₦airaland Forum

Nakuza:
Truly the cost governance in this country is high. Something urgent need to be done to curtain it. Also the continues gap between the rich and the poor is alarming. There's no longer middle class again. All these are signs of retrogression.

Some uninformed people will come here and tell us that we are not paying enough taxes. They want our taxes to spend on frivolities in the name of administrative costs.

There should be an equivalent of geh geh university for all these SE politicians in power on how not to play national politics. Hope uzodima and Rocha's okorocha suppose be the professors in that university.

Then by 2031
Jide kosoko: Tinubu tried his best, another person should try his own and succeed where Tinubu failed.

Some of these guys can't wish for their private businesses to be run the way Tinubu and APC are running Nigeria

nairalanda1:
We don't earn up to 100 billion dollars in oil revenue. We also have a debt of above 150 trn naira and growing..and it has to be paid or IMF will show us shege like they did Argentina when they defaulted on their debt twice. And all our annual budgets are the monies we have before stealing and corruption happens.

Our economic basis is sell oil and hope the money is enough, which 100% of the time it isn't..meaning more loans. Tax revenue is basically the formal class paying..the rich and the majority of the poor and those in informal sector do not even pay. VAT can only fund a fifth of the budget, on a good day. The corruption then comes in and makes a worse matter hellish.

Either we change the economic paradigm or we accept we are poor and stop trying to build castles in the sky with limited money.

I understand you but I also want you to know you cant clear the bills of a drunkard when he is still in the pub. He has to come out of the pub first so I can actually know how much drinks he has taken before you can now clear his debts.
Nigeria has low revenue generation and high expenditure. For low revenue generation, the quantity of crude oil that is exported illegally is not far behind the quantity that is used to benchmark our national budget. Every money meant for turnaround maintenance of our refineries to ramp up production ends up in private pockets. Our solid minerals are being mined by politicians and their foreign allies. Even if we tax the air Nigerians breath, we will end up having more powerful individuals than a thriving economy cos the system is designed to achieve that. Asides debt servicing (which is a consequence of low revenue), administrative overhead and personnel costs are so high for a government who acknowledge that there is a revenue problem. The budget itself is filled with padding and unnecessary allocations that end up in private pockets. Governments prefer to build new infrastructure than to maintain existing ones (if u have held any executive position before u will agree with me that executing new projects na where the chopping money dey). We need to tackle fiscal rascality before our revenue problem else it will amount to pouring water in a basket.

nairalanda1:
NIgerians will demand high quality and when you tell them the cost, they would shout minimum wage, or whatever.

It's like, most people on minimum wage send their kids to government schools, where the waec fees are paid for them by the state government anyway.

Plus, I don't support tinubu, tinubu na bad leader, no argument, but the cost of running WAEC exams is not going to remain static year in and out. Let's be honest.

Infact, the number of children writing WAEC is going to keep growing and growing. And where is the money going to be found? When we have a big monster of 150 trillion debt and less than 60 trillion naira budget, with an education budget at 2-3 trillion? When universities in 2009 needed something like 1.5 trillion for adequate funding? IN 2009!

Also, free education, see people shouting free education up and down. Countries with free education pay for the education in taxes. Not like Nigeria where tax revenue was not able to fund up to one fifth of our budget...

Oh and about that...Providing free, fully funded education (including tuition, meals, uniforms, and books) for all of Nigeria's ~40-50 million students is estimated to cost between ₦15 trillion to ₦25 trillion annually.Awa budget was 54 trillion this year.

And as for oil, we produce the same amount of oil as Libya. Yet LIbya has 5 million people, we got 200 million people and counting.

At the end, tinubu is a bad leader , like all our past leaders, because we are not a nation whose budget is based on manufactured goods and services and a tax system that would fund our budget appreicably.

Look, I am going to vote out tinubu, You should too.....but the fact is, the revenue for our budget, even with borrowing , is scanty. Subsidy removal only released some more scanty money. It did not improve our overall revenue, and we still have a hefty debt.

If Nigeria wanted to pay everybody's WAEC fees, pay minumum wage of 600000 naira monthly, pay for free education, free petrol and free electricity, it is either we got a buget of 600 trillion naira now, or we support our government in raising taxes and making some hard choices now.

Abusing me, and calling me agbadoe, does not change the fact. WE ARE A POOR NATION, and the matter be that tinubu is not doing enough to raise enough funds for the budget that would meet our needs. THAT IS WHY HE IS A FAILURE. If you no get that, sorry. Many of you want your government to borrow and borrow to fund your free things life. That is why things have gotten worse since independence. We are running an economy based on selling things whose prices we no set, and as a result we end up with scanty budget that needs buffering with borrowing, and then the leaders we have come and steal on top of the matter.

WAEC better tell Nigerians that in the next ten years we are still going to be doing paper examinations instead of CBT because nigerians are too poor to afford improvements.

Comrade I strongly believe that their will be enough money in this country if we can plug at least 50% of leakages and corruption. Any sane Nigerian can make huge sacrifices for Nigeria to progress. However, there is no will to do that due to the corrupt government. Imagine a father telling the children to manage just lunch everyday cos of hardship, but goes out every evening to buy chicken and beer for his friends. That kind of father doesn't deserve my respect

naptu2:
This one doesn't know anything. She does not realise that a phone was recording the screen of a laptop.

Obviously the quality of a camera recording the screen of a laptop will not be the same as the quality of the video on the laptop.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwtMZI7KJj8?si=AvHF9VaJm-iatJxw

So keyamo used Nokia 3310 to record the screen of the laptop? Instead of uploading the video directly, he used Nokia 3310 to record?
I can see that you want to derail this thread.

YoshihideSuga:
Lol
https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/africa-wealth-report-2025/africas-wealthiest-countries

Henley studies everything about the rich. Lekki that doesn't harbour five million people has more dollar millionaires than Africa's advanced economy with over 40 million people?

Let's fear God in our utterances, please.

Comrade some people no dey fear God at all. How human being go open mouth begin yarn wetin him no get idea about dey marvel me. Abi e get another lekki wey him dey talk about?

PulaPower:
This kind information is why you shouldn’t be surprised. Reality is different from propaganda..

SA doesn’t have more dollar millionaires than Nigeria. Infact, they don’t come close..

There are more dollar millionaires in Lekki than the entire SA! Only Lekki oo… No need of going even further..

With all due respect sir, Have you ever travelled out of Nigeria before?
If you actually meant the bolded, then there is a very big problem somewhere

IpobAntidote:
If he said this about other regions, you will not be reasoning like this.
There are many issues like this in Nigeria on daily basis and you people always believe them as long as it paints others in bad light.
But the moment that bad news is about you people, then you start to use your logical sense, asking for evidence.
Start doing the same when it about other people from other regions too then we might start to take you people seriously. Until then, all we see is HYPOCRISY.

You people? There is no correlation between what I said and the epistle you wrote here. Please take this your response to you people, I don't operate in that niche. Thanks

So someone can just walk into an interview and say all manner of nonsense without the interviewer asking critical questions. A sound mind would have at least asked him to specify the year that happened, but them go just dey shine teeth

Lanretoye:
what would you have done better bros if you were in position,no abuse no attack abeg just answer me or enlighten me

He tried to enlighten you in 2023 but you insisted on knocking yourself out. Whatever he says now won't make any meaning to you. The removal of fuel subsidy is a case in point. If I give tonto dike and Hilda barci ten cups of rice each with all the ingredients needed to make jollof rice, we definitely won't get similar results. Everyone can formulate policies, implementation is what differentiates the best from the rest. The GCFR's body language rubs off on those who drive these policies.
I remember back in October 1986 during a Supreme Military Council meeting when a visibly frustrated Babangida publicly challenged the then Inspector-General of Police, by asking, "My friend, where is Anini?". Anini was arrested in December 3 1986.

IGBOPROMISE1:
Only discerning individuals will notice this! I’ve known for a long time now that a lot of these intolerant and anti-Igbo/Obi/Kanu comments are coming from bigots with strong connections in or around Tinubus’ Aso-Rock! You just need to see the similarities in their language and that of Bayo Onanuga, as well as see how they spend all day on nairaland defending the indefensible, to know this!

It must also interest you to know that they are not up to 10 persons in total. However, each person has about 10 monikers, that's the main reason they sound the same

Foolishness is when a peasant listens to what a politician says to protect his own personal interest and not the interests of the peasants. PO's presidency would mean using public funds for public benefits. The political class will go hungry for 4 years.

The more this government tries to do damage control, the more they expose themselves as either corrupt or grossly incompetent

helinues:
Umahi, don't bother as it will be a pure waste of time

Let me dare the Obidients again on this thread even though they have been avoiding this like a plague

Post one video, one video not 2 where Peter Obi was asked about anything related to governance and he answered coherently

I dare all the Obidients on this forum

Someone who once defended gazelle gararaga shouldn't know what coherence means.

Mansa6:
Look at you young DOLT .

What will tribalism and Religion do for me?

I don't believe in your Concept of God. ..I don't go to church,mosque or anywhere to worship something... anything....I don't pray to ANYTHING but MYSELF...the I AM....

[b]What de hell is even Tribalism, when you arent responsible for your birth?,tribe,nation etc?[/b]What's all that useless distraction?Did you decide who your father will be

You think I'm you

Kid ..

That's your level,as I told you...that's how you are mentally programmed....it's your background,it's your training..

Go and do that with your mates .

Please on the bolded, how do you know my Concept of God? To say that means U either know me as a traditionalist, Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist.
Secondly, who is responsible for your birth, nation, tribe, etc? It's it the MYSELF you pray to?

So anyone that disagrees or even attacks adeboye is an obedient?
Unless you want to call majority of Nigerians obedients cos the attacks were massive, even from those that want to disparage MOGs to convert Christians to atheism or islam.

Generalising dissenting voices as "obedients" is an argument for the emotionally insecure, not the intellectually serious.

Let's look at this prophecy with an analtyical mind.
Did the people who pushed Jonathan away admit it was a mistake? The answer is No. They said it's their turn.
The same Nigerians who said NO to those who pushed Jonathan away (they have been proven to be on the right side of history) are still the ones saying that president Tinubu shouldn't stay more than four years in office (those ones are the true patriots).

These are pertinent questions Nigerian politicians need to answer. Only if there is at least 60% transparency and accountability in our public offices, some characters won't aspire for any public office.

Biodun1929:
That's the part that was really off in what he said.

What I'm getting from this is...he has spoken personally with Tinubu and knows what we don't know, that probably some northern big dogs are behind this heightened insecurity in the country. But Tinubu can't act cos he needs northern votes. So, in the end, to me, Tinubu is not doing enough.

Herein lies the problem. A good leader puts the interest of the majority first before any selfish and parochial reasons. That is the reason why posterity will be kinder to GEJ than PBAT. People in the north are displaced becos of terrorism but he wants to appease the northern big dogs who probably live in Abuja and their state capitals instead of millions of northerners littered in IDP camps. God help us

According to him, he advised the president to give military commanders a 90-day ultimatum to eliminate terrorism or resign.


Same way sane Nigerians have given the commander in chief of the armed forces a 90-day ultimatum to eliminate insecurity or resign.
Infact, Tinubu has failed to command the armed forces well so he must give way come.2027 since he has refused to resign.
A servant can't be more powerful than those he is meant to serve

SeeWahala:
you self, small small with the "education" he's already calling you his brother for crying out loud

he will run away o !

Baba most of these people are confusionist. If you read between the lines, you will see how he tried to be magical with words dropping lines without real answers to questions posed.
He blamed buhari in one of his responses without knowing that Tinubu has done worse in the very same thing he accused buhari of doing.
That same person must have praised buhari for 8 years using another moniker but to defend Tinubu now, he must sacrifice buhari

Mansa6:
I AM too sufficient and Abundant to be joining one political group or "crew",for Peanuts,like you and your ilk....

I have been TOTALLY sufficient before the come of democracy in Nigeria...I told you we are not mates...age-wise, achievement-wise,status-wise etc .

Spew on..

It's your level!i

Okay that's true, you don't join for peanuts, you are driven by TRIBALISM and religion.

Mansa6:
Look at this moronic "toddler"....you are Despicable but not wretched...

You even admit to being wretched, without knowing it,and even shamelessly.

Someone doing 9 to 5

Do you earn up to 50k dollars annually?Or is that a pipedream of your lineage,as expected?

Just look at the loafer..

All you GenZ miscreants..

E be like say hunger no gree you know who you dey make reference to here. Go collect your own 50k grant before your mates go collect am finish abeg. Shame fit no gree you to fry akara or sell kwili-nkwili but sha collect the 50k, it will go a long way. As for me, I don collect my own campaign vehicle from city boy movement

lagonovo:
If you are hungry you can apply for the first lady's akara grant, it's available in your village too

They don't give us akara here. Them know people wey suppose to dey fry akara. Let me give U a clue: they give U 2k naira to shout on your mandate while they give us 500 pounds. Where did city boy movement share deep freezers, air conditioners as against cartons of indomie and 5kg of rice they shared in your place?

There is a secret committee set up in the villa with a mandate to ensure PO is not on the ballot and they are heavily funded. There are trillions of unaccounted funds missing in this administration

lagonovo:
SS people are not bitter people and also, they know the people who opposed the coastal highway project out of envy and selfishness

Yes we know the people that brought hunger, insecurity and hopelessness in Nigeria

It's a pity that Tinubu supporters are just as clueless as the man they support. If you see many of these supporters in person, you go really pity them. How can anyone in his right senses compare a gift pitobi gave to women in a village to a grant given by someone in government? It's downright silly.

These guys no rate us at all. If our votes actually count, this is enough to chase them out of office. Time shall tell

One APC thug has been removed from the society. Replacement no dey finish shaa. Stupid people have never been in short supply

Bwala has resorted to market women tirade. I think he is under pressure to justify his pay. Its quite a pity. Lies and propaganda no work, now it's outright buffoonery and shi*t talking.