JASONjnr:
Most people don't understand the level of damage that Borno experienced.

But yet, the government was to immediately discuss with the masses the majors they have employed to prevent this incident from happening across the country. After which, other majors to look into would've been ensuring that the state's activities is returned immediately. Rebuilding damaged schools and hospitals and other important facilities put into place to ensure that people with flood traumas are taken care of.

But rather, everyone is donating money to gain political votes when they seek any form of elections.

It is not surprising because team where sent to examine it but did nothing but taking in the money. Meanwhile the state of disrepair of that dam could be seen and tracked on Google Earth pro. The disaster was preventable or at the very least mitigate-able as there was the option to evac settlements.

Komu1048:


Somehow I trust Northern leaders to ensure some of this items gets to the right people. I mean that's one thing their polithiefians take better our own for South. Here, it will be in the store till e rotten.

I was in Lokoja(not even real north oo) few months from lag n benefited even though e small from all the rice I'm hearing on TV n radio that govt is sharing. For Sw I have never benefited from anything Fg share before and I don dey old

Lols, you mean the same leaders that saw the numerous signs and had ample time to seal, repair or overhaul the dam that collapsed? Damage to obvious that it could be seen and monitored from Google Earth pro? For the same dam for which they "spent" billions to inspect and assess damage a few times? Hmm, ok.

Matheusmartin:
...
Nigerians are already serving them hot.

Funniest part is, you pay to cancel a ride in SA, while it's free in nigeria

Who gains from the payment?

I hope it is not bolt alone...

Tightpussy2024:

They copied it from naija men,these people visit our forums. They see slurs men use on themselves.

I was thinking this will lead to a sober reflection on how tribalism has destroyed this forum.

On this very thread they are still being tribalistic using those same slurs . Meaning they enjoy the reproach they get from other countries

As long women aren't the one being insulted,I don't care.

You guys are funny o.

Lols, so you decided to up the ante by adding sexism to the list. Well too bad, look at the pictures again... These is just contributing to needless chaos , it negativity doesn't solve problems even though the same negativity will trigger a sober reflection to a curious mind.

I shouldn't even be paying attention to these things because I feel it is retrogressive but it is my downtime, so.

You know, I just sit and observe these things take shape, social media and otherwise... People will pile up tribalism, racism, ageism, marital status-tism, achievement-ism, classicism, educationism or it sapiocisim, but for the sole aim of trying to erode the other party or make fun of when differences can be appreciated and should be used for optimization where possible.... Oh well.. nobody escapes, e'erythang will always have their -isms might not be apparent but something is there.

Saviourk:
Nice approach

Is it a nice approach to throw away you right to express your dissatisfaction against an entity that is transgressing you to a university?

You would throw your life away for worthlessness? If they don't challenge this and the courts throw this dumb unconstitutional idiocy out and sanction to booth then Uniben peeps are not as emancipated as they claim.


A right that every living thing has you as a human will willing throw it away? Lols.


It is the same as saying. Swear not to complain even when what I do causes you pain of whatever level, death inclusive.

Interesting times. What a time to be alive mehn...

Segzy19:
A single person that can't look after herself but needed the service of a maid, a driver and a security man... See life! Maximum enjoyment.

She doesn't want to do anything for herself.
She just wanted to be enjoying life to the fullest...

You can't cook your food or do your domestic chores...
You can't drive yourself
You can't open the gate by yourself
Just you alone o...

I am not blaming the dead but then there is a lot to learn from this. This isn't the first time this pattern of homicide is happening, and they always happen to the very rich people living alone in the affluent areas like Ikoyi, Lekki, GRAs and so on...

Employing three strangers within one week, and entrusting your life unto their hands as if you are a baby or disabled....

If you were there, you would most likely do same, maybe not to extend she employed but same concept. Someone doesn't have to be a baby before they outsource somethings especially when it takes valuable time or convenience from them, and they can afford payment for the service.

madridguy:
Relations won't kill you.

This is not true.

I don't think you have experience in that department. I know several cases where the related people are bent on draining their well to do relative simply because they are related and they feel entitled to their resources and hence do not respect the limits put on them by the owner. The leeching relative seem to see nothing wrong with what they do. I have seen it with Nigerians, seen it with Indians and Lebanese family dynamics too living here, even experienced it myself.

Where do you think the idiom about mixing family with business comes from? Or assertiveness and carving out spaces comes from? It is the entitlement, and depending on the traits of the people involved especially they one dependent on the other, it could be worse, I know someone who because he is the eldest child from the mother is claiming same in a step sibling who is number 2 from the same mother but first of his father. Somebody who has no business in that space (left out some data, but trust me even you would have exploded, using silly excuse to claim what is clearly not theirs or tied to a relation by blood).

Disgusting behavior just because of relationship is not acceptable.

Are the bold decisions are as bold as those once taken in Singapore for example?

Heffalump:
Which one is pest resistant maize? Is that not GMO? Won't that cause havoc to human consumers? So, pests cannot eat the maize while humans can devour it. OK oo.

As for me, the biggest threat to farmers is not pests and draughts, but fulani herds men. If the government can put the ugly manners of fulani herders in check, Nigeria won't have issues with pests.

That is not just the only threat. Threats are of all manner and of all kinds. The GMO practice itself possess a threat to make farmers solely dependent on suppliers for seed as a number of versions cannot be regrown from their seed after first plant, are you not seeing that portion of slavery, weaponization (ever head of the Tuskegee experiment, there are many modern equivalents we may never find out hidden in plain sight, you know how western influences are unaudited thoroughly here, right?) and capitalistic dependence? Corporate entities suck the decentralized ability of farmers to make food into a corporation, so that there's tyrannical ability, real threat of food shortages, the possibility of things to the creative mind.

The world is growing in wickedness or greed (depending on your perspective), lols, sometimes the powers, systems, bombard (or distract) with multiple threats and give an illusion of choosing your poison, having one feeling like one is better or more tolerable. Anticipate, fight, resist and proactively remove every opportunity for such ideation to even lay a foot hold on your borders. I wish Nigerians, Africans could open their eyes and thoroughly cut their dependence from exterior entities so that when push comes to shove they can actually stand on their own, truly self-sufficient and only relate with outsiders because they can and want to and from a strong negotiation point, not desperate need.

Funny enough, even after testing the regrow ability of the seeds, there might be no sure way to tell that the "regrow ability" cannot be controlled to give the perception of regrowing but only limited to X number of generations before it completely stops so that, the corporations can seem to have the ability to correctly predict when there will be a food famine (because they engineered it all this while).

Nigerians are giving their attention to tribal and ethnic scuffles, useless agendas in the whole scheme of things, simple roads, electricity etc that have been solved problems since the 1990s, issues we have the funds, resources and man power to have gotten past like since forever and focus on more important aspect of living and exporting solutions. Instead we are willingly giving our hands to be tied by all manner of western, eastern, northern and southern dependence which are absolutely needless...

So now about the topic, the question is what solutions are necessary to enjoy the GMO benefits while simultaneously ensuring that natural seed are not threated, wiped out or extinct, and the decentralization of farming is maintained. Else it will be like subscribing to satellite TV like DSTV and simultaneously losing access to free-to-air TV channels, and radio (that is free) and you cannot communicate with other humans by word of mouth, so that when you cannot or are unable to subscribe you have absolutely no access to information


While using the GMO seeds, alongside find a way to use the natural seeds separately store, keep them active, alive and recycle them by regrowth and harvest (while still having some in storage to protect from background radiation whether natural or artificial, you know some airplanes that fly are not necessarily doing it for your own good, neither are they for transport either) maybe 80:20 (or whichever percentage distribution of your choosing that is applicable to your situation).

To be realistic, no matter how hard you try, some things you cannot completely stop from happening, so be wise to extract the good and mitigate the bad. Some things are just tools extract the goodness no matter the situation tactically.

BluntCrazeMan:
My brother,, the data is not there.

The data you are requesting if not there should also be a function of the NBS, the nation's bureau of statistics.

It is not a question of scaling the tax net, infact that is the easiest thing to do but because the country has a habit is squandering and actively encourages this by its inactions, lack of will to make policy in that direction, witch-hunting for the sake of it, ethnicity or blind loyalty, instead of prioritizing and making transparent every movement of funds, and delivering consequences on time for erring action and enforcing a system which adequately rewards the fulfilment of KPIs and expedition of related legal and judicial processes, and also following up on the facility/infrastructural maintenance cycle (they always tend to stop at project end cycle) even though the project costing and evaluation of the qualifying bid may have included the maintenance cycle for a minimum number of period service delivery... Talking about the facility management cycle portion, I have not see a wide spread network of infrastructure marshals work whether in the police, military police or civil defense operatives to prevent realtime vandalism and destruction of property, instead they priotize redundant and needless work functions and following politicians about. Just this morning, a thieving person attempted to steal cables from a transformer located around the vicinity of the international airport, now where were the marshalls or surveillance structure to make sure that I did not happen in the first place or provide a record to go after the erring entity post-incident?


Simply put they are not output centric, because if they were, I assure you even your opinion would be inadequate in comparison to the solution-centric filters they will put in place to make sure things work. When, enough Nigerians wake up, the place will be to hot to tolerate deliberate wastage of time, human and material resources.

It is a systems problem.

Even the remission processes in some spheres may contain loopholes known to parties who feel they are greater than the law and the rest of the land by cornering a good chunk for private use. If you have ever been to for example Oshodi, one of the biggest LCDA in Lagos, any sensible person can easily estimate the amount of tax remission possible with the existing methods meanwhile its use is not seen because, the roads are bad and don't get repaired until it has cost the state(not even LCDA because the effects are cascading) billions in losses over and over again.

The Nigerian community, private, public or even legal does not often enforce and insist accountability from projects monitoring units of their state governments so that every bid winner defends project delivery against funds release for said projects so that every movement of fund is tracked and adequately and correctly released. When they do, the probing, tribunal, dispute resolution or judicial processes frustrates the solution and participants take advantage of the processes to extract as much funds as possible not paying attention to the end result and adequate and speedy delivery of judgement.

Haven't even mentioned "double taxation" and how they let all manner of "illegal taxation" thrive, from street urchins, to unknown gun men, bandits and terrorists and even from law enforcement. No adequate identifiers to let all parties know when a certain tax is illegal or not, deliberate opacity and high handedness to coerce their victims to comply. smh

alternative source for tax info:
https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/elibrary

Sleekfingers:



What are you saying ? Did you read what I wrote?

I saw what you wrote alright, I understand the safety component. If you want what works, don't do that especially when it gives you away.

Be bold and intentional about it.

If clandestine equipment even better.

Dskillful:
Some people are behaving like they have extra life somewhere or in their savings account. If Police stops you just stop and present the necessary documents required of you. Be very diplomatic because they are holding gun, some of those police men are trigger happy if they kill you before justice will be served, your family will be thrown into mourning. No drag with person wey hold gun, just be diplomatic and leave the place in peace.

Is it not even better they do that until there are no civilians to police so that they become the civilians.

This is why I like the French, any nonsense from governments and the likes, revolutions straight, lols.

Sleekfingers:



If you want to record them , record them discreetly. Even their PRO said it. It is for your own safety. But una no dey hear word.

If you do that you will most likely be preyed upon, hold it firm from the get go.

It's an audit instrument all parties involved are captured.

CodeTemplar:
why was he recording them?

Why does he need a reason to keep a visual journal?

This speaks to the so much self erosion we are suffering as humans being citizens of this country.

Even if it were law, you mean you would trust people that often resort to "their words against yours"?

Don't be afraid to step up to law enforcement when the need arises. Civilians make up that force, none, I say none was born a soldier, I would leave it at that.

Kingpele:
Pride goes before a fall.... he could stopped and let the organisers fix the problem then come back to finish the contract he was obliged to honour...

F pride, F fall, some falls are necessary not because of the sufferer is in the wrong, some pride can be necessary as one must understand their value and service not become slaves to externals simply.

Nazgul:
I said this on a similar thread.

Nigeria generates less than 5,000 mega watts and you're expecting NEPA to sustain 20 hours of electricity supply for Band A customers? That's impossible.

They would never be able to meet up with that target, and the customers are the ones who would be on the receiving end cos they'll be paying through their noses for darkness. No thanks to the incompetence of the Discos.

But darkness is free...

The concept of luxurious darkness is bewildering to me, 😆🤣

bionixs:
Who cares . When Nigerians are ready to be free , we shall know . They are busy picking from where their leaders left off. Choking the live out of themselves.

Everyone has denied that dollar wasn't the issue because it has been a bit stable now. Wicked people everywhere. Even Mama kunle that hawks pure water wants to become Mrs Alakija or Obi Cubana from few satchets she sells .

Thank God she can't afford Canada. She and her likes should continue to destroy this nation. Shebi na for their heads e go still collapse

In addition to that, crude oil value has been appreciating and returning to near normal range so the budget (if backed by the dollar or quoted as that) would appreciate in value.

Nazgul:
For were...I bought 5 alive (Pulpy) N1,200 yesterday. Something that used to be around N800 when $ was N1,900. The price really shocked me.

It is still funny to me how I always remember pulpy to be N300 regardless of the increases, all because these increases happened so fast, so quick to much too.

MrMcJay:
This guy is in the US.
Is this how he refers to American Law enforcement over there?

How many times does American Law waste resources on least priority things like this?

Something a mobile court could probably handle...

When trillions are going into the wrong pockets and for the wrong reason?

BondRiv:
The miserable life the IMF, WEF and others want.

Worse than that...

They want to lock everyone under loans... So that it becomes inevitable to live without loans...

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
We should just boycott the national grid and switch to solar power supply.

After generating, let them chop the megawatts.

We have abundant natural gas supplies and oil rigs are still flaring methane as we speak

We have abundant crude oil supplies with millions of barrels being lifted per day.




We have water bodies for HEP generation yet Bulaba wants us to smell pepper before we can have power.

Azi gbakwa!

In addition to that, we have resources to produce the more superior battery technology, Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries, yet I won't be surprised if we would be getting it at premium compared to countries that don't have the resource...

What perplexes me with all these lies is that, our export is enough to meet substantial demand worldwide but you'll hear barefaced lies like we have too much demand that exceeds supply...

Some places need consistent thunder ⚡⚡⚡.

usmanktg2:

Yes, it is a Natural Resource, but you need Investment to extract it, not faith.

So why doesn't NERC take advantage of the gas wastage going on. The extraction cost is paid for through another related process already, yet there's gross unwillingness to stop gas flaring.


Don't you see how government rather burdens it's citizenry so that a few benefactors cum capitalist enjoy, than to invests the nations wealth for more prosperity, just look at Norway, why are clear logical steps to improvements rocket science in this clime, why?

If the average monthly earnings is NGN1.78m or above why not?.

As at 2021, data I gathered suggested an average Nigerian NEEDED at least NGN 1.3m monthly for modest living, nothing fancy, just modest living.

So going by the trending inflation a few years after that, that figure will invariably now be NGN 2.6m monthly and above.

I found it quite funny that alot of people were clowning labour lead Ajero when he mentioned the 1m figure as minimum wage... You guys think the figure heads in this country really care going by their actions? Something the masses should have taken seriously....

With all things being the same that figure was perfect, achieve the wage figure, worry about inflation later, that should be government's job. If the inflation increases again, keep on raising the wages commensurately until sense return to their dome to regulate the economy better.

With the same seriousness banks look after their money, or greedy politicians parading the Nigerian halls of power should be the same seriousness the Nigerian citizen takes their welfare and ensure commensurate and equal amount of service paid for no mincing of words or laxity.

wirinet:
This is why Buhari refused to float the Naira even with IMF pressure. Tinubu caved for power.
Listen to Buhari here in his interview with Aljazeera. He explained why he was going against the IMF and their call for him to float the Naira. He even got visibly angry in this video when cautioned against opposing the IMF.

His successor who needed power and International validation so he had to go with the IMF instruction. That's why the Subsidy removal and the floating of the Naira were done before he had a cabinet or economic team.
This is SAP (Structural Adjustment Programme) II. Buhari knew Nigeria wouldn't survive another SAP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gQtp9PlzfE?si=reC-sY1szEbW1X3c

I find it hard to understand how all the brains and elite economists entrusted with power in the country couldn't see that this is an obvious enslavement of a whole people, subjection of a whole nation's integrity meant to be protected to every other countries' citizen and majorly the west, infact everybody...

I don't understand how a currency value that was once higher than pounds is now way way lesser than 1/1000 th of same currency (it's almost comical, like how did that happen, how bad did things have to go to justify the currency being that low from its former position?) and all the big brain economist the country could muster allowed this?

Well, well, well, whatever they see they get... at this point am just watching how the incoming chaos will ensue because it will surely happen, it will be interesting to watch whatever it is...

..whether it would be that the currency reaches one-millionth of dollar so that everyone can brag about buy a bottle of pepsi for NGN100,000 so that the resources put to print the money itself will then become more valuable that the product being bought,

Ooh, ooh, maybe we will start counting our budgets in quintillions, while theft will be in quadrillions and kidnappers and bandit be asking for ransom in the trillions...

CandidAdmin:
If this was a criteria for good leadership(that's if they didn't know it was one), many Nigerians will woefully FAIL!

You see that plantain ehn, before I even start frying it, I don put one for mouth.

I would argue that some sampling is necessary for destructive testing for the sake of quality control.

Some people over do it Sha, lols 🤣...

Kobicove:


If you hit intentionally hit someone he/she has a right to kill you while defending himself!

I don't think you are considering proportionality of force and the capacity to take one's self out of the situation where possible.

There are instances where what you said can be true, however it is not true for a whole lot of situations, at least that violence level is not commonplace else it will become barbarian living real quick...

If someone didn't know the context, one would think you were referring to mosquitoes or something...

SharingIsLife:
Nigerian inflation hit 28.2% in November while that of Turkey is at 66%. https://dailynigerian.com/nigeria-inflation-rate-hits-7/

Economists please can you help? Are we better than them or they are better than us?

SEE ALSO: A Sure Way To Turn Inflation On Its Head And Make It Work For You

https://medium.com/@rartalks.christ/a-sure-way-to-turn-inflation-on-its-head-and-make-it-work-for-you-35f96e7a9a1b

I'm dedicating this FTC to Victor Osimhen.

I would actually like to know how that inflation figure is reached because I believe a more realistic inflation value would be around 200 - 400 %, upwards even, if adjusted based on volume of observed nation's average total expenditure/exchange of goods and services. I believe our inflation values are either being under reported or misrepresented.

Angelfrost:


An average Nigerian is at greater risk of dying from mild sickness due to inflation.

This is one of the worst and bizarre stats across the universe... Only war-torn nations have such a situation.

As poor and globally unacceptable as the healthcare facilities are in this country, many citizens still can't afford them currently.

What's crazy is that when Falz mentioned this on CNN a few years back I think around the protest period, that was true, even moreso just last week when we were seeing antibiotics quoted 4-8X their initial prices the week prior.


We looking at ...

Unaffordable education
Unaffordable transportation (that is considering periodic earnings)
Unaffordable feeding

And now medical care is looking even more unaffordable.

CoronaVirusPro:
Bunkum and balderdash!

The financial times UK should also tell us about the hardship being faced by UK citizens! Oh! They feel we don't know that inflation is biting harder than never before, and a housing crisis fvckin their country from the butthole?

Anyways, His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) is aware about the statistics and making frantic efforts to steer the economy on a growth path. Nigerians do not need a foreign entity battling with its own problems, to notify us.

Everyone knows the UK survives by taxes, perks of being a global financial hub, and that is even more important to them even as they exert benefits of their empire and colonial links, so not so much news there.

The juicier news is that a country whose currency value was more than the aforementioned empire has allowed its currency to be devalued to 1/1200th of that empire's currency's value within say at least 60 years, continually, while NOT lacking the natural resources the UK relies on taxes and multilateral agreements for.

That data coming out of Nigeria is continually saying that law abiding, working Nigerians are worth less and are less Nigerian than their terrorist counterparts.

And that to live a normal life, one has to be a stinkingly rich Nigerian, or a non- Nigerian (either in earning capacity or through and through non Nigerian)

youngrichnigga:
The funny thing is that most of these loan sharks are partly owned and funded by the same politicians who have over the years pauperized the average Nigerians with bad policy implementation as well as institutionalized corruption.
God will certainly give us a leader to deliver Nigerians sooner than later

There are quite a handful of Chinese ones too.