₦airaland Forum

CrossRhodes:
As long as Nigeria customs keeps custom duties and imports prices high, good and services will continue to remain high

The bakers are in business and if import duties are still high people should direct their grievance to FG and customs, not the poor bakers.

The dollar they use to pay the import duties is already down by almost 40%, so what are you talking about?

If import duties is $1k (1,800,000), last month, the same $1k is around 1m today, so tell me why the manufacturers can not follow the same pattern they followed each time dollar is increasing?

Please stop supporting or justify these unfortunate set of people greed irrationally.

ignis:
If all Nigerians adopt a defeatist attitude like you and "japa", who will steer the country towards progress and redemption?
Let's not give up on Nigeria. We need to work together for positive change instead of abandoning hope.

You can't work towards progress because you don't have natural/mental ability to do so. Please forget the rhetoric that anything good can ever come out of an average Nigerian. The masses are as useless and corrupt as the leaders. Our lack of progress is majority an attribute of our cultures and traditions, which is natural.

I was never an advocate of japa before but anyone who has the opportunity should please leave this country for the sake of his or her future.

Halving in the mud, here we are again, and this may waste another 2 months or more to balance up.

TUANKU:
I already explained it in the post you just replied to sir. Opay is better than your bank, name that your bank sir and let's compare their services.

100% better than any commercial bank in Nigeria, same with moniepoint. This guys finally changed the game.

Tradepunter2:
All these useless paid opay agent up there..... You think serious biznes minded people use opay? You must be daft..... Keep fooling yourselves

Are you living in the cave or what? Alot of big businesses and individuals are using Opay and Moniepoint. If you are a business person, you won't be talking like this.

2shure:
I've made up my mind fully. I had my last 35k yesterday,I went to food Market.what I bought, it did not fill up a bag bag.
3200 foreign rice. I got 2 congos

Titus fish..3k for 1.i got 2...
Smoked panla fish...800 for 1 ,I got two

Ponmo..500 for 1. I got 1.

Semo 1kg..1700. I got 1.

Detergent 3h

Matches..5h

Gas 2kg......3400

Meat .4k. But looks like 1500.

Branded oil.2k
Red oil ..1500
Stock fish...5h
Assorted 1500
Onions. 1k
Yam...4k


Fuel.....3k
Beer......800
Asun.....7h
Time cigarettes 4sticks...200
Jedi smoke.100.

Nigeria is finished.and we are just spending the money on food.retailers are cheating us,dollar is dropping ,rather than food to reduce,its going up.

Where do you live or which market you went to that they scammed you like that?

You mentioned Congo of rice, which means you stay in a South west state and outside of Lagos. A Congo of rice is between 2200/2500. 1kg semo is 1400, a big Titus is between 1500/2500 at most . Gas 1300 per kg, a 75cl of red oil is 1000. Smoke panla( big ones) is 2 or 3 for 1k. Branded oil are expensive though, I don't even know 2k ones exist.

Don't know much about other ingredients you bought, make una dey price things very well before coming on Internet to scare some innocent souls.

Schrodinger2:
Thought you ladies wanted a guy that cooks too.

Well, the day I start preparing moi-moi, and soup, certainly, I'm not gonna need a lady.

That is the point the lady was trying to make but many guys here are not that brilliant to code.

She was actually right, a man that has patient and time to prepare moimoi and Amala will most likely have no reason to rush into marriage.

To be honest with you, one of the many reasons I got married was because of foods like this. Not that I don't know how to prepare them, but can't just go through the process. I hate washing Amala pot like mad, so I never eat it at home throughout my bachelor life.

AbuTwins:
We need Solar in Nigeria.

Let's have manufacturing plants that makes the panels and everything here!

Exactly 💯, power generation in this country will always be hindered by corruption and lack of maintaining culture. Let solar be affordable to power every home.

paramakina202:
You think Rivers state is Lagos where Tinubu is their god that chooses who becomes governor?

Is Tinubu still a governor to you? Never underestimate a president that is interested in who become governor of a state. They will rig him out and clean mouth. Obaseki would've lost Edo state if he doesn't have presidency backing back then.

All he need to do is to call all key players into Aso rock and promise them what they can't resist. Remember he control Inec and security agents too. Nigeria is one kind of funny country where anything is possible.

alcuin:
This is why you cannot compare the male lion to any other animal. I always laugh when I read statements that a male lion is lazy. The male lion is the protector of the pride, he fights other lions and fights to the death. Aside being challenged by other lions, no other animals dares the pride. At the roar of a lion, every living creature around quivers.

Rabbits exhibit the sane character,a male rabbit is as terrestrial and aggressive as a male lion. Male rabbits also fight to death to claim their territory. You can't have two male Rabbits in a colony, one must kill the other to remain only alpha male in the colony.

The most important requirements to gain world respect/power are economic and military power, once you don't have that, no sane countries or blocs will borrow your culture or genuinely align with you.

Africans are liability to the rest of the world, we naturally lacks mental capability to see beyond darkness. We are the most unpatriotic narrowly minded creature roaming the earth. Africa is like a farm to Africans, they detest the land and everything about its development, they would rather harvest what left in the farm and take it to the place others developed for themselves to spend.

Africans cannot make any significant progress because we are naturally wired to build our individuals lives and not societies at large. Give an African $100m to provide electricity for his village, he would rather power only his compound for others to come and charge their phones and keep the rest of the money for his future use.

Africans can't changed, and may remain so till the rest of time.

nairalanda1:
Dude, if you don't like your government, hold them to account.

SImple.

At the end, you won't work for less because you got to help the poor.

Is like you are still being fed by your parents or directly benefiting from this useless leaders calling themselves rullers. Is like Nigeria has never happened to you, go and check how much they budgeted for themselves couple with the ones they embezzled and tell me if Nigeria cannot easily provide 24/7 electricity for her citizens withiout necessarily being force to pay for darkness.

Is it a crime to be a Nigerian, my business is at the verge of total collapse due to electricity problem. With what I spend on generator, I can gladly pay the new tariff rate but what is the point of paying for darkness and still spend another money to fuel your generator? Let assume you need 20 hours of light per day, and they manage to give you 4 hours out of it, the remaining 16hours would be run by expensive fuel, so tell me how the businesses are going to make profits or survive.

nairalanda1:
The thing is, power is very expensive to produce

Nairametrics has stated that it would cost 100 billion dollars to give every Nigerian 24 hour power supply. Over a period of 5 years. And the only way it can be done is to let the power sector charge cost reflective tarrifs.

Yes, the power companies made over one trillion naira in profit last year. Good for them. They also owe 1.7 trillion to the gas man,and the gas man has also raised their prices recently. Then they owe state and federal government taxes. Also three of the discos declared force majeure because they cannot earn enough. Then there are the losses from corruption and mismanagement and power theft. Even aso Rock don't pay for power.

So either we pay cost reflective tarrifs or we would never have good enough power.

People on this site have abused me and trolled me for this my belief. And even called me apc supporter when apc is still paying subsidy. But the sad thing is, no matter how much you abuse me , it costs money to generate power. And things like new power stations cost money. Expanding the grid to carry 50000 mw, which is what we need to supply everyone and even export power will cost a lot of money.

So, we can keep lying to ourselves anyway. Lying to ourselves by paying subsidy for 50 years is why we are here with bad power.

GSM works better because they have the right to set their prices.

At the end, I am.not defending any useless government. Back when pdp was in charge most of the people defending subsidy then are attacking it now. Most of the subsidy removal supporters now are people who when gej wanted to remove it were attacking him. Am sure some of you think I marched at ojota. I didn't. Infact gej, noi and sls are the people who taught me why subsidy is bad. It strikes down growth and profit. Even when you make the profit , it don't do much. I have held this view for 12 years, and it has nothing to do with politics.

So Nigerians, as useless as this apc government is, their self inflicted financial mess has forced them to take the first steps towards a wise decision. We need investors and the reasons why we never had sane people buying our power sector is because none of them want to come and invest and never see their investment because subsidy. Once that is gone, things might change.

You are free to disagree with me and to call me government propaganda and to say am making the poor suffer. Or you can support your right to defend the right to make a profit. Whether disco or you. You will never cut your prices to help the poor. You have a business to run.

( Any abuse is useless. You don't need to get mad over the fact that things cost money after all.)

What happened if government spend that $100b and later increase electricity tariff? Must the poor citizens pay for darkness in order for wasteful government to have money to fix power?

What is the purpose of government if they can't provide basic amenities for the masses to benefit. Do you even know how much Buhari administration and Tinubu had borrowed so far in the name of projects with absolute no impact on standard of living of Nigerians?

The reality is that, these people are evils, and they care less about those they are govern. It is average mentality of black people, so I don't blame them because we are all useless to our continent as living creatures.

mmadu5:
even a toddler knows this.

MEN learn to love your self . don't over do because of woman. weda she's your wife or girlfriend. remember she is not your family, you both came into the world differently . so be careful when you stressing your self to provide for woman.

Even at that, they will still inherits everything you labour to work for when you die. Out of every 100 men, 85% die before their wives, so it is good to say that men are practically working for women.

YesDaddyTill203:
I agree.
I left Nigeria in the 80s when I was very young.
There is no way I would have left at even 30. In fact, I thought about going back even though I was so young back then but I didn't have control of where I wanted to live. My parents were deciding for me.

Moving to another country after 40 will affect your mental being and many people around you. People think everything is about money money.
There is more to life than just making money. Quality of life is very paramount.

People who have never made money think that money is everything. Once you make money, you will realize there's more to life than just chasing money.

An healthy 40 or 50 years old man is not too old to hustle for 10 years more and enjoy his earning for the rest of his life.

A 40 or 50 years old man can still make over 50 millions abroad withing a space of 10 years, he/she can move back to Nigeria to establish business. If 70 years old professors are still taking lectures in our universities, why can't healthy 50 years old man work in an environment he would be well paid.

YesDaddyTill203:
If Tinubu is 90 and this active, I just pray and hope that I can be this healthy at 90.

That is my prayer too.

Baba is definitely not 72 years, all his mates/friends from Soyinka, Akande, Atiku, Babangida, to Obasanjo are well above 80 or close to 90. The man fighting side by side with MKO can never be 72 in 2024.

But that is not an issue, I was just catching cruise on his age.

Zonefree:
In age, President Faye is Tinubu's grandson.

All Tinubu mates are almost 90 or above, but baba still dey claim 72, is God not wonderful.

Angelfrost:
See... We are both agreeing that both generations of players are highly paid. Good.

Now, my issue remains quality of playing... The comparison simply ends at wages earned.

That's the problem.

Business or not... A player should earn his wages on the pitch every week.

These current crop aren't impressing at all.

Well, i didn't see much difference, players then were more rigid and Conservative, while today's players are more flexible and comprehensive.

Most of the things we praised old players for has been easily done by today's players, but our perspectives about the game now won't let us see it. Infac, I really enjoy today's football games than those days.

Angelfrost:
Overpaid players...!

In the years past, highly paid players like Luis Figo, Zinedine Zidane, Wayne Rooney, etc, delivered massively every single week.

Nowadays, we can't even correlate the amount paid to some players with their delivery on the field every week... Just seems like a waste of money.


Imagine Harry Kane and Victor Osimhen collecting over 250k this week, after the abysmal performance of their clubs and teams.


As for Man United players... Let me not talk. Only Onana deserves to be paid salary this week!


It's shocking to believe Bayer Leverkusen players are far underpaid compared to players in Bayern, Napoli, Man United, Man City, and Barcelona.

Alot has changed, you can't compare the generated revenue back them with current time. Besides, football is no longer about the game but business. Every club sign a player that will fetch them good return in future. Aside that, those players you mentioned up there also collected huge salary then, in the sense that what €50k could do back then is more or equivalent to what €400k can do now.

chopnaira:
Regionalism is better. People are more united that way by tribes, tongue, and culture and it helps to foster regional nationalism and healthy competition between the regions.

Exactly 💯, division along the states line is a waste of time, and would always be business as usual. I hate state government like mad, they contributes absolutely nothing to both human and capital development. Let there be regional governments and the local governments under each of them.

This kind of joke should be thrown in the dustbin.

An healthy diet per serve is not less than #3000, let alone per day.

Ofunaofu:
Look at how Agbadorians and Bulabans are so glued to Peter Obi's opinions, conversations, and discussions with the Obidients movement and Nigerians at large.
Just to hear Peter Obi speak

When will Tinubu engage Nigerians, or at the very least, engage Agbadorians and Bulabans in meaningful conversations and discussions like Peter Obi is doing?

Haba, can't you reason for once?

If someone said he is only passionate about building a new Nigeria( which is very good), but care less about building the platform that saved him from embarrassment of PDP, will you still respect such a person as a party man? Will you be passionate in working for such a person if he comes to your party in future?

I think Obi is done with labour parry anyway.