@Babajiide 58.02% is huge for Guinness and that it's happening is because of the huge loss recorded in 9 months and the harsh business environment. Tolaram Group is the maker of Indomie Noodles. If this hasn't signalled an exit move to you, then you have to ask yourself some hard questions.
Nigeria, man. There's no escaping the rot, insecurity and dysfunction, no matter how rich you get.
1. Buy an SUV because the roads are bad, and you become a prime target for kidnapping, extortion, and inflated prices
2. Live in an estate for quiet and security but the moment you drive out the gate, you're back in the same poverty, crime, chaos and insecurity everyone else suffers. Your safety exists only within the walls of your expensive prison
3. Spend millions on solar so you don't have to suffer generator noise but your neighbours still use generators. You stop hearing yours, not theirs.
4. Make money and the women will come but the women who come are poor. You work hard to escape poverty, only to give your money to women who are hoping to escape their own poverty by 'working' you
5. Buy Starlink to escape MTN and Airtel, and now the whole compound wants your password.
"But it's unlimited now?"
Decline and you're a bad neighbour
The tragedy of trying to buy your way out systemic dysfunction is that you never truly solve the underlying problem. You just spend money trying to insulate yourself from it, and in that process, create new problems for yourself.
But you interprete it as progress because you no longer have the exact same probems as the next Nigerian.
Because progress here is less about better roads, reliable power and security for all.
Progress here is more about owning an SUV while everyone else dodges potholes in their Camry, having steady power and uninterrupted airconditioning whilst everyone else sweats through the heat, and living behind the 'security' of estate gates while everyone else lives with insecurity.
It is that contrast that gives me fulfilment. It is what makes you stand out, and provides both of us something to brag about. So the benchmark is not whether the system works; It is whether I am better than others in a system that does not work.
And I say "I", because I, also find myself thinking that way sometimes.
I also want to brag about paying 8 million for rent, rather than demand afforable housing for all or protest against the fraud of agents and the greed of landlords.
Afterall, I am also a product of the system.
As a result, most of what I, and by extension, Nigerians broadly speaking, consider progress, is a maladaptation to systemic failure.
It is, to condense it, progress measured against dysfunction, rather than freedom from it.
And 'Maladaptation' because the actions we have adapted to help us cope with the dysfunction, ultimately does more harm than good.
So for example, rather than protest insecurity, bad roads or unreliable power, we maladapt by travelling by air, buying SUVs and installing solar.
We spend money to work around failing institutions while the institutions themselves continue to decay.
But the problem with our "I better pass my neighbour' cope is that it will eventually reach its limit. Because as the rot and decay deepens and spreads, even our workarounds will fail, our estates will no longer keep the criminals and the abokis that surround us out (Abuja residents beware), the kidnappers will come to our doorsteps, like they're doing in Ekpoma, and our roads will get so bad even our four-wheelers will no longer be able to handle them, leading to accidents that will land us in hospitals with no doctors and nurses because our best health workers have japa'd.
Checkmate
The tactical genius of Ukraine 🇺🇦 is so brilliant the world will read about this for years to come
Crushing russia from the inside forcing russians in Ukraine to leave humiliating putin by hitting Moscow
Russian forces in Ukraine have virtually zero logistics
Slava Ukraïni
A woman hiking in Canada nearly became a grizzly’s next meal and the video circulating right now is genuinely one of the most intense wildlife encounters you will ever watch - her dog is with her, a massive grizzly is right there, and somehow she kept her head together long enough for both of them to walk away breathing.
That is not a small thing. Most people talk tough until nature is standing ten feet in front of them and every instinct in your body is screaming to run, and running is exactly the worst thing you can do.
Grizzlies are built to chase, they top out over 700 pounds and can cover ground faster than any human alive. The people who survive these moments are the ones who override pure fear with pure discipline and this woman did exactly that.
If you hike, camp, or spend any real time in the wilderness - bear spray is not optional, it is the difference between a story you tell and one somebody else tells about you.
Could you have kept your cool?
Hats off to her.
@AfamDeluxo Completely demonic. Remi spent 3 terms of 12 years in the Senate. She was first lady for 8 years. You can't even say she has no idea of how & what it takes to address those she leads. This is how evil she is. Each time she opens her mouth, you'd be enraged at the lack of empathy.
This is why Obidients are ready to lay their lives for Peter Obi to become president.
Because, no matter how things take rough, Margaret Obi would never tell Nigerians to start frying akara or start selling kuli kuli.
That woman is an accomplished businessman, instead she'll be holding seminar on areas to explore in the economy especially in imports and exports.
Forget Peter Obi, na his wife be the real deal. A very compassionate human being.
Allowing this wicked, vile, greedy, nepotistic, heartless and glutinous family to assume the reigns of power in Nigeria will haunt this country for decades.
@ugodre and @Nairametrics are the twin evils the Devil fashioned against Nigeria. This guy and his platform does nothing else than revise the truth as the majority knows it.
I hate it when Smart people play this game. Ugodre and all these guys are going to support BAT. They have not question BAT’s inability to raise Power Distribution but they are discussing Obi does not have any Power. I dislike this Intellectual Dishonesty. It is annoying
It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.
O Cristiano Ronaldo só vai acabar a carreira no Mundial 2030 que vai ser jogado em Portugal. Alguém tem dúvidas? Provavelmente no banco e a entrar nos últimos minutos. No fim do último jogo de Portugal vai receber a maior ovação da história do futebol e ter o único fim que merece
In a whole 2026 the Nigerian 1st lady is publicly asking Citizens to start Akara, Roasted Corn and KuliKuli business to make Ends meet; After removing Subsidy. This Guys have no idea about Poverty Reduction. This is their Highest plan for your life. Vote Wisely 2027. 😮💨
Anita Hill was attacked for warning us about Clarence Thomas. Hillary Clinton was attacked for warning us about Samuel Alito. Christine Blasey Ford was attacked for warning us about Brett Kavanaugh. E Jean Carroll was attacked for warning us about Trump.
You are entertained by fools because you are one. The intelligence of a people is largely measured by what entertains and relaxes them. These fools that you’ve all platformed have a following because ye are fools! 🫵🏿
“Olodo uprising… we’re trying so much to accommodate the unintelligent people and ignorant people cos we don’t want them to feel bad.. now they’re like the majority.”
YCee really won hearts with this comment.