₦airaland Forum

tsdarkside:
ehen....

soo,we should care about your igbo cars....??
what makes you think innoson is something special....??

not even you patronize your own....

i can import a car for just 2000dollars and sell it for double in nigeria....

Come back and cry that there are no jobs in Nigeria and you all want to elope to foreign lands to work under slave conditions. Import cars and kill your local car industries.

The simple truth is that this government never had, does not have currently and will not have any idea of how to make Nigeria a better living place for everyone.

Every developed country has solid policies in place protecting their agriculture and ensuring food stability first. Your government has policies in place ensuring poverty daily and starvation. What is the purpose of dropping import duty on cars when the people are hungry? Borders are shut yet the policy of growing the local rice industries has failed completely. In fact there was no sufficiency in the first place before borders were shut last year. The effect is what we all experience today with the price of rice @35,000 a bag. The idea of lowering car tariffs is expected to achieve what in the lives of the people who are already impoverished? Why will this government not tackle food first?

And by the way is Innoson the only car manufacturer in Nigeria? There are other truck and car assembly plants in Nigeria and they will all be affected. If government intends to promote local industries as they claim, why lower duty on imported cars whereas duty on car/truck CKDs will likely remain the same? What about the effect on labour? How caj locally manufactured cars be delivered at lower rates? Let's cut off tribal/political sentiments talk about this issue more seriously.

Why do these people prefer deceiving themselves and other Nigerians?

Who will enforce the order and how will the trailer owners ever comply? It started like a joke several years in Lagos and government neglected it. It snowballed and turned Apapa and its axis into what it has become today, yet all government orders have been rebuffed by the owners and drivers.

Chief among the reasons why the drivers never comply is that a very huge percentage of the trucks are owned by the same government officials and their friends. The drivers jostle to get jobs to enable them pay the owners. The officials come openly to ask them to leave yet, they allow them stay to return their profits.

In Apapa/Tin can island axis the security officials who should enforce the order take in millions of naira daily extorting the drivers.

Why has Fashola (Mr. Rocket science) not asked Dangote to build terminals in Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Edo and other states where his trucks and drivers have become nuisances? Does Fashola not know that the big men's trucks constitute the bulk of the problems? Can he not approach them and ask them to build terminals? How are we sure that Fashola himself does not have trucks on the roads?

The drivers have become accustomed to the freedom they have and always refuse to relocate.

When will they complete the rail network? I'm sure truck owners will not be happy about it and they'll sabotage every effort to have rail working.

slimfit1:
Forming tough guy why not go to sambisa let us see how tough you are.

Why won't you go to Sambissa forest? No be person like you dey carry gun enter there as a man?

Antoeni:
The Engr Dave Umahi Legacy:

10-Flayovers completed.
18-dualized roads
Uncountable single roads.
New Govt House completed
New State of the Art Ecumenical Center completed.
Brand new International Market completed.
Brand New Airport over 60% completion.
3-Brand new Hospitals completed.
A State of the Art brand new Stadium in Abakaliki.
Best disease diagnostic Center in the entire East etc

Enyia, cry for your state biko!

All completed as a PDP governor.

The lowest of the southeast votes by miles.

The strange fraternity with the opposing presidential candidate to defeat his own.

"Best disease diagnostic center in the south east". How does that translate into the best hospital in the south east? How has it reduced the rate of poverty in Ebonyi state? Or are you not aware that Ebonyi state is the poorest of the south eastern states?

How did it eradicate the destruction of lives and properties in Ebonyi state by Fulani herdsmen? Or are you not aware that right under the watch of this pretender, Ebonyi state has been the most devastated by the attacks of Fulani herdsmen?

ofuonyebi:
PDP was supposed to be the only oppsition to the Ruling APC.
But the way they are gradually going about defection of Umahi
Very soon it will be dawn on PDP that the whole of the East will join a APC and in some other parts of the country.
By 2023 we may NOT have a PDP to contest against APC.

Else, when have DECAMPING BECAME AN OFFENCE IN NIGERIA?
IS IT NOT THE HALLMARK OF APC & PDP? WHICH THEY FREELY IMPORTED INTO THE NIGERIAN POLITICS?...SHAME!

"Else, when have DECAMPING BECAME AN OFFENCE IN NIGERIA"?

Did you actually write this English believing it to be good? Did you read your concluding words?

Okoroawusa:
I don't understand. Why suspend Senators and House of Representatives members that didn't support Umahi.
Or is there something they are not telling us?

Something is wrong somewhere. They would have aided Umahi the ungrateful man. Stranger is the allegation against Sam Egwu, a founding member of PDP!

doctokwus:
Umahi is a big f ool for joining a party that maynot last up to 2023.
APC is a contraption of criminals set up with the sole purpose of wrestling power from Jonathan,using the lies about Buhari having any sort of redeeming feature,in a period where the media,print, electronic and social media could be used by anyone to spread propaganda,lies and half truths without the medium or person being sanctioned.
If half of the things allowed to have been aired about Jonathan on radio and social media where allowed during this time,many people would have gone missing and most radio stations in Nigeria shut down.
If he was so displeased with PDP for unselfish reasons,and not for his protection from prosecution and selfish goals,he would have joined another party,most conveniently APGA.

The unifying factor of APC is President Buhari. He is the rallying point. That's the reason they all quote his name in everything they do. They all hide under him and are quick to say "they want to bring down the regime of President Buhari". Chief Bola Tinubu does not command such followers who and is expecting to leverage on it. No other person commands such followership. PDP on the other does not have such individual as their rallying point.

The disadvantage to APC is clear in that when PMB leave, APC scatters and all those who donated parts and accessories to make it national will simply demand their contributions and they will all revert to their regional corners. PDP will get better and definitely return to power.

How is Anambra better or more civilized than Enugu? How are Imo and Ebonyi states more civilized than Enugu state? OP to slap you dey hungry me.

Before Umahi activates his political suicide and hinges his hopes on the self delusional Prince Arthur Eze, hear this:

Ebonyi State with the least votes from the southeast every election cycle got Senate President under PDP.

Ebonyi State got Secretary to the Government of the Federation.

Apart from the Owerri Onitsha Expressway Obasanjo did with Julius Berger and RCC, Ebonyi got the second major project in PDP years. The Uturu-Afikpo Highway done by Julius Berger and the Ishiagu Road with less traffic density done by Strabag.

In case someone just returned from Panya, Southeast became:

Senate President under PDP

Deputy Senate President under PDP

Deputy Speaker House of Reps under PDP

Vice Presidential Candidate under PDP

National Chairman PDP under PDP.

Chief of Army Staff under PDP

Finance Minister, Aviation, Education, Commerce & Industry, Information, Foreign Affairs etc Under PDP

FRSC Corp Marshal under PDP

Immigration Comptroller under PDP

National Population Commission under PDP

INEC National Chairman under PDP

DG Security and Exchange Commission under PDP

Central Bank Governor under PDP

The list keeps going on and on and on.

Dave Umahi should show us where his APC and Buhari placed Ndigbo from 2015 till date.

Facts are sacred.

People should fear God o.- Copied

helinues:
Those are species not yet detected.

Me wondering why there is nothing like Wild Nigeria documentary

"Those species are not yet detected".

Olodo, when APC/Buhari matter don scatter your head. How can you know what species they are?

Christistruth00:
That is a Ray fish very delicious

https://www.google.co.uk/url?q=https://fishingbooker.com/blog/types-of-rays-a-quick-guide/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwioh-iEroztAhWqgVwKHa9_CRcQFjASegQIDRAB&usg=AOvVaw2D2sjXuUYYAeyR2VFt9C1_

A Stingray. The catcher was lucky. That could have stung him to death in the water.

Las las na soldiers go treat Okada rubbish.

Truly the Nigerian democracy can be called a pseudo democracy.

Arrewa:
Let him come and be be president let's see!

God forbid... An igbo man will never rule me!!

We will rather vote a foreigner from Gambia into the corridor of power than vote an igbo man!

They pick up a fight with the wrong side!

The jallohs always win! It's our culture to win!

People like you are the reason why we are insisting that cattle rearers should carry their cattles and sticks and live in their northern enclaves. Remember also tell your leaders to take their long caps and agbadas along with them as you all take your hands off the oil in the south east and south south!

But truly speaking has the south east been truly faithful and committed to PDP? I asked this question looking at the inroads APGA made in Anambra, APC made in Imo and now this Ebonyi states.

The south east was truly PDPs until after 2007. Who do we blame?

DexterousOne:
As for regulations
I believe the govt has a big role to play

But when it comes to operations
The govt better not be a major Player


Probably PPP at best

Thank you for your response.

If you take a look at transport operations in most developed countries you"ll find that their governments largely operate it. So was the case in Nigeria, especially Lagos up till the 1970s when the military governments allowed the private sector enter into it. Transportation was well organised and largely served the people of Lagos, except for the fact that corruption in LMTS (LSTC) cost Lagos a lot. With the advent of the Kia Kia buses then, chaos entered the system.

As society develops there is an expectation that government stays ahead to meet the needs of the people. Government fails to fix faulty buses and if they do so it only happens when the buses are nearly written off. Government has failed to provide adequate buses because one oga or the other inflates the cost. Transport is largely the business of government. Lagos has been on that construction of rail lines since 2008 and yet there is no hope in sight. With rail lines life is easier for the people. Same as water transportation.

PPP would actually work if proper agreements and structures are put in place. Ambode could have done a better job than Sanwo Only. Corrupt government officials are the only reason I see why government may not be part of the daily operations.

Again is the fact that government must strive to protect public property. This endsars witnessed the destruction of 84 buses.

DexterousOne:
Did this man just say that transport should be largely run by the government?
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My goodness

Yes my bro that is what I said. Please discuss your disagreement.

Acidosis:
While you're focusing on third class without proof, are you also aware that she own a shoe business "shoes by flora"?? Her business received more than 10,000 orders in a short while.

She achieved all that while you, Charly, was cross-dressing and encouraging the ga.y child. Ediot!

Nengi's achievements can be used anywhere in the world to encourage the girl child. She's a child without a father and mother yet she didn't let that stop her from achieving her goals.

And let's not forget that the so called third class degree is nothing but a cheap lie.

And mind you, ambassadorial deals have NEVER been about your degree, anywhere in the world. If na by degree, why did PUMA sign Wizkid instead of the first class degree holder in your village?

Awon oloshi. You made a Professor of Law an assistant to an old man without O'level but want to die on top another person's hustle.

Sincerely speaking that's the reality. More so in life there words called DIVINE FAVOUR.

May we also ask Mr. Charly Boy how many first class graduates are in his employment? His property business is managed by his daughter who is not a first class graduate. It will be worthwhile if he changes the equation by employing a first class degree holder.

Neddstark:
Brother, if its the okada men on the expressway, that needs to stop. But if it is inside Festac, it is fine.
Fact is that untill government provides the perfect replacement, okada men will be going off and back on roads once the laws are relaxed. Sad the bus terminal had to be burnt. That was the height of foolishness.

Truthfully we do not need Okadas, koropes and keke napep in this country. All we need effecient and effective modes of transportation and proper timing in all cases. This NURTW is a major problem in Lagos. It will not cost government anything to stop them. Ambode had this plan of phasing out danfos last year but the powers bigger than him stopped him.

If we want Lagos to be that mega city we must have more than enough modern buses, good rail system and proper water transportation. This will not take rocket science (copying Fashola). The bus terminals are meant for comfort of the so called poor in society, yet they destroy them, thinking the funds used to build them belong to individuals. Those who destroy public property should be made to face the law.

Lastly we need more calm in Lagos for things to work effectively.

Confirmedzombie:
Ipobs miscreants causing problem in Lagos.

They cant obet the laws of the land.

Useless fools

Truly you are a CONFIRMED ZOMBIE.
A proper MUNTULA!

Neddstark:
You should read my previous posts. I never supported endsars after they begun blocking major roads. I have been around that area and can authoritatively tell you that bikes are the main means of transportation from 2nd rainbow into Festac town. As much as the government can make laws let them put some human consideration into it. The #endsars movement should let them understand that the will of the people matters. Also seizing bikes, people's source of living is not the way forward right now.

See we like the very fast life in Nigeria irrespective of the resultant costs in human lives and resources. Government truthfully has failed in the transportation sector, especially with the advantage given to the private sector with the entry of danfos into Lagos since the 1970s. Transportation should be largely run by government.

But for how long can we keep living like this? These Okadas people have been complete nuisances in those areas over the years. Do not forget that armed robbery, kidnapping and needless harm have been done to many Lagosians living within those areas. It is very painful getting to those areas and government has to deal with that menace.

The Okadas there have become lords on their own and supported by certain residents of those areas, have made life very difficult. What do they want on Oshodi-Apapa expressway? Go all over Lagos now and see what Okadas have been doing in the last two weeks after the endsars protest. It is only proper for government to address the situation.

I bet you that when all things are resolved, the police will get back more terrible than they were before endsars.

solastan:
98% of okada, tricycles riders at Second Rainbow in Lagos are from a particular region in Nigeria. If you know ,you know

If na Igbo una go don dey shout up and down without fear. Now wey e be Hausa/Fulani fear no let mention name.
Jagbajantis intete!

VeeVeeMyLuv:
That will be akin to a disrespect of the gentleman agreement.

Hahahahahahaha

Neddstark:
Good for Lagos taskforce. You dont just wake up in the morning and start seizing people's source of income. Give a warning first or provide another means of transportation. If there was another means of cheaper transportation, okadas working there will be broke and will go elsewhere to ply their businesses.

"Give a warning first". So you want to claim that you do not know that Okadas are prohibited on those roads?

Why do some people choose to brazenly flout the laws and make our society so terrible? Why hide under endsars to create anarchy in the land? The same mouth with which you supported endsars, do people like you use to complain that there is no police presence on the roads.

Rugaria:
If Zamfara "artisanal miners" can be recognized and allowed to operate like legitimate business outfits, "oil bunkerers" in the Niger Delta should also be allowed to operate unhindered. . That means soldiers should stop shooting at local folks that are branded oil thieves for helping themselves with the resources found in their land... Folks from oil producing areas should start oil and gas exploration whenever they want without licenses and sell to NNPC?

Folks, this government is evil! You can see the kind of argeument being churned out to defend evil. Rather than implement the law, Buhari is shifting the goalpost once again! The biggest problem with Buhari is his inherent inability to call a spade a spade, whenever the culprits are from his tribe/zone/party, dude starts to speak in tongues! The man will rather run from pillar to post, Scanvenging for excuses, rather than allow the law take it's full course! Buhari and his likes should never have been anywhere near a presidential house!

The best thought out response to the topic. You deserve a very cold bottle of beer.

Ironically the legitimate "artisanal miners" in the Niger Delta are the northern elite. Can any artisan from the south (irrespective of tribe) dare mine gold in Zamfara state?

edoairways:
Please add
too

Even Lagos Ibadan express way.

*By Muniini K. Mulera*

Notwithstanding the damage that Donald John Trump has done to the United States in just four years, he deserves our gratitude for exposing some truths that had been buried underneath the veneer of a progressive nation that President Ronald Reagan had hoped would become “A SHINING CITY ON A HILL”

Two things stand out for me: 

#First - Trump has lifted the pretence by boldly espousing an entrenched, systemic racist view that he shares with most of the 71 million Americans who voted for him.

He has brought America’s tribal politics into the open and shown that “the greatest nation on Earth” is far from embracing the greatest secular principle immortalised by Thomas Jefferson in America’s Declaration of Independence.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”~ Jefferson, a wealthy slave owner from Virginia wrote in 1776.

Nearly 250 years later, millions of Americans, like Jefferson, still give lip-service to the concept of human equality. Their current president barely pretends to believe in the idea.

#Second - The hypocrisy of large numbers of America’s so-called Evangelical Christians, has been laid bare by Trump.

They are no different from the so-called Christians who, for centuries, traded and owned slaves or the members of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (the Dutch Reformed Church) in South Africa who supported Apartheid.

Christians that manifest intolerance for others, including refugees and other struggling members of society, violate some of the written teachings of Jesus Christ.

Christians who embrace as their secular leader a pathological liar, hater and divider of God’s children violate God’s Word that was passed on to us by  the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 6:14: “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?”

Mercifully, the majority of America’s voters have put a stop to the nightmare and bought their country – and most of the world – some relief from this very exhausting experience. We can breathe again!

True to form, Trump is ending his presidency with predictable drama that assures him a place among his country’s worst presidents. Even as the numbers showed that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. had trounced him in the election earlier in the week, Trump tweeted on Saturday: “I won the election, big time.” This was written in capital letters, the cyber-equivalent of shouting.

He has now embarked on a mission of revenge, disruption and disorganization.

He has fired his Secretary for Defence via Tweeter. More heads will probably fall before he leaves office.

At 74, the American president reminds me of childhood encounters with kids who, upon losing card or board games, would claim victory even as they destroyed the play materials and everything in their path.

Had he been the ruler of any one of the world’s many pseudo-democracies, Trump would have almost certainly called in the troops, arrested opponents and declared a state of emergency “in the interests of national security.”

Luckily for America’s 331 million people, theirs remains a country whose long history of institutional governance and a national culture of rule by the consent of the people disables Trump from feeding his natural instincts.

Notwithstanding the bizarre spectacle of 71 million people voting for re-election of this most unfit, desperately insecure, pathologically dishonest, irredeemably racist and destructive man in the 2020 election, America was crafted by its founders to resist and defeat attempts at illegal capture of power.

While he will frustrate the transition process, it is a given that not even Trump can illegally stay in the White House beyond 11:59 a.m. on Wednesday January 20, 2021.  If he tried to do so, the American internal security system, among them his current Secret Service protectors, would gently help him out of there. 

Trump’s claims of electoral fraud may be due to one of three possible explanations. First, this may be a normal manifestation of grief. The classic sequence of emotional response to loss is denial, followed by anger, bargaining, depression and, in most cases, acceptance. These feelings do not always follow the script and we may well see Trump on a behavioural rollercoaster ride over the next few weeks.

However, Trump, being Trump, is very unlikely to reach the stage of acceptance. To do so requires a healthy dose of humility and emotional security, two attributes of which Trump is severely deficient. We should, therefore, expect him to spend the rest of his years claiming that his victory in 2020 was stolen by a “deep state.”

Second, Trump is a chronic truth-denier. He fashions a false reality that feeds his fantasies, then foists the same on his multitude of followers. The latter echo the fiction back to him and he uses that as overwhelming evidence of his version of the truth.

The most likely reason for his claims of electoral fraud is an attempt to delegitimize the election and presidency of Joe Biden. Trump has not recovered from the psychological trauma of discovery and revelation that his election in 2016 was facilitated by Russian interference.

He knows that many of America’s opinion leaders and, perhaps, foreign leaders harbour the view that his was a Pyrrhic victory. Throwing mud at Biden’s election is a balm to Trump’s troubled soul. If he can convince himself that his successor is as illegitimate as him, Trump can leave the White House feeling he was a victim of the bad forces that he had railed against during his first presidential campaign.

Trump, the bully, is an emotionally weak man. Trump the bragger-in-chief is a terribly insecure man. One does not need a degree in human psychology to tell that the American president is possessed of a very delicate mental security.

His obsession with crowd sizes of adoring supporters, his name plastered on buildings and various trinkets, bragging about his wealth, claims of intellectual superiority and knowledge and his self-nomination for a Nobel Prize point to a deep-seated inferiority and inadequacy.

His evidently high self-regard is a shield against the painful truth of his serious shortcomings and incompetence. It is his weak self-esteem that made Trump so obsessed with President Barack Obama that the centrepiece of his presidency was to undo his predecessor’s achievements.

That same vulnerability has amplified Trump’s emotional reaction to defeat by Obama’s vice-president, deputised by another African-American – a woman at that! One imagines the sense of humiliation that Trump must be feeling. Indeed, one feels sorry for him.

Trump will leave the White House in January 2021, but we should expect to hear from him for a long time. His delicate soul needs public adoration and padding with fantastic claims of greatness.

----------------

_Dr. Muniini K. Mulera, a Ugandan-Canadian, is a Consultant Paediatrician & Neonatologist in Canada_

We will know who truly won at 12 noon, 20th January, 2021.
No be mouth matter.
America no be 9ja!

truthfulparrot:
Who else noticed that the die-hard supporters of PMB on Nairaland are now voraciously condemning his policies? Maybe they stopped paying their monthly stipends.

Hahahahahahaha. Why won't they stop? They thought hunger would only be reserved for others while they would enjoy the benefits of the lies that they were told. They forgot that all Nigerians buy food from the same market. Or do their own cars use water instead of petrol? Every man for himself now, jungle don mature. They now reap what they sowed!

Sometimes these people make themselves look very stupid. How on earth would he say such things publicly? Was he sermonising the people on humility or accountability?

Look at it this way. He is a major distributor of BMW cars in Nigeria. He has other massive business interests. He expects people to buy and drive his expensive models of cars otherwise he"ll be out of business and revert to poverty. He expects people both young and old to purchase his expensive products for him to remain in business.

Now he refused to purchase good phones made by other organizations in the name of minimising his expenses or wisdom? If his likes do not purchase expensive phones, how do his likes expect other companies to stay afloat? Who does he expect to buy expensive phones? If the rich fail to buy his cars and come publicly to tell ue how they use Peugeot 504 GL, how will he feel?

Shamelessly he's told people that his wife bought him the good phone. His children were not allowed cars. But he did not tell us the kind of schools they attended. Surely they did not attend public schools.

If this man were Bill Gates, poverty will remain the lot of Africans. Bill Gates has spent a lot of money battling illnesses in his country, Nigeria. Even Ned Nwoko who is not as wealthy as Bill Gates is tackling malaria in Nigeria, yet we have not heard of his such acts from him. His senator representing his zone, Ifeanyi Ubah is presently repairing federal roads in their zone and he will ply the roads when he goes to his village for Christmas.

Stinginess worry the man well well.

Abeg make he carry that story go far.

IamWonderful:
IT wasn't successful because igbos were privy to information and planners of looting in Lagos, a thief fortified his house against another thief, it shows that they are actually the Planner of the whole thing, most of them which were supposed to be at home during curfew was in their shop to prevent looting, that is just a clue

Olodo. And how did you know if you did not loot people's shops too?

Foolish question from a foolish, bitter and envious woman. Her wickedness knows no bounds. Even a little girl who God has blessed from that little age. Why has she not requested that of other popular child actors and actresses? Was it a crime to use what God has blessed her with to lift up her mum and family, who probably did not have any roof over their heads.

This woman's madness and unnecessary attacks on decent people must stop.