₦airaland Forum

Dogalmighty17:
By invading Venezuela and now Iran, the US whether intentionally or not, the US is squeezing China's access to crude oil. Iran and Venezuela are China's biggest crude suppliers. Having that supply cut off will bring China under pressure. The Chinese don't want that smoke but it isn't immediately clear how they plan to respond.

Last year though, China had a surplus of 1.1 trillion dollars. The US on the other hand has a debt profile running over 55 trillion dollars so far. The US cannot continue funding its military if its debt keeps climbing. China may absorb these shocks for now and play the long game. The US will push itself into an economic collapse.

rabzy: Some people have also assumed that its every child that actually wants to go school. There are so many who hate school and would rather go and sell something. I know a boy who keeps running away from school and when the dad asked him what he wants to do in life, he said he wants to be an 'Eleran'.
The father took him to a meat-seller and he sold meat for him for like 5 years, before i finished secondary school he had 'graduated' and was doing fine with his business. Now the guy is a big cow merchant and doing well for his family.

Have anyone also thought about the money management skills and haggling skills they learn all those years, you think na beans? All those market women we buy things from all over Africa, successfully managing their business for years, how do you think they learnt the business.

We hear stories of how Abiola/OBJ etc sold firewood to send themselves to school and we applaud them for such successes, but when we see others now who also have to do so, we scream child abuse....Love you ike say everything na child abuse.

unuane1: Any responsible government will nt go abt throwing money in this fashion. He was elected governor not to a few bt to all. You think dat the widow nd this little gal cases are worse cases among the masses, bt i say no cos there are even worst cases than the two cases. What i expect he or his government to do is to roll out policies that will touch virtually every1 life in the state or direct policies that will specifically target the lesser or under privilage in the state. There are sum widows dat cant even raise #20,000 to start up that small pepper biz that if they engage in will be rollin in atlease #200 or #300 every day. Jst imagine spliting 3M to genuine widows allowing them #50.000 each do u knw hw many widows will benefit frm dat. Do u knw the multiplyin effects. But i will go for the former by rolling out policies dat will directly touch people lives. That's hw u will be greatly remembered for touching a lot of lives.

I no know book:
For this woman to be crying like that and putting up a feeble resistance even in the face of the soldiers and mobile policemen present, means that she must have gone through a lot to get those products that are probably not more than N 5000.00 from my estimation. Those goods might be all she has to feed herself and her kids, and she may have borrowed the money to purchase them. My heart goes out for her. I wish I could find out how to send money to her.