The common sense senator has done it again.

nothing can save Nigeria!!!

ULSHERLAN:


Have you forgotten that the United States has steady electricity to power these cars.


Ben murray bruce also has the capacity to power such vehicles as a rich Nigerian law maker.

It's time we start telling Ben Bruce to write all these open letters to his colleagues and not us cos him and his colleagues can atleast do something to change the situation by sponsoring some bills needed

you don't get the gist, it's not about us using electric cars. It is about who will buy our crudee. Soon our lawmakers will start drinking the same crude. It's best we encourage technology start ups. We should focus more on using our resources rather than import and export... self sustenance.

Oil is a gift that would have helped to leapfrog this nation into one of the world's most industrialized countries, had it been that the old generation was visionary in their thinking and if they were patriotic.

Right now all we need is to focus on our strength which is our people. We need to invest more on human capital and then utilize what we got to get what we want.
We got good land, so we focus on agriculture for domestic use and export. Throw challenges to the states on agriculture.
We got mineral resources.
We got good sunlight.
We got fantastic tourist attractions that needs to be developed to world standard.
We got creative youths into entertainment in movies and music.
We got beautiful ladies to attract businesses once they appear as Nigerians. Others can't be using our girls as models to promote their country image.
We got rich custumes and culture and festivals that needs to be developed to attract foreigners.

Never talks in the senate.
Barks in the public.


miaowww.......

Hhhhhmmm.
While our government are looking for oil in barren lands

face your job senator

natznext:
Makes sense to me,
But then, those states he mentioned are just a tinny fraction of the whole world, it's not like the fossil fuel engine apocalypse, a lot of states would remain with these kind of engines for longer, but it doesn't mean we should completely ignore the hand writing on the wall
So in the short term, we could do more of refining and selling of finished refined products and also still sell crude

..and in the long run plan for the electric and blah blah, I know those things would work in Nigeria

oil is gone and gone. We should move faster. There is nothing like shortterm. Technology is changing in a twinkle of an eye. It took more than 50 years for fossil cars to evolve. It has taken electric cars less than a decade to evolve. We still talk oil everyday, other nations are talking AI and biotechnology. Thats the point he is trying to make.

vanunu:


What he said is the truth, there will be economic anarchy in Nigeria in ten years time. The rate at which people are switching to electric cars in United States is alarming. Electric cars are far cheaper than gasoline cars.
One Nigeria is in big trouble.

how do you propose we use electric cars here when electricity is not stable?

In a nut shell all he is trying to say is that federal govt should focus more on electricity. For me i dont see any need for them doing road here and there. They are only using that as a diversion to embezzle funds. Electricity is the major problem nigeria is facing. Not bad roads or crime. Ones there is steady power supply ,that will attract foreign investors and mostly increase employment which will in turn create more revenue for govt to do roads...the govt always act like they dont know what to do.

this is like telling us buhari is our president, we already know. ben n his co theives should do d right thing rada dan telling us d obvious. like someone earlier said, its abt our leaders n not abt d oil.

MyNewJackeT:
Of course oil can't save Venezuela because of their socialist policies, they were giving out free stuff thereby making their citizens Lazy.

it's not about giving out free stuffs. It's about the peopl it self and proper management. Almost every country gives subsidy at sometime but are the people given this subsidy ready to think and invest the subsidy money into creative things. Is the government giving free money like some bribe to make the citizens care less about activities. The case is similar to Nigeria. Youths that may have ordinarily created beautiful businesses have settled for Npower. You hear some say they can even marry with NPower allowee. You see where the similarity now..

Ben, we are more reactive than proactive. God is a Nigerian. He will save us from impending calamity as usual only that we won't get better.

dis one will just talk sha



say in buy electric car... buy for everybody nah

Listen to the message. It is pointless to attack the messenger!

opribo:
Oil is a gift that would have helped to leapfrog this nation into one of the world's most industrialized countries, had it been that the old generation was visionary in their thinking and if they were patriotic.

Right now all we need is to focus on our strength which is our people. We need to invest more on human capital and then utilize what we got to get what we want.
We got good land, so we focus on agriculture for domestic use and export. Throw challenges to the states on agriculture.
We got mineral resources.
We got good sunlight.
We got fantastic tourist attractions that needs to be developed to world standard.
We got creative youths into entertainment in movies and music.
We got beautiful ladies to attract businesses once they appear as Nigerians. Others can't be using our girls as models to promote their country image.
We got rich custumes and culture and festivals that needs to be developed to attract foreigners.

True brother...God gave us that gift so we could be amongst the leading countries in the world. Over 50 years of exploration is no joke. What did we do with it??

hardywaltz:
Talkative noise maker
Why didn't you apply all this ur common sense in running ur business.
Venezuela and Nigeria are not the same
As at June 2017 oil revenues accounts for only 48% (Thou Ministry of finance put it at 40%) of our revenue unlike Venezuela were oil accounts for 99% of revenue.

By 2019 oil revenue may account for less than 30% of our revenue

Don't be myopic... I don't agree with what this man says about 80% of the time, and u definitely did not agree to his common sense propagandas some years ago.

But on this very issue, he is so right. If we don't get it right this time, this present time... It will be so difficult tomorrow. Then, no religious apologist will come and be shouting "end time"

Mr common sense at it again...
But if we can just ignore the messenger and look into the message, we'd be making some progress.
Bruce, just made some very salient points.. Though his intentions may be just to make noise or just trying to be seen as talking kind of. But he made some good points that should drive the leadership into deep thoughts.
But my fear is do we even have any leadership in this country?
Do we
All I see is a collection of thieves, rogues and criminals in high places. From APC to PDP and the rest. They're all thieves.
May God help this country

Oga albino, how many farm do you have that employ youths
Always preaching embrace agriculture without practising it.

Ben Bruce spoke the bitter truth. However using anambra as a template for other states to adopt is flawed not because of tribalism but based on the fact the points he mentioned attributing to the state is already in existence in other states like kebbi, Kaduna, Lagos, Plateau, Ogun, Oyo, Benue, Ebonyi, etc

Ben Bruce's warning must be taken seriously. I have read some silly ignoramuses on front page abusing him. I don't know why you always have a lot of senseless people on Nairaland front page.

This warning by Bruce is the chilling reality that awaits Nigeria, not politics. Let's do what we can now!

I need to find Ben Bruce twitter handle to tell him he has no sense, even if Nigeria becomes dumping ground for petrol cars, it will create more job opportunities while switching to electric cars will fuel more corruption

MyNewJackeT:
Of course oil can't save Venezuela because of their socialist policies, they were giving out free stuff thereby making their citizens Lazy.

That's very true.

thesuave10:
Ben Murray Bruce is turning into a fool. Venezuela's wealth was exploited by their leaders. It's about using oil wealth for the right purposes. It's not about the oil but the leaders

Our leaders aren't any better. If anything they are worse. What are you suggesting? Massive revamp of those ruling?

Why is he telling us? Are we the ones in charge of the oil?

dabeto:
Ben, we are more reactive than proactive. God is a Nigerian. He will save us from impending calamity as usual only that we won't get better.

Which of Nigerian state, L. G. A and state is you god from

menwongo:
Oga albino, how many farm do you have that employ youths
Always preaching embrace agriculture without practising it.

he is saying the right thing. All I need to do now is simply get trained on how to fix faulty electric cars. Soon Nigeria will beg for who to buy their oil

ULSHERLAN:


Have you forgotten that the United States has steady electricity to power these cars.


Ben murray bruce also has the capacity to power such vehicles as a rich Nigerian law maker.

It's time we start telling Ben Bruce to write all these open letters to his colleagues and not us cos him and his colleagues can atleast do something to change the situation by sponsoring some bills needed

The truth is presenting to the house it's not a guarantee it will pass first hearing provided it didn't favor the hausa's directly in a short run.
Just look at job the land use act was voted against in Nass by the north because it's going to benefit every region.
We know the enemies of the state and unfortunately, they have the yam as well as the knife, so they can cut it anyhow they like.
Irony of one nigeria.
Cheers.

I really don't blame these stupid politicians for the rubbish they always say. I 'll blame the masses for always hailing and clapping or talking selfies when they see these idio.ts in public. These are people that should be flogged mercilessly anywhere we see them. Somebody just wakes up in the morning,freshen up, eat good food, balance in a chilling SUV, is driven to one stupid National assembly to seat down for about 2 hours doing absolutely nothing and collects huge sums of money at the end of the month all in the name of being a senator. This useless govt keeps telling us how oil is this and that and how it will be useless in the future. Mahn! we are not in the phucking future, what are you doing presently with money made from oil? wasting it of course on useless politicians. it is the same oil money Buhari is using to treat himself in london for months at the expense of millions of IDPs back in Nigeria especially his own region. You wonder when you see some people with referral letters to hospitals begging on the street for money to run a test and you probably think they are scammers. Yes some of them are scammers but some actually need the money. to carry out some ordinary tests in some govt hospitals will cost almost 100k. How do these evil politicians think the average nigerians can get such money for any test? Yet the evil leaders will fly oout of the country for treatment for ordinary headache. Use the oil money to do reasonable things for people to see, you won't, allow the people that own the oil to take charge of their resources and use it well, you won't. This ccrazy ben bruce who entered politics because he failed totally in business too is always talking trash claiming to make common sense when he could not even use common sense to run a successful business. With all the free money he got from Jonathan, he still couldn't use it to do anything meaningful. He ran to contest for senator so he can be collecting free money...anoufia.

MyNewJackeT:
Of course oil can't save Venezuela because of their socialist policies, they were giving out free stuff thereby making their citizens Lazy.

Similarly, the system of sharing monthly allocation to the States also makes Nigerians lazy. It makes everyone of us trying to get a share of the 'national cake'. Not good for progress at all.

Talk is cheap, the man is an alarmist. Electric car, where is the electricity to power it.
People just talk anyhow just to be seen.
When he was DG of NTA how many of the electric technology did he put in place instead he went to setup his own TV station I don't even know how many electric cars he has in his company.

There are some companies here in Lagos run by youths that power our electronic card transactions. Despite our power problems and policy instability, insecurity, economic challenges. They successfully run a world class standard company. Those are the people they should invite to come and show them how it's done and not rabble rousers making noise everywhere. Give them a little chance they loot the country dry.