₦airaland Forum

greggng:
My advice is that people invite their aboki to the bank to ease the changing of the money ...otherwise bank will reduce the worth ...I know say black market is always higher ....don't attempt to go with your dollars cos criminals are not happy this time . N.a. bank go even tell them how much u collected from them. Don't ask me how I know ...I once withdrew money from a bank ...a reputable one for that matter ...immediately I headed home,and as I was opening my door to enter ...behold 6 men gang was already knocking at my door ...I became afraid ....I asked through the window whom they are and they said police ....I was shocked ...I opened the door and the entered and told me they where on patrol so the just wanna greet me...I was surprise with this type of greeting when I just came back from bank ...I understand they followed me from bank ....long story short I gave them drink money and immediately they left I had to go sleep in my sisters place that day ...the next day I travelled for my business...we need to be careful this time

You served into their hands, I no dey withdraw money when my Aboki no dey around o.
I would have invite the Aboki into the banking hall, he will be in the bank when I collect the money, as soon as I collect the money, I will collect the naira and deposit it into my naira account.
So you don't know that some bankers are working with thieves?, just get a good money exchangers and let him wait while you collect your � simple.

Mrbillionaire:
Since most of our youths are into yahooyahoo, their remittances would go a long way in ensuring a strong Naira. My people say 'Omo buruku l'ojo tie'. A bad child has his good days.

This was how India came about their $550 billion reserve, Narenda Mordi is India's best prime minister ever.
Every Indian abroad send their foreign earnings to India tax free and the reserve keeps growing fatter, of recent another 5 billion was added to their reserve.
If you know how many Nigerians have lost their Dollars to those fraudulent online banks.
Let them bring the money into Nigeria jor, oyinbo self na scammer, na dog eat dog ole gbe ole gba.

northvietnam:
Yeah cuz dollar will be readily available any where and anyhow ... but it’s good . Another foolish president will still come with another policy that will make dollar high ..

If dollar is low , things will be very cheap in the market , I mean very very cheap cars inclusive

This is what the policy was meant to achieve.
Dollar hoarders will soon organize # bring back our bussiness #.
This is what former finance Minister Anthony Ani was talking about.
IfMONEY TRANSFER FRAUD!!!!!

COLLUSION AMONG CBN,COMMERCIAL BANKS,WESTERN UNION,MONEYGRAM,ETC TO KILL THE NAIRA INSTALMENTALLY �!!!

By Chief Anthony Ani,FCA,Former Minister Of Finance.

"A MATTER OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY DEMANDING OUR DEAR PRESIDENT BUHARI'S URGENT ACTION!

"RE: $BILLION DIASPORA REMITTANCES: WHERE ARE THE DOLLARS?"

The above question was posed in an article in The PUNCH newspaper edition of September 9, 2019, by columnist Henry Boyo.

I have been a daily reader of The PUNCH for the past 10 years and I have not yet, read any comments from anyone on this question.

There is a need to discuss this issue, as it appears that there is massive foreign exchange laundering going on in our banks.

As the architect of the Diaspora remittances in 1996, I am naturally concerned at the abuses disclosed by Boyo.

When in 1995, we at the Ministry of Finance reviewed the country’s sources of foreign revenues, we found out that nothing was coming in from Nigerians in the Diaspora, whereas India and Jamaica were living on foreign exchange from their citizens abroad.

When I enquired why Western Union and MoneyGram could not receive money from Nigerians abroad, I was told that it was due to our tax laws.

As a Chartered Accountant student in 1962, I studied Comparative Commonwealth Taxation in Nigeria, Jamaica and the UK, and I found out that the tax laws of these countries had the same wordings on imposition of tax (“tax is imposed on income accruing in, derived from or brought into”).

The question then to me was why income “brought into” India was not taxed in India? On enquiry, I found that India had modified its tax laws to accommodate its citizens living abroad who wanted to send money in foreign exchange to India.

In 1996, I had proposed (and it was accepted by the Federal Executive Council) in a new law, regarding Nigerians repatriating remuneration from abroad, Nigerians repatriating dividends, royalties, fees, commissions from foreign countries receipts by authors, sportsmen/women, musicians, play writers, artist, etc.

Such income repatriated into Nigeria in foreign currency was 100 per cent exempted from tax, provided the foreign currency was repatriated through a domiciliary account with a Nigerian bank!

With the promulgation of this law, First Bank Nigeria Ltd brought in Western Union in August 1996 while the USA(UBA) brought in MoneyGram a few weeks later.

In 1996, Nigerians abroad repatriated about $4.5bn (about 50 per cent of our gross revenue from oil) and we ensured that these amounts were brought into Nigeria, intact, in foreign exchange.

The receipts increased exponentially in 1997 and 1998 and we also made sure that they were received in Nigeria, in foreign currency.

The receipts helped to stabilise our exchange rate mechanism at N82 to a dollar, throughout my tenure as the Minister of Finance, to the extent that the naira was internally convertible currency.

Some years ago, on my visit to London, I went to Western Union office, at Marble Arch, to test by remitting £500 to my son in Nigeria.

I first had to convert the money to dollars and to my surprise, Western Union gave me a quote in naira to be claimed by my son.

I refused their naira equivalent and insisted that my son must be paid in dollars.

It was obvious to me that there was an arrangement between our Nigerian banks and Western Union/MoneyGram, whereby the former pays from their excess naira liquidity while the later retains the dollars abroad.

In other words, the dollar remittance is retained abroad and is laundered by the Nigerian banks. This is definitely against the law which provide that all remittances must be brought into Nigeria in foreign currency via domiciliary account.

If by chance, as in my case, the dollar is remitted into Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria on August 14, 2014, introduced the Outward Money Transfer Service and authorised the same MoneyGram and Western Union to re-export, in tranches of $5,000 per transaction, to Nigerians abroad, on payment of the naira equivalent at the CBN rate of exchange.

Thus, Nigeria is the only country in the world re-exporting its remittances.

It is relevant to note that the naira is not a convertible currency but remittances which are meant to stabilise our exchange rates are re-exported!

There is something wrong at our Central Bank.

It could be that we have imported the mentality of commercial banking into the CBN. We now need real central bankers to govern our Central Bank.

We have central bankers amongst those in the CBN, and we also have central bankers amongst the members of the Nigerian Economic Society or, alternatively, indeed, we can even go outside Nigeria to employ central bankers.

The fact is that the Diaspora remittances are not retained in Nigeria and there is a collaboration between the CBN, Nigerian banks and Western Union/MoneyGram; in such an event, government must investigate the infraction, punish the money launders, and recover all past Diaspora remittances retained abroad!
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The Outbound Money Transfer Services must be stopped and all our remittances retained for naira stability and the nation’s development."
October 8th,2019.

Etubom Anthony Ani is a former Minister of Finance,1993-1998.

*[Please share in all your social media platforms or tag until it goes viral for Urgent Action by President Buhari.We have endured too much fraudulent bewitchment as a People and Nation.]*
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Mikehot:
Islam and the North is the bane of this country

They have succeeded in crippling the progress of this country, instead of development it's now about (Rasome to pay Bandits, Exploring oil in desert, Buying Arms for Boko Haram, North East rehabilitation, Ruga settlement, Buying non existent gold in zamfara, Cows and Miyett allah).

A Sharia comatose terrorist is the nation cjn

A cow terrorist is president

A rubber stamp terrorist as Senate president

A soldier terrorist as general




I spit on luggard

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Emirates and more are Muslim countries, illiteracy is the problem in the north, greed is the problem in south.
Different strokes for different folks.

BluntTheApostle:
Buhari worked so well so that people were able to come out and vote.

I have relatives in Kaduna.

Prior to Buhari coming in, it was hard to celebrate Christmas in the churches without fear of being bombed.

But since Buhari came on board, things have improved.

We are not there yet, but you can't compare Boko Haram under Buhari to Boko Haram under GEJ.

Buhari may have performed below expectations, but if you lived in Borno, you will understand that he has outperformed GEJ.

So, why would they not come out to vote him?

Guy no make me cry o, na 3pm some.people do cross over night in Lagos.
That year I was on my way to cross over night at prayer city, Daystar folks where just coming out of cross over night service at 8pm in the night at Oregun what?.
The hold up was mad that night, by the time I got to prayer city at Mowe, it was 11pm in the night.
Na long que we follow enter prayer city, the gate of prayer city was heavily guarded, their were soldiers everywhere using metal detectors on people, anyone who refused to be checked mustn't enter.
All my happy new year bangers were seized, the chief security officer in charge was screaming no banger o, no banger.
By the time I managed to get in, It was almost 11.45 pm, I quickly join the few remaining prayers.
Na only 21 Hallelujahs we take celebrate happy new year, no bangers unlike the previous years.
Whenever I look back at how it was and how it might have been, I can only say thank you Lord.

saasala:
His sons and daughters are bagging several degrees and excelling in their respective professions at the expense of Mukaila and Semiu whom he has on his patrol to cause mayhem in Lagos during peaceful protests and elections after collecting several hundreds of millions from Jagaban.

One day the poor shall feast on the wicked rich, and in Lagos, it will start from the house of MC Oluomo and his wicked cohorts. We saw it happened during the Endsars protest, how the thugs busted the palace of the Oba, the same Oba who gives them 2k weekly for food. Thats just the template; the real deal is coming soon.

Stop blaming MC, Mukaila and Semiu are not complaining.

ethicallyright:
Till today we are poor as a country because the "literates" don't understand the problem.

That mechanic that didn't go to school is important to the economy than that graduate who read Linguistic or home economics. All he needs to do is to aim higher like INNOSON and in thirty years he would be famous for his craft. A mechanic fixes cars , trailers and maintains the vehicles for transportation which is an important part of the economy. What exactly does a Linguistic certificate offer to Nigeria? INNOSON was just a mechanic and spare parts dealer many years ago.

A plumber fixes pipes in houses and even in production firms. What exactly does a Philosophy graduate add to the economy. Without generator repairers the bad power supply channel would affect small and medium scale enterprises. What exactly do you add to the economy with your First class in Arabic studies?

It is no coincidence that even in developed countries more billionaires like Bill Gates , Mark Zuckerberg and even the richest man in China , Ali Baba either dropped out of the university before their sophomore year or never even had formal education. As a child , I listened to Steve Jobs and I learnt that he dropped out of school to master the craft of calligraphy .... that was all he needed to make iOS fanciful and Apple the brand your graduates want today. UFC President, Dana White , even has a more thuggish history than MC Oluomo and helped the investors of UFC in creating a billion dollar system for fighters.

You must understand how a system works. There will be at least 3 chartered accountants and 3 legal practitioners who work for that transport union headed by MC Oluomo just like they work for Billionaires Gates and Zuckerberg who have no University degree . However, those who know exactly what they are chasing are those who employ the graduates.


MC Oluomo generates more revenue for the government of Nigeria than even your Arabic or Philosophy Professor and Professors of at least 50 other courses who drag an industrial action for more than three decades. Throw that worthless certificate away and stop comparing University graduates who add nothing to the economy with career bus drivers and conductors who help in the transportation of people in an over populated urban city while generating revenue that the government will use to subsidize school fees.

Guy you shake the table so tey you break am.
But you know what?, everything wey you talk na true.

oyatz:
Will hell be let loose if you contest for the Presidency or you think you are only good in criticizing others but not good enough for leadership roles?

Don't mind him, he is out to stop a high speed train like Tinubu.
If Tinubu had been one of them, the noise will have been Tinubu Amaka.
But because they have no one to match Tinubu's profile, they are wasting their time trying to demarket Tinubu before they present their worthless candidate, this shows how backward they are morally and intellectually.
Some of them will kill themselves on top Tinubu matter, dandan ni, ironu ikoko lo ma pa Aja.

simplexvi:
oga atiku can an will never fail this country the way buhari did.. Una sha nogo ever get sense..

A man who stole what could feed 300 million people, for 150 years is already a failure.
Ask Obasanjo he will explain better.

simplexvi:
Una nogo allow Igbo rule, una nogo allow us go our separate ways.. Una wan mk tinubu rule cos he is a southwesterrner, the mistake Nigeria go mk is to allow APC rule fr 16yrs, Nigeria will cease to exist

No one will allow anyone to rule, do your homework.
WAEC no go allow you pass unless you answer their Questions.
FIFA no go gree anyone win without playing by the rule.
Since 2015 you people have not played by the rule have you?, as the matter stand now, Tinubu go win this election because you people had single handedly campaign for him.

Fvckhypocrite:
Why cnt we just fight for southern nigeria and divide coz this tinubu is jus like a box to those fulani in power

Swerve jor Southern Nigeria ko, southern Abbysinia ni.
When Nigeria breaks, everyone must answer their fathers name.

Trendy247:
8 years no be beans o.. Any individual or group that want us to suffer for another 8years after bubu because of their selfish interest, may they suffer for 600 years, Amen

Guy na so I endured pindindinrin for good 16 years, just manage 8 years of Tinubu, I no die enduring pindindinrin, you self no go die enduring Apeecee, as the matter stand now account never balance, 16 years must complete.

LegendHero:
Lol. Has there been a time when the presidential ticket was micro-zoned?

If you can’t see the writing on the wall that the SW will be the candidate of the APC then you don’t understand the dynamics of politics.

No one is saying the SE doesn’t deserve it in PDP, it is their right just like they told the SW that they don’t deserve the PDP chairmanship ticket the other time.

Lastly, even if the Yorubas will concede the ticket to the Igbos, you don’t dictate the terms to the west. You have to beg and build alliance and understand that tantrum don’t work in politics.

You want Tinubu to concede the ticket and yet you keep hating and insulting the man daily, I don’t know who always advise you guys coz ya’all need to be concentrated in a camp and taught the concept of bridge building in a democracy.

It is better for them to threaten Tinubu, can't you see that Tinubu is already afraid of them.
This is why Tinubu dey visit north, he wants the north to beg omo Igbo on his behalf.
Bunch of nuisance wailing Tinubu up and down, Tinubu ti da omi si iwaju, dandan ni ki o te ile tutu.
Itakun to ni ki Erin ma wo odo ni won, ati awon ati Erin ni won jo nlo.
Tinubu has become a TSUNAMI, whoever tried to stop him will be swept away.

smallsmall:
His Hirelings who eat the crumbs from his table will always do that but the larger SW will reject him and l am certain that the North is just waiting for the opportunity to stab him in the back.
Just reflect on hoe Buhari has been treating him in the last one year, since he got his second term and you will know what awaits him.
All these encouragement of Umahi and other PDP people into APC and the dissolution of the NWC and imposition of Buhair's Fulani agents in the NWC/NEC of the party, is simply to dilute the influence of Tinubu in the party so that when time to vote comes, he wont have a sizable number of supporters

Tinubu is all about his own Bullion van and his Children and you can see that from the way he cornered everything in lagos, for himself and his children, na dat kind of person want to be President of Nigeria?
Anyway, the recent protest was a sign/warning to him, of how people feel about him and his supporters.

Which protests? the protests which demarket PDP open your eyes, APC still won election in Lagos after end sars, infact it was a massacre.
Since Nnamidi kanu tape urging IPOBS, to kill Tinubu and burn down Lagos, Yorubas have ronu.
So you don't know that all the traditional rulers in Yoruba land had translated what happened as another 1966 coup all over again?.
Why do you think they are visiting Lagos?, relax Yorubas will deal with unintelligent folks like you people without firing a.bullet.
By the time Yorubas are through with you people, e o ni ro aso buruku be se oro mo.

Yamayama and potorpotor threads just full nairaland theses days,

arsenal33:
10,000,000 are migrants, give Lagos state some credit. Other state governments are lazy and encouraging their citizens to go to Lagos

Lagosians are not up to 5,000,000.
You took these words out of my mouth.
Let the governments of other states take care of their people.
Imagine not providing food for your children and blaming your neighbors for not taking good care of your children.
It doesn't make sense feeding visitors with food prepared for my children.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Yes. If a poor widow in my family grinds pepper daily and sell pepper by the side on a busy street, she will go home with like 1500 daily and more than that at weekends.She can do N500 ajo which gives like N1m in about 5 years. So she becomes a millionaire in less time it takes to finish even primary school.

She won't be wasting time and resources on the social media so she will be fairly richer than most of the people wasting their time online.

Stop wasting your time, dey just don't get it and they have also been deceived into believing that those who do such bussiness are poverty stricken.
Grinding machines that starts working as early as 4am in the morning, na that machine dey wake me up.
Especially for those who have food vendors as clients, 7am in the morning they are like 3k up, just imagine how much they earn on a daily basis.
Those who are good money managers among them already leveraged on this daily income to move into middle income class.
They have transferred the grinding machines to their less privileged relatives, they now sell food stuffs, they've also managed to build moderate houses that also bring in some moderate rents.
As the matter dey go now, they are supposed to be at home resting, but they are still keeping it real teaching their children the way it's done.

9icest:
Is it just Shell workers? What about the NNPC
what about FERMA, what about an arm of PHCN that was brought Otedola an oil and diesel trader? Or by CBN that works with Fulani parallel marketers to destroy the naira for kick backs and settlements. This is how it works, the CBN is about to supply the bureau de exchange $60,000,000 and the naira is currently at 450, but they will instead create artificial scarcity for weeks and destroy the currency and sell that amount for 510 or more.
The Nigerian law enforcement and EFCC are the mostly useless entities in the universe. The real economic crimes passes under their noses daily and they don’t even see it but are mainly interested in Emeka and Tayo collecting $100 which doesn’t even any way affect the US economy. Rubbish and useless country filled with maggot brained leaders

Omo 9ja folks are like that Diabla in that colombian telemundo series, end of paradise.
From one crooked bussiness to another, crime after crime, financial crimes everywhere you go.
Just look at this..MONEY TRANSFER FRAUD!!!!!

COLLUSION AMONG CBN,COMMERCIAL BANKS,WESTERN UNION,MONEYGRAM,ETC TO KILL THE NAIRA INSTALMENTALLY �!!!

By Chief Anthony Ani,FCA,Former Minister Of Finance.

"A MATTER OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY DEMANDING OUR DEAR PRESIDENT BUHARI'S URGENT ACTION!

"RE: $BILLION DIASPORA REMITTANCES: WHERE ARE THE DOLLARS?"

The above question was posed in an article in The PUNCH newspaper edition of September 9, 2019, by columnist Henry Boyo.

I have been a daily reader of The PUNCH for the past 10 years and I have not yet, read any comments from anyone on this question.

There is a need to discuss this issue, as it appears that there is massive foreign exchange laundering going on in our banks.

As the architect of the Diaspora remittances in 1996, I am naturally concerned at the abuses disclosed by Boyo.

When in 1995, we at the Ministry of Finance reviewed the country’s sources of foreign revenues, we found out that nothing was coming in from Nigerians in the Diaspora, whereas India and Jamaica were living on foreign exchange from their citizens abroad.

When I enquired why Western Union and MoneyGram could not receive money from Nigerians abroad, I was told that it was due to our tax laws.

As a Chartered Accountant student in 1962, I studied Comparative Commonwealth Taxation in Nigeria, Jamaica and the UK, and I found out that the tax laws of these countries had the same wordings on imposition of tax (“tax is imposed on income accruing in, derived from or brought into”).

The question then to me was why income “brought into” India was not taxed in India? On enquiry, I found that India had modified its tax laws to accommodate its citizens living abroad who wanted to send money in foreign exchange to India.

In 1996, I had proposed (and it was accepted by the Federal Executive Council) in a new law, regarding Nigerians repatriating remuneration from abroad, Nigerians repatriating dividends, royalties, fees, commissions from foreign countries receipts by authors, sportsmen/women, musicians, play writers, artist, etc.

Such income repatriated into Nigeria in foreign currency was 100 per cent exempted from tax, provided the foreign currency was repatriated through a domiciliary account with a Nigerian bank!

With the promulgation of this law, First Bank Nigeria Ltd brought in Western Union in August 1996 while the USA(UBA) brought in MoneyGram a few weeks later.

In 1996, Nigerians abroad repatriated about $4.5bn (about 50 per cent of our gross revenue from oil) and we ensured that these amounts were brought into Nigeria, intact, in foreign exchange.

The receipts increased exponentially in 1997 and 1998 and we also made sure that they were received in Nigeria, in foreign currency.

The receipts helped to stabilise our exchange rate mechanism at N82 to a dollar, throughout my tenure as the Minister of Finance, to the extent that the naira was internally convertible currency.

Some years ago, on my visit to London, I went to Western Union office, at Marble Arch, to test by remitting £500 to my son in Nigeria.

I first had to convert the money to dollars and to my surprise, Western Union gave me a quote in naira to be claimed by my son.

I refused their naira equivalent and insisted that my son must be paid in dollars.

It was obvious to me that there was an arrangement between our Nigerian banks and Western Union/MoneyGram, whereby the former pays from their excess naira liquidity while the later retains the dollars abroad.

In other words, the dollar remittance is retained abroad and is laundered by the Nigerian banks. This is definitely against the law which provide that all remittances must be brought into Nigeria in foreign currency via domiciliary account.

If by chance, as in my case, the dollar is remitted into Nigeria, the Central Bank of Nigeria on August 14, 2014, introduced the Outward Money Transfer Service and authorised the same MoneyGram and Western Union to re-export, in tranches of $5,000 per transaction, to Nigerians abroad, on payment of the naira equivalent at the CBN rate of exchange.

Thus, Nigeria is the only country in the world re-exporting its remittances.

It is relevant to note that the naira is not a convertible currency but remittances which are meant to stabilise our exchange rates are re-exported!

There is something wrong at our Central Bank.

It could be that we have imported the mentality of commercial banking into the CBN. We now need real central bankers to govern our Central Bank.

We have central bankers amongst those in the CBN, and we also have central bankers amongst the members of the Nigerian Economic Society or, alternatively, indeed, we can even go outside Nigeria to employ central bankers.

The fact is that the Diaspora remittances are not retained in Nigeria and there is a collaboration between the CBN, Nigerian banks and Western Union/MoneyGram; in such an event, government must investigate the infraction, punish the money launders, and recover all past Diaspora remittances retained abroad!
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The Outbound Money Transfer Services must be stopped and all our remittances retained for naira stability and the nation’s development."
October 8th,2019.

Etubom Anthony Ani is a former Minister of Finance,1993-1998.

*[Please share in all your social media platforms or tag until it goes viral for Urgent Action by President Buhari.We have endured too much fraudulent bewitchment as a People and Nation.]*
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seguno2:
Please what is the unemployment/underemployment rate in America and Europe
Is it not too early to say rubbish and self-injure on the way to committing suicide?

Our fore fathers never worked for anybody true or false?, they worked for themselves and they are supported by their wives and children in their businesses.
So you don't know that people fly into other countries like Australia to earn a living, harvesting agricultural products and it's and annual thing?.
Just imagine that Nigerians all this while had improved on our fathers agricultural bussinesses, don't you think people will be flying into Nigeria to participate in planting and harvesting, and we won't be here discussing poverty alleviation?
Why are Nigerians fixated on white collar jobs, how many companies, did our fore fathers left behind?, the only thing they left behind is farming and we have fled from it.
What useless employment and underemployment are you talking about?, you better go and read about the history of Europe before they got to where they are today.
Why do you think their fathers had to go all over the world to kill, destroy and loot?.
The money that Eurozone and America is leveraging on today are all stolen money and have they stopped? the stealing continues through their proxies everywhere.
The earlier people understand the better, that few jobs are available and people needs to stand on their own.

Vaughanlanrewaj:
Please don't repeat this sir. It is completely wrong and clearly elitist or lack of understanding of developmental microeconomics.

Even in High School economics, poverty cycle is taught.Those items being donated by LASG are items that have greater and quicker impact on taking people out of poverty cycle. It comes from position of knowledge and I commend the government.

They are targeted at women and women are more likely to prioritise the feeding of their children than men and these women may now have extra to save in ajo on a daily basis after meeting basic survival needs. So while it may take years to finish major infrastructures, these women can survive until then.
To escape the poverty trap, the first thing you must achieve is savings followed by investment. Poor people, world over, hardly have enough to spend on basic needs, let alone have anything left to save.

This is very commendable in a place like Lagos but I am not sure it will work in Osun, probably the women may need agricultural tools than sewing machines.

In Nigeria, urban dwellers are actually those cheating the poor in the villages; for years, even without having roads , internet, water ,cars and electricity, they were picking up the bills used to fund petrol and electricity subsidy of their urban dwelling relatives to the point that nothing is left in national budgets even to buy medicines in their village cottage clinics.

If a developmental revolution must begin in Nigeria, it must start from those villages to shift resources to helping our poor in the villages not this elitist one by endSars protest or political state actors like Sowore.

The revolution must be organic and bottom up from the cheated Nigerian villagers and whoever must lead it should be from among them. Not those junketting around in brief cases calling themselves development expert. Our poor villagers must force government to give them a substitute of the subsidies their urban relatives are enjoying or enjoyed for years.

They must impose special developmental tax on their relatives returning to the villages and such funds must be used to fund their own economic and political activities.

We had a similar one with the Agbekoya and India is on the throes of one with the riots by farmers for days now. Those farmers are the real poor who are now piling pressure on Indian government.

This 24hr internet dwelling lifestyle itself that makes one privileged subsidy-enjoying Nigerian to be suggesting that the poor denied of everything do not need empowerment , itself is a reflection of how Nigerian urban dwellers think. They hardly imagine that the internet itself is a luxury these poor villagers can't afford yet pick up bills for those whose stock in trade is sabotaging the country after enjoying far more privileges than the real poor Nigerians in our villages.


If you are a villager privileged to read this, please note that your redemption and economic liberation is not in the hands of your urban relatives, as a matter of fact, they are part of the burden you carry.

To emancipate yourself, organize and insist that for any subsidy or privilege given to your urban dwelling relatives, an equivalent of it must be provided for your villages too.

Everything is not about those who have access to internet and can write English, there are real people suffering from the way government give more priority to the loud urban dwelling Nigerians but the lives of the poor especially in our villages too matter.

Thank you, the matter taya me o.
You need to see the so called poor in Lagos every weekend.
Me wey no poor no get the kind jolly wey dem dey jolly, na aso ebi after aso ebi, party after party. .
Government should move from poverty alleviation program to seminars on financial discipline.
From my personal observation, people are poor because people live an AIMLESS life.
People spends money on things that add no value to their lives.
Different strokes for different folks jare.

bsalawu:
You make the people poor... then you empowerment them... nice one.

This people need to understand that we don’t need empowerment, what you need is a conducive environment,
good infrastructure
and great leadership!


Who your empowerment help?

Second base jare!

Who made you poor, you better wake up and smell the coffee, your life is what you make it.
So who made people poor in America, and Europe or you think there are no poor people there too?.
Get a better life for yourself, don't wait for whatever life throws at you.
The Quest for a better future, is what differentiate the rich, and the average, from the poor, the people you call " the poor " attend party every weekend wearing newly made aso ebi. , yet they are poor.
Some people leave their homes by 4 am in the morning to go do their jobs, they don't even have time to attend parties as all they do is work.
These people are not mad, they just don't like the idea of waiting for handouts.
Stop being uneccessarily emotional, life is a just employer too, it will pay you for as much as you are willing to put in, don't settle for less.
Good morning.

A job that three Nigerian president could not do, a foreigner like jubril Al Sudan has almost complete it.
Na war o.

A job that three Nigerian president could not do, a foreigner like jubril Al Sudan has almost complete it.
Mar war o.

Okoroawusa:
O'boy see Pen Cinema o!


This is my Lagos that miscreants wanted to destroy... E no better for them.

Nonsense and #ENDSARS

Those #burnLagos# the Yorubas among them, when last did you hear anything about them? . Chai ofo l'omi efo se.
They are in for a long hibernation.
People wake up to lay curses on them, especially those early momo BRT passengers.
You hear things like " ki eyan gbe owo s'oke ju ina si owun ti gbogbo eniyan nlo, won o tun fi owo won se nkan rere mo l'aye won, awon ota aje".
Meaning " imagine using their hands to set a useful public property on fire, they shall never do anything good with such hand again in their lives, enemies of wealth ".

Indispensable85:
This is the kind of project I want to see in Edo state.

Edo is not Lagos, let Edo remain Edo while Lagos keeps being Lagos.

KunleyY19:
Lagos state has a masterplan... If Ambode completed Fashola's own maybe he would have stayed longer in office.

You wonder why they end up a failure, this is LASG developmental plan not Ambode's.
If Sanwo self deviate dem go boot am out, no matter how smart a man is, he can't be older than his parents.

Philipponzaghi:
Ladoja is PDP and a close ally of Makinde.

As this thing is going, even Bode George and Fayose will spearhead Asiwaju campaign when it’s time.

The Yorubas must regroup as one for the fight ahead.

E ti ri nkankan.
Mariwo le si nri, e ma to ri eegun.

Aconomist:
Buhari has impoverished you to the point where you won't even afford this train, but you are here praising him. Monkey pepu.

Don't cry for me omo Igbo, the truth is I'll never love you.
All through my wildness, my wild existence.
I made no promise, please keep your distance.
Remember that Madonna song " don't cry for me Argentina "?.
You love us more than us, ki lo de gan?.
Solo Makinde, ta lo fi ise ran yin?.
Show us the dividend of your 16 years of servitude in pindinpin, or forever remained CHOKED with your hate for good things, pig.
The train is magnificent, we love it.
Thank you Buhari, God bless you.

ogwumgbe:
We are landlocked, we don't have anything yet we want to go and you idiot continue attaching to us by force. Are you not ashamed to be in the same country with people that have nothing?

You want to go where?.
You people were at Ore on your way to Lagos, were you people going to Ghana or flying out through MMA international airport?.
Even now you people can still go, just bomb the Niger bridge.
You come online to post nonsense and think everyone is a mumu, could Ojukwu be so daft not to know that the first thing to go should be the bridge?.
Rather you expansionists cross the bridge with the sole purpose of annexing other people's land.
Saying NO to a land grabber is not holding anyone down, you people failed because you people are greedy.
If you people are given the second chance of getting Biafra, you people will still fail because you people will still cross the Niger bridge again, into other people's homelands and you people will still be done for.

YungMillionaire:
No. Na 'count the stop.'

It is obvious that the burning down of Lagos under the guise of 'endsars' has radicalized many Yoruba people. Most Lagosians now believe that this was the handwork of PDP and their political thugs.

E shock you?.