₦airaland Forum

I am an Edo man, but I can tell you nobody can beat the North when it comes to politics in Nigeria. Tinubu may have scored a temp victory, but they will pay him back big time come 2027. A quick look at the 2023 political map will show you how bad Tinubu's position is.

I lived through the military govt of IBB, and I can say on all levels it was a million times better than what we gave had since 2015. APC has destroyed this country

Nigeria is definitely cursed

flokii:
God bless Awolowo.. no be today Igbos don chook eye for Lagos. As if the State should be removed from South West and handed over to them.

Not an inch of Yorubaland will fall into the hands of outsiders.

I guess you have forgotten that the Fulani have already taken Ilorin

Years of mismanagement and corruption are coming home to roost.
An oil producing nation that imports refined crude
A nation of over 200 million people that imports practically everything right down to toothpicks.
A nation that looses a significant amount of its crude output to theft
The Niara is simply reflecting market forces of demand and supply.

Amotolongbo:
Which one is seeing masquerade for the first time?

Your women covering their faces with clothes, what makes them different from the masquerades?

There was no need for that at all. The poster is appreciating the culture of another part of the country, can't we for once just come together and enjoy a positive thread?

benuejosh:
Live long Oba.

I am yet to understand the role of the traditional rulers in the modern-day dispensation. Because the government still control them. The government can decide to pay them or not, the government appoints most of them and remove them at will, they follow the rules of the government.

Do people still regard them when they issue directives? Do people still have reverence for them? I remember the end sars period when the Igbos attacked the Oba in Lagos and took his staff.

What really are the true roles of the traditional rulers in modern-day democracy?

Indeed that is the law of the land, but its definitely not practised in certain domains like Ife and Benin

Tight fitting boxers must be 1 per day. If it's loose fitting you can use it for 2 days max

Honestly it's time this money stopped going direct to the governors. There should be a Oil derivation fund for each state. Fund managers should include state govt officials, representatives from labour, traditional institutions etc. The projects executed by the funds in each state should be transparent to all. Right now the money is just vanishing in a corruption filled black hole

LeoDeKing:
That shows the newly appointed Postmaster General is doing something right or the former one is doing wrong.

Most workers are lazy, they don't comply with simple rules.

They must say what he is doing wrong, they are not to choose who heads NIPOST.

I have to agree with this. If Nigerian Civil Servants are protesting an appointment, it's because the appointee actually wants the place to run efficiently.

I am enjoying the economy, the more Niara falls, the further my forex goes, I've brought forward 2 projects from next year to this year.

If you voted Tinubu/APC and you earning in Niara, na your toro be that one!!

Antiurchins:
Tinubu is following every footsteps Buhari did perfectly.
1.Buhari started with appointing his tribesmen into all vital positions & Tinubu is doing the same.
2. Buhari started with propaganda & ended with propaganda, thereby making Nigeria the poverty capital of the world., Tinubu is trying to beat Buhari on that.
Oh Nigeria which way.

What Tinubu is doing is actually MUCH worse. Buhari was tribalistic yes, but he favoured the whole north, so 3 zones on effect. Tinubu is favouring just the SW, 1 out of 6 zones.

TMKsouth:
What's Nigeria's foreign policy again 🤔

We don't seem to have one at the moment, but for me, it should be deeply rooted in OUR national interests. We made big sacrifices in the past for the likes if SA, Liberia, Egypt... What did we ever get for it? We need to focus on ourselves going forward. Palestinians have 14 Arab nations to support them

NONSENSE!! What's our business as Africana? We should work and deal with anyone as long as its in OUR interests. US, China,Russia, Saudi, Israel, all are welcome.

Still nothing for FFK. The guy yab ni be small

He wants to run Abuja the way he ran Lagos. Total control

lexylaw40:
government can get more dollars through other means e.g the mining sector, ( Lithium, Gold, Silver, Iron, steel, limestone, etc.)

More dollars will flow in through our refineries

Which refinery? Dangote is going to be selling in Dollars, no other refinery is operational.

Surely this will just lead to even more pressure on the niara as demand for FX will increase

Despite so many appointments going to Yorubas, still nothing for FFK

CodeTemplar:
Gaza has to be wiped away and avoiding human casualty on both sides is important as Israel seeks to achieve that. If they invade on ground, casualties will be higher for Israel. It is better they maintain the bombardment until the area is crippled and severely depopulated. Then decide on ground invasion.

Don't Israel have any 'mini nukes'? I don't see the point of a ground invasion as well, they should just give notice of a few days and then nuke central Gazaa. If they use a low yield bomb, the fallout will not reach Egypt or Isreal. Gazza totally destroyed. End of story

Hamas don't care about their people.
They actually NEED many of their people to be killed by Israel, so that the world will then start to call on Israel to stop.

Israel has given it's 24 notice, so by international law they have covered, by the weekend who never leave North Gazza, na their toro be that one!

Buccalcavity2:
Honestly it's up to Israel and Hamas to do what is best for them. I watched an interview on CNN where a reporter was trying to emotionally blackmail an Israeli. The Israeli tearily answered "what will you have us do? You saw how our citizens (civilians) were slaughtered. you saw the jubilation by Palestinians in Gaza and even in Israel, you are saying we shouldn't attack because Palestinians in Gaza could be injured. Was that the position you took when 9/11 happened? Whose interest should we protect?"
I had no opinion again just like the interviewer after the guys response.

I agree, at this point I think the world should just let them fight it out. I can't see Israel and the Palestinians ever living side by side in peace and harmony.

spearman:
We are going to divide and that is why it is important we all understand who we are now so we know where we will end up.
The problem is your Ibos don't want to stand on their own.

What do you mean 'Your Ibos'? DYI Iam not Igbo.

Mention anything about tribe and see low intelligence Africans get all excited and emotional. Who cares where who originated from? What should be of importance is what's going on now. No Nigerian state has pipe borne water across the whole state, dilapidated schools and hospitals, universities that are no better than secondary schools in the west. Crashing currency, insecurity... so many issues that should focus the mind, but no, all low intelligence people want to discuss is tribe this, tribe that.
Africans are a cursed lot!

Buccalcavity2:
Since I've been monitoring this, Its the same pattern. Hamas attacks with rockets and Israel retaliates, then they call for a truce. The difference this time is that Hamas bridged the border and physically did what it had always stood for on Israeli citizens and covered it on camera., thereby humiliating and proving Israel right that it's existence is at risk if Hamas exists.
Make no mistake. If those over 5000 rockets found its way into Israel alongside the land assault, Israel would have been history last Saturday!

I just can't see how Hamas did what they did and would not accept the response Israel is now deploying. I think Hamas exactly knows what they are doing, and I've got the feeling they are waiting for the ground war to start. Maybe they've got hold of anti tank rockets from the Russia-Ukraine war, I don't know, but I just think Hamas still have something else up their sleeve.
You simply do not kill over 1000 Israeli citizens and not expect a full invasion of Gazza.

An ancient kingdom that was trading with Europeans while many other Africans were still walking around naked.
The inspiration for Marvel's Wakanda (If you doubt it listen to the dialogue between Michaël B Jordan and the lady in the British Museum in Black Panther)
Simply put Benin was the greatest empire in black Africa.

dre11:
https://www.thecable.ng/full-list-kaduna-abia-rivers-28-states-attracted-zero-foreign-investments-in-six-months/amp

Nonsense stars. My friends recently invested in a massive oil palm plantation in Edo and 2 months ago

MrUchenna1:
My 37-year-old son got married without my permission. How can I teach him a lesson?

He does not need your permission. Just pray for him as a father and be there for him. Its his life

grandstar:
There was nothing wrong with SAP. The problem lay with its implementation.

IMF always demand a tight fiscal policy i.e either balanced budget ot low budget deficits. IBB government was very notorious for having large budget deficits and also for running a loose monetary policy. These twin evils were the reasons for the persistently high inflation and large depreciations of the Naira during this period.

Contrast that with Sani Abacha. Because budget deficits were very, the Naira stayed relatively stable at $1-80 from 1995-1998. Abacha had even ditched the SAP in 1994 only to bring back liberal economic policies in 1995.

What many of you don't realize is that there are many Africans working at the World Bank. The policies that the IMF and World Bank are called liberal economic policies. What the World Bank will tell you is the same thing that the Charles Soludo or Bismarck Rewane will tell you.

A lot of what you said are basically myths.

Where did you read that the World Bank lent money in order to buy Nigerian oil cheaply? Nigerian oil has for long been expensive to buy due to the corruption ridden way it was sold. Nigerian officials preferred to sell on the spot market, allowing their cronies earn money by lifting crude.

Why will the West want Africans to be doomed? Do you think they want poor Nigerians or Africans flooding their countries illegally for work?

The EU and US has given duty free access to African countries to export their goods to them. This is a massive blessing. Yet, most African countries have yet to take advantage of it except a few exceptions like Ethiopia and Lesotho for instance.

What also do you mean the principal is never paid. Nigeria paid $12bn for $30b debt to be wiped off. The HIPC initiative which was set up to forgive part or all of the debt of highly indebted countries has already had beneficiaries. See below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavily_indebted_poor_countries

Have you seen I like to back my points with facts?

Yes, many feel the way you do but it is not backed up with facts. A lot of this ill will or suspicious starts when a nation is instructed to swallow bitter economic medicine to get better.

Do you know why the economy is in a mess today? Because Buhari threw away the kind of policies that the World Bank would support and the country had long implemented.

The first was a flexible exchange rate which sold the currency was sold at a market reflective value.. Buhari begun to sell fix the exchange rate below its market value and before you could say Jack Robinson, the foreign reserves were empty. Now, there's barely $4bn in the foreign reserves from $34b in 2015.

A lot to unpick here.

You say the IMF demands balanced budgets of very small deficits. Do you know what the US and UK deficits are? Why is that western nation are allowed to run mega deficits and even embark on money printing but that's not allowed for so called 3rd world nations?

Why does the world bank and IMF never speak on the mega subsidies western nations pay their farmers?

The fact that Africans work at the world bank and IMF is totally irrelevant to weather the policies of those institutions are beneficial for us. In the last 40 years it's clear that world bank/imf so called liberal economic policies do not work for Africa. We need to develop home grown economic policies that reflect our realities and our needs. No western nation would impose the kind of inflation on their people that has been imposed on Nigerians since May29th.

spiSeyi:
World Bank should stay off our economy if not for see finish can they control Morocco monetary policies like ours .
1 The same World Bank discouraged GEJ from fixing the old refineries, they are the ones who led Yaradua to reverse the decision of selling out the oil refineries and Ajaokuta steels. If Yaradua or GEJ had gone about their initial bidding on the refineries Nigeria would have been economically stable by now.
2 This same evil prevented PMB from partnering with ARAMCO (Saudi Oil conglomerate) to buy off NNPC, they went ahead to confuse PMB to halt the Nuclear power plant project by Russia in Nigeria.
3 They discouraged the government of PMB by implementing the bilateral currency swap between Nigeria & China whereby Nigeria can trade the Chinese Yuan directly with the Naira. If this had been fully implemented Naira wouldn't be in a free fall against the USD, and the Naira would have competed favorably with CNY because China consumes more of our raw materials and we could have earned more Yuan from Palm Oil, Cassava and iron ore.
4 The World Bank brought Nigeria's economy to its knees by instructing the PMB lead administration to unconditional and unplanned removal of fuel subsidies.
It is clear that the World Bank is after its elfish interest
PBAT should not repeat the mistakes of Yaradua, GEJ, and PMB. He should discard their nonsensical and selfish advice and should act strategically with every stakeholder within the Nation to revive the economy.

Bless you! The world bank and IMF have been destroying our nation since 1986 when IBB listened to them and launched SAP. No good ever comes from their advice/policies, because they are only interested in securing western economic leadership. They will never give advice that will actually grow our economy.
If you check the records, Nigeria actually experienced economic growth under Sani Abacha, becasue the west shunned him, and he promoted a 'Nigeria first' economic agenda.

They shut their dirty mouths!
We are a sovereign nation and fully within our rights to implement ANY monetary policy that will benefit our people.

These western institutions are total hypocrites. They tell us to practice full free market economics, meanwhile they do no such thing in their own countries. You'll be shocked to see how much subsidy is paid to farmers in Europe for example.

Was it not the same west where central banks (The Fed, BOE, ECB) were printing money for over a decade? Why did the world bank not say anything? Please do not believe all their propaganda, we as a developing nation need to have direct intervention by the CBN in critical sectors of the economy like agric and manufacturing. If the World Bank say someting is bad for us, then you can be sure the opposite is the case