₦airaland Forum

zombieTRACKER:
Buhari has nothing to offer
Even the very few people that supports him here do so because of religious ethnic affiliation and peanuts

A man who doesn't know why he is a president
He doesn't know his age
He doesn't know the difference between the living and the dead
A petroleum minister who is busy looking for who to blame for his incompetency
A father who is looking for a scapegoat over his son's debacle... Where did yusuf get over 50million to buy a power bike
Buhari is a failure who doesn't know how to make money but only to steal it and gallivant around the globe

Buhari is a plague on Nigerians that's needs to go back home next year and attend to his farm and health

omenkaLives:
Excellent question!

EternalTruth, I'd like to see your response to this.

smirn:
Even during subsidy era we were still experiencing scarcity. The truth is obvious now, Nigerians don't need the government to solve every of our problems. It is time we come together as a people and reject whatever that comes up to exploit the public and make them suffer. Just three days ago, a fuel station manager was trying to defend the high cost of fuel at NGN250 per litre citing the cost at which he bought the fuel. To me, why most the marketers buy above the government fixed price? If the Depots are not selling at the agreed government price then let the marketers don't buy and at this stage it is easier to address. But the marketers knowing fully well that the public are ready to buy at all cost will ever want to give every reason for the high cost. The solution is as simple as if you don't sell at NGN145/litre, we will not buy. Since they is no fuel at normal price, Nigerians should just take the pain of refusing to buy. No fuel, no work, no activity should be initiated by the public and everyone will sit at home. This will not be an easy move but there lies the solution. We are easily manipulated because we will never resist anything in this country.

Eleven years ago he was lining up to take part in the biggest club match in world football.

During an illustrious seven-year career in the Premier League , he pocketed millions of pounds in wages, lived in a mansion and drove flashy cars.

Now ex-Arsenal defender Emmanuel Eboue spends his days hiding from bailiffs, sometimes sleeps on the floor of a friend’s home, travels by bus and even cleans his clothes by hand because he has no washing machine.

Today, the 34-year-old tells how his staggering riches-to-rags plight has pushed him to the brink of suicide.
“I want God to help me,” he says. “Only he can help take these thoughts from my mind.”

To listen to Eboue open his heart is as harrowing as it is shocking.

The Sunday Mirror, through its Time To Change campaign, has been battling for the past six years to smash the stigma associated with the mental ill health with which Eboue is now suffering.

At the peak of his career with Arsenal he became a fans’ favourite. He was part of the side that faced Barcelona in the 2006 Champions League final.

Arsenal lost but Eboue remains a cult-hero at the Emirates Stadium, as much for his happy demeanour and his goal celebrations as the ability which saw him help the Ivory Coast reach the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations Final.

That joy, however, has been replaced by tears – and a deep fear of the future.

Eboue, currently unable to play football because of ill-health, says he has been pushed to the brink. He has:

Lost a bitter divorce battle, with his wife Aurelie awarded all of their assets.

Had to hide from cops and bailiffs after being ordered by a judge to transfer his remaining Enfield home to his wife.

Faced a heartbreaking estrangement from his three kids, who he has not seen since June.

Been grieving after the cancer death of grandfather Amadou Bertin – who raised him – and the loss of his brother N’Dri Serge, killed in a motorbike accident.

Sapiosexuality:
Nigerians and initial gragra. This one will pass and we'd go back to default settings. We forget easily and go back to the very diet that gave us running stomach.

People have been experiencing this level of suffering but because it is not fuel, something that have an immediate effect on transport, everyone have been quiet.

About 8 million people lost their jobs in the course of two years and they've seen this played. Many businesses got ruined and families shattered.

Innocent people were killed on a scale we've not experienced before, but because it is not fuel, many of us didn't see it as something that indicts the conscience of a leader.

Shia Muslims were murdered and till now nothing has heard about it. Fulani herdsmen killed hundreds in Agatu. IPOB youths were shot and we hailed.

The truth is, Buhari will still win. Forget all these temporary 'gragra'. He'd win in a free and fair election because we are people who forget easily and largely emotional.

Mofe72:
Our external reserves witnessed a major increase during Abacha's time.
It didn't even the odds for the average Nigerian then.

Leystra:
CURRENT US DEBT

massinola:
BMC crew are having difficult time with their duties recently. The more they try to defend their paymaster, the more heavier damages are been done. Some times I feel pity for them. Their pay is not commiserate with the work they do.

Professor Osinbajo said this after the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, interrupted his speech to pass him information.

“We are not making promises for nothing. The second Niger Bridge, we have been talking about it for a long time. But for the first time, President Muhammadu Buhari went by himself to negotiate the facility to do that second Niger Bridge,” the Vice President said.

“And that is why the second Niger Bridge is in our current budget and we have provided for it. In fact, I am being reminded that just two days ago, the Sovereign Wealth Fund paid $2bn for that same project. So we will definitely see our second Niger Bridge. We will not make promises we cannot keep.

Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund stood at $2 billion this month with the investment agency seeking further growth through agriculture and the addition of asset management, its chief executive officer said.

The government’s contribution stands at $1.5 billion, with the rest including funds owned by the institution and those managed for several government agencies, Uche Orji of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority said in an interview on Wednesday in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana.

raker300:
Oga, awka did not start and stop at enugu/onitsha express...

Show us the rest of awka

domchike:
I wonder where d dept comes from wen Anambra St.since 2014 has been recorded a dept free state by the ministry of finance Indices. Abi this man is making way to drain the state

ikp120:
Okay, let's us collect that 120 billion from them and add it to the 780 billion Naira FG annual wage bill. We have 900 billion Naira.

Does that come close to funding the 3.5 trillion Naira annual wage bill that an annual salary of 100k will require?

Hehehehe Double that 900 billion (1.8 trillion Naira) and you will still be far from it.

ikp120:
I can still recall some months ago when the minister of finance said that FG spends 65 billion on wages every month, which is about 780 billion per annum. Increasing salary by over 455 percent will be increasing it to over 3.5 trillion per annum. Those nations you guys are using as yardsticks, do you really know how much their annual budgets are for just military alone? Or just health alone?

This is funny man

ABUJA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Nigeria’s government has asked parliament to amend its spending law to enable a debt program to settle 2.7 trillion naira ($8.6 bln) worth of obligations including pensions and salary arrears, according to a letter from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

The letter, read out in the Senate on Tuesday, requested amendments to the law, which stipulates allocation of government spending, to allow Nigeria to fund recurrent expenditure from proceeds of the debt rather than just capital projects.

Nigeria’s Fiscal Responsbility Act states that proceeds of government borrowings can only be applied towards capital expenditure. Osinbajo said the amendment was to provide the legal backing for the use of the debt to meet the obligations.

As the banker to the FGN, and following the implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA), the CBN is the natural domicile for FGN deposits. Gleaning through the numbers reveals that FGN borrowings look like a cash backed loan as effectively the FGN borrows against its own deposits with the CBN. Looking at trends, after holding steady then declining in 2014-16, FGN deposits jumped in 2015 as the TSA effectively sequestered all deposits from the banking system into the CBN to N5.26tr. Hence, the FG is merely taking an overdraft facility against its own deposits.

buygala:
Don't be silly

I know of Faculty mates who left OAU with a 2:1 but went on to bag distinctions in their Masters at Harvard and Cambridge ... Not to talk of the ones who grabbed their 1st class degree from OAU by the whiskers... 4.51... 4.57... but still bagged distinctions in Harvard or Cambridge

Point is... The Sadism and environment in Nigeria stifles most Nigerian intellectuals.... Take them to a country where things work and watch them blaze trails..

ndidibabe:
What exactly do you mean by lowball? Do you mean that it is easier to excel in such schools with minimal effort? If so, what are the factors behind this?.

By the way, I studied for my first degree at OAU and postgraduate at University of Portsmouth.

The number of first class degrees being handed out to graduates at British universities has soared to make up almost a quarter of all degrees awarded.

Since 2010, when the cap on tuition fees was raised to £9,250 by the coalition Government, numbers of firsts have risen at almost all universities so that a third of institutions now pass one in four students with top honours.

It said, “Capital importation totaled $2.67bn in Nigeria in the opening quarter of 2015, giving the lowest value observed over the last two years of review.