This country is a country of useless people!

naturalman:
Tinubu will show this man shege pro Max.......when Port Harcourt refinery starts working, the price of PMS will be made cheaper in order to frustrate dangote refinery

Very senseless comment. Dangote Refinery products are priced at an international benchmark. 1) he doesn’t have to sell his products in Nigeria 2) he will make more money not doing so. 3) there is always an international market for his products 4) it is better for him to bybass Nigeria and our wahala. 5) anybody who thinks he can “show” Dangote should not waste his time lobbying international investors.

Dangote is bigger than Nigeria like it or not…..at least for now. Dangote is Nigeria’s no1 ambassador. His voice is vastly greater, he has more clout, what happens to him is more important to the global business /investment community that anything any govt official says or does. If anybody thinks he is trying to get at Dangote, let him know he is getting at Nigeria, you kill Dangote, you kill Nigeria. It doesn’t matter how he got to where he is, he is there now. Again Dangote is bigger than Nigeria. Dangote is not Aliko Dangote, Dangote is an institution and a pillar of Nigeria. You cannot destroy Dangote without destroying Nigeria.

If you want to attack Dangote, learn from him…..play the fool until you are bigger than him.

Enemies of the country are beginning to reveal themselves.

Why would his products not contain more sulphur when he has to import his crude from countries with high sulphur because you refuse to give him Nigerian low sulphuric crude?

See them o, they are revealing themselves. How can someone say we must have imported crude for energy security. These are the people that want importation to continue. Na them be this o!! Take note of the name.

gidgiddy:


People are disappearing now without written anything, ask those who have Bern held in DSS custody without charge

It’s not your fault.

gidgiddy:


Unfortunately true

You (and others saying so) likely were not alive then or too young to know anything. In those days you could disappear for what you just wrote.

Bobloco:
Umahi is speaking for himself and also from the position of being a member of the current calamitous Tinubu regime.

Umahi, no matter his position and status, doesn't have the authority to speak for the south east, and he knows this very fact. 

So long as you keep your protests to the SE and don’t think you can use protests as a guise to destroy infrastructure in the SW like you did during Endsars!

Paraman:
Congratulation to her. She should be from wike's state

MASTAkiLLAh:
Wike setting his people up properly while Bayelsa politicians constantly jonze

she is from Bayelsa

God1000:
Okocha is recognized all over the world as a football legend

Shhh don’t tell Mikel Obi.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Democracy in the mud. So, the presidency is against criticism.

Borrow yourself some sense. He isn’t an ordinary party member, he was the chief whip. If you have grievances you handle it internally. Can you have a general whose commanding officer is criticizing the battle plan openly?

It is not done!

Even That former NW chairman that has been criticizing up and down left the party before he started criticizing precisely because he was a former national vice chairman. Even El Rufai who has legitimate grounds to be aggrieved has kept mute plublicly.

To whom much is given much is expected. Either criticize internally or if you are sincere and not self serving resign and then criticize.

It is not done.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Why?

Because he knows awards and nominations in Nigeria are worthless. There is. I thing to be proud of when you share a nomination or award with all manner of crooks, 1mbeciles and charlatans? Just look at the manner of people with MON, CON, OFR etc. it devalues the awards. Talk less what the likes of ale reports and his ilk have done to awards in Nigeria. They are meaningless. In addition these awards are a money making scheme organized by scammers to massage the egos of mostly nobodies and the insecure. By attaching your name to them you are giving them legitimacy.

Sapasenator:


Why so much difference between Anambra and Ogun? Aside from being an oil-producing state, what other criteria are considered to arrive at the allocation figures?

FAAC is net after foreign loan deductions.

internationalman:


Name one white Nigerian.. I don't know why black want to be citizen of every country in the world.

Typical ignorant Nigerian.enlighten yourself. They had/have blacks, they exterminated most of them and hide the ones that are left. At some point the population of Argentina was 1/3rd blacks and up to half in some areas. Ironically Buenos Aires, their capital was once predominantly black. Argentina was built by black slaves. Their history and blacks are like 5and 6. As with all racists and to tell you how predominant blacks once were in Argentina, it is ironic one of their former presidents was half black. This was a result of a deliberate policy of whitening the population, through encouraging immigration of Europeans and leaving many black women with no choice but to marry whites over time for economic reasons and also because there was a scarcity off black men due to poor health etc. such is the history of blacks and Argentina that a majority of “white” Argentinians have black blood in them but they either do not know or refuse to accept or acknowledge it.

Understand that there is hardly a South American country without a significant black population because in most cases the majority of the original inhabitants have been wiped out by disease brought by the explorers. The European explorers and migrants settlers settled to farm plantations with black slaves. So blacks and South America are like 5 and 6. Has it ever occurred to you that the countries that surround Argentina all have blacks, so why don’t you see or hear about black Argentinians?

As far as white Nigerians you will be shocked there are more white Nigerians outside Nigeria than in Nigeria. I still remmember on my first day in a job in the Uk and my boss told me we have a Nigerian here and lo and behold this white man walked up to me. Apparently he was born and grew up in Nigeria in the 70s. Mandilas is a Nigerian, Leventis is a Nigerian and many other families…Trump’s son-in/law is a white Nigerian. Although not a Nigerian, even former British PM John major was once spent some years in Nigeria as a bank clerk in Jos. If not for the accident he had (he walks with a limp) causing him to return, his children could easily have been Nigerian. Nigeria was once a place where it was a privilege to be posted to in the eyes of the westerners and many of them had children here. I went to school with many who were born here.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNSqBKzBeR0?si=h7CRfzdVh62BFVwX


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5L_GsCllHk?si=nK2CBf0DQDK9wdWD


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKbh-m5545M?si=PXF6c_cqrJsSAg83

Remman:
Okay, now i see the problem, how old are you, kid? Let me run through a short check. Op asked about beans, i responded by suggesting soya beans. You mentioned me with your false rumour that soya beans is bad for men. I made a research and discovered that it's a false misconception by people. To continue in your illusion because like flat earthers, you've believed in your unproven theory to be true because you want it to be true while it's clearly not. Now you're saying soy oil. That's another false thread. But i must confess, the only part i love about you is that you say your point without insult which kind of make me think you're matured, even though your claims say otherwise. You're ahead of some people here. Nice one!

Oga rest! I have already said my comments are predominately in respect to soya oil. Eat your soya and be happy!

Etahi4:
Argentina team was wrong to celebrate with racist song

If you know about Argentina, you will already be aware that are probably the most racist country in the world. It’s in their DNA. Name one black Argentinian? They actually got rid of their black population.

Remman:
I see your problem... Who mentioned soy oil? Na so you don dey change topic to suit your imagination. Good for you!

I am not changing topic, Yes with hindsight you mentioned beans and the thread was about beans but I was always talking primarily about soy Oil because the majority who consume soy especially in Nigeria and globally consume it via oil. I said it from the get go that those for whom soya is a staple (the Asians) eat it after a fermentation process that clearly alters the food just like cassava which is poisonous in raw form. However that you are not prepared to defend oil says it all. 90% of those who consume Soya (knowingly or unknowingly) do so via oil and for them the safety of soy oil is relevant again nobody can say it is safe because humans have not consumed oil long enough especially at scale like today. Therefore I stick to what I know for sure is safe before the same advocates who claim it is safe to sell oils, turn around next decade (when they have found a cheaper oil) to say actually soy oil does indeed cause this and that. Is it not the same AstraZeneca that told you Covid vaccines were safe that recently admitted they are not. Is it not the same people that said ivermectin cannot cure Covid that later turned round to say it does. Their excuse was not enough research, but somehow rushing out a vaccine that normally takes 10 years is enough research?

Did I read “soya”, jump the gun and proceed to talk about oil when in fact the topic was about the meal, possibly and I put my hands up. But 1) soy even as a meal was until recently only considered by the mainstream as only good enough for animal consumption and 2) no one can say for definite soy oil is safe because human consumption is not even up to 1 life cycle. Therefore given the concerns raised, especially when medics and scientists have different opinions, I defer to the side of caution when it comes to soy oil. I don’t use it, though I am aware outside my home I cannot control what people use to cook the food they serve me. That is only a problem if I eat out a lot.


The proliferation in the consumption of soy products is largely a result of economics and we know than when economics and safety compete, economics always win.

Remman:
Yes o... Why didn't it kill my grandfather earlier who died at 92 years of natural death?

Oga no be fight carry on and I hope you live longer than your grandfather. BTW Soy as a food was only introduced to Nigeria in 1908, it wasn’t eaten as an oil until recently. Oils like palm and groundnut oil have been consumed for over 5000 yrs in Africa, olive oil is mentioned in the Bible. There is a bigger body of evidence of the effect of consumption of oils like palm, groundnut and olive than soy. A man can smoke cigarettes his entire life and not get cancer, that does not mean cigarettes are not dangerous. Global consumption of soy oil is less than 60 years, nobody can say for a fact that it is safe. Those who consumed soya consumed it as a food meal after a process of fermentation not as an oil.

Your brother next door in Uganda warned you, you cozied up to the west thinking they are your friends, now eye don open.

Remman:
from my grandparents to my parents (father side) to me and my siblings we eat soybeans daily and i'm a living witness. I still have four times sex with my spouse & mistresses a day. I don't need anyone to lie to me that the earth is flat just because they believe so without evidence. If soybean was bad for men, it would have been bad on me. I already have four kids, my younger an health educator and he consumes it. We don't even have cancer or diabetic in our family tree. We're a soybeans family. We're the evidence to the false claims. This is not related to covid19 that was made in a lab. Soybeans was made by God. Even the white mafia that brought covid to reduce your population said that Africans made it with strong DNA because of their diets, and now they're trying to attack our diet via GMO seeds.

In conclusion,

SOYBEAN is very healthy for the black man's health. God made it without poisoning it!

Clap for yourself and carry on. No be fight.

For the attention of others who


Like I said food that is not natural to me I do not eat. Soy beans is alien to Nigeria and it is alien to the human diet. It was introduced to Nigeria in 1908. Our ancestors did not eat soy. In fact soy was not a food eaten globally until the 1960s. Like I said those who ate soy (Chinese) prepared it differently.

Remman:
This is a complete research with facts about soy if at all it's harmful to men. Please get your facts right, you're scaring people with unproven rumours. Here: https://kansasfarmfoodconnection.org/spotlights/is-soy-safe-for-men-get-the-facts

Carry on eating soya. The same people that told you cow milk was good for you we now realize it was because they had excess of cow milk. The same people who told you butter was bad and margarine was good we now find margarine is bad and butter is much better. The same people who told you ribena was good for you we now find it is full of sugar, I spend my childhood eating plants annd blue and margarine because we were told it was healthy, decades later we now learn it’s one of the most dangerous things you can put in your mouth and so on and so forth. The same people who told you to take untested Covid vaccines, we now find out people are dying of heart attacks and the ivermectin they didn’t want you to use is more effective. They don’t want you using ivermectin because ivermectin is cheap and out of patent. Just as they want you consuming the type of oils they can plant. Soy, rapeseed, etc, they are bad oils. You clearly do not know how the Academic medical and pharmacy community and the corresponding big business partners and the research funding the receive work. No business is going to find the research of an academic to say his product is bad. On the contrary they will find research with a pretldetermined positive outcome like they did with milk.

Nobody has ever said olive oil is bad or oranges are bad for you or yam or potatoes or pineapple etc etc because these are naturally occurring time consumed foods. Soya is new to the human diet. If a food exists and there is a debate split down the middle even in the medical community then it is a cue not to eat that food. If my parents didn’t eat it, I am not eating it. But hey feel free to eat soya and its products. But remmember one of the reason the west promotes soya is because it is the oil they can produce. The demonised palm oil for decades, now that they have an obesity crisis suddenly they are all using palm oil derived cooking oil and touting it as healthy.

Like I said carry on with your soya. No fight there.

And while you are at it look at the ingridients of the so called powdered or evaporated milk you are consuming, many of you do not know you are consuming processed palm oil.

Remman:
Can you mention exactly what makes it bad for men? I have consumed it for 37 years. I'm still very alive and strong in the other room (my wife & mistresses can tell), i'm still seeing things with my eyes, my brain can still think deep, etc. etc. Although i stopped taking soya beans between 2006 and 2011 when i was on some charity programmes in Malawi that took me to vulnerable places. I replaced with beans and went back to it since around 2016 to 2017 when MMM was reigning and still consuming it till now. Although i do switch to beans at times but ever since things got worsened under Tinubu, I've switched back to its flour. Soya beans is like a family food to me.

Please, i'll be grateful to know its side effects as i've never experienced any and i'll soon clock 50 less than 5 years from now.

Soya increases estrogen in men. Estrogen is a female hormone. Look there are many things we consume that do not manifest immediately or take time to manifest. Like I said read up about soya. Soya is not normally meant for human consumption and even then the type eaten in Asia is fermented Soya.

lionshare:
All government vehicle procurement must be CNG-Compliant to drive mass adoption and help ease inflation.

You would think that would be the 1st directive

N

90% of “single women” over 40 whether never married , single mother, separated or divorced are side chicks to married men and they are passed on from one married man to another. These days some of them are serviced by small boys. Know that and know peace as they say. You don’t know because those with a modicum of shame cannot tell you. You think that your single auntie has no man, she has….she just can’t let you know. Some can’t even confide in their friends. We the married men we know because we are the ones occupying them.

So if you have husband and you decide to divorce or you have not found by 40, know this is the future that awaits you. It is even more pathetic for the one who left husband because of side chick to now become a side chick. Your mothers that you thought were suffering or did not have sense or were not liberated, you will understand that they had more sense than you.

The streets (I.e without a committed life partner) is not a place for a woman above 40 to be.

Remman:
I stopped buying it, i bought soya bean flour instead to replace beans.

Soya is very bad for you…particularly for men. Read up on it.

obeegee:
Planespotter.net tracks aircraft registrations

4 pages and no one has mentioned the real issue. The age of the plane!!!’


You say your current 19 year old plane is too old and unserviceable and then you go and purchase a 15 year old plane?

I can’t support this.

OnyeAshuaUru:
Anyone who uses, or has used, a V8 engine vehicle knows it's actually no big deal. I have 3 vans with such engine, and last month when they travelled between Abuja and Enugu, we budgeted 250K per van for petrol. And my drivers were not pleased.
This is why government officials should cut down on lengthy convoys. It's not only best for government finance, but also for the environment.

Sensible post unlike the victim mentality eeediot 2 posts above yours.

Gerrard59:


You are an ethnic supremacist! To hell with your uNiTy!

You are no different from the White man you accuse of racism. No effing difference! The white man might even use skin colour. What is your reason?

Your problem is you are not intelligent, have a poor grasp of English (I say this only because this isthe language we are communicating in) and you are entering a purely economic intellectual discussion with ethnic, religious or political bias….this is clearly above your pay grade and IQ.

Where did I call them racist? What Unity are you talking about? This discussion is not about race but economic power and development. Again this is the problem with eeediots like you, one can never have a sound engagement. With you because you are drowning in ethnic religious and tribal filth.

You interpreted everything I have written as racism, that is on you not on me. It shows how deep the rot in your mind is. Point anywhere I mentioned race, colour in this discussion about the economic stranglehold of the west has on us? I challenge you too.

If you can’t, then this should be a wake up call for you. It seems you cannot even have a discussion about the global north and global south without you looking at it through the lease of our internal fault lines. You cannot see the big picture because you are drowned by tribal, religious or political rivalries. That is what you have displayed to the world in your post.


Again where did I talk of unity or racism? The discerning reader will see from your response that you have proven my point….you are where the west wants you to be mentally because that is how they keep you subjugated.

Tianamen1:


You did not understand my last post. In fact, you have not understood my argument. No one is good and no one is bad. The staff of the IMF come from various countries. Its leadership is European so its primary interest is to Europe.
The staff and leadership at the IMF are also human. Europe became rich through struggle and revolution. They had incompetent rulers too. If Africans are ready to fight for their rights, the world would support us because we will be displaying our shared values as humans.

Again you have drank too much western cool-aid. I say that with all due respect as unlike many you are clearly a smart guy. Again I say this with respect you are naive. It is not an insult, I was once naive.

The world is not going to support us because our progress will come at a big cost to them.

Can you imagine a world where Nigeria is an economic superpower with a population of over 200m? They will not be able to push any African country around, what Nigeria says other African countries will follow ( as was the case in the 70s.). Do you honestly thru k the west can afford that having already lost influence in the BRICS axis? I do t think you understand that the American economy is a Ponzi scheme and its continued sustenance is dependent on them controlling others primarily through the dollar. Without a global financial system based on the dollar America is finished!!!

Tianamen1:


You did not understand my last post. In fact, you have not understood my argument. No one is good and no one is bad. The staff of the IMF come from various countries. Its leadership is European so its primary interest is to Europe.
The staff and leadership at the IMF are also human. Europe became rich through struggle and revolution. They had incompetent rulers too. If Africans are ready to fight for their rights, the world would support us because we will be displaying our shared values as humans.

Again you have drank too much western cool-aid. I say that with all due respect as unlike many you are clearly a smart guy. Again I say this with respect you are naive. It is not an insult, I was once naive.

The world is not going to support us because our progress will come at a big cost to them.

Can you imagine a world where Nigeria is an economic superpower with a population of over 200m? They will not be able to push any African country around, what Nigeria says other African countries will follow ( as was the case in the 70s.). Do you honestly thru k the west can afford that having already lost influence in the BRICS axis? I do t think you understand that the American economy is a Ponzi scheme and its continued sustenance is dependent on them controlling others primarily through the dollar. Without the dollar America is finished!!!

Tianamen1:

Please don’t be offended by what you are about to read. You and I see things the same but from different angles.
Let me play the devils advocate (assume I am western puppet). The West(IMF) understood than Nigeria was in a big mess. Our leaders had shown that they were incapable of making decisions to benefit Nigerians. What they didn’t know was if the Nigerian people were also foolish. Advocating for the fuel subsidy removal, the IMF expected Nigerians to protest. If Nigerians had protested, it would have shown the world that the people were not the problem but the leaders.

This same game has just been played in Kenya and the Kenyans responded in an appropriate way. The Kenyan people will now receive support both in terms of political pressure on their politicians and also financial support. The Kenya’s have shown that they are worthy of support.

With due respect your submissions are naive. You seem not to understand that the IMF is not your friend. The institutions are not set up for you. Your position would make sense if the IMF was truly a friend of Africa.

Look what I am saying will sound crazy to you. I know because when I was young I thought all those anti world bank, anti IMF voices were nut jobs. I was naive, I was green, fresh out of school with their western focused curriculum and exuberance of youth. Experience and life. ( including living amongst them) has taught me otherwise.

The IMF is there to keep you enslaved.

As far as Kenya, I have not made up my mind if the protesters are stupid, reckless or just naive. Kenya through Rito has pivoted to a full grown western puppet….it never ends well…just watch.


African countries do not need the IMF. If you ask me which country is likely to make progress long term between Uganda and Kenya, my money is on Uganda…..they know what time it is. Kenyans are still emerged and infact are doubling down on mental enslavement.

I suggest you read up on the history of the IMF and other institutions. When you understand how and why they exist, you will understand.

Tianamen1:


Obasanjo put Nigeria on the path to prosperity. The system was working. From 2004 to 2008 the Naira strengthened from 145 to 116. Nigerians got richer and our society was starting to flourish.

We were on a path to sustainable growth. Our budget was based on crude oil price of about $70 per Barrel and the rest was saved in the excess crude account.

The idea was so simple, if oil prices fell below $70, Nigeria would take money from the excess crude account and if prices were above $70, the excess funds would be saved.

Jonathan move the budget to over $100 per barrel and consumed almost all that was saved. This is the primary reason why things are bad and not any action by western nations.

How old are you? I ask that respectfully because if you were around during Obasanjo’s tenure as military head of state you will not describe Obasanjo’s regime as president as spectacular. Obasanjo benefited from an upturn in Oil prices. Which road did he build, how many megawatts did he add to the grid, which airports did he build, which universities did he renovate. Tell me what do you look at today that is Obasanjos’s legacy? Telecoms? Please gsm started before Obasanjo came to power, he simply auctioned licenses. Even Buhari can point to rail. What is Obasanjo’s legacy other than he was fortunate to be president wham oil prices rebounded?

If Anything Obasanjo sold our national job creating assets to his cronies as a western puppet parroting western ideologies. Where are the Nitel jobs, the Nigerian airways jobs etc etc, that Obasanjo and his western masters said would be better served in private hands?

Tianamen1:


I understand what you are saying. Every nation competes against each other. I also understand your initial criticism. My issue is that right now, Nigeria has collapsed through no fault of mine. I have advocated for progressive policies but no one listened. I have now chosen to place me tent with progressive minded people who look nothing like me since my on people can not understand basic issues, yet you attack people like me.

What choice do I have? Continue to live amongst ignorant people whose actions continue to impoverish me?

Thank God you are finally for the first time beginning to talk some sense. There is not much you and I can do about it and I agree 100% because your efforts will be neutralized by others who are western puppets.

The point is to have the enlightenment to understand the system and know who is your friend and who isn’t, to understand that our collective inferiority complex, subservience to the west is the root of our problems. A man who doesn’t even know the root of his problem cannot solve it. It doesn’t mean you have the power to solve it but at least you know what the problem is.

What is progressive? What do you define as progressive? There is no progressive in Nigeria as far as our politics is concerned, they are all western puppets. It’s a question of degrees and who is least bad. I stated this during the elections. I attack you and your type because IMHO you are parroting western propaganda. So long as you are parroting western ideologies, values and propaganda you are not progressive as far as I am concerned because these western ideologies are exactly what has impoverished us.

I repeat embracing everything western to the point of nauseating mental enslavement is the root of our problems.

You want to know how bad things are? Everybody said they would remove subsidy. No matter what anyone tells you, they would have removed it because there was no money. Now we removed it, impoverishes the people and we are back to square 1 because whether implicitly or explicitly subsidy is back. That should give you an idea of the rot in the country and how difficult it is for ANYONE to turn this country around.

I can tell you this for a fact, no one is going to turn this country around following western prescriptions . All this talk about agric and industrialization revolutions will always remain a myth because to achieve, these we will have to be prepared to fight the west and you know what happens when you fight the west.

Which is why I harp on the that we need to prepare ourselves mentally because to make real progress in this country we must be prepared to see the west for what they are and be prepared to ditch them and take them on because they will try to crush us.

See what they are trying to do to China! We have been talking about exports since nineteen gbogboro, the day we get our act together by some miracle and actually have finished products to export, then you will understand the west and that the free market that you have swallowed for decades mean only they can sell finished products to us. Let he who has ears hear.

This is why I get disgusted when I hear things like “God bless America”, you are praying for your oppressors not knowing their continued progress is dependent on your continued impoverishment. Even slaves don’t do that!!