₦airaland Forum

DissTroy:
State governors are the real thieves. Another reason I spent as much time as I do criticising the central government criticising even my own state government.

Since 2018, I've subscribed to monthly and bi-monthly report of my state government allocations and expenditure, and local government allocations by BudgIT.
Local governments earn a lot especially in the Niger-Delta, plus extra quarterly payments to oil-producing communities; all controlled by the state governors.

If you know how much your immediate past governor and mine spent on overhead cost (cost of running government), you'd just look amusingly at the antics by Tinubu's COP28 critics (who's also as guilty).

Not forgetting ~#23 billion annual security votes each to Akwa Ibom, Rivers, and Delta States, all unaccounted for.

Hold Governors accountable too.

Sometimes holding governors accountable is not as easy as it seems: In fact holding governors accountable and getting them to do the right thing appears to be a mirage in a country like Nigeria and I will tell u why.

1.State Governors are the least tolerant to criticism amongst the tiers of goverment under the executive arm. For example if a civil servant acts as a whistle blower , the state government will use the civil service rules to fish that person out and mark him for serious disciplinary actions. They may even have him arrested on some trump up charges.

2. If a private citizen calls out the state government; immediately the state government will start looking for one ancient law the citizen had broken in the past; his tax records; status of his building's C of O, etc to get back at him and have him smoked.

For point 1, about 2-3 months ago one LGA chairman in Ogun state called out Gov. Dapo Abiodun for witholding funds belonging to LGA's for years running. Guess what happened afterwards? DSS invited the man, detained him and the man was later impeached by councillors sponsored by the governor he called out. And that's someone in the political circle who knew for a fact that the governor withheld the statutory funds not for a noble reason. The annoying thing is even the people whom he was speaking on their behalf didn't even bat an eyelid to try and stand by him for a second.

Talking about the people, some people even defeded Sanwoolu when Doherty letter made the headlines all through last week. I don't know if that's the juju people always talk about that is in action; cos I just can't wrap my head around normal citizen coming up with defence for financial recklessness of political office holders. Some even turn it to d*ck measuring contest trying to compare what my governor spent to what ur governor spent. smh

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The way the NA is handling what they did in Kaduna in disheartening.

No formal memo on what happened. No press statement

No apology. No visit from the COAS to the community

No heads rolling because of this. No news on compensation.

May God not let me be killed like this.[/color]

When I tell people this country is a jungle, they usually think one just likes to dwell on the negatives. Where else will something like that happen and there will be no serious consequence ? Zero value for human life.

Those ones have died just like that and everyone expects their survivors to bury their dead & move on.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Maybe it is me, but I can hear what Tinubu is saying.

And 1 minute is too small to know if he was saying nonsense or not.[/color]

I also understood most of the things he said in the video . He was not just calling the sentences together . U know na like make dem call student wey never too sabi read come front of class to read a literature text .

If u are patient enough enough u will understand what he’s saying .

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I really wish yoi didn't reply.

Let him litter here with excerpts, still shooting himself on the foot.

I was surprised we had 120 delegates in 2022, and if we go by the same template that all are not sponsored, then the FG paid for less than 120 in 2022.

Senior man, you for no reply, walahi.[/color]

As in….. na who get plenty time go still continue to dey engage at this point .

E just be like make person dey try fill a basket with water .

Make government dey waste money dey go, make political office holders dey cap “ Tinubu inherited a broke country “ , and make the government defenders dey park Mourinho kinda bus for here dey defend dey go.

Emaprince:
Saw this on twitter and it reminded me of the love they have for Soludo now . . Until its time for election.

That's just typical naija politicians' way of life. They praise u when u are not a threat to their political ambitions, but call u all sorts of name once u become serious headache to them.

Shebi the same Reno praising Tinubu today has said a whole lot of damning things about him in the run up to the elections.

Spy360:
I am not arguing about the point you made. I am equally happy we have a solid back line. I am only saying 'perhaps' he wanted to try new thing to make us less predictable. At least there is proof of our being more predictable.

Okay, I hear u.

Spy360:
You can never tell. He had Timber which gave him multiple options and he had to change some things from last season to prevent us being too predictable. For example, teams playing against us double up on both Saka and Martinelli. This has the advantage of making us stronger in defense as we are less prone to attack but at the same time it has the disadvantage of making us weaker in attack as Saka or Martinelli would have to put in extra effort to affect the game.

Nothing u've written here explains why he benched an uninjured Gabriel for Kiwior earlier the season. That particular decision looked like trying to fix what is not broken.

Like I said earlier, thank God he backed out of that position and we have a stronger backline once again.

When did Nigerian army turn to terrorist organization like Boko Haram, ISWAP wey dey claim responsibility for bombings/attacks ?

liveLongNprospa:
https://twitter.com/Morris_Monye/status/1731582961328210120?t=oPjpGwfgQm9e_4cOEMZBcw&s=19


Just imagine

Abati is petty

He said he should check shopping malls maybe the Nigerian delegation will be found there .

izzou:
[color=royalblue]E be like say white people like am well well.



Everywhere na Ozarks.

Abi na paid marketing dem do? [/color]

Na only people wey watch am finish fit talk wetin make dem dey hype am sha.

raumdeuter:
If you read to understand and not read to poke holes and complain you will easily understand

We are currently not able to do much without affecting our main export which is oil, There is a conference going on that is discussing and mapping out the future where it will affect us, So what do you suggest we do beyond being an armchair critic?

That is because in govt you make decisions and not just criticize without solutions. We have a current situation and we have a future situation, we need to care about both.
This conference is saying some countries are coming with billions to help transition, which is what we need to secure our future earnings

What will Blueraydick do regarding climate change? Do you cut our current income currently or do you ignore our future? A serious govt does both which is what Asiwaju is doing. He is not cutting our current reality/income and he is pivoting to what the future will be.

At this conference major oil buyers will be discussing how to cut oil and fossil fuel, Should we stay at home while they barb our head in our absence?

The thing about you is that aside from whining endlessly you hardly come up with an alternative solution. Its very a very convenient position.

You supported Obi at the last election? What was Obis response to the question on climate change? What was your own opinion about climate change and how it affects Nigeria? Care to share?

As expected

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I am on some movie groups and if you see how people choose Ozark as one of
their bests, ehn?

Sometimes i go back to search if there is another Ozark [/color]

Na that ozarks overhyping sef make me down it that year; I just cut my loss and moved on after seeing how boring it was.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Omoh!

The same thing happened to me when i tried Ozark

I no understand how these shows are hits. [/color]

I didn't enjoy ozarks too, I dumped it eventually. But I assure u Breaking bad actually makes sense if u can be patient enough

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I am struggling to break into Breaking Bad

The thing be like wetin go dey boring.[/color]

That's how it was in the beginning. It got interesting along the line; it requires patience before u start enjoying it.

How will the Nigeria promise change the lifestyle and hardship Nigerians are currently going through?

That is an entirely different thing. The first promise is hope and when you have hope, you know that progress is being made to attract others. Anybody who is talking about hardship now is not being realistic. Why? Nigeria is like a building or a house with multiple cracks for several years, but all we do is to patch the cracks with cement while more continue to widen. When a new buyer or new tenant comes and decides to bring down and rebuild the building so that it won’t collapse, in the process of rebuilding, people will not have shelter. Sun and rain will beat them and regardless of whatever arrangement they make as palliatives, it cannot be concrete enough to replace what this would have. The choice for the people is to say they prefer the house to continue cracking until it collapses on our heads or be ready to sacrifice to ensure that there is a proper foundation for the new building better than what we have ever put in place. What they need is to see that sincere effort that truly a new building is coming so that the sacrifice will make meaning. But if in the process, some people refuse to acknowledge the situation, and keep complaining, that is not realistic, because the other choice was to remain in that same building that was eventually going to collapse on their heads.

What about the casualties that would be consumed because of the rebuilding?

We would wish that there were no casualties, but even if, they cannot be compared to the one we would have had should the entire building be allowed to collapse?

https://www.nairaland.com/7930405/anyone-complaining-hardship-nigeria-not

Iamoyindamola, The DG of national orientation agency don talk say make una shut up and stop complaining about hardship. He say Tinubu na builder wey don decide to bring down the building to repair it; make una look for where to crash for now while Tinubu dey build dey go.

Maybe na dem Toke Makinwa dey help them hold tools like hammer, nails and trowel while baba dey build dey go

Itsrm:
I couldn't stop laughing reading through. Egbon in particular is a special breed

Na people wey dey read and follow his opinions religiously I just pity

I remember that was how reccy follow enter believe say Tinubu is the next best thing after slice bread during the campaign season when dem begin saturate this space with enough propaganda material. Tinubu enter finish he begin hear talks about increasing university fees, subsidy removal leading to economic hardship, etc. and the same people dey defend wetin dey affect my guy.

Spy360:
Or probably he wanted to try something new

Well, the something new didn't look too good to we the fans. Thank God he backed out and we have a solid CB partnership now.

Itsrm:

I was just reading all the watery defences they put up yesterday and I just dey shake my head. Potato must potate

raumdeuter:
The world is shouting climate change and want Africa to play a role, so won't it make sense for us to attend and present to them what we need to be climate change compliant?

Help us with our debt then we can do climate change

Anybody taking u serious in this ur gaslighting mode most likely no get wetin he go use him time do. Because Tinubu's government has wasted hundreds of millions on Climate change conference now; u have suddenly turned an advocate of Climate Change. The same u who pulled shirt begin defend Tinubu's comments concerning non-prioritizing of climate change agenda few months ago (Not even up to a year).

In ur posts below u kept on harping on Africans prioritizing hunger ahead of climate change. One would think the Tinubu u speak of will consider his people are hungry and suffering so he wouldn't spend as much as N880m on flight cost of delegate to a conference that should not be his priority as u posited earlier.

I guess u just come up with anything just to defend even positions that contradict ur initial position. smh

raumdeuter:
Most of them don't have the requisite knowledge, they just jump on the next buzz word without knowing what it entails

An African country worrying about climate change, Climate change wey China sef no send

raumdeuter:
There are many countries in the world that do not give a Bleep about climate change, Even Trump pulled the US out of climate change thing because it makes production expensive nd puts the US at a disadvantage while places like China wey no send climate change are able to produce cheaper

raumdeuter:
Even Trump as president disregarded climate change and pulled out of the climate change accord saying its making production more expensive in the US, putting US producers at a disadvantage and making China control global production

Do you know that climate change preach against using fossil fuel which is Nigerias main income earner. So Nigeria in order to do climate change should stop oil production and the money from it because the world will collapse one day

Who will finance our budget if we stop oil production and embrace climate change

US problems are different than Nigerias problem.

Biden that is championing climate change and move away from oil, after gas price increased, he started begging Saudi and Venezuela to increase production

You cannot kill yourself today because you are scared of death coming in 30yrs time

raumdeuter:
If Saudi is commited to it, let them stop fossil fuel production and use wind, solar and other non carbon sources

Na only person wey don feed himself dey think of climate in the future.

You have just garri to eat and someone is telling you not to eat it because it doesnt have nutrients for your the future
No be person wey eat and survive today go see the future

Climate change is not a major concern of an economy facing immediate hunger. Its for people wey don chop remain

Adhering to climate change needs is expensive in the near term and many struggling economies cannot comply without backing from richer countries

raumdeuter:
How much does this Nigerian activity contribute to the climate change or global warming? We are just 0.3% of the entire world, Don't we have more serious things to look at immediately?

We are hungry climate change things are not top of our priorities and are not things even we can fix. We are not the ones causing climate change

Theflint1:
Would take " Edo ancestors" as code word for the long end of a 9mm.

Be like Dem trigger Israel wife release clause true true.

Israel na SIMPle man

mostob:
Mikel Arteta says Takehiro Tomiyasu was suffering with fatigue which is why he was taken off against Wolves.

Positive news!



#arsenalfanaticsnews

Oluwaseun 🙏

iamoyindamola:
So arteta wanted to fix what wasn't broken by benching gabu and replace him with white in the early season
Some coach they smoke gbana sha

There’s no explanation for the madness bro . The only defence I can come up with in favor of Arteta as a stan is : “ Most likely he did that to bring out the best in Gabriel ; maybe he wanted to put him in a situation to let him know he’s not indispensable “ .

Arsenal’s defence in the league has conceded the least of goals this season . Gabriel and Saliba partnership is crazy ! No CB pairing in the league comes close . We’ve only conceded 10 prior to Cunha’s goal yesterday .

Itsrm:
This was all Tinubu had to do and he can even increase price of fuel to 1000 and we won't mind.

Nigerian leaders are cursed

If you have seen the long list of people Tinubu took to Dubai to waste Nigeria's money.

Listen to what President Lazurus Chakwera of Malawi 🇲🇼 said about the same trip.

If we say Tinubu will not succeed, it is not because we h@te him but because what he is doing points to that.… pic.twitter.com/xvh14nC9zD

— ÓMÒÉLÉRÍNJÁRÉ (@omoelerinjare) December 2, 2023

It is only in Nigeria people want to pray success into reality while assiduously threading on the path of failure .

Someone will say Nigeria will be great again, God bless Nigeria , “Nigeria si madun “, This administration will favor me as my family … etc but the government is putting in so much work to ensure any of these do not happen by wasting tax payers money and funds we borrow from international financial institutions on frivolities .

I remember during the campaigns when Tinubu was on a capping spree, he said “ Climate change is the west’s problem not Nigeria’s “. That was when he made that statement about Church rat eating holy communion . Raumdeuter in particular defended that position here vigorously .

Today Tinubu is president and he’s leading a delegation of over 1000 people to a climate change summit all on tax payers funds . APC are jumping pass the news like say it’s not worth talking about . I won’t be surprised if anybody asks “ what wil Obi have done differently ? Do u think he won’t go with delegates too ? Is Obi going to use his personal funds to fianance the trip if he was the president ? “


We never ready for this country sha

Beautiful goal !

Ellexy:
I just dey imagine the "abeg make we hear word" and "who be this one" look on their faces.

Amaechi especially will give him this look ..."E be like say this on no wan get sense"

Theflint1:
Portable vs Charles Okocha

Celebrity Boxing Match

Who's your money on?

If not that I hate going out during festivities, I for go watch the boxing match live.

My money is on my guy Portable Omo Olalomi

Ellexy:
"Please my brothers and elder brothers......"

Let us save this money so it can save us in the future.....

How university students leave home, spend the whole semester in school without any means to speak with their parents/siblings on phone till the next time they go back home on holidays

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I wonder how pple defend dis govt/party. Go to markets, traders are complaining cox of rising cost of things plus low patronage.

I doubt there's any loaf of bread that costs less than 1k now. Imagine say family of 5 wan chop bread and egg for breakfast; dem go don spend like 3k to 4k on breakfast alone.

How civil servants on level 1-14 dey survive with their meagre salary for 30 days in this present Nigeria is still a mystery researchers need to study.

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Happy new month, everyone.

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izzou:
[color=royalblue]Amaechi
Fashola
Akpabio
Oshiomole

Na the same people dey gaslight una.

Same ol', same ol' [/color]

I won't be surprised if that is even the reason they all went ballistic on Peter Obi. Dem no want make the guy come to power and start blocking avenue for any future sharing of funds.

It all makes sense now.