₦airaland Forum

I love exclusive neighbourhoods but I don't like old houses, but it depends on how old we're talking.

Again, when you say an ok neighbourhood, it depends. If it's a middle class neighbourhood, I would go for B, but if we're talking, lower class neighbourhood, I'd rather stick with A.

Lower class neighbourhood are very frustrating. You'd stick out like a sore thumb, everyone will know your business. It's usually a mess.

He probably died a while back. Trust Nigerian government to cover up everything. RIP to him.

People just sit in their lonely house and start writing gibberish. There are no rules anywhere. Why are people surprised that a man sleeps with married women? Loose single girls translate to loose married women.

A man in position of wealth and power will always have access to women. This guy is a randy dude who probably hits on every woman he meets. For every 1 woman he sleeps with, he'll also have 3 who turns him down. We've all met that guy who talks to every woman he meets.

Boys should stop taking rubbish advice from fellow boys online, who probably have single digit body count. If you're a randy womanizer by nature, then do your thing, but if you're a simple guy who doesn't believe in chasing women, stay that way.

For every womanizer out there, is a guy who has the stomach for rejection. Maintain your lane if you don't have such stomach. If you don't have consent, never record anyone if you don't want your ass to get sued.

jorion:
So Brad Pete have no social skills, what of Kanye West. I just dey laugh when I see men wey think say them don understand women or to keep women na by their power.

Oga, stop thinking that you are better than other men. The day them go use you wipe ground, na ur own go trend pass. Social skills my foot.

WHICH SOCIAL SKILLS WAN KEEP PERSON WEY ALREADY SEE YOU AS BUS RIDE EXCEPT THEM DON VOW TO REMAIN INSIDE THAT BUS?

So because Brad or Kanye are wealthy or famous, does it mean they have great personalities or treat people right?

You money worshippers are not smart. Go and develop a great personality and nobody will treat you like a rag, except the person is a devil. Stop overrating celebs. They are worse than you.

This is not about understanding women, it's about knowing why some women leave their spouses abroad. Many men and women still relocate blissfully. Some men have nothing to offer other than throwing money at women, when such women start making money, throwing money now becomes meaningless.

The new cruise. That's what happens when fooóôlish men buy women's affection with money. When the women are now able to make their own money, they kick these fóöools to the curb because they have nothing else to offer.

Make money without developing your social skills and personality crew, better learn.

No sympathy for anyone. The same people crying and begging will still vote along religious and ethnic lines at the expense of qualification and competence.

We know how to build but can hardly maintain. Good one and I hope we use it properly. We need to step up our maintenance culture.

It's not just about building roads, bridges and infrastructure, the real work is in maintaining them.

Richard Quest had always given gay vibes.

Overhyped England, no matter whom dey bring, it's not coming home.

She's still better off. She wasn't high value from the start, she's still not high value but at least she has a family. Family is everything

Adonko:
So from the above are you saying colour, gene or location is responsible for this?

Location is out.
Colour and gene is the common denominator.

Adonko:
Even though I agree with what you wrote up there.. I still maintain my stand that poor leadership especially political is the undertone of Nigeria's challenges.

Our politicians are not living up to expectations at all... Hence the decay in the system.

Why exactly are politicians not acting right? There must be something in the gene of we descendants of black Africa. How come they ain't acting right in Cameroon, Haiti, Uganda, Ghana etc

Somehow, the leaders in the Arab part of Africa seem to be acting right and those countries are at least much more developed than those of black Africans, including the white dominated South Africa.

Blacks are a problem to themselves. Take the white men away from Canada, US and all the countries the blacks are japaing to and see the place turn to slums in the next decade.

Population is also a big problem in Africa. What exactly is the use of having more than 3 kids at most? What is the economic, social and emotional purpose of having multiple kids? I will never understand.

Obviously a hooker. She should be proud, she's putting in the work. The more body count, the more money she makes.

What is fun now, is usually a cause for regret later in life.

Good. Lagos is the only state trying to meet up a little with global standard. Though there is still a lot to do if it is to be considered a modern city.

Nothing will give me more joy than seeing other states trying to modernise and be proactive. Most governors are just squandering their resources.

femi4:
There are serial killers, knife stabbers in the UK

Obviously, there are bad people everywhere. The statement is a tongue in cheek statement.

Nice. For those who are survivors of breast cancer, I saute you. For those using it for clout, keep praying not to experience breast cancer.

Creative and hilarious.

Hopefully, our japa people haven't carried kidnapping people for rituals mentality there.

She'll be found. I trust the police to do a good job.

Everyone is cutting cost but randy men don't seem to be cutting their budget cost on women.

Who will check on us? T-pain wants to kill us here.

It's a regular disposable cup and most are red in colour. It's where you put your liquor on the go.
It's better than carrying a glass cup around as its easily disposed off after use. It's not just celebrities, everyone who drinks liquor outside the comfort of their home will usually carry a disposable cup.

Scape goat. When a prominent person is paraded for theft or fraud, he has offended the big bosses who want to make an example of him.

Bluev:
Just keep quiet when u don't know what to say...
You people won't see when he was also building houses for the poor widows across the country

With which money? Gullible followers.

Labadi69:
I feel like giving you a hot konk on that your bald head. What has he said that is not known by anyone interested in history? How different is it from knowing how JFK was shot and how his killer was caught and then also shot. So knowing these things makes me a foreign spy abi? I tire for all these hopeless lazy youths wey dey run around this Nairaland

You probably slap your father at home. Useless child

Congrats to the pastor, he has found a formula that works, I respect his hustle.

From organising prayer sessions during covid to getting all woman to join his live sessions every morning while posting foreign and local bank accounts for seed sowing and tithes.

I salute brilliant people who know how to collect your money without using a weapon.

This man is either CIA, or a foreign spy. He may even have been a mercenary. Very few tourist or expatriates who even stay long know this much.

Wike should rest. It's obvious he has lost this battle already. Eat humble pie and leave the state alone.

A dog that us doomed will never hear his masters whistle. Goodbye to your family inheritance.

nairalanda1:
Simple. All those countries produce far more oil than Nigeria, for populations that are less than Nigeria. (KUwait has 6 million people, Oman has about less than 20 million, Saudi has 40 million, and produces ten times what we produce in oil, Qatar has one million and produces nearly 1.2 m barrles per day)

So, per capita, they got more dollars to spend on buffering their currencies, than NIgeria, where, even assuming that our leaders were nice and good people that did not do looting, has limited amount of money.

As 'strong' as their economies are, most nations would prefer to do business in dollars, pounds, euros, and even chinese currency, and yen....because the countries that have those currencies are simply industrial exporters. Heck, I think that even swiss currency better pass Saudi.

And it cost those countries a lot of money to maintain strong currencies...when oil prices fell in 2014, Saudi spent over 100 billion dollars in ten months just to keep the riyal strong. (That led to some changes, including the government eventually setting up a soverign wealth fund).


Nigeria's problem is that we can't do as they do, because we have a large population to spend on. Yaradua was one of the most stingy presidents in NIgerian history, yet at the end he was able to save at least 60 billion dollars in our reserve. Too many people means that a lot of our oil revenue has to be spent meeting needs NOW.....and what we can save , even with prudence, is too little


Ultimately, we have to use our resources to manufacture stuff for export. That is the way. If oil becomes obsolete tomorrow, all those countries will fall.

Interesting angle but I still insist if our leaders didn't loot and borrow foolishly, we wouldn't be where we are.

Population is a good thing if the economy is stable. In 2019, it was reported that over 500 billion dollars has been looted so far. Imagine investing such amount Into the economy.

https://www.thecable.ng/chatham-house-582bn-stolen-from-nigeria-since-independence/amp/

nairalanda1:
While I agree with you, our problem with weak currency predates Buhari and tinubu.

Issue is, we have a currency that is tied to the value of our raw materials. If we earn highly, we have a strong currency, because we use forex to buffer it. If we earn low, ie price of what we sell is low.....we have our currency losing value.

LIke now, in the period 1973-82, naira was essentially N1-1 dollar, even stronger than the pound at one point. Back then oil prices were so high, that most oil producing countries were enjoying boom economies. When the oil price crashed in October 1982....the good times ended, and naira began to fall. BY 1988, the same complaint you are making now, they made it back then. BY 1993, it was N20 to one dollar, and by 1999, it was 90 to one dollar.

We had the same cycle between 2008-14, when oil prices were high. Crash again

What Buhari did wrong was to essentially take forex we did not have to buffer the naira. OIl prices were too low. What he should have done back then was to float the naira, let it move freely, remove subsides, and so forth....but that was in 2015, and if he did that, he would have lost 2019 by a landslide.

So, he did what he did, and by the time his sidekick took over, the result of 8 years of preteding was that we had massive debt eating 99% of our revenue. TInubu was forced to do what should have been done in 2015, even earlier.

(ON subsides, people like GEJ saw the coming storm...thanks to his advisers like NOI and SLS, but as we know, Nigerians refused to support projects like subsidy removal back in 2012, that would have helped us over the storm today. And it was buhari and tinubu that led the projects. The result of their projects came to bite them in the ass, especially tinubu).

SO, here we are.

But even then, what we need to do to have a strong currency is to BECOME A PRODUCER NATION (what Obi harped on in the last runup to the election....but everyone was too busy to listen to him)....a nation that produces manufactured goods for export. That is why the yen, the won and the reminbi are strong reserve currencies, alongside the pound and dollars, and euro....because those countries hacked the secret.....manufacture goods the world needs for export.


But in Nigeria, we have leader after leader thant when they come into power, na to share money they know. A sensible leader wouldhave used our oil money to build more power stations, railways, and improve the grid...while removing subsides on everyhting except education. Result would have been a country ready to take on the world....but the problem is, our current leaders no wan do....because it means more hardship, and losing elections .

Seems like a brilliant analysis but it doesn't answer the question why Kuwait and Omani currencies are stronger than the dollar. They are not manufacturers of any goods but are known for oil just like Nigeria.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar also have strong currencies. They are only known for their oil. Our problem is simply bad leadership. Leaders borrowing loans, paying high interest and squandering the loans.