₦airaland Forum

omonnakoda:
The reason the so called advanced countries are ahead of us is because of how they manage their intelligentsia.
We have 2000 Nigerian trained doctors in the UK.
Think for one moment of the cost of producing them and the opportunity cost of not retaining them.

Two weeks ago we had a crisis in Rivers state about EXPATRIATES

why are we not producing people who can do the jobs of these expatriates

Why is it unlikely that a cure for coronavirus will come from Nigeria

This is an artificial and unnecessary crisis created by a government with a military mindset that does not value human capital.


The government is trying to control the universities something they couldn't do under the military government.

Now they want to have the switch for Lecturer salaries in Abuja where they can turn it off and on at will for any reason.

The reality is this CANNOT succeed. It will only succeed in reducing quality which is at an all time low.

If this is about fraud there are enough laws to tackle that.

This is about CONTROL.
They do this because their children do not attend these universities.

The people cheering need exposure to how the foreign universities that Buhari and Osinbajo send their children work.

It is very sad because the damage of 2 months ago battle cannot be undone in 20 years.

Eventually you end up with people not fit to teach in secondary schools as university lecturers

FG is simply trying to avoid duplication in payments. How hard is this?

There is nothing like a switch for lecturers salary. The FG has direct staff in all the states of the federation, and no one's salary has ever been switched on and off like a tap.

So far you guys want to keep drawing salaries from the FG, you must submit to the procedures set out by FG to curtail fraud.

olamide021:
We can't blame them because their are alot of rubberry cases in Lagos during this lockdown, they also have the highest number of tested positive of coronavirus and with this leaving there is of high risk compared to the normal Lagos before this pandemic.

Stay save

They are on their way to Lagos. Not that they are leaving Lagos.

stagger:
I personally want the customs man to take that position. His tenure as Customs boss is a complete aberration. No career progression for serving customs officers. Crazy policies all over.

Policies like?

vibre:
That's what they think. America is always years ahead of them but they won't loud it until you try and see and believe

Americans are more lousy about their armaments than the Russians and Chinese.

ImadeUReadThis:
Buhari was stationed in Ikeja and later Jos in 1983.

The only time Nigeria had a conflict in the NE in the 80's was against Maitassine sect and Buhari was never involved in the military clean-up then.

The useless BMC roach is a born liar.

All BMC roaches will be rounded up and tried as collaborators of this Satanic APC govt.

Check the history books. Buhari actually invaded Chad and didn't back down despite being directed to do so by President Shagari.

ddippset:
And tomorrow North Korea or Iran will wake up and so their own.

The world would avoid them in order to avoid a war of attrition.

There's no hard evidence that the Chinese did this on purpose.

You are advocating for a 3rd world war based on speculations.

The world is definitely a better place without your likes in leadership positions.

ddippset:
The Donald Trump declared Chinese virus has ravaged Donald Trump's America.

Damn!


I might sound a bit naive but after all this, a thorough investigation should be carried out.

And if it is confirmed beyond every doubt that China deliberately nurtured and spread this virus then the affected parts of Europe and the USA should go to war with China for this.

And cause more deaths and a war of attrition.

Everything will seem fine at the onset until one gets pregnant before the other.

Humanoid01:
OK! I get it now.
"Egungun don enter express" literally means "Egungun don enter wahala" . In this case, "Ondo state don enter wahala" .

Egungun don enter express, gbege don happen!

kikero:
That's because the US is where China was in December.

Since then, China brought in measures like lock-downs (Wuhan was locked down for 2 months), extra testing (nowadays, people entering China are tested and quarantined till results come out)...and restriction in travels.

If the US had acted like China from January, they probably would have had less casualties.Instead many Americans were busy ignoring health warnings. Testing was not carried out on time. Trump too messed up a bit by not taking things serious. Then there are large incidences of hypertension, diabetes, obesity...all of which predispose to death from covid 19

(Russia on the other had was taking sterner measures by January..and even then has nearly 2000 cases. Taiwan already had a response setup...thanks to they being badly hit by SARS in 2003...lessons were learned.)

No political game here. Infact the Chinese economy has been hit badly and may take time to recover. Their manufacturing sector was out of action for 3 months...to the point that pollution levels in China massively declined. And with most of their customers out of action...what's the use of making things when no one can buy them.

Apt!

This is embarrassing.

Waiting for the online tribal warriors to arrive.

Better late than never.

GboyegaD:
I don't have a party and neither is this politics. It is a big good on the side of the presidency to use a flag we do not recognize. We as citizens deserve to know what the flag is and besides, it isn't appropriate to have a party flag as this was a national address.

That flag has always been part of the presidency. I am surprised some people are just noticing it.

It also flies on the president's car and always well displayed behind the president.

GboyegaD:
Which of the armed forces?

All of 'em.

sarrki:
That is the party flag

Every democratically president used the flag of their party side by side the national flag

That is not APC flag. Compare the colours. It is as I mentioned earlier, Armed Forces Flag.

sarrki:
Laila st Mathew asked what was the flag behind President Muhammadu Buhari , while the president address the nation on covid 19 on her Facebook page .

Any idea guys

That is the flag of the Armed Forces.

Unbelievable

StaffofOrayan:
The North is already gone,
Keep being irritated
In 1 year, you would be living in an IDP camp

Nigeria was once SOUTHERN and NORTHERN protectorate, you sound like its a new concept?
Do you read?

I not going to live in any IDP camp.

I guess its your own plans you are voicing out. Quit conjuring baseless crisis on your country Oga.

StaffofOrayan:
I wonder if that bomb differentiated between the house or lives of APC/PDP
Una go get sense for South by force, but I already we are so stuupid we would get used to it
IDP's loading

All these South this, South that is getting irritating abeg.

WeRblessed:
Buhari is not a true leader. What true world leaders are doing in this precarious times are finding solutions on how to help and protect their citizens from the invisible enemy celled COVID-19.

As a matter of fact, Buhari should have been addressing the Nigerian public on a daily basis as to what he and his administrators are putting in place to alleviate fear and panic in the country regarding the pandemic.

I'm wondering why Nigerian people are not demanding for answers from him or as a matter of fact, protest for him to resign.

He shouldn't put himself before the citizens. It's a huge shame that he diverted what is meant to protect the Nigerian people for his and his cabal personal use

Covid19 is not respectable of any leader. Even those on ventilators in New York and Italy are still dying daily.

He has been too silent for comfort. Comparing the response of the Lagos state team and the Federal clearly shows that governance is taken more seriously by Lagos state.

However, saying the materials donated were hijacked by Aso Rock without giving us any proof is dishing out falsehood to the public.

Agboriotejoye:
I honestly think your ability to rationalise and think logically is low and your silly analogy exposed it.
What difference does it make whether they were purchased or donated? And who told you they are not for treatments? Will the medical personnels not wear them when going in to see the patients?
The FG should have done whatever they need do on the materials in Lagos and distributed them however they want to there. That's how to do things in an emergency not introducing bottlenecks. Have you not been watching the news about the response of other nations? Even the US decentralised and handed over power to the states to manage the crisis. Nobody is thinking centrally in terms of logistics and testing but here you are saying rubbish. No wonder we have only two ventilators in the nation's capital. It's dumb citizens like you that encourage such!!

What kind of dunce fellow is this? Purchase and donation mean same to you right? If Lagos state purchases items, does it need to go to Abuja before they use what was purchased? Even if FG purchases items, won't they do sorting before allocating to each state/NCDC?
So wearing PPE is same thing with treatment? Your thinking pattern is an embarrassment.

US has always been a decentralized country but you are definitely too dull to know that. Even despite the 'independence' of the states, have you not been seeing the way the New York governor has been tackling Trump over materials?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cuomo-knocks-trumps-claim-ny-ventilators/story?id=69790191

Stop forming smart and shifting the goal post, we all condemn the poor state of the health system in Nigeria. The number of ventilators is not what is being discussed. Even in the US, the strategic stockpile of ventilators is flowing from the Fed to the state, not as decentralized as your little brain conjures. How can items be distributed without a central point? I make bold to say again, that Lagos alone cannot hijack the materials. It is meant for every part of the country. Other parts of the country must also be well prepared against this outbreak.

Agboriotejoye:
See how dis one is thinking about emergency medical supplies in a time if crisis. O maa se o.
I wish I could slap you. Is it meat or cake they're sharing that you're counting father, first born, second born? Who do you like dis?
So you mean if a member of your family is sick in Abuja and the drugs for cure is in Lagos while your dad lives in Kaduna, you'll buy the drugs in Lagos, take it to show your dad in Kaduna before taking it to the sick family in Abuja?
And you're counted among those who went to school o

You are very silly for your rude remarks above. I just used that simple example as an analogy, thinking breaking it down will make some of you with low thinking faculty to understand but I was obviously wrong.

Engage your thinking faculty na, these are not materials purchased, so your example of purchasing drugs does not relate. They are materials donated to the country for prevention efforts. They are not drugs for direct treatment. Materials donated to the country are to be handed over to the FG, who will distribute it appropriately to all the federating units.

States in the far East are as entitled to the materials as states in the extreme North and Lagos. The FG is in a better position to distribute based on criticality and available information. For your information, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control is a parastatal of the FG under the Federal Ministry of Health with Headquaters in Abuja.

The only issue with this approach is the logistic cost and time factor. Otherwise, they are well in order.

clevvermind:
I don't think Buhari can go two times.

When Buhari was his age, he was far ahead of him in fitness.

When Buhari was his age, he has achieved far more than him and has even governed an entire country, commanded troops in battle and served in various capacities.

Let Reno continue fooling himself thinking he is comparable to a two-time president of Nigeria.

DAVE5:
They could have allocated the packages and shared from Lagos at once

Taking everything to abj and sending to other places is double waybill cost, the cost might be ok to be handle by the Nigerian pocket, but then it's still a drain on the Nigerian pocket

This is a very good point. But trust civil servants now. The PS of the ministry and the Minister themselves will want to witness the whole sharing.

Whereas, there is a Federal presence in Lagos. They could have just delegated officials of the Ministry of Health in Lagos to do the sharing then distribute from Lagos to the entire country to save cost.

WeRblessed:
They should have shared it between the states, instead of parking it to Abuja.

So you want to share something that was donated to the entire family in the House of the 1st born? Is that not rudeness to the Father of the House?

what was donated to the family must be taken to the House of the father of the House, for it to be shared for everybody. The only problem and issue I see is the additional logistic cost involved and the time factor. Otherwise, no big deal.

if Lagos state hijacks the materials, some of the people here will be the first persons to raise eyebrow and call them greedy that Lagos is not the only place in Nigeria.

LeeAshava:
As of now the only information we have is that the donations were taken to Abuja and we've not gotten any news as to reasons for that action which is wrong, i think the reasons why it was taken should be stated first or while it's been taken

We cannot say the action is entirely wrong. The donation was made to Nigeria. The seat of govt is Abuja. So it falls under the purview of the the Federal Ministry of Health to receive the materials and then distribute round the country as they deem fit.

If the materials were directly donated to Lagos state, then there is no need to take them to Abuja. The Lagos state govt will receive them directly.

I am sure it does not make sense for materials donated to Nigeria to be hijacked by only Lagos state.

A lot of politicians in Nigeria are just thugs who butchered their way into office.

Untill the reasonable and good guys decide to give the thugs fire for fire during election period, it will continue like that with thugs dictating political outcomes.

Good.

They should add all countries in the world abeg, till global efforts gets a hold of the pandemic.

ursullalinda:
Hahaha.......they lie about everything.......seems he reduced his age with 20years hahaha.......Abeg leave politicians and their football age.

So with the picture of Yahaya Bello you have been seeing, he looks 64 years to you?