₦airaland Forum

agabaI23:
So we should do away with federal character then?

We will start with unity school cut off and end up with employment in federal agencies. We should base everything on competence and lets know who will cry first.

I'm all for scrapping federal character.

Ramos16:
I pity a lot of people because they do not understand the sought of politics that goes on
in nigeria, i have been in the middle of more than 5 religious crisis in the north, having more of your people in power at times like that comes in very handy, am not going to say more, but i pray more people see where all this is going, especially those whose live have never been on the line for the faith they choose

Are we not supposed to be moving away from all those things?
Are we not supposed to be moving towards a Nigeria that works?

If your answer to the above is yes, isn't it high time we tried something different?
OBJ used federal character, Yar'Adua used it, GEJ used it yet we still don't have light or working refineries.
At what point do we as a nation say enough is enough, let's do the right thing?

CSTR2:
lol .
And the best team is made up of mediocre units?
I hope you guys don't get paid for these shallow arguments i keep seeing everywhere.

Is the best team football made up of the 11 best players?

OAM4J:
Agreed, but bro, Buhari is not just the president of his 'born and bread' North or the people he is is used to. He is the president of all Nigerian ethnic groups. Every part of Nigeria has a right to feel belonged in his Government. We need to build trust and harmony among all ethnics group until we get to a point we see ourselves as one like it obtained in US today.

You should not be President of Nigeria if you cannot build bridges across ethnics group. I dont want Buhari to be seen as Northern president, I want him to be seen as a Nigerian president.

The only way to build trust and harmony in Nigeria is to get things working.
Even if you appoint someone from every village in Nigeria, if the common man on the street still believes "you must know somebody to get things" done, there'll be know trust. Our distrust stems from the failed state of things in Nigeria.

CSTR2:
When should a govt sacrifice competence for ''allyship''?
We want the best minds Nigeria can offer managing the country, not bloody allys of mr president.

You might want the best minds but I want the best team.

OAM4J:
Many here know that I have been a strong supporter of Buhari since 2011, and I still believe he is by far better than Jonathan. But truth be told, his appointments get k-leg and the OP has a point.

We can not pretend that balancing appointments in a country that is highly volatile on ethnic sentiments like Nigeria is nothing. We are not USA or UK. Except GMB thinks no competent people can be found from other region which you and I know cannot be true.

I know competence should come before ethnicity but we can get competent people everywhere if we search diligently, so what stops GMB from getting only competent people while at the same time balancing his appointment.

I still keep faith with him, but truth be told he is playing the script of those who labelled him an ethnic bigot and I wish he chooses to be wiser and more sensitive. We know what followed the man that said he doesn't give a damm... I hope GMB gives a damm about these things..

Competence is just one part of the criteria and if we were to give it a score, I'd say competence takes 20% - 30% percent.
There's things like trust, ability to work together et al.

Buhari was born and bred in the north, you should know and expect that his most trusted allies would be northerners.

EyesulO:
Right, but that is still not to say that there are no honourable and very capable southerners who can be trusted in the helm of affairs.
Are northerners truly that incorruptible? This your song will change down the line, i bet you, just wait and see.

I haven't said there are no capable southerners or northerners are the only incorruptible people.
As a matter of fact, if it had turned out differently from how it's playing out, then I'll had concluded that Buhari was joking.

FreeGlobe:
so is federal character not in the constitution?

There are some appointments not covered by Federal Character.

Obiagelli:
Why do we seem to worry where who gets appointed comes from, we act like this appointments automatically "come and chop" rather than "come and work". We (rather they) keep quiet when the last government was appointing the biggest thieves from everywhere.
I would suppose a sane human being would be interested in how corruption free the president's appointments are rather than where they come from. It's not like when someone from your tribe is appointed you personally feel the impact. What is the fuss about?

The truth is most people who bother about where an appointee comes from is more interesting in "chopping" than working. Their prayer is the person appointed from their region is someone they know so they can go and beg for contract.

Afam4eva:
I believe you and that is why i also don't have a problem with it as such. But that's not to say that he's not playing the script of those who ascribed to him an ethnic and religious bigot.

It might look like that but i don't really care. You cannot solve problems with the same mentality that created the problems and ethnicity is what led us down this road we are.

Afam4eva:
This is not to cast any atom of doubt on Buhari's ability to lead and produce results after all, most of his opponents who were members of the electorate did not vote for him because they think he wont perform. Many of these people disliked him for the fact that they thought he was a tribalist and religious bigot. I personally paid no attention to what was flying around about Buhari pre-election, not necessarily because i thought what people were saying were lies but because those things could not be substantiated especially by me personally. So, i did what i have always done and that is to give people the benefit of the doubt. Personally, i felt Jonathan was a complete failure and thought we needed to try something different. Buhari may not have been my prefered choice out of the number of technocrats that i saw in APC but since he was presented, i kinda preferred him over Jonathan.
Now coming to the purpose of this thread. [b]Doesn't it make some of us look stupid when it seems like Buhari is inching closer to the person they painted him to be. I mean, some Buhari supporters will make statements like "I don't care where the person Buhari appoints comes from as long as he is capable". Of course, statements such as these make people to sleep well at night and not look like complete idiots in the presence of people who would say "Didn't i warn you?". [/b]Anybody with an iota of common sense would see that this present dispensation has been riddled with an increase of Northern elements and it is glaring even to the blind. How do you explain the fact that after almost 20 appointments made so far. Only less than 5 are from the south. Not even a single person from the South-East has been appointed to any position. I know Igbos are the group of people we love to hate but this just isn't fair in my opinion. If you want to defend Buhari's pattern of appointments, i think your best bet would be to tell us how Southern Nigeria are so corrupt that it will be hard to find men of integrity or how the North boast of more educated individuals who are unrivaled.
In the spirit of giving Buhari, the benefit of the doubt, my 1 years grace period is still counting. After then, i'll have something to say about his government.

Actually some people (including me) say we don't care because we actually don't care. Successive governments have used Federal character in their appointments and where has that gotten us to?
The only people who would care about where Buhari's appointees come from are politicians and illiterates.

We gave Buhari a 4 year mandate, how he goes about it should not be our problem as long as it is within the confines of the constitution.

Sweetlemon:
I'm so disgusted!
When news of appointments break out, the fist thing people will do is check the state of origin. Really? So track record is no longer important? Mr Fowler that was a Southerner was he not later shown to have fake certificates? The way I'm seeing it, people would prefer him to employ incompetent people from their regions rather than competent people from the North. Then when governance become business as usual, we start crying for our sorry selves. I really don't know when and how manage Nigeria moved from having two Muslim Presidential candidates without anyone batting an eyelash to all this religious and ethnic melodramas.

Honestly I'm beginning to get tired of the Nigerian dream. Maybe I should just relocate to the USA or something. Nigerians really get what they deserve. I'm just happy that Buhari doesn't seem moved by unnecessary outcries and may God grant him the strength to be able to remain resilient and focused on his mission.

Why do you think Nigeria is this way? A lot of the so called people on Nairaland are educated illiterates and they have no idea of how to move a country forward.

kayo80:
But you just implied that all men are dogs. I hate when girls like you go and around saying that, disrespecting the men folk, cos you keep dating the wrong guys. And that is usually majorly cos you are 'wrong' yourself, and you just attract something similar to what you are.

You are the one disrespecting the men folks. That you and your friends can't stick to one lady doesn't mean other guys can't.

Speak for yourself and not the men folk.

flyca:
The man wanted to be snatched

But Emily is urging the NJC to use their offices to prevent her husband from having an affair
Pls how is the court supposed to achieve this

Chairman if you find the answer please let me know oh.

Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

So called Christians going to church but understand nothing about Christianity.

China under values its currency to boost exports, this in turn keeps people in jobs.
The US and US companies have been trying to bring manufacturing back to the US but the manipulation of the Yuan by the people's bank makes it hard.

MizMyColi:
Again, I ask....
What is the essence of a filling station without a depot, and what is the essence of a depot withing a filling station?

School me please.
No one is above learning.

Filling stations have nothing to do with the subsidy fraud but depots do.

I am with Utomi on this one. I'd rather have light 24 hrs a day than have the power minister come from my village.

Whynotthetruth:
Have you ever wondered why buhari(Mr Integrity) had to accept Saraki's political structure and financial resources to win his presidency...Check buhari's record in Kwara before and after Saraki aid

Buhari is a politician, i don't trust him. Are you trying to tell you guys are no different from the guys you criticise daily?


Oh and for someone who claims he does what he does out of patriotism, isn't it ................

1)You support someone you claim is corrupt to be the chief law maker.
2) You say he cannot be president because he's corrupt.

How the f.cuk can you claim to be patriotic and still support a man you believe wrecked the lives of so many people (SGB, Governor).

Are you any different from the politicians you come here to criticise daily?

Mynd44:
I am going to need a lot of popcorn to go with this movie Emefiele and the BDC guys are playing

This is school season and most people are used to getting the dollars from the black market so i believe this fluctuation would continue till about October, by then the people who genuinely need forex would be accustomed to doing their transactions in the banks.
Also the fact that you cannot deposit forex into your bank account means that "one bank manager cannot send you to his mallam friend again."

barcanista:
I don't know why you people like unnecessary argument. Only in Nigeria one will be seeing such argument. Like I said, Ministers/President Draft policies which the permsecs' and other civil servants implements. The perm-sec does not draft policies for the government, anybody cannot draft policy for the government. People can only suggest Ideas to the government.

Pls read this and I am done wth this argument www.nairaland.com/2413908/need-ministers-despite-existing-career

Yeah it only in Nigeria that certain people aren't allowed to think because they are not ministers.

Now we know one of the reasons why Nigeria continuity.

Policy

.Politics: (1) The basic principles by which a government is guided.
(2) The declared objectives that a government or party seeks to achieve and preserve in the interest of national community

barcanista:
Wrong! Policies are drafted by policymakers and technocrats and must be in line with the agenda of the President and the programs of the party in power. The job of the civil servants is to implement these policies while the Minister in charge supervises. This is the reason people will always call for the head of the president/minister/party should anything goes wrong and not the career civil servants.

Nobody has a monopoly of ideas, anybody can draft a policy, the President/Minister ratifies and approves. Its myopic to believe on a certain class of people can draft a policy.

barcanista:
This is my problem with Buhari. Who will establish the National carrier? Is it the Civil servants? What steps has Buhari taken to see to the establishment of the carrier? What plans does he have? Why can't he appoint Aviation Minister to draft a plan?

Dear Nigerians, Buhari so called directive will yield no result if he continue to rely on civil servants to draft policies for him. There jobs as Civil Servants is implementation.

Policy can be drafted by anybody and not only politicians. That said, this is unwise. Aviation is a capital and technical intensive investment. He should leave that for now.
Its not compulsory we have a national carrier for now.

200 million is still a lot to spend. We should be saving money ffs

This is not just a naira strengthen policy, its also a move to check money laundering. This is 2015, transactions should be done electronically.

kaycid77:
If Niger delta is not investment friendly then leave our Oil and Gas and go invest in empty Lagos, its bar beach water not a natural resources, You take the crude and gas, pollute the environment, cause epidemic, destroy both human and animals yet all the employment is done in Lagos now you actually want to relocate the whole facility to Lagos, mehn Yoruba ppl are greedy and wicked

1) I am from Delta state.
2) NLNG left Lagos, did you here anybody make any noise? Shell left Lagos, did you here anybody make any noise?
3) Have you asked why they want to build the shipyard in Lagos and not PH or Akwa Ibom
4) Shell has been selling of their onshore assets for years and moving further offshore, you can guess why.

These companies are built for profit not charity and they pay taxes to the government rather than fight them, you should fight your government.

Every time a threat is issued to one of the companies, the others are planning how to move out.

A very retarded idea. Who thinks of all this bulshit?

Symphony007:
For a company like NLNG which has maintain a very good relationship with their host communities unlike others like shell, this was a stupid decision. Which I can only attribute to Babs omotowa attempt to steer vital NLNG buisness back to his region after ibeneche's outright and sudden relocation to the south.

The reason is very simple, they are tired of the threats.
The Niger delta as a region is not investment friendly same as the north east of Nigeria.

ocelot2006:
I think Barcanista proffered a number of possible solutions including setting limit caps on transactions in dollars like China.

A country that imports like Nigeria should copy an exporting country like China?
By the way, the Chinese government actually manipulates its currency to keep it low.

arsetalks:
Some saying Barcanista must be a prophet, prophet of what? Prophet of doom? If you know use your brains you will know the sudden decline and appreciation are all artificial. It is created the mallams for their own gain..

Anyone with half a brain would know that this is artificial. More like BDC's hoarding because they have no idea of the future.

Mynd44:
There are your answers.
https://www.nairaland.com/2501718/naira-appreciation-why-nigerians-should/2#36601146

Now to way toward, strict monitoring of the forex market. People are putting undue pressure and it is causing us not just pain but bloodshed. We would have to make sure a lot of the transactions are done through appropriate means which means the bank and not the BDC guys.

We need to control the amount of dollars and other foreign currency we have. We need to give priority to the Naira and hopefully with the refineries coming on stream (thanks to the past administration for "fixing" and pressent for "securing pipelines against vandals" we will import less petroleum products and reduce the pressure.

But saying the CBN's policy is wrong is laughable. Yes it is extreme but it is needed

The funny thing is the Naira hasn't officially appreciated. All the policy did was pull the chair from under the speculators.