₦airaland Forum

Dogalmighty17:
OP, I am by no means a Tinubu supporter but I am very objective in my analysis. Tinubu did the right thing to remove subsidies on petrol. He however lacks the power to decide how to use those freed funds. The constitution doesn't give him that power. By the law that set up the RMFAC, every naira that hits the federation account must be shared according to set down percentages. Tinubu is powerless to stop that.

DomPerignon:
What I expect the FG to do is to cut spending by reducing the civil service which has now become more of a welfare scheme than a driver of govt policies.

By cutting down, I mean elimination of most executive positions in the civil service.

Too many agencies around that do practically nothing of value and they have too many executives on their board of directors

A situation were the people now pay to maintain a bureaucracy that was meant to serve them is not acceptable.

There needs to also be total scrapping of some govt MDAs. Some do next to nothing and are net negative drain on resources. What exactly does the National Mathematics Centre do?
Another example is FIIRO that is meant to provide engineering solutions but so far is only in the news for the wrong reasons that latest being an appointed director being exposed for parading a fake doctoral degree and this is supposed to be the leading centre for engineering solutions. Universities must all be fully autonomous and should cater for only those who are interested in learning and betting themselves. The scenario where our universities are now killing fields and filled to the brim with gangsters, fraudsters and prostitutes should never be allowed to continue . Only in Nigeria will you hear of thugs murdering students on campus grounds Govt can use the money saved in managing those unrated universities for scholarship grants. States can offer free bursary to their indigenes but the FG must cut that shit now as it isn't in any way helping as the highest rated school in Nigeria (OAU) is not even in the top global 1,000 universities.

The focus should be on decentralisation and more states bearing the burden of governance. The FG should limit itself to diplomatic activities, securing our territorial and maritime borders and commissioning of infrastructure that will boost connectivity between states.

The problem lies with the 1999 constitution which is a remake of Ironsi's Zik handed down Unification and centralisation decrees.

Kalashnikov49:
Na small time remain...

Soludo will understand that he is NOT loved as he feels .

givedemwotowoto:
The biggest waste in Nigeria today and years prior has been corruption, not subsidy payments.

Consider the N210 trillion reportedly missing from NNPC alone between 2017 and 2023. That’s far more than all the combined petrol subsidy payments the various governments have paid between 1999 and 2023, estimated at N20 trillion.

So if you were Tinubu, which one will you go after first? The NNPC corruption, or subsidy payment removal?

Since he chose to remove subsidy rather than fight corruption, and it ended up hurting Nigerians the way it has, only for politicians to continue embezzling the funds and living large while Nigerians suffer extreme hardship, then he deserves all the curses and anger of the populace who elected him to represent them.

He failed woefully on subsidy removal.

hegelian:
i actually love the way obi is being scrutinized, it is how every body asking for a vote should be scrutinized cos that way only real people will have the mind to come out for elecetion..the only sad thing is that its only obi that that kind of yardstick is being used for, it would have been lovely if the same thing is used for people like tinubu, atiku and others and the need for them to clear themselves the way obi get cleared of all scrutiny..God just dey save obi say he no get any skeleton for cupboard

chopnaira:
What about the ezu masaccre where Obi ensured that over 30 youngs guys were massacred.

Wizardslayer:
Tinubu never did anything tangible while he was the lagos state governor. Remember lagos was the former federal capital of Nigeria.

Tinubu is a known drug lord and specializes in bribing his way through shamelessly just like wike.

CodeTemplar:
be like your brain is still working. Why always igbos having issues with others. Yoruba main issue with southerners is not foghting against the north. Yoruba have been going to Togo for centuries it is the day igbos land there they start having issues.

Futureyahooboi:
we really need to address this issue between the Yoruba’s and the Igbo’s because is causing more harm than good 😌.
First of all we need to learn how to control what we say to people because this present Nigeria is making everyone angry.

tubolancer:
It is not Marijuana, he didn't take any drugs, he is saying what 80% of Igbo have in their mind. Time will tell.

Kingpele:
That provocative tand harsh statement..but some times people speak just to trend, just as I watched yesterday of a young lady clowning about her unreasonable and unrealistic expectations from the simp that she wanted as a future husband.....especially knowing that some yoruba people not even in majority have southern African mentality that anyone who prosper in their domain doesn't deserve to enjoy the rewards of his hardwork...but thank God those people thinking like that are in minority in comparation with vast majority of yorubas who understand business and are equally involved in putting hardwork ,resilience and diligence required for successful living...however is totally wrong for a man to pride it over his accommodating host ...this is against igbo culture of both accommodating strangers and honouring our benefactors

Miggs:
Read the screenshot below fir my response:

dauntless15:
What i noticed about his father is different though, yes he was a hardworking, ambitious, doting father, but he's the central figure in Michael's demise, most of the insecurities Micheal has stems from him, first he made him alter his nose/appearance so many times by bullying the way he looks (big nose as he calls him often) this is why Micheal is obsessed with having a pointed nose, he never lets him be a child or have a childhood, hence his obsession with children and playtime this is why he built Neverland ranch and got so close to children leading to his child molestation accusations, he forces Michael to do things and made sure he doesn't make decisions on his own as an adult, which is why he lost his strong will and ability to say no to people, he did the Pepsi commercial that burnt his hair and made him a junkie because he couldn't say no to joseph his father, and without that burn he wouldn't be addicted to pain meds and he'd still be alive, he had no friends growing up so he surrounded himself with animals and toys, and this followed him to adulthood making him an extremely shy and misunderstood person who often craves connection, most of the things that went wrong in his life is because of his controlling and abusive father, the only thing wrong with the movie is the fact that they didn't exploit his love life, i grew up thinking he's attracted to men, this was because of several rumors, I didn't know he had kids and liked girls, alot of people thought so too, the movie should've cleared that, and the story of how he passed.

Miggs:
Folks have got to stop trying so hard to white-wash Michael Jackson's real legacy.His music isn't even that good.

Michael Jackson was a kiddie fiddler nothing more,nothing less.

The End.

Image123:
The Wacko Jacko, still minting money.

Host78:
It's hard to compress a lifetime into a few hours.

And this is what the movie hoped to achieve: capture the whole life journey of the legend into a few hours.

Hence it was fast paced. A few missing pieces that leaves you desiring to know more about Michael Jackson.

You do will not see his development properly. The character development was mostly empty.

One aspect I would have loved to see is his relationship. As a star Micheal probably have more female admirers than anyone else.

How did he deal with those fans? We saw very little except for a girl, who was not actually his girlfriend.

Also you'll almost learn nothing new from the movie about Michael Jackson. Which begs the question, why create a biopic at all?

But something that really stood out to me most is the portrayal of Micheal Jackson's father.

He played a very central role in the movie and no doubt in Micheal Jackson's life and career.

And so I really do not understand why they tried to paint him as this cold and almost devilish figure.

At some point, his father figure role was almost designed to make you hate him and only love the mother.

But I don't think he is the villain of this story but instead a hero.

He was a mere factory worker and wanted his children to end up better than him.

"if you do not work hard, there's every guarantee that you'll end up right here in this small town as a factory worker. Now would you want that?"

He pushed the kids to be good at something. Not many fathers can see their kids and see the future ahead.

More so, actually push them to fly when the odds are stacked against them.

How a steel factory worker trained 5 boys to become the greatest music bands ever showed someone who deeply cared about his children more than a strict and wicked father.

Of course he could have pampered them like the mother and let them go to school, then join one of the boys in the hood and become nothing.

And it's so sad that towards the end of the movie, they try to portray him as the villain when everyone suddenly turned on him simply because they are now rich.

I mean, he built everything from the ground up. Mr Jackson not only gave the world micheal Jackson, he did the job of moulding him, shaping him up and developing his talent.

And worst still, every night when other fathers are too tired from work, he gathers the boys to practice.

That's not hate. That's tough love.

Another thing I love is the young man who played micheal Jackson. While you can clearly see the mimics in his moves, I think he did very well.

Overall, I think it's a good movie, worth watching but you'll learn nothing new from it.

And that's another angle, it tells you nothing new about the legend.

As a biopic we expect to see the legend in a different light, see aspects of his journey probably gathered from family members and close associates.

But the movie is more or less based on publicly available info. It's like watching what you already know.

There's absolutely nothing to learn new from the movie if you already read a few articles about the singer before.

Much time was spent rather on the making of his music videos such as thriller, beat it and wanna be Startin something.

In this regard, the movie actually lack substance.

There are so many direction this could have gone. I wonder why the dynamic between his father becomes the central role of the movie.

I'm not buying it that his father is bad or terrible.

Any human will be happy to have such a father who not only see them as other kids but as stars.

But not only see them as stars. That's the easier part and every father and mother think their kids are special.

But how many actually take the extra step to put that belief into work? How many fathers today will buy music instruments from their "factory" labor salary, come back from work and make their kids practice even when tired and exhausted?

How many will take their kids around town to book them for gigs, stay up while they play and look for ways to improve them?

Yes, he did beat them. But beating is not killing them. Little discipline goes a long way.

And I think this is a central role to almost any great person in history.

Serena Williams father was also strict with his children in their biopic. And like Micheal Jackson's father, he took his girls to practice regularly even when they don't want to.

He book their games as well finding as many opportunities for them as he could so they can shine.

Sorry Hollywood, but I'm not buying the idea that Jackson was a terrible father to his kids.

christejames:
The People's President, you don't even need to negotiate, once you are declared your aura alone will make agitators to come to terms with the new reality

DLSReigns:
Or it can also be synonymous to selflessness, self awareness, being brave , seeking accountability in the face of corruption ,refusing to be subjugated , lovers of good governance, supporters of the rule of law and haters of disingenuous individuals .it is fast becoming that already!

nairalanda1:
Well his policy is not driving us to use our raw materials to make exportable goods and services.

Not a good enough leader by that metric

We gat a large youth population who needs jobs and the only.way.jobs can be generated is via manufacturing and production of manufactured goods and services

nairalanda1:
Mali and Burkina are in a bigger mess than Nigeria, especially security wise

Rwanda is only good in the capital..outside, it's a typical African country

Gabon is a poor country too.

Botswana is a small country that produces very large amounts of diamonds, probably as much as South Africa, but they got 2 million people. When the diamonds run out dem go dey poor.


Many of you Nigerians do not want to vote sane leaders, Na Tinubu and emilokan type leaders you want.

Until you vote leaders that would be committed to using our natural resources to develop exportable goods and stop thinking that everything must be cheap, especially electricity and fuel, we will remain where we are.

Dangote is rich because he is using raw materials to make exportable goods. Most African nations would be richer if they made that the cornerstone of their economy

OredoPikin:
Lolz
Imagine calling a billionaire dull🤣🤣
He was already a governor in his early 40s
U may even be close to 30 and can't even win a councillor seat
But a governor and a billionaire in his 30s
Chairman of a bank in his 30s is dull.
This social media sha🤣🤣🤣🤣

OredoPikin:
When we started this movement, I believed the goal was clear: to make Peter Obi president and birth a new Nigeria we could all be proud of.

But from the events so far with the NDC, it has become obvious that many people are more interested in what they can get from the movement than in the movement itself.

The NDC was already an existing party before the Obidient Movement joined forces with them. They had their structure and plans in place. They accepted us, gave us the top two positions, and allocated other positions as well. When the party later said let us share the remaining positions, some members became angry. Because they did not get what they wanted, they started insulting the party, its leaders, and even Peter Obi.

To make Obi president, we must be willing to compromise. You cannot walk into an established party and immediately try to hijack its structure. Some of those who felt sidelined even tried to set Obi and Kwankwaso against each other.

Ambition is good, but the ambition of the movement must come before personal ambition. If you believe you have what it takes to win an election, there are other parties you can contest under. You cannot ride on the momentum of the movement, and when things do not go your way, start insulting everyone and questioning the main goal because Obi refused to hand over the ticket.

For these reasons, as an active member of Obidient movement that have defended it both online and offline and right here on this nairaland forum from day one.
from today I, OredoPikin cease to be called an Obidient on this forum.
Instead please call me a Peter Obi supporter and also a supporter of the decision of the vehicle (NDC) he is using.


Thank you.

Sirjamo:
If Obi had formed his own party, he would have handed which ever ticket his people want to them on a platter. I still don't understand why he didn't form a party. If someone like Dickson without any followers could, why not Obi with his millions of followers?

naptu2:
The biggest disadvantage that Peter Obi has is Obidients.

The biggest obstacle to Peter Obi becoming president is Obidients.

The biggest problem for Peter Obi is Obidients.

Obidients are a curse to Peter Obi.

Obidients destroy whatever Peter Obi tries to build.

Obidients are the biggest helpers to opponents of Peter Obi.

Obidients are working hard to ensure that Peter Obi never becomes president.

The job of Obidients is to fight with anybody that can help Peter Obi.

If Peter Obi never becomes president it will be because of Obidients.