₦airaland Forum

BATified2023:
how can a president give money directly to citizens?

Let me learn new things today

Fearurcreeator:
Oga go sleep , dey talk with sense abeg

SeraphicWind:
Many of you are yet to understand who this man is. This man does not keep to his words. It is normal to his origins. Never you trust him for any reason. He is always plotting, planning and scheming. Most of his plotting and scheming is never in favour of the other party.

SadiqBabaSani:
Why has the lion of Kaduna gone silent?

This is unusual of him,

I don’t comprehend, have they gotten to him or he was just posturing from the beginning.

Putindbutt:
Sowore, Uwazuruike and others should go to the US and protest for terrorists detained at Guantanamo bay or go to Isreal to protest for detained Hamas.

FarahAideed:
No serious person discusses trade surplus in Naira if not a deceptive person . International trade is done in dollars not Naira so show this in Dollar

.well 5.7 trillion Naira is 3.8 billion dollars which is far less than what Jonathan was getting as surplus per quarter ..

Well I have taken the liberty to draw up Nigerias trade surplus of the last 15 years so you see that Tinubu is one of the worst performers

Dpsychologist:
Bro, I actually admire your passion. But let’s take emotion off the table and look at Nigeria the way it truly is not the way we wish it was.

1. On Water and “People Shouldn’t Pay for What They Don’t Get”
I completely agree: you shouldn’t pay for what you don’t get. But the reverse is also true, you can’t sustain what nobody pays for.

Look around: when PHCN brings appropriate estimated bills, people protest. When government increases tariffs to match cost of service, people reject it. Yet, we still want 24-hour light.

Even if water pipes in GRAs were prioritized (which is true), the collapse came when maintenance money stopped flowing and that happens when both government mismanages and citizens stop contributing.

The Fashola/BRT example you gave actually proves my point. Lagosians paid for those buses through taxes, fares, and enforcement. You can’t compare that civic discipline with how people treat government property in other states.

So it’s not just government incompetence, it’s also citizen compliance and culture.

2. On “If We Remove Corruption, Nigeria Will Prosper Instantly”
I wish that were true, bro. But facts disagree.

Nigeria’s total revenue in 2023 was around ₦10 trillion. Our annual budget was around ₦28 trillion. Even if nobody stole a single naira, we’d still be short ₦18 trillion.

That gap doesn’t disappear by “being honest” it disappears by producing more, exporting more, and taxing more people.
You mentioned Ajaokuta and the refineries, fair. But even if they worked, they’d cover maybe 20–30% of what we need, not everything.

Corruption is a symptom; low productivity is the disease. We import what we can make, and depend on oil whose value is dying. You can’t build a modern economy on hope and honesty alone — you build it on production and innovation.

3. On IMF and the West “Allowing” Our Looting,
You’re right. IMF knows our flaws. But remember: they’re lenders, not babysitters. Their job is to get their money back, not reform Nigeria.

It’s like a bank lending to a reckless businessman. The bank may monitor, but it won’t enter your office to stop you from stealing. That’s our job.

If the West is guilty of enabling, we’re guilty of supplying. That’s not IMF’s fault, that’s cultural rot.
Like i said earlier in regards to our leaders having properties abroad. No one forces our leaders to buy mansions in London.

4. On Ambode vs. Sanwo-Olu
The difference between both isn’t planning, it’s politics. Ambode was dropped because he stepped on wrong toes, not because he lacked performance. That right there proves that Nigeria’s problem isn’t policy, it’s power culture.

You said “development is mainly in the hands of government.” True, but governance isn’t magic. Government runs on taxes, taxes come from citizens, and citizens obey rules only when it favors them. Until people respect systems, leaders can’t sustain progress.

5. On “When the Head Is Straight, the Body Will Align”
You used Buhari/Idiagbon — great example. They tried to force discipline, but it collapsed because they didn’t build institutions.
That’s the point — fear-driven obedience isn’t progress; institutional discipline is.

Even Fashola succeeded because of law enforcement, civic education, and consistent funding — not fear. That’s governance + citizen compliance working hand in hand.


My bro,
We need to stop pretending it’s either government or people. It’s both. Our government has a lot of fault but we can't totally exonerate ourselves from this, we also played a part in it.

A corrupt leader can’t thrive without a complacent populace. A visionary governor can’t build anything without public cooperation.
We can’t fix Nigeria by blaming one side — we must rebuild both.

Until we learn that progress is a shared responsibility, we’ll keep repeating this same argument every decade — louder, angrier, but still stuck in the same place.

Nigeria doesn’t need angels in office; it needs citizens who stop waiting for angels.

yemre:
Nobody has ever celebrated construction of Railway line to Niger republic even when Nigeria was yet to get enough railway in its every region. Niger is not Nigeria. Just imagine when the third mainland bridge was built in Lagos and people like you claimed it was unnecessary, it was this, it was that! At the time, Lagos already had Eko bridge and Carter bridge in place but the foresight the government had at the time was that the influx of people from other region to Lagos, even after the federal seat was moved away, could not be ignored. If not, nowhere would be passable with the growing population.

I am sure you would agree with me that Lagos is already in need of a fourth bridge because the three in use are already overstretched.

Governance is all about now and future. If you care for now, by the time your generation is gone, the upcoming generation will not be happy with you for not making provision for them.

Foresight is everything.

yemre:
call it whatever you like. It is the best legacy project this administration has embarked upon right now. Your opinion is actually not needed. when it is completed, we will use it. As for you, you are free to go through your 13hour route. it is nobody'd business, it is your choice.

Very myopic set of people. if it not what you're eating right now, it is not needed. I dont blame you, you are following the footsteps of your principal just because he has said so and you do not even have a mind of your own to discern what is needed or not.

Chibuzoc:
These are the gunmen terrorizing the south east. Imagine this one killing a rival cultist and labeling them IPOB/ESN

crixlight2:
Will you rather prefer them
To embezzle the money or construct the coastal road, if dem no do the road we no go still feel the impact of the money , so make dem do am , at least it will open up many town to businesses , the coastal town will make more money from hospitality and relaxation

koning:
Name one leader that retired in the UK?

Our leaders retire to their respective villages. Not even Lagos or Abuja.

hafeeanubasy:
The guy na ingrate

You can relocate for personal reasons which I don't have problem but it's very immature to bad mouth a system that made you

koning:
See the people you take make example?!. Are they rich? The lady is right. I did not watch the video, but going by the heading, she is 100%right.

Seyi Law and Aina you mentioned never lived abroad per se. They only visited and then got carried away. I know some traders who go to Europe twice a month for years, but will never live in Europe.

Being rich and living in UK is a waste of your richness if you are a Nigerian, African or just black.

But, with your mentality, I'm sure you will not understand.

hafeeanubasy:
After Aina made his money and gained popularity doing videos of roof tops restaurants in Lagos

occam:
Fake stats. Nigeria’s gdp was never this high. With rebasing that year it was 500b. And this was based on Naira pegged to dollar at subsidized rate.

baretalk:
You sound like a robot

MightySparrow:
I'm not Igbo. I am just saying that if igbos want to build a palace at the level of the Ọba of Lagos or even better. What are they saying?

Igbos own Lagos joor.
Abeg .

MightySparrow:
Igbos are claiming they built everything, everywhere.

They are they own everything including the air you breathe.

SeeWahala:
MightySparrow is not igbo? 🤔

ufotunang:
.. even if council allow the agberos to operate there..,but the agberos still pocket the money

crixlight2:
The majority of people that criticized that railway are from the South . How many northern elites came out to criticize it, even this useless Atiku couldn’t find his voice then. Make dem do the road

crixlight2:
It has everything to do with it , so you think if it is northern President that is doing this road , do you think the people will criticize it like this , when Buhari Dey construct railway to Niger republic the wahala no even reach this one… either they do the road or not dem go still embezzle the money . The money the have been embezzling since wetin we do , make dem do the costal road and if Tinubu no finish am the next president will , this is one of the major road in southern Nigeria since the creation of this country . When you get to north na that time you go know say we have no road in southern Nigeria