then you have both light and darkness in you, because your strength is internal, and you don't have to betray yourself for others' acceptance, just because you depend on them for something.

His attitude towards his wife is weak. Weak people are punished. The poster is suffering from leadership, and if you lead wrongly, the consequences are what the wife is giving him.

Sorry, I have diverged from the main topic and went straight into the philosophical theory that underpins his and his wife's relational dynamic, but you should be able to see the point I am trying to make.

Nice write up.
You saved me from typing.

Good and bad coexist for a reason. Anyone who can absorb both while striking a balance is physically and spiritually formidable.

This brings me to a scripture I internalized even before turning 18 - Ecclesiastes 7:16-17

Oyindamolah:
The guy who approached you awkwardly isn't a creep. He's just not a player and doesn't have his pick up lines down to an art.

Some of the most charming men who seem to be able to say and do the perfect things to get your affection early on are the creepiest, most abusive guys.

Charm is good at first impressions but doesn't tell you who the person really is until you get to know them more. Actors are charming. Charm can be an act.

If a man is a bit awkward when trying to talk to you, that might actually be a good thing. It indicates he's not constantly going around practicing his game and hitting on tons of women. He doesn't do this often and it's genuine

Depends on how you see it.
I can flip the coin and act naive sometimes doesn’t mean I lack game.

Different games requires different strategies/approach.

Happy Sunday comrade.

You go explain tire . . . . no evidence

ednut1:
they were late to the party. The Spanish and Portuguese started and were making it most. Before Uk and french entered. Today most of those countries are in decline as all the advantages and weapons they had then don turn pure water. A valiant effort regardless

Portugal et Spain started the craft but UK et France mastered it, commercialized it and benefited from it most. Another angle is how they transitioned from the ailing system to a more lucrative one by using stooges to promote democracy. Lol
These guys are smart abeg.
When their mates were busy populating the world with children, they were accumulating resources legally and illegally.

When I learnt of how UK ‘raped’ India economically I said to myself could it be that they used jazzz untop of their street smartness or the Indians were just dumb.

ednut1:
Someone that was born in Lekki may complain about the flood. But someone who grew up in abule egba and moved to Lekki will see it as heaven and may say the flood water there is not brown like the ones where he came from. The Europeans left their own continent an settled in American, aSia , Africa, Australia etc forcefully taking lands and resources. when the resources in Europe could not take care of them. was anything wrong with them

For some weird reasons I like the English man.
To have strategically invaded and colonized over 70% countries of the world is not a small feat.
I prefer to understudy a successful force than play the victim.

COMPAQ:
The idea is not really to increase tax rates but to ensure more collection.

Let's be honest with ourselves, those who evade tax are in the majority. Easier example that comes to mind is landlords. Like hundreds of billions change hands each year on rent, yet the landlords don't pay shi shi, because it's "impossible" to catch them when no data exists on who owns what property, what is rented etc.

With data and integration alone making it much harder to evade tax, Nigeria can almost double it's tax revenue in 5 years.

Unfortunately it will take hard work, focused disciplined work to achieve it and that's where we struggle as Nigerians.

You’re right but I don’t totally agree with you.
Ensure more collection you say. What tangible and sustainable economic value have the past and present governments created in the last 10years with all the taxes she has been generating?
The petro-dollar funds during oil boom, constant borrowing/loan yet nothing to show for it.

Okay let me scale it down. How or what you do with little will determine to a great extent what you’ll likely do with plenty. The biblical parable of five talents explains this.

Nigeria needs fix insecurity, power and amend that stupid constitution else nothing will work.
Fix these and watch the magic of capitalism work wonders.

These taxes will only end up in the pockets of the economic saboteurs. Focusing on taxation at this time is akin to an engineer who mounts a gate In between pillars without fencing.

Cheers!

Segzy19:
You see, your hatred has made you lose touch with reality. He has just started running this third month... not yet 4th month in Aso Rock

Why do you choose to be unreasonable?
Or maybe you’re naturally so.

Need I remind you that Mr President and his cartel have been running the country (de facto) behind the scenes.
If APC were to be a company, Tinubu owns >75% shares.

Now run along and don’t quote me again because this will be the last time you get my reply until you grow up.

michigang:
do you suck pussy?

My Russian babe is tired of begging me to do that. I Keep telling her it’ll come as a surprise on a good day.

Deep down I know it won’t happen. That stuff is not my style bro.

This man deserves an award for this amazing discovery after more than 4months in Aso rock.
I understand this is a gentle notice to the general public on the massive taxation to come. That’s his specialty area.
I see VAT, PITA, CIT, Education Tax, Property Tax being reviewed upwards.

Being born in Nigeria kind of assures me that I’ll make heaven. God is not that unjust to let his people suffer twice.

Sometimes when I reminisce on all my past sexcapades I feel guilty and ashamed but then I remember the pretty girls I had bedded; their succulent perky b00bs, mind blowing styles and angles while thrusting .
The hopes and fantasies I assisted them with reaching cloud9 and back countless times. Then I smile with a feeling of accomplishment.

I rather continue my selfless human woman service than be selfish to worry about my health and spiritual wellbeing.

I don’t need to be a statistician to know that unemployment rate in Nigeria is above 70%.

Presently, Nigeria scores over 70% in All the economic vices you can think of from crime, money laundering, power abuse, economic sabotage, human trafficking, kidnapping, tribalism, nepotism.

Karleb:
How did you come by this scholarship?

Is it a yearly thing, what are the requirements?

By the way, congratulations on your japa!

There’re a lot scholarships run by different universities with varying criteria depending on your background and preferred course of study.

That’s where you do the digging and homework.

Lordally1:
Congrats bro. I'll also be coming to Scotland this month for my MSC program. I got a number on Nairaland for a job over there ... But the person couldn't help me with one saying I don't have UK working experience.

Is there anyway you can assist with a job or referral at where u work?? I'll be doing my MSC at a Uni in Glasgow.

UK work experience is not a prerequisite to land a job here in Scotland for a part-time work.

Glasgow is to Scotland what Lagos is to Nigeria. So you’ll have plenty of job options.

National Insurance (NiNo), ShareCode, and BRP are the basic documents employers demand irrespective of the job or location and you can’t get those without touching down here 1st.

But if you have an address you can start applying on ‘UK indeed’ so you hit the ground running on interviews as soon as you arrive.

Goodluck chief !

Ps: Apologies Tensazangetsu20 It is not my intention to derail your thread.

Karleb:
Big man, where is this your less threaded path?

We wan learn abeg.

Chief,
I’m in Scotland, UK.
I’m using this location as a springboard to make major move in the nearest future. Came in via Tier 4 visa on a postgraduate course that I got 7k scholarship and £500 monthly upkeep (10months installment).

Scotland has everything England has except crowd and high cost of living. Affordable rent, cheap food, pocket friendly transportation cost, just name it.
I’m not saying it’s all rosy here but by Gods grace I have made some decisions that made things easy for me over here. From job to accommodation to friends . . .

The mistake most people make is thinking ‘japa’ is an immediate game changer lol.
For smart people it’s a long game to play just like planting. You till the ground and plant the seed, believe nature to provide good sunshine and rain, then get ready for harvest.

I’m sure you get what I’m driving at.

Bia nwoke m, gi na onye bu WE ?

Why then are you telling us.

Nice one Tensa,
One thing I learned is to always walk a path less threaded. It always pays off.

I left Naija early this year and keep blessing God every second for the opportunity and experience.

See you at the top man.

CodeTemplar:
You agreed with nonsense. I am sure 20 years from now petrol subsidy will be labelled "tried and it FAILED" when it was in fact the lack of will to tackle corruption bedeviling it that made it a burden too heavy for the govt to bear.

You are easily swayed by irrelevant data and that's what the poster you referring to specializes in. Long epistles with accurate date but malicious interpretation.

I know good stuff when I see it.
You’re the misinformed fellow here.
I will not go beyond this.

Enjoy your ignorance bro.