₦airaland Forum

LagosFirstSon:
Which Reno

This Reno?

Soon, Nigerians would stop taking Reno serious.

He was right on that issue then, just as he is right on this issue now.

Any disagreement with the above

Mackyobi:
I want this Reno to come back so he can join bobrisky at kirikiri,very unstable fellow

Come back to where

Bobloco:
Reno Omokri is a rabble rouser.

It's now obvious that Reno Omokri is using Peter Obi to create content

Suddenly, Peter Obi criticism of the project becomes something to talk about but Atiku, his boss was the first to criticize the project , he even went as far as describing it as a highway of fraud

How is Atiku’s fraud allegation the same thing as a misplaced priority allegation by Gbajuẹ Peter Obi?

Are you sure you know what you’re talking about

honestivo:
The main reason is the NWC they were secretly working against the party in many of the states

Is that why Wike is so powerful and privileged in ThiefNuibu’s government?

olatade:
BREAKING: Tinubu Pulls FCTA Out Of TSA, Allows Wike Generate IGR

President Bola Tinubu has pulled the Federal Capital Territory Administration ( Facts) out of the Treasury Single Account (TSA).

This, he said, would allow Nyesom Wike-led FCTA to use the territory’s Internally Generated Revenue IGR for the development of the nation’s capital.

on Friday, also disclosed that the President has approved the creation of the FCT Civil Service Commission.

This he said would allow the progression of staff of the FCT Administration.

Civil servants in the territory have been complaining of the effects of the absence of such Commission for their career progression.

Details later…

virginboy1:
Una don start again.

2024 Year of Naira Vs Dollar rise and fall battle...

I just hope last last Naira Truimphs sha

Renewed hope of light at the end of the tunnel propaganda?

Or renewed hopelessness of realising that ThiefNuibu is clueless about the economy and propaganda won't help him at the federal level?

Which one of the two above

Zeezenho:
Oluwole boys think say propaganda can run economy. .

Where is that smooth talker Osinbajo with his governance is not rocket science balablu town hall vibes

Honestey:
Aisha Yesufu and her band of haters must be so happy now. She said keep your dollars closed and now we are sliding back to 1900. Good people of Nigeria must keep these enemies farrrr away from Aso Rock

ThiefNuibu and his band of Lagos rogues are the real enemies with their looting spree that they have upgraded to Abuja.

Know your enemies to fight them accordingly.

SecondAudio:
Wow ... it's like it's time for Nigeria to truly develop... That's if all these things are not paper propaganda

Of course it is propaganda to deflect the suffering from the growing scarcity despite news of Dangote refinery producing fuel.

Have you asked yourself what happened to the PH refinery that was supposed to be producing since December after the technical completion

99thEnemy:
People will still come to show hate.

Of course, in line with how much lies and propaganda we have been fed by useless government officials and their private sector collaborators in the past.

Esejojo:
FACT CHECK: Did Audu Ogbeh Lie About the Collapse of Thailand's Rice Mills?

On Friday, Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture, claimed that Thailand has accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s government of being responsible for the collapse of seven of its rice mills.

The minister quoted the Thailand’s ambassador to Nigeria as saying that the federal government has “dealt” with his country.

Ogbeh said this was because Nigeria’s importation of rice has fallen by 95 percent.

Consequently, he said, unemployment rate has risen by four percent in Thailand.

“Just like two weeks ago, the ambassador of Thailand came to my office and said to me that we have really dealt with them,” he said.

“But I asked what did we do wrong and he said unemployment in Thailand was one of the lowest in the world, 1.2 percent, it has gone up to four percent because seven giant rice mills have shut down because Nigeria’s import has fallen by 95 percent on rice alone.”

TheCable fact-checked the claims made by the agriculture minister.

CLAIM ONE: COLLAPSE OF SEVEN RICE MILLS IN THAILAND

TheCable carried out an extensive research and the minister’s claim that seven rice mills collapsed in Thailand owing to Nigeria’s low patronage could not be verified.

Instead, Thailand’s export has continued to grow. According to The Nation Thailand, overall exports in January this year alone rose to 17.6 percent with an income of $20.101 billion.

Significantly, rice exports grew to 37.2 percent year-on-year — an indication that rice mills are not collapsing in Thailand. Instead, rice producers in the country may be needing more mills!

Also, the Rice Exporters Association of Thailand said rice exports reached a record high in 2017.

Charoen Laothammatas, president of the association, said they would be able to export around 9.5 million tons of rice in 2018.

The quantity of rice imported from Thailand into Nigeria is not significant enough to lead to the collapse of any mill in the country.

Information on the association’s website puts Nigeria’s import in 2017 at 23,192 metric tonnes. What Nigeria imported in 2015 and 2016 were 644,131 and 58, 260 metric tonnes respectively.

These figures are less compared to what Benin Republic has imported. The country imported 1,811,164; 1,427,098 and 805,765 metric tonnes of rice in 2017, 2016 and 2015 respectively.

It is even suspected that most Benin imports end up in the Nigerian market through the land border.

CLAIM TWO: UNEMPLOYMENT IN THAILAND HAS RISEN TO FOUR PERCENT

Checks by TheCable found this claim to be false.

Trading Economics puts Thailand’s unemployment rate at 1.3 percent as at January 2018.

“The unemployment rate in Thailand inched up to 1.3 percent in January of 2018 from 1.2 percent in the same month a year earlier,” information on the website read.

“The number of unemployed went up by 26 thousand from the prior year to 475 thousand while the number of employed declined by 142 thousand to 37.07 million.

“In December 2017, the jobless rate was 1 percent. Unemployment Rate in Thailand averaged 1.45 percent from 2001 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 5.73 percent in January of 2001 and a record low of 0.39 percent in November of 2012.”

CONCLUSION

The claim that seven mills collapsed in Thailand because of Nigeria’s low patronage cannot be verified. The claim that Thailand’s unemployment is at four percent is false.
Maybe the ambassador, as quoted by Ogbeh, was only speaking tongue-in-cheek to show how insignificant Nigerian market is to Thailand — but Ogbeh, eager to celebrate his achievement in office, took a private joke to the public without crosschecking.


https://www.thecable.ng/fact-check-did-ogbeh-lie-about-collapse-of-thailands-rice-mills

vowiski:
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Still far short from Free Education they enjoyed.

Don’t forget this is a once in a year thing. Nothing to be celebrated.

How much is government house feeding budget every month?
.
Think about it

God bless you for not being a low lifer suffering and smiling citizen who is happy with the at least Stockholm Syndrome.
Stay blessed sir.
The APC charlatans are propaganda fueled pseudo progressives who should be called progreThieves.

Babasessy:
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

BeeBeeOoh:
https://punchng.com/lasg-pays-n1-5bn-wassce-fees-for-58000-students/

What a marvellous news.

Is this a replacement for the failure of ThiefNuibu and his puppets to have every single Lagos child in free schools with enough teachers and other staff? Something that Awolowo and Jakande did with so little money back then. So what are they doing now with the huge IGR squeezed out of hardworking Lagosians plus oil revenue allocation at $140 and disastrous loans?

These guys are not progressive. They are nothing but propaganda progreThieves.

Ikembeku:
Another medium to study accounting again from the Dutch

The man who built Lagos economy to the 4th place has failed to use the magic wand that Sanwo Olu bragged about in Abuja.

Ariwo kọ ni music just as balablu roasted corn 🌽 propaganda is not proper agenda governance outcomes.

tctrills:
You think like a child. Neither you not I can do anything to make our votes count. Would you start fighting and shooting corrupt election officials, the police, and army?
Please what should the ordinary man do to make his votes counts?
Let's talk like grownups.

How many are the corrupt election officials, the police and the army compared to the total number of the ordinary man?

If we don't work hard in various ways before the election itself, to make our votes count, please who do you expect to do the work for us

I hope you understand my grownup talks of responsibility for outcomes now.

tctrills:
Maybe both have no effect. You vote, an idiot rigs. You don't vote, the same idiot wins.

If you are not the greater idiot won't you work to make sure your vote counts, since you know how politics determines every aspect of your life through public policies enacted by the governments- local, state and federal

Fiscus105:
As you are blaming the Govs ,you should also blame the weak president the more. The Govs also put pressure on OBJ, which he vehemently rejected, but when the 2 weak presidents came in succession. His foot soldiers butchered the treasury with their two eye open wide.

Is the federation account owned by the federal government alone

Obioma3000:
Nigeria can make top 10 if our leaders can it right, there is only two major factors that contribute immensely to the growth of any country GDP 1. Is human resource and 2. Is natural resource and good enough nigeria is richly abuntant with this two

How is an uneducated population equal to richly abundant human resource

Nigeria now has about 20 million out-of-school children, according to the latest global data on out-of-school children by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

UNESCO, which says a new and improved methodology was used to arrive at the latest figures, said there are “244 million children and youth between the ages of 6 and 18 worldwide (who) are still out of school.”

According to the statistics, India, Nigeria and Pakistan have the highest figures for out-of-school children globally.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/551804-breaking-nigeria-now-has-20-million-out-of-school-children-unesco.html

Jorussia:
Tinubu has not spent 8years for us to objectively judge him.it was GEJ that messed our foreign reserve.it was almost $70b when when obj left,and $28b when GEJ left office.

I thought Yar''Adua was there for 3 years with high oil revenue before Jonathan took over for 5 years with falling oil revenue, leading to pressure from the states that are joint owners of the federation account to draw down the ECA and stop accruing money into the reserves, in addition to the infrastructure projects Obasanjo failed to do in the railways sector notably

FG, States, LGs Share N568.4 Billion for Oct
15 NOVEMBER 2013

Also, $1billion was proposed for distribution to complement shortfall in expected revenue." The $1billion is a compromise by the FG over its words in September not to augment shortfalls anymore.

Responding to the presentation, the chairman of the States Commissioners of Finance and Ebonyi State Commissioner of Finance, Mr Timothy Odaah, lamented that the statutory allocation was getting smaller and smaller. "It appears this is the worst in terms of returns. This is the least in allocations as far as this year is concerned. We are mourning the dearth of funds and this is a wakeup call for states and local governments to buoy up their internally generated revenue."

While appreciating the "magnanimity" of President Goodluck Jonathan to approve the $1billion from the excess crude account and to be shared among the federal, state and local governments, Odaah expressed disappointment with the returns made by the NNPC.

He said that the states had requested for $2bn to complement for the shortfall in revenue but got only $1billion. In September, Odaah and fellow commissioners had walked out of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) when the federal government said that the framework of the 2013 budget was no longer realistic and it won't augment shortfall in revenue. Odaah raised issues with the statutory allocations of previous months.

More from: http://allafrica.com/stories/201311150323.html

Yankee101:
Equate population and know why nigeria is close to the bottom

Does population not mean that we have more BRAINS and more HANDS to be greatly productive as the Chinese, Indians, Americans, Indonesians etc are?

Why are you excusing our collective incompetence and failure with population
How do you personally benefit from such excuse?

phineas:
Malaria,

The reason West Africa was not overrun and taken over completely by the colonizers,it was called the white mans grave for a reason. Have you seen a foreigner fall ill with malaria symptoms, its scary for them and the symptoms are worse

My opinion,our resistance to malaria endemicity took years of evolution for our race, blacks routinely go about with some level of malaria in their system and fall ill when the parasite load is higher than usual.

We need to know that attempts to rid us of this biological advantage will work long term,so we do not make ourselves susceptible at a large scale than before,Imagine malaria as a new covid

2ndly is it actually in our interest as a race to loose this biological advantage that makes our terrain unhabitable to others on a large scale, let us all remember the part of our history where malaria was a large portion of why West African Invaders could not stay back. Should we perhaps look at other strategies to save our people from malaria deaths, such as strengthening ealy diagnosiis and early treatment to prevent deaths accrued to the disease amongst many others

There are always more than one way to skin a cat,National Interest is to put the Nation today and always first in all decision making,

How do you propose we do the bold part if our governments are not employing and paying workers well to provide basics like water, sanitation, healthcare, education, research etc?

What magical way do you have in mind please

Originalsly:
No doubt ..... why can't we make our own?... can't our universities and research centres find a way? The bushmen be living in the jungle for centuries .... in the midst of the malaria mosquitos ... without vaccines ... doesn't it mean they know something?

Do you still live the lifestyle of bushmen in your cities?
The something known by bushmen is what needs to be codified into vaccines, not so

... why don't we look to them instead of looking for pharmaceuticals? We are willing to spend billions on imported vaccines .... vaccines we should stay clear of since we know of the population reduction agenda and do not know the contents and long term effects of the vaccines... we cannot trust the manufacturers. It is time we take care of our own peoblems.

For how many decades have vaccines been used successfully to eradicate diseases like polio, smallpox, chickenpox etc?

tctrills:
Or maybe their votes don't count

And not voting is the smart way to make their votes counts, innit

press9jatv:
Ask google. Google is your friend. Be enlightened

You are obviously not enlightened about the subject you are doing propaganda over.
Otherwise you would have rolled out the numbers without hesitation.

press9jatv:
free education in oyo state under seyi Makinde administration. Ask around

What % of the schools in Oyo are run by the state and local governments?

What % of children are in free government schools

MIKOLOWISKA:
who ẹ epp

E epp us think better about ourselves to make us work on the issues that matter to our collective lives for respect from other peoples.

MIKOLOWISKA:
had to be to be on Buhari's good side
Won't gain much by supporting igboho
Long game

MIKOLOWISKA:
Hast to get jóná and pdp out somehow

All these things are for the benefit of who

MIKOLOWISKA:
how
Nigga din do shit
They're all on the same slopes of failure if you plot the graph

Better is a comparative word sir.

khattab02:
Hmmmm... Talk is cheap Mr governor.

Not too young to rule and yet ticket cost more than 30millions

How many youth get that kain money?

Same Obj ruled at a young age but when he came back he said why is Nysc posting corp members to NNPc, companies and Bank? That they should be posted to secondary schools and farms.

Just do the needful that will benefit the poor masses and ordinary people and stop sugar coating us.

What exactly is the needful that will benefit the poor masses?

More fancy roads and bridges? More free food for no work done?

Can you please help with more details on what is the needful.

Image123:
Is it about not having a godfather or about delivering good governance?

Who cares about your father, but the fact that you serve and let the people enjoy the dividends of voting you in. Be visionary, make good use of the billions you collect every month, improve welfare, give your state a facelift and a future.

Fatherless, fatherless, after you leave there now, we'll start hearing that you paid $700,000 of state money for your child's future. Misplaced priorities.

You have spoken well. Very well.

Unfortunately, people like Makinde have no examples to follow in this regard from the father of Yoruba politics in the State of Excellence he has controlled since 1999.

The lack of state-owned pipe-borne water in the homes of Lagos residents has continued to be a source of concern, a non-profit group, Corporate Accountability and Public Advocacy Africa (CAPPA) has said.

At a press event to mark this year’s World Water Day, the group said its monitoring team’s visit to state-owned waterworks showed that most of them are not operational.

The group said the waterworks it visited include the ones at Maryland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Obalende, Agbowa, Onikan, Ikoyi, and Amuwo Odofin.

Only the one in Ikoyi is producing water, according to CAPPA.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/450615-world-water-day-lagos-water-crisis-worsening-group-says.html

press9jatv:
https://dailypost.ng/2024/04/24/i-have-broken-the-jink-of-who-is-your-father-in-oyo-politics-makinde/

Why has he failed to equally break that jinx in Oyo education by engaging teachers and other staff to make sure every child is in free schools?

Is he unaware of the importance of education in a society, given that he is practically seating where Awolowo and Bola Ige sat many decades ago

Gossipninja:
For those crying about his boreholes in the North, I hope you can see that Obi also mounted borehole for the school children.

Text books were given for free by him across all the schools.

Does this mean that he failed to provide tap water for every building in the state during his tenure

A failure that he shares with Tinubu in Lagos?

Racoon:
https://fij.ng/article/data-buhari-tinubu-took-nigerias-economy-18-steps-backward-in-9-years/

How much of the blame for this is due to Obasanjo's endorsement of the clueless cattle rearer of zero economic value?

What percentage

citizenisb:
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says President Muhammadu Buhari may not do well in economy and foreign affairs, except in military matters.

“Buhari is not a very hot person on the economy and foreign affairs,” Obasanjo said.

The former President stated this on Monday at the third International Conference on African Development Issues — themed, “Driving inclusive and sustainable development in Africa: Models, methods and policies” — organised by Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State.

While reacting to a question posed to him by a member of the audience: “Is there any hope for Nigeria under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari?”, Obasanjo replied, “Is there any hope for Nigeria under this administration? I came back from Geneva, Switzerland a few days ago to attend a conference titled, ‘Are elections giving democracy a bad name?’ We had an election, we elected a leader and the good thing about democracy is that the power you have to elect a leader is also the power you have to remove him. I am saying this because I said earlier that if you don’t see any leader that has done well in the 56 years of Nigeria’s independence, then let us forget about Nigeria.

“I will tell you what I know and I will tell you what I don’t know. I know Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. He served under me in the military. His characteristics that I know, his behaviour that I know, he has not deviated from them. He was never a perfect man, he is not a perfect man and no leader can ever be a perfect man because they are human beings. But if you read my book, what I said about him is correct. He is not a hot person when it comes to economy. He is not a very hot person when it comes to foreign affairs. But he will do well in matters of military and he will do well in fighting Boko Haram.”

http://www.punchng.com/buhari-not-sound-economy-foreign-affairs-obasanjo/

flokii:
Just take a look at Lagos State.. You'll know the man is gifted.

Only brain dead individuals and never-do-wells will see an excellent leader and go for a failure that governed a failed state.

Lagos with the smallest land mass has the highest population in Nigeria due to opportunities sound minds like Asiwaju and his successors have created using their God-given initiatives.

You want me to vote someone that didn't commission anything, not even pako bridge all through his failed years as governor in Anambra.. Una dey craze.

The Lagos below abi another one dey ni?
Why is it so easy to swindle people like you

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.

The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.

“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.

https://punchng.com/cholera-outbreak-looms-in-lagos-communities-as-residents-use-canal-lagoon-as-toilet/