₦airaland Forum

ositadima1:
By the way, trade is the exchange of value—you need what I have, and I need what you have. Everyone goes home happy. But if you grow to like what I offer so much that you end up depending on me for most of your needs, whose fault is that?

You're paying, and the other party is providing value. Your money isn’t a gift; you're exchanging it for something useful. Yet, some people act like they're doing others a favor by buying goods and services that they themselves will consume. (you inclusive) That’s a terrible way of thinking.

KarlTom:
The chances of this happening are slim.

Do you realize that major American manufacturers have a good chunk of their factories in China?

GM, Ford, Nike, Dell, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Qualcomm, P&G, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, HP, Dell even Tesla etc

I don't think China have any reason to 'cave in'...

ositadima1:
Lol, China is even prepared for complete decoupling—zero trade between the two countries. Both will suffer the consequences.

China has carved out a strong position for itself over the years, and the USA can't simply wish that away.

megawealth01:
You think TRUMP really cares about public opinion?

RodgersAkpafu:
Trump has a low IQ voter base
And he has to keep pandering and posturing to them
That's why he keeps doing this stupid shit


As a reserve currency
Trade deficit is a bug (the push )
However because your service industries are global, they can act as the pull factor back in

The slowpoke even conflate trade deficit with budget deficits, forgetting that there are countries with trade surplus but budget deficits

Wo...
Make we just dey look abeg
let him burn the whole market
Let us see cheap asset to buy
Since "they no wan wise"

SonofElElyonRet:
That's not a win for USA.. not even a draw

Makanjuola89:
Oando has finished me

ololufemi:
Please my brother, don't show a lack of history about Africa (I don't mean it in an abusive way).

Do you know that the Greeks who taught the Romans how to organise their society got their knowledge from Africa in places like Alexandria in Egypt and others where you have the Pyramids and great cities along the Nile that were advanced in agricultural practices?

Timbuktu and Mali which were homes to Mansa Musa (acclaimed by even the westerners to be one of the richest man that ever lived on earth); you also have cities like Benin in Nigeria that had a defensive wall longer than the great wall of China and the inhabitants were already using street lamps to illuminate the streets of their cities before the Europeans.

Our African societies were way ahead of many of those Western Societies we know today. Our people just lost it at some point and things went downhill for African societies.

The dark skinned people popularly called the Moors in those days were from Africa and they occupied and ruled places in Britain, Spain, Portugal, etc. They were vast in knowledge and esoteric things and taught the westerners most of what they know today.

Unfortunately Africans have been blind sighted to believe that they are inferior and their terrible behavioural patterns has not made things better for their societies.andnits people as well.

There was even an African from the Northern part around Libya who became Emperor of the Roman Empire and was domiciled in Britain at some point to protect the british people from the barbarians ravaging through Europe at that time.

Xidget:
Is Oando going back to #10 ni

RodgersAkpafu:
This your post is a very funny post

So because I called (rightfully so) Nigerians dummies (well, most of them) ; you sheepishly believe that it is because I do not live in Nigeria anymore is the reason for the stand I took...


Just so you know

1. People who hold this view are in their millions, and many are based in Nigeria, very smart, and are appalled by the tomfoolery going on...
it's a position I have held for donkey years, based on the QUALITY of discussions that are predominantly had in our circles

Go to Naija twitter now and see for yourself

2. That post reeks of inferiority complex, you will have to check yourself
Thats zig zag thinking

and

3. I never claimed to be "biologically superior' to Nigerians, afterall I am of Nigerian ancestry

all I yearn for is for my people to STOP being stupid, and use the brains God gave them

Period

Streetinvestor2:
Lol.. na him type dey cry all over social media on trump immigration policy. Hand go definitely touch the guy soon. English go finish for him mouth

USA2019:
Apologies, I don't converse with people having comprehension issues. When you have mastered the art of comprehension, you can come back for a conversation.

emmanuelewumi:
My take

USA2019:
Lol stop tagging me in all the senselessness. This irrational mentality is why the country/continent is retrogressive while rational European countries are progressing, yet you crave for all the products of their rationality. LMAO. I see, Africans were not giving birth before your European masters came to show you how to give birth in the hospital. If your brain (rationality) is not suspended you cannot be worshipping in most of those places you call church in Nigeria. Please stop already.

USA2019:
Lol I'm more spiritual and know God more than you. I do not blame you, it's the brainwashing that's still affecting you.

God that is a spirit does not need food or a house--he doesn't live in houses made by human hands. You're only supporting your pastor's real estate business by paying to his church, which his children will inherit. Wake up dude, it's already happening before your very eyes--Jimmy Odukoya is a perfect case study.

USA2019:
So Nigerian pastors take it to God? Show me God's account number they pay it to. I need to set up a direct deposit.

USA2019:
So Nigerian pastors take it to God? Show me God's account number they pay it to. I need to set up a direct deposit.

USA2019:
Lol you're really funny and sound like one of the tithe collectors or one of their beneficiaries.

Tithing is an Old Testament doctrine and has nothing to do with Christianity. Any Nigerian collecting tithe is utterly unqualified to do so in the first place because he or she is not a Levite, who are the qualified tribe to collect it because they had no portion in the promised land. Levites were to feed from the grains and animals brought to the temple as tithes. Also, tithe was meant to be paid on farm produce only, not on other forms of income or money. The Bible stipulates that you consume your tithes in the temple, so show me how Nigerian tithe payers consume theirs. Are people who cannot pay tuition for their children to attend a university they co-sponsored eating their tithes?

Let's not even go there, Christians are not bound by the law meant for the Jews, not gentiles like you and I. The Nigerian "Agbalowomeri" Tithe Collectors know the truth but must still milk the poor to sustain their flamboyant lifestyle. None of them even has the power of the prophets. This is not a topic you want to discuss--we should not derail this thread.

USA2019:
Trust me, they are among. The early Church collected and distributed equally among the brethren in the Acts of the Apostles, but the Nigerian collectors take from their mostly needy members through various schemes and means (psychology, scaring, fake miracles and testimonies, etc.). What the tithe collectors do is exactly what the Yoruba call "agbalowomeri". Of course, the others you have listed rightfully qualify for that title too.

Streetinvestor2:
Again if you tell a lie 100 times without it being challenged. It may begin to look like the truth. That is why we have elders in this business here...lol

USA2019:
The guy is not too different from our Nigerian tithe collectors. IYKYK.

Agbalowomeri:
You go school and you read the book

USA2019:
Point of correction, the "agba" in his name doesn't mean "an elder", it means something very "sinister". He's a bad guy. The "agba" here means "a taker", and @Agbalowomeri means "A taker from the needy/lacking."

Agbalowomeri:
Lol who is competing with you on knowing. My hypothesis is still in place. EPS will trend down from here. Isn't that what we are saying? We are on a hilltop and descending . If Q1 and Q2 EPS 2025 show growth over 2024, then you have won.

SonofElElyonRet:

I don target long term o jare

RodgersAkpafu:
Indeed
Nigerian are too difficult (the real word is stupid) to deal with

Instead of understandings the unique situation we are in and advocating Dangote gets all the support he needs
Because of sentiment and stupidity
People are talking "anyhow"

Dangote will be fine regardless
The refinery too
But let's see how the metrics of nigeria will be if we bungle this opportunity

Senseless people
Tufiakwa

Raider76:
All you said is well. Except the Japanese Yen is a strong convertible currency that is very stable, and Japan has had very low inflation and even negative (-ve) interest rates for decades. So, a Japanese refinery importing crude in US$ and selling in Yen is almost like using the same currency. We Nigerians like to compare ourselves to the strongest countries on earth. But sometimes it is like a chicken saying it will fly like the eagle since it is also a bird. If you don't understand who you are it is easy to get lost.

Raider76:
Alhaji has really gone global. The import cabals and NNPC will be unhappy to read stories like this:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-jet-fuel-imports-surge-nigerias-dangote-refinery-pushes-barrels-west-2025-03-24/

jonnysessy:
Okomu held board meeting on 20/03/25. At this meeting dividend was declared. Why then would you wait till 30/03/25 before this audited results and corporate action is made known to the public. I used to think that immediately after board meeting, the next thing is announcement of results. Or is it not so?