₦airaland Forum

raumdeuter:
How many months of workers salary is Tinubu owing as we speak?
How many people have been killed or fled to exile for opposing Tinubu?
How many political parties have endorsed Tinubu for president
Who are the banks Tinubu is favoring and selling Dollar to at reduced rates to maintain dual exchange rates

1.U mentioned multinationals were fleeing , the same thing is happening right before our eyes

2. U mentioned how unemployment is the order of the day under Abacha , the same is the case today.

3. U mentioned how people are trekking because and how people skip meals . It is happening everyday in Nigeria under Tinubu’s government .Everywhere u turn to u literally see people begging

4. While the people are not fleeing because of threat of gun under Tinubu, they are fleeing because of the hardship Tinubu government’s policy has unleashed on them.

5. The Naira keeps behaving like Abiku under Tinubu and companies keep suffering foreign exchange losses .

The fact that We even have to compare Tinubu’s administration with Abacha’s regime should tell u how terrible things are . This is like the first government since the beginning of this democratic dispensation that has brought back the bitter taste of those black days .

raumdeuter:
Who was recording inflation numbers during Abacha period and when was this 50% that was reduced to 6% under Abacha

Under Abacha, the Federal minimum wage was N450 and the money wasn't even paid regularly which led to many strikes and stay at home.
That was the time feeding formulas of 010 for adults and 101 for children became a common joke in the society
Trekking was normalized on a new level. That was the time trekking from Allen to Egbeda was routine, I even did Jibowu to Egbeda a few times

ASUU was on strike for an entire year and Abacha's solution was to sack all lecturers which was why there was no JAMB in 1996 calendar year
There is something known as Abacha stove because of how much hardship was in those days

Under Abacha unemployment was the order of the day, No one was hiring as the economy had crumbled, Multinational already fled the country due to the pariah state status, FDI was at the minimum. Banks were failing at an alarming state the only ones who survived were those Abacha favored and sold Dollar at FG rate of N22 to while public rates was N78

Abacha solution was to put in place a transition to civilian rule, gave us 5 political parties and all the 5 had him as presidential candidate, Any politician who spoke against him was jailed or assassinated. Organized 1million youths to Abuja and notable musicians to come "Beg him" to contest

The only way to survive was to flee the country or kiss Abacha's asss in a mega way openly , When we won Atlanta Olympics, some members of the Dream team even went extra and donated their medals to Abacha

Maybe we need a refresher on Abacha times to relive those "good times" once again

Everything u mentioned here (bar ASUU strike ) and worse is currently happening in Nigeria as we speak.

So how’s Tinubu’s era better than Abacha’s regime?

oliverano:


Since Messi has more balondor, people won't care to read because the award, like the just concluded world cup will always be rigged to favour him.

This was basically the last kick before penalties and believe me if this ball had gone in, there won't be any talk of "rigged world cup" but bants after bants aimed at Messi. 😂 😂 😂

As in…. If that Muani ball had gone in, Wasiu and his fans would’ve ridiculed Messi and even claim Mbappe is greater than him .

Sportsweb:
Blame Balon dor that refused to state the major criteria of winning.

Year A: they are giving it to the player that won Ucl and more trophies

Year B: they gives it to the player that score more goals than others.

So it's hard to know how they make those decisions. If it's by individual output, mbappe and Kane should be headlining it

But since the last few years has been judged by how many trophies won, that's why Bellingham and Vini with half of Kane's goal tally are getting the push.

Nobody knows

The process of deciding the winner has been explained over and over again .

It is normal statistics that involves ranking system , just like the likert scale you use in ur final year project questionnaire in School .

This is not Eko hotel but Harbour point

If u don’t have anything serious to do in V/I today, just avoid this axis completely today .

With this rain and Davido’s wedding happening simultaneously, the kind traffic wey go happen today ehn.

I passed the road leading to the venue now and there’s already bottleneck on the main road by this time. 🤦‍♂️

larride:
From the best of my knowledge, the US has a national minimum wage, I think it's the benchmark that most states can't go below but each state does have their own minimum wage. (I stand corrected though)

I dont know about the other countries you mentioned.

But in Nigeria we have states who go below national minimum wage.

The funny thing is we have some jokers like Ned Nwoko clamoring for creation of Anioma state out of a state like Delta that cannot afford to pay its workers national minimum wage . With which money abeg ?

They should just disband this country 🤦‍♂️

larride:
NLC says Abia, Anambra, Bayelsa, Delta, Enugu, Imo not paying the 30k minimum wage. I'm sure that's for the Southern state alone.

If you go up North, the number of states currently paying the 30k minimum wage cant be up to 10.

Our leaders are just callous, wicked and inconsiderate.

Are these the Govs that want to be paying 100k salary?

The best move will always be for the FG and NLC to come up with a minimum wage for FG staff and private sector while each state should go and negotiate their own minimum wage with the state chapter of NLC.

My question is do they have different national minimum wage in countries like UK , US, Austrialia , Canada , Germany , etc ?

I mean like the US where we copied their Federal system of government , does minimum wage vary from state to state ?

iamoyindamola:
I haven't seen pre-register Sims for years since the regulation of nin was implemented even network providers that give out free sims have stopped

All these guys that do “register ur sim here “ still sell them. How they pre-register it, I honestly don’t know

iamoyindamola:
Hold on
If you are registering a new SIM even if I use your information I will still snap and thump print
Maybe I don't understand what the fuzz is about, I understand our information have been compromised but I want to understand how someone can use my name to register new SIM but my picture is not there
I also know my information can be dropped at a crime scene too but that sim own i don't understand

U are asking this question when we still have pre-registered sim being sold in Nigeria till date ?

How did those selling pre-registered sim get it registered ?

afrodoc2:
Of course, it was not all or even mainly from his pocket. Even in developed countries it is usually other people's money, either in the form of a few millionaires donating millions of dollars each OR a few thousands/millions of people donating a few dollars each. Then, in the US you hear about PACs and Super PACs.

All those groups are donating money to a campaign not for altruistic reasons but because they want something in return on the back end.

That’s true sha .

In Nigeria, It is the job of ordinary party members and government apologist to start spinning and coming up with reasons why the contract award is justifiable in an austerity period . 🤦‍♂️

iamoyindamola:
Quick question
What will obi have done 🤣🤣🤣

😂

Obi… ah Obi… Obi….. * in Tinubu baritone voice *

afrodoc2:
This is the reason for my response once i heard the Chagourys were involved in the road contract.

As in ehn….

Looking back in retrospect sef , Tinubu may not have spent as much as most people assumed he did for the election from his own pocket.

I believe the Chagourys may be some of his major financiers and the costal road contract award is just a case of ‘I do for you, you do for me….. *in Wike voice *

I even read Tinubu flew in a Chagoury owned jet to SA recently

Talking about Abacha looting and stuffing money overseas so much that we are still cashing out 25 years after ; I hope we all know the Chagoury brothers are one of the accomplices that helped Abacha rob this nation blind .

As a matter of fact , Gilbert Chagoury was convicted by a Swiss court for laundering money for Abacha and he had to return $6million back to Nigerian government .

This same Gilbert Chagoury is whom Tinubu’s government awarded a 15 trillion road construction contract to in 2024 without following the bidding process .

The Olatunji Bello family don too enjoy Tinubu’s benevolence sha . His wife is the current VC of Lagos State University .

The man himself has served as commissioner severally in Lagos

raumdeuter:
Abacha by being military was an illegitimate govt. The first thing any military junta does is to suspend the constitution, So the Abacha regime was unconstitutional. So that was the main thing Tinubu Onanuga etc fought for which was to return the governance of the country to civilian rule and end the illegitimate military govt

Secondly I doubt this times are tougher than Abacha times whether economically or socially. Economically was when sawdust cooking took over, when ASUU went on strike and Abacha fired all lecturers, when critics of govt like Ken Saro Wiwa, Kudirat, Rewane, Omatsola etc were not just called uncouth languages like Sons of bitches but they were hunted down and killed,
Even arguing in Newspaper stands against govt can get you locked up.
So much that commonwealth expelled the country
That didnt stop Abacha from stuffing money in overseas banks that we are still cashing out 25yrs after his death

The fact that u think the bolded shows u are so detached from the reality in Nigeria as of today.

As bad as Abacha was , there are records that suggest inflation was reduced from over 50% to 8.5% under his regime. Today inflation rate stands above 30% in 2024.

Today Nigerians spend most of their income on feeding . A derica of beans is 2,000 and the minimum wage is 30,000. That minimum wage will not even feed a young school leaver for 15 days out of 30 days in the month .

Yes Abacha was a monster, a brute , a dictator and the head of an illegitimate government who stole from the country . But u saying the hardship in present day Nigeria is lesser than what obtained during Abacha days shows u are far away from the reality

larride:
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I dont blame the NLC chairman though, when the chairman see him lavishing money anyhow at a period of "austerity" and asking the citizens to endure, the union are well within their right to demand for a living wage.

Our politicians are not sincere, you cant keep asking the citizens to endure while you are lavishing the little you say is available.

You say you can't pay 150k as minimum wage but you want to spend billions on frivolities. Even if the billions you want to spend on frivolities will not be enough to cater for the 150k minimum wage, common sense dictates that you dont portray the govt as insensitive and callous.

The bold is the issue I have with those blindly defending this government . They see this truth but refuse to talk about it.

Saying “ when we are outside you can talk about ideals, but when u are inside u know talk is cheap “ makes no sense to me in this matter at all.

Life was hard under Abacha and guys like Onanuga were brave enough to fight Abacha to a standstill with everything they had . That is highly commendable .

Today life is even harder under the government Onanuga works for . All Onanuga does is abuse the people fighting against the hardship and even calling them unprintable names while his principal and the political class responsible for the hardship keep spending billions on frivolities .

My question is would they rather keep quiet and die in silence because Bayo Onanuga and his generation had fought for democracy over 25 years ago ? Should they take every nonsense being thrown at them while lying down ?

raumdeuter:
That is the difference between reality and hypothesis. Ajaero dem dey call for 500K minimum wage, I am 100% certain if he is made Edo state governor today, he wont pay above 120K
Just like every employee thinks the employer should be paying more, working them less.
Like someone said, we all grew up and became the no nonsense managers, strict parents, wicked seniors, unromantic spouse, unreasonable lecturers, uncool egbons
Everything we criticized when we dey the other side. Just like spectators dey all sabi play pass Messi until dem enter field
When you are outside you can talk about ideals, when you get inside you know whats up

Everybody knows nobody will pay them 500k. Ajaero and the union also know this. They are only setting their negotiation point so high that they will arrive at a middle ground that works for everyone .

We see ASUU do this everytime. Anybody who actually thinks NLC wants above 120k is just clearly naive .

Jodera:
So because Bayern dey pursue am make we rush go use am as our 2nd choice Cf

And your mind dey tell you say you dey make sense as you dey type am. Nonsense!!!

Gerrarahia joorr!!

U get time to Dey respond to that confused hermaphrodite sha .

GloriousGbola:
Remember that girl that was beaten by naval ratings and it was filmed?

https://www.nairaland.com/191814/naval-officers-beat-up-lady

The admiral was retired, but it turns out the victim was the daughter of an army general. Otherwise it would have been business as usual

I remember this story , the footage was aired on Galaxy Tv that year . The lady only got a semblance of justice because her own old man is also military .

Naija na jungle

GloriousGbola:
The problem in Nigeria is no consequences. Any idiot In a government agency is a tin god.

As in…. That’s the problem, no consequence for their actions . That was how one DPO earlier in the year ordered a lawyer that had gone to secure his client’s release to be locked up . His boys even assaulted the lawyer .

After punch published the story and NBA took it up , they only redeployed the DPO as punishment . The DPO is still a police officer till date .

In a statement released on Friday and shared with FIJ, NBA said Awoke was released from custody alongside one Onyiba Emmanuel Chinonso, a computer science student at Ebonyi State University.

“I am pleased to inform you that I have, today, 21 June 2024, secured the release of our colleague, Pius 1. Awoke, Esq of Abakaliki Branch from the custody of the Department of State Security (DSS). He was released alongside one Onyiba Emmanuel Chinonso, a computer science student of Ebonyi State University, who was arrested and detained with Mr. Awoke,” the NBA statement reads in part.

FIJ reported on May 23 that Awoke, who was arrested by the DSS while traveling from Ebonyi to Abuja on July 21, was still being held. A source had revealed that the agency refused to charge him in court or grant him bail as prescribed by the constitution.

“[b]Awoke was travelling from Ebonyi to Abuja when officials of the DSS stopped his commercial vehicle and arrested him. They arrested all the men who were on the bus, including him, thinking they were of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) sect,” [/b]the source told FIJ.

When they say may Nigeria never happen to u, na big prayer o.

3 years of people’s life wasted just like that. 😳

I’m sure the school would’ve rusticated the student after he didn’t register for courses nor pay school fees for 3 session. Not knowing he’s languishing in DSS detention .

Chai ! The student arrested with him would’ve had missed like 3 sessions 🤦‍♂️

This country is a jungle . Imagine the student losing 3 academic session because he was arrested by law enforcement agents without trial

GloriousGbola:
If you'll excuse my language, they have no problem fking 10 year Olds in the North so I don't expect them to have any problem sentencing them to death.

The north is another country on its own o.

GloriousGbola:
The way blueray quote this law I know he has had one 12 year old prosecuted for throwing stones at his car

😂

No o.
It was one time that they arrested some “Awawa boys “ who were minors I was kinda curious how the govt will prosecute them.

I googled criminal law as it relates to minor in Nigeria , it that was when I now learnt some of these things .

GloriousGbola:
By law they are juveniles. What they need is some scared straight roughhandling that may shake those who are doing follow follow out of it. This assumes they have not actually been in any crimes like rape or aggravated assault though

Hmmm. It’s not that straightforward o.

Nigeria operates two criminal law system; In the south criminal code is operational while penal code is operational in the North . Both have different definitions of minor and how a minor is culpable when it comes to crime.

The twist is ; Lagos state has even jettisoned the criminal code operational in the rest part of Southern Nigeria . Lagos state enacted its own criminal law in 2011.

Theflint1:
This is solid, looks like it's targeted at students of tertiary institutions...what of secondary school cultists?

According to Criminal Law of Lagos 2011, any person above the age of 10 will be held liable for his or her criminal actions .

GloriousGbola:
It is always different on the other side. Small time you will be doing some of the things as a parent that your dad did which pissed you off.

As employer of labour you will focus on business profitability and survival first. Your unionism go enter toilet

Though for a former journalist onanuga should be able to brush off insults or at least clap back with style. Or he should leave the twittering to underlings

Nobody is expecting his unionism to shine through as the spokesperson of the government . But one expects that his years in the trenches would make him understand the pain of the union and their members.

Instead of going combative and always really to fight the unions , he should speaking to their pain points and communicating what the government is doing to assuage their discontent with his principal .

Theflint1:
Taiwo Awoniyi is 27 later this year, I doubt that guy comot even 1 year from e age...na fresh secondary school student when e go u-17.

That explains why he’s still athletic and playing well in the EPL unlike their senior bros dem.

Will believe that Taiye Taiwo and C. Ronaldo are the same age ?

Theflint1:
Though I agree there needs be toughness on cultism, I really don't know about maximum sentencing, especially since recruitment into cultism can come through coercion in some cases and some of these cultists are secondary school kids...prison population is also something to be considered when deciding on maximum sentencing.

Baba cultism is a crime , even though I’m not a lawyer I don’t think there’s any defence in criminal law like claiming “I was coerced to commit a crime “.

The law is the law. Take a look at a brief summary of the Lagos anti-cultism law below . Something like this will suffice .

Like Gloriousgbola mentioned above, let there be a cultism register and let anybody who is convicted have his name registered in it. Let such person be deprived of rights of a normal citizen . Let all those nonsense of flying color stop .

It is because older generation fly color without any consequence that’s why younger generation think it’s funky to be a cultist

liveLongNprospa:
When bayo onanuga was editor in chief😁

Funny how my dad had this very edition of The News Magazine .

It was this very edition of the magazine I first read about the Chagouri brothers . The publication was like 5 months after Abacha died .

Bayo Onanuga and the rest of the media guys then actually fought for democracy with their pen. It is shame that all of them are now the oppressors today. They are the ones justifying some of the nonsense they fought against back then. For example he’s criticizing labour for protesting against hardship caused by government’s policy .

Theflint1:
Like ehn 😊

Seeing his twin sis, I can see the guy didn’t really use “football age” like the older generation of super eagles .