Aremwayne:
Oga I am from the North and not Igbo please.

That’s what you all say! Either way do some soul searching. How does one scroll through your post history and it is abuse upon abuse?

Lol at the “transformation” in the 1st 2 pictures

Aremwayne:
Religion of Peace.

I am not a northerner and I am not a Muslim but Oga please scroll through your own post history. 95%of it is abuse and insults against others yet your own People IPOB commit so much atrocities……against your own people!

Why is there so much venom and hate in your hearts?

Are they creating degree miracle centers like for WAEC?

GUNITGuy:

that definitely wont be given .....Becos those Beach are under the exclusive list of the FG .....this is why there is need for restructuring and a more decentralized system to reflect healthy capitalism as its being practiced in the US ....if we indeed want to transfer wealth to citizen the fg needs to take their hands off certain things only regulate them and allow healthy competitiion.....Tax the Rich or Middle class as the situation may permits then provide basic things .....

Oga you invest based on the law in existence not what the law you wish. If the law says you don’t own the beach and they can’t lease it to you, a prudent man then adjusts his business model to see if it is viable without the beach or find another business. all this one he is saying I am sure he enquired about purchase or leasing and they turned him down but he still went ahead.



If you ask me, he knew, he tried to buy or lease the beach but was unsuccessful but still went ahead anyway because his business is viable without the beach, just less profitable. He just making noise in the hope public outcry will save the beach. I can bet you he is not going out of business. There are many aspects of his business that have nothing to do with the beach. I am willing to place a bet with anyone that if you look at his business plan that he used to get investors, it will state there categorically under “threats” that the beach is not owned by him and a possible threat to the beach aspect of the business is the government taking ownership of the beach in future.

As for your comment that he won’t get it if he applies that is not accurate. He didn’t get it because he likely applied and he was rejected. There is a reason why some property titles are federal and some are state. Some of those who have infrastructure by the coastline e.g jetties have federal titles. There are even some waterfront properties in Lekki that are federal cofos.


Like I said he knows, he would have applied and he was rejected but likely went ahead because he assumed govt won’t do anything there for decades.

GUNITGuy:

you just called money its no longer 200 now 100 do yu have an idea what 100million dollars is ...............Most of this claims are exagerated

What exactly is your point? The man himself said $100m, it is propagandists that have been steadily increasing the figure. The figure I use is the figure landmark himself said. But, whether $100m $200m, $500m or even $10m, these are no small amounts so how do you invest that magnitude of funds in a project without first securing the rights to the main attraction of the project I.e the beach? You just assume you can base your business on property that doesn’t belong to you in the hope the owner will never want to use his property?

The truth about it is that he would have enquired about the beach and was told it wasn’t for sale but went ahead anyway thinking we will settle them when the time comes. An educated, exposed man like him cannot say he doesn’t know the law or that the coastline of Nigeria belongs to the federal govt!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uRNfalA05o?si=6Q0nnHbM48PS4Xks

FreeStuffsNG:
That allegation against him is very heavy and will have political consequences.

Is it that he's got no team of political advisers to guide him on how to handle political landmines like this? He should have demanded that FG goes ahead with the project with a human face and ensure that none of the ongoing road projects suffer.

With the tag of tribal bigotry already associated with you, asking FG to discontinue projects that didn't pass through your tribal geopolitical zone and in defence of one of those your tribesmen perceived to have backed you in the last election because he will suffer from FG's repossession of its land he encroached upon is already tainted with suspicion that you,HE Obi , in your character, is bitter about the progress of others not from your tribe and looks like a needless political suicide you just committed by demanding the project stops.

Those who are beneficiaries of the project are far more and they'll feel deprived just by the thought of electing him. They will be afraid that he will suspend the project!

May God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

How can he have a team? A man who was governor for 8 years and has no protégées? Nobody that worked under him went on to greater heights? A man that does not build or mentor leaders, a man whose followership requirement is a low IQ or tribal agenda!

When it is angry frustrated people like Dele and Aisha standing next to him?

Tareq1105:




I don't just understand why Obi would not review situations before opening his mouth.

Because he is not sincere and thinks that by talking everyday he is increasing his profile not realizing by talking everyday he is exposing his foolishness and agenda as well as his lack of intelligence. I said it a few months ago that if this man is wise he would keep quiet till 2027 and let some continue to think he is the messiah. The more he talks the more he confirms he is an empty head.

In one week he has already made multiple major gaffes.

1:He says govt should focus on existing g roads before starting new roads. It turns out government is focusing on existing roads but using private funds to finance new roads.

2: He says he doesn’t know the cause of the accident but it must be caused by bad roads. It turns out from the pictures the section where the accident happened is good and it was the case of a truck driver who veered off his lane. A bus veered off into the lagoon on the new renovated 3rd mainland bridge, was that caused by bad roads?

3: He says govt should not demolish buildings to build roads, they dug out the video where he was boasting that any building along the road will be demolished and no compensation will be paid.

4: he focused on the Ibo man whose property was not destroyed, the yoruba man whose property and who had proper title documents was destroyed he was silent on.

I encourage Peter Obi to keep talking, he is campaigning against himself.

The Ibos will vote for him no matter what. His problem is that Ibo votes are not enough and the others who very fooled 1st time around are now seeing the real Peter Obi and that this man is not fit to be a LG chairman.

Darammliveth:
The noise about Landmark is too much owing the fact there are other properties to be demolished as well. The Landmark building is still standing!.

Owing to the fact that the beach never belonged to Landmark in the 1st place. His properties and cofo are from Lagos state and nobody is touching that. the beach belongs to the federal government, he was never sold the beach even though he had been using it. He bought land next to a beach that did not belong to him. He created a business based on a beach that didn’t belong to him. He didn’t think to secure his title on the beach before he invested $100m?

How do you spend that kind of money without securing the key selling point of your business?

PressMyButton:
What if it was reckless driving?. The causes of the accidents are yet unknown but you've already come to a conclusion. The more they flog this 3rd class loser for his reckless talking, the more he takes his weed, he is so obsessed with attention seeking.

The man is so daft and desperate. Was it dangerous road that caused the accidents on the renovated 3rd mainland bridge?

The man is actually danger to society.

Glitcher:
if you look at things from a single point of view you will miss the main issue. Things have to be viewed holistically and what I said was because of the nature of my response. Other causes why the niger delta seaports are not used as frequently as the lagos port is the issue of insecurity, cost and efficiency. These are issues that when fixed will encourage importers to use these ports. The bad road network is another issue.

You started with Inland and sea port, then big ship small ship, now you are talking about insecurity and roads, what next? Insecurity and roads is different if the port is inland or sea port?

Glitcher:
there are certain limitations of an inland port and part of it is a limitation on the size of ships it can berth and ease of access. What this means is that most global import vessels will choose the lagos seaport.

My friend you are losing me. Money is being spent on Warri and other ports, let Warri and other ports handle MORE of what they can handle, let Lagos handle what it can handle. Your argument sounds like because Warri cannot handle the biggest ships upgrading it and more talraffic even if they are smaller ships won’t bring economic benefits or decongest Lagos? Seriously? Has it also occurred to you that when Warri is upgraded more “smaller” ships will go to warri because there costs will be lower in Warri?

We want all our ports viable and working, plus warri plus Lagos plus onne plus Calabar plus others plus new ones. Ports ultimately become specialized in the comparative advantage they offer. In the US for instance, Baltimore I think is the main port for cars, other ports are renowned for oil and gas shipments, some are renown for passenger ferries and cruises like same thing with ports like Hamburg, Rotterdam, felixstowe, Harwich, Ostend etc etc. Not every port must be a sea port my friend.not every port must handle the biggest ships to bring economic benefits.

Glitcher:
there are certain limitations of an inland port and part of it is a limitation on the size of ships it can berth and ease of access. What this means is that most global import vessels will choose the lagos seaport.

My friend you are losing me. Money is being spent on Warri and other ports, let Warri and other ports handle MORE of what they can handle, let Lagos handle what it can handle. Your argument sounds like because Warri cannot handle the biggest ships upgrading it and more talraffic even if they are smaller ships won’t bring economic benefits or decongest Lagos? Seriously? Has it also occurred to you that when Warri is upgraded more smaller ships will go to warri because there costs will be lower in Warri?

We want all our ports viable and working, plus warri plus Lagos plus onne plus Calabar plus others plus new ones.

rotadeco27:

The band A really make sense.
This Same kind of system is operational in the UK. Pay the money and enjoy the service. Almost 24hrs light Is bae!

Leave Nigerians and their nonsense!! We are not serious people. Somebody is prepared to privately finance a transformational $15b road for you and you saying it is a waste of money. Is it your money? Do you have that kind of money? Your entire budget for 2024 is $20b and you think it is government building a $15b road? You think a govt that only has $20b budget in a year can ever build a $15b road? How daft are these people? Seriously…how daft are they?

The ignorance of Obi and many of those criticizing this project is they assume govt is paying for it. Govt is only paying a small percentage of the cost of the project. The project is being financed by private funds and will be recouped from tolls. Govt does not have and can can never find the N15 trillion required for this project. That is more than half our entire budget for 2024.. If Obi truly thinks it is the govt building this road, then it is more proof he is ignorant and has no business being president of the country.

You are a tenant. A house costs 50m and you cannot afford to build but a developer says pay me 10% up front, I will build the house for you, you will pay me rent you are already paying to a landlord and after 25 years I will have made my profit and the house belongs to you. Will you not agree? Do you have 50m to build a house? Imagine then some simpletons (Obi and his mob) come to say it is a waste of money? Which money? Is the 50m your own money!!!

It is only in Nigeria that they will ask you to put down N1trillion as your own contribution towards building a road costing N15 trillion and you will say it is a waste of money!!! It is only Nigeria a tenant will be offered to pay 5m today to own a house worth N50m and he will say it is a waste of money. We are cursed with dead brain cells!!

Promismike:
It's a misplaced priority.
Construction of rail way too.

The main focus of the government should be
1. building more refinaries to reduce the price of petroleum since it's obvious that it's the mainstay of our economy and has multiple effect on our economy.

2. Working toward providing constant electricity. The growth of our economy and busnesses depends largly on this.

Any other thing can come after these two is taken care of.

1: Dangote refinery is enough to handle ALL Nigerias fuel needs once it comes on board. All the other refineries are being rehabilitated.
2: if you are oorepared to pay the economic price of electricity, electricity will be available and constant. Ask those on Band A!

Glitcher:
warri port is an inland port. What we need are coastal seaports. I don't need to explain why.

What we need are more ports away from Lagos that can handle roro, container vessels and general merchandise.. Warri port is all of these! Is it until a port is on the sea before it can handle containers and roro? Is the point of a port not a point to facilitate imports and exports of goods?

They should also recover their stolen wealth from Chinedu’s father in law.

Nigerian journalists are so useless. A proper journalist would have told you the make and age of the car and the age of the the woman.

Dera1000:


You've got a point. The economic situation in Nigeria is undeniably frustrating, and it's understandable why people are feeling the pinch. Take a look at the skyrocketing prices – it's mind-boggling. For instance, think about something as basic as a Sure deodorant. In 2019, you could snag one for ₦1200, right? Fast forward to now, and it's a jaw-dropping ₦5800 in the Ajah market. That's over a 380% increase in just a few years!

And let's talk about leadership. Many folks feel let down, especially when they see leaders like Tinubu seemingly untouched by the economic chaos. Despite being in a position of influence, his economic strategies and body language aren't instilling much confidence. It's frustrating, especially for those of us who work in finance and can see the writing on the wall.

Sure, every leader faces challenges, but the current state of affairs demands action. Our President can't afford to sit back while the country struggles. Yet, it feels like progress is at a standstill, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening. It's no wonder people are skeptical of anyone singing praises for the President – it often feels like they're getting something out of it, while the rest of us are left holding the bag.

We all want what's best for Nigeria, but it's clear we're not there yet. The economic frustration is real, and it's high time our leaders started delivering real solutions instead of empty promises.

I know this is of no comfort but the pain we are all feeling is the result of successive governments not doing the right things over the years. Now the chickens have come home to roost.

Irrespective of whoever became president in 2023, we would be going through the hardship we are going through now because the country was more or less bankrupt. You say you work in finance so I am sure you understand the dynamics. We had 2 paths on May 29, the path of Venezuela/Argentina or the path of reforms…both paths are painful. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.. The one thing I agree with you is that the rest of the country cannot be suffering the pains while some continue as usual with government funds. No govt official has any business driving a Lexus or land cruiser or foreign made vehicle at taxpayers expense while they tell the rest of the country to endure. It is bad optics and this is where the opposition should be doing their job but they are not because they themselves are in disarray. This is why I say we should focus on the opposition and their incompetence because governments tend to lose their way ( even if they start well) when they know the opposition has no bite, ie they have no chance of toppling them.

As for prices of deodorants etc, I also have seen things in the shops that I consider ridiculous to the point that I refuse to buy irrespective of whether I have the money or not.

Queengee:
Quarter of the year is going to end in a day or two from now, and everyone in Nigeria understand the economy hardship Nigerians are going through especially salary earners. Salary earners are going through lots due to high cost of living because salary barely meet up our daily needs.

However, amidst of this economy a lot of people are still doing exploit and still have little saving from their salaries, so we shouldn't be left behind when the year ends with no achievement.

As for me I had manage to save 350k since January this year till this April ending. I earn 250k monthly, and I must tell you with a wife and one child, it had not been easy to save. But saving and making good financial plans is a must no matter the economy.

Feel free to share yours and don't be shy because nairaland is a faceless forum with chances to share your view and personal experiences without criticism because nobody knows you here.

Thanks guys

In an inflationary environment, you don’t save, you spend. What you delay purchasing today with money you have but choose to ‘save’, you won’t be able to buy tomorrow because the price has gone up.

Dera1000:


You just said my mind, PDP can never win the presidential election without Obi's support, and Obi can never be the president without the PDP's backing, for the progress of the country we need a good opposition party, PDP and labor needs to get there ass together...

I want the best for this country irrespective who wears the country as the president, I pray jagaban gets his thinking cap in other and change the current hardship in the country..

Trust me, it’s the opposition you should be worrying about. You may not appreciate it now but Tinubu has done more in 1 year than all presidents in the last 24! They all gave you short term comforts and that is why we are in the mess we are. You cannot see the results today because lasting reform takes time. For example when Awolowo started free education he was insulted, his shed schools were mocked, pfarmers complained about the taxes he imposed to fund it. it took Twenty years for the effect of mass education to be seen, when those students started to graduate. Today even his enemies hail him as a visionary and a hero. You don’t enrol your child in primary school and see him become a graduate tomorrow, next week, next month or next year. But while he goes through the process, you endure the pain of the struggle to finance that education. If you want to send your child to school today and expect a g radiate tomorrow, or expect you will not have to struggle to pay fees and other costs, you are not ready to have an educated child. They forget they were the same people who complained and mocked him. Our tendency for short termism is why we are in the mess we are… not Tinubu. Tinubu is not the one that did not rehabilitate a single refinery while spending almost $10b a year on subsidies for 24 years. Tinubu was not the one that subsidized the Naira for 24 years and allowed bankers and business men to make money roundtripping the Naira for 24 years without creating any factories. Etc etc etc


Like I said focus on the ineptitude of the opposition, a government no matter how good requires a formidable opposition to keep it honest. Right now PDP/LP are not an opposition because they can’t win an election the way they are going in the next 2 decades. They have not shown from their utterances and actions that they understand why they lost an election they had no right to lose. All they are doing is just noise and that is dangerous because it leads to complacency of govt. you don’t win elections by propaganda, you win by strategic planning. Atiku and Obi have been focusing on propaganda and not on strategy. It does not matter how many times you abuse Tinubu or criticize the govt or how manny boreholes you commission in the North or how many mosques you visit. The people that didn’t vote for Obi or Atiku in 2023 are not going to vote for them in 2027. Tinubu paid no attention to both during the campaign to the extent of not even dignifying them by attending a debate and won because he was strategic. He knew the people that watch debates are largely elites who are a minority and don’t decide elections. And if you cannot win an election, you are just as useless an opposition as Sowore because you are not a threat politically to the govt.

Focus your energies on Atiku and Obi because the path they are on means even if you do not like Tinubu or APC, they will continue to be in power until OBi and PDP and their supporters reset their brains. You cannot take a path that failed you in 2019, got even worse for you in 2023 and then double down on that path and think it will lead you to the promised land.

Sowunmi thinks he is smart. He is trying to use reverse psychology to appear sympathetic and hopefully woo Bello and El Rufai to PDP.

He should realize that thanks to Obi and Atiku PDP is finished and any hopes of them regaining power at the center is dead thanks to Obi. The more he opens his mouth to grab the headlines, the more difficult it is for him to swallow humble pie and reconcile with PDP. He can’t become president without PDP (many of whom will never forgive him and give him their ticket) and PDP cannot win the presidency without his Ibo votes.

Obi is a regional candidate
PDP is a state party.

One day APC will lose power, the party that will wrestle power from them will not be PDP and it won’t be LP and the presidential candidate will not be Atiku or Obi. It also will not happen in the next 15 years…possibly even 23!

People seem not to grasp the mortal blow OBi and Atiku have dealt to the concept of a meaningful opposition. Statements like this from Showunmi and Obi’s daily utterances show they don’t know the magnitude of the problem they created for themselves and face going forward.

WantsandMore:
If we never left the organic architectural designs of our ancestors we wouldn't be here. Houses aren't built with purpose nowadays just aethestics and very little depth.

It’s part of the inefficiencies of decades of subsidies in all aspects of our lives. Like you said even our house designs pay no consideration to energy consumption because energy was so cheap. Big rooms require more energy to cool, we do t design houses for natural cooling etc etc. this inefficiencies caused by subsidies is pervasive in all aspects of Nigerian life and it’s why we have nothing to export because we are so inefficient our products are not competitive with t(e exception of Crude Oil and even the. We’ve managed to cripple that industry because the Nigeria. Pysche has not been programmed to be efficient.

Ask anyone who lives abroad, even window glazing to keep the heat/cold in, door and window seals to keep out air draft and possible heat exchanges to keep the home cooling/heating more efficient are a big deal. Ask a typical Nigerian how much power his appliances use he doesn’t know. The average westerner considers the fuel consumption of his car or the wattage and efficiency of his appliances as a factor in purchasing decisions. The good thing is hopefully we have started a process that can’t be reversed, Nigerians will be forced to focus on fuel/energy consumption in their purchase choices.

ppogba:


Thank you for your truthful personal experience.
The one bad attitude that is most common is people leaving their house security light on perpetually. Over a kilometer to my house, I will know if there is light or not just by looking out for lights that are never put off.

In fairness, security lights are necessary and especially in these days of LED lightbulbs they don’t consume much. AC is the real power guzzler. AC can consume in 1hr what your lights will consume the whole night.

As an example if I were relying solely on NEPA (no solar). And do not use AC for a whole month, my electricity bill will be approx 70-100k a month at the new band A rate of 246/kWh. If I used my AC reasonably for a month, it would be N700k a month. If I used AC like I used to 10 years ago, God knows what the NEPA bill would be today.

NOTE: these AC,s are normal compressor ACs. Inverter ACs will be less but still a lot.

Dynamicboss:


Ministry for culture should handle tourism since it entails promoting the nation’s culture with great infrastructural development. Lola should be posted to minister for innovation, science and technology with 6 months probation period to effect excellent IT policies.

The minister of power, water resources, youth & sport, gas and transportation should receive their sack letters with immediate effect.

I wasn’t a fan of Adelabu and wondered for months what does this man do? He was no1 on my ministers to be sacked! I may ev even have posted as much on Nairaland. I was so sad We missed the opportunity of ElRufai in power. However painful as it may be, just like petrol subsidy removal, this could be just about the best thing that can happen to power sector. I have changed my opinion on Adelabu and am willing to give him time to see the effect of his reforms.

We have certain structural long-standing issues in Nigeria that have plagued us for decades. We all want solutions but painful as it is the solutions will not come without pain.

kingzjay:
But a serving Minister said Nigerians keep their AC on when going to see off their friends... That we shouldn't use AC

This country ehn

There was a time many years ago when the AC in my room was on 24/7 whether I was home or not because I liked coming home to a cool room. The tarrif increase before this one was when I stopped. I live in an area with stable electricity and electricity was very cheap.

I also remember when I was a child that my dad always left the AC in his office on.

So to that point the minister has a point that subsidizing electricity had inculcated bad habits in us as a people. The example he gave about freezer was a bad one. 1) because a lot of freezers don’t actually consume much power and 2) AC is the real power guzzler. It was when I first installed solar when diesel went to N700 that I realized just how much power ACs consume and that all the noise I was making in the house over people leaving lights on was inconsequential relative to what the ACs consume. When I lived abroad then no born me to leave ordinary light bulb on if I am not in the room talk less leave the house heater on when I am out. Same with petrol…the way I drove abroad with expensive petrol (and more importantly the constant questioning if the journey is necessary) was different from In Nigeria with cheap petrol.

Subsidies do indeed create bad habits. Nigeria is a very unproductive country and one (I said one not “the”) reason is subsidies in almost everything, petrol, forex, tertiary education, electricity etc. when everything is subsidized you lose creativity and innovation and ultimately your productivity. In lay man’s language you become lazy and entitled when things are done for you.

There is a minister called Akali?


As far as tourism, whoever heads that ministry has the easiest job…there is nothing to deliver and a plethora of legitimate reasons why it is unreasonable in the near future to expect any progress in that sector. Tourism cannot take off in Nigeria without infrastructure, roads, adequate security, hospitality etc so we might as well scrap it for now. We that are in Nigeria are afraid to travel to explore our country because of these reasons, so why would a foreigner when there are other countries to explore with requisite infrastructure?

Ministry of tourism should be scrapped and any skilled sector staff deployed to foreign affairs and culture ministries until such a time when we have fixed the underlying infrastructure necessary for toirism.

Dpharisee:
Existing inter state highways across the country in very bad shape causing fatal accidents and incidences of robbery but we should be focused on a coastal road that will not be finished in the next 20 years awarded to cronies without competitive bidding for N15T.
Continue!

Common sense used to be attributed to Igbos on this forum now it has been changed to Obidients, how many fatal accidents use to make FP on Nairaland every week due to bad roads, because E never reach you doesn't mean that all is well, we can start with a national interstate roads emergency worth N15T and after we achieve that we focus on a long-term coastal road, how's that difficult?

It shows how ignorant many of you are. Government is fixing existing roads with government money. At the same time they are building new roads like Lagos Calabar, sokoto Calabar by allowing private capital to build those roads. What the govt is putting down towards the Lagos-Calabar road is only a fraction of the cost. The. Rest of the money will be financed by private capital and they will recoup their money through tolls. That leaves the govt to use. Existing funds to fix existing roads.

It’s not one or the other. It is fixing existing while also constructing new roads.

Glitcher:
FG should also build functional seaports in the Niger delta. With all the wealth the oil producing communities have contributed to the nation there is still very little the government has given back to them. No good schools, no drinking water, roads or good sources of income.

They are doing that. Warri port is being expanded and upgraded.

My band A at an average of 100+kwh a day would ordinarily be 700k+ a month. Thanks to Solar, I think this month will be about 400k. My plan is to add more panels and more batteries. Also plan to change all my acs to inverter acs