₦airaland Forum

Angelfrost:
That's just sad!

Everyone should go back and call out their state governors... Put those crooks on their toes.

Exactly ! I am still trying to figure out what my state governor Obaseki has done in 8 years , I see no improvement in edo state .

Angelfrost:
Awesome news! Kudos to Oga Jide!

Bia, na only Lagos dey this country?!!

The remaining 35 states, wetin dey sup?!!

I know you can't match Lagos developmentally, but some of una no just dey try at all... Not even to fix potholes.

It's not the governors fault ,they know an average Nigerian will spend more energy chasing the president rather than focus on them .

FalseProphet1:

Man of god, what have you seen ? Your prophesy can save boys money and tickets today .😁

evsimmigration:
It is called the first symptom not symptoms.Olodo uwa nile

Thank you for the correction, auto correct changed it when typing .

Bobloco:
You are actually proud how of you criminally captured the state

This is the first symptom of impending stroke ,when your brain is muddled and you can't construct simple sentences coherently, you better relax and take life easy , 2027 is another chance for your candidate to try again.

Daniellano:
Saw this today and was wondering if anyone saw it too and also if anyone has an explanation for this.
It happened between 11:30am and 12noon.
I took this shot in ikoyi, Lagos.
It's a lot bigger than this but I used wide angle shot to capture it, it also felt very close to earth

Please kindly wait for Righteousness 2 to come explain it to you and tell you rapture is about to happen

dallyemmy:
WE DON'T SPEND DOLLAR IN NIGERIA. NAIRA IS OUR CURRENCY. DON'T DESTROY OUR ECONOMY.

DOMESTIC CRUDE SUPPLY OBLIGATION SHALL ONLY BE IN NAIRA. WE SPEND NAIRA IN NIGERIA.

WHEN THE CRUDE COMES FROM AMERICA, NIGERIA WILL PAY IN DOLLAR.

NIGERIA MUST DEMAND THAT SACRIFICE FROM THEM.

Actually we will still pay the dollar equivalent of a barrel of oil in naira, you don't expect them to sell oil to ýou below the going market rate . What is most important is for cbn to offer the refiners the money at the official rate of 750 to a dollar.

XerXers:
Peter Obi built the total longest kilometers of road in his time and attested by federal ministry of works

Ďrop the link sir from the ministry

Anambra1stSon2:
How Gov Soludo Agro community in Awka north Oba -Ofemili known for long grain rice farming community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQHw57L9tHo?si=DlLAr7Q1FZ6gJWSw

What exactly did Peter Obi do as governor, here is a guy who loves to pontificate about empowering human capital, yet forgets that infrastructure is needed to aid human capital, if you don't build roads how will farmers distribute their produce . Funny thing is they hate Soludo cos he called out Obi's hypocrisy during elections.

sarkinbauchi:
A Presidential yacht refers to a vessel of a country's navy that would be specially used by the country's President. It is common for a vessel to be designated as the presidential yacht during a fleet review.

Some countries (below) have vessels permanently designated as presidential yachts:

List of Countries with Presidential yachts

Egypt
The President of Egypt has the eighth largest yacht, El Mahrousa, as his presidential yacht.

Finland
The President of Finland has a small private yacht, Kultaranta VIII.

India
The INS Sumitra is the presidential yacht of India.

Italy
The Italian ship Argo (MEN209) is the presidential yacht of Italy.

Philippines
Casiana (1936-1941), renamed Banahaw.
Orchid (1946-1948)
Dalisay (1948-1959), renamed Apo, Pagasa, and Santa Maria.
RPS Lapu-Lapu (1959–present), renamed RPS Roxas, RPS The President, RPS Pag-Asa, and BRP Ang Pangulo.

Russia
Russia employed presidential yachts serving the Russian presidents, including:
Olympia (2002–2009), was used by the Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first and second terms.
Sirius (2010–), was firstly used by the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev
Graceful (2018–), the most recent presidential yacht. The Russian government also employing the special vessel named Rossiya which was built during the Soviet Union, and used in the internal waters. In 2003 ship named Burevestnik was commissioned to serve the Russia's leaders.[5]

Turkey
Presidential Yacht Savarona – The current Turkish presidential yacht; prior to 2010 privately leased while her replacement (below) was in development
New presidential yacht – The Turkish Government has currently commissioned a new 50 m yacht for the personal use of the president and visiting heads of state. Details of this new yacht first surfaced in September 2008.[6][citation needed] The yacht is being built at the Istanbul Naval Yard, Pendik, Istanbul and is reported to have a ballistic hull, surface-to-air missiles and high-tech equipment.

United States
In the past, the United States employed presidential yachts serving the American president:

USS Mayflower (1906–1929), was decommissioned as a result of economy measures just prior to the Great Depression.
USS Potomac (1936–1945)
USS Williamsburg (1945–1953)
the most recent presidential yacht was USS Sequoia (1933–77).

Yugoslavia
The most famous is Galeb, the yacht of Marshal Josip Broz Tito.

The problem is not the yacht , the issue is this shouldn't be à major priority for a nation in serious economic troubles. Our leaders don't think pragmatically.

Mynd44:
So APC is now consolidating

Yes ! While others are busy holding press conferences, searching for FBI files or writing epistles on twitter , apc is pragmatically preparing for 2027 , 3 years from now if apc win others will start crying stolen mandate .

CSTRR:
You are supporting a clown that is vomiting wrong economic theories that's only true in a banana republic like Nigeria.

That's the kind of argument a corrupt politician in Nigeria would say.

In which country in the world do you see where high taxes are paid and there is no single welfare benefits for the poor, aged and the unemployed?

Just give me one.

Oga ! It is a proven fact Nigeria is under taxed , so where did you get your stats that Nigeria has high taxes ?,

codemaniacs:
IGR is income of the state government which will be used to pay state government employees salaries, bonuses to state government, health insurance for state govt employees, state senators, state infrastructure maintenance expenses. maintain state government computer servers, court cases settlement against the state government , construction of better public facilities e.t.c.

In a private business, the business IGR is their income which is used to pay employees salaries, bonuses, health insurance e.t.c. and only the standard of living of the employees can improve.

unemployed people's standard of living can never improve magically and miraculously.

A state government IGR is similar to a private business profits, only difference is the state government has more employees to pay and more infrastructure to maintain.

you're a illiterate if you think high IGR equals improve standard of living of everyone.

Leave them, many of them don't understand basic economics and public administration.

Omooba77:
https://www.thecable.ng/65m-nigerians-spend-15-daily-on-betting-fg-proposes-gaming-industry-tax-scheme/amp

I thought they said over half the population live on less than $1 a day ? I have always disputed that figure , this betting stats has once again vindicated my logic that most Nigerians are really not under poverty level.

Splashme:
Oga, have you collected your own?
Keep allowing politicians fool you.
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Did i tell you I'm looking for grant ? You see this is the problem most of you have and you end up loosing opportunities, you make a general assumption everyone is in the same situation as you .

Beverlyjean:
No one can honestly say Messi was the best player in the last 12 months . A 7 game tournament is not the only football that was played in the past 12 months ... If they say it's all about the world cup, how come mbappe dint finish second ... Mbappe had a better tournament than Messi....was top scorer with 8goals ( 2 penalties included) ... anyone that understands this game knows its all propaganda...

2010 Spain won their first ever world cup , they dint remember that it was all about the world cup . They still gave it to Messi, saying he won la liga and was top scorer in Europe and champions league ... 12 yrs later , halaand wins mancitys first ever treble , top scorer in the league with a new record , top scorer in champions league, top scorer in Europe and they still give Messi that PSG fans booed out of France for failing to help the team pass round of 16 in CL....

As someone rightly said, if halaand won the world cup and Messi won the champions league and ligue1 with psg and was top scorer in both competitions, they will still give Messi...

Fifa and the balon dor are just Messi lickers .... no football player in history has ever received 10% pampering Messi has received in his career ...

Suddenly winning the world cup gets u the balon dor... but it dint in 2010, 2014 and 2018... Messi wins the WC and it becomes a criteria again... if u condemn INEC and support this nonsense award , then u are a certified hypocrite

The world Cup is the biggest tournament in world football ,not even champions league comes close , canna cannavaro won ballon d'or cos of the world Cup, so stop crying , be honest with yourself if it was Ronaldo who won the world Cup would you say they shouldn't give him the fifa best played award ?

Kukutente23:
Where is it
I'll like to access it.
Help out here pls. My business can really do with such funds now

I will check and post links .

Splashme:
If you share that Tinubu's wife's #1.5b budget for cars to 300 start-ups, each will be getting #5m and that is a reasonable seed capital to fund a small business.

The annoying part is that, they acquire loans to fund these extravagant lifestyles.
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I hope you know this same govt has set aside 50b for smes ?

N3TRAL:
Tinubu may not achieve any other thing, but he'll win 2027 elections.

He has technically turned the country to a one-party state. Almost every PDP Governor supports him.

PDP governors literally go to him to help them settle their conflict. Not really good for democracy.

Thats because they have no elder stateman they respect in pdp , I don't think many of you truly understand the damage Atiku caused with his selfish ambition in the last election .

If not for atiku , pdp would be a big happy family ,
If not for atiku ,Peter Obi won't have labored in vain with LP,
If not for atiku ,Wike won't be a minister in a rival administration,
Heck! If not for atiku ,pdp won't be without a chairman at the moment.

luizpippo:
He said he doesn't have the full details of it, you who claimed to, instead of availing him of it, you are promising to come back and gloat in 5-7 years.

So much for not being ignorant.

It is not for me to enlighten him , if he truly was interested in critical analysis he would have availed himself of all the necessary details about the rail project before coming here to completely discredit the project , it will be a waste of time for me t0 start educating him now , the honest truth is he already has a bias on his opinion and me trying to enlighten him won't change his narrative ,that's why I said few years from now when the statistics on what the railway has achieved is active then I will remind him .

mrvitalis:
I can't know the total details of the rail

But I know enough to know they are economically none viable and a waste of limited resources at this point

If Nigeria he excess sure rail is a good investment sure but to borrow money to build rail when your debt servicing is more than revenue is something only socialists can come up with

Since you have no idea what you are debating, let me leave you in your ignorance , ignorance they say is bliss , 5 to 7 years from now I will come back here ( if God spares our lives) to remind you of your ignorance, hopefully before then you would have reversed yourself and borrowed knowledge.

mrvitalis:
Lol 😂😂😂

Oya list 5 benefits of this rail say Kaduna -Abuja rail. It's been 5 years

Rail systems is like building a house in your village or taking your kids to vacation

They are important but makes no sense to do them when you have no money and you borrow to do them

There is nothing the trains can do that trucks can't do

And the rail for moving of goods is locomotive rails not this modern passenger trains wr built

I asked you a question,do you know the comprehensive details of the railway project?

mrvitalis:
Lol 😂😂😂 so you borrow money to build social project... A country that debt servicing is already 105% revenue

How does that make sense

We're did I say rail is bad?.

Hope u can't read

Do you even have the comprehensive details on the rail project ? I know you don't cos if i ask you some critical questions on it you can't reply, I am an insider in the rail program, so I know , stop displaying your ignorance on matters above your knowledge on a public forum bro , it doesn't make you look good .

BreconHills:
The big picture is to spread economic growth in the SW through integrated rail, metro, bus, and river transportation similar to what is obtained in OECD countries.

As it is people living in Ibadan and Abeokuta can conveniently transact business in Lagos and return to the comfort of their homes. You can take the main rail line; from Ibadan, get off at Ikeja and take the red line down to Marina. At Marina, you can board a BRT bus to Victoria Island. In fact once the other lines such as the Purple line begin to interface nowhere in Lagos will be more than 30 minutes away.

Economic growth becomes unmanageable without a good transport system that can open up different locations and spread wealth. This is far more important than having industries that struggle to get their raw materials or that have high costs in getting to market - bringing about high cost. Wealth distribution is key and transport infrastructure is the platform this rides on.

Stop educating him , when other regions leave his region behind infrastructure wise ,they will come here to still complain .

aQUINandmore:
Chai, some of una too dull for this country abeg.
For the fact that you don't know the economic benefit of a viable rail system in an economy like Nigeria doesn't mean others don't.
I can give you 20 economic benefits of rail in Nigeria without straining my brain a bit.

And about borrowing, where else do you expect the govt to fund the project if not borrowing?
USA, Australia, France, UK etc all borrow money for projects, France even took loan for her TGV rail project, UK did, even Germany does.

Your problem is you know nothing, you just want to criticize to attract cheap likes from your fellow dead headed zombies.

Don't mind him ,the Obi the worship left debt for Obiano ,when they asked him he said the debt is tied to projects , why didn't he pay for the projects without borrowing? Since he was only saving, he should have paid for the projects from what he saved . A lot of Nigerians lack critical analysis skills.

mrvitalis:
You spend over $3 billion dollars for rail ways and you are expecting $170 million dollars in
10 years ..... Am sure it cost more than $50 million to run these trains yearly


My issue is we Borrowed money to build this rubbish trains that has little or no economic benefits... How can you borrow money to build something that would make u spend more money

Socialism is anti development

If $3 billion dollars were given to pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria since 2015 as a loan at 5%

1) we would have that money back again plus 5% interest
2) we would be a net exporter of drugs earning dollars
3) companies revenues would grow increasing government revenue
4) thousand would be employed increasing payee tax
5) GDP would have grown by at least 8 billion dollars

If we give that to garment factory
If we used that money to revive aluminum company in ikot ekpene
If we used that money to help glass importers set u floating glass factory
If we used that money to help Leather works industry
If we used that money to make improved agriculture seedlings available


Each of this would yeild more

Just like the useless awolowo cocoa house that can never break even in this life or the next... Nigerian APC leaders like feel good projects...
To them economic viability is not important
Just build it let people praise us

Stop displaying your ignorance , railways are used majorly for heavy duty transportation and it is part of what was expected for all the rail networks in Nigeria to haul goods from one end to another , passenger trains are just an addendum and the real revenue will be generated when haulage services commence.

When you all travel abroad what d0 you g0 there to utilise? Is it not good infrastructure? The pharmaceutical industry you are talking about is it only road they will use ? Won't railways come in handy? By the way why didn't your PDP leaders carry out your idea since they don't do " feel good projects "

The highest region with more migrants is the south west and the reason is because they had a good enabling environment in place from the 60s .

Dittodat:
You dey try to console yourself? Mumu headless mob.

I used to wonder how people fall for mmm and other frauds , this election made me understand how truly dumb and gullible over 6 million Nigerians are , so sheepish that a young brat can even play them and their political benefactors.

SweetVibe:
Cry me a river 😂😂😂

Dundee!

SweetVibe:
The words of a Yoruba cowards

To show how daft you are you come on a public forum and assume everyone is from a tribe , you lack intellectual ability.

mastermaestro:
Run to Gov Obaseki for some quick lessons on how to deal with an overbearing godfather.

Obaseki was only successful because buhari and his cabal also wanted ADAMS out, you think he would have succeeded if BAT was president? Lol he would have been impeached.

Like I said in another thread Simi needs to calm down i don't see him winning this fight .

Addme:
If the bolded is true then we are in for a long ride between Wike and Fubara.

The honest truth Fubara will loose , BAT will not hesitate to declare a state of emergency if things get too hot in Rivers.

Nemere2020:
'Fisayo Soyombo (Twitter)

Good ! Stay there be writing thread on twitter, don't go and also strategise as opposition on how to counter APC , No ! They will wait until February 2026 , that's when opposition will start running around trying to prepare for elections. The last sensible opposition we had in this country was APC before 2015 , I remember PDP and their fans mocking them back then , well we know how the story ended.