Beautiful moment siblings surprised their big brother, who stepped up as both their father and mother after their parents passed away, sponsored their education, helped them relocate abroad, and even sponsored their weddings. ❤️
Moment a white man recovered his stolen Mercedes G-Wagon G 63 from an auto salvage warehouse in Texas, where it was about to be shipped to Nigeria.
According to him, he leased the car for a year, but the person he leased it to had it stolen. He tracked the G-Wagon to the salvage warehouse full of Nigerians and found it already loaded inside a container, ready to be shipped to Nigeria.
The world may not transform overnight because of the speeches delivered in this August Assembly. But history faithfully records the truth we choose to speak, and the silence we choose to keep, when we are granted the privilege of addressing this global town hall. #UNGA81
The thing about this is that if you have this in the house always you won’t even be moved. It’s when you only see it on special occasions you start acting like you never chop Milo before 🤣
I strongly support Alhaji on this decision.
"Everything is fair in politics" right? It is also fair in business, especially in the oil & gas industry.
Let me explain this:
I support Dangote Refinery on this one. And honestly, this one no hard to understand if we look at it from a simple market competition perspective.
An entire nation rich in hydrocarbons is literally going into comatose bcos our national refineries have been deliberately killed. Someone took the BIG RISK to invest billions of dollars in building a refinery in Nigeria. He takes the risk, creates thousands of jobs, reduces our dependence on imported petrol and helps conserve our scarce foreign exchange, one glory even the govt of the day takes.
Then, when the refinery starts producing, you give other companies licences to import the same petrol and bring it into the same market to compete directly with him. How does that encourage investment?
One of the work I do & get paid for is monitoring competition & doing everything legally possible to make their entire market come to me. Yes.
Dangote invests heavily, buys crude, refines here, pays workers, maintains the refinery and carries the cost of storing unsold products, after exporting. On the other hand, the importer simply buys PMS abroad, ships it into Nigeria and competes for the same customers.
Yes, both are legitimate businesses. But the policy environment cannot pretend that the two situations are exactly the same. This is why I understand Dangote's position. If locally refined petrol is available in significant quantities, why should Nigeria continue to deliberately create a situation where imported petrol takes a substantial share of the same market? When they import, are they selling cheaper or at the same rate?
And again, I m not saying Matrix, A.A. Rano, Pinnacle, NIPCO or the other licensed importers are doing anything illegal. They have valid licences. They are exercising their rights. But the question is bigger than that.
What exactly is Nigeria's long-term policy for refining?
Because if we keep telling investors, “Come & build refineries here,” while simultaneously making it easy for imported petrol to compete heavily with their locally refined products, eventually investors will ask themselves: Why take the risk?.
Imagine building a massive hotel & immediately beside it, govt gives everyone free access to bring in the same service from somewhere else, then you wonder why your rooms are empty.
Competition is good. But competition must also be fair & policy must be consistent. I'm not saying Nigeria should completely shut the door on imports. No. Imports should remain available when local refineries cannot meet demand, during shortages, maintenance periods or genuine supply disruptions. But when we ve the capacity to refine substantial quantities of petrol locally, domestic production should logically be given room to thrive.
There is also the issue of quality control. Sometimes back, I made some posts regarding the quality of products from the DR, & reported some concerns regarding other products. If imported PMS enters the same supply chain as locally refined petrol & there is a quality problem, proper traceability becomes extremely important. Nigerians should know what product they are buying and where it came from.
So, for me, the argument is simple: Let Nigerian refineries produce. Let importers import when there is a genuine supply gap. Let everybody compete on a level playing field. And let NMDPRA regulate quality, pricing/supply transparently.
We cannot say we want to become a major refining nation while simultaneously creating policies that make imported petrol more attractive than locally refined petrol. At some point, we have to choose what kind of petroleum industry we want.
Do we want Nigeria to refine its own crudeoil eventually become a net exporter of refined products, or do we want to remain permanently dependent on imported fuel?
That is the real conversation.
I have said it countless times that there is nothing honorable about you. The day you decided you want to mock divine laws, God stripped you of your honor.
I am also very happy that you have no knowledge to fight us. None of you can stand us. Your usual tactics are abuse, defamation and curses. I am happy those are the signs of a dying snake. We are more than that.
Now, let me teach you what you and many ignoramuses like you do not know.
I cannot imagine you base your entire understanding of Islam on the wardrobe of a Saudi princess. This exposes how terribly shallow your reasoning goes.
Saudi Arabia might be the geographical birthplace of Islam, but the Saudi royal family is not the Quran. They are not the Prophet. They are ordinary human beings who can choose to disobey their Creator just like you.
Islam is built on divine texts, not the lifestyle of wealthy Arabs. If an Arab princess decides to abandon the veil for worldly fashion, it does not rewrite the laws of God. It only means she will answer for her own choices. The standard of Islam is not a Saudi passport or a royal bloodline. The standard is the clear command of the Almighty.
You called the Nigerian women in Niqab gullible and mentally unstable. You claim they mixed religion with madness. The truth is that these women are highly intelligent and dignified.
They refuse to seek validation from a society that only respects women when they expose themselves for public consumption. You measure sanity by how much a woman conforms to western beauty standards. We measure it by submission to the Almighty.
Next time you want to talk about religion, bring intellectual points from the scriptures. Stop using the personal choices of royals to validate your ignorance and deep rooted prejudice.
Married under the Act successfully.
Congrats to Peller and Jarvis for putting their union under the law.
From today:
1. This marriage is legally protected.
2. Peller cannot legally marry another wife unless this marriage is dissolved by a court.
3. Side chicks are no longer allowed.
4. Even if Peller catches Jarvis red-handed with another man on their matrimonial bed, he still has no right to throw her out of their home.
5. They have equal rights in this marriage.
6. Jarvis is also expected to remain faithful to the marriage.
7. Any property acquired from now (whether through money, effort, emotion or spiritual contribution) belongs to both of them. If they ever divorce, the one who contributed will get their fair share.
8. Their marriage stands above any cultural or traditional practices that go against the law.
9. Getting married does not remove their fundamental human rights.
10. Returning bride price cannot dissolve this marriage. Only the court or dê@țh can end it.
Love is emotional, but the law is not.
"We hear you, we see you, we love you, and we haven’t forgotten you."
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has thanked Layan Al Quqa, a young Palestinian artist in Gaza, for painting a mural celebrating the friendship between Spain and Palestine.