₦airaland Forum

If you are a successful white South African, I really can’t phantom why you would leave it for America. South Africa has its problems like anywhere on earth but leaving it for America is insane. Even wealthy Africans in Africa don’t wanna leave Africa for USA. Imagine foregoing all your privileges in South Africa, only to start again in USA?

Mrfeel:
Military regime is better than democracy if the military president loves his country , the military gets things done quicker, democracy is a game of corruption

Migrate to Burkina Faso. Pack your bags and go. See if you can send money back home and build houses… You idiot.

His wife Melania could be deported. She wasn’t born in USA. She is a naturalised citizen. Lol.

I’m beginning to lose respect for African Americans. They are usually the cause of their demise! During Trump’s first presidency, particularly with the way he handled race relationships, BLM sprang up and African Americans collectively made sure they voted Trump out by showing strong presence at the poll.

I was hoping this time, they would show up again with the same vigour but some of them didn’t even vote. They stayed home! They talked about issues like transgender and the economy. Who gives a flying fuuuuck what those issues are if a certified criminally corrupt racist is on the ballot?

Even if the economy gets better but you lack inclusivity, how are you suppose to benefit from it?

Also, with Trump getting rid of DEI….. Every Nigerian reading this and supporting Trump, ask yourself this question and provide me with an answer.

If we kept everything constant about Trump but change his colour from non-white to a black man, so every trait remains the same, from the way he talks to how he acts, would he be US president?? If your answer is NO, then Trump is the embodiment of WHITE PRIVILEGE also known as White DEI…. No black man in a white country would ever tell people to inject bleach during a pandemic and get re-elected! If Obama said that, he is getting impeached next day!!

Good initiative that I think even aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus would be in favour of.

Why? Because main aircraft manufacturers have a backlog of planes that need servicing, and demand for services keep rising, meaning they can’t keep up.

If this structure works, they can direct some of their customers to companies like this in Nigeria. This facility will train young Nigerians in aeronautics skills, increasing the country’s skill sets.

As per people worried out safety, there will be lots of partnership and knowledge transfer between this new company and aircraft manufacturers.

Security forces should be given powers to shoot vandals in the act. TCN should put warning signs across all their installations that vandals would be shot by security forces in the act!!

We need Nigerian secret service deployed to catch these perpetrators. Some of these vandals could be TCN employees giving these vandals information as to the location of the cables, how to avoid being electrocuted and where to sell these cables. DSS should pose as buyers of these illegal cables and see how the sellers get their products. Could lead them to an organised network of criminals.

It smells like organised crime that isn’t going away anytime soon. Once there is an eye on a suspect, police and secret service should take their time, secretly monitor him/her and see if there are other people involved.

Our secret services should learn how to bide their time on criminals, vandals, kidnappers and terrorists, so that once raids are conducted, it result to many leads across the criminal chain, and the criminals are rooted from the stem.

It’s not beyond the capacity of our secret service if they are well trained, motivated and disciplined to work.

Waste of money!!! I hope it’s not approved!! Money that you can use to buy more prepaid metres or use to hire private security guards to protect some of these infrastructures.

Corruption!!

These kinds of repatriated money should go straight to Tetfund/Nelfund , NYSC, teacher/ doctor/ nursing training.


Since the start of Tetfund/Nelfund initiatives, been impressed. We need to foster education and ensure our youths reap the benefits of being part and parcel of Nigeria.

Luckysbab:
The point still flew over your head. The parameter for determining the Customs wasn't responsible for the death of this folks then should also apply here.

Why? U find life cheap and disposable! Can I shoot you in the head please? 🙏. They should let me go because they let others go.

My dogs will clean up the mess after.

Luckysbab:
Sentimental trash. The ones that died during the Customs subsidised rice sale weren't other people's loved ones? Nonsense!

So because nothing was done back then, we should let this go? If I accidentally kill your loved one, can I claim it’s an accident, and last month, that man in Gongola that accidentally killed as well, they let him go, so they should let me go?

Xisnin:
I suspect Makinde has a private beef with Hamzat.
The court should be allowed to do its job without overbearing political influence.

Private beef Kids died and you here talking about private beef? Do u have children??

If we are careless about death of kids, then we might as well just end this world.

People should be brought to justice, so it doesn’t happen again.

Thewrath:
Chai,iragbiji man has folded…I thought after God na tinubu

Not folding but listening. It shows democracy is live and active in Nigeria.

The tax is good, and everyone from North to south is in support. Only issue is the VAT which is being refactored, so everyone is satisfied and happy.

Also, we need a strong fiscal policy to reduce inflation and increase gov revenue, which all 3 tiers of government will be beneficiaries of, as the bill gets passed.

Nice speech by President Tinubu. He is gradually warming up. He tends to start slowly but once he gets hot, Nigerians will begin to see crazy impacts across the nation, from north to south, east to west.

I do agree with Senator on this point. The Abuja to Kaduna train is a lifeline to most commuters that are unwilling to ply the journey by road.

You don’t want to share a train with thugs and riffraffs, compromising the safety you initially thought you were gonna get by leaving the roads to kidnappers.

I also welcome President Tinubu’s kind gesture of trying to ameliorate the sufferings of Nigerians.

The solution to this in the future is to provide a first class train that isn’t free to common man. These trains will leave at certain times of the Yuletide duration and passengers will have to pay premium. They get nice drinks, food, entertainment, etc. If you like Senator, you don’t want to board with riffraffs, you will pay for first class train. If you are struggling, you board the free trains.

festacman:
1. Ordinarily, there is nothing bad in introducing tax reforms from time to time to reflect the REALITIES of the time.

2. Basically, taxation involves corporates and individuals paying a portion of their earnings to support government, which made it possible for them to earn.

3. Therefore, the rational thing to do first is for President Tinubu to develop short-term, medium-term and long-term plan to boost the productive capacity of the economy. Unfortunately, doing this looks like a mirage at the moment. Tax Bill without fixing the economy will impoverish Nigerians more.

4. It is when industries, factories, farmers, traders, professionals, etc are functioning well that goods and services are produced and sold and corporates as well as people have money in their pockets that taxation makes sense. You don't put the cat before the horse.

5. Apart from obvious geopolitical reasons, the fact is that introducing Tax Bill is much easier thing to do than fixing the economy. The president chose the easier task.

Tax reform should be your number one priority if you want to attract businesses and investors. Imagine an Alaba international trader that’s bringing his goods from China, and under the current system will pay multiple taxation and bribes…. Not good for business. If he has to pay two taxes, let it be clear! One to customs, and one to FIRs if he makes profit.

Also, another area of the tax reform is where foreign companies can easily employ Nigerian youths in Nigeria without asking those foreign companies to have branches in Nigeria. If you an IT guy in Calabar, Vodafone in SA or UK can employ you, pay you good wages, without you even leaving your house.

You could have multiply call centres coming to Nigeria instead of going to India or Kenya.

I don’t think northerners are against the bill, they just thinking, “why are these southerners so generous to our plight?” Haha.

What’s the catch?


Jokes aside, I think it’s a good bill. We need to generate more money through taxation because our oil money is dwindling.


We have infrastructures that need fixing. We need bigger budgets for our security outfits.

How can Kenya and SA with smaller population have a budget bigger than ours? Taxation is also a reasonable way to keep inflation in check, because you can’t raise interest rates continuously forever.

The tax reform bill makes sense.

Harmonise it, make it easier to pay, and you boost gov revenue.

Also, the tax reform bill is a signal to foreign investors that Nigeria is serious.

The tax also allows Nigerians to be employed by foreign companies without them leaving Nigeria, which will boost employment.

Foreign companies won’t be mandated to set up branches in Nigeria before the can employ Nigerians, which is good news.

Let them pass it ASAP and let the tax reforms begin.

If Tinubu’s gov can end multiple taxes on businesses and streamline it into single stress free payment, his administration could be up to something glorious.

SmartPolician:
I pity those who will fall for this trap. Buying those refineries now is like buying a faulty Mercedes 230 when others are buying GLE 450. Where will you get the parts to fix it?

Using new parts to fix wornout parts of the PH refinery is one of the reasons it never meets the repair completion target. Once they try to power the refinery, another part breaks down.

I think the turnaround maintenance carried out was a total engine replacement. Using your analogy, it’s like replacing all the engines and electrical components of an old car with brand new components.

Will they find a willing buyer? Yes if there is access to crude.

It does make sense to collapse the project…

Ecowas, now go build a high speed railway line at a cheaper cost.

Faster, greener, safer and easier to maintain.

Lagos to Abidjan can be done in 6-8 hours.

TenQ:
With what equipment are they supposed to do ground breaking research?

You don’t need equipment to write profound peer-reviewed papers.

You don’t need tools to write cutting edge papers in areas of studies like Maths, Social sciences, Computer Sciences, etc.

Maybe if they stop chasing younger women and start focusing on research, they would start becoming productive.

All they know is strike! Lazy bunches most of them, always looking for excuses not to work.

But Nigerian professors are not as productive as their highly paid counterparts.

Nigerian professors neither do ground breaking research nor publish peer-reviewed papers in large numbers. When you are looking for scholarly articles, you will sometimes find Nigerian authored papers but would notice that they are based in overseas universities.

Professor should work with government to get rid of sex for grades, cultism, exam malpractices, etc before asking for more money.

Plus you lots like to strike, which doesn’t help anyone!!

I have always thought a railway line would have been ideal. It’s cheaper, greener, faster, easier to manage and maintain, and we won’t need to damage our pristine coastline, thus enabling tourism.

Imagine travelling between Calabar to Lagos in less than 6 hours by high speed rail? You could literally decongest Lagos because people can live in Ogun, Ondo, Delta, and still work in Lagos because of high speed rail.



We need leaders with big imagination and foresight!!

She won’t be disqualified because she is representing Nigeria. You can’t dictate from SA.

Two generals who can’t put their egos aside went to war, and you lots blaming the west?

This is highly impressive.

What the FG can do to help stabilise food pricing aside from providing security to farmers is to provide cold all-year storage across each state.

The FG should deduct some of the money from the State and LG FAAC accounts as they did for meter procurement.

This would mean harvested crops that are in excess can be stored all year, and farmers can plan, and make more money.

Cold storage can be powered by solar and licenced to private companies that would run and operate the facilities.

Nigerians will also eat food all year round, making them have more varied and balanced diet. No need to wait for corn season before I eat corn.

What the Lagos state government should do to end this menace is to start issuing licences to all beer parlours, pubs, eateries or any store that sell food.

Part of the licensing condition is to mandate they all have a functioning toilet, that is clean and useable all the time with soap and water.

They also have installed CCTV, and food handling cert.

Lagos gov will use the renewable licences issued to generate more revenue, ensure citizens can use toilets, and also enhance food safety across the state.

The CCTV recording will also ensure the safety of customers.


So in summary, if you want to open any non-mobile food service in Lagos, you must have a working toilet, a food handling cert, CCTV around your premises, and if you will be serving alcohol in the premises, tight private security, which all come with licences.

Wholesale alcohol sales will be exempt. Only retail. Part of the conditions are; no sale to those under 18, no sale to drunk and disorderly, and security must be maintained at all times. Only licensed taxis can be called to pick drunk/vulnerable passengers home, and they must have CCTV in their taxis.

They should improve on sanitation and drainage. By now, we should have proper recycling facilities in Lagos. Waste that can't be recycled should be incinerated and used to generate power.

Also, scrap all danfos and replace them with modern electric buses. If I own Danfo, Lagos State should scrap my old Danfo for a modern electric bus. At the end of each day, 20% of my revenue is used to pay back the loan, while I keep 80%.

The charging spots where the Danfos will be charged overnight should be fun by LAMATA, using solar.

Also, only a specific number of Danfos under this new scheme should be able to operate within Lagos to reduce congestion. Buses should also be fitted with cameras and trackers for the safety of passengers.

If there are 5000 issued Danfo licenses, the 5001st applicant will be in a queue until 1 out of the 5000 licenses vacates his licence.

No bus driver in Lagos should be allowed to just wake up, buy a bus, paint it yellow and start picking up passengers just like that without proper licence, bus, and insurance.

It should also be extended to taxis and Uber. It will reduce chaos. All vehicles used for passenger pick-ups should mandatorily be fitted with trackers LAMATA can track 24/7, and with forward and backward facing cameras.

Originalsly:
How can the EFCC not go after the two ex governors? The nerve to tell Tinubu to settle the case is disrespectful,... and should force Tinubu to order an investigation. Anything Nigerian FG owns abroad is open to confiscation. Maybe they will decide to take the most valuable land in Ogun.

You are very correct. The effrontery of Amosun to tell FG to seek a diplomatic resolution when it was through his recklessness that all this mess happened is madness!!

He should be arrested and probed. All his assets that he can't legitimately account for should be seized and used to pay the debt.

Also, Ogun’s FAAC revenue should be deducted installmentally and be used to pay the outstanding debts.

Should be lesson to all state governors to tidy up their finances.

Also, at the end of every tenure of each governor, their state finances should be audited by both EFCC and an independent auditing firm, to check for any infractions.

We all can see the merits of CCTVs?

Imagine all shops, schools, houses, hospitals, universities, gov buildings, etc have CCTV, we will at least know who the criminals are in most cases, and apprehend them.

It’s also an evidence based technology, so no more rumours, falsehoods and guesswork.

I’m happy the man and his children are safe due to quick thinking!!

CodeTemplar:
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If I understand correctly, NBET hitherto, has been the one making GenCos generate irrespective of whether the DisCos distribute and optimally pay for power. Now NBET is out of the way. Gencos Can switch off if the DisCos dont pay up.

The DisCos now have to face the consumers and see that they sell profitably on time to meet their one-to-one obligations with GenCos. NBET and NERC will try to act like CBN/NIBSS to banks or like NCC to Telcos in the power sector.

Nothing Radical. Just a way of removing power subsidy without noise.

You are correct. If FG wants to remove subsidy without making noise, at least meter all the unmetered customers before exiting. Disco’s revenue will probably triple what they are earning now if metering gaps closes significantly. Metering all customers will;

A) Provide much needed liquidity to fulfil their obligations.
B) Provide timely acquisition of liquidity. No need to chase up customers for outstanding debts.
C) Bring more Gencos into the market locally and overseas.
D) Enable Discos improve their infrastructures; making it more modern, reliable with bigger capacity.


Also, FG should help TCN improve its transmission capacity to wheel more MW ( in upwards of 20,000 MW), make it more robust to eliminate grip collapse, and then privatise TCN to recoup their money.

If NBet is completely eradicated, I still foresee a situation where DIscos will either create an umbrella association that bulk buys from Gencos or private electricity bulk-buying companies entering the market.

You need electricity bulk buyers because Hydro Gencos cost less to generate eclectricity/watt than Gas-powered plant. Discos will obviously want to patronise Mainstream energy more than Egbin power.

In the short term, this policy should help Hydro powered plants more; Kainji, Dandinkowa, Shiroro, Zungeru and Jebba operators will be increasing their capacity.

We will also see new Gencos bringing solar and wind generating capacity into the market, but being that gas is still the bulk of our generating capacity, we will see less investment going into it.

What the government should do in addition to metering all customers and improving TCN’s capacity is to approve private bulk buyers, who will liaise between Gencos and Discos for better deals.

If I have a solar farm that generates 10MW in Lagos, the private buyers can negotiate between me, TCN and Ikeja Disco or Ikeja Disco and TCN deal directly with me. Any kind of market fluidity should be welcomed to create competition and lower cost.

We can also have a situation where a privatised TCN pays Gencos all the electricity they wheel, and invoice Discos at point of delivery.

Female doctors to me are the best if you want to be with an intelligent woman. They only go for intelligent men, and there aren’t many around.

I see no problem dating them. I prefer them to ordinary 9ja women.

Intelligent women shouldn’t frighten an intelligent man. You will both compliment each other to form a badass partnership.